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People with Circus/Fire/Dance/Performance Skills wanted

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The experience

2025 is the 3nd year of the Circus and we are planning several public showcases with local students and volunteers to help promote the school and community venue.

The programme will include house and garden maintence, PLUS classes in fire spinning circus aerials; time spent making props and costumes,; and rehearsals and performance in the shows.

Volunteers need to submit a video of their skills via what's app and be available to chat.

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

Music: Perform to entertain guests, children or local communities.

Party Promoter: Help organise and promote parties and social activities.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 22 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Volunteers will have a room (maximum of two sharing) in the beautiful old house that is slowly becoming the Circus Palace. It is in the village of Alpedriz, which is 20 drive minutes from the famous surfing town of Nazaré.

You will be doing a mixture of learning new performance skills, costume making, rehearsals, creating a Fundraising Show, and also gardening and property maintenance for 5 hours a day, five days a week. Food will be provided for three meals a day, though we will take turns at cooking, or sometimes you will just make your own dinner. Cooking is on a camping strove, and the shower can go cold quite quickly. We are slowly improving these things!

We will be alternating between hours working on the show and production, and hours working on the house and garden.

I'm happy to drop you in Nazaré for the day on Saturdays, though sometimes we all go out to events and festivals or have a party at the house. On Sunday's I teach aerial classes and you are welcome to join one free of charge✨

Activities & Shift


The project will develop organically so you will need to be flexible with expectations for each day.
Please be ready to go each morning by 9am.

Activities will involve:
Weeding and planting
Water blasting, sanding and polishing
Painting
Cleaning
Learning new performance skills
Rehearsals and Fire Training Practise
Costume and prop-making
Performance Days

Please read the house rules. It will be important to manage your energy levels by getting up on time and going to bed before midnight to stay focused on putting together a professional production.

Rules

No alarms, walking around the house, cleaning or banging things before 8am.

Quiet in the house after 11pm (unless we are having group drinks).

Basic living skills are not included in the five working hours. Please share the cooking duties (we may have a roster if there are several volunteers) and clean up after yourself.

No smoking inside the house. You can smoke outside the back door in the rear courtyard. Please don't leave cigarette butts in the garden, put them in the bin.

Please be kind to the furniture. It's old but it's special.

This is a work site, so don't invite visitors without prior arrangement with Flame.

The grounds used to be part of a nature reserve and for that reason we have no pets.

You are welcome to have a few drinks with the locals... but if you consistently do not appear at work on time, you will be asked to leave.