Dagesh on Tour is a cultural education programme that conveys various dimensions of Jewish life in Germany using the arts. The programme organises creative workshops for children and young people aged 8-18 throughout Germany.
The workshops provided by Dagesh on Tour employ creative and emancipatory methods to provide artistic insights into different dimensions of pluralistic Jewish life in Germany, thus making them tangible to participants. The collaboration between Jewish contemporary artists and educators using contemporary Jewish art as a resource in art education is a novelty within the cultural education landscape in Germany. In this way, the workshop leaders’ own artistic processes and output serve as the reference points and resources used to open the landscape of Jewish life and art in Germany to the programme’s participants.
The workshops provided by Dagesh on Tour employ creative and emancipatory methods to provide artistic insights into different dimensions of pluralistic Jewish life in Germany, thus making them tangible to participants. The collaboration between Jewish contemporary artists and educators using contemporary Jewish art as a resource in art education is a novelty within the cultural education landscape in Germany. In this way, the workshop leaders’ own artistic processes and output serve as the reference points and resources used to open the landscape of Jewish life and art in Germany to the programme’s participants.
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Utilising the strengths of art as an emancipatory practice, the programme introduces children and young people to contemporary art and supports them in artistically realising their own ideas and visions. They learn about the diverse forms of artistic expression and perspectives of Jews, work together with contemporary Jewish artists, and learn to express themselves through art. Through Dagesh, children and young people are encouraged to actively work towards a pluralistic society.
The educational programme Dagesh on Tour is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the ‘Kultur macht stark. Alliances for Education’ programme. The programme focuses on the cultural education of children and young people whose access to educational opportunities has been impeded.
Internal qualification days are held quarterly to ensure the high quality of the programming. They focus on emancipatory art education and education against antisemitism. The workshop leaders are able to develop their own methods of cultural education work, with contemporary Jewish art at the heart of the workshop programming. Using the ‘art in duos’ concept’, this collaboration between artists and educators in the planning and execution of the workshops is continuously tested and professionalised, ensuring that artistic practice is conveyed in an innovative and target group-oriented manner, both artistically and pedagogically.
The programme mobilises alliances across the country, both in structurally weak or rural communities and in large cities with problem areas, to hold one-day workshops and project weeks. Over the course of the project period, Dagesh aims to form 80 alliances for education so as to reach 4,500 children and young people with its programming. Dagesh on Tour will successively train 75 artists and 100 educators, who will implement the project.
We look forward to hearing from you and will get back to you as soon as possible. If you have questions about our educational project Dagesh on Tour, you can reach out to us at any time by e-mail: on-tour [at] dagesh.de
