Club Euro­pe” – Movie Recommendation

Club Euro­pa” – A Movie to Encou­ra­ge Dis­cus­sions About Our Own Poli­ti­cal Power

Dri­ven by the wish to do some­thing good – also based on a guil­ty con­sci­ence not being dedi­ca­ted enough to help’ in ever­y­day life – Mar­tha con­vin­ces her flat­ma­tes Yas­min and Jamie, to invi­te a refu­gee to live with them in the spa­re room of their apart­ment in Kreuz­berg, Berlin.
Short­ly after, media­ted by an NGO, Samu­el moves in. Life tog­e­ther is cha­rac­te­ri­zed by a fri­end­ly tog­e­ther­ness; within the walls of the apart­ment, Mar­tha, Yas­min, Jamie and Samu­el grow clo­ser. When the situa­ti­on of their Cameroo­ni­an house­ma­te Samu­el takes a dra­ma­tic turn, the dedi­ca­ted Mar­tha and her flat­ma­tes have to face the ques­ti­on: How far do they real­ly want to go, to help?
OnTV: ZDF27th July 2017, 23:0000:20 or online strea­ming.

We are fea­turing this movie not just becau­se the sto­ry goes along our topics here, but becau­se Fran­zis­ka M. Hoe­nisch who made this movie is the litt­le sis­ter” of Flo­ri­an Hoe­nisch the initia­tor of Bet­ter Tog­e­ther and it is in the plan­ning, to have an exclu­si­ve scree­ning of this movie here in Taunusstein!
we will keep You updated on this. See the trai­ler: Con­ti­nue rea­dingClub Euro­pe” – Movie Recommendation”

(Deutsch) Anmer­kun­gen eines Angekommenen

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Aus­zug aus dem Buch:
Neu in Deutschland

Addis Mulu­ge­ta

Sie sind nicht Flücht­lin­ge, sie sind Menschen

Zuerst war man »Mensch« und hat­te von Geburt an eine unan­tast­ba­re Wür­de. So steht es auch im Grund­ge­setz der Bun­des­re­pu­blik Deutschland.
Jedes Leben ist kost­bar, jeder hat ein­zig­ar­ti­ge Eigen­schaf­ten. Jeder strebt nach einem Sinn für sein Leben und nach einer bes­se­ren Zukunft.
Als »Mensch« ist man vie­les: Vater, Mut­ter, Mann, Frau, Bru­der, Schwes­ter, Toch­ter, Sohn, Freun­din, Schü­ler, Stu­den­tin, Leh­rer, Ärz­tin, Mecha­ni­ker, Jour­na­lis­tin etc. Jede und jeder äußert ihre oder sei­ne Gefüh­le und Plä­ne, einen Traum vom Leben in ihrer oder sei­ner eige­nen Art und Wei­se, in der eige­nen Spra­che. Sie oder er sucht einen eige­nen Lebens­weg und prak­ti­ziert die eige­ne Kul­tur, Tra­di­ti­on und Reli­gi­on im ver­trau­ten Umfeld. Con­ti­nue rea­ding „(Deutsch) Anmer­kun­gen eines Angekommenen”

A Song to remind us of why we reach out to help

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Hims­elf up for us, a fra­grant offe­ring and sacri­fice to God.”- Ephe­si­ans 5:2

Josh Gar­rels – Hiding Place

Josh Gar­rels is a popu­lar singer/​songwriter based in Port­land, Oregon.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Josh-Garrels-Music/

He wri­tes, “ This past week I work­ed hard to wri­te, record, and pro­du­ce the song Hiding Place,” crea­ted espe­ci­al­ly for the One Mil­li­on Thumbprints cam­paign. When my child­ren asked why I was wri­ting the song and why I was going to give it away, I told them about the despe­ra­te plight of women and child­ren fle­e­ing for their lives in war torn are­as of the world. I also told them about the importance of living gene­rous­ly so as to help others in their time of need. My daugh­ter Heron pro­cee­ded open her own pig­gy bank and draft a let­ter to One Mil­li­on Thumbprints. Would you con­sider giving gene­rous­ly for the sake of tho­se in need as well?” Con­ti­nue rea­ding A Song to remind us of why we reach out to help”

