A warm welcome!
Our non-profit association "namu Art for Life Network e.V." has made it its business to give variety and joy to children and adults in hospitals and hospices.
Since 2005, we have dedicated ourselves to this goal with over 400 performances and more than 200 volunteer supporters.
The butterfly APONI flies with her friends to the children's wards and transports these young patients into imaginative fairy-tale worlds.
Our latest project "The Dragon Girl” is an interactive musical. We offer it as an inclusive workshop for people with and without disabilities. The topics are mobbing and happiness.
Another project, the "namu-Allstars,” sing in adult hospices and other institutions.
Music and entertainment can help to stimulate our inherent self-healing powers. Healing words, colors, scents and sounds are the focus of our work.
We are delighted to have Dr. med. Patch Adams as our patron, and he has been supporting our work since 2009. He famously founded the "Clinic Clowns" and is an active worldwide
example for humanity and social commitment.
Last but not least, we would like to thank our tirelessly committed contributors, helpers, and supporters. We owe the story of our success to them. With the knowledge of the joy we have created with our activities, we would also like to inspire other people to similar social commitment.
We wish you the best of health and a fulfilling time.
Una Gonschorr
Chairman of the Board
Article in the schauspiegel magazine
"Listen"
is a sign language pop song signed in four languages.
German - American English - French - Spanish.
Sign language is different in every country.
Our message is - LIFE - PEACE - SOLIDARITY
In this video, 500 children from the German/French Gymnasium in France perform the dance sign language choreography.
Many thanks to all students and teachers, especially to Carole Taithe - the initiator, Anne Brockmeier and Clara Brendle
LISTEN is a sign language pop song written and composed by Una Gonschorr. Arranged by Peter Gasper with a saxophone solo by Roby Edwards🌸 Everyone is welcome to record their own sign language choreographies with this music.
Enjoy!
"APONI's Metamorphosis" - a children's book about the butterfly APONI is now available in UKRAINIAN. Click here to download pdf:
Carrying Together – the song of Traglinge e.V.
The team of Traglinge e.V. had a heartfelt wish for a song of their own. So Katja Mahn, the association’s founder, asked Una Gonschorr if she could create one. For Una, this was truly a matter close to her heart.
Drawing on text contributions that members had written about their commitment on the website, Una composed the song “GEMEINSAM TRAGEN” (Carrying Together). Together with children from the association, she recorded the song at Peter Gasper’s studio.
“Carrying Together” is both a message and a statement in which everyone involved with and supporting Traglinge, as well as namu Art for Life Network e.V., and surely many other kindred spirits, can see themselves reflected.
Because—together, so many things become easier, or even possible in the first place.
A big Thank You to AKTION MENSCH, who helped “carry” the costs :)
We are delighted that our patron Dr. Patch Adams has been nominated to receive the peace Nobel price. Congratulations, dear Patch!
The Siblings’ Song
This song is a collaboration between namu Art for Life Network e.V. and the Children’s Hospice Berliner Herz. The idea for the song came from Anke Konermann, who leads the sibling group at Berliner Herz.
Kristina Frank (17), whose brother is cared for at the hospice, wrote the song together with Una Gonschorr. It is dedicated to all siblings of children in a hospice, as well as to the children living with illness themselves.
Peter Gasper arranged the piece and recorded it in his studio together with the children and Una.
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