Short-term (2 to 4 weeks) "cultural project" projects in Denmark

As mentioned earlier, a lot of the work will be practical. There won't be much heavy lifting, but as a volunteer, you will be using your hands a lot. The main thing you will need to bring for our Work Camp, is your creative mind. Nothing during this week is written in stone, so if the volunteer group comes up with an amazing idea, we as hosts will do everything we can to come up with the resources to make it happen. Work in the week up to the Festival Week will be from 8 or 10 in the morning to 15 in the afternoon. During this time the volunteer group will take part in creating a wonderful atmosphere in the Shady Town.Work during the Festival Week will be very different. Some days it will be like the previous week. Some days it will be from midday to midnight, with 2-3 hours of free time for dinner and recreational activities. We will make sure, that no one will take part in exhausting work, and the volunteers will have plenty of breaks during the day. The purpose of the project is to reveal and create new forms of culture. Through this project, we will show the city, the country, and the world, that just because a town as 50.000 people in it that doesn't mean, that 1.000.000 new ideas and ways of looking of culture aren't right there, present in the heart of the city.

Sleeping facilities:During your 20 day stay, as a volunteer, you will stay in our City Camping site on the Slaughterhouse grounds along with the artists that will perform and create during the festivities. We will arrange for large tents or huts in which you will be sleeping. Special requests regarding not wanting to sleep in the same hut as others will need to be mentioned in the motivational letter. Bring a sleeping bag, a pillow, and sheets.

We will arrange for 1-3 meals a day. If only 1 or 2, we will set up a kitchen in order for you to go grocery shopping (right across the street), so that you can cook for each other. Kitchen + bathroom facilities: We will arrange either for an outdoor kitchen or make one inside our facilities (also at the slaughterhouse). We will arrange for bathroom facilites.

If you decide to spend 20 days in Holstebro, then we can guarantee that you will not regret it. The Danish summers are always wonderful, and in this time, the city will be full of life and light. Holstebro is a large municipal with an exciting city center with loads of shops, restaurants and bars as well as an astonishing art museum. We will provide the volunteers with ideas for places to see, and bikes so they can go there. Nothing is really far from anything in Holstebro, and the Slaughterhouse and Camping Site are close to the heart of the city.

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Slageriet holstebro, vendersgade 14, 7500 holstebro

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The Urban Art Summer Camp is for 9-13 year olds, looking for interesting and social activities during the summer. Objectives for the "Urban art" camp are to inspire the pupils to create art and other projects that are suitable to display in public places. You will work with creative methods as painting, graffiti, sculpturing, lyrics and also bring your own ideas into play. As The "nature school" is a partner in the work camp, you might be inspired to use the nature in the artwork during the week. Materials and support from the "nature school" will be available. We are close to the beach, so water may also be part of the creations. You will guide and help young participants with designing and completing projects that, in the end of the camp, will be exhibited in public places such as schools, on the beach, bus stops etc. The purpose is to develop the participants´ creative thinking , create visual experiences for the public and to start and complete projects, all in a social environment. Work will mainly be outside so bring warm clothes as you never know how the weather will be in Denmark. Also bring clothes for rainy weather and consider that you might get dirty from paint or dirt :)

Sleeping facilities: Lodging will be in one of our Youthclubs that are closed for summer, so that your group has it to yourselves. That includes access to pc's, internet and all other facilities. Please, bring your sleeping bag and sleeping pad, or similar.

Kitchen available. Shopping for all food and preparing all meals will be done and coordinated by the group and group leaders. Washing machine and dryer available.

The work camp is at the beach in Tårnby, very close to the capital Copenhagen.You are free to go to the beach, to the city center and visit museums and cultural sites, go to Tivoli (very old amusement park), take a canal tour, see the royal castle, take a train to the forest and rent a mountain bike etc.Please contact us if you have any suggestions about things you want to do or go see – then we'll see if we can work something out.You are each expected to give us and the other volunteers a little lecture about your country – may it be a presentation, a language course or anything that provides us with some basic knowledgeabout you and your culture. You decide how you want to structure it; It should last for about 30 minutes - just be free and creative. Maybe bring some pictures of your country, perform a play, or perhaps you have some sweets to share, recipes or something else?

You must have interest in creative work and understand how to include participants regardless of skill level. Maybe you have specific skills within art, but most important you are able to bring your creative mind into play in order to help young boys and girls create their own projects.You must be willing to work outside.

