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Flinn Works is led by co-artistic directors Sophia and Lisa Stepf. It has independently produced and presented more than 20 performances in a wide range of different venues and festivals. Always engaging with current social and political issues, the company devises its work in collaboration with professional artists and performers.
Through the investigation of questions that resonate globally, performance, music and text are created with artists who work in different art forms and global locations. The style of each Flinn Works production varies, as determined by the key artists and performers and their specific skills and experiences. Flinntheater has a strong commitment to engaging with the next generation of audience members, and regularly offers education workshops and subsidised tickets for young people from the age of 15 and up.
Flinn Works is committed to intensive research, sarcastic humour, strong soundscapes, multiperspectivity  & polyphony in their artistic language.

Our main working topics:

- Remembering the Holocaust - Peaceful and democratic future and human dignity

- Interreligious dialogue and sympathy

- Cultures in Europe, Israel and the Mediterranean areas

- Promotion of the European idea

- Integration work

The continuous project „To find a way” successfully brings together youths from Germany and Israel, from Israel Muslims, Christians and Jews. They discuss in the project topics like diversity, history (especially the time of Nazism in Germany), Jewish life in Germany, Religion and Peace. Mutual respect and appreciation are key to the project and is focused on in every meeting. In "Remember The Past – Shape The Future" (2022/23) Begegnungen 2005 e.V. partners with Yad Vashem, the Jewish synagogue congregation of Cologne, two schools in Israel and Germany; under the sponsorship of the Cologne Mayor. Students interpret poems created from victims of the Holocaust, composing music remembering the terrible crimes of that time. They meet both in Germany and Israel and play together on one stage. In Germany they investigate the history of the Jewish students of the school taking part in the exchange. In the project “Instruments of Peace” Youths from the Galilee West-East-Multicultura” orchester have visited Saarlouis/Germany, following up on another visit. The guests live in families of German students, really getting to know each other. Together with youths from Ukraine they played music on behalf of peace and freedom. Begegnungen 2005 e.V. organizes each year between 10 and 15 of such projects, ramping up the activity after Corona again.

Our main project at this time is to give room and voive to the women-political claims in the sense of the UN Resolution 1325 in the Middle East Peace Process.
1. Supporting the peace activists in Israel/Palestine by providing them with a safe space for bilateral workshops and seminars in Germany.
2. Expand the network and cooperation of peace - and women rights-activists in Israel and Palestine
3. Supporting workshops on democracy, tolerance and non-violent communication
4. Consolidation of the trilateral cooperation with german partners and supporting the prominence of the UN 1325
5. Supporting inter cultural music projects between Israel, Palestine and Germany

Förderverein Willy Brandt Zentrum Jerusalem e.V is the official body of the Willy Brandt Center in Jerusalem. Weconnect between the European, Israeli and Palestinian partners. We support educational journeys and offers internships and volunteer services in Jerusalem. We work together with young activists but also  with Members of Parliament, and such we link between grassroot and the political sphere.

three-year project aiming at establishing a cooperative educational platform for Palestinian and Israeli youth organizations; three-year project aiming at improving the communication channels between young Israeli and Palestinian decision makers; monthly public cultural events in the framework of the Red Lounges; one-year program aiming at supporting democratic structures in Palestine; regular youth exchanges between Germany, Israel and Palestine; activities to strengthen community development in Jerusalem

Among others: Actual projects: The worldwide exhibition: “Aesthetics and sustainability” Exhibition and Seminars on: “Patters of Another Order” (exchange Bologna-Berlin 2015) A German edition of the “Festival de la Cultures Soufie de Fès, Maroc: The famous encounter of these Muslim traditions in philosophy, religion, art, literature and dance with other cultures and the questions of our time wants to open up tothecountriesof Europe- inBerlin with concerts from Marocco, Turkey, Spain, Mayotte and speakers and artistsfrom Marocco, Germany, Niger,USA, Tunesia and others.

 Actual projects:
The worldwide exhibition: Aesthetics and susstainebiliby
Exhibition and Seminars on: “Patters of Another Order” (exchange Bologna-Berlin)
A German edition of the “Festival de la Cultures Soufie de Fès, Maroc: The famous encounter of these Muslim traditions in philosophy, religion, art, literature and dance with other cultures and the questions of our time wants to open up tothecountriesof Europe- inBerlin with concerts from Marocco, Turkey, Spain, Mayotte and speakers and artistsfrom Marocco, Germany, Niger,USA, Tunisia and others.