ROOTS & ROUTES goes Larissa 2025
upcoming international artistic exchange project in Greece
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
Artists from 6 to 10 countries. Two weeks of developing ideas, music, scenes together. A joint transdisciplinary production. Get involved!
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.
upcoming international artistic exchange project in Greece
The LevelUp! academy is an intensive training program for young creatives that will take place from 22 to 27 April 2025 at the Landesmusikakademie NRW in Heek.
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.
This project in Salzburg in August 2022 aims to bring together young artists (aged 18 to 30) from 5 different European countries for collaborations across the boundaries of individual art forms.
The project “Sci-Fi: Self Care Interaction For community Intelligence” has 30 people from 6 participating countries come together in larissa, greece to work on an international artistic project and empower each other, reflect their positions in global structures and experiment on an artistic level.
Re-designing Wor(l)ds (RDW22) is an international youth exchange project bringing together 31 young people from urban and rural areas of Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Italy, to jointly reflect on socio-political issues that concern them deeply, with a specific focus on the effects of the pandemic on the development of their means and possibilities.
In the OASES project, partners from 10 countries are working together on the question: How can youth encounters be designed to empower participants to unleash their creative potential; to create artworks in transnational collaboration around themes of shared meaning; and to effect change in their local environments and in a globalized world?
ROOTS & ROUTES is an international network; RRCGN sends groups of young artists to projects of our network partners several times a year.
From June 29th to July 16th, 30 young artists from Cologne (Germany), Florence (Italy) and Larissa (Greece) jointly worked on the themes of “proximity and distance” – “communication and isolation” – “physical and virtual encounter”. But not at the same place – because of COVID-19, this was the first RRCGN international youth exchange where the participating groups stayed in their respective countries and worked together via online communication.
“Mind Ur Step” brings together eleven professional urban dance artists in an international dance production. The project aims to bring together the urban dance scene and established theatres.