Peacebuilding UKWe’re currently sat in the Lilian Baylis studio preparing for tonight’s performance. The kids are hard at work rehearsing, Ramzan is putting them through their paces, Aiza is making last minute adjustments to costumes and the girls are ironing out the creases. The performance tonight is almost sold out, so we’re hoping for a full […]
I’m going to be heading down to London tomorrow afternoon to meet with Daimohk but I’ve been getting some wonderful reports of their tour so far. This latest update comes from our Programmes Co-ordinator, Chris Hunter who has done an immense amount of work to ensure that this tour took place. ‘Daimohk just did an […]
Well, the months of training certainly paid off last night with an absolutely staggering performance at the finale of the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, performed to a huge audience of 3,500 people! If you were there then please leave your comments on the performance, or let us know if you have any photos or video you […]
We’re now getting incredibly excited about Daimohk’s visit with the news that they are now making their way across Europe for their first performance in Llangollen at the weekend! A phenomenal amount of work is taking place so that the children have a fun and relaxing time on the tour, so huge thanks once again […]
Our staff in Bude and partners in Chechnya and Moscow have been working tirelessly over the past few weeks to ensure that all of the Daimohk group receive visas to travel in the UK and to their performances in France. No mean feat! Unfortunately delays in this process have meant that the first date, 7th […]
To whet your appetite for Daimohk’s forthcoming tour (see dates, venues, prices and booking information here) we thought we would put up some links to Daimohk elsewhere on the web. First of all is Jos De Putter’s 2002 film ‘Dans Grozny Dans’. In Chechen with French subtitles. ‘Jos De Putter’s powerful documentary “Dans Grozny Dans”, […]
We’re thrilled to be able to announce the venues and dates for this year’s Daimohk Tour. If you have not had the joy of seeing the Chechen Children’s Dance Ensemble before then please make an effort to come and see them – not only is the story and the spirit of these young dancers extraordinary, […]
Hello, and welcome back to the website if you’ve not been here for a while. I’ve had a tinker with the website and hopefully it should now be easier to access and receive regular news reports of what we are doing – particularly if you use RSS feeds (if not then find out more on […]
Most of the twelve Little Star psychologists will visit the UK in 2009. Working every day with traumatized people causes a strain for those conducting this work, and Peacebuilding UK therefore arranges a break or retreat for the team of psychologists and counsellors each year for rest and recuperation. Previous retreats have been conducted in the […]
Peacebuilding UK has been invited by an NGO in Gaza to support their work through staff training in the fields of child psychological trauma counselling and rehabilitation. This co-operation will focus on psychosocial counselling of children in the field and the training of new staff/ mental health professionals in Gaza. An initial one-week seminar is […]