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- Saturday, August 29
A Touch of the Orient
07:00 AM—05:00 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Teilhabe
Society
📍 Safran Restaurant
Exhibition: MONOTON MONOCHROM - Photography
08:00 AM—12:00 PM
Sonderformate - Transformation
Arts
📍 Laundromat
Ostbronx – An Exhibition on Hip-Hop in the GDR at the Shipping Container
08:00 AM—04:00 PM
Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Arts
📍 Schule - Container
bassb0uncebeby
10:00 AM—11:00 AM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
ENERGIEMOBIL - Stage of Initiatives
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Talk
📍 Fabrikstraße
TEARS (extended)
09:00 AM—12:00 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Arts
📍 Schule - Kitchen
Bataclan DJs Chemnitz
09:00 AM—10:00 AM
Sonderformate - Popkultur
Music
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Grey Energy in Industrial Landscapes
09:00 AM—09:30 AM
Talk - Transformation
Society
📍 Laundromat
Huge SDG Interactive Game
11:00 AM—05:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate
Society
📍 GenNow - Market of Opportunities
Screen Printing with the YouPan
11:00 AM—05:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate
Society
📍 GenNow - Market of Opportunities
Finanzpolitik für alle!
11:00 AM—05:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Generationen
Economy
📍 GenNow - Market of Opportunities
Sound Garden featuring various DJs throughout the day & music talk “The Best Album of the Year” with Max Rademann & guests
11:00 AM—07:30 PM
Sonderformate - Popkultur
Music
📍 Haus Arthur - Sound Orbit
VR: Training? Looks good!
11:00 AM—05:00 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Economy
📍 GenNow - Market of Opportunities
Real Talk: What's the State of Press Freedom?
11:00 AM—05:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Teilhabe
Society
📍 GenNow - Market of Opportunities
Mental Health Alliance
11:00 AM—05:00 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 GenNow - Market of Opportunities
Exhibition "how the blue grows out of the cracked concrete"
11:00 AM—04:00 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Haus Arthur - Nichts Gallery
dj.bussi
11:00 AM—12:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
The Johanngeorgenstadt Ski Jump in the Ore Mountains—A Concrete Colossus: A Burden and an Opportunity
09:30 AM—10:00 AM
Talk - Transformation
Society
📍 Laundromat
Mile of Initiatives
10:00 AM—05:00 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden
Society
📍 Fabrikstraße
Safe Spaces Against Right-Wing Violence
10:00 AM—11:00 AM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 BSZ - Workshop II
kassisound
10:00 AM—11:00 AM
DJ-Set - Popkultur
Music
📍 Bass Stage
Info Point & Merchandise
10:00 AM—10:00 PM
Sonderformate
📍 Hartmannfabrik
Keynote "On Counterpower" - Arne Semsrott
10:00 AM—11:00 AM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Schule - Atrium
Stasi Headquarters in Leipzig. Unwanted—so let's get rid of it?
10:00 AM—10:30 AM
Talk - Transformation
Society
📍 Laundromat
4roomCompany: „LITTLE GREEN“
10:00 AM—10:15 AM
Sonderformate
Sports
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Table Ball: An Inclusive Sport for Everyone
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Inklusion
Sports
📍 Schule - Courtyard
Popcorn for Democracy
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Flixbus
Participatory circus
10:00 AM—05:00 PM
Talk - Inklusion
Sports
📍 Sprint Track (front)
Democracy and You—How Much Do You Know About It?
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Challenges - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Flixbus
Empowering Children Against Inhumane Views—A Workshop for Parents
10:00 AM—11:30 AM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Kraftwerk - MeetUp (inside)
ZusammenKlang Area of the SFZ Group
10:00 AM—10:00 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Teilhabe
Society
📍 Am alten Bad
Cornhole—An Activity for Everyone
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Sonderformate - Teilhabe
Sports
📍 Shot Put
Flesh Network - Installation
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Sonderformate - Teilhabe
Arts
📍 Kraftwerk - Arts room
Don’t Panic! – Why the End of the World Is Just Another Process of Change
10:00 AM—12:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 BSZ - Workshop I
MR-808 Interactive
10:00 AM—10:00 PM
Interventionen im Stadtraum - Teilhabe
Arts
📍 Schule - Courtyard
Rhythm & Flow
10:00 AM—11:30 AM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation
Society
📍 Kraftwerk - MeetUp (outside)
Preview: Nachtarchiv - Chemnitz Club Culture Between the GDR and Y2K
10:00 AM—08:00 PM
Sonderformate - Kreativ-Wirtschaft
Arts
📍 Markthalle
Form alliances. Why the East can only be transformed through collective effort.
