📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The General Direction for Youth, Participation and Volunteering has among its powers to promote work camps in the region of Galicia. This general direction belongs to the Ministry of Social Policy of the regional government of Galicia (www.xunta.gal)
💼 What the programme involves
International work camp of social and artist (festival) themes. To encourage intergenerational human meeting and community artist creation in a singular and rural space, during Festival Internacional de Percusión (International Percussion Festival) in Pendellos de Agolada.
INTERNAL RULES:
The specific and compulsory tasks of the camp will be developed in the morning. The volunteers will be divided into groups and will work under the guidelines of the director of the camp who will coordinate the tasks.
In the middle of the morning there will be a break for refreshment with a piece of fruit and water.
As for the voluntary activities in the afternoon there will be many activities to choose from.
The evening activities will offer several options (games, visits to near villages)
Cooperation and teamwork will be encouraged in order to improve the development of the camp.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Centro Residencial Agolada / Residence Agolada
Avenida Iryda
CP 36520
Agolada (Pontevedra)
📍 About the location
Community dinner
Empanada´s Night (Empanada/patty - traditional Galician food)
Visit to Santiago de Compostela
Visit to Carboeiro Monastery
Visit to natural site of A Carixa.
Swimming pool.
⚠️ Requirements
If participants practice any artistic discipline, we recommended to bring their own
musical instrument or artistic tool to be used in the artistic community creation. If not
possible, we would try to provided it.
ℹ️ Additional information
MEETING POINT:
Agolada Public School (CEIP Agolada)
Avenida Iryda
CP 36520
Agolada (Pontevedra)
TRAVELLING INSTRUCTIONS:
Airport of Lavacolla in Santiago de Compostela (60 km from Agolada). To make the connection with the Santiago bus station: www.empresafreire.com. From the bus station in Santiago de Compostela, you must take a bus from the company Monbus (www.monbus.es) to travel to the bus station of Lalín. From Lalín, you must take
a bus to Agolada (www.monbus.es).
Also, you could take a train from Santiago de Compostela to Lalín (www.renfe.com). To make the connection between the Lalín train station and the bus station, you must take a taxi. Afterwards, from Lalín bus station, you must take a bus to Agolada (www.monbus.es).
Airport of Peinador, in Vigo, (110 km from Agolada). To make the connection with Vigo bus station: www.vitrasa.es. Then you must take another bus, from the company Mombus, to Lalín bus station (www.monbus.es). Afterwards, from Lalín bus station, you must take a bus, also from the Mombus company, to Agolada (www.monbus.es).
Monbus offers special discounts for European young card.
More information: www.aena.es