(Deutsch) Spen­den­auf­ruf

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BETTER TOGETHER
Wir alle sind Taunusstein
Das Fest der Begeg­nun­gen am 1. Sep­tem­ber 2017

Ein unüber­hör­ba­res und unüber­seh­ba­res Aus­ru­fe­zei­chen für unse­re Stadt.
Ein kul­tu­rel­les, kuli­na­ri­sches, musi­ka­li­sches und krea­ti­ves Fest mit viel Raum für Begeg­nung, Kom­mu­ni­ka­ti­on und auf­ein­an­der zu gehen.
Inte­gra­ti­on (er)leben!

High­lights :
Die Aus­stel­lung Den Geflüch­te­ten ein Gesicht geben“ mit Fotos, Inter­views und Vide­os der Geflüchteten
Gra­tis­kon­zert mit dem berühm­ten syri­schen Pia­nis­ten Aeham Ahmad

Hier­für brau­chen wir Eure Unterstützung »>

Con­ti­nue rea­ding „(Deutsch) Spendenaufruf”

(Deutsch) BETTER TOGETHER – Das Fest der Begegnungen

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Was: Fest Im Rah­men des Tau­nus­stei­ner Kul­tur­som­mers  Kul­tur­som­mer Flyer

  • Aus­stel­lung mit Por­traits, Fotos, Inter­views, Vide­os von und mit Geflüch­te­ten aus Taunusstein.
  • Inter­na­tio­na­les Essen
  • ver­schie­de­ne krea­ti­ve Workshops
  • Tanz und Live-Musik aus ver­schie­de­nen Nationen,
  • Top Act: Der syri­sche Pia­nist Aeham Ahmad (In den Trüm­mern Syri­ens spiel­te er für die Hoffnung)
  • Podi­ums­ge­sprä­che
  • Viel Zeit zum ein­an­der begeg­nen, ken­nen­ler­nen und neue Inter­ak­ti­ons­mög­lich­kei­ten mit­ein­an­der auszuloten

Wann: Frei­tag, 1. Sep­tem­ber 2017, 16 Uhr ‑22 Uhr
Wo: Dr.-Peter-Nikolaus-Platz & St. Johan­nes Nepo­muk Kir­che, Aar­str. 140, Tau­nus­stein Con­ti­nue rea­ding „(Deutsch) BETTER TOGETHER – Das Fest der Begegnungen”

(Deutsch) Initia­ti­ve Bet­ter Tog­e­ther“ plant gro­ßes Fest im Rah­men des Tau­nus­stei­ner Kultursommers

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WK 10-06-2017 Initia­ti­ve Bet­ter Tog­e­ther“ plant gro­ßes Fest im Rah­men des Tau­nus­stei­ner Kultursommers

PDF: WK 10-06-2017 Initia­ti­ve Bet­ter Tog­e­ther“ plant gro­ßes Fest im Rah­men des Tau­nus­stei­ner Kultursommers

Our Visi­on

BETTER TOGETHER – We all are Taunusstein

The visi­on of dif­fe­rent cul­tures living tog­e­ther need space to crea­te expe­ri­en­ces and events whe­re this is made public and visi­ble for ever­yo­ne. The Event BETTER TOGETHER wants to achie­ve exact­ly that. We want to make as many peo­p­le as pos­si­ble curious and give them space to expe­ri­ence each other in their dif­fe­rent cul­tures, reli­gi­ons and back­grounds in a crea­ti­ve way. We con­ti­nue on the first wel­co­me-event for refu­gees in 2015 whe­re still had been a gap bet­ween Tau­nus­stein and the new peo­p­le arrived.

