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Belgien Belgien: The city is invented (be involved in an eco-center) (JAVVA23-02)

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12/06/2023   -   26/06/2023

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18 - 99
Maximale Anzahl von Freiwilligen
12
Immer noch Platz für
4 Male + 1 Female ( full for <18)
Sprachen
Englisch
Vegetarisches Essen
Ja
Zugang mit Behinderung
Ja
Nächster Flughafen
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
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Station of Liege Saint-Lambert

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The main objective of the workcamp will be to help improving the outdoor and indoor facilities of the eco-centre and support the organisation of the festival “Ecoteau” which promotes the activities of the eco-centre and other local initiatives.

Examples of tasks and activities to foresee during the workcamp:

1. Rebuild the wooden shelter of the vegetable garden

2. Re-roofing with wooden tiles, straxw or other materials

3. Take care of the vegetable garden, the forest garden: weed, rebuild the wooden boxes, plant, harvest prepare the soil for future planting

4. Maintain the surroundings, create walking paths

5. Dig new pond

6. Set-up nest box

7. Spend one or two days at an organic plantation to learn how to harvest fruits and vegetables (the harvest will be cooked back at the centre)

8. Bake homemade bread and pizza in our wood-fired oven

9. Gather, discover and cook wild plants

10. Pick and cook everything which grows on our site

Unterkunft und Verpflegung

ACCOMODATION:

Volunteers will sleep in tents on the site the eco-centre. Please bring a sleeping bag and a mattress.
We wish the volunteers to only bring organic and natural care products (shampoo, soap…)

FOOD:

Volunteers will be provided with an inside and an outside kitchen where they will cook for themselves.
Food will be local, organic and mainly vegetarian.

Wer organisiert das Projekt?

” La CITE s'invente ” is a non-profit educational organisation for sustainable development. Its mission is to raise awareness about environmental issues and to promote sustainable ways of life.

The main objective of the organisation is to build and design an eco-centre for pedagogical purposes in the hillside (coteaux) of the Citadel of Liège. An eco-centre is a multi-purpose facility dedicated to demonstration of innovations and knowledge transfers for environment protection and sustainable development.

In addition to the development of the eco-centre, the organisation is carrying out numerous activities related to environment:

Activities, workshop and trainings around nature, vegetable garden, forest garden, biodiversity, wild plants

1. “tables d’hôtes”, sustainable food workshop, home-made bread workshop

2. Workcamps about eco-renovation and recycling

3. Awareness raising about sustainable accommodation

4. “Healthy house” workshop on how to make hand-made home care products

Anreise zum Treffpunkt

The meeting point is at the eco-center (Rue du Bâneux 75, 4000 Liège) on 12 June from midday (12AM).

By plane: There are two international airports in Belgium. There is Zaventem airport in Brussels and Brussels-Charleroi airport in the city of Charleroi.
Once you have arrived in Belgium, you can type in "Rue du Bâneux 75, 4000 Liège" on Google maps

=> From Zaventem (Brussels airport), it's just over an hour by train.

=> From Brussels-Charleroi (Charleroi airport), it's a just over two hours by train.

Weitere Infos

This workcamp targets volunteers who are sensitive to environmental issues with a strong interest for sustainable development.

Please bring good working shoes and clothes as well as a raincoat in case of rainy weather.

Anforderungen

This project is open for people with less opportunities and for people with mental disabilities.

Belgien Belgien: Couleur Café (World Music Festival) (JAVVA23-03)

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15/06/2023   -   28/06/2023

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Alter
18 - 99
Maximale Anzahl von Freiwilligen
12
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1 ( full for <18)
Sprachen
Englisch
Vegetarisches Essen
Ja
Nächster Flughafen
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
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The nearest train station is Brussels South.

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Volunteers will help with various logistical aspects of setting up the festival: assembling and dismantling structures, loading and unloading equipment, setting up scenery, setting up artists' boxes, participating in waste management, etc.

---- It is important to remember that this type of work is very physical. -----

Volunteers will be working with part of the festival team as well as with other volunteers (outside JAVVA).

