In Zeitz — a post-industrial town in Eastern Germany where 46% of residents vote for far-right parties and with almost no cultural life for children — children from local families and children with refugee experience created a circus carnival together. For months they trained, made costumes and prepared their own statements — about the city, about dreams, about what matters to them. The carnival became a point of dialogue between communities that live in separate language bubbles.
Arts, Culture, and Heritage as Drivers of Change
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The Globe Performing Space
The Globe Performing Space is a geodesic cultural hub in the Bologna Apennines where performing arts, nature and community come together. Created by Instabili Vaganti Theatre Company, it transforms a rural inner area into a living space for artistic creation, residencies, training and public encounters, showing how culture can generate beauty, inclusion and long lasting territorial regeneration.