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Cartoons studio Chaika

Russian Federation Art Education Children Art Education +1 Fixed dates

About the project

Cartoons studio Chaika

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Hosting organization is a cartoon studio located at the countryside. The studio is run by a family named Chayka. They have already experience in management of international artistic projects including children with limited opportunities. They develop artistic projects for kids living at the countryside and in families with difficult background. Kids at this region have no opportunities to visit art or sport studios, like kids from cities have it. The aim of the project is to create an atmosphere of artistic inspiration and freedom of expression. The project is unique, because the hosting centre having a large experience of participating in international projects keeps working at the remote Russian countryside far away from capitals and big cities. While creating a cartoon, kids learn how to make a short animated movie, make editing, cut, sound record.

💼 What the programme involves

Helping in the cartoon workshops with kids, such as making a “plasticine” cartoon, create English subtitles for already existing cartoons in order to make the hosts able to participate in international festivals, speak English with participating children and teenagers. Study with children will be five-six time a week for 2.5 hours. Study will be organized in English language. During this period volunteers and children are supposed to create an animated cartoon film about a story from the country of the volunteers’ origin (a myth, a fairy tale or anything else). It will be iup to the group to propose and to chose a story for a cartoon. Together with children the participants will prepare the story (scenario) for an animation project. In the first lesson volunteers and children will discuss how to make cartoon film and storyboard for this. In the end of the project we will have a premiere of a ready cartoon film and a party. At the time of volunteers’ staying we will also make a documentary film about our animation project. Both the documentary film and the cartoon film we may send to various festivals of animation film.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will be accommodated in Chayka's family comfortable two-storey house, in separate rooms. At their service in the house are shower, toilet, hot water. Meals 3 times a day provided. Together with volunteers we will cook breakfast, dinner and supper. The food is from eco farming from the same village prepared from healthy ecological ingredients. Meals include milk, eggs, vegetables, fruits, home-made bread without yeast but no meat. Fish is possible, but project hosts prefers vegetarian food. First meal is in the house, and second is at the summerhouse. In the warm weather breakfast, dinner and tea will be at the summerhouse. No alcohol, by preference no cigarettes.

📍 About the location

Village Ouryv-Pokrovka, nearest big city called Voronezh is 75 km away from the village. The countryside is very picturesque, the river Don is not far, the landscape attracts tourists and travelers with chalk columns and hills. The organizers provide transfer for volunteers from the nearest big city Voronezh. It is easy to get to Voronezh from Moscow by train. There are more than 5 trains every day, also is possible to take a plane or bus (each hour) from Moscow to Voronezh. Leisure Village Ouryv-Pokrovka is a small but very beautiful place: pine forest, hills and a beautiful river. Volunteers may walk at the hills, forest and to the river. It will be possible to visit the museum of regional of city Ostrogozhsk, archeological site “Kostenky”. It is known among archeologists all over the world for high concentration of cultural remains of anatomically modern humans from the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic era and for the largest site of mammoth bones. Walks on a boat on the river Don, evening camp fire, culinary parties, cycling are available.

⚠️ Requirements

Good English! Love to kids and art! Some experience in the field of cartoons, filming, teaching or kids animation will be an advantage. CV and Motivation letter are obligatory. The applications will be collected till the last date of each month from March to July, and the answer to applicants will be given according their motivation and skills. The camp is vegetarian! (Although some fish is possible)

ℹ️ Additional information

Please apply by e-mail: [email protected]

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📅 Available sessions

PZ-05

18/09/2016 → 01/10/2016

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 2
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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh Oblast, Russia

Russian Federation

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Russia Ruble (RUB / ₽)

Exchange rate

1 RUB = 0.010802 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Russian