cooperation & theme 2024
guilt & shame
In 2024, the Platform TU Mariupol and bridgeworks embark on a process of Ukrainian-German cultural exchange. Together, we explore the complex themes of "guilt & shame." To do so, we initiate various transcultural networking and dialogue formats, as well as artistic co-productions.
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co-pro
How can we live together even if we disagree? Our solution to all problems: Wrestling! In "WHAT THE FUCK" four performers enter the ring together: not only as wrestlers, but as representatives of a polarized society, armed with the clichéd attributions of our time.
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beyond
Our cities are not only sites, but also reflections of social and environmental challenges. They reflect the conflicts that shape our own lives and the lives of others. What impact does our city really have on these developments?
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art-lab
disagreement & coexistence
In 2023, together with artists from Ghana and Germany, we will immerse ourselves in the theme of "disagreement & coexistence": With our Ghanaian cooperation partner, we will engage in an intensive artistic encounter and collaboration for one year.
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beyond
Timmi & Anansi
Little Timmi moves into a new apartment with his parents. He is sad, because he liked his old neighborhood better, feels lonely and would have liked to stay in his old home. And then something like this! In his new room squats the spider Anansi. She is on a difficult mission and urgently needs Timmi's help...
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co-pro
fiction&just&fication
In this musical performance, four artists from Colombia, Germany and Austria take a radically honest look at their own experiences of violence. When is violence considered necessary and even justified? And which forms of violence influence us?
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project
Red Lines
In the project "Red Lines" four artists from different cultures meet: Diana Berg from Ukraine, Pavel Méndez from Cuba, Felix Banholzer from Germany and Hamroh Aidarov from Tajikistan.
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co-pro
2077 – Who wants to survive
The year is 2077. After humanity has conquered poverty, disease and hunger and abolished nation states, the world's elites set out to achieve immortality, eternal happiness and biotechnical optimisation. Whilst they become more and more successful in their endeavour, ninety-nine per cent of all humans end up becoming dispensable.
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art-lab
Narratives & Radicalisation
bridgeworks e.V. and Circuito Liquen are planning on building a Colombian-German cultural bridge in 2022. The two organisations have been in a dynamic process of idea development and planning for a year.
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education project
ATMEADE
The project "ATMEADE" has set itself the goal of developing a methodology that helps adults through art-based processes to sensitize themselves to issues that are not easily understood through purely rational argumentation. The foundation of the project is to sensitize for the "social" and to strengthen values like mutual understanding, tolerance and respect for integration and diversity.
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co-pro
Romeo and Juliet in Kampala
"Romeo and Juliet" with percussion music and breakdance?! We present Shakespeare's classic as breakdance theatre in a Ugandan way, accompanied by traditional and modern percussion: a fair-coop between Ugandan and German artists.
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co-pro
paralysis شلل
The Palestinian-German co-production takes the digital sphere literally and devises a communal meeting place. A poetic, musical and personal search for what connects and separates cultures and people. People who are currently not allowed or able to meet physically ... or are they?
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co-pro
Four phases of fear
"Four phases of fear" is a Palestinian-German dance project. Based on the themes of fear and identity, a touching and personal dance film was created which premiered at Kunsthafen Köln on 20 July 2021.
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art-lab
fear & identity
Over a period of five days, the art-lab fear & identity brought together 50 artists from Palestine and Germany as well as several international guests in digital space.
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art-lab
Tilos – Griechenland
Youth workers mobility: Forty dancers, musicians, actors and performance artists based in Germany, France and Greece took part in this project and researched on topics of cultural integration through the mutual exchange of methods, ideas and visions.
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art-lab
womanhood
Over a period of two weeks we were able to bring 12 Ugandan and 9 German participants to our first art-lab: in Kampala, Uganda. The topic: womanhood.
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co-pro
Blackbird
The fred - Freies Ensemble Düsseldorf stages "Blackbird" in cooperation with bridgeworks and the Associação Cultural Warethwa from Mozambique as an transcultural approach to a universal situation through theater, dance, music and installation.
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co-pro
Der Process / The Trial
A brilliant mash-up of two cultures that could hardly be more different. An exchange between Accra and Düsseldorf.
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