10:00 AM—11:00 AM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Cabaret Cellar
„It didn’t rain that day“ AI Role-Play Prompting - Game
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Sonderformate - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Arts
📍 Kraftwerk - Arts room
enviaM-Tanzboden X Handy laden
10:00 AM—10:00 PM
Sonderformate - Nachhaltigkeit
Wirtschaft
📍 Handy laden - Hartmannplatz
eins-Trinkwasserbar
10:00 AM—10:00 PM
Sonderformate
Economy
📍 Drinking Water Bar
Salsatón Kosmos 2026: Community Dance Contest for Everyone
10:00 AM—10:00 PM
Sonderformate - Teilhabe
Sports
📍 Hartmannhalle - Parking Lot
Experience Handball—Action for All Ages
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Sportaktionen - Inklusion
Sports
📍 Small Sports Field
Untitled Brain
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Sonderformate - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Arts
📍 Hartmannhalle - Lobby
Augmentation and Aging: Technologies We Should Keep an Eye On as a Society
10:00 AM—10:45 AM
Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Society
📍 Markthalle Parking Lot
“Ponure Dni” by Jemek Jemowit—a sound performance featuring camp poems by Polish concentration camp prisoners
10:00 AM—10:30 AM
Sonderformate - PostOst
Music
📍 Hedwighof
Stay Mobile
10:00 AM—06:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Inklusion
Society
📍 Schule - Basement
Growing Up Without Putting Others Down
10:00 AM—11:00 AM
Talk - Transformation
Society
📍 BSZ - Workshop III
FreeWalkingTour
10:00 AM—03:00 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Gesellschaft
📍 Diebels
Money Matters: Why Financial Literacy Makes Us All Stronger
10:00 AM—10:45 AM
Panel - Teilhabe
Economy
📍 Markthalle
em.ævi
12:00 PM—01:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
Playing Soccer Instead of Troublemaking
12:00 PM—06:00 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Sport
📍 Weitsprungbahn
TR-808
12:00 PM—06:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Inklusion
Music
📍 Schule - Basement
The Creative Economy as a Location Factor: How Creative Ideas Transform Regions
10:05 AM—10:35 AM
Panel - Transformation
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Chemnitz University of Technology: The Journey of an Idea—From Basic Research to a Company
12:05 PM—12:25 PM
Sonderformate - Transformation
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
INfreestyle
10:30 AM—10:45 AM
Talk
Sports
📍 Basketball court
Labaaz Theater: “Home?”
10:30 AM—11:15 AM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Salsa Introductory Class for Beginners
10:30 AM—11:30 AM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate
Sports
📍 Kraftwerk - Stairs
Prefabricated Buildings. Customized Modernization.
10:30 AM—11:00 AM
Talk - PostOst
Society
📍 Laundromat
Kids' Universe and DJ Workshop
10:30 AM—03:30 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Popkultur
Music
📍 BSZ - Courtyard
Smell as Migrant Memory - X3: pp Meets Tschuschkopek
10:40 AM—12:10 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - PostOst
Arts
📍 Hedwighof
Team Soul Expression – Urban Dance Showcase
10:45 AM—11:30 AM
Sonderformate - Popkultur
Sports
📍 Schule - Vorplatz
strick b2b julzz (DRUMS)
11:00 AM—12:00 PM
DJ-Set - Popkultur
Music
📍 Bass Stage
Jiný Metro (CZ)
11:00 AM—11:45 AM
Indie-Folk
Music
📍 Trailer Stage
Talk of the Future – AI, Communication, and Democracy
11:00 AM—12:00 PM
Panel - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Society
📍 Markthalle Parking Lot
Diversity on the sidelines. What’s next for civic engagement and democracy work in Saxony?
11:00 AM—12:00 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Cabaret Cellar
“Between the Elections”: A Fishbowl Discussion on Hopes, Fears, and What's at Stake
11:00 AM—12:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Haus Arthur - Garage Orbit
𝕶𝖆𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖊𝖘𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖘𝖊𝖓
11:00 AM—03:00 PM
Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Arts
📍 Hartmannhalle - Bar
Just lucky? How our background shapes our path
11:00 AM—05:00 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Economy
📍 GenNow - Market of Opportunities
Growing Up as a Queer Person in East Germany
11:00 AM—12:00 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 GenNow - Stage
Questions and Answers. Does the Future Lie in “Grey Energy”?
