Esperanzah Music Festival
Floreffe July 11 - August 1, 2025
Volunteer project: Esperanzah! is a world music festival that invites you to a world tour with new voices, different sounds and foreign and inventive rhythms. Every year since 2002, it has offered a varied program of concerts of famous as well as new artists, open to the world and based on discovery. The festival features artists faithful to their musical roots from across the globe in a program that strives to be international, mixed and full of surprises. It is a program that expresses cultural diversity and goes against the tide of monopolies, algorithms and the mainstream.
Esperanzah! takes place in the magical setting of Floreffe Abbey, located between Charleroi and Namur in the south of Belgium. The festival invites you to dance, to dream, to travel, and to meet other people.
The volunteers will be in charge of keeping the festival site clean and tidy. The team will collect and recycle waste so visitors can attend concerts in a welcoming and safe site. Some other manual tasks will also be assigned to the group. The volunteers will also help raise awareness about environmental protection among festival participants and visitors.
Volunteers will work from 9 am to midday and from 1 pm to 5 pm. Volunteers in this project are expected to be flexible and interested in the environment.
Language: English or French
Accommodation: The volunteers will sleep in a dormitory. Please, bring your sleeping bag and a mattress.
Location: Floreffe is a French-speaking town located in the province of Namur in the Walloon Region of Belgium. There is a fabulous range of things to do in and around the town. You can see great works of art in the Félicien Rops museum in nearby Namur.
Nearest airport: Brussels South Charleroi Airport
Nearest train station: Floreffe Station
Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 125 Euro
The project includes an introduction session, one night at a bed and breakfast in Louvain-la-Neuve and train tickets from Louvain-la-Neuve to Floreffe