📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Couvre Feu is an active and socially involved association, it wishes to develop and promote culture in rural areas by organizing concerts and festivals around contemporary music. Each year it organizes the Couvre Feu festival. The 16th edition will take place from 25, 26 et 27 August 2017 a Frossay (44). Organizing such an event takes time and people available, and from the start, many volunteers got involved in organizing the festival to host almost 30 000 attendees. www.couvrefeu.com/
💼 What the programme involves
Led by the set directors of the association organising the festival, you will participate in setting up and setting donw the festival. This includes the installation of circus tents (where concerts take place), close the site with barriers, arrangement of parking lots, dressing rooms, refreshment stands and restaurants ... during the 3 day festival you will participate in welcoming the public and site maintenance. . The week following the weekend s festival will be dedicated to dismantling, equipment storage, cleaning and restoration of the site. Note: tasks a little repetitive but essential festival organizers are counting on your motivation to help before, during and after the festival but also, work schedules will VARY A LOT according to needs; little time for leisure but the atmosphere is very festive. Volunteers from this site must be especially dynamic and enthusiastic. And of course must be a fan of music Time for leisure will be made available to any departure of the mission.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will stay as all the other volunteers (400 people) and organizers of the festival, in tents at camping site. Toilets and showers on site. The association provides tents, you will need to bring sleeping bags and mattress (it can be a karimat or self-inflatable mattress). Throughout the duration of work, preparing meals will be provided by volunteers from the association. NB : it can be cold in the evening and humid, it is advisable to bring warm clothes and a warm sleeping bag.
📍 About the location
Located on the south bank of the Loire estuary, and northern boundary of the Pays de Retz Atlantic, The municipality of Frossay has 3200 inhabitants. Pays de Retz: At the heart of unspoiled landscapes and varied hyphen between Brittany and the Vendee, west of Nantes and bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Loire. Enjoying the beach and water sports, beach resorts, charming as Pornic and Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, large sandy beaches dotted with fishing. Walks along the coastal footpath in Bourgneuf Bay, along the Loire estuary, or in swamps and thickets of the hinterland.
⚠️ Requirements
Remember to bring a sleeping bag, warm clothing (a sweater and a raincoat), a bathing suit. For work, pack old clothes and sturdy and closed footwear (sandals not valid for work). Extra fee to pay on arrival at the camp : 50 euros.
ℹ️ Additional information
frais supplementaires de 50 euro a ajouter au frais d inscription/ extra fee to pay on arrival 50euro. Age : 18-30.