📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
For the past ten years, the Crest Jazz association has been hosting a team of young international volunteers at its annual festival "Crest Jazz Festival".
Recognized in the world of the Jazz scene, this festival welcomes nearly 10 000 spectators each year. During one week, national and international confirmed artists such as Jacques Dutronc, Ayo, Swing Machine Big Bang or Stanley Clarke and young talents take turns to deliver quality concerts, which you can attend freely (free Pass´).
This event requires an important material preparation and mobilizes a hundred volunteers. Your mission will be to bring your support before, during and after the festival.
💼 What the programme involves
You will participate in the life of the festival supervised by the volunteers of the Crest Jazz association.
You will help with the installation of the festival facilities : setting up the two scenes, the dressing rooms, the bar, the cafeteria, the offices. And at the end of the festival you will help dismantling and tidying up of all the equipment.
During the festival, you will regularly clean the site and the toilets and will participate in the waste management by respecting the selective sorting. On certain evenings you will participate in the sale of drinks and souvenirs at the stands.
The working hours are usually 3 to 4hours every mornings, but it can be variable depending on the teams´ needs. The rest of the time will be dedicated to leisure and group life.
During the workcamp, your motivation is essential. The tasks on the festival can be physicals and messy (equipment transportation) but are essentials to the festival’s success. You must be particularly dynamic, enthusiastic and ready to meet the public and the many volunteers present.
This workcamp will allow you to discover the logistics necessary for the setting up and running of a festival. You will develop your capacities of adaptability, versatility and responsibility. Your dynamism and your reactivity will also be reinforced. A schedule will be given to you at the beginning of the project and will call upon your listening skills, your autonomy and your rigor. The group life will consolidate these human skills.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in the city center, in the former teachers´ rooms located on the second floor of the public school. You will have a toilet and a shower on site. Your living quarters are located in another building nearby where a kitchen, a shower and an additional toilet will be at your disposal. Each volunteer will be expected to take an active part in the life of the group: preparation of meals, cleaning of dishes, cleaning of toilets and premises.
📍 About the location
Located in the Rhone Valley and at the gateway to Provence and the Diois, Crest has 9,000 inhabitants. An ancient medieval town with a rich heritage, Crest has the highest dungeon in France (52m high). Very lively in the summer, the town offers many activities, both sporting and cultural: visit of the Art Center, visit of the Tower, free concerts, swimming pools, hiking, visit of Valence. You will often be in contact with the volunteers of the Crest Jazz Vocal Association and will share many moments of exchange. You will be able to stroll in the shopping streets of Crest, particularly animated in summer.
The city´s website will give you an overview of the location and local activities: http://www.mairie-crest.fr/.
ℹ️ Additional information
No volunteer under 18 will be accepted.
