Kiara Nagel joined us as a YIP contributor back in November of 2009 to do a weeklong workshop on Place Making.

Now, we are pleased to announce that she will be joining us in Jarna once again for the Sense Festival!

Kiara is a great advocate for community development. She works to ensure that the people who would be most affected are directly engaged in decision-making about how their places are shaped, understood and represented. Places are important. They define our identity, foster social networks, and provide the platform upon which everyday life, love, and health are determined. We know that Kiara’s experiences, achievements, and charisma will be a great asset to the festival as we create and celebrate our community.

We are delighted to announce that we have received confirmation that Edgard Gouveia Junior now has his plane tickets booked for his attendance at the festival!

In his own words, he is "committed to helping others discover and create their most Utopian dreams for their community". This inspiring attitude has lead him, along with several friends, to create a community empowerment methodology known as Oasis, that seeks to inspire communities to take their futures and surroundings into their own hands and collaboratively create their dreams in a very short period of time.

This years YIP participants connected very strongly to Edgard and his powerful social change work and we are now extremely excited to give you the opportunity to share in this inspiration at the Festival.


For a taster of Edgard's inspiring work here is a sneak peak::

In the afternoon we will gather for the workshop sessions. You will be hosted by an experienced team of Open Space practitioners who will use this self-organizing social technology to rapidly co-ordinate a simple schedule of workshops and activities for the duration of the afternoon.The ideas for workshops are abundant, and the list is growing rapidly.

some of the ideas so far:

• Guerilla Gardening
• Aerobics in the morning
• Yoga
  
• Henna tattoos at the chai tent
• Building a floating diving platform
• Yipopoly, a magic money box (brotherhood in community)
• Community Cooking
• Micro-soccer Sense Cup
• Macramé workshop
• Storytelling
  
• Arts and Crafts
• Hawaiian Lomi Lomi Massage Workshop
• Musical Collaboration
• Nature Quest
• Sweat Lodge
• Swimming to the Island
• Dance & body movement workshops
  

For those who wish to offer initiatives, the space is open! send your ideas to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

June 19th WeStrive Meet-Up

Either in an open space OR as a power talk!

WeStrive Meet-ups are intended to be a global conference that takes place at the same time around the world in small, localized gatherings.

As of today we are offering new fees and passes for Sense Festival!

FULL PROGRAM FEE

kr 1,300.00

The full program participant fee for Sense Festival is SEK 1300,- / € 130,-

This includes all food and accommodation and activities at the event. This is a the cost price of each participant at Sense Festival.

Children 3 years and under are free.

Please view the following alternative options:

supporters fee

For those who can afford it, we invite a supporters fee. This gives you an opportunity to support those participants that are financially challenged. This includes all food and accommodation and activities at the event.

kr 1,800.00

children

kr 700.00

The full program fee for children between 4 and 12 years old. Including food and accommodation for all days of the festival.

weekend pass 

kr 900.00

Including accommodation, all food and activities from Friday 18 until Sunday 20 June.

day pass

kr 300.00

This includes all food and activities for 1 day of Sense Festival, including accomodation.

On Thursday night (June 17) we proudly present The World as a Garden, a dance performance designed, produced and created by YIP participants!

The performance is a celebration of life and its diversity. Diversity is essential to life and it is in diversity that we find enormous potential for creativity.
The world is a garden and you and we as flowers create it together, intimately connected and supported by our differences.

Direction: Ediane de Lima Choreography: Ediane de Lima. Phoebe Phillips and dancers Scenography & Light design: Pieter Ploeg Stage Technician: Mika Knutsson Back Stage: Ana Jungen and Lilian Raine Costumes: Ediane de Lima and dancers Drummers: Mahlubi Zibi and Stuart Dow
Dancers: Alexandra Gribble, Anatoli Cepeda, Anna Daley, Brenno Kaschner Russo, Dominique Schacherer, Ediane de Lima, Georgia Klap, Johanna Bachmann, Johanna Miklos, Nakyta Grimm and Silvia Angel

In the schedule of Sense Festival, there is something called community collaboration. People from the local community and the international community are coming together in Järna to perform collaborative action in four days. The action aspires to create profound relationships with ourselves and nature.

Why do we need to collaborate?

We need unity and we need each other. Competition has destroyed enough on this planet. Business powers that are aspiring to economical growth separate humanity from nature. People can "collaboratively" be working with social ills as well, so we first need to explore and understand why we need "collaboration".

The best way to find this out is to simply ask people that are living in and caring about the community.

What are your dreams for this community?

What are we working for, where are we working, and how could that action look?
I see food and education as the basics in which we have the possibility to explore further to gain sustainable development. The food cycle starts when seeds are planted in the soil. We therefore need to investigate agriculture (farms and gardens) to see what the aspiration is. Education is the field and space for us to develop the best potential in human beings.

If we intend to perform action in Järna Community, we have to care about it. If we intend to ask the people in the community about their dreams we have to respect these dreams, fully embrace them and have the intention to fulfil them – through mind, heart or hand.