📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Film and culture fans, this is the workcamp for you! Come and take part in the organisation and running of the Silhouette festival. In the heart of Paris, this open-air festival is an international short-film competition which brings together more than 20 000 people every year. The Silhouette festival aims to be a friendly and festive event, open to all for free. The festival features a creative kind of film-making, allowing the viewer to dive into as many different worlds as there are themes.
💼 What the programme involves
With the guidance of a team of workcamp leaders, you will participate in the logistic support to the festival, in the catering and the greeting of the public, mostly in the evenings. You will also be helping the implementation of the voluntary space of the festival and its decoration. In addition, you will meet the locals from the neighbourhood for moments of sharing.
This workcamp being set up on a festival, schedules are atypical: the mission will take place essentially in the afternoon and the evening from August 25th till September 02nd.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be accommodated in a building. You will share the various daily collective tasks with the other volunteers. The workcamp leaders will be given a budget and you will take part in the shopping and the preparation of meals, favouring local and healthy products.
📍 About the location
Located in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, in the Butte du Chapeau Rouge Park.
ℹ️ Additional information
Trilateral project: French, Germany, Spain.
This project is supported by the OFAJ, the French-German Youth Office. Some volunteers from France - Germany – Spain may be eligible to have their travel costs supported on the presentation of original receipts.
Remember to bring warm and waterproof clothes, the nights can be chilly! Also think of your sunglasses, your sunscreen and a sleeping bag! Closed shoes are compulsory on the site. Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, bring their insurance certificate. If health issues happen on the project, volunteers will have to pay for it, and then be reimbursed once back in their home country.