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Description
Tate is a basque Architect & Landscape Architect who studied & taught at the legendary "École de Genève", an alternative Architecture School at the University of Geneva (SWITZERLAND).
After a decade in Switzerland, she founded : A Site | Art | Landscape & Film | Experimental Research STUDIO based in The Cliffs House where she grew up in the BASQUE COAST.
As a co-creator , she participated in various projects to preserve Seaside Landscapes becoming one of the characters in the TVE documentary series "Red Natura" while exploring & guiding paddle-surf trips in Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve (BASQUE COAST).
She's now restoring, in the GALICIAN COAST (SPAIN), a family ARTIST HOME by THE SEA in her ancestral lands as a RURAL SEASIDE REFUGE situated in a beautiful little village in the Countryside of the Galician Finisterrae Lands (SPAIN).
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
TATE would love to share her knowledge and passion about:
Art, Architecture, Landscape, Design, Cartography, Film, Photography, French New Wave Cinema, Land Art,
and, Paddlesurf, Surf, Snowboard, Horseriding, Animals & Preserving Rural Wild Life.
She has lived in the Basque Coast, Switzerland, France and Spain.
TATE speaks Spanish, English & French and has travelled & worked worldwide.
Help
- Restoring & Maintaining the House
- Gardening & taking care of the Fields
- Creating a Vegetable Garden
- Cooking & help around the House
- Building a Wooden Cabin on the field
- Computer help.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Accommodation
Double Room with Private Bathroom, and access to Kitchen, in a beautiful Artist House with a sunny Terrace & Garden and amazing Sea & Mountain Views facing one of the most beautiful and Natural Estuaries in the "Rías Baixas" of Atlantic Galicia.
*As we are not offering food, we are not requesting more than 15 hours help a week (3 hours per day, 5 days a week).
What else ...
TATE's Rural Refuge by the Sea is situated in a beautiful little coutryside village facing one of the most beautiful and Natural Estuaries in the "Rías Baixas" of Atlantic Galicia. The charming rural village is located on a hill next to the "Camino" of Santiago towards Cape Finisterre; Pilgrimage to the End of the World.
10 mins walk from Artist Rural House to magical desert Beaches. / 8 mins car ride to one of most well preserved Seaside Towns of Fishermen in Galicia. / 15 mins car ride to Wild Surf Beaches. / 45 mins car ride to Santiago de Compostela City & Airport. / 50 mins car ride to the End of the World in Finisterre.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Fast Wifi. 300 Mbps approx.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Máximo 3 horas al día, 5 días a la semana
