The forest stage in Heckenbeck, a small place with only 450 residents, is a cultural center with a big theatre, located in the former guest house of the village. Every year the people in the village are looking forward to the international theatre project and the guest that come along with it. „Strange Pairs – Total Opposites" is the theme of your project. Ying or Yang? Loud or quiet? Brave or anxious? Do we find ourselves in sameness or difference? And isn't the answer sometimes right in the between? Together with young people from other countries, you will experiment with oppositions. You will create role plays, work on characters, interaction and improvisation of small scenes. Your creative ideas are the basis for a play, which will form under the supervision of a drama teacher and will be performed at the end of the workshop. For more information check: www.weltbuehne.info
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in the cultural centre "Weltbühne Heckenbeck". You will cook together.
Location & leisure:
Heckenbeck is located in a rural area. For grocery shopping and little trips, you will have bikes at your disposal. The small town of Bad Gandersheim is only 4 km away. You can get to the popular destinations of Alfeld (World Heritage Sight Faguswerk), Hildesheim, Hannover or the Harz with its mining museum by train. www.bad-gandersheim.de, www.alfeld.de, www.Hildesheim.de, www.Hannover.de, www.harzinfo.de
Requirements:
295€ extra-fee. You have to be able to cycle. You have to have good English language skills.
Volunteers are invited to join our campaigns and activities for promoting peace dur-ing the time of the workcamp. You will help us through your participation and through some manual and artistic work: In Mutlangen we will create a wall painting promoting a peaceful world. And together we will design and create another artistic installation for the so called "peace mead-ow" in Buechel and support the campaign against the remaining nuclear weapons. We believe that campaigns for nuclear disarmament and non violence conflict resolu-tion are messages worth to be spread in the media. We invite to you to learn from best examples in peace building and to help us to share these examples in social media as messages of peace. If possible you can translate them into your language. Such skills are particularly welcome!
In both places you will do garden work:
There is a little garden for vegetables and flowers in Mutlangen and in Buechel you can help to enlarge the peace meadow.
Study part:
The participants will receive information about nuclear weapons, ongoing nuclear armament programs and efforts of disarmament and reconciliation. We will share experiences about different forms of action for peace.
Accomodation & food:
We sleep in tents. In Mutlangen in the garden of the "Pressehütte". In Büchel in a peace camp on a field beside the military airfield. You will need sleeping pad and sleeping bag. Vegetarian Food will be prepared together.
Location & leisure:
The participants can visit rurals and urban attractions nearby
Age:
18-30
Location:
Mutlangen
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
STR: Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
This year is planned to renovate a stage made of wood and to embellish an old construction site trailer. This means to work with wood and to be creative with paints.The stage is located in our garden, after you changed some beams and planks of the construction, it can be used again for our events. The trailer needs to be prepared as tool shed and you are welcome to decorate him with a graffiti !Important as well is the work in the "Garten der Sinne", which needs maintenance every year. Especially the tunnels made of wicker. Volunteers will be integrated into the household and are asked to cook for approximately 20 guests and stuff of the Müllerhof. In the end of the workcamp an international evening is planned as big party for the volunteers and guests of Muellerhof. You are invited to introduce your country and to offer typical food of our country. In addition there will be a band playing and a teacher will show how to dance traditional folkdances
Study part:
Volunteers can explore the possibilities and activities of the Müllerhof as an example of a socio cultural center.
Accomodation & food:
The participants will sleep in the big loft of the Muellerhof (80m²) which includes a shower and toilets. Food will be prepared together in the big kitchen of the Muellerhof
Location & leisure:
Mittweida is surrounded by a nice landscape with nice places waiting to be visited. Next interesting cities are Freiberg, Leipzig, Dresden. There is a university for applied science with lots of international students.
There is a range of possibilities for excursions and visits of interesting places:
Guided tour through the University of Applied Sciences, visits to the town hall, museum and church of Mittweida. We will also offer outdoor activities and guided hiking-tours in the area (e.g. a hike to a dam, the fortress Kriebstein or the Rochlitzer Porphyrberg). It‘s also possible to visit the cities nearby: Dresden, Leipzig or Chemnitz.
