RUG001 - Music Festival

Dates: 5th of June to the 12st of June
Location: The festival camp is situated in the countryside among the cities of Moscow, Kaluga and Tula. It is far from civilization although the ambulance and the police will be present there.
Background Information: Recently there have appeared more and more musicians whose style cannot be described within the frames of standard pop-culture. At the same time various original ways of promoting ideas have developed. These conditions were enough to start an annual non-format music festival. The 5-day open-air event in June 2007 gathered 15’000 people and more than 100 bands on 4 stages. The atmosphere of freedom, culture diversity, friendship, esthetical enjoyment and unity gave rise to a huge volunteer movement. The festival background developed into exceptional conditions for creative forms of promoting ideas of peace, human rights, environmental protection.
Project Tasks: Volunteers will work about 6 hours a day and help with installing the stages, putting the decorations, registration of the participants, collecting garbage, selling T-shirts, distributing leaflets, taking lots of pictures and making notes. 2 volunteers of the group will help daily in the open-air canteen. After the event you will move to Tula/Kaluga/Moscow and make reports about the festival in English. These reports will be used on the English version of the website . Please note, that the work during the festival can be physically hard (but all open-air!) and the working schedule can vary from a day to a day (sometimes the help is necessary in the early morning when the trash from the night party is to be picked up).
Who Can Participate?: Anyone with an interest in assisting.
Placement Costs: Food and accommodation provided for free to all volunteers.
Meals: Volunteers will have meals in the open-air canteen of the festival. Please, inform us in advance if you are vegetarian. During the home stay the meals will be provided with the host family.
Accommodation: The conditions of your stay are very basic, even survival. You will stay in tents for 7 or 8 days – and in host families in Tula/Kaluga/Moscow. A sleeping bag and a sleeping mat are absolutely necessary. The eco-toilet will be available, but the shower will be naturally heated from the sun. Generally everybody at the festival swims in the river (please take your swimming suit, a hat and sun cream – it’s going to be sunny and hot!). Please note, that no Internet access and no telephone connection (except for emergency calls) will be available during the festival days, but you can easily use both during the city part.