11:00 AM—12:00 PM
Panel - Transformation
Society
📍 Laundromat
Creative Activities with the “Gefährt:innen” at Orbit
11:00 AM—04:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Kreativ-Wirtschaft
Arts
📍 Haus Arthur - Orbit Meadow
Body Talks—Our Bodies Tell Stories
11:00 AM—12:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Inklusion
Sports
📍 Sprint Track (front)
Voices of Young People from the Festival
11:00 AM—02:00 PM
Talk - Generationen
Society
📍 Späti
Joca x Oberschule am Hartmannplatz
11:00 AM—11:20 AM
Sonderformate - Teilhabe
Music
📍 KOSMOS Stage
A Start Without Violence—Boxing as a School for Life
11:00 AM—01:00 PM
Sportaktionen - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Sports
📍 Hartmannhalle - Ring
Digital Tools and Democratic Participation: Who Has a Say?
11:00 AM—11:55 AM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Young Voices: Live-Installation im Herzen von Karl Marx
11:00 AM—03:00 PM
Interventionen im Stadtraum - Generationen
Gesellschaft
📍 Seeberplatz - Herzkapsel
Zweisamkeit
01:00 PM—02:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
How much is your (creative) work worth?
11:05 AM—11:50 AM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation
Economy
📍 BSZ - Workshop II
Create Your Utopia – Zine Workshop for a Better World
11:15 AM—01:15 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation
Arts
📍 BSZ - Workshop III
Keynote “What if we were brave?” - Luisa Neubauer
11:15 AM—12:15 PM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Schule - Atrium
„It didn’t rain that day“ AI Role-Play Prompting Workshop
11:15 AM—12:15 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Arts
📍 Kraftwerk - Arts room
A discourse on Merz through a quick feminist glance: Who’s licking whose balls?
11:15 AM—12:15 PM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Markthalle
Kosmos Connection Yoga Circle by Shantima Yoga
11:30 AM—12:30 PM
Sportaktionen - Teilhabe
Sports
📍 Meadow by the basketball court
Teresa Stelzer/Fräulein panTo.c: “The Feel Good! Machine”
11:30 AM—12:00 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Hands-On Financial Education: Experience School That Empowers You for Life
11:30 AM—12:15 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Teilhabe
Wirtschaft
📍 Schule - Klassenzimmer
In Your Face. Why Sports Still Need to Change. And Why Women Are Needed to Make That Happen.
01:40 PM—02:40 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Sports
📍 Hartmannhalle - Ring
IMPRO WORKSHOP – “Are You Still Living, or Are You Already Acting?"
11:45 AM—12:45 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation
Society
📍 Kraftwerk - MeetUp (outside)
Zumba with Anna.movez
11:45 AM—12:45 PM
Sportaktionen - Teilhabe
Sports
📍 Kraftwerk - Stairs
Lina12345 (elmstreet) b2b LU
12:00 PM—01:00 PM
Breaks, Jungel, Footwork, Bounce
Music
📍 Bass Stage
aussichtslois
12:00 PM—01:00 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
T-Jah b2b Tine.Dub
12:00 PM—02:00 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Community Rockers
United by Beat - The Remix X Reloaded Showcase
12:00 PM—12:15 PM
Sportaktionen - Popkultur
Sports
📍 Basketball court
Slavery 2.0
12:00 PM—12:15 PM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Fabrikstraße - UNIONVERSE
Share Your Visions – What Embodied Social Agents Mean for Our Everyday Lives
12:00 PM—01:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation
Society
📍 BSZ - Workshop II
Climate Ralley through Chemnitz
12:00 PM—01:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Nachhaltigkeit
Society
📍 Train station forecourt
Actively Engaged - Young People's Dreams of Possibility
12:00 PM—12:45 PM
Panel - Popkultur
Society
📍 GenNow - Stage
Corrupt? Correct! – A Soccer Game Show with a Twist
12:00 PM—01:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Sports
📍 Haus Arthur - Garage Orbit
KOSMOS JAM: 2vs2 All Style Battle (Newcomer & Pro Edition)
12:00 PM—04:00 PM
Sonderformate - Generationen
Sport
📍 Schule - Vorplatz
Book Signing with Jazzy Gabert
12:00 PM—12:30 PM
Sonderformate
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Book Table
CHARØUL
02:00 PM—03:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
Hinterlandgang
12:10 PM—01:00 PM
Hip-Hop, Deutschrap
Music
📍 Rap Stage
Yesterday Is Today and Tomorrow – Visibility of Roma* and Sinti / X3 Live Podcast with Hamze Bytyçi
12:20 PM—01:30 PM
Panel - PostOst
Gesellschaft
📍 Hedwighof
Your Blind Date with Politics – Less Small Talk, More Listening!
