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Bright Stars Summer Academy 2005
The Bright Stars summer program continues a tradition that started in the 1960s,
and serves as an opportunity to discover the children's interests and identify their
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The Bright Stars Summer Academy 2005 will take place between June 27th and July 31st, where hundreds of children between the age of 6 and 16 from the Bethlehem District are expected to participate.
The Bright Stars Summer Academy 2005 will focus on offering the children a number of recreational and educational activities that are designed to strengthen the ties that these children have to their culture, as well as to suite the changing needs of the younger generations. In addition to maintaining and enhancing the existing clubs, the Summer Academy will introduce new clubs this year that span various fields of arts and crafts, music, traditional and modern performance arts, environment, media and communication technologies, environment, and sports. Also, weekly workshops and cultural and social activities are planned, offering the children training in various topics, and room to simply have fun. These clubs and activities are led by a team of Palestinian teachers and a number of international volunteers.
At the end of the Summer Academy 2005, the children and teachers will help organize the "Final Day" festival, where the children will perform and exhibit the different works that they have produced, giving them the chance to take pride in their production. The final day will take place on Sunday July 31st, 2005 and will be an opportunity to share the great potentials of the Bright Stars with the community . The Bright Stars program is a continuous project of the ICB, where children have weekly gatherings in the different clubs, according to their talents and gifts and interests. All of these clubs focus on expressing the emotions, fears, thoughts, and visions of the young people. Participants in this program are children of ages 6-16, Christian and Moslem, male and female, and from towns, villages, and refugee camps in the Bethlehem area.
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