During the festival, which will take place on 23, 24 and 25 June from 3pm, the volunteers will be integrated into the different teams (catering and eco-cleaning). After their shifts, the volunteers will be able to enjoy the festival.

The group of JAVVA volunteers will be on day-off on 18/06 and 25/06 with the possibility to visit Brussels or other cities in Belgium.

Unterkunft und Verpflegung

ACCOMODATION :

Volunteers will be required to stay in tents in the volunteer camp during the workcamp. Conditions are basic.
Bring your sleeping bag, mattress and toiletries. If you have the possibility, you can also bring your own tent. Beware, the nights can be very cold in Belgium! Showers and toilets are available on site.

FOOD :

Meals (morning/midday/evening) are provided by Couleur Café. During the festival, you receive food tickets so you can have access to all the foodtrucks of the festival for free.

Wer organisiert das Projekt?

The Couleur Café festival is a festival of world and urban music. It is organised as a large convivial village in the city of Brussels and offers, in addition to the music, entertainment, fireworks, workshops for children, dance and music lessons, art exhibitions ranging from traditional to contemporary art and multicultural meeting places.

Couleur café is a festival...
-- Of world music
-- Mixed, multilingual, multicultural, multigenerational
-- Warm, welcoming, family-oriented
-- Committed, cheerful, optimistic
-- Festive, creative, colourful

=> More information on Couleur Café 2023 (couleurcafe.be)

Anreise zum Treffpunkt

The meeting point is at the PARC D'OSSEGHEM festival site in Brussels on 15 June.

The nearest train station is Brussels South. Train timetables on: https://www.belgiantrain.be/fr . To get there afterwards (if you arrive by train at Brussels South station):

1. Get off at the Brussels South train station

2. Take metro line 6 (direction Roi Baudouin) and get off at the Heysel stop.

3. Walk for 5 minutes.

By plane: the nearest international airports are Brussels (Zaventem) or Brussels-Charleroi (note that this one is in the city of Charleroi).

Brussels airport (Zaventem) is the closest because it is directly in the city. It will take you 30 minutes to get there. Put : Parc d'Osseghem in google maps to get your route.

Brussels Charleroi airport (located in Charleroi) also allows you to reach the meeting place in 1h30. You will need to take a shuttle from the airport to Brussels and then take public transport within the city. Put: Parc d'Osseghem in google maps to get your route.

Weitere Infos

The language of the work site is English. Basic French is useful but not essential.

Anforderungen

Keep in mind: this is a very big festival. You have to keep in mind that during the 3 days of the festival, there are a lot of people coming.

Belgien Belgien: Fedasil Sugny (CBB04ESC)

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08/07/2023   -   22/07/2023

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18 - 30
Maximale Anzahl von Freiwilligen
12
Immer noch Platz für
1 ( full for <18)
Sprachen
Englisch
Vegetarisches Essen
Ja
Zugang mit Behinderung
Ja
Nächster Flughafen
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Anreise über
Gedinne

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This project is based on a dynamic meeting between the volunteers and the residents of the
centre. With the help of technical leader, volunteers, young and older residents will work together to build a bread and pizza oven and to paint the rooms of one of the buildings.

By hosting this workcamp the staff of the center also wishes that the volunteers can bring a positive dynamic by proposing leisure activities and workshops to the residents and specially youngsters and kids: sports, crafts, games, treasure hunt, film projection, debate…


Feel free to bring your fresh ideas.

Unterkunft und Verpflegung

Accommodation will be provided in the centre. Volunteers will stay in a common room (dormitory) with all facilities (showers, toilets, …).

You will share the same living conditions of the residents and beware that are really “basic”.

The food will be provided by the center and you will eat in the refectory with the residents. There is also a kitchen avalaible if you want to propose to the others your favourite meal ;)

Lage und Freizeit

Sugny is a small and isolated village in the south of Belgium nearby the French border. By choosing this workcamp, you decide to live in the nature. All around, there are fields, woods and small villages. But there are plenty of opportunities for entertainment: football fields, basketball playgrounds… During the weekend, and according to the group decisions, it will be possible to organise cultural visits and to travel to the biggest Belgian cities.

BEWARE: the place is really isolated.

Wer organisiert das Projekt?

