ESC: Winterwerft Theatre Festival, theme: "TURN THE TIDE"

Name: ESC: Winterwerft Theatre Festival, theme: "TURN THE TIDE"
Start: 2026-01-26
End: 2026-02-16
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Code: 49131 Copied

Germany European Voluntary Service Environment Culture European Voluntary Service Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Protagon – Friends and Supporters of free Theater Action e.V. organizes large and small cultural events. Such as theatre and dance workshops, educational and social projects for children and adults across all genres and offers training, production and performance rooms as well as residencies for artists. The association is committed to ensure that free artists, groups and interested people can interact artistically and constructively. This is mainly done in Frankfurt am Main (on the cultural space at Orber Straße 57), in the region, nationally and internationally. The object of the association is the encouragement and facilitation of independent theatre as well as contemporary art and culture.

💼 What the programme involves

The Winterwerft Festival is a project starting in January every year. It is an international physical theatre festival with a length of two weeks with the central issue of the climate change and environmental crisis. The association opens to the city of Frankfurt-am-Main for 6 days. The festival brings people together from different backgrounds to reflect and formulate ideas, opinions, and creative ways of passing their messages to protect the environment and reconnect nature to humans. The volunteers will help building the festival up between the 26th and the 30th of January. On the weekends (30.01-01.02 / 06.02-08.02 / 13.02-15.02), the program is open for volunteers and audiences. During the week, it is more calm and introspective. Volunteers help with cooking and with cleaning duties in the community. The team of volunteers will live and work in the same place, they create a strong team spirit and can participate to social, political and creative processes.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers are hosted like the members of the association and the long-term residents: there is a big house with kitchen, shared bathrooms and toilets, dinning-room, laundry, workshops... Important fact, the sleeping rooms are in the yard: they are about 30 caravans, old busses and containers transformed into cosy rooms. Food is in the kitchen and in the dining room. Bikes and cars are available, as well as Wi-Fi.

🎒 Leisure activities

Artistic training: volunteers can take part into workshops of theatre, dance and vocal trainings in the weekends as well as a chance to develop musical skills and creativity. More workshops possible like Yoga, Environment based, Puppetry... Culturally: a lot of languages and nationalities in the association, shows and concerts during the events. Social activities like meetings and games. Other skills depending on the tasks of the day. Examples: buiding and unbuilding stage or festival structure, sewing and decoration, technics, organisational tasks, artist care, welcoming audiences...

⚠️ Requirements

The Participant profile: -Participants should be under the age of 31 years old -Be interested in cultural projects or arts -Have interest in living with other people (community lifestyle) and be able to share and respect with diverse people
Deadline: 29/12/2025 00:00

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is implemented under the European Solidarity Corps Programme, financed by the European Commission.
The participating organisations have to be mindful of these needs as they are responsible for providing a respectful and trusting hosting environment. At the same time, the organisations participating in the initiative devote a great deal of time, energy and resources to set up a high-quality activity; they should therefore expect that European Solidarity Corps participants show a similar level of respect for the local communities and the people that are directly concerned by the activities (https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/mission_en).
What do we provide ?

Training before and after the project
Health insurance during your project
round-trip travel reimbursement
accommodation and food
pocket money
language course
Return Week-end
Youth Pass and SVI international Volunteer passport

Before applying for this volunteering project, you need to enroll yourself at European Solidarity Corps Platform (https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity_en) and specify your European Solidarity Corps Participant Number (PRN).
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label.
Contact the ESC coordinator at +32 2 888 67 13 to get more informations.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

DE49131

26/01/2026 → 16/02/2026

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Deadline: 29/12/2025

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00 EUR

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

📍 Location

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Germany

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 21:58 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English German