12:20 PM—01:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 BSZ - Workshop I
4roomCompany: „LITTLE GREEN“
12:30 PM—12:45 PM
Sonderformate
Sports
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
The “Baseball Bat Years” 2.0? — Diverse Forms of Activism in Times of the Right-Wing Counterrevolution
12:30 PM—01:30 PM
Panel - Teilhabe
Gesellschaft
📍 Markthalle
Hip-Hop in Eastern Germany as Intangible Cultural Heritage?
12:30 PM—01:15 PM
Panel - Popkultur
Society
📍 Cabaret Cellar
AI as a Colleague? – How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Research
12:30 PM—01:30 PM
Sonderformate - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Gesellschaft
📍 Hartmannhalle - Kassenhaus I
Between Power and Myth – A Critical Analysis of Current AI Narratives
12:30 PM—01:30 PM
Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Society
📍 Markthalle Parking Lot
CTRL + ALT + Neurodiversity 2.0 – A Journey Through Programming Practice, Neurodiversity, and Their Intersections
12:30 PM—01:30 PM
Talk - Teilhabe
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Ticket booth II
Happy Hands
12:30 PM—12:45 PM
Music
📍 KOSMOS Stage
Cooking with Mama: Zine Reading, Solidarity Auction and Collective Cooking
12:30 PM—03:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Kunst
📍 Schule - Küche
Solar Construction – The Symbiosis of Solar Architecture and Solar Energy Use
12:30 PM—12:50 PM
Talk - Nachhaltigkeit
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Background Matters: An East German Perspective on Poverty and Economic Growth
12:30 PM—01:30 PM
Lesung - PostOst
Society
📍 Schule - Atrium
Sonic Interventions
12:40 PM—01:30 PM
World, Jazz
Music
📍 Trailer Stage
Das Kikaninchen
12:45 PM—01:00 PM
Music
📍 KOSMOS Stage
Hands-On Financial Education: Experience School That Empowers You for Life
12:45 PM—01:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Teilhabe
Wirtschaft
📍 Schule - Klassenzimmer
Annie & Bonnie
01:00 PM—01:45 PM
Musik für Kinder & Familien
Music
📍 KOSMOS Stage
Kainat
01:00 PM—01:30 PM
Club Atomino
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
Level C (C-Recordings, RETURN) b2b Silentium (Suddenhearing, RETURN)
01:00 PM—02:00 PM
DJ-Set - Popkultur
Music
📍 Bass Stage
Part-Time Work as a Lifestyle Choice—By Choice, Out of Necessity, or the Future of Work?
01:00 PM—01:30 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Fabrikstraße - UNIONVERSE
Radical Tenderness—A Transformative Movement Practice
01:00 PM—02:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Arts
📍 Kraftwerk - MeetUp (outside)
TOGETHER WE BALL 2026 – Community Basketball
01:00 PM—04:00 PM
Sportaktionen - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Sports
📍 Basketball court
Techno Yoga “Outdoor Session”
01:00 PM—02:00 PM
Sportaktionen - Teilhabe
Sports
📍 Kraftwerk - Stairs
Macchiavelli - Rap and Politics
01:00 PM—02:00 PM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Music
📍 GenNow - Stage
Democracy. Your Vote. Your Future.
01:00 PM—01:30 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Yogilates
01:00 PM—02:00 PM
Sportaktionen
Sports
📍 Meadow by the basketball court
Showact LOCALOREZ COLORS OF MOVEMENT
01:00 PM—01:15 PM
Sportaktionen - Popkultur
Sports
📍 Basketball court
Fritz Theater: “Blinded by the Lights – A Grotesque, Episodic Vampire Duet”
01:00 PM—01:30 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Yola
03:00 PM—03:40 PM
Pop, Indie
Music
📍 Former Puppet Theater
Soundsystem Clash
03:00 PM—04:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
Startup or Scam? – The Live Quiz on Ideas and Impact
01:15 PM—02:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation
Wirtschaft
📍 Haus Arthur - Garagenorbit
Reading: Hearts Without Walls
01:15 PM—02:15 PM
Lesung - Generationen
Society
📍 Sporthochhaus
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
03:15 PM—04:00 PM
Panel - Teilhabe
Society
📍 Cabaret Cellar
Loom: interface to the textual multiverse
01:20 PM—02:50 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Arts
📍 BSZ - Workshop III
Ford Fiesta
01:30 PM—02:00 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
Outsourcing in the Healthcare Industry
01:30 PM—01:45 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Fabrikstraße - UNIONVERSE
Teresa Stelzer/Fräulein panTo.c: “The Feel Good! Machine”
01:30 PM—02:00 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Book Signing with Jörg Leupold
01:30 PM—02:00 PM
Sonderformate
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Book Table
Young Voices presents: gac00n
01:40 PM—02:10 PM
German Rap
Music
📍 Rap Stage
Pizza 3 Euro
01:40 PM—02:20 PM
Punk
Music
📍 Former Puppet Theater
Career stories: What really makes for a successful career path?