The Sugny Asylum Seeker Centre hosts people who have asked for international protection in Belgium. These people fled situations of war, persecution, discriminations, environmental disasters…. But before to feel actually established in Belgium and allowed to build their future here, their refugee status has to be proven and accepted through a long administrative process. While waiting for the documents that will enable them to remain legally in our country, the asylum seekers are accommodated in this centre.

People living there await the solution concerning their administrative status. They never know what tomorrow may bring to them.


Therefore, residents often found themselves overwhelmed by feelings of relief and anguish, hope and disappointment. The life of Sugny Asylum Seeker Centre reflects these individual dramas and hopefulness of residents.


Website (available in English): https://www.fedasil.be/en



This project is organized in line with several other volunteering teams hosted in refugees center in Belgium. It aims to bring a small contribution to the welcoming of the residents as well as to permit the volunteers to learn about and be better aware of the realities of the migration policies.

By volunteering for this project, you are actively helping the centre welcome people coming from a wide variety of difficult situations and take care of them while they are waiting for a response to their asylum request (UN SDG 10 Reduced inequalities).

Anreise zum Treffpunkt

You can take a train from Bruxelles Nord to Namur and there change a train to go to Gedinne train station.

Anforderungen

This project is a volunteering team, supported by the European Solidarity Corps program of the
European Union. 

Compared to the usual workcamp participation scheme, some main financial and administrative differences must be underlined:

- The participation to the ESC volunteering teams is subjects to several principles and conditions, presented on the ESC webpage: <a href="https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/mission_en" target="_blank" >https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/mission_en</a>

- The volunteers do not have to pay any fee (not sending, nor participation fee) to attend the project

- The volunteers will receive pocket money, calculated on basis of 4€/day, once they arrive on the project in Belgium

- The volunteers will receive a financial support for their travel, according to a maximum amount established in accordance with their travel distance (up to 275€)

- The volunteers need to register on the European Solidarity Corps Portal; CBB will organize their matching, on the online system, with the volunteering project

- The volunteers will have to complete a participation report, submitted online by the ESC portal 

We warn the volunteers that the consumption of alcohol is strictly forbidden inside the centre.

This project requests volunteers with a good level of motivation for its theme and who are prepared to integrate the life of an asylum seekers center. We recommend them to a have an idea about the policy concerning refugees in their own country.
In order to demonstrate this, we ask the candidate volunteers:

- to answer our specific questionnaire (if you do not have it yet, please ask it to your sending organization)

- to send us a CGC (Certificate of good conduct)

We will not confirm any placement request before the analysis of these documents.

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Belgien Belgien: Building Youth (School Renovation) (JAVVA23-04)

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15/07/2023   -   29/07/2023

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Alter
18 - 99
Maximale Anzahl von Freiwilligen
14
Immer noch Platz für
4 Male + 4 Female ( full for <18)
Sprachen
Englisch
Vegetarisches Essen
Ja
Zugang mit Behinderung
Ja
Nächster Flughafen
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Anreise über
The train station of Tournai.

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The main task will therefore be to contribute in the renovation of the old boarding school which L’Enfance de l’Art has been occupying since 2011.

* Material and techniques of construction are eco-friendly.

* The aim is to create a welcoming and well-equipped place with lavatories, kitchen, dorm, game room, …

=> Volunteers will work from Monday to Friday, from 9 to 12am and from 2 to 4pm. Depending on the needs, they will work in teams on different tasks:

- Eco-renovation: coating with a straw-soil mix, dismounting of building, materials sorting, painting

- Taking care of the surroundings

- Furniture building in the carpentry workshop

- Cooking for the team

It's physical !

Unterkunft und Verpflegung

ACCOMODATION:

On the workcamp place, in other buildings to be restored or in a tent (possibility to choose).

Two showers and several toilets

A room to cook and eat

Two dorms + one washing machine

Please bring a sleeping bag and a torch (to move inside the buildings).

FOOD:

The meals (light at lunch: sandwiches, salads, soup... and hot meal for dinner) will be prepared by a member of the organisation with the help of two volunteers. A focus will be put on a good management of the collective cooking in order to have quality meals with as few waste as possible.

Wer organisiert das Projekt?

