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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 person in an artistic abstract bird costume stands in a meadow at dusk, looking upwards at an angle and spreading his wings. Photo: Gabriele Cinti

Baltrum 2019 – Future Lab Young Europe

38 young adults from 6 countries met for 2 weeks on Baltrum and developed visions of the future in small, internationally mixed working groups, projecting the risks and opportunities of current developments into the future.

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.

Five people play together on an electric piano. A long cloth worm is attached to their wrists so that it moves when they play. Photo © Nora Schwarz _ Nora Mangu Photography

The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2019

For a two-week period, 40 young artists from different countries further developed the working methods that were developed during the previous project in 2017. Coached by professional artists, an interdisciplinary stage performance was created.

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.

A person with a blue glowing ball in their mouth, holds two of them to their eyes as well. Photo © Rebecca Lena

Generation Europe – Arts and Social Responsibility

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.

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.

Two people working on a flipchart. In the background, two people with a small child.

CulTrees

The project brought together 7 partner organisations from the international ROOTS & ROUTES network over a period of 14 months to create fertile environments for non-formal adult education. Methods were collected to raise awareness and counter prejudices and stereotypes through artistic activities.

Many people dressed in black stand in front of 5 doors on a stage. photo © Nora Schwarz

The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2017

Perspectives from young artists from 10 countries came together to discuss their ideas and wishes and to make art out of them. They were accompanied by an artistic core team around the renowned break dancer and choreographer Youngung Sebastian “Jaekwon” Kim.

Several people are standing on a stage. Those in the background hold trumpets and trombones in their hands and stand in front of microphones. The four young people in the foreground are playing the drums. Photo © Nora Schwarz

Drum & Brass

This project brought together 30 young musicians and dancers from Germany, the Netherlands and France for a creative exchange between big band, marching band and hip-hop.