📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Esperanzah! is a festival that has been offering a varied programme of well-known and lesser-known artists since 2002. It takes place at Floreffe Abbey, between Charleroi and Namur in Belgium. It is organised by the Zah! Cooperative.
Esperanzah! Is a musical, festive and committed experience. As you enter the festival site, you wiill discover Esperanzah Island! You will have the chance to enjoy 7 musical stages and/or spaces dedicated to the street arts. The festival is designed for everyone, from the very young (children's village) to the very old.
Discover the world and take a tasty trip to the Comptoir des Saveurs, or make new connections by meeting the craftspeople and designers at Baz'Art.
The Esperanzah! festival is founded on strong values and principles of good conduct. They guide every aspect of the event.
Our aim has always been to celebrate artistic and cultural diversity while working towards a positive social, political and environmental impact. Social inequality and exclusion, poverty, discrimination and environmental damage are issues that we fight against in every choice we make.
Through collective spaces for reflection and exchange, we explore new perspectives on society. We encourage a society that is more respectful of the environment, more supportive, fairer, feminist, anti-capitalist, inclusive and anti-racist.
We want our values to be embraced by everyone involved, whether they are part of the organising team, festival-goers, artists, external service providers or volunteers.
More information (FR) on https://www.esperanzah.be/
💼 What the programme involves
The JAVVA team will be joining the environmental management team. It will mainly involve small work such as :
- Assembling the recycling system
- Dispatching recycling bins, cleaning materials and bin bags
- Dispatch of “voting ashtrays“
The environment team has its own workplace, The sorting centre, so they are autonomous.
Shift start at 9:00 am and finish at 5:00 pm.
Volunteers can enjoy the 3 days of festival.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will sleep in a room rent in a school,
please bring a mattress and sleeping bag.
Meals will be provided 3 times a day during the site. During the 3 days of the festival, only one meal is provided. A vegetarian option is always provided, and in the event of allergies, a solution is generally possible.
📍 About the location
The festival takes place at Floreffe Abbey, 8km from Namur. Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium.
The town's most prominent sight is the Citadel of Namur, now demilitarised and open to the public. Namur also has a distinctive 18th-century cathedral dedicated to Saint Aubain and a belfry classified by UNESCO as part of the Belfries of Belgium and France which are listed as a World Heritage Site.
The Couvent des SÅurs de Notre-Dame used to contain masterpieces of Mosan art by Hugo d'Oignies, currently presented in the Musée des Arts Anciens (Rue de Fer). Elsewhere there is an archeological museum and a museum dedicated to Félicien Rops.
There is also a Museum of Photography. It is now the largest and one of the most important photography museums in Europe (6,000 m²), with a collection of 100,000 photographs, including more than 800 on permanent display, and a collection of 1.5 million negatives.
⚠️ Requirements
Knowledge of english.
ℹ️ Additional information
Please bring sleeping bag and mattress. The main languages used are French and English.
Accommodation conditions are basic.
