CREATIVE WORKSHOPS 2025
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Launch of the “Carnival for the Future”
A month of exchange
05.09.2024 // 6–10 p.m.
This year, we received no funding for our carnival going forward, and for a while, we wondered what the point of holding a carnival at all was in such terrible times.
Nevertheless, we decided to continue – to use our limited resources to open a space for radical imagination.
In times of repression and silencing, we feel the need to shout: Other worlds are possible!
With our parade, we want to highlight the initiatives, collectives, and movements that are already working on what a different world could look like. A world where solidarity matters, where economic sustainability serves the common good and ecological balance – not profit. A world where culture is not traded as a commodity or abused to gain consent, but as a tool for critical thinking and a unifying element of society.
We know: Everywhere, at the grassroots level, small utopias are growing, resisting in the shadows. And we want these small utopias to continue to grow like a subcultural mycelium beneath the toxic asphalt. We believe this resistant, almost invisible mycelium is incredibly powerful. We must nurture it so it can grow and connect with other mycelium networks around the world.
Our carnival is a small mycelium that we don't want to let dry out. That's why we're calling for your support and active participation!
You are cordially invited to actively participate in our preparations: With the meeting on September 5th, we want to open a space for collective planning and organizing.
*German below*
Physical Theater with Felipe Lopez // 8+15+22+29.09.2025 from 6 to 8pm-10pm
Donation basee// Registration: karneval@artistania.org
Have you ever imagined a different reality? Something that is more fun, or more organized, or even, more fair?
Come and co-create our own desired worlds through physical theater. We will take tools from Clown, Improv and mask performing to design our very needed and desired common future.
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Physical Theater with Felipe Lopez
September 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2025, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Donation-based // Registration: karneval@artistania.org
Have you ever imagined a different reality? One that's more fun, more organized, or even fairer?
Let's create our desired worlds together through physical theatre. Using tools from clowning, improvisation, and mask-making, we will shape a shared future that we desperately need and desire.
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Flying fantasy animals made of plastic //
Creative preparation for the carnival of the future
September 15–18 | 4–6 p.m. each day |
Artistania Atelier, Neckarstr. 19 |
Participation on a donation basis |
Registration: karneval@artistania.org
Together with the artists of the Artistania association, we'll create artistic, flying animals from seemingly trash, which will come alive for the future at the carnival. In the workshops, we'll teach various plastic recycling techniques—whether sewing, melting, or crocheting—we'll let our creativity run wild and create impressive creatures that draw attention to ocean pollution.
Giant flags for Carnival with Otavio Avancini //
September 27–28, 2025, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
// Artistania Atelier
Donation-based
Together with Brazilian artist Otavio Avancini, we will design giant flags with messages of hope, which we will present at the Carnival for the Future.
At the end of the workshop, we will rehearse with the flags around the Vollgut area, and the art activists will share their experiences from various social parades and reflect on their role in the cities.
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Recycling Costume Workshop // 18+24+25.09 from 5 to 8pm-10pmArtistania Atelier
Register: karneval@artistania.orgWith Kulturnest eV // Donation based
Who would you like to be or what would you like to embody in your ideal future? Turn your old newspapers, fabrics and household items into wearable art or a character costume for the street. Please bring your old pieces of fabric, clothes, plastic, paper, any other materials you find interesting. Workshop will be held in English, with some translation available in German and Italian
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Recycling Costume Workshop // September 18, 24, and 25, 5:00–8:00/10:00 PM
Artistania Atelier
With Kulturnest eV // On a donation basis
Who would you like to embody in your ideal future, or what would you like to portray? Transform old newspapers, fabrics, and everyday objects into wearable art or a character costume for the street.
Please bring your old fabric scraps, clothes, plastic, paper, and any other materials you find interesting.
The workshop will be held in English, with translation options into German and Italian.
Registration: karneval@artistania.org