GHETTOUT: Follow your dreams! Artistically minded encounter of youth from Heidelberg, Dösemealti and Simferopol In 2014 young people aged 14 to 16 will meet in Heidelberg for stays of 13 days in order to prepare artistical/media presentations which focus on their personal, cultural and political circumstances as well as on their personal perspectives as European citizens. Their experiences about disadvantages, discrimination and resentments, but also about ways out of these blockades will mutually be treated and presented. Core element of the program is the involvement in the specific situation of the “strange” partner. The encounter will result in the publicly presented artistic performance “artSPACE” using dance, music, theatre, arts and photography as forms of expression. The project is being accompanied by local artists from Heidelberg, Dösemealti and Simferopol. In 2014 participants from Germany will be about 20 pupils from “Förderschulen” and a “Werkrealschule”, 5 amongst them intellectually disabled. Simferopol participants are 15 young people coming from the School 21. They represent the different cultures populating Crimea with Ukrainian and Russian origin. 5 of them are Islamic Crimean Tartars. The participants form a social mix – however most of their parents carry on low-wage, manual work employments and most of them are personally affected by social exclusion. Turkish participants are young disadvantaged poeple , some of them handicaped coming from rural environnement. The final presentations in Heidelberg, Dösemealti and Simferopol will be held in a public space. In Heidelberg it is intended to use venues in the district of Emmertsgrund. The project aims for cooperations with local neighborhood and further citizen and artistic initiatives in addition to the already existing cooperation with “Heidelberg-Simferopol Connections” In exchange an encounter in Simferopol an in Dösemealti is planned for 2015 and will be prepared in the course of the 2014 Heidelberg meeting.