Society

Events

• Saturday, August 29

• A Touch of the Orient

  09:00 AM—07:00 PM

  partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Teilhabe

• Grey Energy in Industrial Landscapes

  11:00 AM—11:30 AM

  Talk - Transformation

• Huge SDG Interactive Game

  01:00 PM—07:00 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate

• Screen Printing with the YouPan

  01:00 PM—07:00 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate

• Real Talk: What's the State of Press Freedom?

  01:00 PM—07:00 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Teilhabe

• Mental Health Alliance

  01:00 PM—07:00 PM

  partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• The Johanngeorgenstadt Ski Jump in the Ore Mountains—A Concrete Colossus: A Burden and an Opportunity

  11:30 AM—12:00 PM

  Talk - Transformation

• Mile of Initiatives

  12:00 PM—07:00 PM

  partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden

• Safe Spaces Against Right-Wing Violence

  12:00 PM—01:00 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Keynote "On Counterpower" - Arne Semsrott

  12:00 PM—01:00 PM

  Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Stasi Headquarters in Leipzig. Unwanted—so let's get rid of it?

  12:00 PM—12:30 PM

  Talk - Transformation

• Popcorn for Democracy

  12:00 PM—08:00 PM

  Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Democracy and You—How Much Do You Know About It?

  12:00 PM—08:00 PM

  Challenges - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Empowering Children Against Inhumane Views—A Workshop for Parents

  12:00 PM—01:30 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• ZusammenKlang Area of the SFZ Group

  12:00 PM—12:00 AM

  partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Teilhabe

• Don’t Panic! – Why the End of the World Is Just Another Process of Change

  12:00 PM—02:00 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Rhythm & Flow

  12:00 PM—01:30 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation

• Form alliances. Why the East can only be transformed through collective effort.

  12:00 PM—01:00 PM

  Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Augmentation and Aging: Technologies We Should Keep an Eye On as a Society

  12:00 PM—12:45 PM

  Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz

• Stay Mobile

  12:00 PM—08:00 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Inklusion

• Growing Up Without Putting Others Down

  12:00 PM—01:00 PM

  Talk - Transformation

• Prefabricated Buildings. Customized Modernization.

  12:30 PM—01:00 PM

  Talk - PostOst

• Talk of the Future – AI, Communication, and Democracy

  01:00 PM—02:00 PM

  Panel - Künstlicher Intelligenz

• Diversity on the sidelines. What’s next for civic engagement and democracy work in Saxony?

  01:00 PM—02:00 PM

  Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• “Between the Elections”: A Fishbowl Discussion on Hopes, Fears, and What's at Stake

  01:00 PM—02:00 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Growing Up as a Queer Person in East Germany

  01:00 PM—02:00 PM

  Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Questions and Answers. Does the Future Lie in “Grey Energy”?

  01:00 PM—02:00 PM

  Panel - Transformation

• Voices of Young People from the Festival

  01:00 PM—04:00 PM

  Talk - Generationen

• Digital Tools and Democratic Participation: Who Has a Say?

  01:00 PM—01:55 PM

  Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Keynote “What if we were brave?” - Luisa Neubauer

  01:15 PM—02:15 PM

  Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• A discourse on Merz through a quick feminist glance: Who’s licking whose balls?

  01:15 PM—02:15 PM

  Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• IMPRO WORKSHOP – “Are You Still Living, or Are You Already Acting?"

  01:45 PM—02:45 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation

• Slavery 2.0

  02:00 PM—02:15 PM

  Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Share Your Visions – What Embodied Social Agents Mean for Our Everyday Lives

  02:00 PM—03:30 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation

• Climate Ralley through Chemnitz

  02:00 PM—03:30 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Nachhaltigkeit

• Actively Engaged - Young People's Dreams of Possibility

  02:00 PM—02:45 PM

  Panel - Popkultur

• Book Signing with Jazzy Gabert

  02:00 PM—02:30 PM

  Sonderformate

• Your Blind Date with Politics – Less Small Talk, More Listening!

  02:20 PM—03:30 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Hip-Hop in Eastern Germany as Intangible Cultural Heritage?

