climate.creatures – Who Lives and Eats Here
8 - 12 years KIKU – Kinderkulturhaus Lohbrügge Lohbrügger Markt 5, 21031 Bergedorf Platz BuchenWho actually lives with us in the city—what does a creature need to thrive here? And what kind of creature would we like to be ourselves?
Together with costume designer Gianna-Sophia Weise and theater educator Frauke Rubarth, we set out to discover the creatures around us. We observe the unusual, collect clues, draw, listen closely, and explore the small and large life forms that live (or could live) here.
From our research, we’ll develop our own creatures (“climate.creatures”): fantastical beings inspired by plants, animals, sounds, fungi, or other observations. What do they look like? What do they eat? What abilities do they have? And what can they tell us about the future?
Using various artistic techniques, we’ll create masks to invent and disguise ourselves as climate.creatures. Sounds, voices, and sound recordings will be just as much a part of our research as found objects, sketches, and stories.
For the festival Saturday on July 25, a small interactive exhibition will be created on the MS Stubnitz featuring the researched and designed climate.creatures. The audience is invited to get to know the creatures and to independently explore the climate.creatures at our research station.
This is the place for you if you enjoy researching, inventing stories, building masks, and being outdoors. Your opinion matters—we make a lot of decisions together.
This workshop is supported by “Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk” and the “Gabriele Fink Stiftung”.
Gianna-Sophia Weise sie/ihr
Gianna-Sophia Weise (she/her) is a costume designer based in Hamburg. Since 2013, she has been working in theater and performance at the intersection of municipal and state theaters and the independent scene, including at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, Kampnagel Hamburg, Residenztheater Munich, Schauspiel Hannover, Schauspiel Dortmund, Deutsches Theater Göttingen, and Theater Bremen. She has a longstanding collaboration with directors Mable Preach and Miriam Ibrahim.
In her costume designs, she addresses contemporary and socially critical issues. Her focus lies on anti-discriminatory modes of representation, the critical examination of stereotypes, and interdisciplinary working methods. As an Afro-German artist, she brings a distinct perspective on diversity and inclusion to her work.
Frauke Rubarth sie/ihr
Frauke Rubarth (she/her) is a theater educator and game designer from Hamburg. In her projects, she combines theater, play, storytelling, and artistic research into participatory formats that take children and young people seriously as co-creators. She uses methods from live-action role-playing and collaborative storytelling to create spaces where imagination, participation, and social issues converge.
KIKU Kinderkulturhaus
is a center for cultural education in eastern Hamburg and a vibrant meeting place for children, teenagers, and families. Through a wide range of partnerships with schools, daycare centers, festivals, and institutions, KIKU develops projects in the fields of theater, dance, media, literature, and creative language education. As a place firmly rooted in the neighborhood, KIKU supports children over many years and develops projects together with them, drawing on their interests, ideas, and questions about the future.