Painting Walls 🎨

Painting on Walls - Community Experience

This program simply offers you the opportunity to travel to Switzerland, and work as a volunteer painting walls in the Alps to support art and artists.

This type of volunteering helps you to travel cheaply - you will be hosted by a hostel in the Alps Mountains in Switzerland, and they will provide accommodation and groceries to cook for yourself as an exchange of helping volunteering / painting walls in the hostel and around it. You will get to know volunteers / artists and digital nomads from all over the world, living and exploring the village from a different concept, not just as a tourist.

You can even join to learn how to paint walls or improve your skills.

This Program is on going, we did the first project in Switzerland in the mountains. We painted a whole hostel in 6 weeks.
More than 30 volunteers came through these weeks, we bonded together, brainstormed, painted and created a whole concept from scratch.
Stay Tuned! - another project coming soon.

What the volunteer has to do?

25 hours per week of the following:

✔ Painting and Decorating

✔ Building

✔ Repairing

Requirements:

✔ Average level of English 

✔ Over 18 years old

✔ Accepts Solo & Couples

About the Program:

Discover the beauty of Switzerland and unleash your creativity through an Art Workation, a unique and immersive art-making experience, wall painting, hiking in a beautiful nature and joining an amazing community.

Driven by the dream to re-imagine and transform the Coliving Adrenaline (hostel), a beautiful old fashioned building immersed in the mountains of Switzerland, into a collaborative piece of art, we have created a playground in the mountains: an opportunity to gather people together to collaborate on a large-scale project in a stunning location.

Our 6-week Art Workation Program wants to offer digital nomads and volunteers the opportunity to develop their artistic skills, explore new mediums and techniques, slow down by doing analog work, and connect with a community of like-minded individuals. Located in the beautiful and scenic Braunwald, only 1.5 hours away from Zurich by train, our program is designed for artists of all levels, from beginners to experienced practitioners.

This program is led by Piera Mattioli, a digital nomad and experienced artist and facilitator who will guide the transformation of the Coliving Adrenaline, together with other volunteers into a collaborative piece of art ;)

🖌️ During this Program, You Wil:

✔ Learn foundational drawing and painting techniques on the wall.
✔ Experience the end to end process, from concept creation to realization, of interior decoration through art.
✔ Have a space to propose your own project and use the material available to develop it.
✔ If you run an art business, you will have the possibility to engage with a group of like-minded artist to discuss your ideas, refine your work and find new strategies for your business.
✔ Participate in optional excursions and activities to explore the local area and culture.

🎨 Schedule:

• Monday Morning - Creative morning coffee to reflect on the intention for the week (on what to experiment) and share it with the community.
• Every Wednesday - Mastermind session for art business ideas / art projects.
• Saturday - Painting day.
• Free sports for everyone to propose some artistic activities.
• Every 3 weeks we can have an expo with the artworks of the community.

🏠 Accommodation:

• Shared rooms and bathrooms - males in a shared accommodation and females in another shared accommodation.

• Sometimes due to the large number of volunteers, rooms are shared between males and females.

📆 Registration Dates:

Program currently unavailable.

• Days off: 2 days per week.
• Minimum period for volunteering: 2 weeks (Preference is given to those who choose a longer period)

💳 Registration Fees: 

• $500 - HomeAwe Fees.

Regarding registration fees, flight costs and living expenses in Switzerland, this opportunity is invaluable. A regular tourist trip would undoubtedly cost more. Here, the experiences you will have with HomeAwe are unique. And the daily life is relatively affordable.

📋 Registration Process:

1. Sign up through the program's link down below - your details and answers to the questions will be reviewed and based on that, your acceptance will be determined. (It is preferable not to hesitate in providing clear and explicit answers to the questions without any sense of shyness. The clearer, more spontaneous and heartfelt your answers are, the higher the likelihood of your acceptance).
If we do not contact you within 2 weeks, it means that you have not been accepted.
If you are accepted, we will communicate with you via WhatsApp or email to arrange the payment of the registration fees to reserve your spot in the program.

2. Pay the registration fees of $500 to HomeAwe.

3. Have a personal interview with HomeAwe for introduction and further explanation of details.
+ In certain cases, an introductory interview with the HomeAwe team or program organizers will be scheduled to provide more detailed information about volunteering, confirm your acceptance and set a volunteering schedule. After the interview, your acceptance will be official 100%. If, for some reason, you are not accepted after the interview, the registration fee will be refunded on the same day.
Once you are officially accepted 100%, with or without an interview, there is no refund for the registration fees, even in case of an emergency. The fees will be retained until your participation in another program later on.

4. The host will communicate with you directly via WhatsApp or email to give you more information about the program, arrange your arrival day and to get to know you better.