Volunteers will help to prepare a local festival ( Festival der Freundschaft ) on the beach for youth and families. It will be a festival with music, dance, workshops, sports and other activities. They will help to plan, organize and arrange this festival and after it they will do some cleanup and evaluation of the festival. More informations about the festival you can find on: www.festivalderfreundschaft.de (only in German). During their stay the volunteers also will have opportunities to take part on festival activities. The exact tasks that will be undertaken will vary and volunteers are expected to be flexible in the work they do and be prepared to participate in all of the tasks fully.
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation:Volunteers will be accommodated in a youth clubFood:Food is already included but the volunteers will be responsible for the cooking.
Location & leisure:
Location:Graal-Mueritz is certainly the most beautiful seaside resorts of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and has about 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) of fine beach. The Baltic Sea, being near the old hanseatic city of Rostock and the peninsula Fischland-Darss-Zingst and being surrounded by a large forest called Rostocker Heide - this is what makes Graal-Mueritz so special to its almost 4,000 residents. Graal-Mueritz is well-known for its special climate. The mix of fresh air from the sea and from the forest enables the city to offer rehabilitation, recreation, and prophylaxis of respiratory, circulatory, and skin-realated disturbances. For further information about Graal-Mueritz visit the website www.graal-mueritz.de (this site is also available in English).The natural reserve Grosses Ribnitzer Moor, a fen, is located in the east of Graal-Mueritz.Leisure time activities:Excursions are planned, short trips to nearby towns, swimming...
Requirements:
Further requirements:Please bring a sleeping bag, a mattress pad, work clothes gloves, motivation and good humour.
Every year at Schloss Broellin (Broellin castle) artists meet to run international art workshops, festivals and other events. The aim is to provide a meeting place for artists and the public. Artists present their work and exchange ideas with colleagues. You will help to prepare and run the festival. During the festival you will also help in the kitchen. Your help will be needed to build living and working facilities outside and other constructional works to make the place more attractive.
Are you interested in theatre, music, dance, performances? Then this is the camp for you! For the 10th time the exciting summer event “International Theatre Festival on the River” is taking place in Frankfurt with quite a diverse cultural program (www.protagon.net).
We transform the Main river bank at the Weseler shipyard into a place of discovery, enjoyment and inspiration. The program for this festival is extremely full: national and international theatre acts in public spaces, live music-singer songwriter program in the cozy Bedouin tent, poetry slam, reading stage, outdoor movie theatre, a cabaret room, workshops and training opportunities, the unique headphone disco with the renowned DJ’s, a flea market and naturally delicious food and drinks.
Where you will be helping:
Transforming it from a bare space to a festival. The cocktail bar, beer garden, Bedouin tent and stage all need to be built. You will also be helping during the festivals behind the scenes, for example artist support, catering, headphone disco, sound effects and lighting…and of course at the end of the program we need to take it all down. During the festival you will be working 7 hours per day and you will get a really good feel for the atmosphere and the program site.
The festival will be organized by Antagon theatre, an independent Frankfurt performance theatre. Life and work are very closely connected here: Antagon works with performers from all over the world, with the means of physical theatre, the sensory perception, the voice, expression through dance, acrobatics, stilts, improvisation , music, fire and stage designs. Their performances will not be held in theatres but rather performed in the streets-worldwide! Theatre should take place in public spaces, available for everyone – not commercialized.
Free time:
You will live together with the performers on the grounds of the Antagon theatre in Frankfurt, 20 minutes away by tram from the Frankfurt central station. In this workcamp community and togetherness are very important and are seen clearly during this festival: You can celebrate, dance, cook, move, and be amazed…you can also make trips to nearby cities such as Mainz, Cologne and Heidelberg.
Meals:
You cook together.
Accommodation:
You will be living in a Mongolian yurt and in a construction trailer together with the international artist of the street theatres on the grounds of the Antagon theatre (www.antagon.de).
Train Station or Airport:
Frankfurt
Remarks:
This camp is for volunteers who are interested in having a community and alternate lifestyle experience, since you will be living, working, and performing together with the performers of Antagon.
Special Requirements:
Volunteers should be sociable, work well in teams, enjoy working alone, even during festival confusion!
NB:
Motivation letter is required (Project, Lifestyle, Experiences/Interests).
You will help at the catering team and decorate the festival area, the interior of the event tents and build different constructions for the festival. After the festival you will help to remove all decoration and clean up the area. That will be the main task for ALL volunteers. If you are interested in juggling you will have the opportunity to learn how to juggle. In the past few years we have noted the growing numbers of work camp participants with digital cameras. We invite you to document the festival while working in teams. The camp leader will sort and archive these images and put them on discs for all the participants. The best images and videos will be included on the Burning Bizarre Convention homepage During the last 2 days the group will explore Dresden and its surrounding areas.
Accomodation & food:
in a tent
Requirements:
You should have an interest in documentation or photo-journalism, be able to work independently and have team spirit. You should also like being in nature and camping atmosphere. English language knowledge is very important.
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