Once upon a time … is an artistic journey into the world of fairy tales. A creative dialogue through oral und written folklore leads curious children and adolescents to new countries, to foreign tales, and repeatedly to their own present. In workshops, fairy tales and stories from different cultures are interpreted and abstracted. The acquired knowledge is artfully and eloquently depicted through photography and illustration.
The workshops are not about the transfer of European views, but about the discourse and the search for children’s interpretations. The project seeks to encourage and consolidate an imaginative dialogue between German and foreign cultures. In addition, it allows the seemingly impossible connection of highly diverse cultures, as well as the reflection and examination of the reality of life. Reality and imagination, tales and history, reading and telling, texts and pictures, boys and girls, ethnicity and religion.