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Etel Adnan would have been 100 years old on 24 February 2025. We would like to invite you to a celebration of this wonderful artist. We listen to Etel Adnan’s texts together, reading from them, let her be present in short films, talking about her and her works. We invite you all: Bring your favourite Etel Adnan text! There will also be Lebanese street food and music.

Alongside the celebrations for Etel Adnan’s 100th birthday, the fourth edition of our How did that go again? series is scheduled within which we remember special moments from 25 FFT Years. Etel Adnan was bound to the FFT in friendship, especially by the stage adaptation of her novel “Sitt Marie-Rose” which depicts the fate of a Lebanese Christian woman who is caught in the civil war frontlines.

Junges Schauspiel, FFT Düsseldorf and tanzhaus nrw invite teachers and educators to a sneak peek on 10 March! Get an exclusive insight into the festival programme, become acquainted with the selected pieces, and discover the various teaching and agency offerings.

Culture is one of the main targets of extreme right powers. The ideological campaign against the arts has become more and more open during the past few years. With Blickwechsel, director Janina Möbius examines this development in dialogue with Rimini Protokoll, CHICKS*, Katharina Warda, Julia Wissert, and many more personalities from the arts, culture, and sciences.

Der Wanderfalke is the story of a transformation: Author John Alec Baker describes the lives of two pairs of peregrines in the south of England. As he approaches the animals, he himself slowly turns into an observing predator resembling the peregrine, who learns to read nature. fringe ensemble transfers the book onto the stage as a musical theatre evening.

Displacement tells of the fates of seven Russian-Jewish refugees, active in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s before going into exile due to the growing antisemitism fostered by the NS regime.

We all think in racist terms. That has nothing to do with extremism. In her book, journalist and political scientist Gilda Sahebi shows how we continue to perpetuate racist and divisive narratives, how we keep reteaching us racism – and, in turn, endanger democracy.

Follow Razen (Kim Delcour & Ameel Brecht) into the impressively intense soundscapes of their album “Without Rain” – a mix of wind instruments and electronics, recorded in a tunnel! So Sner (Stefan Schneider & Susanna Gertmayer) present their exciting combination of bass clarinet, electronics, and sounds, hailed by the taz as “the music of freedom”.

kainkollektiv issue an invitation to reinvent the ancient art of care and assembly. This post-antiquity theatre festival is a 30-hour durational performance which allows for the sharing, learning, and trying-out of lost gestures and rituals. They are designed to allow an imagining and testing of visions for a good community, and to celebrate together.

kainkollektiv issue an invitation to reinvent the ancient art of care and assembly. This post-antiquity theatre festival is a 30-hour durational performance which allows for the sharing, learning, and trying-out of lost gestures and rituals. They are designed to allow an imagining and testing of visions for a good community, and to celebrate together.

In an acoustic-musical sound landscape, the voices, narratives, personal statements, and soundscapes from cultures that were wiped out through Western colonial history appear in an (Afro)futuristic and docu-fictional counter-journey through times and spaces.