Age:
18-26
Location:
Mittweida
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
DRS: Dresden (Dresden, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
Making your own films! - You can try it out in this international media camp. „Learning by doing" is the slogan! You can collect ideas and experiment in small groups and after a little introduction into the technical site of things, you will develop your own storyline and sooner than you think, it will be time to shoulder the camera. Short film with yourselves as actors and actresses or documentary – you can choose which story you tell. Let your imagination run free! You will not only learn how to handle a camera, but also how to edit a film with the computer and add sound to it. No prior knowledge is needed, but appreciated. You will be supported by experienced media educators. If you want to have a look at the 4 films produced in the last two years, follow these links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5vcVpV2I4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZQaPuy4L-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIN6k_QkKVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGHE-Z2kZGc
Accomodation & food:
You will sleep on air mattresses in a cosy and comfortable youth centre. You will cook together.
Location & leisure:
Your accommodation is located in a trendy neighbourhood in the city centre. From here you can walk through the 1.200 year old Hanseatic city of Bremen (www.bremen.de) with its many sights, cultural offers, a vivid nightlife and many shopping opportunities. On the weekend you can take trips to the North Sea Coast, to Hamburg and other cities.
Requirements:
370,-€ additional fee (has to be paid in cash on the campsite), You can only arrive on Saturday the 14th of July and leave on Saturday the 28th of July. Special requirements: You have to be interested in filming, technology and editing.
This "Umweltstation" (environmental protection station) is a place to reflect on a sustainable lifestyle. Together with you, we want to take a creative approach to thinking about the outcomes of our consume and throwaway society. We want to give you an opportunity to find new ways to make your lifestyle simpler, more sustainable and more individual by using your crafting skills. Only by living a responsible and self-determined life, we can find new ways and solutions to create a more sustainable future. In three SELF-MADE WORKSHOPS qualified experts will show you how to use natural material and waste products such as plastic, fabric and wood to design your own products: "The fabric that dreams are made of" – Upcycling ideas for old clothes and natural material: Here you can sew hats out of fabric remnants, print on white bed sheets with the "Ecoprint" technique, color t-shirts with batik technique and felt or crochet bags, scarves and mobile phone covers. "Ideas replacing Waste" – Upcycling ideas for plastic, waste and natural material: Here we will use waste and natural material such as old garden hoses, belts, bicycle tires, other findings, woody debris, construction steel etc. to design a labyrinth trail for the premise of the "Umweltstation". "Creating instead of consuming" – Upcycling furniture and natural building material: Here we will take used pallets, wooden debris, clay, straw, wild wood, old tires, metal debris, glass and other findings to design and create furniture, shelves, glass walls and pallet furniture for the Umweltstation's humus toilet.
Accomodation & food:
Youth club Don Camillo. You will cook together.
Location & leisure:
The little village Georgensgmünd is located in the heart of the Franconian lake scenery, surrounded by fields, meadows with fruit trees and forests. You have lots of possibilities for spending your free time: swimming in the lake, participating in the traditional local fair or attending concerts at the "Bardentreffen" or the "Klassik Open Air" in Nürnberg. You can also take trips to Munich, Bamberg or Rotheburg. The Klassik Open Air with a picknick will take place on the 4th of August, the Bardentreffen in Nürnberg will take place from the 27th to the 29th of July. At the time of the work camp, there will also be a open air tent on the premise of the Umweltstation, where some cultural events will take place: "We are all Jazz" – concert, "HOME – The most amazing pictures of the earth" – Open Air Cinema "Vom Hühnerstall zur Umweltstation" – 30 Jahre Verein Hämmerleinsmühle ? "Wir alle leben unter denselben Sternen" – self-made documentary from 2018.
Requirements:
You have to have Basic English language skills and enjoy creative and crafty activities and like cooking. The work can be physically demanding! Please bring work clothes.
Radio Tonkuhle is a community radio station for Hildesheim and the surrounding area – radio to participate in! Everybody, who feels like it, can contribute something from their own areas of interest and the result is a diverse and colourful around-the-clock program. A number of music shows are devoted to genres off the beaten track of charts music. You will learn the craft of radio making: handling a recording device, techniques for interviewing, studio technology and presentation. The group will plan and design their very own radio show, which will be presented by you. Finally, your show will be "on air". The workshop will be lead by professional radio journalists. www.tonkuhle.de
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in a youth hostel in Drispenstedt. You will cook together.