01:40 PM—02:10 PM
Panel - Transformation
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
VISION DUEL - Three People Dream of Democracy
01:45 PM—03:15 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Gesellschaft
📍 Schule - Atrium
Eastward: Conversations on East German Identities
01:45 PM—02:45 PM
Talk - Transformation
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Ticket booth I
Ways Out of Division—A Conversation with Right-Wing Dropouts and East Germans of Color
01:45 PM—02:45 PM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Gesellschaft
📍 Hedwighof
Speedfriending XXL
01:45 PM—02:45 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Kraftwerk - MeetUp (inside)
Asylum & Migration: Let’s Talk to Each Other, Not About Each Other!
01:45 PM—03:15 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 BSZ - Workshop I
DON’T WORRY - Exploring Worries and Hopes Through the Relationship Between Object and Material
01:45 PM—03:15 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation
Arts
📍 BSZ - Workshop II
Europe for Culture, Culture for Europe: A Bridge Between Regional and European Identity?
01:45 PM—02:45 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Markthalle
Binhieramleben Cringe Cypher (Live Recording Session)
01:45 PM—03:15 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Teilhabe
Musik
📍 Hartmannhalle - Kassenhaus II
“Chemnitz – City of Unseen Beauty”
01:45 PM—02:45 PM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Cabaret Cellar
AI in War: Why Autonomous Weapons Aren't Banned—and Who Profits From Them
01:45 PM—02:45 PM
Panel - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Society
📍 Markthalle Parking Lot
Arra Dizzy
02:00 PM—03:00 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Community Rockers
DNB-STEP-WORKSHOP by DNBCHEMNITZ (Kulturkollektiv Reset e.V.)
02:00 PM—03:00 PM
DJ-Set - Popkultur
Music
📍 Bass Stage
MAKE RAP NOT WAR
02:00 PM—02:45 PM
Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Arts
📍 GenNow - Stage
momentum - Pop-Up Exhibition
02:00 PM—10:00 PM
Sonderformate - Teilhabe
Arts
📍 MOMENTUM Pop-Up Exhibition - Theaterstraße 58
GAMERAUSCH CINEGAMING: THE BERLIN APARTMENT
02:00 PM—04:00 PM
Sonderformate - Popkultur
Kunst
📍 GenNow - Kino
Let's Talk About Education – with Billy
02:00 PM—02:15 PM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Fabrikstraße - UNIONVERSE
Chris Wayfarer
02:00 PM—02:30 PM
House
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
Insights
02:00 PM—10:00 PM
Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Kunst
📍 MOMENTUM Pop-Up Ausstellung - Theaterstraße 58
Hands-On Financial Education: Experience School That Empowers You for Life
02:00 PM—02:45 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Teilhabe
Wirtschaft
📍 Schule - Klassenzimmer
Book Signing with Ramona Wuttig
02:00 PM—02:30 PM
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Book Table
Tim Oskar
04:00 PM—05:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
Young Voices presents: PARADOX
02:20 PM—02:50 PM
German Rap
Music
📍 Rap Stage
Business poetry slam: Economy meets the art of words
02:20 PM—02:50 PM
Sonderformate - Kreativ-Wirtschaft
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Power Plush
02:30 PM—03:30 PM
Indie-Pop, Post-Punk
Music
📍 Trailer Stage
Späti Talk: Spätis als Dritte Orte?
02:30 PM—03:30 PM
Panel - Generationen
Gesellschaft
📍 Späti
How much of Harry Potter's Hogwarts is there at Chemnitz University of Technology?
02:30 PM—03:30 PM
Lesung
Gesellschaft
📍 Kraftwerk - Bühne
Save until the university closes?
