📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
La Città dell'Utopia (Utopia City) is a project of SCI Italy that takes place in Rome (San Paolo area). The project is an ongoing workshop on active citizenship and local development. There are different events, initiatives, courses and workshops organized around 3 main themes: interculturality, sustainable lifestyles and active citizenship. For the first time, this year “La Città dell'Utopia” organizes a camp that will focuse on collecting stories, local and global, from today and yesterday, of Resistance to fascism in all its forms. The location of “La Città dell'Utopia” was during WWII a clandestine location for partisans against fascist forces in Rome, the camp will focus on the recovery of this history through the symbolic recovery of the underground cave.
💼 What the programme involves
The Camp focuses on the topic of antifascism, described by everyday choices of people who write/wrote important pages of Resistance often ignored by the official history narration. It is important to be able to recognize the different forms of fascism, historical or not, explicit or not, because in this way we learn how to give value to the small everyday gestures that are essential for building the inclusive, antiracist and free society we want. Volunteers will first contribute into the rehabilitation of an abandoned cave, cleaning it and preparing it for a public event. The second activity of the volunteers will be to support the realization of a narrative exhibition inside the cave in which will be presented also content contribution coming from the volunteers.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be hosted in the social hostel of Casale Garibaldi in the venue La Città dell' Utopia. They will sleep in common (female/male) rooms. There will be provided beds, mattresses, sheets and blankets. The bathroom will be on the same floor and shared by all the volunteers.
📍 About the location
Fiumicino Airport, Ciampino Airport, Termini station, Tiburtina station in Rome
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers must be interested in Resistance and Antifascism issues. They should have group working skills, interest in organizing and creating public events, and eventually have some artistic, manual, video and audio making skills.