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iJuLa – intersectional YouthLabs in Cologne

Creating new spaces through art: For a diverse and inclusive Cologne for all of us. From 2020 to 2024 the iJuLa-project, the first PopUp-Creative space opened in Herthastraße in Cologne Zollstock in July 2021

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#RRXP – The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience

Artists from 6 to 10 countries. Two weeks of developing ideas, music, scenes together. A joint transdisciplinary production. Get involved!

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RRCGN Baltrum projects

Each year in November, we travel to the North Sea island of Baltrum with young artists from several countries. Between dunes, storms and sandy beaches, exciting artistic projects are created in small groups.

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A group of Participants in Bergisch Gladbach at a video shoot

Music and Movies Connecting Countries

parallel running workshops with exchange elements. Young people in the cities of cologne and istanbul worked together beyond national borders in autumn 2021.

Ten people are in a room. They are all bent over and stretch their right arm in the air. Photo © Nora Schwarz

AkzepTanz

Dance as you are! In the fall of 2021, young people between the ages of 14 and 18 can participate free of charge in a street dance and theater project with proven RRCGN instructors Elisa Giovannetti and Yasemin “Joya” Saat.

Nippes Hip-Hop Network

The hip-hop network in the Cologne-Nippes district has been organizing a workshop phase every fall since 2001, during which there are dance, music and graffiti workshops in various youth centers and schools. RRCGN has been active in the network since 2015.

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ROOTS & ROUTES goes Bergisch Gladbach 2020

The annual fall break workshop week “ROOTS & ROUTES goes Bergisch Gladbach” took place in 2020 linked to the project “iJuLa – intersectional youth labs in the Veedel”. Along the theme “Hip-Hop for Democracy”, 29 young people dealt artistically with the topic of “fear”.

Four young people are in this picture. They are standing in a formation with their arms out to the side. Photo © Stefphane Stuggi Loria

Local projects

Although RRCGN has a focus on international exchange work, it is also permanently active in local projects in Cologne and the surrounding area. Step1 projects are aimed at young people who want to take their first steps in trying out an art form.

Four people stand together in a room and look into the camera. They present their 'Contact Lens' T-shirts and hold a stuffed animal, a Manatee, in their hands. Photo © Sascha Düx

Kontaktlinse – Cologne is full of art!

The Instagram platform “Kontaktlinse” (German for “contact lense”) offers a space for artists from Cologne to present themselves and their art. Regardless of the art form, genre or professional standards, people with a creative passion are portrayed here.

Two people hold long-stemmed lamps, a third person dances underneath. Photo: Almut Elhardt

Street to Stage

Young people from urban dance scenes are confronted with big questions: how can artistic career aspirations be realised, how can their own talents and abilities be further developed? The dancers, choreographers and dance instructors Daniela Rodriguez Romero and Bahar Gökten from nutrospektif bring in their own experiences to accompany the participants within these exciting fields.

Several people dressed in black and white stand on a stage and stretch their arms in the air.

ROOTS & ROUTES goes Bergisch Gladbach 2018

45 young musicians, dancers, graffiti and media artists from London, Rotterdam, Liverpool, Cologne and Bergisch Gladbach live on stage: together they create the stage show “Who am I?

Several people are holding balloons to their lips.

DeTalks

This two-year transnational project, together with 7 partner organisations from Europe, combines artistic methods and language learning.

A person on a stage is illuminated with a spotlight with the colours of the rainbow. Photo: Almut Elhardt

Young Arts for Queer Rights and Visibility (#YAfQRaV)

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.