Chakras Retreat at Camino

We are happy to invite you to participate in our very first Chakras Retreat at Camino Art House. This is the time to experience the power of nature, work with it’s energies, and connect to your chakras. Through yoga practice, meditation and theories you will learn about your chakras, their main role and their extended funcions.

Engage in a meaningful journey through your energetic centers, in search for a balanced state in body and mind. Get in touch with the Chakras and the energetic body as a whole in theory and in practice. For this retreat we will use tools like carefully designed Yoga sequences, Pranayama breathing exercises, guided meditations, movement practices and self-expression, as well as different methods to explore the Elements and their related energies. The sessions will be accompanied by a variety of musical instruments, creating Chakra-specific soundscapes to enhance the connections within ourselves.

The experience will be completed with a healthy and delicious vegan menu. Three meals will be served per day, with ingredients influenced by Ayurvedic principles. The surroundings will also play an important role, because all the activities will take place in
Nature, in the beautiful ‘barranco’ that also holds the cave-rooms and camp area for a very quiet and renewing rest.

We invite you to join us on our Journey Through the Chakras retreat, which will take place in Camino Art House from 23th to 27th August 2023. Check the website for all the details and schedule: www.chakrasretreat.com

During the 5 days reatreat you will experience:

– Yoga classes and guided meditations with a certified teacher.
– Chakra-specific acoustic soundscapes.
– Understanding of the Chakra theory with tools for further study.
– Nourishment from healthy vegan food influenced by Ayurvedic principles.
– Reconnection with Nature in a beautiful valley.
– Self-expression as a self-development tool.

About the facilitators:

Rosaura Ruiz was born in Valencia, Spain. She is a certified Integral Yoga teacher, Thai-Massage therapist and apprentice of Herbalism in the Mediterranean tradition. She has experience guiding workshops and Yoga retreats in different locations of Europe and South America.
She understands the holistic healing arts as a powerful path of self-discovery, towards a self-management of Health and Vitality.

Daniel Hartwig is a sound enthusiast from Germany, who started to experiment with the voice in his early years whilst singing in a choir. After playing music for one decade in multiple genres with local artists, he was traveling in Asia for five years, to experience different states of being through mantras and meditation.
In the mountains of the Himalayas he started to play the Bansuri, marking a turning point towards a life that is lived with love, awareness and understanding.

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS – FAQ

Is the retreat for all levels or do I need previous experience?

Both begginers and regular yoga practitioners are welcome!

Where is exactly the location? How to get there?

Camino Art House: Calle V. Molinos 4, Vega de San Mateo, Gran Canaria. Reach it from Las Palmas San Telmo station by bus (number 303, 48min). The closest stop is El Chorrillo. From there walk the road back for 4min: you’ll find some houses in the turn. It’s the one in the back!

What is included in the price?

Daily guided activities, printed theory, materials for art workshop, accommodation for 4 nights in a shared or private cave room or in tent (beddings included), daily breakfast, lunch and dinner.

What facilities have the location?

We find the activity spaces, cave rooms and the tent area in the land of Camino Art House, immersed in the natural surroundings. There are several dry compost toilets in the land, as well as two outside cold showers. Wifi is available in the building, which also has one toilet and two hot showers.

What exactly are the cave rooms? How is it to sleep in a cave?

In Gran Canaria there is an ancient tradition of using natural caves as accomodation. The caves are very comfortable, because they keep a balanced temperature during day and night. They are open to the outside and the interior is basic and include the beds with fresh beddings, as well as a table and candles. There is no electricity in the caves, but electronical devices can be charged in the house. The caves are located at approx. 160m from the house and 30m from the outside showers and dry toilets.

Can I bring my own tent?

Tents with beddings are provided but you are also welcome to bring your own tent. The price remains unchanged.

What should I bring? Are yoga mats provided?

Yoga mats are available, but you are welcome to bring your own. Bring comfortable, loose and light clothes for the activities, a bottle for drinking water, a hat or cap, notebook and pen if you wish to take notes and appropiate shoes for walking in nature. Please consider to bring only natural cosmetic & hygiene products.

How is the payment done?

Payment is done through bank transfer to the account we provide when you book your place.

What is the cancellation policy?

