📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
IterCulture is a non-profit organization that offers services in the organization, promotion and management of cultural projects and performances. IterCulture was founded in 2009, aiming at managing its main project, Teatri Riflessi. At its 7th edition, Teatri Riflessi International Short play Festival is a competition for professional and emerging artists and companies. Artists are asked to submit a short play, no matter the genre: drama, ptry, or dance. Since its first edition in 2009, the festival, Teatri Riflessi, has been promoting the short play format, encouraging a discussion on dramaturgy, and enhancing the immediacy of contemporary art languages. 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. With a combination of culture and entertainment, the festival wants to mesmerize a heterogeneous audience, especially those who do not usually go to the theater. 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. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: Reduce inequality -SDG10
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be asked to help support the organization and unfolding of the festival. Members of the TR8WorkCamp will work around 7 hours a day during the first week (from 4 to 8 July) to get to know the event and realize the setting-up of the spaces for the activities (handmade recycled props, posters, signage). The second week will require up to 8 hours of work a day, from 10 to 15 July, to allow the setting up of the area and the realization of some activities linked with the event (roundtables, laboratories, exhibitions). In this second week, some of the volunteers will have the chance of working in the backstage and stage setting-up, some others in the realization of communication materials (photos, social media contents, video, interviews) related to the Festival as well as the TR8WorkCamp experience.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated in Oasi Madonna del Buon Consiglio splitting two rooms and sharing the wide communal spaces, such as the well-equipped kitchen and the large dining room. So 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
Located on Mt. Etna, Zafferana Etnea is a town of around 9,600 inhabitants, but every year 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 and the sea.