02:30 PM—02:45 PM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Fabrikstraße - UNIONVERSE
DJ Pain Ultra
02:30 PM—03:00 PM
Electro, Breaks
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
Streetband Sonnenberg
02:30 PM—03:00 PM
Interventionen im Stadtraum - Teilhabe
Musik
📍 Kraftwerk - Treppenarena
Émilie Haus: “Jug (On the Pasted Jug—or the Inflection)”
02:30 PM—03:15 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
ZUMBA PARTY by Soul Studios
02:30 PM—03:30 PM
Sportaktionen - Teilhabe
Sports
📍 Meadow by the basketball court
Reading: Leaving Chemnitz?
02:35 PM—03:35 PM
Lesung - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Sporthochhaus
Rebellious, Uncomfortable, Overconfident Women? with Tara-Louise Wittwer and Clara Fuhrmann
02:50 PM—03:50 PM
Talk
Society
📍 Markthalle
Drag Show: Glitter, Protest, and Empowerment
02:50 PM—03:20 PM
Sonderformate - Popkultur
Arts
📍 Hartmannhalle - Ring
Between the Pressure to Perform and the Search for Meaning
03:00 PM—03:45 PM
Talk
📍 GenNow - Bühne
[to:n] (nonirritating) b2b nonova (send&return, Reiz)
03:00 PM—04:00 PM
DJ-Set - Popkultur
Music
📍 Bass Stage
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rakutt
03:00 PM—03:30 PM
Rap x Breakbeat
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
Live Podcast “Class Meets Society”: How Fair Can School Be?
03:00 PM—04:00 PM
Sonderformate - Teilhabe
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Ticket booth I
Hip-Hop & Democracy Workshop: Youth Culture, Freedom, and Us
03:00 PM—05:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 BSZ - Workshop III
Reading and Discussion – Muri Darida, “King Cobra”
03:00 PM—04:00 PM
Lesung - Generationen
Society
📍 Haus Arthur - Garage Orbit
Corporate Bullshit Bingo: Clear Language Instead of Buzzwords
03:00 PM—03:30 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Open Source: What Street View Data Reveals About China's Minority Policy
03:00 PM—04:00 PM
Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Arts
📍 Markthalle Parking Lot
Flesh Network - Performance
03:00 PM—04:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation
Arts
📍 Kraftwerk - Arts room
Climate Ralley through Chemnitz
03:00 PM—04:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Nachhaltigkeit
Society
📍 Train station forecourt
Tine.Dub
03:00 PM—04:30 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Community Rockers
“Find Someone Who…" – Encounters That Wouldn’t Happen Otherwise
03:00 PM—04:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Kraftwerk - MeetUp (outside)
Everything except “Wind of Change”
03:00 PM—04:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Transformation
Society
📍 Hedwighof
DJ Hundefriedhof live
05:00 PM—06:00 PM
Techno, Goa, Acid
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
OK KID
03:15 PM—04:15 PM
Pop, Hip-Hop Indie
Music
📍 KOSMOS Stage
Hands-On Financial Education: Experience School That Empowers You for Life
03:15 PM—04:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Teilhabe
Wirtschaft
📍 Schule - Klassenzimmer
EMMY
03:30 PM—04:00 PM
Rap x Breakbeat
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
Freedom of the Press and What It Means for Journalists in Exile
03:30 PM—05:00 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Gesellschaft
📍 BSZ - Workshop I
Greenwashing
03:30 PM—05:30 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Nachhaltigkeit
Economy
📍 BSZ - Workshop II
Falsified, Shared, Harmed: Image-Based Sexual Violence in the Digital Space
03:30 PM—04:30 PM
Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Ticket booth II
Teresa Stelzer/Fräulein panTo.c: “The Feel Good! Machine”
03:30 PM—04:00 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Nalya
03:40 PM—04:15 PM
Pop
Music
📍 Rap Stage
Welcome to the “Overtime – Summer Special”
03:40 PM—03:45 PM
Sonderformate - Generationen
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Fashionistas Activistas
03:45 PM—04:15 PM
Sonderformate - Popkultur
Society
📍 GenNow - Stage
Reading: Ostflimmern
03:45 PM—04:45 PM
Lesung - Transformation
Society
📍 Sporthochhaus
Putting Chemnitz on the conference map
03:50 PM—04:35 PM
Talk - Transformation
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
PLACID
04:00 PM—04:30 PM
Spinnerei
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
“Popcorn, Pop, and Politics” — the “Freie Presse” political talk show
04:00 PM—05:30 PM
Talk - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Schule - Atrium
hectic.303 live
06:00 PM—07:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
The Crooked Brush: Against the Privatisation of Post-AI Creativity
04:15 PM—05:15 PM
Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Society
📍 Markthalle Parking Lot
What Mushrooms Reveal About the Future
04:15 PM—05:15 PM
Panel - Nachhaltigkeit
Gesellschaft
📍 Markthalle
Prompt 1989: What AI Tells Us About the Fall of the Berlin Wall—and What It Doesn't.
