5th - 20th (approx) February 2012
Somalia Mission 10: United Nation "Youth For Change" project
Training of Trainers in arts-based and role-play techniques with troubled young people.
Hargeisa
Somaliland
14th - 16th February 2012
Somalia Mission 10a: Phase 1, Girl's Development Project
Music, arts and circus with street girls in partnership with Havoyoco Circus
Hargeisa
Somaliland
Thursday 23rd February 2012
London Somalia Conference
The UK will host a conference on Somalia on 23 February to pull together international effort.
London
Announced by the Prime Minister in November, the event aims to bring together leaders of key partner countries and organisations, both in Africa and beyond, to help galvanise a common approach to address the problems and challenges of Somalia that affect us all. This includes tackling the issues of piracy, extremism and the underlying causes of instability and conflict in Somalia.
Bill Brookman hopes to attend this summit immediately on his return from his latest mission to Somalia
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/somalia-conference/
Monday 27th February 2012 - Provisional
Bill Brookman Foundation Meeting
to discuss the election of the foundation to registered charity status
7.30 - 9.15
38 Alan Moss Road
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 5LX
March 2012
Circus Project with Street Girls
A fascinating project. We are looking for volunteers to join us.
Hargeisa,
Somaliland
The aim is to create a piece of stunning visual dance/circus/theatre over a 5-10 day rehearsal period with around 30 street-girls (15 full-time, 15 part-time) aged between 8 - 18. The majority will be aged 11-13.
The art-form will comprise traditional Somali music song and dance, combining this with radical visual circus/theatre dance to produce a piece of ritualistic theatre akin to the secret sacred dances danced in private experienced by Bill Brookman when working as Guest International Circus Practitioner at a Yeshiva in New York and staged in performances in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Haiti.
We are seeking volunteers for this and other projects. Details can be found in the right-hand box at http://www.billbrookman.co.uk/foundation/home.html
Monday 26th March 2012
CAA International Archeologist Conference
Bill Brookman and Friends - Band, Fire and even Maypole Dancing! Bubbles?
6.00pm - 10.00pm
Westgate Hall, Southampton. Westgate Street Southampton Hampshire SO14 2NY
10th - 18th April 2012
Somalia Mission 11: Graduation Events.
Graduating the young people of the United Nations' Militias and Armed Youth project
Somalia,
Somaliland,
Puntland,
Kenya
The culmination of a massive international initiative to give livelihood training and opportunities for personal development and work to up to 1,300 of Somalia's most at risk young men.
We are seeking a volunteer to assist in this project. E-mail bill@billbrookman.co.uk
8th - 15th or 16th May 2012
Somalia Mission 12: Graduation Events.
Graduating the young people of the United Nations' Militias and Armed Youth project
Somalia,
Somaliland,
Puntland,
Kenya
The culmination of a massive international initiative to give livelihood training and opportunities for personal development and work to up to 1,300 of Somalia's most at risk young men.
We are seeking a volunteer to assist in this project. E-mail bill@billbrookman.co.uk
June 2012
Somalia Mission 13: Graduation Events.
Graduating the young people of the United Nations' Militias and Armed Youth project
Somalia,
Somaliland,
Puntland,
Kenya
The culmination of a massive international initiative to give livelihood training and opportunities for personal development and work to up to 1,300 of Somalia's most at risk young men.
We are seeking a volunteer to assist in this project. E-mail bill@billbrookman.co.uk