The new VHS programme is published

With more than 400 events in Bocholt, Rhede, Isselburg, online and at external venues, the VHS is offering a diverse and wide-ranging programme of further education in the first half of 2025. On Thursday, 9 January, the new programme booklet of the Bocholt-Rhede-Isselburg Adult Education Centre for the academic half-year 2025/1 will be published as a supplement in the Bocholter-Borkener Volksblatt and online on the VHS homepage.

The programme is also available at the VHS office in Bocholt (LernWerk, Industriestr. 1, 46395 Bocholt), at the branch offices in Rhede (city administration, Rathausplatz 9, 46414 Rhede) and Isselburg (city administration, Hüttenstr. 33-35, 46419 Isselburg) as well as at other public locations (e.g. Bocholt City Library).

"We are delighted that we have arrived so well at the LernWerk in summer 2024 and have also been able to remodel and set up something in Rhede and Isselburg. An appealing learning atmosphere is particularly important to us so that we can combine stimulating content with a certain feel-good factor", says Isabel Testroet, Head of VHS Bocholt-Rhede-Isselburg.

"In 2025, we would like to present our many participants with a colourful programme once again. We cordially invite all citizens to read the programme in the booklet or on the homepage and to look for suitable events according to their individual needs, to discover new opportunities and to learn for life." The VHS therefore presents familiar and new offers as well as modernised areas in order to meet the diverse needs in a varied and stimulating way.

Online registrations are possible from Monday, 13 January at www.vhs-bocholt.de. Personal registrations will also be accepted at the VHS Bocholt office in the LernWerk and the branches in Rhede and Isselburg from this date.

Dates for consultations on integration and language courses as well as general information can now be found on the homepage under "German - Integration" as well as at the VHS office in Bocholt on 02871/953-2277, at the branch offices in Rhede on 02872/930-269 and Isselburg on 02874/911-31.

Start of the semester with Rene Schumacher

On Monday, 17 February, a real top-class artist will kick off the semester in the auditorium of the Bocholt Comprehensive School: Rene Schumacher will make a guest appearance in Bocholt on his tour and present a fascinating multivision entitled "Wild Europe - 3517 km with child and cone". Advance ticket sales for this cooperative event organised by the VHS, BBV Media Group and Stadtsparkasse Bocholt start on 13 January.

Together with the volunteer agency, the adult education centre is offering several courses and events free of charge, for example rhetoric against regulars' table slogans, as well as bookkeeping and auditing of association accounts. They are aimed in particular at Bocholt residents who are involved in voluntary work.

New and familiar topics

The main focus in the area of politics and society is the early general election with the Lux Film Prize and the First Election Professionals 2.0.

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, the VHS and Stadttheaterverein Bocholt e.V. will present the Placebotheater Münster with a living democracy on stage on 9 May. This and other events are part of the project "Shaping Diversity - Participate. Learn. Develop. (Er)Leben.", which is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science.

In the area of child day care, the first "Final qualification 160+" in accordance with the new quality manual for existing child day carers starts on 20 March. The university counselling day for Bocholt and Rheder schools will be held on 3 April at the Gesamtschule Bocholt.

In the Culture & Creativity area, some new offers have been added to the programme, e.g. "Crocheting and Knitting for Beginners" and "My First Amigurumi Crochet".

In addition to highly topical issues relating to climate protection and modern building technology, the Nature & Environment section is offering a lecture entitled "The life and death of the stars", in which the speaker Dr Philipp Heimann will share his enthusiasm for astrophysics.

In the new semester, the health section will focus on relaxation and stress reduction. The new series of events "PRIME TIME: TIME FOR YOU - meditations from distant lands" led by Stephan Kamps fits in perfectly.

The cookery courses on offer are varied and range from "Perfekte Stulle" to "Tipps der Veganen Küche" and English-language courses.

As usual, there will be a wide range of courses in the area of work - IT, from educational holidays on "Adobe Creative Cloud" to "Paperless Office". There are many basic courses, e.g. "Safe on the keyboard - 10 fingers blind" or all about Office topics. The courses in the field of artificial intelligence are particularly interesting. There are practical workshops on "How to prompt correctly and legal issues" or "Artificial intelligence in office management".

In addition to weekly courses in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Croatian and Greek, our foreign language programme also includes exciting weekend courses. The Dutch department offers various formats for educational holidays, including weekend courses.

For German as a foreign language and foreign language courses, language consultations will take place on Tuesday, 21 January from 9:30 to 12:00 and on Thursday, 23 January from 9:30 to 12:00 and 14:30 to 16:30. Please book appointments online via our homepage.

The VHS team hopes all readers enjoy reading the new programme and looks forward to seeing you again in the first half of the 2025 academic year.