Seoksu Art Project

  South Korea

• All Other Areas: 
Gyeonggi

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 1-2 weeks
Dates: June 3 - August 21

Description: Stone & Water is a gallery space in An-yang, South Korea that has been working as a cultural energy in the community. This is an artistic place supplementing and substituting other existing exhibit spaces, extending from the realm of art to the scope of life. It also contributes to enhancing and improving urban surroundings and life conditions, by replacing them with some artistic elements.

Stone & Water holds "2009 SAP: Seoksu Art Project" where about 20~25 artists from around the world participate and create art productions during 3 months using vacant spaces around Seok-Su Market and An-yang River. SAP 2009 will be a locally based art project that looks for a new possibility of traditional markets and regional economic communities that have been faded away due to market economy. It also hopes to wake up community movements through new forms of cultural art villages and by restoring small communities that have disappeared in rapid industrialization.

Together with Korean volunteer(s), the international participant(s) will be involved in various activities related to Seoksu Art Project. They will mainly assist the artists to create art products for the project. It will be manual work such as purchasing material, helping with the construction of products, etc. The volunteers can also help with some office work or be translator among participants. Having knowledge or experience related to art can be very helpful.

The project is based in An-yang, Gyeonggi Province, 40 km away south from Seoul.

Volunteers will receive 100,000 Won per month (about USD 70) for pocket money.

Qualifications:
- Previous volunteer experience related to art or festival preferred
- Interest about Korea (learning the language and culture in the local area)
- Initiative and active personality
- Flexibility and positive mind

Cost in US$: USD 470

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: motivated to work voluntarily within an international team, tolerant, open-minded and cooperative person with adventurous spirit.

Age Range: 18 - 40 years old

This Program is open to American and Canadian Participants.

Participants Travel to South Korea Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups

CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects's Mission Statement: CADIP promotes peace, cooperation, tolerance and understanding in international, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural surroundings. The organization also promotes patterns and examples of civil activities focused on serving others, on building social ties and strengthening communities, on supporting civil society development. Aims and general objectives: * To promote volunteering as an expression of civic contribution * To strengthen the international contacts among young people * To build tolerance and understanding in multicultural and multi-ethnic surroundings *To promote multiunderstanding among youth all over the world * To facilitate the individual growth of the volunteers through the acquisition of work, life and learning skills * To work for the recognition and promotion of non-formal learning * To support the community initiatives and assist in community development.