Planning, applying for, and implementing cultural projects for young people in a discrimination-sensitive manner | #5 Diversity as an opportunity – empowerment in cultural education

The target group for projects under “Culture Makes Strong” / “Together Digital! Creative with Media” are children and young people with limited access to education. The reasons for this are as varied as the participants' backgrounds. At the same time, it is important to recognize and take into account the opportunities offered by these diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and knowledge of young people and to anchor them in the project design. Only if we move away from a deficit-oriented approach will young people have the chance to emerge from the program positively and empowered. What requirements does the institution need to meet, and what attitudes and skills do the responsible professionals need?

• Speaker: Rebecca Wienhold 

• Rebecca Wienhold (she/her) is a freelance media educator, coordinator of a media competence center, and trainer for diversity, anti-racism, and empowerment. She works primarily in the field of education, offering workshops and training courses, but is also active as an editor, including for the media education journal merz. Her main topics are diversity and discrimination in general and in the media, as well as the design of diversity-oriented, intersectional media education.

   

• Organized by the Deutschen Bibliotheksverband
• Registration at: http://bit.ly/46hrtoc 

The series of events is being organized jointly by the program partners from “Kultur macht stark” (Culture Makes Strong): Assitej, Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste (Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts), Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung e.V. (Federal Association for Cultural Education for Children and Young People), Deutscher Bibliotheksverband e.V. (German Library Association), Deutscher Bühnenverein e.V. (German Stage Association), Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. (Performing Arts Fund), Jugend Film Fernsehen e.V. (Youth Film Television), Stiftung Lesen (Reading Foundation), and Türkische Gemeinde Deutschland e.V. (Turkish Community in Germany).