📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The community [LTGJ](http://www.ltgj.de) (Lebenstraumgemeinschaft) was founded in 2001; today there are about 55 people of all ages living together in buildings of a historical farmstead, which belongs to a manor in a rural part of the city of Riesa in Saxony. Many of the buildings have been restored and renovated in an ecological and monument protecting way. In addition to this a central wood heating was installed as well as a water recovering system, and ecological farming is realized in the two gardens and a field.
The community is a project, in which people of different generations have joined to explore community life as an experiment and to find out the ideal conditions for living together in sustainability and solidarity.
💼 What the programme involves
- Building a roof above a set pizza oven; preparing an ecological patch for planting vegetables and planting them; other tasks migh be added
- Preparing the summer festival, which will take place at the end of the camp: setting everything up, work at the bar, work for the catering, supporting the organization, deconstructing afterwards. During the festival: taking care of the music events, decorations, catering and the guests and their children. Creating the program together: camp fire, workshops, games, music,... Bring your passion to develop something together and be creative! For this, it will take both readiness to fit yourself into a working group with a common goal as well as some degree of initiative of your own.
🏠 Accommodation on site
A big dormitory with mattresses under the roof of a partly renovated historical barn with sanitary facilities, hot shower in the building next door (please bring a warm sleeping bag and be prepared for fresh nights, which we sometimes get even in August!)
Self-catering in a covered open air kitchen; organic vegetarian/vegan foods; vegetables mostly from our garden
📍 About the location
Jahnishausen is situated 4 km from the town Riesa in Saxony, close to the river Elbe. Berlin, the capital, is roughly 150 km away, the cities Dresden and Leipzig can be reached within an hour by public transport. Location in natural reserve and floodplain forest.
⚠️ Requirements
Readiness to do 6 hours of physical work per day; desire to become involved in the community and in the group process we create together; interest to create something positive together; capability to deal with large numbers of people, as we will have many guest during the festival
ℹ️ Additional information
Possibilities for self-organized excursions to Dresden and Leipzig; bicycles can be borrowed; sauna, meditation room and camp-fire space of the community can be shared. The members of the camp are invited to participate in community events such as meditations, cinema evenings, singing etc.