Help to renovate an artist's house and tend a wild garden, Burgundy, France

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  2025 

 Hospedagem min. solicitada: mínimo 1 semana

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  • Descrição

    Descrição

    I'm Gisela, a German artist and curator, specialising in painting, graphic art, shadow play and art education. I love organising creative gatherings. After a series of strange and meaningful coincidences, I settled in the Morvan Regional Park, Burgundy, France, with two other artists 10 years ago. Here, with many helpers, in a former sawmill that was abandoned for 20 years, we founded a small art centre on a wild terrain. The artist's house facilitates encounters between creative people from different cultures and of different ages. It is also an encounter with wilderness, with plants, animals, and most of all with yourself.

    My offer is simple. If you help in the garden or on the building, I will give you an art class. You do not need special skills, but to stay here with us, you do need to clean up after yourself, and help with the dishes. You are invited to apply if you are inquisitive, ask your own independent questions about the world, and make up your own mind. We are artists. There is more to life than the evening news. We welcome visitors of all religions. You are allowed to be different. You must also be comfortable with people living with autism, are perhaps neurodivergent, or just don't think like you. If you love that, welcome. I do too.

    If you want to apply, please put in some effort to think about why, and be specific. A copy and paste request will get a copy and paste response.

    You must also know that we limit our use of digital telecommunications technology here. We live on the edge of the forest. There is no Wifi and the mobile signal is weak. We have chosen to keep it like this because it creates time for the work that matters to us. It allows us to be more present and have meaningful conversations face to face.

  • Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Tipos de ajuda e oportunidades de aprendizado

    Projetos artísticos
    Prática de idiomas
    Ajuda em projetos ambientais
    Companhia para idosos
    Jardinagem
    Construção/faça você mesmo
    Criar/cozinhar refeições caseiras
    Ajuda a cuidar da casa
    Manutenção geral
    Ajuda com computadores/internet
  • Interesses

    Interesses

    Fazenda
    Eventos e social
    Política/justiça social
    Sustentabilidade
    Cultura
    Trabalho beneficente
    Idiomas
    Escrever
    Artes performáticas
    Cuidar de plantas
    Música
    Jardinagem
    Livros
    Faça você mesmo
    Culinária e comida
    Desenho e pintura
    Carpintaria
    Arte e design
    Arquitetura
    Yoga/bem-estar
    Atividades ao ar livre
    Caminhada
    Naturaleza
    Ciclismo
    Camping
  • Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos de sustentabilidade da ONU que este anfitrião quer atingir

    Objetivos da ONU
    Erradicar a pobreza
    Erradicar a fome
    Saúde de qualidade
    Educação de qualidade
    Igualdade de género
    Água potável e saneamento
    Energias renováveis e acessíveis
    Trabalho digno e crescimento económico
    Indústria, inovação e infraestruturas
    Reduzir as desigualdades
    Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis
    Produção e consumo sustentáveis
    Ação climática
    Proteger a vida marinha
    Proteger a vida terrestre
    Paz, justiça et instituições eficazes
    Parcerias para a implementação dos objetivos
  • Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    Oportunidades de intercâmbio cultural e aprendizado

    We came here to learn to be with the wilderness. You can discover things here that you would not normally, when you become quiet. You can choose whether you like to be on your own or want company. You might be sent off to practice your French while you buy bread, croissants or pain au chocolat at the excellent local bakery. If you know how to cook, chop wood or make a fire, you're a bonus! Often, friends and neighbours stop by with some goat's cheese, onions or lemons. We might end up speaking English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and of course French. Take walks alone in the local village and forest. Ask questions and learn about art and artists. You will also be on top of an ancient Roman Gallic archeological site. We'll offer to take you along when we visit events like local cultural festivals, or evenings at the local Bibracte museum, or Cultural Centre. We might go shopping in the small city of Autun. For a rural area, there is an enormous amount going on.

  • Ajuda

    Ajuda

    Calling all gardeners, carpenters, builders, cooks and cleaners of all ages, with a creative flair. Artists, architects and ecologists are also welcome. Our place is slowly transforming from a building site into a habitable house with artist studios, a community room, and (probably) the most unusual shower in the world.

    We are slowly learning how to leave the garden wild, while caring for it at the same time. There is now a vegetable patch, with three sunflowers. We have a very small team: one active resident artist, and a lot of helpful visitors. Together we have made this place what it is today, despite the odds. It gets too much for one person to manage sometimes, and that is where we need your help.

    - Cutting grass and brambles. Wood cutting and trimming. This year, all the wood lying around on the site will be turned into firewood or used to enrich the soil.
    - Carpentry. We have a number of cabins in various stages of completion, a deck that needs to be built, and renovations in the main house are ongoing. If this is your job, apprenticeship, or you have a lot of experience and professional training, you are very welcome.
    - Cleaning. Believe it or not, the dust and wildlife can get into an old house and its a constant effort to keep clean. You could be a great help just doing that.

    This is a non-profit project. Workawayers will not be helping with paying guests or in spaces used by paying guests.

  • Idiomas

    Idiomas
    Alemão: Fluente
    Inglês: Fluente
    Francês: Fluente
    Espanhol: Intermediário
    Turco: Iniciante

    Este anfitrião oferece intercâmbio de idiomas
    I am a German Native Speaker, always open to improving my French and English, which I both use daily.

  • Acomodação

    Acomodação

    In the summer you can choose to sleep in a garden cabin or under the stars. You will also have the choice of two peaceful rooms in a ramshackle house covered in mosaics looking out onto the forest. The rooms are painted with colourful crazy childlike illustrations. We are completing another guest room in the house opposite our library, but it might not be finished when you come to visit. There is enough bedding, there is nothing you need to bring except clothes and toiletries. Please note it can get very cold in winter, and at night.

    The toilet and bathroom are in the main house, and electricity is limited. You can use your phone as a torch or light a candle. There is no Wifi, and mobile reception is limited, but you're not coming out into nature just to spend all your time online, are you?

    We all share a kitchen and communal space, and take turns cooking. You can share our meals and we will do our best to accommodate you. Vegans and diabetics will have to be disciplined, we do eat things like ice cream and bacon, so you might need to do additional shopping. A supermarket, bakery and two restaurants are within 10 minutes walk.

  • Algo mais...

    Algo mais...

    Please arrange your own transport well in advance, we recommend using Trainline or Blablacar. Our closest village is St Léger sous Beuvray. There are train stations in Étang sur Arroux and Autun. You will have to cover your own travel costs, but we will fetch you from the station and drop you off.

    This is partially a building site. That is why we need your help. If you hate camping, chaos, and unfinished projects, this is not a good fit for you. If that sounds like adventure, building some muscle, and connecting with creative thinkers, send us a message! We look forward to hearing from you.

  • Mais alguns detalhes

    Mais alguns detalhes

    • Acesso à internet

    • Acesso à internet limitado

      Acesso à internet limitado

    • Temos mascotes

    • Somos fumantes

    • Pode hospedar famílias

  • Espaço para estacionar campervans

    Espaço para estacionar campervans

    There is a suitable parking spot in the road below us.

  • Pode aceitar animais

    Pode aceitar animais

    We border on a road with occasional traffic. Your pet must please be housetrained, well behaved and on a leash when outdoors. We don't want it running off into the forest and getting eaten by a wild animal.

  • Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Quantos Workawayers pode acomodar?

    Mais de 2

Nº de ref. de anfitrião: 249947677914

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