KunstFestSpiele Tag

This year too we invite families and others to a diverse and entertaining Sunday of theatre, music, circus and delicious food.

On Sun 21.05. from 2:00 p.m. (if you have tickets for the big Mahler concert in the Kuppelsaal, you’ll be starting at 11:00 a.m.) we present a diverse programme for young and old – a compact, one-day version of the festival. For the whole day until 11:00 p.m. there will be shows and concerts in and around the Herrenhausen Gardens for the special price of 5 euros per event. A ticket also gives you free access to the gardens.

A warm welcome awaits you in the festival tent at the entrance to the Herrenhausen Gardens with coffee, cake and savouries from the legendary freitagsküche.

Sun 21.05. / 2:00 – 11:00 p.m.
Orangerie / Galerie / Großer Garten / Ehrenhof / Arne Jacobsen Foyer / Festival centre

Tickets 5 euros per event*

* The installation Supraorganism can be experienced free of charge. Tickets for the KunstFestSpiele Tag include the one-time admission to the Great Garden on Sun 21.05.

The programme

The day begins with juggling and laughter in the circus tent in the Ehrenhof, where Les Vélocimanes Associés present the children’s piece Der Lauf (The Race). The Gartentheater is the perfect venue for a fashion show, in which the Dutch duo Zwermers put the range of human identity on the Pan~//Catwalk. In the Orangerie the stage is transformed into a Baroque garden occupied by strange wigged figures. The all-round artists Yvan Clédat and Coco Petitpierre tell of friendship and love in their play Poufs aux sentiments. The Babylon ORCHESTRA takes us on a musical journey in their concert Echoes of Mediterranean, in which traditional and modern instruments resound with love songs, ballads and personal stories. Feinkost Lampe present the Syrian born musician Yousef Kekhia in their club programme, and in the early afternoon NDR’s Friederike Westerhaus presents a Talk with artists and programme-makers on the festival’s background, inspiration and news.

In the magnificent daytime atmosphere of the Großer Garten the public can enjoy the sound installation A Memory of, memory of, memory of, by Kostas Ioannidis. At night the Arne Jacobsen Foyer is illuminated by the glass sculptures of Justine Emard’s Supraorganism. On the way there or back you can take a worthwhile detour to Dries Verhoeven’s installation Happiness, near the Ihme-Zentrum, a kind of mobile pharmacy in which a humanoid gives competent information about mind-altering substances.

The performances usually last under an hour and are easily combined with the other events and the installations.

The complete programme on KunstFestSpiele Tag at a glance

11:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.	freitagsküche Festival centre

11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.	A Memory of, memory of, memory of Kostas Ioannidis Großer Garten – Sophienplatz / Patte d'oie

2:00 - 2:55 p.m.	Der Lauf Les Vélocimanes Associés Ehrenhof (From age 6)

2:00 – 2:45 p.m.	Pan~//Catwalk Zwermers Großer Garten / Gartentheater

2:00 - 2:45 p.m.	Friederike Westerhaus in conversation with the dramaturges Rainer Hofmann and Beate Schüler, members of Babylon ORCHESTRA and Yvan Clédat Festival centre

3:00 – 10:00 p.m.	Happiness Dries Verhoeven Near the Ihme-Zentrum

3:00 – 4:00 p.m.	Poufs aux sentiments Clédat & Petitpierre Orangerie

3:15 – 4:00 p.m.	Yousef Kekhia Feinkost Lampe Concert Great Garden / Probebühne

4:15 - 5:00 p.m.	Echoes of Mediterranean Babylon ORCHESTRA Galerie

4:30 - 5:25 p.m.	Der Lauf Les Vélocimanes Associés Ehrenhof (From age 6)

5:30 – 6:15 p.m.	Pan~//Catwalk Zwermers Großer Garten / Gartentheater

6:30 - 7:30 p.m.	Poufs aux sentiments Clédat & Petitpierre Orangerie

7:00 - 7:45 p.m.	Yousef Kekhia Feinkost Lampe Concert Großer Garten / Probebühne

8:00 - 8:45 p.m.	Echoes of Mediterranean Babylon ORCHESTRA Galerie

9:00 – 11:00 p.m.	Supraorganism Justine Emard Arne Jacobsen Foyer

For more information, see the detail pages of KunstFestSpiele Tag's individual events and Accessibility.