📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Association of Neighbors and Friends of Ascaso `Los Relojes´ www.ascaso.jimdo.com.. has been working for about 20 years to recover the village of Ascaso and its community life. Its best known activity is the Ascaso Film Festival (www.cineascaso.org) known as “LA MUESTRA DE CINE MÁS PEQUEÑA DEL MUNDO” (The Worlds Smallest Film Exhibition), but it has carried out numerous campaigns and activities aimed at recovering the village. More info about the Festival in www.cineascaso.org
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will help in the preparation (preparation of the camping area, installation of showers, clearing of plots and roads, installation of fences and other security measures, space cleaning and transport of materials such as chairs, tables, etc.), development and close of the Festival
Other works such as
• cleaning and clearing of spaces.
• rehabilitation of backed walls using traditional dry stone technique.
• placement of safety elements (wooden fences, handrails,
prevention, etc.)
• Mounting showers.
• Transfer of festival materials to their placement venues.
are good examples of the wide variety of activities to be done.
ACTIVITY PROGRAM
Monday to Friday-Saturday morning:
Breakfast.
• Start of the duties that correspond to the day.
Food.
Rest
• In the evenings: Knowledge of the environment of the place. Bath in the river or the pools.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation in 3 canadian camping tents (assembled by the organization) for two people per each one. The showers and toilets are the modules that already exist for the Ascaso Film Festival: Toilet module with toilets and toilets (approved prefabricated shed) installed by the Town Hall and module of 3 individual field showers with hot and cold water.
There is a kitchen in the outdoor area enabled as a dining room. Volunteers will help with the kitchen duties together with locals
📍 About the location
Ascaso is really a hamlet in the Pyrenees, next to the National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido. Six houses and a church, which are a genuine representation of the traditional architecture of the High Aragon. It was mainly abandoned in late 20th centurybut still neighbours return mainly on Summer time. It is famous for its wall-walled solar clocks from the 19th century. The small village is fukll of old trails, which today are almost disappeared under the vegetation and with the walls backed
Since 2012, a film festival popularly called "The World's Smallest Film Festival" (“LA MUESTRA DE CINE MÁS PEQUEÑA DEL MUNDO”) organized only by volunteers and locals. The WorkCamp seeks to support a Film Festival and an integral recovery of the village and area, not only working in the Festival but also cleaning the trails and rebuilding the side walls. At the time, the place allows us to enjoy nature, discover very special corners of the Pyrenees or bathe in its magical rock pools.
We plan some visits to Boltaña, to Ordesa National Park (walking tour to the Horsetail) and maybe an adventure tourism activity during weekends.
ℹ️ Additional information
Volunteers have to have phisical capacity for manual work, open mentallity for new cltures and to get involved with the local group