The payment is not refundable. We cannot cover unforeseen events like weather changes or other disruptive events interfering the normal progress of the activities. But if due to ‘force majeur’ we have to cancel the activities for a whole day or more, you will be refunded accordingly.

I have food allergies or special dietary needs, what should I do?

In the moment of booking communicate with us your needs.

I have allergy or phobia to animals, are they present in the location?

In the house and the surrounding land lives one dog and six cats. All of them very friendly!

I have serious injuries, health issues or motricity difficulties, can I join?

Unfortunately, many activities involve movement, and the location is not adapted to persons with serious movement limitations. Some of the activities are also not reccommended in case of high blood pressure and related health problems. To be sure of your specific situation, just contact us!

I am pregnant, are the retreat activities safe for me?

We don’t advise to participate in the retreat during pregnancy.

How is normally the climate in the island in the dates of the retreat?

For this period the historical temperature rates are 28°C to 22°C, being the dry season of the year. This being said, the climate is dynamic and can always exceed our expectations.

I would like to meet the facilitators through videocall before booking my place, is that possible?

Of course! It would be our pleasure to meet you and solve your questions. Just contact us to arrange the meeting.

The Butterfly Dance – a children’s book that was born in Camino

Emily and Andrii, two of Camion’s volunteers, decided to make a children’s book together. It took them only a few month from the first idea in december ’22 until the book was published on 22nd of May, 2023. Camino is a great place to find new ideas, and to act on them, either by yourself, or with a collaboration with someone else. I got very interested on how this book creation happened, so I asked a few questions of my ex volunteers. I am hoping there will be many similar, creative and beautiful stories in the future.


The Butterfly Dance follows the fun and surprising journey of a young child and a butterfly as they discover true beauty, even in the ordinary.
I first questioned Emily about this arty experience.

How did you come up with the idea of the butterfly dance book?

It all started last summer when I was walking to my local lake. It’s a long, scenic walk so I write poems in my head. I can’t say exactly what I saw without giving the story away but a very simple sweet moment happened and it inspired a poem. That poem then sat in my notes, forgotten, until I met Andrii at Camino.

Did Camino inspire you in any way? How did it help in the process of creation to be in Camino?

During my time at Camino, I wrote 50+ poems and filled two notebooks with thoughts- the most I have ever written at one time. I had never shared my writing before, nor really believed that it would be enjoyed by people other than me. With time, and great people around me, I started sharing my poems. I soon mentioned a possible book and Andrii said he could illustrate it. The book would still be forgotten in the notes app of my phone if I hadn’t met the incredibly kind, creative people in Camino.

What is your experience, is it easy or difficult to work in camino, in the term of making art?

Like I said, I didn’t stop writing during my time there. I would sit and watch people talk over dinner and write, I’d watch Andrii and Hannah draw and write, I’d get lost on a sad day in nature and write. Everything and everyone inspired me, the environment allowed it to flow effortlessly.

Is this book a starting point? Are you planning to write/publish more books? Will you stay with children’s stories?

I’d love to write more children’s books. I think I want to write as many stories as possible, I’m sure some will be good and some not so much, and then choose 1 to make the next book. I’ll also keep writing poetry but I think I will return to keeping those private.

What is your favorite thing about this book? If you think of the whole process, starting from the first idea until the publishing, which part warms your heart the best?

I think the sense of accomplishment from holding a finished copy is the best part. I was part of creating something beautiful and it feels incredible to have that in my hands.

How was it to work in collaboration with Andrii? Camino is a great mixture of different artists, and one of the ideas of the art house is to find partners in art making, or in other creative works. Do you think Camino fulfills this idea?

I think the book would have never been created without Camino. Camino mixes music, art, poetry and nature – it also brought together incredible people to share art with.

What is the thing that you like the best about Andrii’s work? What do you think about how his drawings and your stories fit together? Did he deliver something that you planned or did you let him create freely, and it was a perfect match?

I think Andrii’s art is by far the best thing about this book. I adore every single page, every thought and idea that I had was made even better by him. I’d say for the most part, he created freely – we wanted his style in the book. We discussed word placement and logistical things together but the art all comes from him. He brought the story to life and made it breathe.

What is the message of the book?

The message of the book is that everything has beauty, even hidden in ordinary things. There’s a little bit of magic everywhere, even if you have to look a little deeper in that thing or yourself to find it.

