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RUHR.2010

Self created masks can be seen at the original ghost parade.

TWINS-Projekt "Urspuk Parade" Photo: Stefan Korte, Medienhaus Bauer

TWINS

What is behind TWINS?

The Ruhr Metropolis is made up of 53 local authority districts, which have between them around 200 twin towns. An amazing, international cultural network!

Motivated by the Capital of Culture 2010, creative workers in Germany and abroad have got together, worked together, created synergies. Hundreds of TWINS projects between the Ruhr towns and their twins have been selected by a jury and now form a network of more than 1,500 partner institutions, organizations and towns in Europe and the rest of the world.

TWINS projects

Jazz is connecting East and West

East West European Jazz Orchestra

Rarely has a jazz orchestra set itself such a high target before the first rehearsal. And even more rarely has it been possible to believe that this target can be reached. Even before the East West European Jazz Orchestra was set up in 2008 the musicians had stated that they wanted to "raise their standards to an international level by developing an independent musical style embracing hitherto unknown cultural musical forms". more…

Scene from the festival Juicy Beats 2009

Media Preferences among Young People

Exhibition inter-cool 3.0.

"inter-cool 3.0" is not an exhibition in the conventional sense. Rather, it networks the lives and lifestyles of local youngsters via the Internet and other cutting-edge mass media such as mobile phones. These are the media of choice for young people wanting to express their needs and communicate with one another. It's a world of rap battles, moves, body karaoke and dance in which slang reigns supreme. more…

Crisis or everyday life

Hanging around

What do people really do when they do not work? When they do not enter their bakery at four in the morning or put on their working suit, do not move files, open their shop or garage? What kind of life is it without external ascertained work? How do they spend their time which is not called working-time? Do they just hang around? What does it mean not to work in the different countries? Don’t we have to think about a new meaning for work? Has "time" a different meaning than before? Time is not money, time is life. This is a non-profit project! more…

Homestories

"A Day in my Life" - that's the theme of a photography project involving Ruhr metropolis photographers Tania Reinicke and Ekkehart Bussenius and around 30 young people from Novi Sad (Serbia) and Dortmund's Nordstadt, a part of the city strongly influenced by immigration. Photographs taken as part of the project will be shown at an exhibition in Dortmund. more…

From the Beginnings to Modern Outsider Arts

Inside worlds Outside Worlds

The arch of history drawn by the exposition "Inside Worlds Outside Worlds - From the Beginnings to Modern Outsider Arts" is unique in Germany and has never been shown before. It presents historical and rarely accessible works of the Prinzhorn collection from Heidelberg, the Morgenthaler collection from Bern and contemporary art work from participants in the Art-Transmitter project in Dortmund, who have undergone psychiatric treatment. more…

Dancing between tradition and modernity

Luna Park

Living fossils in an urban biotope. The city centres of Europe resemble each other more and more. But despite the constant recurrence of international brand names in shopping malls and restaurants there are still places where people can meet up to chat and maintain social contacts in a more private atmosphere. more…

A new world with its own rules and rituals will be created.

A palace for a new world

palaixbrut_installation

Paradise doesn't need culture. Any disturbance or any deficiency constitutes a radical starting point of development. There are only ideal conditions in dead worlds. "palaixbrut" invites visitors to enter rooms whose "residents" make up their own laws and rituals, document every-day situations using artistic means, place stories from the edge of society into the centre of attention and debunk social inequality. more…

The Orient begins in the Ruhr Area

Transorient Orchestra & Selim Sesler Trio

Since 2003 the world music Transorient Orchestra has been a musical symbol of the melting pot in the Ruhr Metropolis. Musicians from Germany, Iran, Turkey, White Russia, Sweden and Tunisia all contribute to the splendid range of harmonies with their traditional and modern influences from the Occident via the Balkans and the Orient to the Far East, and will be embellishing them with jazz and rock music. more…

The Dortmund "U" will become a marketplace for pictures.

The Market

"The Market" - that is the subject of an international photography competition in 2010. The theme gives participants lots of room for interpretation. "The Market" - that is the subject of an international photography competition in 2010. The theme gives participants lots of room for interpretation. more…

This is how the Peace Light looks as a "sky pillar" in Den Haag.

Shining for peace

The Peace light of the religions

The PEACE LIGHT OF RELIGIONS is made up of a large number of white, translucid elements, half of which are symbols of world religions like Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bahai, Buddhism and Hinduism. Each of these symbols will be linked with the others, as well as further symbols free of any religious reference. more…

A ship of fools from Essen to Dortmund

The original Ghost Parade 2010

A Ship of Fools is on its way from France (and even further) to Essen, Recklinghausen and Dortmund. It is coming directly from the Middle Ages. Its captain is none other than Don Quixote and its helmsman, Sancho Panza. Bizarre ghostly figures will be moving around on board. more…