📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
For the past ten years, the Crest Jazz Vocal association has been hosting a team of international volunteers at its annual "Crest Jazz Vocal" festival. Recognized in the Jazz world, this festival welcomes nearly 10,000 spectators each year. During a week, confirmed national and international artists like Jacques Dutronc, Ayo, Swing Machine Big Bang or Stanley Clarke and young talents share the stage to deliver quality concerts, which you can attend freely (Free Pass). This event requires a lot of material preparation and involves a hundred volunteers. Your mission will be to provide support before, during and after the festival.
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate in the festival life and be supervised by the volunteers from the Crest Jazz Vocal association. You will help with the installation of the artists’ boxes, the setting up of the site, the dismantling and the storage of all the festival equipment. During the festival, you will regularly clean the site and the toilets and participate in the waste management respecting the waste sorting. Some evenings you will be on stands and sell drinks and souvenirs. Work schedules vary and depend on the need for on-site labor, at the rate of 20 hours per week and sometimes on weekends. The rest of the time will be dedicated to leisure and group life. During the project, your motivation is indispensable. The tasks on the festival are a bit repetitive but essential for its success. You must be particularly dynamic, enthusiastic and ready to meet the public and the many present volunteers.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in the city center, in former rooms designed for teachers on the public school’s first floor. There you will have toilets and a shower. Your living space is located in another nearby building where additional kitchen, shower and toilet will be at your disposal. Meals will be prepared collectively and you will be required to participate in the daily tasks (cooking, washing-up, cleaning).
📍 About the location
Crest is located in the Rhone Valley and at the gates of Provence and Diois. 8,000 people live there. It is a former medieval city, rich in heritage. Crest has the highest dungeon in France (52m high). Very active during the summer, the town offers many sports and cultural activities: visit of the Art Center, visit of the Tower, free concerts, swimming pools, hikes, meals in locals’ homes, visit of Valence, introduction to petanque, night markets. You will often be in contact with the volunteers from the Crest Jazz vocal association and will share many moments of exchange. You will be able to stroll through the Crest shopping streets, which are particularly lively in summer.
ℹ️ Additional information
No volunteer under 18 will be accepted.
