Ideenschmiede: Aktiv werden und mitgestalten

In the organizer's words:

Think tank: Get active and help shape the future
Creative workshop for more cultural diversity in Gelsenkirchen
Thursday, May 21, 2026 - 17:00-21:00 hrs

This is what it's all about:

Join us in shaping and enlivening the newly emerging Fritz Bohne Democracy Center in Gelsenkirchen. We offer space for your ideas away from commerce and consumption - and the opportunity to get to know the Democracy Center, think ahead and make plans for the future.

Come to the workshop on May 21, get to know us and contribute your ideas. The focus is on your perspective: What do you want to do? What have you always wanted to plan, try out or create? Or where and how would you like to get involved?

Whether it's a writing workshop, readings, art club, garden project, family café, senior citizens' group, film screenings, clothes swap or other event formats - in the workshop we want to develop initial offers together and concretize ideas that can be implemented at or in the Fritz Bohne Haus.

For you - for democracy - for Gelsenkirchen!

Please register with our project officer Lisa Pallaks by May 18. Please write a short e-mail to: lisa (dot) pallaks (at) naturfreunde-nrw (dot) de

Planned workshop schedule:

• 16:45: Arrival
• 5:00 pm: Welcome & short presentation of Naturefriends NRW and the funding projects located in the new Democracy Center
  • stable & inclusive (democracy promotion
  • Knowledge.Action.Change. (environmental protection)
• 17:30: Get to know each other "What does democracy mean to me?"
• 18:00: Start of the think tank and development of new event formats
• 21:00 hrs: End