Today Tau­nus­stein is deve­lo­ping into an open and inter­cul­tu­ral city and took the refu­gees in with a gre­at sen­se of sup­port. The lan­guage cour­ses are very suc­cessful, sport clubs are ope­ning for the refu­gees and neigh­bour­hood is working. But the limi­ta­ti­ons and the exces­si­ve demands of many hel­pers and vol­un­teers are also expe­ri­en­ced. Thats why the slo­gan Inte­gra­ti­on“ is right now the expres­si­on which needs to beco­me prac­ti­cal and real. As city and regi­on we are facing gre­at chal­lenges and we still have many steps ahead of us – we have to take them and do it. Many refu­gees are lon­ging for more per­so­nal cont­acts and fri­end­ships with and to ger­mans. The­re are still lan­guage bar­riers and many more chal­lenges to overcome.

That was the reason why a team of vol­un­teers came tog­e­ther to initia­te this event. The moment the idea and visi­on was out a team of moti­va­ted young kids from the Gym­na­si­um Tau­nus­stein joi­n­ed in to help put­ting an exhi­bi­ti­on tog­e­ther . The idea of a pho­to-exhi­bi­ti­on Give the refu­gees a face“ was rea­li­sed and very per­so­nal and expres­si­ve por­traits of refu­gees in tau­nus­stein were crea­ted. We will publish tho­se as part of the event BETTER TOGETHER at the 1. September.

We invi­te you to cele­bra­te a colourful and mani­fold event of mee­ting each other – with many cul­tu­ral, crea­ti­ve, musi­cal and sport expe­ri­en­ces and mul­ti­cul­tu­ral food. One of the out­stan­ding goals of Bet­ter Tog­e­ther“ is that new rela­ti­onships and fri­end­ships are being estab­lished bet­ween ger­mans and refu­gees, the migrants in our city, that new pri­va­te and per­so­nal initia­ti­ves are being deve­lo­ped and we can sup­port and encou­ra­ge the inte­gra­ti­on in our city.

Sup­port Possibilities:

Up until now we alre­a­dy have seve­ral offi­ci­al coöpe­ra­ti­on part­ners: the city coun­cil, the Pro­tes­tant Church Blei­den­stadt, katho­li­sche Kir­che Hahn, Mal­te­ser Wer­ke (Kreis-Flücht­lings­un­ter­kunft Blei­den­stadt), Ver­ein SGT – Soli­dar­ge­mein­schaft Tau­nus­stein, Gym­na­si­um Blei­den­stadt, Beruf­li­che Schu­len Unter­tau­nus and the Ver­ein Bür­ger­initia­ti­ve Flücht­lings­hil­fe Tau­nus­stein. As initia­tors of BETTER TOGETHER we are still loo­king for more part­ners, sup­port­ers and spon­sors for this event. The­re is ple­nty of space to demons­tra­te com­mon soli­da­ri­ty and sup­port on that day. We want to con­nect the dif­fe­rent streams and acti­vists“ of the refu­gee work with the peo­p­le from Tau­nus­stein and pro­mo­ting the coöpe­ra­ti­on with each other. You are more then wel­co­med to sup­port this event with a con­tri­bu­ti­on for the mul­ti­cul­tu­ral buf­fet and/​or with finan­cial dona­ti­ons to help cove­ring the costs.

Whe­re: Peter-Niko­laus-Platz, Taunusstein-Hahn
When: Frei­tag, 1.September 2017 from 4.00 pm till about 10.00 pm

Cont­act & Communication:
mail@better-together-taunusstein.de
tel. 015208569350

The Initia­tors:
Flo­ri­an Hoe­nisch • Peter Wolf • Chris­toph Rath • Schü­ler­team des Gym­na­si­um Tau­nus­stein • Ver­ein SGT Soli­dar­Ge­mein­schaft Tau­nus­stein (vor­mals Bür­ger­initia­ti­ve Flücht­lings­hil­fe Taunusstein)

(Deutsch) Wir in Tau­nus­stein – Begeg­nungs­fest Novem­ber 2015

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Am 15.11.2015 fand in der Aar­tal­hal­le in Tau­nus­stein-Neu­hof unter reger Betei­li­gung unser ers­tes Fest statt

Bil­der von der der sehr gut besuch­ten Fei­er, wo viel getanzt, musi­ziert und gelacht wur­de. Das lecke­re, abwechs­lungs­rei­che inter­na­tio­na­le Buf­fet war sehr gefragt.