AllerWeltHaus
The AllerWeltHaus Hagen is a free cultural center with a focus on development policy. The cultural center was established in 1988 as a continuation of the Third World Store Hagen in the Dr. Ferdinand David Park in Potthofstraße 22 in Hagen .
The cultural center is sponsored by the development association AllerWeltHaus Hagen eV , which has existed since 1979 (name until 2007: Third World Shop Hagen eV ) and whose aim is to promote development aid.
The cultural center is divided into three areas: Weltladen, Kulturbüro and meeting café.
World shop
Fair trade is the aim and task of the Weltladen , which offers food and handicraft products from cooperatives and cooperatives in the southern hemisphere , with the aim of maintaining and promoting self-determined jobs for producers of goods in developing countries. The Weltladen's additional range includes environmentally friendly paper goods and books on development issues. The Weltladen was founded in the autumn of 1976 in the Westerbauer parish hall and has been the core of the AllerWeltHaus in downtown Hagen since 1988.
Culture office
The cultural office organizes development policy events such as lectures, readings, concerts, plays, workshops and exhibitions. The cultural events usually take place in cooperation with other sponsors and organizations, for example with the city of Hagen, the adult education center, schools and communities, the Hagen North-South Forum.
Café Bistro Mundial
The vegetarian - vegan encounter café offers a changing menu of the day from Monday to Saturday and is organized on a voluntary basis. Since it opened in 1993, the kitchen has primarily been run with migrants . It sees itself pragmatically as the “intersection of cultures”. B. is expressed in the international selection of recipes.
In 1997, the café was awarded the Conciliar Process Prize by the Evangelical Church of Westphalia (since 2003, the Evangelical Church of Westphalia has awarded the Promotional Prize for Justice, Peace and Protection of Creation ). Reason: "The approach of the project ... is exemplary. Here social aspects are linked with the offer of ecological food supply and the possibility of mutual perception of different social groups. "
Event focus
Important events of the association are:
- the OPENfAIR in summer - currently under the title Diversity is good for you, an OpenAir cultural program organized with initiative groups on a Saturday in summer
- the AllerWelt-Bazaar in November - pre-Christmas fair trade sales exhibition on 200 m² of exhibition space during the entire All Saints week from the previous Saturday to the following Sunday
Initiative groups
The house is a meeting point for various initiative groups in Hagen, including Terre des hommes Hagen, Friedensinitiative Hagen, Asylum working group, women's café Diakonisches Werk, ADFC Hagen regulars table , photo friends Hagen, German-French Society, ProVeg Hagen, ECODRIVE - silently through Hagen, VCD Hagen, Games group Hagen.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 29 " N , 7 ° 28 ′ 38" E