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What are the challenges and objectives of your Festival in terms of volunteering? What are the actions you put in place that could qualify in your opinion as your festival’s good practice?
Festival ALTOFEST
Altofest – International Contemporary Live Arts Festival – from 2011 gathers together a growing community of international artists, citizens of Naples and creators of thinking.he Festival is built with the citizens of Naples who host the works of international artists in their houses and/or private spaces (apartments, terraces, basements, courtyards, whole buildings, artisan shops…). The process is built by experimenting with innovative poetics and aiming to the involvement of places, and with them the system of relationships that are hosted by the places themselves.
Country ITALY
Website http://www.teatringestazione.com/altofest/altofest/
“Each volunteer has the possibility to attend the shows; They can form relationships with the artists and the cultural sector. Their commitment is diversified in time and space, so as not to bear a workload that would otherwise produce unnecessary stress. We share the experience of the festival with joy. There are other more important tasks.”
Festival name EUROPEADE
Country – Each year a different EU City
About the Festival Folklore multi disciplinary festival. The Europeade is the expression of a belief in the friendship and brotherhood between the peoples of the European continent, founded on the idea of “unity in diversity”.
It takes concrete form, among others, in an annual gathering of thousands of Europeans who come together over five days to give expression to this conviction – through the folk arts and traditions of their respective regions.
“Europeade is a five-day party for 5,000 dancers, musicians and singers.
It is not just an event. We create European friendship and unity through our diversity.
Europeade is an independent annual meeting of 5,000 people involved in folk dance and music from all over Europe.
We meet for a week in summer every year, often in a new city in Europe, old friends and new groups together.
We show our dances in displays in large arenas and in the streets of the city, and hold a ball, a parade, and an oecumenical service.
Groups dance, sing and play their music in costume throughout the city all day and all night!
We share our regional culture with the local inhabitants and each other.”
Website http://www.europeade.eu/en/home
The city chosen for the festival works with volunteers recruited in the community in the lodgments (schools), catering, guides for groups and marketing.
Festival FESTIVAL DI MORGANA
Festival di Morgana is an international puppet festival focusing on folk and contemporary culture, with particular reference to puppetry, and promoting the trans-national mobility of cultural operators and the circulation of artistic and cultural works and products to support intercultural dialogue. It is originated as a Review of the opera dei pupi (Sicilian traditional puppetry that in 2001 was declared by UNESCO a Masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity).
Country ITALY
Website http://www.festivaldimorgana.it/2016/
In recent years, the Association has involved a number of volunteers and interns in all its activities including the Festival di Morgana. They have been involved in different tasks on the basis of their abilities and competences – e.g. knowledge foreign languages, ability to use new technologies, etc. Among the most recent projects, the collaboration with a high school of a Sicilian small town in 2014. About 20 students were involved in the 39° Festival di Morgana, mainly cooperating in the field of the organization of the festival and the activities of the Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum. Being charged of different tasks – visitors’ service, communication, updating of the official websites, press review, cataloguing and explanatory panels, reception and orientation of the artists, attendants’ orientation; reception of the attendants during the show, The display of the information panel – they discovered the huge cultural heritage safeguarded in the Museum and promoted through the annual Festival di Morgana. All of them integrated those main activities with the support to the artists involved, with whom they created short video clips to be shared on Fb – and attended all the events planned. Moreover, they were charged of welcoming visitors and providing them information about the event and the Museum’s heritage. The information and skills acquired during the backstage work helped the development of a critical attitude and provoked the students’ curiosity. Following this experience, the organizing Association is working to find new strategies to reach this target. While the involvement of teenagers mainly aims to educate and promote cultural heritage and activities, the involvement of university students or from the Academy of Fine Arts aims to let them experience the world of theatre from a more professional point of view. They are often involved in some creative workshops – where they can suggest new ideas on the activities to prepare and the objects to be created – or in the creation of leaflets and programmes. Adult volunteering is less common in the city. Notwithstanding either within some specific progects – Garanzia giovani – and autonomously, we have attracted some of them. In this case, the collaboration has lasted from about 6 months to two years – an adult man has been helping us since two years, now.
Festival SIBIU INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL
Il Sibiu International Theatre Festival represents a celebration of the arts and the perfect combination of theatre, dance, circus, music, cinema, books, conferences, performances, exhibitions, and the opportunity for the community who take part in it to create friendships and experiences.
COUNTRY ROMANIA
WEBSITE http://www.sibfest.ro/sibiu-international-theatre-festival.html#
PHOTO http://www.sibfest.ro/general/en-editions
Sibiu International Theatre Festival, through the Volunteering Programme attracts more than 300 national volunteers and 25 international volunteers. Best practices: Communicating the festival vision and clear job descriptions, making sure volunteers know what they are expected to do. Addressing 16 years old + volunteers with the support of local schools and universities. Opportunities for volunteers to switch to different roles they might find more enjoyable. Give and receive feedback. Provide opportunities for volunteers to learn and grow. Making sure everyone is enjoying the process of participating.
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