Microprojects for the all-important summer

Since 2017, the micro-project funding programme has been supporting creative ideas from urban society that fuel the application process for the European Capital of Culture 2025. The 6th funding round ends on 31 March - with a total of 50 submissions.

The jury appointed by the programme council has now made its decision: 14 projects will each be supported with up to 3,000 euros. This means that a total of around 32,000 euros will go to the participants. More than ever before, which should also help to overcome the period of cultural stagnation in the city more quickly.

The 14 projects are jointly financed by Chemnitz2025 and Klub 2025, a business initiative to support the application.

These are the projects in detail:

Youth in public spaces

The series of events aims to appeal to young people between the ages of 10 and 27 with various events over the summer and revitalise social interaction. In addition to a "KickerActionDay", there will be a "SprayDay" graffiti project, a "KüFa OpenAir" (kitchen for all) and a "Sports Bus Tour".

Crash and Reconstruction

Flight and displacement form the background to this project: refugees cross the Mediterranean on fragile boats at great risk but full of hope. The film tells of daring, failure, but also new beginnings when a dilapidated wooden boat is wrecked, the wreckage is then precisely mapped and finally rearranged in a different location.

The flying armchair

This series of events is open in two senses: The open reading stage invites you to take a seat and read aloud. In addition, the flying armchair lands in changing, interesting open houses that readers and listeners can get to know.

T.U.C. Racing Autonomous Driving

The student association wants to bring autonomous driving - made in Chemnitz - onto the road and is developing an autonomous racing car. CADA companies are also involved in the project.

I see differently - the festival of differences of opinion

On 5 September 2020, the project organisers are inviting people to a public dialogue in the centre of Chemnitz. At around 40 tables, four citizens at a time will have the opportunity to discuss the topics that are currently on their minds in a moderated but informal and respectful setting. The results will be documented, scientifically analysed and made available to Chemnitz's urban development.

100 metres of summer

Born in winter - and now also popular in summer - the neighbourhood festival is organised on the initiative of traders, restaurant and pub operators from Weststraße, along Franz-Mehring-Straße to the Rudolf-Marek-Straße junction. And when a neighbourhood celebrates together with all its guests, the idea of a European Capital of Culture comes to life.

MicroArts

Four rooms - four parallel art performances - none longer than 20 minutes. This is the experimental arrangement in this project. The performances are each repeated six times and are intended to serve as an intellectual stimulus for a critical discussion in the subsequent breaks. An intensive cultural experience on social issues.

Digital historical city atlas

The participatory project aims to create an online "atlas" in which rectified historical maps are superimposed on modern maps ("georeferenced") so that a direct comparison is possible. The atlas can also be used like a navigation device with a GPS-enabled device (i.e. any smartphone): Your own location is then displayed directly on a map from (for example) "around 1600" or from 1990. Anyone can participate in the construction or "only" view the results.

ÄRCZ

A particularly tangible illustration of great stories that take place on a small scale is the tradition of the Erzgebirge humpback mine. It is an astonishing object that brings together much of what is meant by life in the legacies of the Anhropocene: In a miniature world of the humpback mine, the miner restages the world to which he owes his identity, but which has also ruined and physically destroyed him at the same time. So-called miners, i.e. invalid miners, went on tour with these miniature worlds on their backs and played out the dramatisation of their former working life over and over again in the squares of towns and villages. The project revolves around these artefacts with a video installation, film research and exhibition.

Talking to real people (2): About land

New forms of communication and social interaction are developed in two working residencies with various guests (musicians, stage designers, friends, sisters).

International symposium for textile art in public space

The aim of the project is a five-day symposium for which representatives of various textile art disciplines from the border regions will work together in a studio house in Chemnitz. The aim is to create textile installations in public spaces that will arouse public interest in textile art, which has been so important for the German-Czech border region throughout history.

Played out! - The summer theatre 2020

The travelling theatre full of ideas and possibilities sets up camp in various places in Chemnitz to entertain, enchant and invite people to spend time together. People of all ages and backgrounds are invited to enjoy culture together, have a chat over a coffee or get active together doing arts and crafts or dancing.

Wittgensdorf information boards

The aim of the project is to bring the local history back to life for residents and visitors. In addition to an informative photo of the respective building, the boards contain the year of use, events relating to the building in chronological order, information about its owners, historical events associated with it and other special information.

Voice and vocal training workshop

Della Miles, a singing teacher from Houston, Texas, will be organising a workshop on voice and vocal training in Chemnitz.