04:15 PM—05:15 PM
Panel
Society
📍 Cabaret Cellar
More Than Just Boxes – What Brings Us Together
04:15 PM—04:45 PM
Workshops oder Mitmachformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Kraftwerk - MeetUp (outside)
“Don't Knock Me Out” — What Do We Know About Knockout Drops?
04:15 PM—05:15 PM
Talk
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Ticket booth I
Dani Lia
04:30 PM—05:30 PM
Indie Pop, German Pop
Music
📍 Trailer Stage
KejKej
04:30 PM—05:00 PM
Spinnerei
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
Arra Dizzy
04:30 PM—06:00 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Community Rockers
Gabi Reinhardt: "Halbstark"
04:30 PM—05:00 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
A Future for Our Industrial Region—Active, Participatory, and Fair!
04:30 PM—04:45 PM
Panel - Transformation
Gesellschaft
📍 Fabrikstraße - UNIONVERSE
Binhieramleben Cringe Cypher (Live Recording Session)
04:30 PM—05:45 PM
partizipative Projekte mit Besuchenden - Teilhabe
Musik
📍 Späti
enter the ring: COSMIC WRESTLING SHOW
04:35 PM—06:05 PM
Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Kunst
📍 Hartmannhalle - Ring
Mietze Conte
04:40 PM—05:50 PM
EDM, Eurodance, Hyperpop
Music
📍 Rap Stage
From Festival to Movement: How Strong Communities Are Built
04:40 PM—05:10 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Melodia sagrada. Music, Movement and the Art of creating belonging
04:45 PM—06:15 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Music
📍 Hedwighof
TØSCHE
05:00 PM—05:20 PM
DJ-Set
Musik
📍 Club Cabrio
LILY (nonirritating) b2b zorro (Weltecho)
05:00 PM—06:00 PM
DJ-Set - Popkultur
Music
📍 Bass Stage
ok.danke.tschüss
05:00 PM—06:00 PM
Indie-Pop, Punk, Synthie-Pop
Music
📍 KOSMOS Stage
Luther
05:00 PM—05:50 PM
Metal
Music
📍 Former Puppet Theater
Jack Bannerman: "Soft Animals"
05:00 PM—05:15 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Book Signing with Philipp Baumgarten
05:00 PM—05:30 PM
Sonderformate
Society
📍 Hartmannhalle - Book Table
Sparkle for Youth and the Future
05:00 PM—05:15 PM
Panel - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Gesellschaft
📍 Fabrikstraße - UNIONVERSE
GAMERAUSCH CINEGAMING: The Soundtracks of 1990s Gaming and Rave Culture
05:00 PM—07:00 PM
Sonderformate - Popkultur
Arts
📍 GenNow - Cinema
Reading & Discussion: After the German reunification is before the future—The role of the “post-reunification generation”
05:00 PM—06:00 PM
Lesung - Generationen
Society
📍 Sporthochhaus
LAЯA
07:00 PM—08:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
Business Shapes the Future: A Spirit of Optimism in Chemnitz
05:15 PM—05:35 PM
Talk - Transformation
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Tiner
05:20 PM—05:40 PM
DJ-Set
Musik
📍 Club Cabrio
Heda Bayer: "In der Kneipe halb acht"
05:30 PM—06:30 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
The (vertical) city as a canvas
05:30 PM—06:30 PM
Panel - Kreativ-Wirtschaft
Arts
📍 Markthalle
Automating Empathy
05:30 PM—06:30 PM
Talk - Künstlicher Intelligenz
Arts
📍 Markthalle Parking Lot
lunar trips
05:30 PM—06:15 PM
Dream Pop, Post-Punk
Music
📍 Location tba
Keynote "Softness Within Struggle" - Joseph Awuah-Darko
05:35 PM—06:35 PM
Sonderformate - Teilhabe
Arts
📍 Schule - Atrium
SubkoØne
05:40 PM—06:00 PM
transit
Music
📍 Club Cabrio
Is Chemnitz ready for new event formats?
