FRIENDS ONLY? KONFRIENDS 2025

In the organizer's words:

FESTIVALFRIENDS
FRIENDS ONLY? KONFRIENDS 2025

June 19, 2025, 13:00-17:00

June 20, 2025, 09:00-16:00

The nationwide FESTIVALFRIENDS association invites festival teams and interested parties to KONFRIENDS 2025 to work together on practical questions of festival making - this time with a focus on our audience.

How do we conceive and realize festivals as a form of event in which art and debate create spaces for encounters? How do we combine openness and safe spaces, and how do we successfully invite new audience groups? In view of the increasingly loud attacks on democracy and artistic freedom, KONFRIENDS 2025 will discuss this under the motto "FRIENDS ONLY?" with impulses from festival practice, research and in discussion with cultural policy and administration.

The national FESTIVALFRIENDS network invites festival teams and others with an interest to discuss practical issues of festival making at KONFRIENDS 2025 - this time focusing on our audience.

How do we conceive and realize festivals as an event form in which art and debate create spaces for people to meet? How do we combine open and protective spaces, and how do we successfully invite new audience groups to participate? With an eye to the ever-louder attacks on democracy and artistic freedom, KONFRIENDS 2025 - entitled 'FRIENDS ONLY?' - examines this with input from festival practitioners and scholars, and discussions with cultural policymakers and administrators.

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IMPULSE FESTIVAL FOR PERFORMANCE, THEATER & DANCE

On three long festival weekends - one each in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne and Düsseldorf - outstanding independent productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland will be presented. This showcase will be supplemented by positions on the relationship between East and West Germany as part of a "Post-West" focus as well as views from and on the host region of NRW.

We are looking forward to our first joint festival season!

During three long festival weekends - one each in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne and Düsseldorf - outstanding productions from the independent theater scene from Germany, Austria and Switzerland will be presented. This showcase will be complemented by positions on the relationship between East and West Germany as part of a 'Post-West' focus as well as views from and on the host region of NRW.

We look forward to our first festival season with you!

LOCATION // VENUE

Broich Castle
Am Schloß Broich 28
45479 Mülheim an der Ruhr

Price information:

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