Teatri Riflessi Festival

The festival promote the encounter between the immediacy of contemporary art languages and a wide audience (3,000 spectators, especially non theatergoers) . The project also stimulates a reflection on the landscape, connecting the stage to the representation of the artistic, cultural, and social territory in unconventional spaces. Teatri Riflessi is meant to lift the curtain on the flowering of artistic urges, promoting the exchange of ideas, practices, and models and offering professional and emerging artists an unusual stage to connect tradition and innovation. The WorkCamp is an action promoted within the framework of the festival that focuses on three major points: * Promoting a dialogue between international volunteers and the local community of Zafferana and Catania (university students, young artists, citizens…). * Environment and awareness of the impact we, as individuals, have on the territory. * Gender equality, promoting exchange of ideas based on the participants’ backgrounds and the current situation in Italy. By joining this workcamp you will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals: Reduce inequality -SDG10 and GenderEquality-SDG5 WORK : Volunteers will be asked to help support the organization and unfolding of the festival. Volunteers will work around 8 hours a day: the first phase (from 5th to 11th July) to get to know the event and prepare the setting-up of the spaces for the activities (handmade recycled props, posters, signage…) and, in the second phase from 15th to 21st July, to allow the setting-up of the area and support the preparation of the activities addressed to artists, jurors, and spectators (roundtables, laboratories, exhibitions). In this second phase, volunteers will split in 3 groups: * One dealing with the backstage, stage setting-up, and relations with the artists; * One dealing with setting up and supervision of site-specific performance in the park and art installations. * One taking care of forums, workshops, and book presentations in terms of setting-up, and general support. In addition, on the 21st and 22nd the entire group will work on the dismantling of all installations in the town. All participants will have a kick-off meeting with the artistic direction of the festival on the 8th of July at 4 p.m. and will attend team-building activities with the entire staff.

Volunteers will be accommodated in Zafferana Etnea, in a building provided with bathrooms, a washing machine, a dining area, a kitchen, and an outdoor space. Two shared rooms will be hosting the group and the structure will also accommodate the staff of the festival and many international artists involved in the competition. There, volunteers can have their meals alone or together; they can also join the staff of IterCulture to enjoy the territory and local food together, as well as share their traditions. In addition, from the 16th to the 21th of July, participants will receive a voucher so as to eat something together with the staff at the festival venue. The accommodation is about 17 minutes from the venue of the festival by foot. The building is not provided with wi-fi and AC.

The festival takes place in Zafferana Etnea, on Mt. Etna (Elevation 574 m). Zafferana is a town of around 9,600 inhabitants, but every year it hosts plenty of tourists and travelers willing to go for a hike on the volcano, visit the historical cities nearby (Catania, Taormina…) and enjoy Sicilian food.