📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
To renovate a place of artistic activities for the population, it’s here! it’s going on! We organize this international workcamp each summer for 12 years in partnership with Un Pas De Côté. This association develops cultural and artistic activities on the site of the Cultural Domain of Aubance in St Lézin. The renovation for more than 10 years makes this place bucolic, lovely and useful for a lot of activities (festivals, artistic workshops, children's camp). This place used to be an important place of activities for people before the association uses it. This workcamp is embedded in the life of the village. You will meet with the volunteers of the association and the inhabitants of the village.
You will also experience the life under the circus tent and the link with the other artistic activities of the association. You will decide on the daily organization: The goal of the project is also to experiment a group life in self-management (choice of the organization of daily life, the budget, the leisure activities…) You can also experiment an eco-friendly lifestyle: local products and bio, composting, dry toilet …
💼 What the programme involves
You will continue the renovation of the Cultural Domain that begun more than 10 years ago. You will renovate the frontage of a building through traditional and ecological masonry with lime as well as in refreshing the joints. The works are accessible to all without preliminary experiences.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in huts built with ecological materials. The collective life and cooking are under a lovely court. We also have a room for activities, offices, and a circus tent on the place. Daily life tasks and cooking will be made as a self organised group. We work with locals productors for the food.
📍 About the location
St Lézin is a small village (800 inhabitants) of Maine-et-Loire county between Cholet and Angers and 80 km far from Nantes. It’s possible to discover these cities during your stay. Leisure activities are organized by the group according to the budget. Visiting some cities or discovering the edges of the Loire, bathing, canoeing… It’s up to you. A lot of cultural events take place in this period: concerts, festivals … The association can also propose various artistic activities under the circus tent: circus arts, Brazilian percussions, theater … For musicians, we can lend you many instruments (drums, piano, guitar…)
⚠️ Requirements
Bring good shoes, working clothes and warm clothes for evenings. Bring a camping mat and a sleeping bag. Bring your enthusiasm and your “joie de vivre”. More informations : http://unpasdecote.asso.fr Facebook : Un Pas De Côté
ℹ️ Additional information
Language:
It is a French-speaking project even if we can speak English sometimes. Come to test your French through meetings with the population.
Meeting point:
Chemillé train station.
Closest airport:
Nantes or Paris