Keep your spirits up – Theaterworkshop

Germany Teenagers Culture Art Study Teenagers Culture +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The "Weltbühne" (world stage) in Heckenbeck, a small place with only 450 inhabitants, is a cultural centre with a large theatre space in a former village hall. Every year, the local population look forward to an international theatre project and will happily host the international group if this workcamp for 2 weeks. www.weltbuehne.info The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education. Follow us on Instagram ijgd_workcamps Facebook @ijgd.workcamps

💼 What the programme involves

You want to make a difference and therefore be self-confident and courageous? And you would like to play theater? Then this is the right workcamp for you. Under the guidance of a theater teacher, you will develop small scenes on the topic of "being brave" through role-playing, character work, interaction and improvisation. In doing so, you will deal with many questions on the subject: When was the last time you were really brave? What does it mean to be brave? Walking alone in the dark at night? Giving a presentation in front of lots of people? To say no? Taking to the streets for climate protection? Can you rehearse courage? Do you have to be a superhero to be brave? What role models accompany you in your life? People from your personal environment, at school, in sports, in politics, from art and culture? People who dare to do something, who are your "compass" or guideposts? With the help of these questions and your own creative ideas, a play will be created over the course of the two weeks, which you will perform in front of an audience as the crowning finale of the work camp.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You cook together. Money for the food shopping is provided to you. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any allergies when registering. Heckenbeck is in a very remote location. There will be bicycles available for trips (and for shopping). The town of Bad Gandersheim is 4km away. (Food) Shopping is supported by a car.

📍 About the location

There will be bicycles available for trips (and for shopping). The town of Bad Gandersheim is 4km away. You can reach Alfeld (with its Faguswerk heritage site), Hildesheim, Hanover, Göttingen or Hamburg by train. We also recommend a trip to the Harz region, with the world heritage site Goslar Rammelsberg (a mining museum) and hiking paths. You could also visit Marienburg Castle in Nordstemmen, the romantic gift for Queen Marie. It’s only 50km away from Heckenbeck, you can travel by train from Kreiensen and then hike to the castle. www.bad-gandersheim.de , www.alfeld.de ; www.Hildesheim.de ; www.Hannover.de ; www.harzinfo.de ; https://www.schloss-marienburg.de/en/ Camp Location: Lower Saxony; 45km from Hildesheim, 45 km from Göttingen 45 km, 60km from Hannover

⚠️ Requirements

Covid Rules: 2G+: Vaccinated and recovered persons must arrive with an official negative rapid test or PCR test, take a self-rapid test on arrival and then a self-rapid test at least every 72 hours. We will provide self-rapid tests for the arrival and the whole camp period! Subject to changes! You will receive more detailed information after confirming your registration and at least 3 weeks before the start of the camp with the specific info sheet for your camp.