TEISSIERES - MUSIC AND LAND ART FESTIVAL
France
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Festival
Manual work
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About the project
TEISSIERES - MUSIC AND LAND ART FESTIVAL
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
At the heart of an exceptional mountain cirque with lush flora, let s come to a colorful festival For the 2nd edition of the Diamant Vert festival, the municipality of Teissieres les Boulies wants to organize an international workcamp, in the framework of development projects and arrangement of its natural and historical heritage. Indeed, an agro-environmental center is being set up in the town, with a resource center in agro-ecology and eco-construction. Teissieres the Boulies is 750 meters above sea level, facing the mountains of Cantal and Aubrac, near the lake of Maurs, where the festival takes place. For more information on the town: http://teissieres-les-boulies.fr/ Le Diamant Vert festival was born from the desire to highlight the forgotten landscapes of Cantal, offering a weekend of music and art in the heart of the Auvergne volcanoes. While concerts full of sensitivity and originality, Land Art artists will set up of inspired installations, and you can take part in the creation through several creative workshops. Le Diamant Vert is a festival that wants to prove that rurality can also be modern, cultural and attractive, a festival who wants to believe in knowledge sharing between generations in a common creative dynamic. For more information about the festival: http://www.diamantvert.fr/festivaldiamantvert.html
💼 What the programme involves
Your mission will be to participate in the festival organization, and to arrange of the natural environment. Supervised by the members of the association organizing the festival, you will participate in raising tents, putting gates, organizing parking, dressing rooms, refreshment stands and catering ... During the 3 days of the festival, you will help to welcome festival goers and to maintain the site. After the weekend, there will be dismantling work, equipment storage, site cleaning and restoring. In parallel, the arrangement of the natural environment consists first in the rehabilitation of a path enhancing the natural and historical heritage: cutting scrub back, highlighting a just discovered mine and vine. Finally, you will help to the settlement of the new agro-environmental Centre : to cut the brushwood back, to make earthworks, to set up experimental tools related to sustainable development.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be accommodated, as in previous workcamps, in a communal building with toilets and showers. Remember to bring your sleeping bags and warm clothes. You will also have available a room with fridge, stove, tables and chairs in order to eat together. You will cook in turn, by two. Transportation will be arranged for you to do your shopping in supermarkets or by local producers, with a budget that will be allotted. A small grocery store is located in the municipality. Jeunesse et Reconstruction can t take into charge the volunteers before the start date of the workcamp.
📍 About the location
Teissieres the Boulies has an exceptional heritage: the bread oven, the cross of Cayre, the farrier shoeing stock, the fountain rack system, the fresco of the village from yesterday to today, the orchard with its young transplants, the secadou (building where chestnuts are dried), dry stone walls, the workshop (the former center to bottle carbonated water)... Indeed, in 1821 was discovered a source of sparkling water on the territory, whose success became legendary. A Natura 2000 site (200 hectares) is located nearby, and works to protect bats which hibernate in mining relics. Local associations are also very active in Teissieres and animate every year the pumpkin festival, the festival of water etc. As the locals say, We are committed to our natural, built and cultural environment, that we want to preserve, develop, so come to share and love it with us . In the region, you can admire landscapes by canoe, you will discover local farms, and hike on the many trails through mountains and rivers All information on local tourism: www.chataigneraie-cantal.com/
⚠️ Requirements
1/ No special knowledge or competence is required for this camp, except being motivated and loving work in group You will share friendly moments with local people : be open-minded and curious.2/ Bring: sleeping bag, warm clothes and rain-coat, bathing suit (for male: short pants prohibited in the public swimming pools, please bring a bathing suit). 3/Bring for work: worn out clothes, safety shoes/boots compulsory. 4/ Bring some material from your culture (documents, pictures, postcards, little gift, musical instruments, games,...) to share with other volunteers and local population and make exchanges easier.5/ Foreigners belonging to the European Union must bring with them a personal EHIC (European Health Insurance Card), and everybody must, in any case, BRING THEIR INSURANCE CERTIFICATE. If health issues on the camp, the volunteers will have to pay for it, and then get reimbursed once back in the home country. 6/ Transportation back to the train station at the end of the workcamp will be organized during your stay with the campleader.7/ More info about trains : http://www.voyages-sncf.com/ 8/ If you have a driving license, please bring it along in case of necessity
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JR16/118
16/08/2016 → 03/09/2016
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ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
0.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
La Boulie, 12350 Drulhe, France
France
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🛡️ Before you leave
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🗣️ Languages spoken
English
French