📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
In the forest in the south of the Charente-Maritime, there is a pretty timber-framed barn with cob walls. Local materials such as wood, clay, lime, rushes and straw are used because of the availability of local resources, such as clay-limestone soils, rivers, meadows and oak and chestnut forests. These elements will become places for exhibitions, meetings and entertainment.
💼 What the programme involves
You will work on the restoration of a part of the barn. Accompanied by a specialised technical supervisor, you will initially carry out the renovation by laying cob or adobe (a mixture of clay, straw or rush and sand). Then you will use other traditional masonry work, which will allow you to familiarise yourself with these techniques. You will work on average between 5 and 6 hours a day in the morning.
🏠 Accommodation on site
In collective dormitories, at the Bateleurs international hostel, in Montendre, where you will have all the facilities at your disposal. You will have a vehicle at your disposoal to get to the site and also to explore the region. Food will be provided for breakfast, lunch and dinner (you have a food budget which the leaders will manage and communicate with you throughout the camp). You will prepare the meals in turn, especially for lunch and dinner, while respecting environmental values and local resources, as well as the culture of each person (hot and cold dishes as well as vegetarian and vegan will be prepared). For the first week you will eat lunch at the Maison des Bateleurs, the second and third week you will eat lunch with the festival team (there will be a caterer on site with different menus to satisfy your appetite either vegetarian, vegan or other).
📍 About the location
In collective dormitories, at the Bateleurs international hostel, in Montendre, where you will have all the facilities at your disposal. You will have a vehicle at your disposoal to get to the site and also to explore the region. Food will be provided for breakfast, lunch and dinner (you have a food budget which the leaders will manage and communicate with you throughout the camp). You will prepare the meals in turn, especially for lunch and dinner, while respecting environmental values and local resources, as well as the culture of each person (hot and cold dishes as well as vegetarian and vegan will be prepared). For the first week you will eat lunch at the Maison des Bateleurs, the second and third week you will eat lunch with the festival team (there will be a caterer on site with different menus to satisfy your appetite either vegetarian, vegan or other).