Food
There will be 3 delicious meals: breakfast, dinner and a simple, light lunch/ picnic.
Breakfast and dinner will be served in the festival hostel in Lajares.
Lunch will be adjusted to our dancing and served either in the hostel or in the location we are dancing at.
Please Note: In general we would like to create a communal event where all participants are not only sharing their interest in CI but also sharing life together. We are interested in creating an awareness and mindfulness with each other. Making community and honoring the space we are living in. Creating, working, and involving yourself instead of just taking, just consuming.
The cooking will be provided by our outstanding chef Annalisa and our helpers' team.This will be supported by all of us. The dishwashing has to be done by all participants.
With your Check In on the arrival day, we ask you to offer your supporting hand for helping preparing meals and cleaning (probably twice during the festival).
Accommodation
You can stay in our nice simple festival hostel (Albergue) in Lajares (10-14 beds and/or mattresses per room). Please bring your own sheets, sleeping bag and pillow (we have some pillows there).
Or - bring your own tent! This is the most beautiful option and closest to nature! You can put your tent directly on the premises. All around the hostel (albergue) there is enormous space to camp! Most likely - as in the last years - we will be able to provide mattresses - also for the tent people! More information about this later!
Price
€ 320 including workshops, jams, housing (hostel or own tent) and food (breakfast, lunch and dinner) during the festival from January 16th-22nd, 2012.
During Open Contact Camp the week before and after the festival, the hostel is available for € 6 / night. During this time the kitchen can be used for individual or community cooking. Please check out ci- camp.
Helpers
Please feel welcome to be a helper on our team!
In general we want to create a collective awareness for dancing, living and working together. We welcome helping hands and we wish for everybody to enjoy the dance of working well together. We intend to increase awareness from dancing contact. Our aim is to expand and influence our ways of communicating, being with each other and running our lives together. We welcome active involvement rather than passive consumption. We are interested in melting the difference between 'working helpers' and 'helping participants'.
We need official helpers who will support our festival. They will be the heart of this spirit, a center for mindfulness at the core of our festival - spreading it through their pure existence . - reaping incalculable reward and paying less!
If you want to be a helper, you will be working 12- 14 hours in total and pay € 190-220 for the festival instead of € 320. This works out to be about 2h of work a day, at about € 8 per hour as compensation/ payment.
We will divide in a fair way the hours among all helpers. Organizing this on site.
We will need helping hands for preparing meals both the mornings and evenings.
Things to do are:
- working 1-2 hours before breakfast and lunch: preparing and setting up things.
- working 2-3 hours before dinner: supporting the cook, cutting veggies, preparing
- we need 2 helpers who will do the shopping (with a car)
Moreover we need a few people who would like to be our On-Call-Helpers. These are people who want to do more hours if needed. This would be helpful for us in case of emergency, in case something unexpected happens and we need more helping power.
If you would like to be part of the helping team and pay less or if you have any questions about this please contact Gabi: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.