Award of certificate
Practical cultural project work - KulturCampus Wuppertal honours students
At a celebratory event on Thursday, 4 July, the students will now be honoured for the ideas they have implemented over the past few years, and current projects will also be presented. "We have prepared a music programme and the students will give an insight into their inspiring projects - we are delighted to offer the participants of the KulturCampus and their great ideas a suitable stage with this event," says Dr Daniela Neuhaus, Academic Advisor in the Music Education department. Together with dramaturge Dr Uta Atzpodien, she is currently managing the project, which was launched by Annette Ziegenmeyer and Björn Krüger in 2016. The aim is also to promote diverse networking between the university of Wuppertal and the rich cultural landscape in Wuppertal and the region. "We look forward to a lively dialogue between those involved in culture, those interested in culture and cultural professionals on this evening," say the organisers.
Festive event
Anyone who would like to attend the celebratory event on 4 July at 6 p.m. can register at kulturcampus[at]uni-wuppertal.de by 28 June. Further details will then follow by email. The project presentation will be followed by a get-together with finger food and drinks.
The following projects will be presented on this evening:
- In the "Bodypercussion-AG" project, Elisa Hasert developed a performance together with sixth-graders in which body percussion (the body as an instrument) was combined with a diverse choreography of rhythm and movement.
- Zuzana Ermlova's binational project "Kitchen Revue" (2021) is aimed at younger children and their parents as well as teachers in the Czech Republic and Germany. She developed a new production of the jazz ballet "La Revue de cuisine" - "The Kitchen Revue" by Bohuslav Martinů. Performances were planned in both countries, but due to the restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, one performance was realised in Prague/Czech Republic. The dance partners were members of the "CrewCollective Prague", a professional dance ensemble, and six professional musicians from Germany.
- The "musical afternoon" took place in 2021 in collaboration with a retirement home and aimed to brighten up the everyday lives of the residents during the coronavirus pandemic. Lars Fooßen practised songs with them once a week for six weeks, which were later accompanied by instruments. At the end of the project, there was a final concert.
- The "KulTour" was created back in 2019 and has now been further developed by Laura Pielczyk. She has set herself the goal of bringing students together with the Wuppertal cultural scene and therefore visited cultural hotspots with interested parties in spring. The programme so far has included a dance performance at Café Ada and a visit to a poetry slam evening at börse.
- "Art from waste" was the theme of Hülya Özkan's programme. She offered workshops lasting several days in which children and young people learnt how to create art and something sustainable from waste.
- "X-mess re-arranged " - this was the motto of an open-air concert organised by Yannick Gil Ramos and Joell Zaungallont at the Barmer Kulturadvent last December. More than 30 music students played Christmas carols in completely new versions for four hours.
- "Dance Break" was a musical dance workshop at the Alte Feuerwache on the Gathe. Janina Guntermann rehearsed choreographies for two musical songs there once a week with around eight children, which were performed at the beginning of February.
- The "Kulturtalk" podcast by Silvan Schaefer and León Bruchhausen was launched in April. In it, they present events that you can visit, but also events that you can still take part in.
- Charlotte Daun offered a musical programme for everyone with "Community Sounds" in May and June in the City Church. The community music project offered a free, open programme for experiencing music together, regardless of previous knowledge.
The project
Since 2016, students from various disciplines have been developing ideas in the KulturCampus seminar to realise their own cultural projects in Wuppertal and to connect the university of Wuppertal and the city's cultural scene more closely. In the KulturCampus, students learn how to concretise and implement their ideas: Acquiring funding, reaching the target group, but also assessing the value of their own work.
They are accompanied by dramaturge Dr Uta Atzpodien, who is well connected in Wuppertal and is in constant dialogue with the students during project development. This gives them a first-hand insight into the independent cultural scene.
The seminar can be credited in the optional area and starts in the winter semester.
Further information - including information on current and completed projects - can be found at www.kulturcampus.uni-wuppertal.de.
