📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Youth Centre Velenje has been very active in its local environment. We already had four work camps in our organization.This year camp is completely different than the others. We would like to explore the culture of Fanzine during our Kunigunda festival.
Participants will gain knowledge about Fanzine culture around the world and produce a Fanzine on its own together with local volunteers and camp leaders. We will provide a wide range of interesting study themes, with which participants will be able to work and develop Fanzine. At the end we will publish and spread around our own Fanzine called kuniZINE. Participants will have the possibility to visit all other activities, that we do during our festival (concerts, gallery exhibitions, theater plays, sports activities, performances and m
💼 What the programme involves
- active participation in all workshops
- exploring dance as a tool of expression and healthy lifestyle
- production of dance performance (ideas, creating performance, music, costumography...)
- nonformal education type of work
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in the Youth hostel Velenje, which is located only 500 meters from the city center. They will live in dorm rooms, separated by gender. Breakfast will be in the hostel kitchen, lunch will be provided in the location of Youth center Velenje as catering and for dinner participants will cook together in the hostel kitchen. We will also provide snacks.
📍 About the location
Velenje is a small city in heart of Slovenia. It has around 35.000 inhabitants and is a fifth biggest city in Slovenia. If you will come with the plane, we recommend to check Ljubljana airport (letališče Jožeta Pučnika) but also nearby airports (Italy, Croatia, Austria). There are many ways of transport to Velenje (bus, train, car sharing, Go-opti).
Before arriving you can contact us for advice or any other information connected to transport to a location.
The meeting point will be Youth hostel Velenje (Efenkova cesta 61 a) on 19.8.2018. We kindly ask you to arrive until 15:00.
⚠️ Requirements
Good command of English is necessary. Also, lots of creativity and motivation is required. Volunteers should have the motivation to do a lot of dance, movement, sport. We don't require any special professional dance skills, just love for dance!
ℹ️ Additional information
Note, that camp will happen during our Festival, so you can expect very active and full two weeks! We will provide more detail about accommodation and location in info sheet. You will have two free days during the camp. On these days you can stay in Velenje and join festival Kunigunda or visit other parts of Slovenia (your own organization and expenses).