KuBiG - Culture and education in Gronau
KuBiG brings together culture enthusiasts and interested parties, promotes the diversity of creative forms of expression and offers a wide range of creative activities and projects, especially for children and young people, at various locations and in cooperation with a constant stream of new partners.
Here you will find a wide range of cultural education offers in Gronau and Epe. Whether for kindergarten children, teenagers, young families or adults – there is something for everyone here, whether in a group or as an individual.
Together, we are creating a vibrant cultural landscape that not only contributes to personal development, but also to social participation.
Become part of this movement and help make Gronau a place where culture and education go hand in hand.
Contact:
Britta Drewitz, britta.drewitz@rock-popmuseum.de, 02562-814821
Sabine Thünenkötter, sabine.thuenenkoetter@kb-gronau.de, 02562-718717
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KuBiG Network Meeting 2025
November 19, 2025 – 5:30 pm – Turbine of the rock’n’popmuseum
Since 2022, Kulturbetriebe Gronau has been working together with numerous partners on the overall municipal concept for cultural education (KuBiG). The aim is to strengthen cultural participation for children, young people and adults in the long term and to link culture and education even more closely in Gronau.
The KuBiG Network Meeting 2025 is an important milestone on this path: educational and cultural professionals, associations, schools and initiatives come together here to exchange ideas, initiate collaborations and bring new impetus to urban society.
A special highlight this year: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kurtenbach is our keynote speaker. The political scientist and social researcher is co-author of the book “Children – Minority without Protection”, which has been nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize 2025 . His research on migration, social inequality, urban development and social participation is highly relevant – especially for a city like Gronau.
After his keynote speech, we will talk to him about the role of cultural education for children and young people – especially in rural areas. What opportunities does it open up? Where are the challenges? And how can local cultural players, schools, associations and initiatives take responsibility together?
Registrations by e-mail to britta.drewitz@rock-popmuseum.de
or via the following form:
Competition: "The art of friendship"
A cooperation project between Georgs Galerie & KuBiG3
Friendship is colorful, strong, quiet, loud – and above all unique.
“Kunststück Freundschaft” – pupils in grades 9 to 13 are invited to express their view of friendship artistically: in painting, photography, collage or sculpture.
Show us your trick – and what friendship means to you!
Award for overall concept
In 2024, the cultural institutions in Gronau once again took part in the competition for an overall municipal concept for cultural education organized by the Ministry of Culture and Science in NRW.
The presentation of network activities relating to cultural education, children and young people, the further development of the network’s visibility for artists and future plans are set out in a comprehensive
contribution has been documented. The efforts of the Kulturbüro Gronau GmbH and the rock’n’popmuseum GmbH as representatives of the cultural activists in Gronau were honored by Minister Ina Brandes at the beginning of the year.
Offers
Cultural backpack
The “Kulturrucksack” is a program of the state of NRW. The aim is to provide all children and young people with free or significantly reduced-cost cultural opportunities.
Gronau is also taking part, together with Ahaus and Heek, and offers great projects for everyone from 10-14 years old to participate in – from drum building to graffiti workshops.
Kulturstrolche
No other institution reaches as many young people as the school. This is where the Kulturstrolche project comes in: It brings together important actors and partners to form a strong and sustainable network of elementary school, cultural institutions and local artists.
Since 2008, the project has been promoted in the member cities of the Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh, and Gronau is currently also participating in the project with three elementary schools. Kulturstrolche discover, observe and ask questions, but above all they try out cultural forms of expression for themselves. From the beginning of the second school year, the children roam the cultural institutions of their city or region in class and during regular school hours. In the three years of the project, the students should have become acquainted with as many as six different disciplines and institutions or artists. The rock’n’popmuseum, the public library and various freelance artists are among the participants.
