Would you like to learn circus acrobatics, pass on what you have learnt to children and perform together with the children in a circus show in front of a large audience? Then this work camp in Ahrensburg (near Hamburg) is the right place for you.
The work part begins on Sunday 13th of October: together with the other workcamp participants, you will help to set up a large circus tent on the grounds of the youth centre. From the following Monday to Friday, the entire workcamp group will receive circus training in the tent from a professional circus trainer.
In the second week, from Monday to Friday, you will pass on the skills you have learned to children from Ahrensburg as part of the local holiday programme. On Friday evening, the children will perform what they have learnt together with you in a circus show with a large audience in a big circus tent.
Accomodation and food
You will sleep on camp beds with mattresses in the cosy youth centre with a wood-burning stove and beautiful outdoor area. A central kitchen, sanitary facilities with three toilets and one shower each, as well as two lounges for eating and for group activities with billiards, two table football tables and air hockey are available.
You will cook together. You will be provided with money for shopping. A transport service is available by arrangement for shopping trips. Vegetarian or vegan meals are possible. Please indicate any intolerances when registering.
Location and leisure
The youth centre is located just outside Ahrensburg right next to the forest and is surrounded by a beautiful outdoor area with a campfire site. There is a football pitch in the immediate neighbourhood. You can play sports there.
There is a bus connection to Ahrensburg town centre (30 minutes). There you can visit a swimming pool, the pedestrian zone or Ahrensburg Castle.
On the middle weekend or on free afternoons and evenings, trips to Hamburg, Lübeck or to the beautiful sandy beaches of the Baltic Sea are worthwhile.
On some excursions you will be supported by the youth centre with minibuses.
Project hosted by
Jugendtreff Hagen - Hagen youth centre
The Hagen youth centre in the district of the same name in the small town of Ahrensburg offers a comprehensive open programme for children and young people, supervised by teachers. There are a variety of indoor and outdoor games, a campfire area, a wood and pottery workshop, billiards and table football as well as a romping room with climbing nets
The ijgd has been organising volunteer service programmes since 1949. We are an independent, non-profit association for international youth work, a recognised independent youth welfare organisation, and one of the largest and oldest workcamp organisations in Germany. Each year, we assist around 5,000 young people into volunteer work in Germany and abroad. We give them the opportunity to be creative, act in solidarity, take responsibility for themselves, and discover their own true potential and strengths. Our principles: Ecological learning, voluntary contribution, self-organisation, social development, intercultural learning, gender equality, anti-racism/anti-discrimination and political education.
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Directions to meeting point
at the accommodation on Friday 11th of October between 3 and 6 p.m.
From Hamburg airport take S-Bahn S1 (direction Wedel or Hamburg-Blankenese) to Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (Hamburg main train station, about 24 min travel time). The S1 is running every 10min.
At Hauptbahnhof (main train station) you should change to the underground train U 1 in direction of „Großhansdorf“. Trains are running every 20 minutes. After travelling for around 36 minutes, you should get off at the station “Ahrensburg Ost”.
At Ahrensburg Ost you take the bus 269 in the direction “Dänenweg” and leave it after 8min at the station “Spechtweg”
From the Spechtweg bus stop, walk to the crossroads 50 metres away, turn right into Hagener Allee and after approx. 50 metres you will reach the youth club, your camp site, on the left-hand side.
More Information about train and bus connections: www.bahn.com or www.hvv.de/en
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
Project name: Let the show begin! – The Circus Workcamp