HUESCA IS LEGEND
Spain
Culture
Culture
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About the project
HUESCA IS LEGEND
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Since 2015 we have verified in "Huesca is Legend" that the combination of volun-teering, performing arts and intangible heritage is an unbeatable starting point for wor-king with young people on concepts such as solidarity, cooperation and integration.
After the years that have passed since then, we continue to be unique, an activity diffe-rent from those generally carried out in the Aragonese territory. Its main characteristics make it an exceptional field, since it tries to recover intangible heritage and disseminate it to enhance its value. And all this through the performing arts. Without a doubt a diffe-rent project.
ITHEC has been working on youth, free time and performing arts issues for more than twenty years. In all this time we have held workshops for young people, theater and dance festivals. But among all these activities that we have carried out with young peo-ple, the camps that took place between 1995 and 2011 in Albarracín (Teatro en Alba-rracín, IAJ) and the Youth Initiative “La Campana de Huesca“ financed by the Youth in Action program in the years stand out. 2012 and 2013.
These activities have shown us that the performing arts can be part of young people's leisure, but also their training, in addition to promoting their personal development and even their employability.
💼 What the programme involves
This camp is divided into two parts:
Part 1, Study and knowledge of the legends and tales of the city of Huesca during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. We will make this work by visiting archives, museums, historical buildings in which the events took place.
Part 2, Creation, design and implementation of dramatized street theatre plays.
Volunteers will write scripts, design props, choose costumes... Everyone will have a role in the play. The play will be held in Spanish, but don't worry if you don't know a word, it is no necessary. We will rehearse the show to be presented to the audience. Partici-pants will be accompanied by History and Drama experts during the whole process.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be held in shared rooms with beds at the Students Residence “Santo Domingo” in Huesca which is in the central district. The residence has common areas and dining room with TV. The residence also offers free WiFi access. Participants may help in the general cleaning of common areas.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be normally served at the residence.
The meals are home made by the residence cook. If you have any allergy or food intolerance, please let us know to warn the cook in advance. Some days if we are in a journey or if we have a very tight schedule, we can have a “package lunch” with sand-wich and some fruit.
It is possible to request a vegetarian diet in advance
📍 About the location
Huesca is a small city of 50,000 inhabitants. It is located in the north of Spain, at the foot of the first foothills of the Pyrenees mountain range.
A city with more than 2,000 years of history. Iberians, Romans, Muslims, Jews have walked its streets.
Its pedestrian center, its medieval monuments, its university spirit, its effervescent cul-tural life and the safety of its streets make it a perfect place to carry out activities with young people.
Huesca is also the nerve center of a privileged province: in less than an hour we can find landscapes as different as the desert areas of Los Monegros or the snow-capped peaks of the Pyrenees.
⚠️ Requirements
It will be enough to bring comfortable clothing to carry out regular activities (tracksuits, shorts, tights, t-shirts can work), a swimsuit, and sneakers for walking. Health card and Identity Document.
For the residence you must bring sheets or a sleeping bag and a towel, the blankets are provided by the accommodation.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
SVI-AR05
01/07/2024 → 15/07/2024
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
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French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
22005 Huesca, Spain
Spain
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Central European Summer Time
Local time: 21:06 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
Collective
🗣️ Languages spoken
English
Spanish