News from KRASS

This is the final video of our project “HipHop Workshop”. Children and young people, between 12 and 13 years, have participated in this art project over three months. Under the guidance of the KRASS art lecturer Jason Firchow, the participants independently wrote a song text and dealt with the topic of Corona. The song was…

Art and children go together not only because of the pretty alliteration, but because it is part of being a child to learn self-expression and playful design with the help of artistic means. And this goes beyond conventional art lessons because access to art should also be open to children whose parents cannot afford expensive…

The film team Conquer Media and the rap artist Maass visited us at our Hip-Hop workshop and produced a small movie. In the context of the release of their music album they collect donations for our association. We take our hats off to such young, committed people and thank them for their support. Have fun…

Our Jason also known as JayJay, who has many years of professional experience as a hip-hop artist and music educator, is on the road again today at our sponsor school, the Gesamtschule Stettiner Straße in Düsseldorf-Garath. The children rap, sing, write lyrics, take pictures and perform – of course with a mask and the necessary…

Roundabout Kids and the artist Adam Karamanlis are collecting money for KRASS e.V. as a joint Christmas campaign 2020. Adam Karamanlis has painted a picture especially for this purpose: “Home Office 2020” by Adam Karamanlis. Original postcards can then be purchased as prints of the original painting at a value of 5,- Euro per card…

The children now have to deal with many new challenges. The Corona outbreak makes learning difficult for many kids. Many of them are not able to fulfill the required workload and therefore feel under a lot of pressure. In addition, they often lack the technical equipment for home schooling, such as a laptop or printer.…

We would like to say THANK YOU on behalf of the children. You have given us roughly 1000 beautiful, large and small, colorful patterned self-sewn nose-to-mouth masks just like that. And the kids are happy every time they get to choose one: “Ohhhh, cool, can I take one for my brother too? And for my…