Apple Tree Foundation honors Gare du Nord
Basel's Gare du Nord receives the 2019 Integration Award from the German Apple Tree Foundation. The prize recognizes "the sustained effort to find innovative forms and ways to introduce a wider audience to new listening and experience spaces"
Since 1996, the Apfelbaum Foundation has awarded the Integration Prize annually at the beginning of each year to one person and one organization for special integration achievements. The award focuses on "growing together in culture/cultures, in the world, in society, in the economy, in the sciences, between generations, through women's initiatives and between religions".
Previous winners include Amnesty International, the cabaret artist Hanns-Dieter Hüsch, the international cultural magazine Lettre International, the women's and human rights activist Alice Schwarzer and the theologian and church critic Hans Küng.
The Apfelbaum Foundation promotes long-term development processes geared towards community. At the same time, it is the sponsor of the dependent New Music in Dialogue Foundation and the Theology and Nature Foundation. The Gare du Nord, the station for new music based in the Badischer Bahnhof, is a "venue for the extremely lively and productive contemporary music scene in Switzerland, the three-country region and beyond".
