📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The "Weltbühne" (world stage) in Heckenbeck, a small place with only 450 inhabitants, is a cultural centre with a large theatre space in a former village hall. Every year, the local population look forward to an international theatre project and will happily host the international group if this workcamp for 2 weeks. www.weltbuehne.info
The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education.
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💼 What the programme involves
In times of more and more wars, climate change and other disasters, many people find it increasingly difficult to be hopeful and confident. Hope is one of the strongest factors for our well-being. It is based on the belief that the future will be better than the present. And on the fact that we ourselves, together with other people, friends or in social networks, can do something to shape our future. Hope can help to make the world a better place.
Under the guidance of an experienced theatre teacher, you will develop scenes around the theme of "hope" using role play, character work, interaction and improvisation. What gives you hope? What has helped you or others to find a way and change situations? How do you stay hopeful? Does hope need big visions or do you find hope in small everyday moments? Let's find out together. Over the course of the two weeks, your own creative ideas will be turned into a theatre play, which you will perform in front of an audience as the grand finale of the work camp.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Sleeping rooms, kitchen and a common room in the cultural centre. You can use the big garden. There is a big theatre hall with a stage for rehearsals and your performance at the end of the project. You cook together. Money for the food shopping is provided to you. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any allergies when registering. Heckenbeck is in a very remote location.
📍 About the location
There will be bicycles available for trips (and for shopping). The town of Bad Gandersheim is 4km away. You can reach Alfeld (with its Faguswerk heritage site), Hildesheim, Hanover and Göttingen by train. We also recommend a trip to the Harz region, with the world heritage site Goslar Rammelsberg (a mining museum) and hiking paths.
⚠️ Requirements
Extra Fee of 395 € for theater workshop, You should have a good knowledge of English for the theatre workshop and be able to ride a bike.
Please note: There is a special additional Teenage Fee of 100€ for international volunteers who applied under 18 in this camp.
ℹ️ Additional information
The total fee for international teenagers who apply for this project is 495€!!
