📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
It will be the 5th time that the International Street-Art-Festival takes place in Blumberg and the first time that it will be supported by an international workcamp. It is now one of the three big Festivals for Street or Pavement painters in Germany. In the last years artists from Italy, Spain, Hungary, Argentina, Venezuela, Belgium, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Russia, Ukraine and Croatia performed on the streets of Blumberg. This unique event is a nice mixture of charismatic artworks by professionals as well as amateurs, and a framework program that accompanies this family friendly festival. The festival itself will be on the 9th & 10th of July. Website of the festival: http://www.street-art-festival.de/index.php/media.html. Another part of the project will be open-air cinema nights (16th & 17th) in the newly re-opened public swimming pool. In addition to these events, the workcamp will support the community with renovating playgrounds.
💼 What the programme involves
You will help the organizers in all phases of the festival: building up the infrastructure beforehand, taking care of the artists during the event, helping at the entrance and help with the disassembly at the end.
You will also help running the open-air cinema event that is part of the celebrations for the newly re-opened swimming pool, called “Panoramabad”
In addition to working at these events, you will help the community with renovation tasks on the local playgrounds.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will live in the community building „Gemeinschaftshaus Zollhaus“, which is located in a small part of Blumberg around 3 km from the center. Toilets, a kitchen and a nice outdoor area are available. You will have free access to the „Panoramabad“, where you can use the showers. Please bring your own sleeping bags!
📍 About the location
Blumberg is located in the southern part of the Black Forrest close to Switzerland. Around 10.000 inhabitants are spread over 9 parts and villages, which all belong to Blumberg. Blumberg is famous for hikers, because it is close to the “Wutachschlucht”, a spectacular gorge and nature reserve. Another Highlight is the historic, steam powered Railway called „Sauschwaenzlebahn“. Several other touristic places are quite close, like the Rhine waterfalls in Switzerland or the Island Mainau in the lake “Bodensee”.
ℹ️ Additional information
The community tries to arrange bicycles for the workcamp, so you should be able to ride a bike. Ability to swim is highly recommended.