GENERATION WIDERSTAND

What It’s All About

Moments when words cut deep: comments about appearance, background, or one’s own identity. Such experiences of exclusion often linger, make us angry, or leave us feeling helpless. But what happens when we don’t just swallow these experiences, but speak out? In GENERATION WIDERSTAND, young people starting in 9th grade and young adults creatively explore their everyday lives. In a safe space, they use theater, dance, and music to give shape to their voices and experiences. GENERATION WIDERSTAND isn’t about perfection, but about empowerment and the question: How do we find the strength together to reclaim the image of “the other” and empower one another?

That’s why you need to come

Here, the young people take the stage as experts on their own lives. Together with an actor and a theater educator, they develop their own scenes based on their thoughts and strengths. What does exclusion feel like, and what does resistance look like that doesn’t burn us out but strengthens us? The performance shows what emerges when individual vulnerability transforms into collective visibility: sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, but always radically honest and with a clear message: We are the Generation of Resistance.