We had another funny wednesday with Universo in gita. We went to Museo Luigi Bombicci. There was very beatiful. We saw different kind of rocks.

It was great to spend time with the immigrants again. Explore with them, learn new things… And than we had coffee together and shared something. We know each other better.

If you want to join us, you can follow our facebook page. We are going to somewhere everywednesday, by the way ıt’s free…

 

We had a fun week in Universo. We’ve got new friends from 1*1 ROOTS. They are from Albania. Also they are so young, gave the young energy to us.

 

We played the game of exploring Bologna city all together. We had so much fun together, have solved a riddle. At the end of the game we ate one of the most delicious pizzas.pizza award is the best part of the game.

We were very happy to have activity with them. Thanks for the everything 1*1 ROOTS. Look forward to come together again and join fun activities and eat pizza…

We had amazing event last Saturday. We’re at the end of the football tournament, a lot of fun at the end of the tournament won a team.

 

Congratulations to everybody for ending a successful football tournament. Thank you to all the sponsors, everybody that contributed with food, drinks and the necessary equipments used for the tournament.

Thankyou to everybody who planned and organized, thankyou to the participants and thankyou to the volunteers and interns. Thankyou everybody for your time and great mood that made this event super awesome.

Congratulations to Gambia the winning team!!!!

We had special guests this week. This is a speacial man for the world ‘Fabiain Nji LANG’. He is from Cameron, knows everything about Cameron problems, child, disease… He is trying change the world. So he said ‘We can do together.’  

Also we had a delicious food last Friday for important meeting and guests. They came from Presidente dell’Associazione. 

We shared our information  with each other. We believe more now, we will change the world.  We were another good week in Universo.

 

 

As a Universo Family, we would like to know different cultures. Therefore every week we are organizing public events that you also can join.

First week of August we organized Bulgaria Event with our friends.

During the event we’ve talked about different things about Bulgarian culture. Lots of festivals, delicious food.

We’ve learned interesting information about Bulgaria and we rediscovered it!

Universo’s team this week took part in Universo in Gita.

Universo in Gita is all about getting to know the city, all its interesting spots, sights, monuments.

The team visited Archigimnasio, to see the oldest library in the western history.

On Thursday, the team also participated in the intercultural workshop, where they talked about the shock an individual feels whey they visit a country for the first time and how they cope with that. How do they get out of this state of shock? What do they do to make themselves feel better?

At the of January, Universo’s is active as usual. We were sad to assist to the departure of many international and Italian interns, but also glad to welcome new ones who are now taking part in Universo’s classes and workshops.

This week, the majority of the interns started to work on a new project for the Multimedia Library. We wanted to work on cultural stereotypes to identify them and to be able to deconstruct them afterwards through our personal experiences. The project hasn’t finished yet and we have decided to work in pairs (two people from different countries) to talk about the different clichés that people have of their  countries. The goal of this activity to write an article, take pictures, make a video, animation or drawing to present and

illustrate the stereotypes and show the truths behind them.

As every Wednesday and despite the cold, we also had Universo in Gita, this visit of interesting spots in Bologna that we carry on every week in order to help people to know the city better. We visited famous places such as Little Venice, Piazza Maggiore, but also went to admire a wall painting next to the university. We finished the tour in a coffee, to talk and to get to know the participants better.

On Friday, we started and finished another project for our Foro dello Scambio activity. We decided to work on the poem Alone from the American poetess Maya Angelou. Every intern translated a part of the poem into his/her mother tongue. We then recorded a video in which every participant is reading it in those different languages (Indonesian, German, Norwegian, Italian, French, Hungarian, and Catalan).

Once again, this week has been the occasion to develop projects to increase cultural exchange and to meet new people.

We would like to share this poem with you and we will post the video once it is done :

Alone Maya Angelou

Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don’t believe I’m wrong That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires With money they can’t use Their wives run round like banshees Their children sing the blues

FYI :

They’ve got expensive doctors To cure their hearts of stone. But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely I’ll tell you what I know Storm clouds are gathering The wind is gonna blow The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, ‘Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She was a poet, historian, author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director. She lectured throughout the US and abroad and was Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina since 1981. She published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles earning her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations. At the request of President Clinton, she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration.

We at Universo are always trying our best to provide helpful services and an interesting programs for migrants in order to help them to get all the necessary knowledge and feel more comfortable in the Italian society. Universo in Gita is an essential means of  giving them orientation according to their general and individual needs. This week we went to Centro Zonarelli as our informatic-classes are taking place there from now on.

Our walk through the city of Bologna continued with two more stops. First, at the office of the avvocato di strada. Then, we visited ASP, the counselling centre for families, for pregnancy and childhood issues.

In our Civic Education class, the migrants and interns learnt about the italian welfare- system.

January is already coming to it’s end which for Universo means that it was time to come together and celebrate cultural diversity at our main office in Piazza XX Settembre. Despite the fact that we had to deal with the challenging reality of the season, we were enjoying a pleasant evening in a warm and familiar atmosphere. As always, we had prepared various programs and we are very happy that one more time we could reach so many people!

This time the intercultural evening  took place under the title “Sounds and colours of the world.” In fact it was very colourful thanks to, for example, our Foro dello Scambio team, who had prepared a creatively painted board game.  We could also listen to a Bongo-session and watch a fashion show made possible by Rose Mirembe, a professional designer for African clothes for men and women. You can admire her creations on this website: [link]

The culinary part of the evening was a big success as there were main dishes and desserts from Indonesia, France, Norway, Kongo, Italy and Spain. DJ Kapi with his Fiato dance session gave the party its unforgettable character!