CREATE A CONCERT AND CULTURAL VENUE IN AN OLD CHAPEL !

Come and give a new life to an old chapel, turning it into a cultural space, in the small yet very dynamic town of Teulat! Welcome to the “douce France“. In the heart of Occitany, Teulat is a small rural village that lives off its local production: honey, bread and more are crafted and consumed inside the town, making it an example of self-sufficiency and sustainability. Nowadays Teulat\'s landscape and environment is endangered by a highway project to link two big cities: Castres and Toulouse. The locals have risen up to prove that another way of life is possible, and not the urban consumer society model this construction site would encourage. Teulat is a town of resistance, where utopias are developed such as “edible parks“, pedagogical permaculture gardens, organic meals in the schools and more. Local life also means developing access to culture: music and scenic arts. You will reshape Teulat\'s old chapel and transform it into a concert and venue bar. The church is no longer a religious building and has already hosted a few venues. To become a proper cultural place, quite a few changes are needed, from re-ensuring the walls to setting up the scenes, sound systems and lights, and finally the bars. You will take part in the first step of the transformation: re-crafting the decaying walls and giving the inside of the church a new look. The work will consist of the renovation of a chapel in the rural village of Teulat (Tarn), it will be the continuation of the work done by the volunteers of a similar workcamp in 2020. The objective will be the renovation of the interior of the chapel to restore its red bricks, especially by rejointing the arches. For this you will learn and practice masonry techniques: setting up a scaffold, preparing mortar, cleaning stones and rejointing.