Activities

Upcoming Events

  • 7.-9.
  • Sep 2026
  • 1:00 pm

Wondrous Relations: A Festival for Arts, Education and Ecology.

More information and tickets for our closing event at the Orangerie in Cologne…

Wondrous Relations: A Festival for Arts, Education and Ecology.

  • Event, Talk, Workshop
More information and tickets for our closing event at the Orangerie in Cologne

Wondrous Relations: A Creative Writing Workshop Exploring Nature, Connection, Memory and Joy

  • Event, Workshop
Write every Wednesday in May (5-8 PM) with Tanya Gautam a.k.a. Moonlit Brooks at Café Belgique, Brüsseler Platz 16, Cologne. Free Entry, sign up required!

Education – Sustainability – Development: Literary and cultural didactic perspectives on learning and teaching in times of crisis

  • Event, Talk
The Interdisciplinary Center for Educational Research|IZfB of the University of Duisburg-Essen cordially invites all interested parties to the Day of Educational Research 2026.

Interspecies musical encounters: attention, presence and human-plant relationships in biodata sonification practices

  • Event, Talk
Sara Walther, Tanya Gautam and Linus Eusterbrock will be presenting at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology at King's College London.

Eco-Critical Literacy: How Can Arts Education Contribute to Transforming Our Way of Being in the World? Perspectives for Teacher Education

  • Event, Talk
Christian Rolle & Sara Walther will be presenting at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Open Call for Wondrous Relations: A Festival of Arts, Education and Ecology.

  • Blogpost, Event
Calling all artists, educators, researchers, citizens to present their ideas and projects for EcoLit's closing event

Between the Lines: Tacit Knowledge and Aesthetic Learning

  • Event, Talk, Workshop

with Prof. Dr. Georg Hans Neuweg (Linz) & Prof. Dr. Tasos Zembylas (Vienna) Together with the Cologne Teacher Education Hub and the Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Music and literature for ecological transformation: transdisciplinary research in the EcoLit project

  • Event, Talk
- Prof. Dr. Roman Bartosch & Tanya Gautam. The Sustainability Lunch Talks Series invites researchers at the University of Cologne to exchange ideas and network

Sounds of Crisis: Musical Narrative between Dystopia and Utopia

  • Event, Talk
Lecture as part of the lecture series "Zukunft(((s)))musik" at the Cologne University of Music and Dance

Music Education, Professionalism, and Eco-Politics

  • Event, Talk
Guest Talk with Heidi Westerlund, Margaret Barrett and team about results of the EcoPolitics project

Endless Stories: 5 workshops in the Carlsgarten, Schauspielhaus, Cologne

  • Event, Workshop
In five varied workshops, we will explore together how stories, music and creative methods can help us to deal with the challenges of socio-ecological change.

Ecological-critical aesthetic education, or: In search of answers to the question “How do we want to live?”

  • Blogpost, Event, Talk
This lecture is part of the lecture series "Posthuman and more-than-human Entanglements in Art(s) Education".

Third Sustainability Forum

  • Event

Third Sustainability Forum – Shaping a future worth living Poster presentation as part of the “Gallery Walk: Presentation of initiatives & projects in the field

“Meet the Authors!” Digital Book Launch: Engaging with Environmental Education through the Language Arts.

  • Event, Talk

EcoLit doctoral researcher and contributing author Tanya Gautam will deliver a brief presentation on her chapter, Voicing More-Than-Human Vulnerability: A Lyric Approach to Fostering Biodiversity

The Sound of Trees: A Symphony of Attentiveness

  • Blogpost, Event
Join EcoLit's first public event with biologist and musician Tarun Nayar at the Forest Botanical Garden Cologne!

Pantanal Sounds: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Music and Sound Ecology

  • Event, Talk
Guest-Talk by William Teixeira Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

Oops, I totally didn’t see that! How poems show us the world.

  • Event

Sometimes, we find ourselves distracted and not fully present in the world. We rush home, chat with friends, check our phones, or are simply in

Augmented Ecofeminism: Exhibition Opening and Workshop

  • Blogpost, Event, Workshop
Come along and discuss the Gender Climate Gap at the opening of the exhibition "Climate, Water, Women" at the Rees Ecological Research Station!

I am Plankton – On the metaphor of drifting as storytelling in song

  • Blogpost, Publication

As part of the MESH Autumn Academy for Planetary Wellbeing in collaboration with the university network EUniWell and BRIDGES, the participants of the week-long workshop

S(p)oiled Art – A Poetry and Material Crafting Workshop

  • Event, Workshop

S(p)oiled Art – A Poetry and Material Crafting Workshop Free EntrySaturday, October 26, 12-4pmPflanzstelle, Neuerburgstr. 19, 51103 Köln-Kalk This workshop took place as part of

Multispecies Storytelling: Exhibition and Live Performance

  • Event

As part of the MESH Autumn Academy on Planetary Wellbeing, we are delighted to welcome you to our cultural event that brings together multidisciplinary practices

NaturArbeit – Reading and Sound Art

  • Event

NaturArbeit – Reading and sound art July 20, 2024 | 19:30 – open end | in the allotment garden (Google Maps Link) Curated by Carla

New publication: Issue of “Diskussion Musikpädagogik” on the topic of ecology & climate crisis

  • Blogpost, Publication

New publication: Issue of “Diskussion Musikpädagogik” on the topic of ecology & climate crisis As the first music education anthology in the German-speaking world, issue

Kick-off in Feldkirch

  • Blogpost, From the Field
Project report on initial field research at the Montforter Zwischentöne in Feldkirch 2024

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