📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
PARTNER : IterCulture is a non-profit organization. Its main project, Teatri Riflessi | International Short Performance Festival is an event focused on contemporary dance and theater performances, no longer than 15 minutes, performed by international artists and companies.
PROJECT : The festival promote the encounter between the immediacy of contemporary art languages and a wide audience (3,000 spectators, especially non theatergoers) . The project also stimulates a reflection on the landscape, connecting the stage to the representation of the artistic, cultural, and social territory in unconventional spaces. Teatri Riflessi is meant to lift the curtain on the flowering of artistic urges, promoting the exchange of ideas, practices, and models and offering professional and emerging artists an unusual stage to connect tradition and innovation. The WorkCamp is an action promoted within the framework of the festival that focuses on three major points:
* Promoting a dialogue between international volunteers and the local community of Zafferana and Catania (university students, young artists, citizens…).
* Environment and awareness of the impact we, as individuals, have on the territory.
* Gender equality, promoting exchange of ideas based on the participants\' backgrounds and the current situation in Italy.
By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: Reduce inequality -SDG10 and GenderEquality-SDG5
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be asked to help support the organization and unfolding of the festival. Volunteers will partake in team-building activities and free workshops held by Erin B. Mee, Professor of Dramaturgy at the Tisch School of the Arts (New York University). Volunteers will work around 8 hours a day: in the first week to get to know the event and prepare the setting-up of the spaces for the activities (handmade recycled props, posters, signage…) and, from 15 to 21 July, to allow the setting-up of the area and support the preparation of the activities addressed to artists, jurors, and spectators (roundtables, laboratories, exhibitions). In the second week, some of the volunteers will be selected to help backstage, others for the realization of communication materials (photos, social media contents, video, interviews…) related to the festival as well as documenting the WorkCamp experience, some other for the welcoming and setting-up of all areas and activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in Oasi Madonna del Buon Consiglio, sharing the wide communal spaces, such as the well-equipped kitchen and the large dining room. In the second week of the WorkCamp, the staff and some of the international artists of the festival will also stay in the building. There, volunteers can have their meals alone or together; they can also join the staff of IterCulture to enjoy the territory and local food together, as well as share their traditions.
📍 About the location
The festival takes place in Zafferana Etnea, on Mt. Etna (Elevation 574 m). Zafferana is a town of around 9,600 inhabitants, but every year it hosts plenty of tourists and travelers willing to go for a hike on the volcano, visit the historical cities nearby (Catania, Taormina…) and enjoy Sicilian food.
ℹ️ Additional information
This project is supported by the European Solidarity Corps. Food and accommodation are covered by the European Union. Transportation costs will be refunded according to the distance band rules of the programme. No fees are required. The workcamps are open for international volunteers (coming from EU ESC countries projects).