The SABA educational scholarship supports people who have experienced migration or displacement by providing empowering settings and financial resources, thereby enabling them to attain a school-leaving certificate as a mature student.

SABA creative projects
Creative projects are at the heart of the SABA scholarship. In 2024, SABA’s annual creative project festival took place at Frankfurt LAB, presenting the artistic achievements of the six SABA groups in the fields of performance, creative writing, photography, visual arts, movement and dance. These works allow SABA scholarship holders to express their own strengths and the challenges they experienced, while also exploring the journeys they have taken and their outlooks for the future.

Project days in the knowledge garden

An artistic examination of the garden and nature

On eight mornings, students from the Hölderlin School in Bad Homburg explore the neighboring knowledge garden in the palace park. Five artists from the fields of dance, drama, music and visual arts provide impulses, which are taken up and expanded by the students in classes E1 to 4 (5 to 11 years). The exhibition in the Museum Sinclair-Haus, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the castle park, is a source of inspiration for the arts in the park.

Project of Kunst und Natur

Artists: Brigitte Haleder & Maike Häusling(Visual arts), Kristina Veit(Dance), Nicole Horny(Drama) and Axel Schrepfer(Music)

In grades 5 and 6 of the Charles-Hallgarten-School, the “KreativLabor” is an integral part of the all-day program. Every Wednesday, the pupils deal exclusively with cultural practice in the fields of visual arts, music, dance, drama and literature. The students work in two phases with two artists each. Each phase ends with a presentation for parents, the school community and the interested public. The students in grade 7 work with an artist on the same topic during the first phase and then design the presentation together with grades 5 and 6. The format is long-term: over a school year, once a week around 25 students, 2 teachers and 5 artists work together.  

Project of Charles-Hallgarten Schule

Artists: Kristin Lohmann(Visual arts), Kristina Veit(Dance), Franziska Geyer(Drama), Dalibor Markovic(Literature) and Alexandar Hadjiev(Music)

At the center of the project were questions about identities, community and the future: What does I mean? Who belongs to the we? And how do we want to live together? In dealing with these topics, 180 young people, together with artistic teams, developed numerous performances, works of art, texts, sounds, installations and interventions in public space, the Bockenheimer Depot and the Schauspielhaus

A special feature of “All Our Futures” was the great continuity of the collaboration. The majority of all those involved took part in the project over the entire period of three years and met once a week. 9 different schools of Frankfurt and 10 freelance artists from literature, visual arts,performing arts, music and dance participated.

Production of Schauspielhaus Frankfurt

For about 6-8 weeks 4 dancers from urban and contemporary stiles and 4-6 teachers work once a week with the 8^th grade at the IGS Nordend, with about 100 pupils on a preselected topic. The participants can decide in which part of the project they want to get active. The results will be presented as an installation or a performance open to the school community and public.

Artist: Vicky Söntgen, Niranh Chanthabourassy, Kristina Veit und N. Shoo Rahmani

For more than ten years, the KuturTagJahr (CultureDayYear) has taken place at several schools in Hessen and Bavaria.

In the CultureDayYear, pupils in one grade continuously dealt with art and nature over the course of a school year. They were accompanied by their teachers and by artists from various contemporary art disciplines. The focus was on personal experience and creative experimentation, detached from the hourly and class structure at school, as well as exploring extracurricular learning locations. In this way, the CultureDayYear enabled young people to engage in an intensive artistic and aesthetic exploration, which should contribute to discovering art and nature, assuming responsibility and expanding existing self-images and worldviews. Participating schools in Hessen where IGS Nordend, Bettina Schule, Charles-Hallgarten Schule, Grundschule Reifenberg and Hölderin Schule Bad Homburg

Project of Kunst und Kultur

Collabortaing artist a.o. : Brigitte Haleder, Maike Häusling, Kristin Lohmann, Linnan Thang, Michael Habes(Visual arts), Kristina Veit(Dance), Nicole Horny, Steffen Pop(Drama, Literature), Volker Stau & Axel Schrepfer(Music)

The dance project “Dance yourself” (AT) accompanies a 9th secondary school class at John F.Kennedy School Bad Vilbel in their last semester before graduation. Along with the lead choreographer Kristina Veit, dancers from the Gießen City Theater, the Spoken word artist Dalibor Marković and the theater pedagogy of the Burgfestspiele the students get to know different ways of expressing themselves through contemporary dance, theater and creative writing. They explore the Topic of self-image, self-portrayal, external impact and one’s own Body image in the context of peer groups and social media. At the end of the project period there will a public insight to the developed material that will take place in the JFK at the end of June 2024.

Artistic Direction & Project management: Kristina Veit
Dancers: Emma Jane Howley, Pin-Chen-Hsu, Borys Jaźnicki, Rose Marie Lindstrøm, Magdalena Stoyanova, Omar Torrico Real
Spoken word artist: Dalibor Marković

Theater education at the Bad Vilbel Castle Festival
Organizational support and Outside Eye: Caroline Rohmer
A dance project by the JFK School Bad Vilbel in collaboration with the Burgfestspiele Bad Vilbel and the dance ensemble of the Stadttheater Gießen
Funded by KUNSTVOLL – Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain

Dance activities for children in daycare

What can be done when children feel the urge to move about and play? The needs of young children were particularly restricted during the pandemic. That’s why the Crespo Foundation developed Moove
On! in conjunction with Tanzplattform Rhein-Main as an activity for teaching dance in nurseries. After all, that’s where most young children spend much of their everyday lives.

Professional dance instructors give contemporary dance lessons in nurseries that are both fun and inclusive. The dancers encourage the children to help design their own classes, involving the educational staff in the process too. Dance as play allows the children to develop a stronger awareness of their bodies and of how they see themselves. The classes increase their coordination, balance, strength and trust, which in turn enhances their resilience and self-awareness.

After running for two years, the interest in Moove On! is as strong as ever, and funding for the programme has continued in the post-pandemic era. Starting from January 2023, Moove On! is being implemented in combination with the KINDERTANZT! training programme, developed by the Crespo Foundation, ensuring that dance becomes even more firmly anchored in nurseries and daycare.