📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Brief description and main aims - The Creative Arts Center Educar es Fiesta is an educational and artistic non-profit organization, which supports educational processes and the development of the artistic potential of children and adolescents living in suburban areas of the city of Cochabamba, including arts training school, a culture house stock and a circus-theatre. We propose an education based on art to promote social and personal transformation, causing an individual, group and social change, thorough a continuous supportive, creative, purposeful, honest, friendly, cheerful, dignified human development. We contribute to the development of intercultural and purposeful quality education in community spaces and schools, to strengthen the exercise of full rights and responsibilities of children and adolescents, all mediated through art and innovative educational strategies with public and political advocacy.
💼 What the programme involves
Main Activities - The main activities of 'Educar es Fiesta' are focused on the areas of circus, theatre, music and dance, helping young people between 5 and 18 years and involving families, schools, major actors in the community and state public institutions. This activities are developed on 3 main areas: Community Culture Houses: The houses are spaces of fraternal, friendly coexistence and aimed for children, adolescents and young people to live a dignifying life without violence, developing their artistic and creative potential. Friendly Schools, Schools without fears: Work is done both with students though the presentation of plays in schools and with teachers and educators through the design, exploration and implementation of concrete changes in human relationships in schools. Integrated Arts Centre TAPEQUE: counts with a Circus School for children and teens. Murga as musical expression that fuses dance, drums and voice messages expressing and feeling rebellious teenagers and young against a violent and exclusionary system. Cultural management area to the promotion and dissemination of own shows. Dreams & Arts on Wheels: they participate in caravans, marches, campaigns, fairs, walks with the purpose of generating social participation through itinerant art and to raise awareness about the subject and problems of children.. -- Volunteer tasks - Arts & Culture, Children and Youth, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Addiction and Substance Abuse, Sports, Recreation and Leisure.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accomodation in a Host family or community. Food will be provided
📍 About the location
Cochabamba, Bolivia
ℹ️ Additional information
ICYE STEPS aren't group projects. You will be with 2 or 3 volunteers. Those are permanents projects, open all year, free arrival date. Minimum 4 weeks - Maximum 16 weeks