📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Oficinas do Convento are a non-profit organization, based in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, working in the areas of culture, art and communication. It has NGO status since 2009 and is a UNESCO Centre since 2010. Its activity focuses primarily on Visual Arts and Sound Art, Design and Heritage through artistic promotion, educational and training activities and community intervention. The mission and objectives of the OC are:
1) Store and remodel of the Convento de S. Francisco (the OC headquarters space), by creating spaces that welcome research activities, dissemination, education and training in the area of heritage and art.
2) Support and development of actions that contribute to the development, as a process of improving access to culture and goods, in collaboration with other authorities and local entities, private or public, national and international.
3) Promotion, support and monitoring of artistic training and professional activities that enable the pursuit of these goals.
The target audience of the actions is the wider community, from children to seniors. However, some actions have a more restricted public such as artists, and sound potters, designers and architects. Training and educational initiatives are currently in the field of ceramics, sound arts, digital and traditional products for architecture.
Annually OC manages a small production unit of architecture earth products, develops 2 major art conferences, 1 month festival (with concerts, exhibitions and workshops), at least 8 art and/or technology workshops (more or less 20 hours each) and hosts not less than 6 artistic residencies, along with other smaller initiatives.
💼 What the programme involves
Oficinas do Convento is a non-profit organization, working in the areas of culture, art and communication. It has NGO status since 2009 and is a UNESCO Centre since 2010.
One of its main activities are developed in Oficina de Cerâmica e da Terra, which is formed by three distinct and complementary spaces: the Ceramic Research Centre, Telheiro da Encosta do Castelo and the Earth Laboratory, where it’s developed: artistic residencies, workshops / training activities, ceramic works and sustainable construction materials (tiles, earth bricks, etc).
🏠 Accommodation on site
We provide more detailed information in the Infopack.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers will be trained to acquire skills to work in a ceramic studio, work with local resources materials; work in design, vernacular architecture, cultural heritage, logistic process, work with hand and power tools
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Participant age age from 18 to 30 years old, with nationality or residence in one of the partner countries from the project
Motivated person to participate in: intercultural activities and dialogue; artistic and cultural activities, particularly in the field of vernacular architecture and ceramic products, artistic and cultural heritage education and community activities, develop these skills and competences as a group (teamwork), willing to acquire and develop language skills, especially English and Portuguese; willing to move to Montemor-o-Novo, a small rural city during the vounteer period
Deadline: Application deadline: 24/03/2023
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.