"L’Enfance de l'Art", founded in 1997, is an association which aims to help parents in their education role. The organisation aims to gather people willing to bring to their children a creative learning environment where they can find the joy in learning and experience the richness of childhood rather than early specialisation or academic hot-housing. Parents and professionals work together in the structures created by the organisation: leisure workshops, nurseries, schools, kindergarten. To do so, the association follows the principles of Steiner-Waldorf pedagogy.

Altogether, those activities gather a total of 155 children. The nursery, the kindergarten and the primary school, which are all recognized by the authorities, are located in a former boarding school which was abandoned in 2004. This building in now in a process of renovation which the volunteers will take part in.

Anreise zum Treffpunkt

The meeting point is at Tournai station on 15 July at around 4pm.

Brussels airport (Zaventem) is the closest because it takes 1h30 by public transport to reach Tournai station. Brussels - Charleroi airport (located in Charleroi) is also a good way to reach the meeting place in 2 hours.

Use google maps.

From Brussels City, go to Brussels Central Station and take the direct train to Tournai. If you are under 26 years old, ask for a GoPass 1 ticket. You can go anywhere in Belgium for 6,6€. All timetables and routes on www.belgianrail.be/en/

Weitere Infos

This workcamp is open to anyone interested in meeting and sharing with others.

Smartphone use will be limited, based on rules which will be decided collectively on the first day.

Please bring clothes you’re not afraid to dirty, good working shoes and remember that even during summer weather is often variable.

Anforderungen

This project is open for people who have less opportunities and for people who have mental disabilities.

Language of the workcamp will be English. Basic knowledge of French is useful but not mandatory.

Belgien Belgien: Fedasil Rixensart (CBB06ESC)

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05/08/2023   -   19/08/2023

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18 - 30
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12
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2 ( full for <18)
Sprachen
Französisch
Vegetarisches Essen
Ja
Zugang mit Behinderung
Ja
Nächster Flughafen
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Anreise über
Rixensart

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The volunteers will give a hand and a fresh air to the centre’s animation team.


They will be required to get actively involved in the daily life of the centre.

Half of the time the volunteers will propose and plan activities for children and teenagers (according to the population currently present in the centre). Some example could be: creative and artistic workshops, board games, walking excursions, going to swimming pool, sports and games, movies, cultural visits, …


To a lesser extent and depending on the weather forecast, volunteers will take part in gardening tasks. Recently the centre starts a vegetable garden project with and for the residents.

The management team of the centre is very well used to work with volunteers as they have been hosting this workcamp for many years.

Unterkunft und Verpflegung

Volunteers will be lodged in a common room (dormitory) in a building next to the central one. Showers are accessible in the central building. A washing machine is also available. Volunteers will share the same living conditions of the residents and beware that are really “basic”.

Food is based on self-catering. Take your own recipes and ideas. Please, be aware that meals have to be simple. You will have access to a small kitchen to cook your meals. Vegetarian or any other diet should be announced in advance in order to organise shopping.

Lage und Freizeit

Rixensart is located in the Brabant Walloon province, 25 km from Brussels and 7 km from Waver. The zone is highly urbanised and has all the usual conveniences, Rixensart still keeps its countryside charm but one can feel the proximity of Brussels (40 minutes by train, 20 by car). Asylum seekers Centre is located outside the town centre, but at a walking distance from the famous local lake Genval, cinema, shops, supermarkets, train station…

Wer organisiert das Projekt?

The Rixensart Asylum Seekers Centre accommodates people or families who have asked for asylum in Belgium. Refugees come from Syria, Irak, Iran, Congo etc. Many of them fled from war or from countries that were under a dictatorship or devastated by an ecological disaster. Thus they came to Belgium with dreams of stability, richness and comfort life. It is not, however, that easy to be allowed to settle in Europe, especially for somebody from the South or the East. Before these people may start their new live, their refugee status has to be proven and accepted. While waiting for the document that will enable them to remain legally in our country, the immigrants are accommodated in this centre in the Brussels vicinity.

People living there await the solution concerning their administrative status. They never know what tomorrow may bring to them.


