Festival Avant-Garten
Mantis: Safe Space, Jam Session
Past dates
8/29/20
5:00 PM
Kanal-Bühne 19:00 - 22:00 MANTIS: SAFE SPACE - EIN ESKAPISTISCHES IMAGINÄR?
Mantis is a newly founded initiative from Berlin, Hamburg & Leipzig. In their performances the group combines drag & video art with fashion, costume and stage design with current political discourses. For the last Saturday of the International Summer Festival, they are organizing an evening of lectures, DJ sets and drag performances at the Avant-Garden, dealing with the much-discussed concept of safe spaces.
Wald-Bühne 18:00 - 22:00 JAM SESSION UNPLUGGED
At the now legendary Jam Sesions by Anas Aboura, musicians from the most diverse cultures come together to make music together and exchange ideas. This year, the session will take place for the first time at the Wald-Bühne in a completely safe and pandemic-conform way. Bring your own instruments (but please no wind instruments, which are not allowed due to Corona restrictions)!
from 17:00 Peng! Collective
from 20:30 JAJAJA: RADIO ATOPIA
Festival Avant-garden Information
This year, the festival garden designed by JASCHA&FRANZ will be as special as the summer festival: In Hamburg's pearl of art leisure parks, there will not only be installations, performances and culinary delights, but also a daily changing programme on two open-air stages (details in the programme overview). Due to the Corona-related capacity restrictions for events, tickets for the individual evenings in the garden are available for the symbolic price of 3 Euros in advance and additionally at the Festival box office. A third stage is located on the piazza at the main entrance (free of charge with a seat outside the Peacetanbul Restaurant). With a ticket for another festival performance on the same evening you can enter the garden for free - as long as there is enough capacity, otherwise there might be bridgeable waiting times.
HYGIENE RULES FOR YOUR VISIT
This year the summer festival takes place under special circumstances. Therefore it is important that we observe security measures to protect everyone and collect the contact information of our guests. This works without complications, but only with your help:
· Everywhere: Keep a distance of 1.5m, except in self-chosen groups of max. 10 people;
· In all indoor areas: Wear mouth-nose-protection, except in fixed seating areas;
· In the festival garden and in the Peacetanbul Restaurant: please always register as soon as you take a seat. The registration is done analogue with pen and paper or digital via a QR CODE. More information on site.
Here you will find the current coronavirus hygiene rules for your visit.