Winterwerft Theatre Festival 2027
protagon - international performing arts e.V.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Description
The Winterwerft Festival is a project starting in January every year. It is an international physical theatre festival with a length of two weeks with the central issue of the climate change and environmental crisis. The association opens to the city of Frankfurt-am-Main for 6 days. The festival brings people together from different backgrounds to reflect and formulate artistical ideas, opinions, and creative ways of passing their messages to protect the environment and reconnect nature to humans.
The volunteers will support the festival with community tasks such as cooking or cleaning, as well as organisational duties. On the weekends (22.01-24.01 / 29.01-31.01 / 05.02-07.02), the artistic workshops and the evening program is open for volunteers and audiences to participate.
During the week days, it is much more calm and introspective: The team of volunteers will live and work in the same place as the artists, they create a strong team spirit and can participate to social, political and creative processes.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers are hosted like the members of the association and the long-term residents: there is a big house with kitchen, shared bathrooms and toilets, dinning-room, laundry, workshops...
Important fact, the sleeping rooms are in the yard: they are about 30 caravans, old busses and containers transformed into cosy rooms. Volunteers share their rooms (about 4 people per room).
Food is in the kitchen and in the dining room, and is fully provided by the association in the form of a buffet with meat, vegan and vegetarian options.
Bikes are available, as well as free Wi-Fi.
Training during the activity
Artistic training: volunteers can take part into workshops of theatre, dance and vocal trainings as well as a chance to develop musical skills and creativity. More workshops possible like Yoga, Environment based, Puppetry...
Culturally: a lot of languages and nationalities in the association, shows and concerts during the events.
Social activities like meetings and games.
Other skills depending on the tasks of the day. Examples: buiding and unbuilding stage or festival structure, sewing and decoration, technics, organisational tasks, artist care, welcoming audiences...
Participant profile
-Participants should be under the age of 31 years old
-Be interested in cultural projects or arts
-Have interest in living with other people (community lifestyle with no private room) and be able to share and respect with diverse people
Activity dates
From 21/01/2027 to 08/02/2027
Activity location
orber str. 57, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Activity type
Volunteering teams
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Réunion, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine
Activity topics
Bridging intercultural, intergenerational and social divide
Community development
Creativity, arts and culture
Environment and climate change
Promotion of alternative forms of participation
Social challenges
Citizenship and democratic participation
Environment and natural protection
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 15/12/2026 12:26
Project code
2026-1-DE04-ESC51-VTJ-000401027