Filming and designing: Art and building in the heart of Bremen

Name: Filming and designing: Art and building in the heart of Bremen
Start: 2022-08-06
End: 2022-08-22
Location: Bremen, Germany

Germany Teenagers Study Art Manual work Teenagers Study +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

BDP Mädchen_kulturhaus (BDP Girls Culture House) The Mädchen_kulturhaus (MKH) is a free space for girls and young women between the ages of 7 and 27. It is a meeting place for all those who see themselves as girls or women, have grown up as such or would like to be one. At the open meeting place, visitors can chill out, play table football, be creative, meet up with friends, make new friends, listen to music, play games, surf in the internet, use the garden, get support and realise their own ideas. During your stay at the Mädchen_kulturhaus, it is closed to other visitors. https://bdp-mkh.de/ (only in German) Jokes die Circusschule (Jokes the circus school) In 1998, young circus enthusiasts founded their own circus school together with artists and teachers. Since then, young and young-at-heart artists from 4 to 99 years have been able to help shape the circus school. In 2020, after a long period of planning, the school was finally able to move to its own space and set up its own circus tent, where shows are performed regularly. In addition, the Circus School has a hall for training. Almost 260 children and young people use these halls every week to do circus together. In addition, there are more than 300 children and young people who are looked after at schools on a weekly basis. https://www.circusjokes.de/ (only in German) The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education. Follow us on Instagram ijgd_workcamps Facebook @ijgd.workcamps

💼 What the programme involves

Shoot a short film together and create a circus space with art and crafts! - You can try this out at this international art camp. "Learning by doing" is the order of the day, so you can collect ideas and try things out in small groups. In the first week, you will learn how to create short films - from the initial idea to the completion. After an introduction to the technique, you will develop a storyline and start filming. Whether it's a short feature film with you as actors or a short documentary film - you can tell your own little story. There are no limits to your imagination. In addition to the many different filming techniques, you will also learn how to edit your films and set them to music. Previous experience is not necessary, but welcome. You will be supported by an experienced media educator. The film workshop will take place from Monday 8.8. to Friday 12.8. from 9am-5pm. You can find some films from the last camps here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1xBVom-lk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5vcVpV2I4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZQaPuy4L-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIN6k_QkKVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGHE-Z2kZGc In the second week, you will show your artistic and craft skills and beautify the site of the Circus School Jokes, a children's and youth project with a real circus tent. In addition to the tent, there are mainly shipping containers on the site, which serve as offices, toilets, storage rooms, dining and meeting rooms and are also used by you during the workcamp. You can give these containers a more beautiful and colourful appearance by adding colours and plants. You will also build a wooden shelter under which you can sit and relax even when it rains, and you will build a path and benches next to a clay oven. During your workcamp, the international youth circus festival Bridges for Youth will take place in Bremen. Some of the circus shows will take place in the Jokes circus tent. To make sure that not only you and the festival participants come to the shows, but also many local residents, you will help distribute flyers and posters in the neighbourhood and in the city centre of Bremen. More information about Jokes Die Circusschule (Jokes – The circus school) and the Bridges for Youth International Youth Circus Festival can be found here: https://www.circusjokes.de/ (unfortunately only in German) https://bridgesforyouth.de/ (unfortunately only in German)

🏠 Accommodation on site

In the first week you will sleep in a simple and cosy youth centre on air beds. There are two rooms for sleeping, a kitchen with a dining table for cooking, eating and meetings as well as a toilet and a shower. In the second week, you will sleep on air beds in two rooms of a container school right next to the circus site where you will work. Toilets are available both at the school and at the circus site. The kitchen, shower and table and chairs for eating and discussing are at the circus site. You will cook together. Money for food will be provided. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please state any intolerances during registration.

📍 About the location

Your first accommodation is located in a trendy district in the middle of the city and the second is located close to the city centre in a lively neighbourhood. From both locations you can explore the 1,200-year-old Hanseatic city of Bremen (https://www.bremen.eu/) by foot or tram. Bremen offers many sights, cultural offerings, nightlife scene and many shopping opportunities. On the days off, excursions to the North Sea coast, Hamburg or other cities are possible

⚠️ Requirements

Covid Rules (may change depending on the course of the pandemic): 2G+: Only vaccinated and recovered persons can register for the work camp. All participants must arrive with an official negative rapid test (not older than 24 hours) or PCR test (not older than 48 hours). On arrival, this and a vaccination or recovery certificate must be presented and a self-rapid test must be carried out. Thereafter, the entire group must perform a rapid self-test at least every 72 hours. We will provide self-rapid tests for the arrival and the whole camp period! Subject to changes! You will receive more detailed information after confirming your registration and at least 3 weeks before the start of the camp with the specific info sheet for your camp.

ℹ️ Additional information

175,-€ additional fee for the media study part (has to be paid in cash on the campsite). + 150€ but only for international Teenagers good English knowledge; Interest in filming, technology and editing; please bring along three topics you would like to make a film about; no previous film experience is necessary

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