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🌿✨Helping hands needed at arts&culture community on Gotland

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The experience

Sundre Kommun is an oasis & colorful arts&culture community with individuals striving to offer diverse spaces for creatives&creators, mindful nature lovers & adventurers of all kinds. The project grows with every helping hand & the input of every person.Family, neighbors, friends, work&travelers and visitors from all across the world.

We're looking for helping hands to support a variety of creative, building, maintenance and community project.


What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Arts: Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens


What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Free Parties: Get free entrance for the best parties in town.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Yoga classes: Take free yoga classes at our place.

Dance classes: Take free dance classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely


Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance


What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa


Program Details

Hej and welcome to our world!

We are Magnus & Theresa, a multicultural couple from Stockholm/London and Berlin.
 Magnus’ family is originally from Gotland, even though one of his great-grandmas was also from Berlin. He is half Swedish - half English, born in Stockholm and grew up partly there and in London. Living and working all over the world as a fashion and art photographer we finally met in Berlin, where Theresa was born and raised, and then moved together to Gotland.
 Theresa is a ballett&fire dancer, dance&movement pedagogue, circus trainer and yoga teacher.

Lucky circumstances, a lot of dreams and the inner urgency to not only create events for people but to create a whole community around them piled up over the past years and made us think of a use for this old neglected farm. We have been living there for quite some time already but finally took the step to transfer our visions into reality. The renovation works on the big old barns started in Dezember 2021 with the help of a gotlandic architect and his lovely team. We want to give life to this old farm and make it into a meeting point for people from far and near, from Sweden and from all over the world.

In summer 2026 we will have our first test run for some events, but since Sundre Kommun is a COMMUNITY and NOT a business, these events will be just in non-profit style because we are happy, if some donations fly in that will partly cover our initial expenses for organizing and executing these events. It's gonna be more like events from the community for the community, for friends & family and for people living at Sundre Kommun as well as our neighbours from the surrounding area.

"All what [we] have to do (...) is a bunch of stuff" (Pinocchio)

activities:
We are currently renovating our Culture Farm / Adventure place, where we want to host events in future that are related to art, theater, music, dance, circus, yoga, nature, health & mindfulness and the art of living in general. We want to build up a temporary community with annually varying constellations of diverse individuals that will gather during summer on the island.

And for finishing up the space we need a lot of help with...
... (veggie-) gardening
... landscape architecture
... building an outdoor shower in the sauna garden
... building eco toilets (urgent !!!)
... creative outdoor projects
... fixing bikes (we are both very unskilled in regards to this)
... building an outdoor pizza oven with a friend of ours from Italy
... building an open fireplace (winter 2026/2027)
... building a treehouse (earliest in 2027)
... building an amphitheater (starting summer 2026, if we find enough people who would like to participate in this project)
... cooking & preparing meals
... general cleaning & washing the dishes
... cutting fire wood
... fixing furniture
... sorting material
... and many more...

The most social time is while cooking and around dinner time when everyone gets together after work and talks about the ups&downs of the day and shares thoughts/news/dreams/visions and other good stories - or we also watch movies on the screen in the BigBarn, play table tennis in the PingPongRoom, do little excursions around Sudret, take a sauna or a walk to the sunset spot ;-)

And who is up for Yoga & Circus stuff can join my classes FOR FREE :D

For 2026 we are organizing Sundre Kommun's structure in resorts with different main tasks / focusses:

- General help
- Cooking & storing food
- Prepare, plant, care, harvest & repeat
- DIY
- Social Media
- Yoga, Dance & Fire


Activities & Shift

We are currently renovating our Culture Farm / Adventure place, where we want to host events in future that are related to art, theater, music, dance, circus, yoga, nature, health & mindfulness and the art of living in general. We want to build up a temporary community with annually varying constellations of diverse individuals that will gather during summer on the island.

And for finishing up the space we need a lot of help with...
... (veggie-) gardening
... landscape architecture
... building an outdoor shower in the sauna garden
... building eco toilets (urgent !!!)
... creative outdoor projects
... fixing bikes (we are both very unskilled in regards to this)
... building an outdoor pizza oven with a friend of ours from Italy
... building an open fireplace (winter 2026/2027)
... building a treehouse (earliest in 2027)
... building an amphitheater (starting summer 2026, if we find enough people who would like to participate in this project)
... cooking & preparing meals
... general cleaning & washing the dishes
... cutting fire wood
... fixing furniture
... sorting material
... and many more...

The most social time is while cooking and around dinner time when everyone gets together after work and talks about the ups&downs of the day and shares thoughts/news/dreams/visions and other good stories - or we also watch movies on the screen in the BigBarn, play table tennis in the PingPongRoom, do little excursions around Sudret, take a sauna or a walk to the sunset spot ;-)

And who is up for Yoga & Circus stuff can join my classes FOR FREE :D

For 2026 we are organizing Sundre Kommun's structure in resorts with different main tasks / focusses:

- General help
- Cooking & storing food
- Prepare, plant, care, harvest & repeat
- DIY
- Social Media
- Yoga, Dance & Fire

rules:
- Gotland is full of fossils and the island is happy, if it can stay that way
- please respect mother nature and leave no trash behind
- in summer Gotland suffers from a water shortage, therefore we need to handle it with extra care and refrain from long showering
- the water comes from a well, is filtered and drinkable
- but we definitely need to find a way to save more rain water
- in high summer season when it hasn’t rained for a few weeks, there are no fires allowed
 in the garden or at the beach
- BBQ with controlled/protected fire source is permitted though


Rules

- Gotland is full of fossils and the island is happy, if it can stay that way
- please respect mother nature and leave no trash behind
- in summer Gotland suffers from a water shortage, therefore we need to handle it with extra care and refrain from long showering
- the water comes from a well, is filtered and drinkable
- but we definitely need to find a way to save more rain water
- in high summer season when it hasn’t rained for a few weeks, there are no fires allowed
 in the garden or at the beach
- BBQ with controlled/protected fire source is permitted though