“Hip hop is about respect“, explains Franziska Schulz to the participants of the dancing course called „back to the roots.” The 28-year-old has been running this course by KRASS e.V., together with Mira Scholz, since 2017 at the Anne Frank Middle School.
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Discovering the world and leaving one’s mark
Every Wednesday when the group room of the refugee accommodation opens its doors, children and teenagers between 3 and 16 years enter a creative world. And they leave their mark!
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Successful project “anders“ (“different“) goes into the third round
30 participants, phenomenal ideas and unlimited possibilities: Under the heading “diversity“ the integrative project from KRASS e.V. brings together teenagers and teenagers with displacement experience, who want to express their “differentness“ through movies, fashion, art, rap, graffiti and poetry. A final event with a diverse stage-program is waiting for the audience on May 13th in JAB.
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KulturMobil
If there is good weather you can meet us at the playground at “Fürstenplatz” in Düsseldorf on tuesdays, wednesdays and saturday. The “KulturMobil” will be there.
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Art meets German course
Art meets German course
The project “Fit for class” is aimed at children from different nations and cultures. Subjects are prepared in consultation with the teacher and his/her German language skills. A combination of language and design work should take up well-known vocabulary, consolidate and promote a good conversation culture. In regular and shared reflection, children have the opportunity to evaluate and praise each other’s work. The main focus here is the appreciation culture. A constant change of individual, partner and group work enables the children to carry out their own interests in their work, but also to develop them further in exchange with others. Attention is paid to the fact that children of all ages work together.
With this project, children of the international class will have the opportunity to develop their social skills in the encounter with different cultures. This is to be done by learning in a joint creative work, creatively implementing ideas together and working together towards an artistic goal. In addition, the project is intended to consolidate the relationship levels, thereby strengthening their self-awareness and self-esteem. By eliminating school pressure through grades, they experience a work that is focused on them alone. It is not the goal of a finished work that is primarily the focus, but the artistic path to it.
Especially in international classes, this experience is important in order to cope with the many requirements that will be experienced during their integration into a foreign education system. It is therefore both the body’s own image and the individuality that is the focus of this work, which should be strengthened and enthusiasm should be awakened / lived.
The creative interaction of the elderly and the younger also promotes responsibility, artistic development and new experiences. Cultural diversity and values are used. Creative self-management takes place especially in the individual work their space, but is also used in the joint
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Art in the children’s hospital
„Transformation“
In the children’s clinic foyer of the University Hospital of Düsseldorf, a labyrinth is created. The children of all wards design the 3-piece work to the extent of 4m × 1.50m.
After completion it will hang in the entrance area and embellish and enrich the path into the children’s clinic.
Until then intensive work is being done developing the unique piece of art. The children leave their traces of color on the paths of the labyrinth supported by parents, clinic staff and the public. Work is done in an intense, special and connected atmosphere.
Thoughts, which Mareike van Elsbergen (art therapy degree) has transcribed.
How magically people are attracted to labyrinths. Children and adults often enter walkable labyrinths spontaneously and run the lines.
This labyrinth is to be done with the eyes and other senses.
The path is designed by the children of the wards of the University Clinic Düsseldorf. The children have left their tracks in the context of a symbol that has left its mark on our cultural history for at least 5000 years. With brushes and acrylic paints, the labyrinth was further developed on several project days.
The labyrinth can be understood as a symbol of the way of life. In his center we can discover ourselves.
Those who follow the labyrinth encounter breaking away and letting go, the turns that lead us back to the knowledge in the middle and the way out again.
The labyrinth as a place of encounter.
All who are connected with it, follow a map of the soul. Following the labyrinth is like a journey to one’s self.
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KRASS at Parklife
KRASS will be with a KRASSaction at the Haniel Park in Dusseldorf.
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KulturMobil
If there is good weather we will be with our culture bus on the playground at Fürstenplatz in Düsseldorf
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Monthly Get Together
KRASS invites friends, volunteers, artists and new people to join our monthly get together evening. Wednesdays starting at 19°° at Hotel Enger Hof in Düsseldorf
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Theatre from A-Z
We make theatre from A-Z
From the 9th until the 17th July 2012 the topics stage, theatre, dance and music were presented in the project “We make theatre from A-Z” to 205 children from age 6-14 under an interdisciplinary approach and finally were implemented in a creative way in order to the individual interests of the participants. The different aspects of the project were divided and realized in the recreational facility for children and adolescents “Kamper 17” (musical & stage, 9 th until 13 th july) as well as in the Joachim-Neander Schule at the Rather Markt 2.
First of all the theatre history and various techniques of theatre productions were presented. Later a set decoration and stage modules were developed and implemented, an own storyboard was thought up and realized in a straight theatre. Finally a musical was concepted. In a final performance including the self-made set decoration and accompanied by a band the children presented what they had learned.
During the project an increasing self-confidence of the children and often a self-initiated willing to take responsibility could be observed. Moreover the participants developed communicative skills, learned to work in a team as well as artisanal techniques and artistic forms of expression.