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Habo Calendar

Habonim Dror Australia has a number of events and seminars that are held regularly each year, comprising the Habo calendar. We hold a winter and a summer camp each year for each ken, as well as a massive federal senior camp which often attracts over 200 chanichim and over 60 madrichim. In between camps, meetings and other cultural activities and events are held on a week to week basis in all kenim.

Beyond this there are a number of federal seminars for tafkidim holders (va'ad mazkirim and va'ad chinuch), as well as an ideology seminar held for the bogrim in most states. Perhaps the most important seminar in the Habo calendar is ma'apelim seminar (commonly known as ma'ap sem) where the entire bogrim body get together to plan for federal camp, to be educated and motivated as a federal movement. Ma'apelim seminar is also when our annual veida, our highest decision making forum, is held, which is where resolutions are made, where the ideology may be amended, and where the next year's federal mazkirut is elected.

Month	Event/s
February	Shnatties leave Kenim hold integration/planning seminars to unite the bogrim and hanallah and to start to plan activities and peulot for the year Official start of the Habo year: meetings begin in all states
March	Community Purim Event (Perth)
April	1st Federal Mazkirim Seminar Habo Third Seder
May	Lag Ba'Omer Celebrations 1st Va'ad Chinuch Seminar Official Start of the Shnat Process
June/July	Winter camps in all states Federal Shnat Seminar for the year 12s Bogtour Seminar in Israel*
August	Beginning of the Hadracha Course for year 10s. 2nd Mazkirim Seminar 2nd Va'ad Chinuch Seminar Ideology Seminar held in most states
September/October	AZYC Bogrim Seminar Habo Federal Chazon (Vision) Seminar: annual veida, fed camp planning, bogrim education.
November
December	End of meetings in the kenim Summer junior camps in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth
January	Federal Camp for the senior movement Federal Hanaggah Farewelcome Bereshit (Aliyah and further Bogrim education) Seminar

* In the past, every alternate year there was a Hagshama/BogTour seminar, where bogrim went to Israel for 2 weeks to learn about and explore Israel, to be refreshed and re-inspired, and ultimately to discuss hagshama and aliyah. Hagshama Seminar took place in July, after winter camps.

** On every other year an Aliyah Seminar is held, where bogrim get together for a few days to discuss aliyah options and to learn about and explore a possible future for themselves in Israel. Aliyah seminar is usually held in November or January.