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Presscouncil City of Chemnitz
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Intercultural artists' market at the TIETZ

Saturday, 3 December, 11 am - 6 pm around the Petrified Forest

Chemnitz artists with and without a migration background invite you to "art shopping" at the TIETZ on Saturday, 3 December 2016, from 11 am to 6 pm. Visitors can experience an (almost) infinite variety of colours and forms of arts and crafts. Numerous exhibitors will also be demonstrating their crafts live at their stands. Admission is free.

You can buy and marvel at artistic paintings, colourful ceramics, amusing metal objects, valuable jewellery made from precious metals, textile works, works of art made from wood, felt and enamel, unusual handbags, knitted and sewn items, sound objects and wind chimes as well as unique hats and clothing made from fine materials.

The intercultural artists' market is a joint project of Ukraine Open - UKROP e.V., the Migration Officer of the City of Chemnitz, the Cultural Centre of the City of Chemnitz, as well as Fatima Al-Zahra Fakhane (painting, Morocco), Lavinia Chianello (dolls, Italy), Marina Sidorenko (embroidery, felt, Russia), Birgit Otto (felt, Germany), Hanna Remestvenska (knitwear, dolls, soap, Ukraine), Vera Strobelmair (painting, Austria), Anja Thiess (sewnGermany), Irina Kisir (jewellery, felt, knitting, Ukraine), Slava Potievsky (painting, Ukraine), Nataliya Kanyuchenko (dolls, Ukraine), Igor Slutskyy (woodcut, Ukraine), Ludmyla Maryenkova (quilling, Ukraine), Swetlana Gasisov (felt, Uzbekistan), Julia Onyschko (painting, Ukraine), Tatiana Otto (ceramics, Russia), Boris Ostrovskyy (painting, Ukraine), Vitaliy Maryenkov (painting, Ukraine), Lena Stepanova (toys, Ukraine), Ahmed Vegas (graphics, painting, Iraq), Lena Potiyevska (silk painting, Ukraine), Viktoriya Pilz (painting, Ukraine).