Extracurricular courses

Our curricular and extracurricular courses give children and adolescents the chance to experience and enliven art, to be intrigued by it, and learn to talk about it. There are no limits to creativity and inspiration, because art can be fun.
The workshops convey a lot of background information in a creative, playful manner. 

The FiBS Light Trail Projects of our project partner ‘Jugendförderung‘ of the City of Braunschweig/City of Brunswick show how artists create art and how they so mysteriously illuminate the works in Braunschweig. The FiBS workshops offer you – and your parents in some courses – many different opportunities to experience art, “grasp” it, and be creative in a playful manner:

„Making Lantern Houses“

You will build lanterns shaped like houses, lit with LED bulbs. This is followed by a lantern-lit walk with the newly-made town of illuminated houses to ‘Löbbeckes Island‘ with a visit to Jan Köchermann’s installation. A fun experience for you and your friends when your “houses” are composed to a moving, shining town.

children 8-12 years, accompanied by their parents during the walk
Times: 5. July / 20. July / 21.July 20:00-22:00
Meeting point: Kinder- und Jugendzentrum Mühle, An der Neustadtmühle 3

Fee:5 €

Are You a “UV pirate”?

Adventure tours for the young and young at heart! We will take you and your parents for a close-up discovery tour of parts of the Braunschweig Light Trail 2010. On a walk through the ‘Bürgerpark’, where many of the participating artists display their works, we will inspect the artworks, make lamps light up without plugging them in, build our own LED systems, create rooms made of light, and learn how to reproduce gummibears to an infinite number! While we explore with you how the pieces of art work, you and your parents will learn many exciting things about the Light Trail, the artists, and their works. Come with us on an adventure tour through ‘Bürgerpark’ to Jan Köchermann, Arend Zwicker, and Rainer Gottemeier!

Kinder 8-12 Jahre in Begleitung von 1 Elternteil
Times: July: 23./24 and 30./31. 17:00-19:00   August: 6./7. and 13./14. 15:30 -17:30 and 18:00-20:00 Meeting point: Bürgerpark am Kunstwerk von Jan Köchermann.
Fee:10 €

„Children’s Lights“
What exactly do artists do?  Do they just paint? Hardly ‑ they do all kinds of other interesting things! In this workshop, we visit a different work of art of the Braunschweig Light Trail each day. And every day we discover a new artistic language with which we react to the luminous works of art. We make music and poetry, dance, take pictures, draw, and then share our results!

Fee: 50 € per child (8-12 years)
Times: Workshop during the week  31.7.10 - 4.8.10, 31.7.10: 17:00-21:00, 1.-4. August 9:00 – 13:00 Meeting point: We meet at a different piece of art of the Braunschweig Light Trail each day.

„Light Drawings at the Light Trail“

Photo workshop with a walk to Susanne Rottenbacher‘s work “farbring 450d” and other artworks at twilight. With flashlights, bicycle lamps and LED lights (please bring your own), you will all draw imaginative pictures in the air (with the Light Trail in the background), and your drawings will be recorded on long-exposure digital photographs that capture the movement. At selected points of the Trail, images and small series of pictures can be created. You can draw one another using light, light up faces, draw shapes, dream up and realise your design ideas in small groups, and experiment freely with light, integrating your own ideas into the artwork of the Light Trail. You will receive a CD of your own creations to take home with you.

Fee: 4€ per child (9-13 years) accompanied by their parents
Times: 1. July / 2. July / 22.July 21:30-22.30 Meeting point: Tatendrang-Design, Breite Straße 18a nbsp;
Organised by: Jugendförderung, Ferien in Braunschweig, Andreas Zimpel,Tel. 0531/ 470 - 8526

Tickets: 5. June 2010, 8:00 – 12:00 (opening day),

from 7 June 2010:  Mo,Mi,Do:  7:30 – 13:00/ 14:00 – 15:30, Di   7:30 – 13:00 / 14:00 – 17:30 Uhr, Fr 7:30 – 13:00