Edible wild plants and herbs: discover, identify and use them

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

Would you like to know how to touch nettles without stinging yourself? How to make a natural toothbrush from a hazelnut bush? Or which herb is best for a cough tea? Then join us on a wild herb tour! After a short welcome at the Koppelschleuse art school, we will go on a herb walk [...]

Cyanotype Workshop: Photography without a camera!

Create unique photographs with the iron blue printing process! On a short excursion into nature, we collect our picture material: plant parts, leaves and branches as well as sand, stones or silhouettes form our motifs and can be taken without a camera. The participants place their picture on the cyanotype paper as they wish. Here [...]

Treasure hunters among themselves

Emsland Archäologie Museum

Communication, exchange of experiences, news: District archaeologist Thomas Kassens is available to volunteer metal detectorists at an informal meeting on the last Thursday of every month. Treasure hunting was already a topic in the early Middle Ages. From this time comes the so-called "Schatzregal", which states that all finds deeper than a plowshare (about 30 [...]

Public guided tour of the Meppen City Museum

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

In the fall of 2020, the newly established Meppen City Museum opened its doors at the Koppelschleuse. During a 60-minute guided tour of the museum, visitors will get to know the new museum and learn many interesting facts about the history of Meppen. You will travel through time with experienced museum guides who are happy [...]

licht.gestalten – A sonorous silent movie evening with Johannes Cernota and Simone Nowicki

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse An der Koppelschleuse 19, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

On August 30, the Förderunion für Kunst und Kultur (Fu.K.K.) is taking a trip back to the early days of film art for the first time. In collaboration with the Koppelschleuse cultural network, three short films from the US silent comedy genre by and starring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Stan & Ollie will be [...]

Open studio

In the Open Studio we meet to create art together. Everyone who wants to develop their artistic skills is welcome here - children and adults, advanced and beginners, newcomers and "old hands"! The focus is on the joy of creating. There is an opportunity to try your hand at various materials: The premises of the [...]

Anne Nissen – “EXTEND”

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse An der Koppelschleuse 19, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

Video installation, ink drawing, collage The properties of water, the natural flow behavior of ink dissolved in water and the associated traces and forms form the basis of Anne Nissen's paper and video works. Drawing ink dissolved in water, driven by air movement or following the force of gravity in the water, becomes visible as [...]

Zentangle® Basic Course

Zentangle® is an artistic relaxation method that is very easy to learn. There are no mistakes in Zentangle® art, no "right" and "wrong". Anyone who is able to hold a pen can create magical works of art using this method. The Zentangle® method was developed by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas in the USA. This [...]

Art School Breakfast at the Youth and Culture Guesthouse

On the second Sunday of every month, parents can enjoy a hearty breakfast at the Youth and Cultural Guest House while the children give free rein to their creativity at the Art School. The breakfast buffet is available from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. and costs €8.90 for adults and children aged 12 and over [...]

Day of the Open Monument in the Arenberg Rentei

"True signs. Contemporary witnesses of history" - focusing on monuments as authentic testimonies - is the motto of this year's Open Monument Day. On September 8, 2024, millions of culture fans across Germany will be able to experience that monuments are "true signs": They symbolize history, time periods and regions as well as very personal [...]

32nd Emsland Pottery Market

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse An der Koppelschleuse 19, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

The Meppen Art Circle invites you to this year's pottery market on the idyllic grounds of the Art Center. Between the youth and cultural guest house, the museums at the Koppelschleuse and the buildings of the Kunstkreis, around 30 professional ceramists will once again be exhibiting masterful ceramic art. This year you will once again [...]

Festival of lights at the Koppelschleuse

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse An der Koppelschleuse 19, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

With a new program, the Festival of Lights at the Koppelschleuse offers a special aesthetic experience for the eleventh time. The Meppener Kunstkreis is showing light art and projections by Anne Nissen and Steffen König (Hanover) at the Koppelschleuse art center for the Festival of Lights. Students and lecturers from the art school will design [...]

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