Schlesische Straße 27b
Berlin
Germany
- Youth and education
In working with young people and artists, the focal point is the aesthetic attention of the young guests, an experimental and adventurous education of their senses through the arts. Developing one’s own creative abilities provides one with the best qualifications to actively participate in the process of forming society and living an active democracy.
Therefore, guideline of our institution’s work is the “optimal promotion through the arts”: every human is capable of creating! When creating, one gains identity and self-confidence – the foundation for performance abilities, broad-mindedness, commitment and capacity to work in a team. Based on an empowering pedagogic approach, art is an important promoter leading to defining moments effecting all areas of life.
To many young people, whose educational and personal development is not supported in their own surroundings, artistic and creative projects open up major scopes of action and development. In order to promote cross-cultural competence we emphasize on artistic and participative exchange projects on an international level.
Approximately 130 short- and long-term projects take place in our institution within one year. These range from artistic projects with school kids to self organized projects of young adults taking an active part in the urban, social and cultural development nationally and internationally. We are currently working on an artistic youth exchange programme with young people and artists from Lebanon and Germany addressing the topic of freedom, self-determination and democracy through creative writing and experimental performance.
As we are a well-established institution within the Berlin “cultural landscape”, we would be very happy to support the network partners with our expertise, experience and contacts. Not only being in contact with many active artists and partner cultural institutions in Berlin, but also with committed young people based in Berlin and Europe, enables us to pro-creatively contribute to and cooperate in international cultural projects.
Located in a Berlin district with young people of multi-ethnic, in particular Arabic, background we feel the urge to even further promote cross-cultural dialogue, especially with the Arabic world and provide our young guests with the opportunity to get in contact and exchange with young people from other countries – especially with youngsters, living in home-countries of our young migrant neighbours. We very much hope to be able to establish fruitful contacts to the partners in the network and conjointly develop projects. We look forward to exchange with the partners within the ALF network on experience in creative, democratic education and to promote active youth exchange within the network. The Schlesische27 offers 30 years of best practice and experience in international youth exchange.