lectures & workshops
Off the beaten track
Date: 16/10/2010, Globetrotter Ausrüstung, Cologne, Germany
Off the beaten track is a lecture to share my experiences in traveling to countries that may be a bit beside the normal tourist travels. What do i have to know before? How do i prepare a trip? And what are the most important things in a foreign country, i know neither the language or the culture from personal experience? Off the beaten track is designed to give you advice for your travels, combined with stories and experiences i made over the years. The lecture is part of the travel days at Globetrotter Cologne, so come and join us, also for other lectures.
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Aotearoa
Date: 13/10/2009, 7 pm at University of Mönchengladbach, Germany
A multimedia lecture with stories from New Zealand. From the mystical climbing grounds of Castle Hill to travelling around all over the country with classic sights and unknown treasures.
For more information check out the microsite here.
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A story of two worlds
Date: 03/10/2009, 9 pm at Kletterfabrik Köln, Germany
A lecture covering three pretty diverse east african countries with different problems and possibilities. The lecture is a mixture between a travel story and a journalistic approach to cover also some of the crisis. Follow us on a journey through Kenya, Rwanda into the DR Congo for deep inside looks into the differnent lifes and historys of the places.
For more information check out the microsite here.
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Kenia im Wandel
Date: 22/07/2009, 6 pm at the geographic institut in Bonn, Germany
A lecture about the potentials and problems in Kenia covers topics like land degradation, slums & migration, HIV/ Aids and showcases also projects like the Baobab Family Project and the Wamba Education Project. I support the lecture with pictures and documentary films from Kenya as well as speaking about the HIV/Aids orphans problematic down there.
The full lecture will be online soon…
>>there and back<<
Date: 17/01/2009, 9 pm at Kletterfabrik Koeln, Germany
>>there and back<< is the attempt to share impressions from around the world with other people. A multimedia show with photo- and videoparts about my travels in 2008. Follow me through the stunning New Zealand to the magic Laos, from bouldering in Brittany, the future of European bouldering, to the forgotten kingdom of Ladakh, from Australia to Ankor Wat, from Thailand beach bouldering to the center of the bouldering world, Font.
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workshops
With our own eyes
Date: 09.11.-13.11.09 in Butare, Rwanda
The Idea:
The information coming out of the media about Africa in total or especially Rwanda is pretty much concentrating on crisis and the problems. Most of the stories are told by foreign journalists. But what do the people of Rwanda think about their country? How do they see it? What are the stories they wanna tell the world?
After the Iran elections we could see in a massive speed all the information going through the internet and giving us a ground level view inside a country which was stilized to the root of all evil in the last years. Even when this might not be possible in Rwanda to this extend, everyone has a cellphone and most of them have one with a camera in it.
A picture is not about creating a memory, capturing a moment. The technical device you use is in the first moment not important for this. It could be your cellphone, a old film camera or a fancy DSLR. At the end it depends on you, what comes out of it and how good you captured what you saw.
The idea behind a photography/multimedia workshop is to provide basic skills in creating images, how to tell stories with pictures and also to give the knowlage about where to find information, free programs and other things you need to start creating something out of the images and put it on the internet, where the world could see them.
The digital age gives the big opportunity to see the life though the eyes of everyone and social networks are a wonderful point to start with that. Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs are giving everyone the chance to express themselves for free and telling her/his story. Why not use this to create more understanding from the outside world for a country like Rwanda?
Outcome of the workshop will be a website which puts together the pictures/ creative outcome of the workshop, pictures from the workshop and so on.
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