Okay, yes its true. I haven't been committed to writing and keeping up with my blog and i take full responsibility while at the same time pledging to be better....looking back on this blog one could get the impression that nothing has happened since the last BronxBerlinConnection. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have been busy working on the #EuropeanHipHop Exchange in Paris and Berlin, our workshops in the youth detention facility Berlin have been ongoing with new exhibitions coming up very soon. So let me use the occasion of our BronxBerlinConnection 10th anniversary trip with a delegation of 22 folks from Berlin and Paris to re-launch this blog. It shall not be forgotten again. Since time is always scarce in NYC we will commence a photoblog with thoughts and reflections immediately after the conclusion of the exchange...Blog posts will be in German and English.
The BronxBerlinConnection 10th anniversary edition Nov. 11-20 2018!
Vor genau 10 Jahren hatten ein paar Kollegen von Gangway e.V. die Idee, im Rahmen von stattfindenden Hip Hop Education Projekten mal mit einer Horde von Jugendlichen in das Hip Hop Mekka der Welt - NYC zu fahren. Die BronxBerlinConnection war geboren. 10 Jahre später blicken wir auf 10 Jahre Jugendaustausch und über 200 Jugendliche zurück, die diese Brücke beidseitig befahren haben.
Am 11 Nov. fährt die achte Delegation der BronxBerlinConnection aus Berlin nach NYC. Dort werden wir, zusammen mit der Stiftung Luftbrückendank Workshops in drei Schulen quer durch New York City und New Jersey leiten. Wir werden uns mit Ikonen der Hip Hop Kultur treffen, im Rahmen von Workshops Strategien lernen um Gewalt und sozialen Benachteiligungen in Brennpunkt Bezirken der Stadt zu begegnen und vieles mehr.
Die BronxBerlinConnection wäre nicht möglich ohne die großartige Hilfe von wunderbaren Menschen die am Ende des Trailers Namhaft erwähnt werden.
Wir sind voller Dankbarkeit für die letzten 10 Jahre. Nicht nur den Geldgebern und Helfern gegenüber, sondern vor allem allen den Jugendlichen, die sich auf dieses Abenteuer eingelassen haben und dabei eine hoffentlich nachhaltige, vlt. sogar lebensprägende Erfahrung machen konnten!
Exactly 10 years ago a few colleagues from Gangway e.V. formulated the idea to take a bunch of youth involved in some of our Hip Hop Education projects to the Hip Hop Mecca of the world - NYC. Hence, the BronxBerlinConnection was born. 10 years later we look back upon 10 years of youth exchange and over 200 young people who have been able to travel this bridge in both directions.
On Nov. 11 the eights BronxBerlinConnection delegation will travel from Berlin to NYC. Together with the Foundation Luftbrückendank we will conduct workshops on the subject of the Russian blockade of Berlin and the ensuing airbridge campaign in three schools in NYC and New Jersey. We will meet some of Hip Hop’s icons and we will participate in workshops in order to learn strategies of coping and fighting against poverty, violence and marginalization in marginalized neighborhoods.
The BronxBerlinConnection wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing help of some amazing people, all of which are being named at the end of the trailer.
We are very grateful for the last 10 years. We would like to express our gratitude not just to these people and funding orgs but most importantly to the young people who have embarked on this adventure with us and who have hopefully been able to gain a lasting and maybe even live altering experience in the process!