New Board elected 2024

At the General Assembly of the ROOTS & ROUTES International Association (RRIA) in Salzburg on February 29th 2024, a new board was elected. The board will be in charge of coordinating the …

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ROOTS&ROUTES Community Hangouts

A great example of an upcoming tradition that turns people into a community

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An OASES in a digital world

Re-designing Wor(l)ds is the second of the six pilot projects of OASES for Change. Organising Artistic Self-Empowerment Spaces (2021 –2023), a series of projects that will continue enhancing the …

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The protégé effect

How doing for others makes us do, learn and understand more.

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Join the Community! - Invitation for online ROOTS & ROUTES community event

Have you been part of one or more ROOTS & ROUTES projects in the past on an international or local level? There are some changes in the ROOTS & ROUTES International world we would like to tell you.

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A Promising Start

The latest meeting-seminart of the ROOT & ROUTES International Network in Lithuania kickstarts a new vision in motion.

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R&R Traditions - Jimi’s Warm-up

Jimi Renfro, a coach and associate of ROOTS&ROUTES Cologne, a dance coach and vocals instructor, is a pure, condensed shot of caffeine, mixed with sunshine and a bit of serotonin. He is warm and full …

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R&R Traditions - The circle ritual

This round of free presentations really reminds me of a circus, where often performers, singers and dancers find this first opportunity of having a bit of spot-light to show their ‘talents’ or …

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R&R Traditions - The meaning of number 11

For a lot of people in Germany the date of 11.11. is special every year as it marks the beginning of the German tradition of carnival – so if you should take part in a R&R project be warned to be …

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R&R Traditions

Embracing diversity and inclusion, over its 20 years of existence and thriving, ROOTS&ROUTES has assembled its own compendium of traditions, rituals and feel-good-things.

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A wall with hand-drawn pictures of people and fairy lights stuck to it. There are tables under the pictures with coffee, tea, clothes and hand sanitizer on them.

OASES for Change meeting in Lille

Ahead of the first pilot exchange in Baltrum, all the partners gathered in Lille (virtually and in person) to develop quality criteria and guidelines for international youth art exchanges.

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Project meeting in Firenze

Project partners are discussing the tools to be developed for the INPACT project at the CCC headquarters at PARC in Firenze for two days

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European Action Weekend - Designing Wor(l)ds

Designing Wor(l)ds: was the workshop proposed during the European Action Week by Centro Creazione Cultura. During the workshop participants were invited to reflect on the deep connections - often …

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A Reality We Are All Part Of - Mixed Reality 2020

In July 2020, the Mixed Reality hybrid exchange residency took place in three countries, with nearly fourty participants and one onine exhibition. This is what happened.

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The European Action Weekend: A reflection

From the 5th of February to the 7th February people from all over Europe met for the European Action Weekend - with participants from 30 youth associations from over 15 different countries, these are …

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INPACT now launching!

We are looking for participants for a discussion on needs and challenges in the cultural sector

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European Action Weekend – Wishing it lasted longer

The European Action Weekend (organised by IBB Dortmund) was the closing summit of the three-year exchange super-programme between 30 youth associations from 15 European countries. This is what …

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New Board elected

At the General Assembly of the ROOTS & ROUTES International Association (RRIA) in Marseille on September 12th 2019, a new board was elected. The board will be in charge of coordinating the …

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Art4Act project results

After 2 years of meetings, trainings and exchange of good practices the Art4Act project co-financed by the Erasmus+ programme, is officially over. 8 partner organizations, 7 from European countries …

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Art4Act presented at Cultural Heritage Conference

During the Erasmus+ conference "paths towards citizenship through cultural heritage" Art4Act was presented by Jade Schiff of Roots & Routes Netherlands.

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OnGea - Management Meeting in Rotterdam

On the 11th and 12th of June, all the associations involved in the OnGea project were reunited for two days of intensive work.

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OnGea Kaunas meeting

OnGea – Meeting in Kaunas

The OnGea project partners gathered together in Kaunas, Lithuania to continue the work on the OnGea website and app. It already looks pretty good!

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Art4Act – A Creative Engagement – In Motion

At the transnational Art4Act meeting last weekend in Florence, the partnership presented the project logo and developed their planned activities.

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NEW TRAILER ONLINE

Roots & Routes International presents a new trailer with images from the latest projects and activities.

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“Routes to Employment” Curriculum Goes Live

The Curriculum developed in the project “Routes to Employment” (R2E) is now available on this website.

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New website is online

Today the new website of the international ROOTS & ROUTES network and its umbrella organisation, the ROOTS & ROUTES International Association (RRIA), went online.

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Vasiliki Farmaki is the new Community Council Representative

At the annual Community Council meeting, Vasiliki Farmaki from Larissa/Greece was elected as the representive of the young artists in the ROOTS & ROUTES network.

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New Board elected

It's official: At the General Assembly of the ROOTS & ROUTES International Association (RRIA) in Lille on June 26th, 2016, a new board was elected. The board will be in charge of coordinating the …

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ROOTS & ROUTES Masters

What do KRS-One, Akua Naru, De La Soul, Bilal, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Leela James, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Ed Motta, Cheb Khaled, Blitz the Ambassador, Omar Lye-Fook, …

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New Community Council Representative elected

Congratulations to our new Community Council Representative Daileni Alcántara Asencio! At the annual assembly of the council of the young artists in the international ROOTS & ROUTES network, the …

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New ROOTS & ROUTES member organisation RRCGN finishes first project

ROOTS & ROUTES Cologne e. V., the newly founded German partner in the ROOTS & ROUTES Network, just finished their first project: The international exchange “Music and Media for an Open Europe” …

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ROOTS & ROUTES Conference in Rotterdam finalises two international Projects

On 26th September 2014, 80 participants from 8 EU member states participated in an international ROOTS & ROUTES conference in Rotterdam, which also was the final event of the projects “U-CARE – Urban …

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“Enter at own Risk” – international ROOTS & ROUTES performance in Cologne

A trial in a possible future: Escape, frontier-defense and guilt as vertexes in the search of truth about the borders of Europe – this is the frame story of the transdisciplinary performance “Enter …

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Celebrating 10 Years of ROOTS & ROUTES

On the 18th of November 2011, ROOTS & ROUTES celebrated their ten year anniversary during Buma Beats festival Rotterdam. ROOTS & ROUTES was founded 2001 in the Netherlands, when Rotterdam was the …

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Final Conference of the international ROOTS & ROUTES project “Follow Up” in Barcelona

After two years of transnational cooperation, the ROOTS & ROUTES project “Follow Up” ended with an international conference in Barcelona.

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ROOTS & ROUTES presents Art’n’Go live at Sziget Festival

Late in the evening of Tuesday, August 9th 2011, the crowd in front of A38 stage at Sziget Festival Budapest faced a shockingly unique mixture of art genres from contemporary dance to pop music, from …

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