Tikhtak

Greenbelt 08

This year at Greenbelt the CMS youth team juggled between 3D, trax16 and Tajik break dancers. Each day we ran 3D workshops with around 40-50 young people. 3D stands for Drama, Dance and Drumming and using this medium we explored both man's and God's perspective on looking after the environment and encouraged people to engage with A Rocha. As always we got interviews with various people from around Greenbelt  ranging from Martyn Joseph and Comedian Jo Enright to authors Richard Burridge who has  just written "Imitating Jesus" and Philip Yancey. It was also good to catch young people just milling around the site and working in here with various organisations. Again the Tajik breakdancers Vito and Illios were doing their stuff, sharing testimonies and the Youth team compared their programme. Neema crafts from Tanzania in the CMS tent were an inspiration to everyone and engaged people in making paper out of elephant dung, jewelry out of glass and dancing. I think outside of the CMS programme my highlight was chilling with Irfana in the big venue Centaur listening to Aradhna, a white, traditional Indian band, while Zara danced and ran around the wide carpeted expanse. Check out flickr for more pics

Strange sights at Greenbelt 07 Festival

Having arrived back from Canada a day before Greenbelt I was expecting to see some strange sights so I wasn't let down. Zara and a Gorilla! It is of course a man in a Gorilla suit but I couldn't help feeling a bit on edge. This year Free For All was part of the main programme and so it was a strange sight to see us performing on one of the main stages. We worked hard all weekend and although only 35 children took part they  put on a quality performance. Check out the Free For All blog for more news on that. We tried to see one thing a day and in between rehearsing we often found ourselves relaxing and chatting in the contributers area. Irfana managed to take some pictures from around the grounds so check out my flickr pics and I have uploaded all our Free For All pics onto the CMS flickr site. Also check out the Greenbelt website for feedbacks from the festival and Monday's photostream have pics up there too.