05:40 PM—06:10 PM
Talk - Transformation
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Watch Party Air Guitar World Championships presented by Oulu, European Capital of Culture 2026
05:45 PM—07:45 PM
Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Society
📍 Späti
DRUMS SHOWCASE (Johnny Deep, NÏVEK, nokïa, krawnless, HNDTRX)
06:00 PM—07:00 PM
DJ-Set - Popkultur
Music
📍 Bass Stage
T-Jah Liveset (LIVE)
06:00 PM—07:30 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Community Rockers
Späti in Action
06:00 PM—08:00 PM
Talk
Society
📍 Späti
herbst
06:00 PM—06:45 PM
Live-Musik
Musik
📍 GenNow - Bühne
dj zula
08:00 PM—09:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
A region that looks out on the world with a friendly attitude
06:15 PM—06:45 PM
Talk - Transformation
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
sarah4k
06:20 PM—07:00 PM
Techno-Rap
Music
📍 Rap Stage
24/7 Diva Heaven
06:30 PM—07:20 PM
Punk, Grunge, Noise Rock
Music
📍 Former Puppet Theater
jung & jung: "Stuhl zur Welt"
06:30 PM—06:45 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Fire Circle
06:30 PM—08:00 PM
Sonderformate - Transformation
Sports
📍 Kraftwerk - Stairs
Alexander Marcus
06:45 PM—07:45 PM
Electrolore
Music
📍 KOSMOS Stage
Performance Samadhi, „Sam“ Nagler
06:50 PM—07:05 PM
Sonderformate - Kreativ-Wirtschaft
Gesellschaft
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
mʊdʌki (phonon.crew) (CZ)
07:00 PM—08:30 PM
DJ-Set - Popkultur
Music
📍 Bass Stage
Mika Noé
07:00 PM—08:00 PM
Indie Pop, R'n'B
Music
📍 Trailer Stage
Johannes Hoffmann und Kollektiv wüst: "aus der Welt fressen"
07:00 PM—07:30 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Eversame
07:00 PM—07:45 PM
Indie
Music
📍 Location tba
adrenaLinn
09:00 PM—10:00 PM
Music
📍 Sidekick - Kraftwerk Parking Lot
Chemnitz wins as a team.
07:10 PM—07:40 PM
Panel - Transformation
Economy
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
Ceren
07:15 PM—08:00 PM
Live-Musik
Musik
📍 GenNow - Bühne
Tine.Dub
07:30 PM—08:00 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Community Rockers
jung & jung: "Stuhl zur Welt"
07:30 PM—07:45 PM
Sonderformate
Arts
📍 Luxor - Parking Lot
Bataclan DJs Chemnitz
07:40 PM—08:00 PM
Sonderformate - Kreativ-Wirtschaft
Music
📍 Hartmannhalle - Business hub
beslik
07:45 PM—08:30 PM
Rap
Music
📍 Rap Stage
Arra Dizzy
08:00 PM—08:30 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Community Rockers
Young Voices Rave
08:00 PM—10:00 PM
Sonderformate - Generationen
Music
📍 Seeberplatz - Heart capsule
Ida The Young
08:15 PM—09:00 PM
Indie Rock
Music
📍 Location tba
Charged Movement TAKEOVER (Beasty, Arise, SlowDownBrothers, Phon & Sone, Stereophil, Lunas, LuiV)
08:30 PM—10:00 PM
DJ-Set - Popkultur
Music
📍 Bass Stage
Unity Session
08:30 PM—10:00 PM
DJ-Set
Music
📍 Community Rockers
DJ Hundefriedhof
08:40 PM—09:40 PM
Techno, Goa, Acid
Music
📍 Former Puppet Theater
SALÒ
08:40 PM—09:45 PM
New New German Wave, Post Punk, Synthie Pop
Music
📍 Trailer Stage
01099
08:45 PM—10:00 PM
Live-Musik
Music
📍 KOSMOS Stage
Aftershow x United Club Festival
09:00 PM—03:00 AM
Talk
Music
📍 Lokomov
Aftershow x United Club Festival
09:00 PM—03:00 AM
Sonderformate
Music
📍 transit
Aftershow x United Club Festival
09:00 PM—03:00 AM
Sonderformate
Music
📍 Atomino
Aftershow x United Club Festival
09:00 PM—03:00 AM
Music
📍 Spinnerei
Mariybu
09:00 PM—10:00 PM
Hyperpop
Music
📍 Rap Stage
GROUND CONTROL - A night program.
09:00 PM—01:00 AM
Sonderformate - Demokratie und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
Music
📍 Weltecho