Therefore, residents often found themselves overwhelmed by feelings of relief and anguish, hope and disappointment. The life of Rixensart Asylum Seeker Centre reflects these individual dramas and hopefulness of residents.


Website (available in English): https://www.fedasil.be/en

This project is organized in line with several other volunteering teams hosted in refugees centre in Belgium. It aims to bring a small contribution to the welcoming of the residents as well as to permit the volunteers to learn about and be better aware of the realities of the migration policies.

By volunteering for this project, you are actively helping the centre welcome people coming from a wide variety of difficult situations and take care of them while they are waiting for a response to their asylum request (UN SDG 10 Reduced inequalities).

Anreise zum Treffpunkt

You can take a train from Bruxelles Nord to Rixensart train station

Anforderungen

This project is a volunteering team, supported by the European Solidarity Corps program of the
European Union. 

Compared to the usual workcamp participation scheme, some main financial and administrative differences must be underlined:

The	participation to the ESC volunteering teams is subjects to several principles and conditions, presented on the ESC webpage: <a href="https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/mission_en" target="_blank" >https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/mission_en</a>

The volunteers do not have to pay any fee (not sending, nor participation fee) to attend the project

The volunteers will receive pocket money, calculated on basis of 4€/day, once they arrive on the project in Belgium

The volunteers will receive a financial support for their travel, according to a maximum amount established in accordance with their travel distance (up to 275€)

The volunteers need to register on the European Solidarity Corps Portal; CBB will organize their matching, on the online system, with the volunteering project

The volunteers will have to complete a participation report, submitted online by the ESC portal 

 
We warn the volunteers that the consumption of alcohol is strictly forbidden inside the centre.

 

The volunteers are required to have basic knowledge of French.

Besides, it is necessary to have basic knowledge about group’s animation (songs, music, dance, plays…) and to be able to assume responsibility within a group. Be able to listen to others is very important there. This kind of workcamp is a very rich personal and human experience. It makes people aware of the complexity of certain social conditions related to the great inequalities on our planet.
In order to demonstrate this, we ask the candidate volunteers:

to send a short motivation letter

to answer our specific questionnaire (if you do not have it yet, please ask it to your sending organization)

to send us a CGC (Certificate of good conduct)

We will not confirm any placement request before the analysis of these documents.

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Belgien Belgien: Grimm (CBB02)

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07/08/2023   -   21/08/2023

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18 - 99
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12
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3 Male + 1 Female ( full for <18)
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Englisch
Vegetarisches Essen
Ja
Zugang mit Behinderung
Ja
Nächster Flughafen
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
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Marche-en-Famenne

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Assisted by local technical leaders, the volunteer group will restore an old walking path in the forest by cleaning, building footbridges to step over streams of water and building benches and a covered rest area.

If you work fast, several other manual tasks are foreseen: repairing fences, repairing the roof on an old chapel, repairing stone walls and taking care of construction realized during previous workcamps.


If you like working with wood, screws and tools this is your workcamp!

BEWARE: This workcamp is based on manual and outdoor tasks which might be sometimes hard.

Unterkunft und Verpflegung

Accommodation can be compared to a boarding school (Saint François complex): a corridor with
double bedrooms; toilets and showers are at the same floor. No smoking inside. A big common space is also available for indoor activities.
Self-catering. Bring your recipes to enjoy ‘kitchen life’!



The working place is not the same as the accommodation place so volunteers will leave the town every day.
Sleeping in town, working in the countryside.

Lage und Freizeit

Marche-en-Famenne is a city in the countryside and it is also CBB town! You can find everything
there: schools, supermarkets, industries… But still, it is surrounded by woods, fields and small villages where the life rhythm remains rural. Liège, Namur, Brussels and Luxembourg can be easily
reached by train in about one hour.

For more information see: www.marche.be

Wer organisiert das Projekt?

The Marche-en-Famenne workcamp is the outcome of the collaboration between municipal authorities and a local non-profit organization. More than fifteen years ago, the mayor and deputies wanted to develop international contacts for the local youth. GRIMM association was just beginning to work on the protection of the local life framework and promoting models of sustainable development. Their members had a full load of ideas but were short of hands to realize them. Thus, they came to the idea of involving volunteers from all over the world. Since then, the municipality makes its buildings available every summer and welcomes foreign youngsters.
GRIMM members organize the work. With the help from the volunteers, they are eventually able to realize the projects they dreamt about. Their actions are based on the following philosophy: Nature belongs to everyone. And if each of us may enjoy it, it has to be protected.

