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The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy 2.0

A format for the sustainable development of young artists into coaches at an international level. Participants are developed into self-confident peer coaches, youth workers, and changemakers.

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#RRXP – The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience

Artists from 6 to 10 countries. Two weeks of jointly developing ideas, pieces of music, scenes. A joint transdisciplinary production. Join in!

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RRCGN Baltrum-Projects

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

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Creation Potluck

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.

Multiple people sitting on a beach in Greece, behind them; the waves crash.

Sci-Fi 22

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.

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.

Performance in the rooms of PARC in Florence.

Re-designing Wor(l)ds

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.

A group of people stand in different poses on a dance floor with sand circles and tennis balls

OASES for Change – Organising Artistic Self-Empowerment Spaces

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?

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy 2022

Once again, the ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy will be held as part of the project “iJuLa – intersectional YouthLaboratories in the Veedel”. Registrations for young artists are still possible.

Several people stand in a room and look at a person demonstrating dance steps. Photo © Aileen Wessely

The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy 2016/17

In 2016 and 2017, The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy ran as a nationwide project: young artists from Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Hesse, Munich, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony trained as junior lecturers for cultural and media education youth work.

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.

Several people are sitting together in a circle. One person is further ahead in the picture, sticking an index card on a poster. Photo © Yves Sanwidi

iJuLa Kick-off Academy 2020

In October 2020, 18 members of the iJuLa youth curatorium set off from Cologne to Heek: At the 10-day iJuLa Kick-off Academy, ideas for offers, workshops and events in the future iJuLa space were developed.