Voluntarily Yours: Back from Scheersberg

What a great week – 41 creative volunteers in one place and uncountable ideas and possibilities! This was the first seminar of the voluntary social year on Scheersberg! Some would say this must end in a big chaos. On the contrary, everybody was friendly and engaged. So there were such great things like intensive midnight-jam-sessions, fairy tale readings or diverse game-sessions, e.g. "The Werewolves of Millers Hollow".

But we also worked a lot: Everyone presented his working place so we got a good overview what kinds of cultural institutions exist in Schleswig-Holstein.

There was also the chance to talk about our projects every volunteer has to create in this social year, to get new inspiration and to find potential partners for it meaning that some projects will be created by small groups of volunteers. Also I will be part of a project team, but information about this you will get later when the ideas have become more concrete.

I already told you that there was offered two workshops: "Photography" and "Black Light Theatre". The photographers took pictures, edited them on a computer and presented them to the audience in small exhibition.

The other group (my group) first learned something about black light theatre in general and created then their own story for which they wrote the complete direction and built puppets and backdrop on their own. Then we practiced our play and, in the evening, we presented it to the rest of the participants.

Here are some photos so you might get an impression of it:

Randy, Mara and me (the three volunteers working at Nordkolleg Rendsburg) as “the Invisibles"