Project „Bottom Up Vilnius“
from September 2020
The town twinning between Vilnius and Duisburg is almost 35 years old.
The contact between cultural and social actors is continuous groomed. Due to the relationships between the Organizations Kulturprojekte Niederrhein e.V. in cooperation with Lokal Harmonie e.V. and creative artists in Vilnius is productive cooperation between Uzupis Art Incubator and the local club structure on the Lower Rhine emerged.
With the "Bottom up Vilnius" project we are participating in the resilience initiativeof the Federal Foreign Office and the German embassy in Vilnius. Here, thelocal identity process of the population in the Baltic States strengthened will. The goal of our project is to bring the residents closer and bring them together in their civil society engagement strengthen so that they are less vulnerable to political agitation.
Various actors in the socio-cultural district work from Vilnius, Duisburg, Moers and Neukirchen-Vluyn are brought together, the different Work situations are presented and experiences are exchanged in the form of intensive work meetings. The project group from Vilnius will be the Visit partners in Germany and it will be one Give return visit.
Project completion are cultural actions in the Zirmunai and Naujoji Vilnia district in Vilnius.
