Creative festival at the EnZ: workshops, art and culinary highlights!

Creative festival at the EnZ: workshops, art and culinary highlights!

Next Sunday, July 6th, the “Alfons & Emma. Quartier Festival” will take place in the Pforzheim creative quarters at the EnZ. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. the space between the Emma - creative center, A.K.T; And the Faculty of Design in a pulsating place full of activities and enjoyment. The city of Pforzheim cordially invites you to make this day an unforgettable experience, such as pforzheim.de.

The festival offers a wide range of offers: from exciting exhibitions and gripping performances to workshops to a great children's program, there is something for every age group. Particularly noteworthy is the final exhibition of the international scholarship program "Designer in Residence" in the Emma, ​​where works by Jacob Marks (Great Britain), Lotte Schoots (Netherlands) and ZHipeng Wang (China) are presented.

a festival for all senses

also the A.K.T; Is with the finissage of the exhibition "Not your choice!" represent. In contrast, explosive topics such as equality and gender roles are illuminated. The Theater Pforzheim brings a scene out of "The Rümmer of Civilization", while the collective "The Little Container" brings the performance "Super Badass Women. A theatrical research trip to power" - a truly inspiring program!

For art lovers, the installation and performance "Living in Liminality" by Firat Yildiz on the Inselsteg, which artistically implements the "in between". At the same time, the Flaxkiosk of the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences offers exciting activities around the flax harvest, which can also be seen live.

workshops and culinary delights

If you want to be active yourself, you will find numerous workshops in the Emma, ​​including for the origami folds and to build a user-friendly website. Guided tours of the offices, studios and workshops also provide an insight into the creative work at the location.

The restaurant and the Café Roland and Gentlemans Blend, which come up with Vietnamese, Korean and Turkish specialties, ensure culinary highlights. Music from the Sense Collective also ensures an atmospheric setting.

children can look forward to a game road from the city youth ring and a hands-on circus of Daria Schroth. Sales offer hand -made products, photo art and natural cosmetics, so that everyone finds something suitable.

Admission to the discussion about diversity

The festival should not only serve entertainment, but also create space for important topics such as diversity and empowerment. On this basis, the In-Visible project aims to make academic knowledge from the gender studies usable for the workplace. As in-visible.berlin explains, it is important that everyone works itself to enable changes.

In addition, the project also supports underrepresented artistic perspectives and organizes empowerment workshops that aim to promote diversity as a holistic concept. Events and workshops contain exciting topics such as anti-discrimination and dealing with structural discrimination that are of interest to all cultural activity, as [diversity-arts- culture.berlin] (https://diversity-arts- culture.berlin/angebote-und-und-und-und--und- workshops) emphasizes.

The challenges that many artists stand in front of: inside are discussed in these formats and solutions are developed. The new workshops and formats offer valuable insights and support a constructive and diversity -oriented work culture.

The "Alfons & Emma. Quarters Festival at the Enz" promises to become a colorful and educational festival where celebrations, learning and networking go hand in hand. Come by and let yourself be inspired!