Gunpowder City
Start date: Aug 1, 2014,
End date: Jun 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
Four volunteers – two from Germany and two from Denmark – will be involved with daily activities of the Youth centre Kotlovnica and the Cultural centre of Kamnik. They will work with a small team of experienced and inspiring people on using and reviving public spaces in town. The project will take place in Kamnik, Slovenia, and will last from the beginning August 2014 to the end of May/June 2015. The main topic of the project is personal development and exploration of social and cultural life in a small town, but foremost making an impact. By organizing events in the youth centre and in town the volunteers will participate in local cultural life and get many experiences with project management. Also, they will bring an interesting cultural dimension to events and contribute to city life in Kamnik.
The main responsibilities of the volunteers, besides actively contributing to the programme of host organization, the youth centre, will be taking part in organizing four festivals in the city of Kamnik (one of them is the biggest festival in the region, the others are smaller but nonetheless very important for the city life). Also, another exciting activity will be exploring an abandoned area of the former gunpowder factory nearby the youth centre (hence the name of the project). The volunteers will get a chance to discover a degraded and historically important area of town and propose how to make this (now public and open) space alive again. They will get a chance to research and document the area, prepare different materials or exhibition about it and plan a vision of what can be done with it.
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