Events

HAPPY ISLAND

A challenge to life in all its diversity. La Ribot creates a dream place with the inclusive dance company Dançando com a Diferença. HAPPY ISLAND tells about what it is like to exist with all the strength and jubilant beauty of the body.

Frischtextlabor

People with and without addiction experiences have collected words, built texts, written stories. With a text installation in the middle of Wiener Platz, the creative collective RUNNING WATER now presents the beautifully wild text collection.

BIOTOPE

BIOTOPE wants to cross borders. To rethink borders. And touch all senses to do so. The site-specific performance combines dance, performance art and objects. Without beginning and without end. Come closer!

ENTLOVE YOU!

ENTLOVE YOU! is a rhythmic and humorous appeal to think and live love in a new way and to explore a new potential of love and asks the questions: How do we want to love and be loved?

Totentanz Café

A word with death. The Totentanz Café takes place sometimes here and sometimes there, sometimes in the Rhineland and sometimes elsewhere: people come together and talk to each other about death. We talk, we write, we draw. Everyone can express themselves.

A UNIVERSAL PERSON

One body, one individual - one person. One person as representative. To leave one's own perspective. To change one's own truth. Elsa Artmann as a person becomes a field of tension: unique universe and universal representative.

Vögel

The inclusive theater collective Possible World presents Aristophanes 'The Birds' in a new guise. Deaf world, deaf culture and hearing world meet with humor and modernity.

Herbarium

With Herbarium, scents connect to the world of plants. A performative space that touches the senses of smell, hearing and touch. To discover: the life of flora, its uncertainty and vulnerability - and above all:, your own, botanical pleasure

ÄLLEI

ÄLLEI lives on the website of the Sommerblut cultural festival and offers help for digital accessibility. You too can get to know ÄLLEI.

Unseen

Suzie Larke uses art photography to visualize inner states - fragility, for example. The fascinating images - printed on fabric and stretched in metal stands - stand where they belong: in the midst of people, in Cologne's Stadtgarten.

Alles Aber Anders

12 people talk about unusual moments in their lives and how the world suddenly changed. In a humorous and touching way, the encounters on stage weave into a story that reflects our society.

Biotopia. Eine Fortpflanzung

Bleak reality and utopian dreamtime, installation and performance, human and non-human - all this meets in Biotopia.Eine Fortpflanzung.

queertopolis

With a queer eye, we transform the rooms of the Cologne men's sauna Phoenix into the temporary utopia queertopolis. The sauna experience becomes a queer happening that invites to performances, installations and mini-workshops around lust, love, sex and relationships.

Das gestohlene Glück/ Украдене щастя

The study of happiness and one's own biography meet in this collage of drama and music by Splash Theater from Kiev.

AGENDA

Have you had enough of this world? Catastrophes and social division make you despair? Visit the world of AGENDA! Apply now! Agenda item 1: More play, less work.

SKIN

SKIN is a mixed-abled performance in which Renea Shadler and Roland Walter perform an impressive duet about boundaries and points of contact. They explore their relationship to each other and to the environment in their shared language of movement.

KULTURFINALE

The Human Measure

The Human Measure is a joyful and poetic parade about moments of failure. Together the performers face frustration and celebrate with the audience.

iBelieve

iBelieve is a performative experiment in the form of an app. Sensual experiences, memories and playful challenge - reinterpreted as modern self-hacking spirituality. The installation combines a sound performance with an app.

VAGABUNDEN

VAGABUNDEN tells the musical story of outsiders. A life story about struggle, friendship, addiction and solidarity.

Syrien - Gegen das Vergessen

ROMANITY

Every day, Sinti:zze and Rom:nja move in a world of foreign attributions and prejudices. ROMANITY tells of empowerment and self-assertion, of exclusion, and stereotypes and the attempt to invalidate them.