📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Montendre is a lovely village in the sout-west of France, located in Charente-Maritime. Standing between vestiges of his medieval castel, this little area is a hub of business, administrative and touritic activities. The municipality welcomes, since 1993, the association Maison des Bateleurs-Solidarités Jeunesses and the welcome center. In 2001, the municipality created the « FREE Music Festival », an artistic event with contemporary music. This festival is a source of development and local dynamism, which contributes to the highlight of the municipality of Montendre and his rural territories. In the last few years, La Maison des Bateleurs’s volunteers have participated to the setting of the event’s carpark. This year, we would like to go further in the contribution of this key event. To create an international workcamp will bring an intercultural dimension to this artistic dynamic and intergenerational event. It will be the 19th edition, located in an unusual landscape : the Montendre Lake, from 21rst to 23rd of June 2019.
💼 What the programme involves
You will work with others volunteers to the preparation and setting of the festival and accomodations (camp, food area/rest area/volunteers, etc). The work consists in arranging the park and making it more attractive. You will welcome the public and help the volunteers for the event’s logistic. During the festival, you will organize exchanges between festival-goers and volunteers, in the rest area and the camp, where activities for youngsters and adults will be proposed. Also, activities, games, sharing and “live together” will develop this intercultural experience. After the festival, you will help in cleaning and tiding the place with a friendly atmosphere !
🏠 Accommodation on site
In tents, on the land of La Maison des Bateleurs, in Montendre. The food is included and everyday, someone in the group is chosen for cooking the meal.
📍 About the location
Location: Montendre, Charente-Maritime, from 75 km of Bordeaux.
Leisure activities: Between some nice villages in the south of Saintonge, you will enjoy the local heritage. Aside from the work, you will take part to summer activities : music event, nightmarkets, producers visits or local products tasting. Visits in cities, like Bordeaux or Angoulême and day at the beach could be organized. Cognac and St Emilion, traditionnal cities of wine are very close !
