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 start filming. 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 about film technic, 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 an experienced media educator. If you want to have a look at films produced in the last years, please follow these links:
You will sleep on air mattresses in a cosy and comfortable youth centre.
Catering:
You will cook together.
Free Time:
Your accommodation is located in a trendy neighborhood 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.
Location:
Bremen; 120 km west of Hamburg.
Closest train station:
Bremen main station airport:
Bremen, Hamburg
Remarks:
You can only arrive on Saturday the 3rd of August and leave on Saturday the 17th of August.
Special requirements:
395,-€ additional fee (has to be paid in cash on the campsite). You should be interested in filming, technology and editing.
In the last workcamps with the help of the local artist Ms. Ulrike Speckmann, volunteers created colorful messages of peace to be shown in public places: They designed benches of encounter and a big mural in the local kindergarden. Two years ago, volunteers designed a big picture for the entrance hall of the local church. It was done as reflection of a memorial in the same room, which still shows a very militaristic and nationalistic approach. This year volunteers are invited to work with old porcelain. With coloured pencil or paintbrush, volunteers can design old tableware, which can be used to build up an installation called a table of peace and reconciliation. As every time, this installation will be shown to public in a final exhibition. Again the artist is happy to help you to get in a creative process of painting. For information about the artist, please visit http://ulrike-speckmann.de/.In addition to this artistic activities it is foreseen to visit the local kindergarden, to play with the children and to do some gardening there.Members of the parish will be happy if volunteers are ready to contact the different social groups of the town, especially the children and the older generation.
Study part:
How to tackle the subject peace artistically, local history as starting point of an international movement
Accomodation & food:
The participants will be accommodated in the modern community center of Datteln Etienne-Bach-Haus. Please bring sleeping bag. Camp beds and pillows will be provided.
Location & leisure:
Excursions to local places of interest, like the crossing of 4 channels and other sites.The town Datteln has approx. 35 000 inhabitants and is situated at the edge of the mining region in the north of the Ruhr area. Four waterways for shipping traffic are crossing in Datteln. The river Lippe and the region Münster are nearby. Next bigger towns are Recklinghausen, Dortmund and the very nice and famous students town Münster.
Age:
18-26
Location:
Datteln
Language(s):
English, German
Airport:
QDU: Dusseldorf Hauptbahnhof (Dusseldorf, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
During the 1st week of your workcamp a Creative Workshop is planned, under the instruction of an artist. You will work creatively with colours, paper and fabrics in the rooms of the Cranach Courtyards Here you can find more information:www.lutherstadt-wittenberg.de/kultur/luthergedenkstaetten/cranach-hoefe You will get the opportunity to learn more about the story of Luther and Cranach. In the next two weeks, you will do construction and maintenance works in the forest of Wittenberg, like repairing and building wooden constructions on playgrounds, renewing fences or animal enclosures. Volunteers should be prepared to be flexible and take part in any work that will support the project. During the weeks outside you will go to the work by bike everyday. Therefore, it is REALLY important that you are able to ride a bicycle!
Accomodation & food:
Accommodation:You will live in 2-4 bed rooms. Bed linen will be provided, there is no need to bring a sleeping bag.
Food:
Self-catering. Recipes and cooking ideas are welcomed.
Location & leisure:
Leipzig, Berlin or Potsdam are about 70 km from Lutherstadt Wittenberg. There are other nice places to visit in the area: a lake, the river Elbe and the Woerlitzer Park, where you can spend your free time.
Requirements:
You need to be able to ride a bicykle!
Age:
18-26
Location:
Lutherstadt wittenberg
Language(s):
English
Airport:
BER: Berlin - Metropolencode (Berlin, Germany)Vegetarian food will be available
In this year, the project in Ravensbrück will continue to connect practical work and study with youth meetings.In the memorial, there are many possibilities to read about the history of the women's concentration camp and about the background of fascism. Volunteers can use materials from the library and the archives in different languages. A main topic for the study part will be the special camp, where the participants work. The VJF-group is likely meeting survivors of Ravensbrueck Concentration Camp in the Generationenforum (panel of generations) and will parallel participate – in commemoration of Ravensbrueck – in the performance-project Sound in the Silence. All participants are encouraged to join study groups on the topics of Creative Writing, Theatre, Dance and Sound, where they can develop creative content with others as a part of the performance.You will also participate in the 15th Ravensbruecker Genereationenforum, a meeting with former inmates from Israel, Hungary and England. Your performance will include the fates of the time witnesses you will meet and will be presented in the Generationenforum. A 2nd presentation of the performence will be on the last day in Berlin.The group will do some maintaining work on the area of the womens concentration camp. There are many different tasks to be done: cleaning the area of wild growing vegetation, environmental work and investigation work. Your help will be needed to clean sculptures, to prepare a working site and to do other works outside.
Accomodation & food:
You will live in a youth hostel near the Ravensbrück memorial. The rooms are very comfortable, a maximum of 4 persons will live in one room. Shower and toilets are next to the rooms. Bed linen will be provided. Please check this site: https://ravensbrueck.jugendherberge.de/jugendherbergen/ravensbrueck-646/portraet/All meals will be provided. So please do not forget to let us know your special dietary needs.
Location & leisure:
The small town Fuerstenberg/Havel is located in a very beautiful area with lakes and rivers, so volunteers will have the possibility to go swimming. But - of course - it depends on the weather. Similar to previous years, a canoe-trip could be organised and/or meetings with German youths. Please consider that the free time planning will mostly depend on your ideas and wishes.
The Springhornhof foundation in the Lüneburg Heath is one of the most innovative landscape art projects of Europe. Since the 1970s famous international artists from all over the word have built an artistic landscape with more than 40 installations. In the first week of the camp your group will help with the maintenance of the art installations. During the second week you will build your own art object in cooperation with the two land art artists Llobet & Pons from Barcelona. Their sculptures, objects and installations for indoor and exterior space are located between art, architecture and design. Their procedure is based on exact observation of social coherences, research and dialogue. They use everyday objects such as construction materials, clothes or sport equipment to change or use them in a different way and transform them into new metaphors and meanings.www.springhornhof.dehttp://www.llobet-pons.net/
Accomodation & food:
You will stay in three holiday flats. Together with your group you will cook and prepare the meals. There will be a communal area with cooking facilities, a communal room and a big outside area with barbecue facilities.
Location & leisure:
Neuenkirchen has 5,500 residents and is located at the center of the nature park Lüneburg Heath, a unique cultural landscape and one of the most popular destinations for trips in Germany. There is an outdoor swimming pool, an ice cream parlour and you will have the opportunity to go horseback riding or visit a sheep farm. Apart from that, you will have bikes provided, which you can use for trips into the Heath. Bigger cities like Hamburg, Hannover and Bremen can be easily reached by train and on top of that you are close to the adventure park Heidepark Soltau, a kart track, the Serengetipark (Animal Park), a bird park and a climbing park.www.springhornhof.dewww.gemeinde-neuenkirchen.dewww.lueneburger-heide.de
Requirements:
The working sites are at different places in the surroundings. You will go there by bike.
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