22 JULI – 4 AUGUST 2024 | OPEN CALL FROM 14 MARCH
WHAT IS PASSAGE FESTIVAL SUMMER CAMP?
A two-week creative camp for volunteers age 18-26. The camp takes place during PASSAGE Festival in Helsingør, Denmark:
One of the largest international outdoor arts festival in Northern Europe.
AS A PART OF PASSAGE SUMMER CAMP, YOU WILL
• Live and volunteer together: up to 16 Europeans for two weeks
• Have all travel, accomodation, food, and pocket money covered | PLEASE NOTE: We encourage sustainable travel = avoid flying for travels less than 800 km
• Join creative workshops by professional artists + create a public showing
• Experience lots of live outdoor arts and street theatre of high quality for free
• Gain experience in organizing and hosting cultural events in public space
• Be a part of a social, international festival community that brings together artists, volunteers, festival organisers and audiences.
WHO ARE YOU?
YOU are 18-26 yrs, interested in culture, travelling and in meeting young people from Europe.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN?
14 March 2024 Application for PASSAGE Summer Camp is open
9 April 2024 Online Meet & Greet with all participants
May 2024 Online planning meetings with PASSAGE Festival
22 July – 4 August 2024 PASSAGE Summer Camp
HOW TO JOIN?
1. Register with EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS: www.youth.europa.eu/solidarity_en
2. Search for PASSAGE Festival & apply to join the PASSAGE Summer Camp.
The open call will close, when we reach the maximum participants.
For more information, please contact: Heidi Johanne Engsig // hje@helsingor-teater.dk
MORE ABOUT PASSAGE Summer Camp
Since 2021, the PASSAGE festival has been hosting a free volunteer camp for European youths aged 18-25 years old, offering a two-week folk high school-inspired camp for up to 16 youths from Denmark and the rest of Europe. The camp takes place as part of the PASSAGE Festival.
WEEK 1 | In the week prior to the PASSAGE Festival, the youths participate in workshops led by artists, focusing on artistic formats. The youths’ work culminates in a showcase that is part of the festival’s official program. EXAMPLES OF WORKSHOPS:
- Choreographer Mette Overgaard from Running Sculptures | Working with looping choreography, improvisation, and movement. See more here.
- Participants/performers in the performance DRIFT by David Somlo in public spaces as well as facilitators of the performances COLLECTIVE MATTER by SVALHOLM
- Co-organizers and participants in POETRY IN BACKYARDS: Readings and moderated discussions with authors . In collaboration with local youths from Helsingør
- Cavalettists in Cie Basinga’s spectacular OPEN LINES performance in a social housing area
WEEK 2 | In the camp’s second week, which takes place during the PASSAGE Festival itself, the youths become part of the festival team, assisting in festival preparation, execution, and audience management. Tasks may include establishing wayfinding in urban spaces, various communication tasks/audience management/backstage/execution, etc.
PASSAGE Festival is one of Northern Europe’s largest street theater festivals. It takes place every year in Helsingør in the last week of July/first week of August. The festival presents everything from spectacular new circus and street performances, classic street theater, and experimental performing arts, which can be experienced side by side on streets, alleys, and squares, on the beach, in the forest, in gymnasiums… public places we know and use in our everyday lives.
Every year, over 100 performing artists from around the world come to Helsingør to perform at the festival, and there is great and ever-increasing interest from the audience’s side.
With the PASSAGE Summer Camp, we aim to facilitate meetings between the festival’s organizers, local residents in Helsingør Municipality, the festival’s artists, and European youths.
