Alternative Youth Summer School (AYOSS)

The Teacher Center of the Philippines is a service institution for education workers and education sectors. It also provides services to out-of-school youth and students.

The Alternative Youth Summer School or AYOSS is a special youth program of TCP together with a progressive youth organization, the Youth for Nationalism and Democracy or YND.

AYOSS offers activities and programs to students and out-of-school youth. The activities are intended to provide venues that would enhance the skills and potentials of the youth for leadership, special skills like theater and arts, writing and the like. The School would also provide inputs that would equip the youth with knowledge of the current social context, basic concepts on economics, and other relevant inputs.

Courses and Activities

This summer we hope to conduct AYOSS courses and activities to the community youth and students of Baguio City and Benguet. The following are the offered topics and activities.

I. CULTURAL WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS

A. Basic Theatre Arts Workshop (3 days)
B. Advance Theatre Arts Workshop
C. Basic Literary Arts Workshop (3 days)
D. Basic Painting Workshop (4 days)
E. Basic Song Writing Workshop (5 days)

II. Youth Leadership Training (2 - 3 days training seminar)

III. INPUTS

A. The Women Movement and Globalization
B. Cultural Aggression and the Filipino Youth
C. Impact of Trade Liberalization in Philippine Agriculture and Fisheries Sector
D. Agriculture Liberalization and Benguet Vegetable Industry
E. US War of Aggression / War on Terror and the Global Capitalist Crisis
F. Women Talk: General Stationers on Women and Globalization
G. The Displacement of the Working Class: A General Labor Stationers
H. State Repression: Extra-judicial Killings and Anti-Terrorism Bill or Human Rights Situation in the Philippines
I. Election 2007 and Trapo Politics

IV. FILM VIEWING AND FILM ANALYSIS

A. Movies
. 1. Mona Lisa Smile
2. The Magdalene Sisters
3. Inherit the Wind
4. The Pianist
5. The Interpreter
6. In the Time of the Butterflies
7. Beyond Borders
8. Tears of the Sun
9. Sometimes in April
10. I am David
11. Cold Mountain

B. DOCUMENTARIES
1. Focus on the Global South (WTO: Why is it bad for you?)
2. Malaya Lola’s
3. Unconventional Warfare
4. Fishers’ Voice, Fishers’ Voyage

V. EXPOSURE / INTEGRATION

La Union Small Fisher folks’ Community

Mechanics

The inputs would be provided by TCP in coordination with the YND. Most of the activities would be community based, with a host community/barangay youth organization or the SK as co-sponsors. The host organization/co-sponsor would ensure the venue and the target youth participants.

There could also be centralized activities that would be participated in by the youth organizations of the different communities/barangays. This could be in coordination with youth organizations or entities that cover several barangays/communities.

AYOSS will give certificate of participation at the end of this summer program for those who joined all of the activities. AYOSS graduates are maintained by TCP as TCP Student Fellows and could participate in other TCP Youth Programs.

There will be no registration fee for the said activity, but we encourage all participants to contribute anything they wish to give for the outreach programs such as used clothes, pencils and pen or anything that they can for the poor children of the said target community.

Formation of advocacy groups/support groups for the small fisher folks is the concrete output of the exposure-outreach program.

Other than the courses and activities listed, community and school youth organizations could also request other inputs and skills training they need as long as it still falls within the orientation of TCP and YND. Consultations would be done in preparation for the modules for such.

Contact us:

09215533349 - Erickah
09274262368 - Jade
09185912436 - Ruel
09217183220 - Ben
09182086666 - Linda

Email:
tcpbaguio@yahoo.com
yndbbenguet@yahoo.com