📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The ”Cavallerizza Reale” in Turin is an historical, long time neglected baroque complex part of the royal buildings in the heart of the city, recognized in 1997 as Unesco world heritage. In 2014 a group of citizens, “Assemblea Cavallerizza 14:45” occupied it in order to avoid its privatization. The aim was transforming it in a shared resource, an open space for artistical and socio-cultural experimentation, and a lab for citizen participation. Here originated spontaneously an open, inclusive and self-organized community that, without any public funding, generated an important cultural production, assuring free access to those initiatives, sharing the means of production, the training of new skills and promoting the active inclusion of the citizens in the self-government of public goods.
💼 What the programme involves
The main activities in the camp will be: construction and fitting-out of new sections of the structure (syndacalist labor union centre, rehearsal and recording space); participation in the daily life of the cultural centre, that is organization and management of cultural events, taking parts in the assemblies, caring of shared spaces, participation in the working groups (mainly the ones about communications and logistics). It will also be possible to collaborate in the organization of the Festival of Cultures that will be held in September.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Bunk beds in rooms for 4 people. Sheets will be provided. For special needs also double or single rooms will be available. Shared bathroom in every floor. Shared kitchen.
📍 About the location
In the historical centre of Torino (Turin), Piedmont Region, Italy.
⚠️ Requirements
1. Ability to self-organize, inclination to “collective living”,
2. Social, web or graphic communication skills,
3. Organizational skills, mainly in event planning,
4. Abilities in manual work and maintenance of buildings