Dear Cybergaokars on GoaNet, FRIDAY BALCAO TURNS 60 today,
Friday Balcao the fortnightly event hosted by the Goa Desc Resource Centre will complete sixty sessions today Friday 28th June. Speaking at the 60th session titled "Jesting his way through life- experiences of a Goan cartoonist" will be the renowned cartoonist Alexyz. What started three years ago as an informal meeting of concerned citizens in Goa, has caught on. The idea behind Friday Balcao was to invite local people to discuss issues and solutions, to share their experiences, the problems they encounter in their work and discuss how participants of the Balcao could make things happen in their neighbourhood. Through Friday Balcao, the Goa Desc Resource Centre also provides an opportunity for concerned citizens, volunteers, sympathizers and activists to know more about issues of concern in Goa and to network better for solutions. Fortnight after fortnight 'Friday Balcao' with its motto 'lets make things happen' provides the space to listen, discuss, chat, agree to disagree but most of all to evolve an action plan. Over the last 3 years Friday Balcao has featured a variety of speakers like freedom fighter Gurunath Kelekar, Adv. Amrut Kasar, Dr.Pramod Salgaonkar, Mr Averthanus D'Souza of PMCA, Dadu Mandrekar dalit activist, Adv.Shanti Maria Fonseca, Dr. Gustavo Pinto, Ramesh Gawas, Comrade Narayan Palyekar, Architect Dean D'Cruz and senior journalist Flaviano Dias among others. Friday Balcao has hosted presentations on issues such as Garbage Management, Adoption, Beach shacks, Gram Sabhas, AIDS, Nutrition, PTA's , Homeopathy, Prisoners Rights, Heritage, Meta Strips, Animal Rights, Superstition, Child Labour, Senior Citizens, Madei River, Comundidades, Impacts of Mining, Disability and Women's Empowerment Also featured were political parties like CPI and Goa Suraj and organizations like Green Cross, Positive People, ARZ, Southern Birdwing, MARG and ChildLine. For those who cannot make it for the Balcao sessions and yet want to know what transpires there, Goa Desc Resource Centre offers a one-page synopsis of each session. Those interested in receiving the synopsis for a year, may subscribe at Rs. 80/-. Also available for Rs. 70/- is the Friday Balcao booklet, a collection of the first 30 presentations and contains the laws applicable to each topic, addresses, phone numbers and emails of concerned Govt. officials and NGOs. Citizens who wish to subscribe for the Friday Balcao Synopsis and booklet may write to the Goa Desc Resource Centre, 11 Liberty Apartments, Feira Alta, Mapusa Ph. 252660 or Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On this occasion we wish to thank all Goanetters who wrote in and expressed your support to Friday Balcao during the last three years, We look forward to your continued solidarity, best wishes, Roland Martins. ======================================= GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Working On Issues Of Development & Democracy ======================================= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