Andrii arrived to Camino a few weeks before Emily, and they quickly had a strong bond. Andrii is a great artist, spent many hours in different spots of Camino in silence, and just draw on a piece of paper he found or on his laptop.

How did you come up with the idea to cooperate in making the Butterfly Dance book?

Well, it was a spontaneous idea, as far as I remember. Emily saw me painting and she asked me if I wanted to make a book together. She already had the poem written. After she read it to me, without any hesitations, I said yes.

Did you illustrate others books already or is it your first book?

I was working as a book illustrator for about two years and illustrated a number of books as well as other projects.

What was your experience in working in Camino? Was it difficult or inspiring?

I think it was a perfect place for it because it has this special creative atmosphere and incredible nature. The place itself is a pure inspiration.

This is the first time when two volunteers collaborate and make an art project come true. How do you feel about that? do you think Camino is a good place for collaboration? or for actually making a dream come true?

Camino is full of artists and creative people and it’s just a matter of time when the next art will happen. People here collaborate on a daily basis doing yoga, meditation, art, all sorts of things. And it all happens naturally. I feel really lucky to be there and actually to have a chance to participate as a volunteer.

Did you need to face professional challenges? What were they and how did you deal with them?

The main challenge was to decide how to break the text in to pieces and create and illustrations for each of them. Honestly, it was more or less smooth process with just a few adjustments we arrived with solution that worked for us. The challenges kind of solved themselves and the answer came with the time. we took it slow and the book was ready in a few months from an idea to the finished project.

How was the working flow with Emily? The Butterfly Dance book was her original idea, how did it feel to when she wanted to include you into this project? How did your working process develop?

The project developed very smoothly without any problems really. Mainly because it’s our book and a collaboration 50/50. Therefore i felt it was more like making a personal project rather then work.

what do you think of your ready art pieces in the book? Are you satisfied with your work? What is your next step? Are you going to make more books together?

It’s very difficult for me to feel satisfied with my art, but this book specifically is an exception. I had full creative freedom to do illustrations in any style as I wanted, as long as it communicated the idea. Emily fully trusted my personal taste and I hope the result is speaking for itself. So far we don’t have any plans to make the next one, but we received many positive comments and reviews which can be a good motivation to create more books in the future.

The Butterfly Dance book is available on Amazon or contact @thebutterflydancebook on Instagram directly for a cheaper price.

Emily Rose is also known as Emily O’Reilly. she is a 25 year old poet, teacher and now author. She was born just outside of London and started writing as a child. She wrote short stories and attempted novels throughout her childhood until she fell in love with poetry as a teenager. For as long as she can remember, she have experienced life through the lense of poetry; it has become a way of thinking as much as a hobby.

At Camino, she wrote something new to her – a children’s book. Together, with Andrii, they created ‘The Butterfly Dance’. Although her poetry will return to the privacy of her notebooks, she wants to keep writing and sharing stories for children. It’s an exciting and surprising direction that would have never been possible without the incredible, artistic environment of Camino or the people there.

Andriy Klumchyk is a self-studied illustrator and artist, born in 1995, Ukraine. From 2018 he was working as a freelancer for international clients. Had worked on various projects including character design, book illustrations, song covers, picture film, nft, game design. In 2022 had started to work on personal art, making murals, and had an exhibition in Camino Art House. In 2023 made a book with E. Rose called Butterfly Dance, which is mostly a charity project made to support children’s of war in Ukraine and around the world.

interview by
bea
camino art

Let Me Fall Festival ’22 December

Let me Fall (in Love)

Art and self-development gathering, Camino Art House, Gran Canaria, Spain9-10-11 December, 2022

Falling, most of the time is associated with pain, failure, depression. But falling is nothing like that! Falling is natural process of the circle of nature. We call autumn the Fall. This is the time when we fall back to our peace, to our tranquility, to our real nature. Falling is necessary for change. And we need the change constantly. Life is a never ending change!

We want to encourage you to not to be afraid of falling. You can trust Gravity, and there will be always something or someone to hold you up. It is OK to fall, and it is OK to lose control time to time, it is OK to fail. Nowadays in society falling represents defeat, non-success and it is something that we need to hide, keep in secret or feel ashamed about. This is all wrong! We all need to fall to find the better way, to learn to stand up and grow, to get stronger.

