📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Turn against climate destruction, forced relocation, cultural loss and social erosion with solidarity, self-organisation, creativity and sustainable living!
You don't want to leave the people in the villages threatened by open-cast coal mining alone and celebrate a culture of resistance and solidarity? Then come to the Rheinische Landpartie in August! The Kultur-ohne-Kohle festival (Kuloko) and climate camp will take place at the Garzweiler 2 open-cast mine in NRW. With music, theatre, flea markets, exhibitions, workshops and much more, the participating organisations want to bring a culture to the threatened villages that is colorful and inclusive for all and resolutely opposes the destruction of people's livelihoods wor
💼 What the programme involves
With your commitment you support the entire infrastructure of Kuloko. Possible areas of work include
- Setting up and dismantling the stages, stage design
- Setting up and dismantling the camp infrastructure
- Decorating the venues and camps
- Staffing info points
- Strengthening the structures for awareness, security and corona protection
- Shifts in bar and kiosk
- Supporting the kitchens
Together with the workcamp group and the Kuloko organising team, you will discuss which areas of work make the most sense and in which you would like to participate.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In tents on the festival grounds. Please bring your own tent and camping equipment (sleeping mat, sleeping bag). Depending on the current pandemic regulations, we can arrange in advance for volunteers to share a tent if you don't have one. The camp will be held in the open air for the entire duration.
The sanitary infrastructure on the campsite is self-organised and self-built (separating toilets, washbasins, showers). All volunteers are responsible for the communal maintenance or, if necessary, the construction of this infrastructure.
📍 About the location
Fields, meadows and woodland around the villages at the Garzweiler 2 open-cast mine near Erkelenz in the Rhineland, NRW.
⚠️ Requirements
Interest in climate protection and climate activism; high willingness to self-organise; acceptance of simple living conditions; manual skills are helpful.
Bringing a bike can be useful, but is not a prerequisite. As the workcamp takes place outdoors, it is essential to bring a sleeping mat, a sleeping bag, sun and rain protection and a drinking bottle.