Location & leisure:
All leisure facilities of the youth hostel (table football, table tennis, internet) are at your disposal. There is also a small recording studio on the premise, which can be used for the radio workshop. Hildesheim is an old and historically interesting city with 100.000 residents. The cathedral and the Michaelis Church are UNESCO world heritage sites. You will also find a rich and independent art and culture scene with lots of music, theatre, exhibitions and parties. The provincial capital Hannover is only a 30 minute train ride away. www.hildesheim.de, www.hannover.de
Requirements:
Additional fee 295 €; including bus tickets for Hildesheim-City; good English language skills for the radio workshop
Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg is the biggest riverine island in Europe and a vivid multicultural neighbourhood. Projects and events, like IBA, Dockville/Artville or 48h Wilhelmsburg, have been influencing various places, people and themes in the neighbourhood. The housing and integration of a high number of refugees also concerns the people in Wilhelmsburg. Your job is to catch on film, what is special about Wilhelmsburg, in particular how people, who live and work here, cope with the sociocultural changes and challenges in Wilhelmsburg. Experienced media educators will support you in developing your ideas, learning how to handle camera technology and editing scenes. Towards the end of the project you will show your contributions in your own show, which will be broadcasted in Hamburg's citizen television TIDE (www.tidenet.de). Different from the other film workshops offered by ijgd, where you can choose a topic, this workshop has a set topic. Take a look at the following websites and think about, if you want to catch on film what impact sociocultural changes can have on a neighbourhood. http://www.hamburg.com/explore/districts/wilhelmsburg/ (English) http://www.hamburg.de/wilhelmsburg/ (German) http://www.hamburg.de/sehenswertes-wilhelmsburg/ (German) http://www.iba-hamburg.de/en/iba-in-english.html http://en.msdockville.de/ http://musikvondenelbinseln.de/48h (German). We would like you to show different angles to the story and make and effort to give a voice to people who are rarely listend to. If you want to get a glimpse of what it's like, you can take a look at the films produced in previous workshops: 2017 http://www.tidenet.de/tv/sendungen/schnappfisch?id=6224 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gBpuW0Zrlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC_kriaczSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt26UuAUXPI 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD47uvOcyyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXWwMGEYIt4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akDtj8iZ37I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3_iTZ5q-y0 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bul3KwhhtBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F156S75j1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Y2jAy6z8Q
Special requirement:
You have to have good language skills in English, be interested in filming, technology and editing.
Accomodation & food:
You will sleep on air mattresses in a modern youth centre and work in the media centre only 500m away. You cook together.
Location & leisure:
You will stay in the youth centre and work in the media education centre in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. From here you can easily reach most tourist attractions and sights of Germany's second biggest city. The weekend is great for taking a trip to the North Sea or the Baltic Sea.
Requirements:
380.00 € additional fee (has to be paid in cash on the campsite); smoking and drinking alcohol is strictly prohibited in the youth centre and the media education centre.
Volunteers are invited to decorate our seminar house. You will work on the interior using artistic means (i.e. fabric painting, painting on wood, …). Volunteers are welcome to show their talents in designing and handcraft. Participants who prefer to do manual labour, are invited to do some garden work or help with renovating another room in the center.
Study:
We will learn some essentials of peace work and get basic non-violent conflict management training. In the second week we will visit the former concentration camp of Bergen Belsen, and have some lessons on European history in the first part of the 20th century. Volunteers will have the opportunity to spend an evening in a German family and reverse, the group will invite the people of the village and region to an "Evening of encounter" (Abend der Begegnung) in the rooms of the Peace Center.
Accomodation & food:
The accommodation of the participants is carried out in rooms with 4 beds each.There are bed sheets available. Food will be prepared together in the kitchen of the seminar house.
Location & leisure:
In the leisure time, the group can use facilities of the seminar house and make an excursion to Hannover or Braunschweig.The Peace Center is at the verge of a village with about 2500 inhabitants, near a historical location where in 1553 a battle took place. Sievershausen lies 30 kilometers east of the Lower Saxony provincial capital Hanover on the freeway to Berlin.
Age:
18-26
Location:
Sievershausen
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
HAJ: Hannover (Hannover, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
« I can say that the best things about the workcamp and this whole experience were the chance of making a real difference to the lives of very needy children. This is an extremely valuable project where volunteers can have a massive impact. Also the possibility of learning a huge amount about a country so different from our own. I learnt ten times as much by carrying out a workcamp than I would ever do backpacking. »
