Blivande Idéer AB
Stockholm, Sweden
⭐️ Activity Title
Do you love art, culture and community?! Join us for a year (2027) at Blivande and support us with organizing artistic workshops, community building and cultural productions.
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🔷 Activity Details
Description
This volunteer role is about supporting the atelier spaces, in-house community, citizen driven activities and larger cultural productions.
You’ll support Studio Tau, our artistic workspace. You'll act as a daily supporting host to our team, helping keep the space organized, assisting artists, and tackling general maintenance and upgrades. You’ll also help coordinate community workshops, meet-ups focused on arts and artist-led initiatives, and support gallery activities during summer.
You'll support non-profit and grassroots groups who receive space sponsorship for their events, helping them feel welcome and supported.
You'll help organise public cultural events and will support major community-led events like Valborg by helping with different tasks and keeping track of to-dos.
We’re looking for someone who is organized, practical, and community-minded. It is important that you appreciate hands-on work and don’t mind physically helping out, as it will be a large part of your daily work.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
You will have a private room, either in a shared flat or collective living. In addition to your pocket money, you’ll receive food allowance to buy and cook your own meals, giving you flexibility. For local transport, you can choose between a bicycle or a public transport card for the duration of your stay.
Training during the activity
Learn the basics of project management, community management and artistic space management with guidance from our experienced team. Gain insight into planning and executing large-scale events. Get hands-on experience in the creative and cultural sector while working closely with a variety of artists and community members. Tasks are adapted to your skills, and there’s space to explore your own initiative through a personal project if you want.
Participant profile
As a volunteer you will thrive at Blivande if you are hands-on, proactive, and community-minded, and enjoy working in a creative and dynamic environment.
For this role it is important that you are organised and enjoy keeping track of all things to-do. Some form of administrative and coordination experience will make it easier for you in the beginning as it will support your developing project management skills. Your role will entail a lot of communication with different stakeholders, so it is good that you feel comfortable with online and offline communication.
Please be aware that a lot of cultural productions happen during the weekend and evenings. This means that we have flexible working hours. Sometimes you will be working on weekends or evenings, but you can take daytime during the week off, to compensate and rest.
As you will work with a large variety of people, it is important that you enjoy helping others, have an inclusive mindset (we have many neurodivergent community members) and thrive in community settings, where many people need to be taken into account for decision making.
We are looking only for volunteers that want to spend an entire year with us from mid January 2027 to mid December 2027. We currently can’t accommodate different timelines, therefore we would ask you to only apply, if you can commit to the timeframe.
Part of your role includes supporting maintenance of the premises. Every team member (both staff and volunteers) have their areas of responsibility which helps us to keep the space clean and tidy for everyone.
Info on selection process:
We receive each year a large amount of applications. Please check your email during the application period to ensure you don't miss information.
31/08 20:00 Application on PASS closes, we will send you a form to fill in
10/09 Application form closes
15/09 Request for additional information
20/09 Start of first interviews
Oktober 2026 - Confirmation of placement
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🔑 Key Information
Activity dates
From 18/01/2027 to 17/12/2027
Activity location
Södra Hamnvägen 9, Stockholm, Sweden
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Citizenship and democratic participation
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 31/08/2026 20:00
Project code
2026-1-SE02-ESC51-VTJ-000400884
🔗 Official Project Page
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/53681_en
