OUR PORTFOLIO
A selection of our current and previous work.
We commit to reimagining and transforming places, institutions, communities with inspiring and ambitious artistic works created with the people, by the people, for the people.
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Community Music Chemnitz
2025 - 2027 • Chemnitz, DE
Our flagship, pioneering and long-term community music residency in Chemnitz.
A partner project of European Capital of Culture 2025
In partnership with INPEOS e.V.
Funded by Beisheim Stiftung & Deutsche Bank Stiftung
Community Music with the philharmonie
2025 - 2026 • Luxembourg, LU
Philharmonie Luxembourg x Paper Lantern Collective
Community!Music - Ensemble Resonanz öffnet Türen
2025 - 2026 • Hamburg, DE
Ensemble Resonanz x Paper Lantern Collective
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Community music zertifikat lehrgang
2025 • Düsseldorf, DE
Landesmusikakademie NRW x Hochschule Düsseldorf x Konzerthaus Dortmund x Robert Schumann Hochschule x Paper Lantern Collective
Funded by Gelsenwasser Stiftung
2025
German Community Music Conference 2025
2025 • Dortmund, DE
A three-day international conference on community music, its power and relevance for society and cultural institutions in Germany.
Konzerthaus Dortmund x Paper Lantern Collective x Hochschule Düsseldorf x Community Music Netzwerk
Funded by Commerzbank Stiftung & Deutsche Bank Stiftung
DER WEG ZU MEHR DEMOKRATIE
2025 • Vienna, AT
VHS Döbling x Paper Lantern Collective
WEINFEST RADEBEUL (SONG-BUDE)
2025 • Leipzig, DE
Songs for all occasions! A pop-up songwriting booth where visitors co-write and take home a bespoke song in less than 7 minutes.
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Community Music in Theory and in Practice
2025 • Halle, DE
Franckesche Stiftungen x Paper Lantern Collective
Landesmusikakademie Berlin Community Music Seminar 2025
2025 • Berlin, DE
Landesmusikakademie Berlin x Paper Lantern Collective
Pavilion der Angst with Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
2025 • Chemnitz, DE
Kunstsammlung Chemnitz x Paper Lantern Collective
Funded by Commerzbank Stiftung
National Community Music Network Meeting
2025 • Düsseldorf, DE
Community Music Netzwerk x Paper Lantern Collective
Deutsche Orchestertag
2025 • Berlin, DE
Deutsche Orchestertag x Paper Lantern Collective
Zukunftsmusik: Vielfalt with bodensee Philharmonie
2025 • Konstanz, DE
What does Konstanz sound like? A song for, with, and by all of Konstanz. Celebrating the diversity and brilliance of the town.
Bodensee Philharmonie x Paper Lantern Collective
Uverse: Songwriting at the Leipzig Book Fair
2025 • Leipzig, DE
Beisheim Stiftung x Paper Lantern Collective
Community Music Training
2025 • Dortmund, DE
Konzerthaus Dortmund x Paper Lantern Collective
2024
Ich Mach ‘Ne Szene
2024 - 2025 • Bonn, DE
What moves me and what does it actually sound like? What language does my body speak and how do I express myself? A co-created musical theatre performance with the children of Bonn.
Theater Bonn x Paper Lantern Collective
Musik für Alle: A community music handbook
2024 • Tampere, FI & Dortmund, DE
Paper Lantern Collective x Konzerthaus Dortmund x ISME CMA
Das Erste Fest
2024 • Dortmund, DE
Paper Lantern Collective
TREPPENHAUS WOCHENENDE
2024 • Hannover, DE
A hands-on immersion in community music practice through the creation of a spontaneous orchestra/performance with everyone in the room. All are welcome - regardless of their experience, instrument, skill or background as we create a brand new collective piece from nothing in a joyful, open and fully co-created process with everyone.
Orchester im Treppenhaus x Paper Lantern Collective
Community music training for music teachers
2024 • Hamm & Wuppertal, DE
Städtische Musikschule Hamm & Bergische Musikschule Wuppertal x Paper Lantern Collective
A lantern of hope, a lantern of peace, a lantern of TOGETHERNESS
2024 • International
A remote gathering and collective breath at the start of a new journey. 100 paper lanterns around the world in a moment of remote togetherness and stillness.
Paper Lantern Collective
When you live by the side of the sea
2024 • Morecambe, GB
A ceremony and remembrance with the whole seaside town on the anniversary of the Morecambe Bay Cockle Picking Disaster.
Pete Moser x Paper Lantern Collective x More Music
Stories & Data at the art of music education conference
2024 • Hamburg, DE
Körber Stiftung x Elbphilharmonie x Paper Lantern Collective
