PROJECT: During the FESTIVAL CULTURAL DE ZITACUARO "ARTE PARA TODOS", 2016 EDITION, an “Art for Everybody Cultural Festival, 2016” we are looking for volunteers to collaborate as staff and support in carrying out a program of cultural and artistic activities in Zitacuaro Town, to encourage the use of public space and involve local residents in such activities through workshops and artistic exchanges to attract new and larger audiences for culture and arts. At the same time promote the production, assembly and distribution of different expositions, languages ??and artistic techniques to strengthen communication and cultural reunion of local inhabitants; raising the values of the community, promoting human development, making a stronger cultural identity of the unity in the diversity.
ACTIVITIES: Volunteers will help as staff in the development of the festival, which will take place during the months of May to October 2016; during the days of the project, volunteers will carry out activities such as:
1. To participate in logistics, assembly, distribution and exhibition of expositions, concerts, dance and theater shows where artists, children, youth and adults, as well as the general public will take part.
2. To collaborate in the production of urban art workshops and create workshops for children, youth and adults.
3. To collaborate in the mediation of roundtables with topics such as the importance of the recovery of public space, cultural policies, the right to culture, expressions of urban art, the benefits of culture and art as social development.
4. To assist in the achievement of taking 1,000 artistic photographs as acquisition for the municipality of Zitacuaro, inspired by the tangible and intangible belongings of the region for the massive exhibition "Foto Mural, Zitacuaro en 1000 imagenes".
HOSTING: Youth Hostel in shared rooms, with all facilities at disposal WIFI, hot water, kitchen, showers.
LOCATION: Zitacuaro, Michoacan, Mexico, is a city with 155.534 located in a wooded area, famous for the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary.
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: In their spare time, volunteers can go on their own to visit Zitacuaro’s downtown, the Cerrito de la Independencia, San Pancho, the pyramids of San Felipe Alzati, the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, volunteers can camp, hike, mountain bike, make some small trips and visit the archeological ruins or visit the indigenous communities of Mazahuas and Otomies.
CLOSEST STATION: Zitacuaro Bus Station.
CLOSEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: Mexico City International Airport.
OTHER POSSIBLE AIRPORTS: Estado de Mexico International Airport, Licenciado Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Toluca,
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: None
VEGETERIAN FOOD AVAILABLE: Yes
OPEN FOR FAMILIES: No
OPEN FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEERS: No
EXTRA FEE: 155 Euros, includes accommodation in a Youth Hostel shared room, 3 meals per day, local transportation project purposes, materials, tools, administrative expenses and organization.
SPECIAL NOTES: For volunteers who are interested to learn Spanish, there will be a Spanish course organized before the project starts, it will be organized in the city of Morelia. Cost: 110 Euros. It includes lodging for 7 days at a Youth Hostel in Morelia city, materials, theory and practice activities for 15 hours with a professional teacher. (Meals are not included).