Calendar

June 2025

  • Mon 16.06.25 18 h – 19:30 h
  • Mon 30.06.25 18 h – 19:30 h
  • Mon 14.07.25 18 h – 19:30 h
A drawing created with the help of artificial intelligence. A group of people can be seen singing together from the front. The people are in a good mood and have a smile on their lips as they sing. The illustration is in darker, earthy pastel tones.
WerkStadt Music Assembly

Neighborhood singing
Sing with us!

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  • Tue 17.06.25 20 h
  • Wed 18.06.25 20 h
Dark, multi-layered scene with a projection in the background. In the center of the image, a performer holds a transparent plastic tarpaulin with earth on it. The tarpaulin spreads further into the room, lies on the floor and is also stretched over a crossbeam in the air. The video projection in the background makes the foil glow at the folds and reveals its structure.
Dance Performance

Cherish Menzo
FRANK

German premiere
  • Sat 19.04.25 18 h – 22 h
  • Sat 17.05.25 18 h – 22 h
  • Sat 21.06.25 18 h – 22 h
Eine Person legt am DJ-Pult auf.
WerkStadt Music Assembly

Open Desk Session
Bring Your Sound to the Decks

Free admission
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  • Sat 07.06.25 11 h – 15 h
  • Sat 21.06.25 11 h – 15 h
  • Sat 05.07.25 11 h – 15 h
Während der Radwerkstadt
Workshop Assembly

Bike Workshop
Tips and tools to fix your own bike

Free admission
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WerkStadt
  • Thu 26.06.25 19 h
3D visualization of a city map - the red area shows the ground plan of a city, above which numerous yellow bars rise up and mark data points. A visual city profile is made visible.
Talk

Hidden Futures
Work. Clicks and Crowds

Free admission
iCal
  • Wed 04.06.25 15 h – 18 h
  • Wed 18.06.25 15 h – 18 h
  • Wed 25.06.25 15 h – 18 h
PACT Café
Assembly For children

PACT Café
Get together for families

Free admission
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July 2025

  • Thu 03.07.25 – Sun 06.07.25
Three shots of green paths merged into a single photograph. Three white installations can be seen in each of these three shots.
Installation

Mascha Fehse
Recreational Successions

Free admission
iCal
Shifting Grounds
  • Thu 03.07.25 – Sun 06.07.25
The photo shows a densely overgrown tropical forest. A path can be seen in the center of the picture. Walking along the path is a person whose silhouette can only be seen from behind and who is carrying a large, bulging sack on their back.
Festival Talk Dance Performance

Shifting Grounds
with Mascha Fehse, Sergiu Matis, Daniel Kötter, Marlene Helling & more

iCal
  • Thu 03.07.25 19 h
Das Foto zeigt eine Gruppe Menschen die zusammen bei sonnigem Wetter auf einer Wiese sitzen. Einige Personen sitzen in der Sonne, andere im Schatten des nebenbei stehenden Baumes. Die Menschen sind miteinander im Gespräch.
Talk Assembly

Shifting perspectives: transformations in life and landscapes
An evening of talks at the Zollverein slag heap

Free admission
iCal
Shifting Grounds
  • Fri 04.07.25 18:30 h – 21:30 h
  • Sat 05.07.25 20 h – 23 h
The picture shows a barren clearing in the forest. The sky is covered in clouds. In the right half of the picture, bare tree stakes can be seen, which appear to have been cut several meters above the ground. In the left half of the picture, a wide path leads to the edges of the clearing
Film Screening Performance

Daniel Kötter
Pembalakan

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Shifting Grounds World premiere
  • Fri 04.07.25 21:30 h – 22:30 h
The picture shows a person lying on a dark stage. Behind them, a video projection shows the sea, in good weather, with people swimming in it. The person on the stage is lying on their back with their legs bent. Their shoes are standing in a square pool filled with a liquid that resembles the color of the sea in the video projection.
Performance

Marlene Helling
POOLS

iCal
Shifting Grounds
  • Sat 07.06.25 11 h – 15 h
  • Sat 21.06.25 11 h – 15 h
  • Sat 05.07.25 11 h – 15 h
Während der Radwerkstadt
Workshop Assembly

Bike Workshop
Tips and tools to fix your own bike

Free admission
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WerkStadt
  • Sat 05.07.25 15 h – 16:30 h
Mehrere Personen stehen zwischen Birkenbäumen auf der Halde der Zeche Zollverein.
Talk Lecture

