01/06/2026
🗣️OPEN CALL for short term group VOLUNTEERS in Sansusī.
𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐯𝐢𝐚 | 35 days funded group volunteering (ESC)
Give support to an organisation and people associated with culture, event production, festival, wellbeing residencies and wilderness.
📍Aknīste, Latvia
🗓️July 8 - August 13, 2026 (includes 2 travel days, up to 4 more for green travellers)
💪For sixteen volunteers living in EU and other ESC program countries not needing visa for 35 day period
‼️Deadline of applications: ongoing selection process, sooner you apply, higher your chances
Are you a young person who wants to live for 35 days in Latvian countryside (read "almost middle of nowhere"), work together with an amazing volunteer group, build festival, cooperate with contemporary artists, be part of the local community, create your own creative endeavours or do what is close to your artistic heart? And be part of creating an incredible music and arts festival?
In this project you can learn:
💪 practical skills on taking care and improving of a remote residence center
🌱 deliver workshops for other volunteers and for local community
🎶 learn more about professional cultural event production
🪢 increase skills in communication and community building
🙌 boost self-belief in your own unique abilities
We look for people who are:
👉18-30 year old
👉Live / reside in EU or ESC program countries not needing visa for project period
👉Very keen or with background in culture and arts (especially contemporary arts - dance, music, theatre, circus, interdisciplinary etc)
👉Creative and eager to learn
👉Want to do physical things - build, renovate, clean or move structures around
👉Ready to experience festival creating magic as we will have our annual Sansusī festival on August 7-9 (it will be crowded)
Sansusī Volunteering project is a European Solidarity Corps (ESC) project co-financed by European Commission, in Latvia it is overseen by Latvian National Agency Jaunatnes starptautisko programmu aģentūra