Venue:UT Connewitz
Wolfgang-Heinze-Straße 12 a
04277 Leipzig
Balance / Club Culture Festival sees itself as an interface of progressive club culture and social critique and has been taking place in Leipzig since 2018. With its interdisciplinary approach of music, art and discourse, the festival explores the political significance of club culture in society, its role in different communities and its contribution to technical and cultural progress.After being implemented as an online format at short notice last year, Balance / Club Culture Festival 2021 will take place as a one-day event at UT Connewitz.
Focussing on Re:Balance, the 2021 festival edition explores the question of whether and how club culture can recover from the overall societal crisis on the one hand and the most diverse individual crisis triggered by it on the other. How can we, despite Covid and everything connected with it, rethink and celebrate club culture again, with real encounters and direct contact with each other?
The club space as such, as a lived utopia and a space for deconstructing identities and individual expression, exists in the present only to a very limited extent and accompanied by many uncertainties. Encounters, experiences and conversations have themselves become a utopia. In her lecture „Radical Nightlife Club Culture as a Strategy of Community Building“ Anjali Prashar Savoie will address questions of the necessity of communities and their potentials in club culture . In the workshop „Holding space - how to be kind to ourselves“ with Emotional Labor Queen we want to learn, how to make space for selfcare even in times of crises, as well as how to be kind to ourselves and our communities to make space for utopian ideas (registration see below). The workshop will be in english with optional german translation.A collaboration of visual artist, filmmaker and DJ Vanessa Opoku with choreographer and dancer Elle Fierce and DJ and musician AUCO (No Shade) will result in a new production for the festival, which will premiere at the festival.The concerts of the sex-positive rapper with the punk attitude, Myss Keta, and one of the most forward-thinking artists of clubbing, Lotic, had to be cancelled last year due to corona. Now both are coming to Leipzig for the first time for a show at Balance / Club Culture Festival 2021. The lineup is completed by the interdisciplinary working musician Odete.
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The venue is accessible. More infos @UT Connewitz
Hygiene Concept „2G“ (Recovered, Vaccinated)-Concept.
All visitors, including those who have recovered and been vaccinated, need a daily digitally verifiable test (no self-tests). Covid tests are still free of charge on Oct, 2nd 2021.
