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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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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”.

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy 2021

After a four-year break, the ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy finally took place again in 2021 – this time as part of the project “iJuLa – intersectional YouthLabs in Cologne”. 20 young artists took part in the block seminar phase in Heek.

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Strategic Cooperations

As a full member of the international ROOTS & ROUTES network, RRCGN regularly participates in transnational projects multiple times a year, that serve to further develop the network and its methods and approaches, as well as international youth work with artistic approaches more generally.

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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.

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Sending out projects

ROOTS & ROUTES is an international network; RRCGN sends groups of young artists to projects of our network partners several times a year.

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy

Since 2008, partner organizations in the international ROOTS & ROUTES network have jointly developed a concept and curriculum for a cultural peer coach training; for young artists from performing arts and media who would like to pass on their competencies to peers and younger people as peer coaches.

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iJuLa – intersectional YouthLabs in Cologne

The iJuLa project opens spaces in Cologne, in which artistic work on intersectional and queer topics can take place. We invite young artists to create these spaces with us and fill them with life and ideas.

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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.

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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.

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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.