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Szentendre,
Tótfalu, Wild Duck Camp, 2008
12
August 2008
Photogallery
 On
25 July 2008 a group of Moonlight children took
part in the 4 day multicultural history and sport camp organized
by the Hungarian Association of Midnight Championships (MÉSE).
The invitation to Moonlight Clubs came from Péter Jakab,
President of the Association. The children could match their
skills in various sports, but apart from competing they also had
a chance to paddle together with the canoeists of the Wild Duck
Camp in Leányfalu, take part in a bicycle ride, try the local
bobsled roller coaster, and enjoy the beautiful beaches of the
Danube bend.
The partnership and cooperation of the clubs of Subotica and
Szentendre was formed over five years ago. Just as in the
previous years the youth of these two multiethnic towns took all
the opportunities they had to acquaint themselves with each
other’s history and culture, for which in Szentendre numerous
beautiful historic buildings and museums offered a special
visual and aesthetic experience.
At this very same time in Szentendre the Ister Days IX. Danube
Promenade Jubilee was taking place, which is organized in honour
of the River Danube (Ister was the ancient name of
Danube and the name of the goddess of
love and fertility at ancient people of the Middle-East). The
event included street handicraft workshops, funfair, music and
fireworks. The high spot of the event was the traditional candle
floating on the
Danube which the youngsters from
Subotica
could also take part in. In the dark night the flames of several
thousands of candles reflected on the surface of the river and
united in one single ray of light, for us symbolizing the cross-border
friendship of moonlight children and youth.
This symbol could also represent the multiethnic past and
present of the town of Szentendre. After the expulsion of Turks
following the Ottoman occupation it was populated by settlers
from foreign countries. The great migration of Serbs in 1690
brought Serbs to Szentendre in large numbers which left enduring
marks of the townscape and the town’s culture.
Apart from Serbs people from
Dalmatia,
Slovakia, Germany and Greece also settled in this region. The
baroque style houses and churches, the narrow alleys and cobbled
streets that have a Mediterranean atmosphere all still preserve
the mark of the unique composition of the town’s inhabitants and
the memories of the times of the town’s prosperity throughout
history.
During camping the leaders of the Hungarian Association of
Midnight Championship and Association Club 21 also exchanged
experience and outlined the possibility for implementing common
programs and projects.
The camping of children and youth from Subotica was enabled by
MÉSE, the Fornetty Factory of Subotica, Erste Bank a.d. Novi Sad
and the Global Fund for Children.
Dezső Kiss
Who said…
22 July 2008
… that table tennis is not a summer sport? It is indeed!
Because:
I.
…
On 26 June in Subotica civil organizations, and those
institutions that have programmes related to addiction
prevention, commemorated the International Day Against Drug
Abuse with an open-air public event.
The event was organized on the main square of the town in front
of the Town Hall. Club 21 – Association for Positive
Communication participated in the event with the usual
ingenious way: it set up an open-air “night sport club” on the
spot, in the framework of which the “moonlight” kids, the staff
members of the American Corner Moonlight and the students of the
Hungarian Teacher Training Faculty of Subotica put on a sport
performance in 40 minutes with the title “They Chose Death”
as a memorial to renowned musicians who died of various
addictions. This autumn we are going to repeat the performance
in an even more improved form in the Art Cinema of Subotica. We
also carried off a prize in the placard competition held on the
occasion of the event. The project was group work, but Áron
Lálity was chosen to receive the prize as the leader of the
project. The youngsters of the six Moonlight Clubs of Subotica
also conducted a unique and practical attitude survey among the
spectators and the passers-by. The tools of the survey were soft
drinks served in jugs, the health poster of Club 21, 200
“health” cups and 200 “poison” cups. Those surveyed could have
free drinks in either of the two types of cups offered, from
which they could choose freely. The results of this practical
survey were the following: all “health” cups were used up, while
the “poison” cups were chosen by 34 persons, with the
reservation that the illustrations on the cups were designed by
a psychologist and an artist, and the “poison” cup had a highly
attractive appearance. The sample of the survey is not
representative. Or is it after all?
Áron Lality
University Student
Volunteer
II.
The Women’s Club operating in the framework of the
Radonovac
Municipality
(part of the Subotica Municipality) organized eventful summer
programmes for the children who spend their holiday at home. The
programmes included dance, chess and drama school, art group,
visits to the museum and the zoo, football matches, and table
tennis in the Summer Moonlight Club – this latter thanks to the
Moonlight Clubs of Subotica. The table tennis games were held
with the coaching of brothers Tivadar and Viktor Juhász,
eminent players of the Spartacus Table Tennis Club of Subotica,
who have achieved serious results not only in Subotica, but also
on national level, and who accepted this summer activity
voluntarily. The beginning of the first day was quite amusing.
10 youngsters came together from the neighbourhood. We had a
ping-pong table and bats too, but … no net. For a moment it
occurred to me that the bottle we used for collecting plastic
bottle cups would make a good substitute for the net, but Mr.
Kiss, Tivadar and Viktor soon put together the perfect net from
the various “ingredients” found on the site. What were these?
Two porcelain cups, two glasses and a metal curtain rod. The
sight cannot be described with words, it must be seen (photos).
All’s well that ends well, but after this I (Mrs. Sefcsity) made
sure that on the following days we had a real net, and the
children could play on a “traditional” table – and in the way
they learned it from the Juhász brothers.
Ildikó Sefcsity
Women’s Club
President
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