Sister Cities - Connecting Places
“Sister Cities – Connecting Places” aims to encourage German American sister cities to explore their shared interests through the lens of public-facing arts and culture programs that ideally engage younger audiences.
The initiative is not intended as a traditional people-to-people exchange but more as a transatlantic culture lab in which sister cities invite in local cultural organizations for a collaborative brainstorming, development and production process. Each city brings its strengths, its cultural history and current viewpoints as well as its creative energy in the form of local cultural and arts organizations to the table.
The resulting project will touch on and potentially address a common interest or issue that the cities share and want to connect on. Invited participating creatives, artists, and cultural actors/influencers do not necessarily have to stem from the sister cities themselves. The project events are first presented in the US city with a later engagements in the German city highly encouraged but not required. The hope is that this configuration of organisations will continue to work together beyond Sister Cities – Connecting Places and provide a basis for cultural dialogue going forward.
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SISTER CITIES - CONNECTING PLACES is initiated and funded by the Goethe-Institut, the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global presence, with eight branches in the United States that foster cultural exchange and dialogue between Germany and the United States. The program is implemented in close partnership with Sister Cities International (Washington D.C.) and Deutscher Städtetag (Association of German Cities), Berlin and Cologne.
