ARTplus promotes inclusion in artistic higher education by enabling talented people with disabilities and/or learning difficulties to access and complete degree programs in the arts.
ARTplus Training Program
With ARTplus, we aim to promote inclusion-specific knowledge and experience within artistic training institutions: the insights and results generated by the project are intended to enable artistically talented people with disabilities and/or learning difficulties to participate in the study programs of art universities in the future.
ARTplus takes place in the German federal states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia. The activities in the state of Bremen are represented by tanzbar_bremen e.V.
Currently, two graduates from the special education program (“Werkstufe”) of the Inge Katz School are enrolled as guest students in the fields of Dance/Theater and Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen Ottersberg. Starting in the summer semester of 2022, they plan to transition into regular degree programs. Three other interested individuals from Bremen also plan to begin their studies at that time.
Together with Impuls Bremen – Center for Healthy and Artistic Movement, we are currently researching how young people with disabilities can be integrated into its training programs. The training at this state-recognized private vocational school for gymnastics, dance, and sport lasts 2.5 years and qualifies young people as movement educators for gymnastics, dance, and sport. We aim to make this possible through individual solutions and models.
Within the project contexts of tanzbar_bremen, we also plan to develop alternative training paths for dancers with disabilities.
Discussions with other actors in cultural education in Bremen are ongoing.
ARTplus in Bremen is carried out in partnership with tanzbar_bremen e.V. and is funded by:
ARTplus is part of EUCREA, the umbrella association for art and inclusion in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
EUCREA is committed to greater diversity and variety in the arts and cultural sector, especially for creatives with disabilities. It develops exemplary programs and projects that aim for the equal participation of people with physical disabilities, learning difficulties, and/or sensory impairments in dance, theater, music, and fine arts—in education, in professional life, and in artistic practice.