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We are an artistic/activist/anthropologist family living in Bergen. I am a theater artist and a hospital clown. Caro is an anthropologist. Together we run Apropos Teater (www. apropos teater.no) We work between the arts and academia. We are concerned with making dialog between lost connections and activate awareness for social connections, nature and earth.
We try to make our urban house and garden into an inspiring eco friendly space for friends and guests/artists in residence. We consider every action we do as a part of a creative and artistic universe, making the world a better place to stay.
Our house and garden is situated 5 km from the city center. We have the fjord and the mountain few minutes away. We swim all year around in a lake in the mountain or in the fjord. We have grown up children that still lives at home in-between travels and studies and we have one lovely dog.
We try to practice gardening with permaculture principles and to create a garden with eatable flowers, plants, herbs, berry bushes and fruit trees. The nature around our house supply precious food for free including berries, mushrooms, herbs and fish!
Sometimes we host workshops, artist camps, symposiums, exhibitions and mini-festivals. Volunteers/guests sometimes share their skills and host their own workshops.
We are passionate about food and dumpster diving. We love to prepare and eat from the urban and from the wild. We prepare any kind of food. If you love cooking you have (almost) free reins!
We bake our own sourdough bread.
For the spring and summer 2025 we will be working on a street performance in the city center 21.06. and workaways interested in this are welcom to apply.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You would learn ways of seeing life as an ongoing artistic or activistic activity, gardening, weeding, baking bread and looking after dogs. You also have plenty of opportunities to enjoy and develop a close relationship to nature, learn wildlife skills like hiking and mountaineering, fishing, harvesting from the wild in season and canoeing. Bergen region has unique breadth of culture and experiences to offer.
Help
If art, ecology, aesthetics, creativity, self-sufficiency, and a multi-species worldview and nature is part of your horizon and ignites a spark within you, the door is open to apply!
We welcome positive, self-motivated, independent, curious and robust people who are happy to help, eager to learn or share their skills.
You need to be fairly practical, self motivated, independent and foodloving, as we all share the cooking and cleaning in the house.
Ideally you would need to have some skills in the tasks we will be doing like; arts, construction woodwork, painting/decorating, cooking, etc.
Love for dogs is very important, good humor is appreciated.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Norwegian: Fluent
Spanish: Beginner
Accommodation
Two guest rooms with an adjoining bathroom, or you can choose to live in a Lavvo or a Yurt in the garden. We share the rest of the house, we make food together in our well equiped kitschen. Computer and internet/wifi available.
What else ...
We live only 5 km outside Bergen center. Lots of busses are passing by. It takes a good 45 minutes to walk and by bike 15 min.
Bergen is a World Heritage City and European City of culture, and one of Norway´s most popular destinations for unique holiday. It is located between the Sognefjord and Hardangerfjord and therfor called; The gateway to the fjords of Norway, and a perfect place to start exploring the beautiful landscape. You can go skiing in the glaciere and swimming in the sea at the very same day.
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
Dogs, horses, goats and gorillas.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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For starters Caro and Solvei are great people, from the first day they received us with love and treated us like part of their family. Also Romeo and Petra who are the sweetest and nicest dogs we have ever met.
At the beginning we were only… read more
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For starters Caro and Solvei are great people, from the first day they received us with love and treated us like part of their family. Also Romeo and Petra who are the sweetest and nicest dogs we have ever met.
At the beginning we were only… read more
