Tertulia is a rural creative hub space and it’s a wide project with several activities that complement each other. The Forest Coliving Coworking is the centre of activities related to community issues, with coliving stay and residencies. The Farm is the centre of activities related to landscape regeneration and food production in the forest environment. We are activating projects about art and rural empowerment trough education, residencies, partnership. If you would like to collaborate with us as a volunteer, propose an exchange, offer expertise, share ideas and proposals, please write to us using the form at the bottom of the page and we will consider your request with interest.
We ask for about 4 hours of commitment per day and a duration of the stay of 1-2 months so that you can act as a reference for the colivers you will meet. You will have a bed in a shared room and you will have to pay for your food in exactly the same way as for other colivers (read on the website how life at the coliving works). Write to us to propose your candidature and tell us your preferred dates, we will then get to know each other with a call and decide together how to arrange it. We will provide you with a more detailed task list and information on how we are organised. It is not required, but if you have a driving licence or a car it is certainly a plus, as well as if you like to take photos and small videos to use later for our social channels.
The volunteers’ have a crucial role in helping us running the coliving. Tasks vary from housekeeping in the rooms (cleaning the room for a new guest and prepare the bed) and in the communal areas (once a week there is a cleaning lady doing a deeper cleaning), keep the outdoors ordered, help us in various tasks. We offer a unique experience in the context of Forest Coliving, you will be able to continue working on your projects during the available hours and connect with members of the dynamic community.
A help in farming and land management is also welcome. We will explain you what the jobs are depending on the season and follow you in learning the tasks, mostly to do with us. In October, for example, we have the chestnut harvest, followed by the olive harvest. Daily activities are the management of the vegetable garden and the hens (for egg production). The garden also requires constant care.
Are you an artist and would you like to bring beauty to Tertulia? Land art, reuse of old farm tools, recovery of unused materials, decorations, videos and photos. These are some of the ideas we have for making Tertulia a place where beauty is part of everyday life, where structures and landscape merge into a kind of ‘agricultural park’.
We’re always looking for art and beauty. You can come as a volunteer in art in exchange of the accommodation and the experience at the Coliving (previous a discussion on what projects can be developed in Tertulia or in the surroundings). A help in the community life will be anyway requested.
We are also working to find funding to start an artist residency at Tertulia. If you have established contacts or projects you would like to propose, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us!
We are enrolled in the European Erasmus for Entrepreneurs program. We have already hosted some young entrepreneurs who have helped us with interior design and social media. Do you have skills that are useful for Tertulia and do you have your own business? Contact us and we can tell you about this interesting program with funding available (check here for more infos).
