Let the show begin! – The Circus Workcamp

Name: Let the show begin! – The Circus Workcamp
Start: 2024-10-11
End: 2024-10-27
Location: Germany

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About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Jugendtreff Hagen - Hagen youth centre The Hagen youth centre in the district of the same name in the small town of Ahrensburg offers a comprehensive open programme for children and young people, supervised by teachers. There are a variety of indoor and outdoor games, a campfire area, a wood and pottery workshop, billiards and table football as well as a romping room with climbing nets 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

Would you like to learn circus acrobatics, pass on what you have learnt to children and perform together with the children in a circus show in front of a large audience? Then this work camp in Ahrensburg (near Hamburg) is the right place for you. The work part begins on Sunday 13th of October: together with the other workcamp participants, you will help to set up a large circus tent on the grounds of the youth centre. From the following Monday to Friday, the entire workcamp group will receive circus training in the tent from a professional circus trainer. In the second week, from Monday to Friday, you will pass on the skills you have learned to children from Ahrensburg as part of the local holiday programme. On Friday evening, the children will perform what they have learnt together with you in a circus show with a large audience in a big circus tent.

🏠 Accommodation on site

You will sleep on camp beds with mattresses in the cosy youth centre with a wood-burning stove and beautiful outdoor area. A central kitchen, sanitary facilities with three toilets and one shower each, as well as two lounges for eating and for group activities with billiards, two table football tables and air hockey are available. You will cook together. You will be provided with money for shopping. A transport service is available by arrangement for shopping trips. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any intolerances when registering.

📍 About the location

The youth centre is located just outside Ahrensburg right next to the forest and is surrounded by a beautiful outdoor area with a campfire site. There is a football pitch in the immediate neighbourhood. You can play sports there. There is a bus connection to Ahrensburg town centre (30 minutes). There you can visit a swimming pool, the pedestrian zone or Ahrensburg Castle.

🎒 Leisure activities

On the middle weekend or on free afternoons and evenings, trips to Hamburg, Lübeck or to the beautiful sandy beaches of the Baltic Sea are worthwhile. On some excursions you will be supported by the youth centre with minibuses.