After organizing our first art and self-development festival in march 2022, called Let me Bloom, we decided to give more space and time for this kind of gatherings. We clearly felt the need and pleasure of learning, practising new skills, connecting with ourselves, and others through art and nature. We want to keep walking this path to discover real values, find real connections, joy and togetherness with the beautiful tools of art and learning.

So welcome to our next gathering: Let me Fall (in Love)
9-10-11th December, 2022

Focus on Voice and connect to your inner self

28th of May, Saturday
14.30 to 20.00
at CAMINO ART HOUSE, Vega de San Mateo
Contribution: 40€/person

Voice is the instrument of transformation. By connecting to our voice we connect to our core and we are able to manifest our deepest self. The body is the house where the voice lives. Trough a physical and resonance training we will work to release the tension in the throat to open up our voice. Our natural unique voice.

The workshop takes place at Camino Art House, where the caves and the special surrounding of the valley will give a perfect venue for the voice practices. The caves are unique spaces, they behave like silent rooms that gives an opportunity to work with the sound in a very authentic way.

The workshop is open to all the voice lovers, and you don’t have to be a professional singer. Dress in casual to be able to work in nature and lay on the ground. If you play an instrument please bring it for the after dinner jam session.

28th May

14.30 — Load in, arriving.
15.00 – 16.30 — Warming up, breathing exercise, physical training
16.30 – 17.00 — break
17.00 – 20.00 — Focus on voice. Resonance training. Opening up the voice

Optional:
20.00 — Dinner
21.00 — Cave Jam Session

After the workshop we are inviting you to stay for dinner and for the cave jam gathering. There is possibility to stay over in the Camino. Dinner and accommodation are not included in the price, they are extra 5€ for dinner and 10€/person for staying over.

The maximum number of participants is 15 people, so please reserve your place before the group fills up.

To book please contact to Bea on whatsapp: +34633339903, or e-mail: caminoarthouse@gmail.com

THE MUSE IS CALLING – ARTIST RESIDENCY 2022

Welcome to Camino Artist Residency!

THE MUSE IS CALLING – ARTIST RESIDENCY 2022

Dears!

We are happy to invite you to Camino Art House to create.

We are located in Vega de San Mateo (Gran Canaria, Spain) Our building is the first in the town (let’s say the edge of the town), and luckily we have an amazing valley just at our entrance.

This year we start the residency program from the beginning of May. You are very welcome to arrive until mid-November any time for a 10-30 days creative holiday.

If you are an artist who is looking for a quiet place, or inspiration to make art, or one who needs time and tranquility to finish a project, please consider to spend some time at our place.

What you will get:

Accommodation Best option is book for a month, although we also have 3 weeks and 2 weeks options as well. We offer private rooms with shared bathroom. These rooms fit for two people (double bed). Amazing food Our lovely volunteers are responsible for breakfast and dinner, they will cook for you and serve the food. Support for your art making: like few types of paints, paper for drawing, painting, brushes, pencils, chalks, pastel, lots of natural pieces, like stones, shells, wood, or whatever we find and good to use/upcycle. We also want to offer you space to get inspired and create.

What you give:

Your talent to create art. Your inspiring vibes at our art house. Donation that helps us to function (it is going to be half price of our regular prices). 

How?

Apply with cv, portfolio, motivation, project description to camino at caminoart.org. After accepting your application we will help you through the booking process. We will discuss individually how we could work together, what are your needs, what we can offer personally for you. Depending on your project(s) you will need different space, tools, time so we need to see how is it possible to have the best options for all of us.

When?

The Camino Artist Residency ’22 is available from 1st May 2022 until 15th November 2022.

Where?

At Camino Art House – Vega de San Mateo, Gran Canaria.

Please feel free to share this information with all of your friends and family members who might be interested to spend a few weeks on Gran Canaria and create.

Shamanic Journey and Intuitive Painting – Follow the Path

A journey of magical exploration of Inner Places
looking for a free and authentic Self
That waits only to be listened
that waits only to be expressed
A journey to explore and express your creative and authentic Soul
Allow yourself to enjoy the beauty of this meeting.

What to expect?

