"ALL FOR CULTURE - Taking responsibility for culture together." Here you will find the results of our cultural conference from April 3 at the 8Giebel cultural venue in Schalksmühle, along with the opportunity to participate.

Help shape the culture of the future and continue the discussion!

The process continues: Join us retrospectively! Watch and listen to the results of our cultural labs, be inspired, and share your ideas, opinions, and suggestions with us. Only together can we shape culture (m/f/d, multicultural and inclusive) and initiate new narratives for our diverse cultural society. The results of the cultural conference are a building block for our regional cultural planning.

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What contribution can art and culture make to a functioning democracy, and vice versa? Are they two sides of the same coin? And where are the limits of their interaction? In the Culture Lab, we discuss the importance of democracy for artistic freedom. But it's also about the social framework created for participation and co-creation of culture at the political level. In both cultural and democratic processes, it's important to continually value self-efficacy and negotiation. This also requires lobbying for culture that is based on a fundamental democratic approach.

Central question: What contribution can art and culture make to a functioning democracy and vice versa?

A diverse society can contribute to a resilient and multifaceted culture. To achieve this, the process of institutional and cultural openness must be driven forward in both directions. In cultural practice, this means new ways of addressing target groups and encouraging participation. This cultural laboratory will use theater-pedagogical tools and methods to explore the potential of a diverse and multifaceted cultural society.

Central question: If we need everyone for culture, why isn't everyone involved? Where is "everyone" and how do we harness the potential of a diverse society?

Equipping culture with: empathy and mutual understanding for different biographies and cultural backgrounds in a diverse cultural society.

Only when everyone has the opportunity to participate in culture and actively contribute can equal opportunities and the willingness to assume shared responsibility for culture emerge. This requires a reorientation of cultural organizations and a new attitude among their stakeholders. But what ingredients do we need to create a cultural cake that appeals to as many people as possible? Is there even such a cake? In the Culture Lab, we are developing a common recipe.

We're really doing it: For 1.5 hours, we'll be the (still) fictional Agency for Cultural Consulting* (*deliberately boring name for camouflage purposes) – full of concerns, wishes, and ideas – and we want to find out what we can push forward in the shortest possible time in various action groups and how far we can go with it. In our four departments:

1) …we are planning the next protest ALL FOR CULTURE.

2) …we prepare you for your conversation with your politician.

3) ...we gather your trusted contacts and call them! And 4) ...we hold the long-awaited press conference for your cultural office! Our goal is to find feasible solutions to make structures and frameworks more effective, accessible, less bureaucratic, and fairer.

Sina Kraus works at the Integrative Cultural Workshop Alte Schule (MK Residential Association, part of the Protestant Johanneswerk gGmbH) in Lüdenscheid. As an administrative specialist, she helps organize the inclusive projects "Workshops Inclusive (Reloaded)" and the "Cultural Weeks: A Feast for the Eyes and Ears." Sina Kraus also supports the inclusive artists of the Theaterwerkstatt during their travels and performances.

Lea Schnalke is responsible for conducting interviews with participants and capturing original sound bites and quotes. The actress and theater educator leads inclusive projects with people with and without disabilities at the Alte Schule Integrative Cultural Workshop in Lüdenscheid. Among other things, she co-created the podcast hörbar.inklusiv. Lea Schnalke also works with the Alliance for Democracy and is an advocate for feminism and LGBTIQ rights.