Walk through the industrial forest
With Oliver Balke, forester in the project Wald and Holz NRW

Free admission
iCal
Shifting Grounds
  • Sat 05.07.25 16:30 h – 18 h
Eine Person in der Bildmitte steht in einer grünen, leicht hügeligen Landschaft, welche von mittelhohen bewachsen ist. Die Sonne scheint, der Himmel ist blau, wobei ein leichter Dunst und ein paar Wolken zu sehen sind.
Lecture Workshop

Tonio Flores
anti-commodities and othered ecologies

iCal
Shifting Grounds
  • Sat 05.07.25 18:30 h – 20:45 h
  • Sun 06.07.25 18 h – 20:15 h
The photo shows three performers on a stage, two of whom can only be seen cropped and out of focus in the foreground. In the center of the picture and in the focus of the photograph, one dancer looks head-on into the camera, stretching their arms out to the side. The background is bright and the performers stand out clearly from it.
Dance Performance

Sergiu Matis
Earth Works

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Shifting Grounds
  • Sun 06.07.25
Photo of the Zollverein colliery with a focus on the adjacent slagheap and green spaces.
Performance Lecture

Chewing on the crumbs of extraction - A metabolic journey
With Iazmin Al-Qaisi and Maria Cecília Rocha

Free admission
iCal
Shifting Grounds
  • Sat 12.07.25 18 h
Zwei Personen stehen sich bei einem Tanz-Batlle auf einer Bühne gegenüber. Um sie herum schaut das Publikum zu.
Dance

International Summer Battle

iCal
  • Sun 11.05.25 11:30 h
  • Sun 08.06.25 11:30 h
  • Sun 13.07.25 11:30 h
Autorin Alexis Pauline Gumbs links, Titelcover ihres Buches ›Unertrunken‹ rechts
WerkStadt Assembly

Reading Group – Lazy Sunday

  • Mon 16.06.25 18 h – 19:30 h
  • Mon 30.06.25 18 h – 19:30 h
  • Mon 14.07.25 18 h – 19:30 h
A drawing created with the help of artificial intelligence. A group of people can be seen singing together from the front. The people are in a good mood and have a smile on their lips as they sing. The illustration is in darker, earthy pastel tones.
WerkStadt Music Assembly

Neighborhood singing
Sing with us!

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August 2025

  • Sat 23.08.25 20 h
  • Sun 24.08.25 20 h
  • Tue 26.08.25 20 h
Zwei nackte Menschen, die mit Händen und Füßen auf einem Stein stehen. Sie schauen sich nicht an, sondern blicken nach unten. Hinter ihnen ein Felsenlandschaft.
Dance Music

Nina Laisné, François Chaignaud, Nadia Larcher
Último Helecho

Tickets
German premiere
  • Fri 29.08.25 20 h
  • Sat 30.08.25 20 h
  • Sun 31.08.25 18 h
A photo of Mohamed Toukabri. He is lying on a floor covered in graffiti. He is wearing a red turtleneck sweater and black trousers and is stretching his right arm out to the side. He forms a C with his left hand and holds it in front of his left eye.
Dance

Mohamed Toukabri
Everybody-knows-what-tomorrow-brings-and-we-all-know-what-happened-yesterday

Tickets
German premiere

September 2025

  • Wed 03.09.25 20 h
  • Thu 04.09.25 20 h
  • Fri 05.09.25 20 h
Mehrere Personen sind auf einer Bühne. Sie tragen lange Kleider und Gewänder, auf dem schwarzen Boden sind Seile zur Schnörkeleien ausgelegt. Im Hintergrund werden ähnliche Formen auf die dunkle Rückwand projiziert.
Dance

Robyn Orlin / Garage Dance Ensemble / uKhoiKhoi
…how in salts desert is it possible to blossom…

Tickets
German premiere
  • Thu 11.09.25 10 h – 11 h
  • Fri 12.09.25 11 h
  • Sat 13.09.25 13 h
  • Sun 14.09.25 15 h
A group of children run towards the camera. They are all wearing painter's overalls that are smeared with lots of colors. Some of the children have paint on their faces.
Performance For children

Lisbeth Gruwez / Maarten Van Cauwenberghe / hetpaleis & Voetvolk
WASCO!

Tickets
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