• Welcome Circle, Breath Working and Song
• Guided imaginary journey completed with music
• Intuitive Painting: instinctive creative process with acrylics.
• Circle and song
Timing : 2h
When: Saturday 16th April at 15.30
Where: Camino Art House
Contribution: 15€

Rage Club – Access the power of your inner strength

Rage? Anger? Why should I get voluntarily in touch with those negative seen feelings?

Rage Club
When hearing of them, most people think of aggression, violence, arguments and destruction. Well… with rage you can either built or destroy a house. Lots of us have known rage as an emotion against someone or something which can be very painful.

Others have learned to repress this feeling and therefore can not use it for it´s purposes. Anger is an innate life force, belonging naturally to your body. If you learn to use it consciously, it can be your superpower and you will be able to:

– say clearly YES, NO and STOP
– set boundaries: I want this! I don´t want this!
– step out of your comfort zone
– begin and stop things or get them done
– take a stand for yourself and speak up no matter what is wanted from you
– get clarity

Does that sound like something you want to experience?

Then be there with us and feel your own energy running through your body. Come and do experiments in a powerful place of nature and protected by a team.

SCHEDULE:
9th April, 2022
11:00-13:30 Introduction to feelings. Work, connect with your anger!

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-17:00 Experiments of the conscious use of anger.

PRICE:
15-20 € – lunch is included. Please choose the price that fits for you the best!

PLACE:
Camino Art House, Vega de San Mateo

Our instructor:
Carola Brauner after being a high school teacher for many years, Carola discovered the immense power of feelings in the concept of Possibility Management. She got fascinated right away, because she learnt that there are so much more important topics than normal school subjects. After attending many trainings and courses of Possibility Management, Carola started to deliver her own trainings in order to empower people in their personal growth. She especially likes to deliver rage clubs, because rage is the main feeling to make any kind of change in life.

Dinner and Theatre – an extraordinary evening

10th March and 16th March, 2022. 7pm


Sharing a delicious meal and the experience of an extraordinary theatre show are two things that many of us consider as joy and unique moment in life. Why not combine the two? On this evenings you will enjoy a family dinner with people you meet at the first time, but for sure you have something in common: enjoying food and theatre in life.

We are happy to host a very special theatre group at Camino Art House in March. Václav Wortner has spent many weeks and held theatre improvisation workshops at Camino Art House in 2021. This time he returns with his group called “Us Boys Who Go Out Together”.

ABOUT “US BOYS”

What happens when a Moravian actor, Australian circus performer, Slovakian mime, and Czech polyglot improv wizzkid meet? The boys who go out together are a mix of actors and performers with various backgrounds, ranging from classical drama theatre, dance, circus, and physical theatre. They met during free-form improv classes at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and have been performing ever since. With the main purpose of exploring essentially total and utter free theatre improvisation without any structures ahead given, they concentrate on physicality and movement as their main form of expression. They search and keep learning our own language, consisting of dark Czech humor, movement improv, and an exquisitely bad taste in folklore singing.

Dinner and Theatre

We are inviting you to a special event, the first in history of Camino Art House. We are honoured to host the Improvisation Theatre group who are going to entertain us with their charming characters. But before the show, we all will sit around the table and have a special meal. The cook for these nights is Bea, founder of Camino Art House, who is preparing a special vegan meal for all the participants. The menu (and the show as well) will be different on each night, so if you liked the first one, there is always a chance to repeat 🙂

Places are limited, so please book yours in advance. Dinner starts at 7pm, please arrive 15 minutes earlier.

Entrance fee (includes the dinner and the theatre show): 30€

Menu 10th March

Sweet potato soup with ginger and Moroccan spices
Crispy bites with 3 different kind of dips (sweet potato, yukka, potato, apple, carrot) (alioli, lentils sweet chilli, papper sauce)
Rice with nuts
Green curry with tofu (spicy)
Salad – sweat and sour sauce
Vegan lemon cake from fresh lemon from the garden

Menu 16th March

Vegan Minestrone soup
Special mushroom stew with black paper and walnut
Hungarian Nokedli (pasta)
Baked tomato
Beetroot salad
Chocolate with strawberries

More info:
https://caminoart.org
bea@caminoart.org
+34 633339903

Us Boys:
https://www.facebook.com/mykluci
https://www.instagram.com/myklucicospolu

How to get to Camino:
https://caminoart.org/camino-art-house/how-to-find

Let Me Bloom festival – calling all artists and teachers

Calling all artists, performers and teachers to attend our very first art festival. LAST CALL! Deadline: 28. FEBR, 2022.

