Rollen Gestalten
With Rollen Gestalten, ROOTS & ROUTES Cologne e.V., the Meschenich Children’s and Youth Center, and Junge Stadt Köln are creating a safe, artistic space for children, teenagers, and young adults.
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Эхо – Ekho – Echo
A one-year community project with meetings, excursions, and workshops for joint reappraisal and reconciliation of Russian-German history.
The Migrated Body
The Migrated Body, a dance project that immerses participants in their own cultures for a week. During the summer holidays of 2025, young people up to the age of 18 were able to take part in a dance project with Ludmilla Schemak and Ekaterina Thor free of charge.
Peer Classes
Current offers, workshops, and classes at ROOTS & ROUTES Space, a wide variety of creative hands-on activities offered by young RRCGN peer coaches.
Kölnchella
In the queer-intersectional youth festival series “Kölnchella”, which emerged from iJuLa, various public events took place from 2022 to 2024, the largest of which was the Kölnchella Summer Festival.
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.
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.
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”.
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.