The Balance Club / Culture Festival takes place from November 1 to 3 in Leipzig. For the sixth time, the interdisciplinary club culture festival combines music, discourse and art in various locations in the city. With us you can win two festival tickets.
The progressive cultural approach has been in the foreground at the Balance Festival since the start of the festival. The older ones remember: the first edition was in 2018. And it is precisely this claim. At that time, the festival started as a platform for progressive club culture and transformative politics to strengthen marginalized, queer and feminist voices in club culture – especially in East Germany.
This year's motto could not be more fitting about current questions, not only in the club culture cosmos: “Tensions”, ie tensions, is the title and the topic of the festival. Because in the festival planning, the team was “guided by a certain uncertainty – from political tensions within activist groups to the worldwide upswing in populism and its supporters,” they write.
Germany, and especially Saxons, faces a growing threat from the right. At a time when fascist groups shamelessly take public spaces, marginalized people want to exclude and to silence those who defend themselves, the festival makers want to: inside, as a political tool and as a counter-movement against fascism, racism, anti-Semitism and queer hostility insert.
Club culture has often arisen from tensions and has always been a refuge, a place where we can meet another reality, apart from everyday dystopies. – Balance Club / Culture Festival
Panels and workshops in the Garage Ost
As always, the discourse program is free of charge. There are so many interesting talks and workshops that are offered over three days in the Garage East, but one stands out: Bridging Tensions: How can club culture remain resistant and solidarity despite tensions? On this afternoon (Saturday, November 2, 4 to 6 p.m.), difficulties, strategies and hopes for a collective counterculture with four guests are discussed: inside. Must-Hear.
Concert evening in the UT Connewitz
On Friday, 1/11. “The variety of contemporary club culture is celebrated with a live music and performance night in UT Connewitz,” write the makers: inside. From ambient hardcore to queer feminist punk and back, with the Iranian-German artist Nazanin Noori, the pop musician Dornika, the punk icons German Laichen and Catnapp. Catnapp was most recently at the trip festival in Leipzig and comes into the UT with a new show.
Club night in the Duqo
In the newly opened Duqo, international acts such as Chippy Nonstop and Safety Trance to local DJs and talents such as Olmatri, Ilovdaddyz and DJ Luiser meet in the newly opened Duqo for this year's club night, with the support of Tresor-Resident Yazzus and the Indian guests of the festival , The DJ Chutney Mary and the emerging queer rapper Kinari. By the way, from DJ Luiser Lest and see more in the upcoming Frohmagazin, which will be released on November 14, 2024.
Tickets and a program overview can be found here. You can also get all information in the Balance Telegram channel.
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And as announced, you can win two festival tickets (1 × 2). We would like to know from you: Which act do you particularly look forward to? Write to us by Sunday, October 27th, 2024 with your answer to [email protected] // The: The winners: In will be notified on Monday, October 28th, 2024.
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Source: https://www.frohfroh.de/43211/das-balance-club-culture-festival-ist-zurueck
