"realtime-festival 2025" - Aktions-Familientag

In the organizer's words:

All-day program for the whole family on the grounds of the freight depot

Free admission, but donations welcome!

Sound stations - "How does it all sound here?" by Thomas Keiser

Sound stations will be set up at various locations on the grounds of the Bremen freight yard, where the public can explore the immediate surroundings in terms of sound.

11:00 - 11:45 Gate 40 at the freight yard

Open workshop for children & young people

with members of the youth ensemble "Smusic21" under the direction of Dalton Harris

Making music together with and without previous knowledge

Whether you play an instrument or are just curious - you've come to the right place!

You can try your hand at our music workshop led by Dalton Harris. Bring your favorite instrument or your voice, we will provide noisemakers such as everyday objects and crackling foil.

Together we will try out different sounds, experiment and create a little piece of music - creatively, easily and without pressure. Come along, join in and discover how much music there is in you!

12:00 -16:00 Gleishalle am Güterbahnhof / Stage 1 - every hour

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Audio-visual dance performance with VR glasses

Immerse yourself up close and immersively with VR glasses in various dance performances by the Spanish collective Larumbe Danza.

Supported by the Spanish Embassy in Berlin and the Instituto Cervantes Bremen.

12:00 and 16:00 - Freight station grounds

Sound walk with JörnPaland, audio therapist

There is a rumbling, humming, creaking and rattling on the grounds of the freight depot - is that music?

In any case, it is exciting to perceive the sounds of everyday life and the extraordinary.

Audio therapist Jörn Paland takes us on an exciting audio journey through the grounds.

A walk in which we look around corners with our ears and, with the help of sound, reveal the location and meaning of hidden things.

Suitable for young and old!

Duration: approx. 45 minutes

12:30 pm Gate 40 at the freight station

CONCERT of the open workshop for children & young people

with members of the youth ensemble "Smusic21" and all children & young people

13:00 Schaulust at the freight station

Hearing experiments with Ralf Besser, moderator and Prof. Ben Godde, neuroscientist

What do we hear when we listen?

Ralf Besser and Ben Godde ask questions, make music and sounds and look forward to hearing curious people. Because one thing is certain: listening experiments lead to astonishing findings!

13:00 Gate 40 at the goods station

Concert with sound machines: RITSCH RATSCH KLICK KLACK

With all children and Thomas Keiser, artist, Felix Fisgus, programmer

For three days, under the guidance of the two artists Thomas Keiser and Felix Fisgus, children in the workshop made, glued and tried out crazy sound machines from everyday objects (old toys, empty cans, Christmas decorations, cardboard) and brought them to life by connecting them to motors, electrical circuits and microcontrollers so that they produce sounds.

Together they have fun finding interesting sounds, experimenting with materials and technology, rhythm, programming and building strange little machines.

These machines will now be given their own concert and brought to life.

Come and see - it will be colorful!

The old sound machine from 2023 will also be playing!

13:45 + 16:30 Gleishalle am Güterbahnhof/ Stage 1

"The Wisper of Time"

Dance performance Larumbe Danza

Léa Delaporte, dance

Supported by the Instituto Cervantes Bremen

Choreography and direction: Juan de Torres

Original music: Mauri Corretje | Borja Ramos

Costume: Elena Arias

Production and management: Lizbeth Pérez

A dancer enters a giant plastic sphere, feeling safe and secure. But then the feeling turns into claustrophobia. She wants to get out. When she finally succeeds, she experiences a rebirth.

Who doesn't dream of being given a second life? To be able to relive the events of your life?

What if it were all an illusion when in reality it is an experience that has not been lived?

The dance performance takes you into a parallel world for just under ten minutes.

14:00 Schaulust at the freight station

Fairytale concert: Dulcinea (UA)

with Christian Bergmann, narrator + production

Lynda Cortes, cello + loop

A. M. Fischer, author

The peasant girl "Dulcinea" is known as the muse of Don Quixote. The knight of the sad figure adored her, although they never spoke a word to each other. In fact, the self-proclaimed knight really got on the girl's nerves. In this children's concert, she finally has her say and sets the story straight.

The peasant girl grows up in humble circumstances and has to help out on the farm from an early age. During her hard work, she dreams and sings about stories. She grows up to be an imaginative young woman. Then one day, the strange knight in the distance suddenly declares her his muse, henceforth calling her "Dulcinea", the sweet one, and dedicates all his deeds to her.

But the girl, whose real name is Aldonza and who knows how to work, wants to be anything but "sweet". She sets off in search of the knight to confront him and ultimately finds her own happiness, completely independent of knights, adventurers or battles with windmills.

There is singing, storytelling, acting and dancing.

Musical fairytale fun for people aged 5 and over.

15:00 Gate 40 at the goods station

Let' Play - Totally Made Up Orchestra

with Smusic21 and the Totally Made Up Orchestra

Claudia Janet Birkholz, composer

Maurice Oeser, SWR Experimental Studio

Youth ensemble Smusic 21, directed by Dalton Harris

Audience with mobile and smartphones (cell phones)

Our world, our bubble - what is real and what is fake?

We all live in different "bubbles": the everyday world - the normal madness, everything tangible, real and sometimes just chaotic.

The social media bubble. Insta, TikTok and co. are all about style, beauty and trends. What's hot? Influencers show us how to dress, put on make-up and what we need to say to fit in. But is it all real - or just an illusion?

What happens when we look out of our bubble? The universe shines far above us. Light reaches us from a galaxy that is 4.6 billion years old. But is this reality at all? Or just an echo from the past?

What does all this have to do with music?

Composer Claudia Janet Birkholz has developed a work that asks precisely these questions - with a mixture of music, technology and audience participation!

Together with the youth ensemble Smusic21 (director: Dalton Harris), the piece will be performed live on stage. And the audience is an important part of it: with their cell phones, they become part of a real cell phone orchestra and help shape the performance.

The electronics for this piece were developed by Maurice Oeser from SWR's Experimental Studio together with the composer!

Join us and experience a musical journey between reality, illusion and the depths of the universe. For everyone - with or without musical experience, young or old.

For everyone who wants to take part, young and old, musicians or non-musicians.

5 p.m. End of the family action day and the festival

Catering:

Throughout the day, there will be various opportunities to buy food and drink at all locations and on the grounds, as well as places and islands to linger, relax, watch and enjoy.