📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Support a widespread music festival BLOC FEST .Take the opportunity to immerse yourself in a traditional South Italian village. NaturalArt Woods festival lunarcamp ESCinTeamThe festival will take place in Pollica (Salerno - Italy), acknowledged area for the discovery of the Mediterranean Diet (UNESCO intangible asset), and it will take place from the 5th August 2022 till Sunday the 7th August 2022.The project therefore aims to merge, thought art and formation, two different dimensions: environment and culture. The activities point to improve the festival experience and learn how to enhance its environmental sustainability and cohesion with the local context, developing strategies and ideas to minimize transport impact and waste generation. This work will stimulate volunteers in experimenting a sustainable approach within a protected area through an all-embracing experience.During the festival experience it will be arranged a study-tour focused on improving the communication panels of the monastery. This last work will help in supporting the conservation and the appeal of an unexploited cultural site, improving the visitors accessibility.Lunaria and Cilento Youth Union have organized several successful workcamps in the last years. Cilento Youth Union is a youth NGO started in Rofrano (SA) in 2015, targeting Italian youth with fewer opportunities from the south of Italy and specifically from the Cilento area. This workcamp is co-organized by Faro Association, which implements and promotes the widespread music festival BLOC FEST. The collaboration between Faro Association and Cilento Youth Union aims to enhance the long-standing expertise with young volunteers with a multicultural context that mixes in specific formation, art and environment through the festival experience. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: SustainableCommunities-SDG11 and LifeOnLand-SDG15.
💼 What the programme involves
olunteers will be involved in the following activities: Manual work: mow grass, repair and secure the fence of the venue, wood and stone steps, rid the venue access and greenery obstructing the walk, fix dry small stone walls and pave paths with local natural stones, set signage. Agricultural work like hing open fields, weeding, watering and planting.Communication work: translate the communication panel of the monastery in the volunteers origin languages. Thinking work: define strategies and specific action in order to reduce the environmental impact of the festival.Volunteers will take part in the whole festival experience, including public entertainment (BLOC FEST) and lectures (BLOC TALK).
🏠 Accommodation on site
All volunteers will be accommodated in the campground, settled for the occasion, at Tenuta degli Eremi with free and private access to the private beach. The area will be serviced with toilets, showers, and electricity to provide all services needed for camping. To discover Mediterranean cuisine, and in particular the Mediterranean Diet, specific workshops will be held, with the support of the local community, focused on cooking dishes prepared with seasonal raw ingredients following the Diet precepts. For this specific purpose volunteers will be assigned by Cilento inhabitants and so they will pick genuine products from vegetable gardens. Meals will be consumed at the campsite and at local restaurants.
📍 About the location
Acciaroli and Pioppi, the closest town to Tenuta degli Eremi, are both part of the Pollica municipality and they all are small villages placed on the sea (Tyrrhenian coast), within Parco Nazionale del Cilento, protected natural area rich in its biodiversity. Pollica municipality counts, in its whole territory, also Acciaroli, Pioppi, Celso, Cannicchio and Galdo Cilento hamlets. All the areas are fully immersed within the Mediterranean scrub, rich in protected species of fauna and flora, with a peculiar biodiversity and environmental/landscaping beauty. The rural and inner area of the Celso hamlet (twenty minutes from the Acciarolis sea) is lived by friendly and hospitable and loveable citizens, always ready for chit-chats TERMINAL: The closest airports are Napoli and Rome. Nearest train Station Vallo della Lucania.