Dance, musical theater, pop: Chemnitz's Capital of Culture program kicks off the summer with a series of festivals. The "Kosmos" at the Schlossteich is likely to be the biggest visitor magnet. Around 300 programme items are planned there and at other locations over three days (13-15 June), explained co-organizer Ernesto Uhlmann.
The pop band Juli ("Geile Zeit", "Perfekte Welle"), the group Deine Freunde and rapper Disarstar are expected to perform. The indie pop trio Blond will also be giving a concert on Theaterplatz with the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra. According to Uhlmann, tickets for this sold out within a short space of time. Admission to the festival events is free. It goes back to the #wirsindmehr concert following right-wing extremist riots in 2018. Last year, it attracted 70,000 people in just one day.
Disused lignite-fired power plant becomes a temporary gallery
The Capital of Culture program includes the Garage Festival next weekend (6-8 June). There will be concerts and a musical theater entitled "Songs of (In)Security". The international Festival "Tanz Moderne Tanz" will follow from June 18 to 29. Companies from countries such as Japan, the Czech Republic and France will be performing at various locations in the city. The program also includes an all-day dance journey of discovery "Odyssey in C" based on motifs from James Joyce's "Ulysses".
On June 21 and 22, visitors are invited to get creative themselves at the "Makers United" festival. From mid-July, the art festival "Begehungen" will open a decommissioned lignite-fired thermal power station to visitors as a temporary gallery for contemporary art. It will focus on topics such as resource consumption, species extinction and the climate crisis. Things will get culinary at the beginning of August at the Chocolate Festival in the Industrial Museum.
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