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May 2024 CBYX German Participant of the Month

The U.S. Department of State and German Bundestag are pleased to announce Friederike Stuehmeyer as the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) German Participant of the Month for May!

Eugeniu Prodan

Eugeniu Prodan is an alumnus of the 2022 CLS Indonesian Program hosted by Universitas Negeri Malang in Malang, Indonesia.

June 2022 CBYX US Participant of the Month

The German Bundestag and U.S. Department of State are pleased to announce McKinleigh Lair as the June Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) U.S. Participant of the Month!  

Tony Memmel and His Band: Back From Tour

Tony Memmel

After his #AmericanMusicAbroad tour, guitarist Tony Memmel, shares how music helped him connect with youth with physical differences around the world.

Next Level Hip-Hop Cypher at the Lincoln Memorial

dancer and hip hop artist

Hip-Hop Cypher at the Lincoln Memorial is an event held by the Next Level program.

A New Type of Film Workshop - In The Cloud

When the AFS program in Egypt was postponed due to security reasons, ECA was inspired to adopt a new method used by Tiffany Shlain, an AFS participant and leader in filmmaking and technology.

Next Level

Next Level is an exciting initiative of the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs that uses a collaboration of current music, spoken word, dance, and film to foster cross-cultural creative expression, understanding, and conflict resolution in younger audiences in underserved communities overseas, and to support the professional development of artists in those communities.

American Arts Incubator

American Arts Incubator uses new media and/or mural arts as a means for engaging youth, and artists in overseas communities in Asia to advance U.S. foreign policy by addressing a local community issue, such as women’s empowerment, HIV-AIDS prevention, conflict resolution, and the environment.

The Language of Dance

Alana has studied ballet for thirteen years and hopes to become a professional ballet dancer. At an audition for an intensive summer ballet program, she heard about the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program implemented by the Russian American Foundation (RAF). This program combines Russian language instruction, cultural immersion, and ballet training with Master Teachers of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy.

Discovering Chinese Culture through Music

Vanessa studied Chinese the summer of 2012 in Suzhou, China as a National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) participant and was introduced to a whole new world.

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