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Ungecenter lundø, tårnbyvej 20, 2770 kastrup.the activities will take place at or near the beach, which is only few minutes of transportation by bike or bus from the accommodation. taarnby is a suburb of copenhagen.

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CPH: Kastrup (Copenhagen, Denmark)Vegetarian food will be available

The first week you will make a Summer Camp for young asylumseekers at Center Griksbov. You will give the young refugees a break from the life with worries and insecurity and arrange a Summer Camp with different activities. You will use the talent in the group to make different workshops. It might be New Circus, dancing, singing and drumming, juggling and parading, practice to walk on stilts or making costumes. You can put together a small parade to perform it at the Festival of Gilleleje or the Pop Up Concerts before the festival.You can also arrange sport activities such as soccer, wollyball, basketball, rolerscating, games or bikerides.Evening might call for a campfire, marshmellows, guitar and pancakes.The summer camp will depend on the talents in the group. If you have special skills for the Summer Camp please let us know ahead of time. The Center is in the middle of a nature preserve with old forrest and good opportunities to use the nature. There are facilities for soccer, wollyball, basketball and a gym for dancing and fitnesscenter for workout. The Center will provide the equipment needed. Before the Camp you will receive adequate introduction to Center Gribskov, Red Cross and the young asylum seekers. You will use the first day to prepare the workshops.The workshop takes place at Center Gribskov the following four days. There will be staff to assist you with the children, but you will be in charge of the activities.Working hour is 10 – 13.00 and 14 to 17. There might be evening program twice a week from 7 pm to 9 pm. You are invited to have breakfast 9-10 and lunch from 13-14 and the days with evening program you are also invited to supper. The second week will be on The Gilleleje Festival and the Culture Center of Gilleleje. The work will consist of building up and taking down the festival. During the festival you will also have time to enyou the music. The festival lasts from Friday afternoon to Saturday night. Building up and taking down the festival site is manual work and experience with handtools is an advantage but not a requirement. As a Work Camp-group you will work among other groups fx a group of youngs from Gilleleje. Most of the volunteers are locals. The work you will be doing shift from day to day. One day you will be building up a stage the other day you will be selling tickets or helping with practical thins in the Culture Center of Gilleleje. Also the working hours will shift from day to day. There will be breaks during the day and around the festival we will eat lunch and dinner together. This also gives great opportunities to get to know each other.During the second week you will also meet the asylumseekers at Pop Up Concerts and at the Festival.

Sleeping facilities:All participants vill be accomodated at "Ungdomshuset Remisen" which is a house for young people between 15 to 21 years old in Gilleleje. Remisen is located in the center of Gilleleje and just next to the station of Gilleleje. Here you can both sleep, cook, chill out or play pool or table tennis. It has great facilities if you like to play music and different kind of instruments are available in the house as well as a container where you can play as load as you want:-). In the daytime Remisen will also be open for the young people from Gilleleje and it gives you great opportunities to get to know some of the young locals. But not so many uses the house of the vacationtime. We will provide matresses, but you will have to bring your own sleeping bag.To get a feeling of the house see the pictures following the description.Kitchen + bathroom facilities: Both kitchen and bathroom facilities are available as well as a washing machine.Most of the days you will eat lunch on the center for the refugee or with the other volunteers at the festival. Also dinner and breakfast will be provided for you some of the days. The rest of the meals you will prepare yourself.ShoppingWithin 200 meters from the accomodation you will find a variety of shops.

Nature PreserveThe center for refugee children is located in a forest and surrounded by beautiful nature. It invites you to do different activities either with the children at the center or just with the workcamp group in your free time ex tracking, birdwatching, making a campfire or stay over for a night in one of the shelters. Beach and small town lifeThe Gilleleje Festival is situated in a cosy town along the cost with a great culture and history. In the summer time the city attracts many tourists or summer guests and offers a lot of different activities. The town has a lot of small shops, cafées, cinema, music places, a nice fisherman harbor and of cause beautiful beaches, so there are many things to enjoy during your stay.Copenhagen City CenterYou can reach Copenhagen with the train within 45 minutes.

Please forward a motivational letter, and let us know if you have specific talents and experiences that will be useful for a Summer Camp. It is not a requirement but it will be an advantage if you have experiences leading or conducting sport or cultural activities.Working with children requires that you provide a criminal record when registering.

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Gilleleje

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CPH: Kastrup (Copenhagen, Denmark)Vegetarian food will be available