Our Projects & events
Chemnitz, DE: 2025 - 2026
Our new, pioneering and long-term community music residency in Chemnitz.
We invite you to join us in making music in the European Capital of Culture and beyond! Everyone is an artist. Throughout the entire Capital of Culture year, we invite you to make music and create together in open, free music workshops at various locations in the city. Whether you are young or old, musically experienced or curious – everyone is welcome here! Come by to sing, play, chat or jam and help shape our first big community event in December 2025.
Community Music Chemnitz
COMMUNITY PROJECTS > LARGE SCALE PROJECTS
INPEOS • CHemnitz european capital of culture 2025Funded by
Dortmund, DE: 27 - 29 August 2025
We invite you to a three-day international conference on community music, its power and relevance for society and cultural institutions in Germany.
A conference with workshops, panel discussions, presentations and inspiration for the German-speaking community music sector with national and international perspectives and debates.
There will be a mix of practical input from German and English-speaking community musicians, input from an academic perspective and discussion panels, including on the social relevance that a cultural institution can achieve through community music. We welcome all interested community musicians, students and teachers from music education and social work, music educators, musicians, multipliers and the curious from near and far.
A more detailed programme will follow in December.
English discussions will be simultaneously translated into German.
The conference is free of charge!
German Community Music Conference 2025
Consulting > project management
Konzerthaus Dortmund • Hochschule Düsseldorf • Community Music NetzwerkFunded by
ICH MACH `NE SZENE
Bonn, DE: September 2024 - April 2025
A music theatre project for families, children and young people (8+)
What moves me and what does it actually sound like? What language does my body speak and how do I express myself? We invite you to develop a piece of music theatre with us: melodies that have been with us for a long time or have only just formed in our heads. Ideas and texts that we write in the moment and then develop further! Come along and let your creativity run free.
Community projects > bespoke commissions
THEATER bonn • rüngsdorfer kulturbad e.v.
MUSIK FÜR ALLE: A COMMUNITY MUSIC HANDBOOK
Dortmund, DE & Tampere, FL
A documentation, reflection, and guide to the first five years of Community Music at Konzerthaus Dortmund
consulting > evaluation
konzerthaus dortmund • ISME CMA
TREPPENHAUSWOCHENENDE: COMMUNITY MUSIC
Hannover, DE: April & October 2024
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
COMMUNITY PROJECTS > SPECIAL EVENTS
orchester im treppenhausDas 1. Fest
COMMUNITY PROJECTS > SPECIAL EVENTSDortmund, DE: August 2024
The official launch of Paper Lantern Collective with a collecting of hope and wishes for the next adventure.
Community Music TRaining for music teachers
Hamm & Wuppertal, DE: August 2024
TRAINING > Training
Bergische Musikschule Wuppertal • Städtische Musikschule Hamm
A Lantern of Hope, A Lantern of Peace, A Lantern of Togtherness
International: April 2024
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.
COMMUNITY PROJECTS > BESPOKE COMMISSIONSSTORIES & DATA: EVALUATING COMMUNITY MUSIC / EDUCATION / PARTICIPATION PROJECTS
Hamburg, DE: March 2024
A deep dive into practical and realistic data collection, reflection, monitoring, and evaluating community music, education, and participation projects.
TRAINING > SPEAKING
KONZERTHAUS DORTMUND • KÖRBER STIFTUNG • ELBPHILHARMONIE