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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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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.

Several people side by side in a row in a sports hall holding hands. Photo © Stefanie Karrenbrock

DACRO – Dance meets Acrobatics

In the project DACRO – Dance Meets Acrobatics, an interdisciplinary dance theater piece with aerial acrobatics was developed over a six-month period with weekly training and rehearsal sessions and performed on July 1 as part of the festival “Füreinander Miteinander” in Cologne-Mülheim.

Neun PErsonen sitzen im Kreis auf dem Boden. Foto © Stefphane Stuggi Loria

Re:Cognition – Moves, Beats & Rhymes

In our society, recognition is often awarded on the basis of material wealth, formal education, German language skills and appearance. We invited young people to reflect on the topic of “recognition” and to work on it artistically.

Four people are standing next to a canvas. One person holds a box with several spray cans in his hand, from which one person takes out a can. Photo © Andrä Klaukien

R&R goes Bergisch Gladbach 2015

At “ROOTS & ROUTES goes Bergisch Gladbach”, 47 young people aged 12 to 18 produced songs, choreographies or video clips on the topic of the welcome culture for refugees.

ROOTS & ROUTES lettering drawn in the air with light painting. Photo: Light factor

24Hz Festival 2015

In August 2015, a new festival for urban media art was launched in Cologne, to be followed by others every two years: international, transdisciplinary, multi-layered, inspiring. Taking place in Cologne’s Südstadt and bringing together young artists from Cologne and all over Europe.

A microwave from the inside with a cracked egg. The image has a step train on the fail again. Fail better! - Theater workshop stands.

Fail again. Fail better!

From October 2020 to March 2021, 15 young people between the ages of 11 and 18 from Cologne dealt intensively with the topic of failure. In the joint examination with this topic, an exciting online theater performance was created.