Programme

KidsFest InternationalWhatsApp +4915787829330 office@viakult.de

www.viakult.de

Contact

Viakult Office Sarajevo +387 61 488 918 kidsfest.sarajevo@icloud.com

A combination of art, work-shops, entertainment, education,

culture and performance... a show-room for NGOs, schools, Embassies and international organizations with a vision of cultural diversity throughout the world and also a playful, interac-tive approach of serious themes.

Creativity unlimited.

Defilé of the « future », as children create their outfits, costumes, banners

how they imagine themselves as adults and their future world. A vision of the world’s patrimony of tomorrow. KidsFest offers children an outreach to the wide public with their own political, social

and urban message. A joyful kids invasion of the city center.

1.Kid’sParade

2.Kid’sWorld

The stage offers a space for each talent, child, school, group, celebrity. A short time-slot for every performer, children and professionals.

Showtime for kids!

3.Kid’sStage

A magic moment watching a film on a big screen and share the emotions

together with many new friends…

4.Kid’sMovies

Oasis of peace to enjoy a moment to oneself, to disconnect and relive the beautiful images and strong impressions of Kids-Fest within a few minutes of calm. Intro for parents and children

to meditation by David Lynch Foundation, New

York.

5.Kid’sQuietZone

WHAT IS KIDSFEST?

KidsFest international is a global project that started different KidsFests functioning along the same unique concept in the world with the aim to expand in many countries. It is based on the experience of a decade’s work with many international partners, like the EU, UNICEF, Save the Children, OSCE, ICRC, UNHCR. KidsFest is a LABEL standing for quality and universal values, a cultural-social event that fosters the political focus on children to create synergies among divergent parts of society. In 2015 Kid's festival Sarajevo received UNESCO patronage.

PROJECT HISTORY

KID’S FESTIVAL SARAJEVO was launched in 2004 to address the root causes of ethnic division by bringing thousands of children from all parts of Bosnia & Herzegovina together. Today it is the most important youth event in the Balkans with 30-40.000 partici-pants. From 2014 started the challeng-ing progress of creating a KidsFest international label: The first approach was initiating KidsFest in countries in transition, then in Europe. These steps have successfully resulted in unveiling an international multiplatform in differ-ent cities and countries. Banja Luka, Tunisia, Sofia. And more to come.

GLOBAL AIMS

Peace is always “under construction” - Our aim is to create a KidsFest interna-tional multi-platform with the objective to contribute to peace in the world through common intercultural referenc-es. KidsFest is not just a children’s event, it brings diverging communities togeth-er as it gets adopted by the entire civil society, regardless of cultural, social, ethnic or religious differences. A formu-la that works anywhere: today, as the entire world is in transition we want expand our concept universally to the benefit of all people and especially the youth. Children are meaningful actors of peace - that is what the world needs.

HOW DOES KIDSFESTFUNCTION?

KidsFest is a unique momentum, a wave of positive emotions, becoming a long-last-ing memory, deeply engraved as a treasure of childhood. The effects grow organically, as the child’s intrepidity, genu-ine intercultural capacity and limitless creativity create new approaches of communication, building bridges. KidsFest’s pedagogical aspects include innovative methods for important future-oriented themes, like citizenship, pluralism, environment, sustainable devel-opment. The key-concept is to involve a significant number of partners: NGOs, schools, ministries, international organiza-tions, Embassies, experts… and children. KidsFest offers a public showcase to all.