They organize workcamps for more than 15 years!!!

Your help will ensure the renovation and improvement of the rural landscape of Marche-en-Famenne (UN SDG 11 Sustainable cities and communities, UN SDG 15 Life on land).

Their website: www.legrimm.be

Anreise zum Treffpunkt

Take a train from Bruxelles Nord to Marloie. And then another train from Marloie to Marche-en-Famenne.

Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Cities and Communities Life on Land
Belgien Belgien: Nomade Theatre Festival (JAVVA23-06)

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12/08/2023   -   25/08/2023

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Alter
18 - 99
Maximale Anzahl von Freiwilligen
10
Immer noch Platz für
3 ( full for <18)
Sprachen
Französisch
Vegetarisches Essen
Ja
Nächster Flughafen
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Anreise über
By train, it's Brussels South (Gare du Midi)

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Volunteers will help on several aspects of the festival logistics, such as meals preparation for the entire team of the festival, assembling and dismantling of tents, building and putting up the decorations, stage-managing, transport and unloading of material, installation of the “village of organisations”, waste and composting toilet management, ... Volunteers will work with all people working on the festival (technicians, stage managers, facilitators, organizers, cooks...).

Volunteers will also be integrated in the different teams during the festival (tickets, bar, catering, stage-managing, ...) which will take place from August 17th to August 20th 2023.

--- Please be aware that heavy physical work will be asked to volunteers at setting up and dismantling. ---

Volunteers will also have lighter tasks like meal preparation, waste management, ... during the festival.

Depending of the programme schedule, volunteers may also have the possibility to actively take part in entertainment activities of the festival.

Unterkunft und Verpflegung

ACCOMODATION :

Volunteers will sleep in caravans on the site of the festival. The living conditions are very rudimentary close to conditions of a “scout camp”. Volunteers will use dry toilet and a shower placed in the park. Please bring your sleeping bag and a camping mattress.

FOOD:

Meals will be taken with the diverse teams of the festival and will be prepared by the volunteers together with the kitchen team of the festival. Lunch will consist on sandwiches and a warm meal will be prepared for dinner. Vegetarian and halal food will be available.

Wer organisiert das Projekt?

Since its creation in 1994, “La Compagnie des Nouveaux Disparus” strives to give access to culture and - particularly theatre - to a socially disadvantaged public, less inclined to cultural activities. Democratisation of culture and promotion of diversity are the guiding principles of the company’s activities. These are divided in three types of projects: theatre plays creation, “Theâtres Nomades” festival and Mimouna Festival.

Every summer, the Brussels’ Park hosts more than 50 shows over 4 days for the Festival Théâtres Nomades Festival. The fountain and surrounding area are transformed into a colourful nomad village made of marquees, caravans, berber tents, and open-air stages.

The programme is diversified through various shows for children, a circus, street theatre, classical theatre, puppet shows, as well as creative workshops on the stage.


=> More information (FR) on: www.theatresnomades.be or www.lesnouveauxdisparus.com

Anreise zum Treffpunkt

The meeting point is at the Gare du Midi around noon on 12 August. From there, someone will pick up the group to the site.

* By plane: the nearest international airports are Brussels (Zaventem) or Brussels-Charleroi (note that the latter is in the city of Charleroi).

The easiest way is to arrive at Zaventem, the airport in the city of Brussels. To get to the railway station, you will have to take a public transport which takes 20 minutes.

It is also possible to arrive at Brussels - Charleroi (in the city of Charleroi) and take a shuttle bus (1h drive) to the capital.

Train information here: https://www.belgiantrain.be/fr

Weitere Infos

  • This workcamp requires strong physical efforts at some moments and an active participation and involvement of volunteers during 2 weeks, due to the deadlines set for the good progress of the festival. Volunteers are asked to prove a strong interest for the thematic of the festival.

    * There will be 2 free days during the workcamp: 15 and 22 august.

