📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Springhornhof Art Association and Foundation 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.
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💼 What the programme involves
The Springhornhof foundation in the Lüneburg Heath is one of the most pathbreaking landscape art projects of Europe. Since the 1970s, famous international artists from all over the word have been building an artistic landscape with over 40 installations. During the camp, your group will be helping with the restoration and maintenance of some of these installations: painting, cleaning, cutting shrubbery, repair.
You will also take part in the development and building of an experimentell multipart room installation of the artist groups Kinderhook & Caracas, Kreuzberg Pavillon and The Mycological Twist. You can be creative and bring your own ideas to this work – the result will be open and surprising. Your project will be presented at a vernissage at the end of the camp.
http://www.kinderhook-caracas.com/
https://kreuzbergpavillon.tumblr.com/
http://themycologicaltwist.info/
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will stay at the Springhornhof: in guestrooms and the guest studio. There will be a common kitchen and a garden.
You cook together. Money for the food shopping is provided to you. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any allergies when registering.
📍 About the location
Neuenkirchen has 5.500 residents and is located in the center of the nature park Lüneburg Heath, a unique cultural landscape and one of the most popular destinations for trips in Germany. There is an outdoor swimming pool, an ice cream parlour and you will have the opportunity to go horseback riding or visiting a sheep farm. Apart from that, you will have bikes provided, which you can use for trips into the Heath. Bigger cities like Hamburg, Hannover and Bremen can be easily reached by train and on top of that you are close to the adventure park Heidepark Soltau, a kart track, the Serengetipark (Animal Park), a bird park and a climbing park.
Where: Lower Saxony; 85km from Hamburg, 90km from Hanover, 15km from Soltau
⚠️ 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.
ℹ️ Additional information
You should be able to ride a bike, since the working sites are at different locations in the local area and you will cycle to each one. Please note: There is a special Teenage Fee of 150€ for international volunteers who applied under 18 in this camp.
