Arte en las Fábricas

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Argentina Culture Environment Culture Environment Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Subir al Sur, founded in 2006, is an Argentinian NGO, promoting peace and intercultural education through voluntary service. Subir al Sur organises work camps as well as mid and long-term individual volunteering projects (including EVS), and is a member of CCIVS, the Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations, and a former member of Youth Action for Peace. In summer 2012, merged with the Fundación SES, a NGO founded in 1998, promoting and developing different strategies that strive for the inclusion of teenager and youngsters with fewer opportunities. The four main focus areas are: Education, Employment, Youth-Centred Activities, and Networking and Alliances. Subir al Sur became a member of ICYE in 2017.

💼 What the programme involves

It`s a cultural center occupying 1500 m2, next to the Pilar Industrial Park, in the province of Buenos Aires. Led by the plastic artist Alejandro Marmo (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Marmo). Marmo specializes in using discarded recyclable material from workshops and peripheral places to transform it into art and work. In his art workshop, artistic and environmental projects and productive ventures coexist.

Main Activities
Maintenance, management and care of the space; garden project; productive projects of pieces of art; wind power project.

Volunteer tasks:

Attend and assist in cultural events; garden maintenance; support in the production of artistic pieces; awareness actions on the use of wind energy. In terms of time work, the proposed schedule consists of:

- Physical participation in the project, 3 times a week for 5 hours a day.

- One day of planning, evaluation and reflection tasks that can be done in the office or at home

- Finally, one day to receive training in thematic seminars that contribute to their contribution to the project.

🏠 Accommodation on site

At the project.

📍 About the location

The project is located in the town of Fátima, Pilar District, Province of Buenos Aires, more than 60 km from the City of Buenos Aires. It is a cultural center for modern art next to an industrial park that has more than 200 companies. It is an urbanized territory with low population density and productive development. The Arte en las Fabricas cultural center proposes a space for art, culture, and production in the area.

⚠️ Requirements

- Necessary sensitivity for community work.

- Basic Spanish level

- Initiative to propose activities

- Flexibility to adapt to the structure and way

- Teamwork

- Creative character and motivation

- Interest in youth and children development

- The pillars are sports, food and art. A volunteer who can contribute ideas in those areas will be valued