Camino Art House is inviting artists, performers, instructors, teachers and coaches to participate in our Let Me Bloom art and self-improvement festival in Vega de San Mateo, Gran Canaria, on March 18 – 20, 2022.

Vision

Let Me Bloom is a mini art and self-improvement festival in the wild valley of Los Mireles, in Vega de San Mateo. Spring is the time when nature blooms and a new era of growing and maturing starts. We, as humans, need this growth more than ever. We need to unlearn our toxic habits and makespace for real, original values, like empathy, care, creativity, synchronicity and learning to live in harmony with nature and other beings around us.

Two essential tools on this journey are art and education. You can be creative or just let yourself take it all in; everyone will be part of the whole. We are inviting you – as an artist, performer, teacher – to use your skills and connect with our participants in your special, unique way so we all can enjoy and grow in different skills, like communication, creativity or empathy.

The festival will bea small, but inspiring three-day event in our magical valley. The venues of the different events, performances and workshops will be hidden in the land, in the caves, and under the trees. We imagine beautiful, inspiring and meaningful moments that we share while taking in, practising, or performing art in nature. The te mini stages will host all kinds of activities, they might be performances, where the audience is observing, interactive shows where the audience is involved, or workshops where the participants learn something new, or practise a special skill. The artists, performers, and teachers might perform their own show at one time and teach a connecting (or totally different) skill at another time in a different venue. We are all artists, and we are all students. Teaching and learning, performing and in-taking art are almost the same, we all meet in the beautiful line in the middle.

We invite all of you in the following areas of expertise (these are just ideas, suggestions, we are happy to enlarge the list):

Theatre / Theatre improvisation / Singing, singing classes and practice / Drawing / Painting / Free painting / The extraordinary world of illustration / Natural art making / Handpan music / Playfight, a playful method of connection and cooperation / Zen writing / Leaded meditation and visualisation / Collage making / Gypsy music / Jamming / African drumming / Dance / Free movement / Treasure hunting / Herbal medicines / Wild teas / Cooking workshops (vegan and raw) / Nutrition workshop / Food analyses / Enneagram and the art of acceptance / Whispering and storytelling / Men’s and women’s circles / Yoga as a whole / Asana practice / Mindful meditation / Music theory, where the trance comes from / many more..

Camino Art House

Camino Art House opened its doors in 2015. Since than we have offered accommodation and have run different projects with artists. This includes exhibitions, workshops in art, health and lifestyle topics, and many more events. We welcome travellers who are always happy to be involved in our daily life and share their own experiences with us.
We have an old building, which is the central house, and a large land, where the festival will take place. We have caves, meadows, and terraces to use. The house itself will not accommodate all of us, so we will open a special camp site for visitors and a special camp site for artists/performers/teachers.

Stages

We are planning to have ten mini stages. We have four caves that we can use for concerts, jamming, meditation, or other activities. The timing of each stages won’t overlap significantly, so participants can visit more activities/shows. We are located in a valley, but we have to be very careful with sound limitations. Our good relationship with our neighbors is very important for us We will have on-site supervisors, who will be responsible for safety and acceptable sound levels. .

Challenges

We are challenging you to keep the following recommendations:
1. Avoid drug consumption
2. Avoid excessive alcohol consumption
3. Avoid loud, aggressive behavior
4. Avoid creating dangerous, reckless situations in nature
5. Not build fires or use open flames
6. Avoid littering
7. Avoid abusing nature
8. Be patient and understanding
9. Be careful when walking around in the valley or in the house (including the patio and the terrace)
10. Be helpful and courteous
11. Be quiet and caring
12. Be an considerate smoker. Please be polite and caring when you choose to smoke cigarettes, and always collect your cigarette butts in your personal ashtrays.

We are sharing a small space in these three days, and the space will be filled with a wide variety of activities, so we all need to be attentive and patient.

Toilets/showers

The toilet facilities are limited in the main house. Please use the dry toilets and pop up showers. Please leave the places clean after yourself.