  02:30 PM—03:15 PM

  Panel - Popkultur

• Between Power and Myth – A Critical Analysis of Current AI Narratives

  02:30 PM—03:30 PM

  Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz

• CTRL + ALT + Neurodiversity 2.0 – A Journey Through Programming Practice, Neurodiversity, and Their Intersections

  02:30 PM—03:30 PM

  Talk - Teilhabe

• Background Matters: An East German Perspective on Poverty and Economic Growth

  02:30 PM—03:30 PM

  Lesung - PostOst

• Part-Time Work as a Lifestyle Choice—By Choice, Out of Necessity, or the Future of Work?

  03:00 PM—03:30 PM

  Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Reading: Hearts Without Walls

  03:15 PM—04:15 PM

  Lesung - Generationen

• Get involved, help shape the future, and have a voice in the decision-making process! Citizen Participation: The KOSMOS Example—Experiences and the Path Toward the Vision

  05:15 PM—06:00 PM

  Panel - Teilhabe

• Outsourcing in the Healthcare Industry

  03:30 PM—03:45 PM

  Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Book Signing with Jörg Leupold

  03:30 PM—04:00 PM

  Sonderformate

• Eastward: Conversations on East German Identities

  03:45 PM—04:45 PM

  Talk - Transformation

• Speedfriending XXL

  03:45 PM—04:45 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Asylum & Migration: Let’s Talk to Each Other, Not About Each Other!

  03:45 PM—05:15 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Europe for Culture, Culture for Europe: A Bridge Between Regional and European Identity?

  03:45 PM—04:45 PM

  Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• “Chemnitz – City of Unseen Beauty”

  03:45 PM—04:45 PM

  Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• AI in War: Why Autonomous Weapons Aren't Banned—and Who Profits From Them

  03:45 PM—04:45 PM

  Panel - Künstlicher Intelligenz

• Let's Talk About Education – with Billy

  04:00 PM—04:15 PM

  Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Book Signing with Ramona Wuttig

  04:00 PM—04:30 PM

• Save until the university closes?

  04:30 PM—04:45 PM

  Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Reading: Leaving Chemnitz?

  04:35 PM—05:35 PM

  Lesung - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Rebellious, Uncomfortable, Overconfident Women? with Tara-Louise Wittwer and Clara Fuhrmann

  04:50 PM—05:50 PM

  Talk

• Live Podcast “Class Meets Society”: How Fair Can School Be?

  05:00 PM—06:00 PM

  Sonderformate - Teilhabe

• Hip-Hop & Democracy Workshop: Youth Culture, Freedom, and Us

  05:00 PM—07:00 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Reading and Discussion – Muri Darida, “King Cobra”

  05:00 PM—06:00 PM

  Lesung - Generationen

• Climate Ralley through Chemnitz

  05:00 PM—06:30 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Nachhaltigkeit

• “Find Someone Who…" – Encounters That Wouldn’t Happen Otherwise

  05:00 PM—06:00 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Everything except “Wind of Change”

  05:00 PM—06:30 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation

• Falsified, Shared, Harmed: Image-Based Sexual Violence in the Digital Space

  05:30 PM—06:30 PM

  Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz

• Fashionistas Activistas

  05:45 PM—06:15 PM

  Sonderformate - Popkultur

• Reading: Ostflimmern

  05:45 PM—06:45 PM

  Lesung - Transformation

• “Popcorn, Pop, and Politics” — the “Freie Presse” political talk show

  06:00 PM—07:30 PM

  Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• The Crooked Brush: Against the Privatisation of Post-AI Creativity

  06:15 PM—07:15 PM

  Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz

• Prompt 1989: What AI Tells Us About the Fall of the Berlin Wall—and What It Doesn't.

  06:15 PM—07:15 PM

  Panel

• More Than Just Boxes – What Brings Us Together

  06:15 PM—06:45 PM

  Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• “Don't Knock Me Out” — What Do We Know About Knockout Drops?

  06:15 PM—07:15 PM

  Talk

• Book Signing with Philipp Baumgarten

  07:00 PM—07:30 PM

  Sonderformate

• Reading & Discussion: After the German reunification is before the future—The role of the “post-reunification generation”

  07:00 PM—08:00 PM

  Lesung - Generationen

• Watch Party Air Guitar World Championships presented by Oulu, European Capital of Culture 2026

  07:45 PM—09:45 PM

  Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt

• Späti in Action

  08:00 PM—10:00 PM

  Talk