WHERE?
DOUR, in the Walloon Region, Belgium
THIS PROJECT…
Dour Festival is a five-day music festival. More than 200 artists perform on six stages. More than anything, it is a unique concept and a wonderful atmosphere. More than 1.000 journalists came to the festival. These professionals are generally from Europe. Last year we noted the presence of journalists from Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Spain, Greece, Ireland, Luxemburg, Poland, Reunion Island and the USA. The line-up is more international than ever, however we dedicate a large part of our program to homegrown Belgian artists.
ACTIVITIES…
Volunteers will be part of the GREEN BRIGADE. Your job is to keep the area clean, tidy, and safe. The team will collect and recycle the waste to give the festivalgoers a nice and safe ground. Volunteers
throughout the whole festival. It could be heavy and repetitive. Volunteers will have to work around 6 hours a day, probably early in the morning. During your free time, you will be free to go to the festival and enjoy the concerts (concerts start at noon and end at 5.00 a.m.).
TO THE POINT…
- Dates: July 11 to July 15, 2018 (this year) – next available in 2019
- Type: music festival
- Max volunteers: 10 volunteers / Volunteers must be at least 18 years old when the project starts.
- Accommodation: A camping site is booked for the volunteers. It is well located, outside the festival, in a quiet environment. There is also a bar. There are showers and toilets in the camping. You need a flashlight, toilet paper, bath towel, basic pharmacy, earplugs… You can expect not to have hot water to shower. You need to bring all the things that will be useful to their stay because you will not be able to buy anything during your stay over there! You need a tent and a sleeping bag (+ camping mattress, pillow,…) and all you think you need to go camping (there is no kitchen). You need to bring your own material to fix your tent if you need to do so! There will not be any building where you can sleep. If you do not bring your own tent and camping material, you will have to sleep in the mud.
- Working language: Able to communicate in French or English
TO KNOW…
- Food: The organization will give volunteers 1 ticket for a sandwich and 4 tickets for drinks per day. You need to have a small budget for others meals (about 10€/day). There are a lot of shops, small snacks (pizza, fries, sandwich, Chinese…) and bars in Dour. If possible, take kitchen material like a camping stove, plates, cutlery... to cook for yourself in the camping.
- Clothing: Boots or hiking shoes (you might not want to take nice shoes because you might get VERY dirty). Do not forget, everything will take place outside. Work clothes (for the construction work), and comfortable clothes (for the festival). Summer clothes AND winter clothes because it can get warm or cold! Volunteers need to bring clothes that dry fast because if you get wet, you might have to change clothes several times a day. If you think about bringing clothes that dry fast, you will not end up with only wet clothes left.