📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
La Città dell’Utopia (Utopia City) is a project of SCI Italy that takes place in Rome (San Paolo neighbourhood). The project is an ongoing workshop on active citizenship and local development. There are different events, initiatives, courses and workshops organized around 3 main themes: interculturality, sustainable lifestyles and active citizenship. This year again, “La Città dell'Utopia” organizes the “NO BORDER FEST”, three days of discussions, music and cultural events dedicated to the topic of migration, freedom of movement and struggle against diverse forms of racism.
💼 What the programme involves
The Festival focuses on the most urgent topics emerging in the last months in the area of international migration, with a focus on Rome/Italian context. The main topics of this edition are: the issue of borders; migration in the global context; connections between citizens’ rights and social inclusion/exclusion. A special attention will be dedicated to the following topics: the rights of education and intercultural education, democratic racism and institutional fascism.
Activities: Support in the construction and preparation of scenographies and spaces. Support to the promotion of the Festival. Active role during the days of the event. Re-arrangement at the end of the Festival.
Moreover, volunteers will contribute with some manual activities to the project “La Città dell’Utopia”.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will be hosted in the social hostel of Casale Garibaldi in the venue La Città dell' Utopia. There will be mixed rooms, for maximum 7 volunteers per room. Sheets and blankets will be provided. No towels provided. The bathroom will be on the same floor and shared by all the volunteers. There will be a kitchen available for the volunteers: they will eat all meals together in the hostel.
📍 About the location
The workcamp is situated in Rome. Fiumicino Airport, Ciampino Airport, Termini or Tiburtina railways stations in Rome.
⚠️ Requirements
Interest in migration and social justice topics, group working skills, interest in organizing events, manual and artistic skills.