Team volunteering project in Germany!

Location: Wiesbaden, Germany

Project name: Theatre and Circus Culture in Motion

Hosting organization: arco e.V.

Sending organization: “Common Sense” Youth Organization

Purpose of the project: 2 months of alternating work on theater circus skills in supporting children and young people with these skills. In addition to the performances with children and young people, there is also the development of our own theater circus performance. The topic is determined jointly by all those involved and should relate to Europe at the moment and current world events. The means are a mixture of “Physical Theater”, “Modern Circus” and “Expression in Movement & Art”. The work is supplemented with movement meditation from Feldenkrais, yoga, and impulse resonance learning. Overall, the work resembles a shared movement laboratory. activities overview: 1-8 Jul: support of an international youth project (Expression in Movement & Art) one week of introducing training 22 Jul- 2 Aug: accompanying 3 x 5-day circus and movement projects with local kids training trip with street theater performances 12-23 Aug: accompanying 2 x 5-day theatre projects with local kids 26 Aug: final performance 

Volunteers between 18-30 years old (Only Azerbaijani citizenship)

Project period A total of 8 week(s) during the period 01/07/2024 to 28/08/2024

Deadline: 20/06/2024

Please get a registration number, and apply through the European Youth Portal (click the link). 

Note: Please, apply as soon as possible, otherwise the application will be closed before the deadline!

ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS

Accommodation: in the beginning, you will stay at a local campsite, where the youth project takes place. After that, you will be in shared apartments in Mainz or Wiesbaden. Please be prepared to share a room, in some cases a double bed with another volunteer of the same sex. Food: During the youth project, meals are included. In the kid’s project, there is a lunch included. For days without a meal offer, you will receive 13 EUR, when lunch is provided, you will receive 8 EUR. Public transportation tickets will be provided, excluding long-distance trains Pocket Money: 7 EUR per day.

TRAINING DURING THE ACTIVITY

In the second and sixth weeks, there will be training, preparing you for the work with local kids and your own performance at the end of the volunteering project. 

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

We are looking for volunteers who are really motivated to improve their performance skills and to work with children and youths, as well as in a team. Our program is quite precisely fixed around certain project dates, so you have to be available. Please be prepared to stay in a tent and to share rooms/double beds.

How to get a registration number? – If you don’t have an account on the European Youth Portal, please watch our instruction videos from this Link

All costs are covered by the European Solidarity Corps

No participation fee! 

Language: English

Sending Organization Information 

Name of the sending organization: “Common Sense” Youth Organisation 

OID number: E10200624

City and country of your sending organization: Sumgait, Azerbaijan

Person in charge (name and surname): Ramiz Aliyev

E-mail of the person in charge: evs@csyo-az.org