{"id":292316,"date":"2011-04-07T07:34:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T05:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/strong-without-violence-gen-rosso-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:42:21","slug":"strong-without-violence-gen-rosso-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/strong-without-violence-gen-rosso-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Without Violence- Gen Rosso in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cAll our\u00a0 warmest greetings from Germany where this unforgettable and unique experience with the junior high and high school kids has by now become a tradition\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of Tomek Mikusinski\u2019s impressions of Gen Rosso\u2019s German tour<\/strong> in a letter he wrote to our editorial team on behalf of the whole troupe before they set off for the Czech Rebublic.<\/p>\n

The German tour began in Heidelberg- 200 teenagers in the run-up to the sacrament of confirmation freely gave up part of their winter holidays to parttake in \u201cStrong without Violence\u201d, a tried and tested educational project, carried out thanks to collaboration between Gen Rosso and various schools in a number of European countries.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>500,000 young people have taken part in the project to date. <\/strong>The European Union sponsors this project based on the group\u2019s musical Streetlight: the true story of Charles Moates who grew up in one of Chicago\u2019s ghettos in the 60\u2019s. Following the ideal of a united world Charles was always opposed to violence and this choice cost him his life in 1969.<\/p>\n

Drawing on this inspirational figure, the project strives to transmit values that help young people combat violence, marginalisation, bullying and other problems facing teenagers in their urban environments. The conclusion of the teenagers\u2019 work was displayed in the Eppelheimer Rhein-Neckar-Halle, with 1,100 paying audience members. The novelty of this year\u2019s tour was the \u201cDoku-Workshop\u201d: participants made a documentary which covered the whole week\u2019s activities right including the build-up to the show and the audience\u2019s arrival in the theatre. Its photos and interviews about Gen Ross\u2019s daily life and their work on the road was screened during the evening.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The next leg of the tour was in Bonn with 13 workshops and over 500 participants. After that came a strongly multiethnic school in Dortmund. Last off was Cologne where the troupe had a particularly special experience with young students with hearing difficulties. \u201cI am proud of my students\u201d,<\/em> said the principal of\u00a0 the LVR-Johann-Joseph-Gronewald School, \u201c<\/em>because putting on a musical despite hearing difficulties is obviously a huge challenge. I thank those who had the idea for this indispensable project and \u00a0for the huge opportunity given to my students\u201d.<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cGen Rosso, you absolutely must keep this project up because it really, really helps us young people!\u201d,<\/em> wrote one of the participants on the group\u2019s Facebook page, confirming the worthiness of an idea that is spreading more and more among students throughout Europe.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gen Rosso are on tour in central Europe with a jam-packed schedule of shows and workshops as well as continuing the original project \u201cStrong without violence\u201d which by now involves various junior high schools and high schools in a number of European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[895],"class_list":["post-292316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2","tag-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}