100 x 100 years
from April to December
Literature
- Conference series "Guillaume Apollinaire et l'Allemagne: de la belle aube au triste soir" by Laurence Campa
- Apollo 18: Conception and publication of a work with texts by contemporary German and French authors
Cinema and virtual reality
- Film series "The First World War in the Cinema", in partnership with local cinema operators, as well as meetings with the directors and workshop for students.
- Open-Lab the Brain 4, artist's residence "Gardens of Peace", in collaboration with the french movie festival Tübingen-Stuttgart
Sound archive
- Recorded songs don't ever die / Même morts nous chantons, a 20-minute electroacoustic live performance by Marie Guérin
Ideas
- Conference series "Restoring Peace" by Jean-Michel Guieu
- Winning peace, a conference about the end of the First World War
- Uni100, is a university conference series and several events on the consequences of the First World War and on building peace
Youth
- 100 Ambassadors for Peace, an international youth meeting in Berlin
Organizer:
Institut français Germany
More information at:
https://www.institutfrancais.de/kultur/gesellschaft-digitales/100-mal-100-jahre
Memory bubbles
from 1 September to 30 March
Since 2011, the Office has been offering middle school students and out-of-school youth of equivalent level to participate in a comic book contest. The author (s) must create a comic book whose theme relates to the memories of ordinary, anonymous fighters.
Organizer:
Office National des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre (ONACVG), Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.
More information at:
http://www.onac-vg.fr/fr/missions/concours-scolaires-memoire-combattante/
History Festival "War or Peace. Crossroads of history 1918 | 2018"
from 17 to 21 October
Die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung /bpb is planning a four-day history festival together with the Maxim Gorki theater in 2018 (expected to be 17.-21.10.2018). The occasion is the 100th.commemoration of the end of the First World War. This event will be illuminated from different perspectives and its meaning for the here and now will be discussed.
Organizer:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Maxim Gorki Theater
More information at:
https://www.warorpeace1818.org/
The Paris Peace Forum
from 11 to 13 November
The Paris Peace Forum is the global platform for governance projects. Designed in response to growing tensions in today's world, it is based on the conviction that lasting peace can only be achieved through transnational cooperation. The Paris Peace Forum aims to be the venue for all cooperation solutions in the areas of peace and security, environment, development, new technologies and inclusive economics.
Organizer:
Mission du Centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale (MdC)
More information at:
https://parispeaceforum.org/
EUSTORY Next Generation Summit
from 14 to 19 November
The History Campus invites young Europeans to discuss at several workshops their common history. Together with experts from academia, journalism and education they explored, analyzed and discussed several historical topics and their importance in a rapidly changing Europe today.
Organizer:
Körber-Stiftung, EUSTORY
More information at:
https://www.historycampus.org/summit2018/
Football and commemoration
16 November
On the initiative of the Volksbund a memorial game will be held on 16/11/2018 by youth teams of Liverpool FC and the Hertha BSC, which, in the context of other international events, will build a bridge between the British-French Rememberance Day / Jour d'Armistice and the German Memorial Day.
Organizer:
Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V., Hertha BSC and Liverpool FC
More information at:
https://www.volksbund.de/home.html
1918 – 2018 – 2118
from 12 to 19 November – Berlin, Germany // from 4 to 11 May 2019 – Paris, France // from 17 to 24 August 2019 – Hortobágy, Ungarn
1918 - 2018 - 2118 is a German-French-Hungarian exchange about past, present and future. The focus will be on discussing the current conflicts and how wars and their effects can be counteracted. In three phases the participants will exchange, get to know each other and get closer. In addition to the content, they will also deal with the countries and cities in which they are guests.
Organizer:
Arbeit und Leben – DGB/VHS
More information at:
http://www.berlin.arbeitundleben.de/fileadmin/arbeitundleben/Anmeldung-1918-2018-2118.pdf
Former projects
"MIX'ART, a shared memory and future - Cross-border participatory art workshops at Hartmannswillerkopf"
Nearly 200 students from both sides of the Rhine have been working since September with a group of street art artists to create 34 canvases on the theme of the Great War and peace. Objective: to work together, in both languages, and to consolidate Franco-German friendship. The paintings are on display at the Historial du Hartmannswillerkopf.
Organizer:
L’association Ariana
More information at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRsk38TV0q8
Impressions from the project 100 years after World War I
During the project, 18 students from the Hückelhoven High School visited students from the Köprüler Anadolu High School in Vezirköprü (Samsun) and worked together on their bilingual exhibition.
Organizer:
Deutsch-Türkische Jugendbrücke
More information at:
https://www.jugendbruecke.de/index.php?id=145&L=0
First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme
Since 2014, the UCL Institute of Education has been conducting the highly successful "Centenary Battlefield Tours Program" of the First World War. This educational program brings students and teachers from every secondary school (11-18 years) in England on a four-day tour to the battlefields of the Western Front. To date, they have worked with more than 1,600 schools across England, visiting the battlefields with nearly 5,000 teachers and students.
Organizer:
UCL institute of Education, Department of Digital Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS)
More information at:
https://www.centenarybattlefieldtours.org/news/2018/amiens-2018-international-student-tour/
Student competition: "together - gemeinsam!"
Never So Innocent called on young people aged 9 to 16 from the UK and Germany to write a poem or song together or independently, or to make a work of art about the First World War, thus embracing messages of hope and unity create.
Organizer:
Never Such Innocence, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.
More information at:
https://www.volksbund.de/meldungen/aktuelles-artikel/news/aus-dem-schrecken-lernen.html
4 days for Peace
4 days to remember, to understand and to contribute for peace. Faites la Paix has invited all the countries that fought on the Artois front to commemorate our history together to better understand our future!
Organizer:
Faites la Paix
More information at:
https://faiteslapaix.org/les-actions-2018/