    * Please bring good working shoes and clothes which can get dirty as well as a raincoat in case of rainy weather.

    If you have a music instrument or juggling material, feel free to bring it!

Anforderungen

The language of the workcamp is French. It is not necessary to speak perfectly but it will be the main language on the workcamp.

Belgien Belgien: Folk Festival (JAVVA23-07)

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04/09/2023   -   15/09/2023

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Details zum Projekt

Alter
18 - 99
Maximale Anzahl von Freiwilligen
10
Immer noch Platz für
2 Male + 3 Female ( full for <18)
Sprachen
Englisch
Vegetarisches Essen
Ja
Nächster Flughafen
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Anreise über
By train: Andenne station.

Arbeit

Volunteers will help on several aspects of the festival logistics, such as meals preparation for the entire team of the festival, assembling and dismantling of tents and structures, building and putting up the decorations, stage-managing, transport and unloading of material, installation of the market area, waste management,... Volunteers will work with all people working on the festival (technicians, stage managers, facilitators, organizers, cooks...).

Hard physical work will be asked to volunteers so it is important to take this into account. Volunteers will also have lighter tasks like meal preparation, waste management, decorations,... The festival will take place from September 8th to September 10th 2023.

Unterkunft und Verpflegung

ACCOMODATION:

Volunteers will sleep in a large indoor space near the Festival. Please bring your sleeping bag, mattress and toiletries. The living conditions are rudimentary close to conditions of a “scout camp”.

FOOD:

Before and after the festival, meals will be taken with the diverse teams of the festival. Sandwiches will be prepared for lunch and a warm meal for dinner. During the festival, volunteers will receive meal tickets to get warm meals from the caterer of the site.

Wer organisiert das Projekt?

The Marsinne Folk Festival is organized by the non-profit organisation «Musiques et Traditions» since 1992. This three-day long Folk Festival features balls, concerts, dancing workshops, a free stage, sessions, street and puppet theatre, as well as a market for instrument makers and craftsmen.

Whether you are an experienced dancer, an enthusiastic music lover or a one-day passer-by, this is the place to be if you want to indulge in traditional music in a peaceful and easily accessible setting. Expect to find a friendly and family-oriented festival with a unique atmosphere and set in a spectacular location. When it is not on one of the three stages, musicians play spontaneously together, in the middle of the public or in the craft market.

The lovely surroundings of the Marsinne castle-farm offer a unique atmosphere to the festival. We invite you to discover and enjoy what the oldest festival of traditional music Wallonia has to offer!

More information (FR) on www.folkfestivalmarsinne.be

Anreise zum Treffpunkt

The meeting point is at the Andenne train station on 4 September at about 4 pm.

The two well-connected cities near Heron are Namur and Liège, where there are bus connections to these cities. The nearest train station to the Festival is Andenne. Train timetables on: https://www.belgiantrain.be/fr

By plane: the nearest international airports are Brussels (Zaventem) or Brussels-Charleroi (note that the latter is in the city of Charleroi). Coming from Brussels-Charleroi airport, it takes about 1h45 to reach Andenne station. It is the same time from Zaventem airport.

Use google maps.

Weitere Infos

• This workcamp requires hard physical efforts at some moments and an active participation and involvement of volunteers during the workcamp, due to the deadlines set for the good progress of the festival. Volunteers are asked to prove a strong interest for the thematic of the festival. There will be 3 free days during the workcamp: two days during and one day after the festival.

• It is also important to take into account the fact that the organisation of a festival might be subject to last minutes changes or unforeseen events (for example: the truck to unload doesn’t show up at the predicted time, a technical issue will delay the assembly of a stage,...). We are therefore expecting volunteers to be flexible and understanding in this kind of situation.

• Please bring good working shoes, gloves, clothes that can get dirty and a raincoat in case of rainy weather (+ sleeping bag & mattress). If you have a music instrument or juggling material, feel free to bring it! and your dancing outfit!

• One or two evening will be organize to initiate volunteers to folk dances.

• We aim to encourage the participation of refugees living in Belgium on this workcamp

Anforderungen

The language of the workcamp is English. Basics of French are useful but not necessary.