Quiet hours

From early morning until the end of breakfast we will follow the rule of quiet hours, which means that talking, using the phones or other devices are not allowed , so we can enjoy the sounds of nature and our inner silence. We can take a moment to look back to our last day and take in all the benefits of our participation in the festival.
In the night we need to finish all loud activity before 11pm.

Accommodation//food

We offer free camping to our artists/performers/teachers. The area will be separated from the visitor’s camp site. We provide complimentary food three times a day. Drinking water is available all the times.

Benefits and Pay

We offer 100% funds from ticket sales to our artists/performers, instructors/teachers/coaches. This means that this 100% will be shared with all of you who are willing to participate/perform in this festival. Beside this, you will enjoy accommodation and food for free. Alcohol is not included in our hospitality, but coffee and tea are 🙂 Please bring a sleeping bag, as blankets are limited.

How to apply?

If you are interested in participating in the festival, please write an e-mail to bea@caminoart.org, or contact via whatsapp or phone on +34 633339903. Please briefly introduce yourself, your project(s), and write a few sentences about why you would like to participate in the festival. Please attach your portfolio or website. We are happy to see references of your work, if you have photos, sound recordings or videos of your earlier shows/performances/workshops please attach them or send a link.

The call is open until 15. February, 2022. Please send your application before the deadline.

We hope to see you at Camino Art House!

Narrative writing: going deeper

– a 2 days creative writing workshop –
Camino Art, Vega de San Mateo
10-12th December, 2021

Want to shape your experiences into effective stories you can share with the world?
Work with experienced storyteller and published author Philip Charter to unlock your authentic voice. This narrative writing workshop is your place!

Located in the beautiful surroundings of Vega de San Mateo, this weekend writing retreat will get your head out of the city and your stories onto the page.

It doesn’t matter if you are a first-time writer or an accomplished storyteller, an English learner or native-speaker, these inclusive and practical workshops will inspire you to get writing and stay motivated. Transform your work and reach your writing goals.

What you’ll get:

Four 60-minute writing workshops: Narrative Time, Real-Life Dialogue, Framing Stories, and Sound in Writing.
Campfire storytelling group session
Book exchange and discussion
A one-to-one feedback session with Philip
The opportunity to read at the story performance event
All accommodation included (shared or private)
All meals included (vegan options available)
Morning yoga session with Bea

Benefits:

Improved understanding of writing technique and story
Opportunity to meet and inspire other writers
Feedback on your work and tips for steps toward publication
Reading recommendations
Increased sense of focus and connection with nature

Schedule:

Friday 10th December

6pm Registration
7pm Dinner
8pm Story campfire session

Saturday 11th December

8 am Yoga
9am Breakfast
9.30-10.30am Workshop: Using Time in Narrative (60 minutes)
Break
11am – 12am Workshop: Real-Life Dialogue (60 minutes) – write and perform two-minute plays.
Lunch
Individual feedback sessions / personal writing time (all afternoon)
7pm Dinner
8pm Book exchange + reading from Philip’s book The Fisherwoman and other stories.

Sunday 11th December

8am Yoga
9am Breakfast
9.30-10.30am Workshop: Framing Stories (60 minutes)
Break
11am-12am Workshop: Sound in writing (60 minutes)
Lunch
Personal writing time.
4pm Story Performance event – Reading of final pieces. (6pm finish)

Hosts:

narrative writing workshopPhilip Charter is an award-winning author and writing coach who teaches non-native speakers. He has authored two collections of short fiction, Foreign Voices and The Fisherwoman and other stories. His debut novella will be published by V Press in 2022. He hates oranges, but likes orange cats.
Website: philipcharter.com

narrative writing workshopBea Baltavari is founder of Camino Art House, hatha yoga and vipassana meditaion teacher, traditional thai masseur, passionate cook and art lover, enjoys to create space to inspire others, also enjoys to bring people out from their comfort zone.

Prices:

Two nights accommodation – shared – 99 Euro per person
Two nights accommodation – private – 139 Euro per person
(2 x Dinner, Breakfast, Lunch + tea/coffee and snacks included)
Limited to 12 people (Covid compliance)

What to bring:

Warm / waterproof clothes
Books to exchange
Notebook + pen
Alcoholic / non-alcoholic drinks

How to book: email caminoarthostel@gmail.com to reserve, then confirm by paying a deposit of 50 Euros.