Our annual international Baltrum project, which brought together artistically active young people from all over Europe and professional artistic coaches for joint reflection and the development of a wide variety of interdisciplinary results, which were finally presented at a public show in Cologne.
This year, our international encounter project on the North Sea island of Baltrum focused on the topic of sleep – what happens the moment we close our eyes? What do we see? What do we not see? What do we dream about? What do we let happen and at what cost? Who is actually in control?
How can we manage to engage in an increasingly stressful world without falling into burnout? Self-Care and Community Care is the thematic field on which 40 young artists from 6 countries have been working together since November 2.
Because of Corona a whole year later than planned, the second Future Lab Young Europe started on November 1, 2021. 35 young artists from 6 countries lived and worked together for two weeks on the North Sea island of Baltrum. Here, a laboratory space was created for exchange, experimentation and innovation around the theme of “future”.
38 young adults from 6 countries met for 2 weeks on Baltrum and developed visions of the future in small, internationally mixed working groups, projecting the risks and opportunities of current developments into the future.
The project provided a framework that encouraged young artists with different sexual orientations and gender self-definitions to reach out to other young people with strong messages for queer equality, inclusiveness and non-discrimination. Young people were supported in analyzing discriminatory actions and language, and in countering them with artistic means, advocating for queer rights, visibility and recognition.
In this two-year transnational project, 8 partner organisations from all over Europe and Tunisia worked for social cohesion and against discrimination, racism and Islamophobia.
Young artists from 9 countries came together on the North Sea island of Baltrum to develop short films, songs, music videos and small live performances on the theme of gender.
For the very first project of our association, 48 people from 8 countries travelled to the North Sea island of Baltrum: In the cold November wind, films, songs and performances for an open Europe were created.
Since the very first international encounter organized by RRCGN took place on the North Sea island of Baltrum in November 2014, we have been here almost every year: Between sandy beaches, autumn storms and the Wadden Sea, young artists work in internationally mixed small groups on joint thematic productions.