📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Granara is a 600 m altitude rural village on Appenini mountains. Granara is an experiment of sustainable development of an open community. Our activities concern solar and appropriate technologies, bioarchitecture, holistic health care, environmental education, social activities, theatre and art workshops, nonviolence, and promote the ecological awareness of inhabitants and hosts. Since 2001 Granara hosts a summer Festival, with theatre, art, ecology, and nonviolence workshops; theatre plays, concerts, exhibitions, conferences and discussion groups: two or three hundred people living, working, playing together in an intense, involving atmosphere.
💼 What the programme involves
The camp activities will be: 1/renovating the outside stage before the village Festival, including a structure to shade the area 2/completing the renovation of the Obelix: the circle of tables where we eat 3/gardening and cleaning paths and patches in the woods or around the village 4/completing the renovation of the external solar showers and composttoilets 5/preparing tables, rooms, external facilities and camping site 6/planning the exterior of the Granaio guest house in view of the festival 7/progressing with maps and signs around the village 8/setting up the circus-theatre, ready for the shows 8/cooking and cleaning for the working group.
Five days a week we will be working in teams under the guidance of local volunteers, six hours every day.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will be camping, in your own tent if you bring one or in communal (boyscout like) tents provided by us. In case of persistent rain, volunteers will be accommodated in the Granaio, our small guesthouse.
We will have one member of our team to coordinate the kitchen works and we'll take turns in teams of two to actually cook and serve meals.
📍 About the location
The closest cities are Parma and La Spezia, the closest airports are Pisa and Milan. The train station where we would come and fetch you is Berceto.
⚠️ Requirements
A good disposition for working in a group. An attitude towards life close to nature and in learning new skills, meeting new people, participating in decisions of selfmanaging together. We will encourage the highest possible degree of selfdetermination and awareness for the group, enhancing discussion and games to help each of us to take part and responsibility in the managing of everyday life.
ℹ️ Additional information
The detailed schedule will be discussed and adjusted by the group as a whole in regards to our specific needs. There will be a small number of Italian volunteers joining the group as part of the Granara group. There are also social inclusion projects that might be implemented during the camp. Afternoons can be spent playing sports, walking in the woods, or down to the river Taro to swim. The evenings can be organised for dancing, stargazing, sharing songs, games, or conversation around the fire. On the free weekend, we can help you plan a trip to the protected seaside area at the Cinque Terre, or you can go see art cities (Parma, Florence, Pisa). Though with some help from us if needed, all free time activities will be organised by the volunteers.