Calendar
THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Berlin
24 - 25 May 2024Format: Filmpremiere, nationwide forums
Berlin | HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Stresemannstraße 29 (HAU1 ) | Tempelhofer Ufer 10 (HAU3 )
"THE ART OF STAYING MANY" is a journey through eight German cities that stands up for art, freedom and democracy in a variety of gatherings. It starts with two evenings at HAU Hebbel am Ufer.After a cultural policy kick-off with, among others, the Federal Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination Ferda Ataman, the Berlin Senator for Culture Joe Chialo and the Hamburg Senator for Culture and Media Dr. Carsten Brosda, the nationwide forums will begin with the German premiere of "La Obra". In it, Mariano Pensotti and Grupo Marea (Argentina) explore the multiple perspectives of our images of reality and make a statement against the right-wing populism of the present day. We will also open the mobile truck stage with drinks and music.
The following day, Janina Möbius' new film "BLICKWECHSEL - Publika und Politiken der Darstellenden Künste" will premiere at HAU3. In it, the director explores the resonances and social transformation potentials between performing artists and their diverse audiences.
Registration
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The registration deadline is May 22, 2024.
THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Leipzig
01 - 02 June 2024Format: nationwide forums
Leipzig | LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig
The Fonds Darstellende Künste is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, action and debate. The two-day debate and performance program in Leipzig focuses on attacks on artistic (freedom), good debates and resistant subcultures and perspectives.
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THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Düsseldorf
07 - 08 June 2024Format: nationwide forums
Düsseldorf | Impulse Theater Festival, FFT Düsseldorf
The Fonds Darstellende Künste is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, action and debate. The FORUM in Düsseldorf uses art, action and debate to tackle what is probably the most pressing task of our time: to remain many and thus strengthen democracy. The hate campaign against the collective CHICKS* and its performance "LECKEN" following the invitation to the Wildwuchs Festival in Zwickau showed just how threatening right-wing agitation can be. The FORUM presents "LECKEN" and invites you to a solidarity-based exchange of knowledge between West and East German theater festivals with a focus on constitutional law: How do the Basic Law and the rule of law protect the freedom of art and artists from arbitrariness and discrimination? Contributions by Gin Müller on performative forms of resistance and by Arne Vogelgesang on narratives of the New Right on youth and family connect the discourse with artistic-activist practice.Registration
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THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Bitterfeld-Wolfen
14 June 2024Format: nationwide forums
Bitterfeld-Wolfen | OSTEN Festival
The mobile theater truck makes a stop at the OSTEN Festival, which explores "the East" as a landscape of change, and becomes a platform, discourse space, punk concert, subversion laboratory and venue for transformation experiences. Networking and practical strategies to strengthen artistic and resilient forces and resources meet subversive practices of upheaval of the standardization of social assertions of normality on site.
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THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Berlin
21 - 22 June 2024Format: nationwide forums
Düsseldorf | Sophiensæle, Chamäleon Theater
The Fonds Darstellende Künste is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, action and debate. Historical and contemporary forms of 'defensive democracy' as well as international perspectives are the focus of the Berlin discourse program, flanked by an artistic program with guest performances at the Sophiensæle and a "showdown" influenced by UK hip hop, grime, Afrobeat and spoken word by the circus company Upswing (UK) at the Chamäleon Theater.
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THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Potsdam
29 - 30 June 2024Format: nationwide forums
Potsdam | Hans Otto Theater, fabrik Potsdam
"DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN" is a journey through eight German cities that stands up for art, freedom and democracy in a variety of encounters. New narratives from and against the right, impulses for alternative cultures of remembrance and unheard stories are at the heart of the Potsdam discourse program. In the evening, Viktor Szeri (Hungary, requested) will present his dance performance "fatigue", a choreography of burnout, tiredness and dizziness, while the "ZwischenSpiel" format at fabrik Potsdam will showcase the diversity and creativity of dance on the threshold between the amateur and professional worlds with short dance pieces.Registration
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THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Erfurt
16 - 17 August 2024Format: nationwide forums
Erfurt | Plattenstufen-Festspiele präsentiert vom PHOENIX Theaterfestival
The Fonds Darstellende Künste is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, action and debate. In Erfurt, the forum takes place away from the cathedral and old town at the Platz der Völkerfreundschaft in the middle of the prefabricated housing block in Rieth. And is planned as a very practical strategy of friendship with networks, communities, a performative beauty salon (Frauke Frech) and arguing, grumbling, singing (citizens')-choirs - for a resistant and contentious local community.
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THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Weimar
24 - 25 August 2024Format: nationwide forums
Weimar | Kunstfest Weimar
The Fonds Darstellende Künste is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, action and debate. Discourse formats on artistic freedom, the threat to democracy and cultures of memory are at the center of this forum. In the artistic supporting program, the Taiwanese company Cloud Gate will be showing their work "Sounding Light" and Schorsch Kamerun will be hosting a dialogue performance on the theater forecourt. In addition: A panel will discuss the increasing antisemitism in art.
Registration
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THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Dresden
28 August 2024Format: nationwide forums
Dresden | HELLERAU, Societaetstheater, Zentralwerk e.V., Zirkustheater Festival
The Fonds Darstellende Künste is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany - with art, action and debate. Under the motto COME TOGETHER, the finale will join forces with the Europäisches Zentrum der Künste HELLERAU, the circus theater festival of the Societaetstheater and Zentralwerk e.V. to invite everyone to a big celebration of art on Dresden‘s Altmarkt. Between a choir activating the public space with Tanja Krone and the bicycle acrobats of the French company La Bande à Tyrex, we celebrate community and cohesion (of Die Vielen/the many) in the run-up to the upcoming elections.
Registration
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