2025
Saturday, 14th June 2025
Wild Writing: A fun workshop for kids and teens to invent and play with words!
This workshop is about “wild writing” – where you can playfully express your thoughts and feelings and develop texts from them. Entertaining exercises will introduce you to “wild,” associative writing. Short stories, song lyrics, snippets of thoughts, and poems that particularly appeal to you are then further developed together and then digitally prepared. Join us its cost-free!
See below for details and registration.
May-July 2025
Wild Writing! Our Second Creative Workshop for Youth (14-18)
We are pleased to announce another great, new, cost-free workshop for children and young people between the ages of 14 and 18: WILD WRITING!
In this workshop, we will delve into “wild,” associative writing through exercises and allow ourselves to be enriched by multilingualism and word creation. The goal is not to develop “perfect” texts, but rather to playfully express thoughts and emotions and to develop a non-judgmental approach to one’s own creative writing.
The workshop lasts half a day (5 hours) and will be offered twice at different locations. Throughout the workshop, participants will be introduced to “wild,” associative writing through entertaining exercises and inspired exchange. The exercises can be conducted individually, in pairs, or in small groups. Afterwards, texts (short stories, song lyrics, thought snippets, poems, etc.) from the exercises that particularly appeal to the group, will be further developed and digitally prepared. The collectively written texts will be completed and read aloud to one another.
After the workshop, the finalisation process will take place: The texts will be translated into various languages and published on our website. Once both workshops are completed, a public reading/exhibition of the final texts will take place in the library for those who wish, and possibly a radio reading.
Who?
14-18 Jahren, YOUNGER BY ARRANGEMENT, The workshop is aimed at all young people, who are interested in playing with language. Multilingualism is a plus!
When & Where?
Saturday, 17th May 2025, 11 AM – 4 PM at the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer Library, Brandenburgische Str. 2, 10713 Berlin
AND/OR (you don’t have to attend both dates, but you can)
Saturday, 14th June 2025, 11 AM – 4 PM at the Haus der Nachbarschafft, Straße am Schoelerpark 37, 10715 Berlin
PLUS+ A joint closing event Saturday, 5th July 2025, 2 – 4 PM at the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer Library, Brandenburgische Str. 2, 10713 Berlin
How?
Simply register at the information desk or by E-Mail:
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Bibliothek@charlottenburg-wilmersdorf.de
Who Are We?
We are the Klingende Museum, the Haus der Nachbarschafft, and the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer Library, in collaboration with the Encounter network. We have joined forces as part of the German Library Association’s “Digital Together! Creative with Media” program to offer two workshops for children and young people in spring 2025: “Storytelling & Illustration” and “Wild Writing.”
March & May 2025
Storytelling & Illustration A Creative Workshop for Children & Youth (10-18)
We are pleased to announce a great, new, free workshop for children and young people between the ages of 10 and 18 at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Library. The workshop invites young storytellers and illustrators (and those who want to become one) to work together to create illustrated stories as a total work of art.
To do this, we will first look at favorite short stories from the library’s analog and digital collection (or the Internet) and share with each other in small groups. We will use these stories, or our own adaptations/further developments, (also using openly accessible AI) to create graphic stories, comics, illustrations or paintings. These are digitized together with the participants and prepared for the exhibition. The workshop is geared towards reading, understanding and developing stories coherently and implementing and exhibiting them creatively, using analog and digital means.
This workshop will take place on three weekends in March and May 2025 and is free of charge. It is highly recommended that you attend all three weekends.
When?
Saturday & Sunday, March 15th & 16th,
Saturday & Sunday, March 29th & 30th,
& Saturday & Sunday, May 3rd & 4th
Each day from 11 AM to 3 PM
With the final exhibition on Saturday, May 10th, 11 AM to 4 PM
Where?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Library, Brandenburgische Str. 2, 10713 Berlin
How?
Simply register at the library’s information desk or by email to:
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Bibliothek@charlottenburg-wilmersdorf.de
Who Are We?
We are the Klingende Museum, the Haus der Nachbarschaftschafft and the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Library in collaboration with the Encounter network. We have come together as part of the “Together Digital! Creative with Media” of the German Library Association to offer two workshops for children and young people in spring 2025. The second workshop: “Wild Writing” begins in May 2025. Details will be announced soon.
Saturday, 23 February 2025
Welcome Event: Introducing Our Upcoming Creative Workshops for Kids & Youth
Come by and meet the team!
2-4 PM | Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bibliothek
Learn about our upcoming creative workshops kids & youth 10-18,
Storytelling & Illustration and Wild Writing!
2024
