Festivals, Cinema and Sound Art 2024

2024 FESTIVALS, CINEMA, AND SOUND ART IN KREMS / LOWER AUSTRIAS Imago Dei Festival “Freedom” March 9 – April 1, 2024| Klangraum Krems in the Minorite Church Nadja Kayali, who will be directing the Carinthian Summer Music Festival from 2024, presents her third and final edition of the Imago Dei Festival in Krems under the theme “Freedom”. The sublime ambience of the secularised Minorite Church, today Klangraum Krems, invites you to reflect on various aspects of personal and political freedom through music and literature.

On the opening weekend, the two ensembles Kolo Suryoyo (March 9) and Mesopotamian Fusion (March 10) from the Syrian community in Sweden provide a rare opportunity to become acquainted with Syria’s ancient Christian and secular musical traditions, to fathom the acoustic connections to European song, and to experience how such encounters can make way for new things. On Saturday evening, for example, the Gregorian chants of the five-women vocal ensemble Grace & Voices meld with ancient Syrian church songs. The Company of Music under Johannes Hiemetsberger’s guidance performs at Imago Dei once again as a festival ensemble in a number of projects: a moving concert set to Nikolaus Geyerhalter’s visually stunning film essay Homo Sapiens (March 22), Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (March 29), and at the daily morning concerts during Holy Week (March 25–29).

Five renowned writers provide new works for this special start to the day: Anna Baar, Milena Michiko Flašar, Sabine Gruber, Kathrin Röggla, and Sophia Lunra Schnack. A varied multi-part “Day Full of Music in Krems” (March 16) concludes the Imago Dei series Zwischentöne Polen with pianist and musicologist Kolja Lessing and the superb Eliot Quartet from Germany, among others. The strong voices of women are granted a prominent place in the festival focus Imago Deae. Inner Unity Ensemble’s concert is dedicated to the Iranian movement “Woman, Life, Freedom” (March 23).

Young composer Afamia Al-Dayaa contributes a new work to the Platypus Ensemble’s concert (March 15), which will also feature pieces by Rebecca Saunders and Gerald Resch. Elisabeth Naske presents “On the 17th of Octebruary”, one of her wonderful programmes for children and all people with a poetic heart (March 17). And singer Nataša Mirković, together with her multicultural women’s choir GLAS and sound artist Tahereh Nourani, kanun player Sofia Lapropoulou, and cellist Asja Valčić, will perform the grand finale concert on Easter Monday (April 1).

All programme details are online.

Venues: Klangraum Krems in the Minorite Church, Minoritenplatz 5, 3500 Krems-Stein. With additional events hosted by our Viennese cooperation partners: Polish Institute Vienna, Austrian National Library, Vienna Hofburg Chapel

www.imagodei.at

donaufestival: Community of Aliens Sound, Performance, Art, Film, Discourse.

April 19–21 and 26–28, 2024 | various locations in Krems The title “Community of Aliens” sounds paradoxical: How can a community arise that is not made up of equals but of strangers? How can we live together without eradicating the differences between us?

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2024 FESTIVALS, CINEMA, AND SOUND ART IN KREMS / LOWER AUSTRIAS donaufestival 2024 stakes out a social space open for potentials without dodging conflicts and political dissent – backed by bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain, turntable trio Maria Chavez/ Mariam Rezaei/Victoria Shen, and the AV duo Zuli & Omar El Sadek. Christian Guerematchi’s spectral figure named Blaq Tito looms in a video installation as an echo of the relationship between former Yugoslavia and Ghana. Julian Hetzel & Ntando Cele speculate about an absurdity called “liquid empathy”, a drink distilled from African tears. Eglė Budvytytė & Marija Olšauskaitė present shape-shifting bodies that “compost their fear”. The media guerrilla group Total Refusal smuggles its message about the storming of the Capitol into a video game, while Candice Breitz satirises the claim of racism against whites in her video installation Whiteface at Kunsthalle Krems.

More artists will be announced when Early Bird tickets go on sale in mid-January 2024, the full programme will be published at the beginning of March.

Venues: Festival Centre and Stadtsaal, Utzstraße 12; Klangraum Krems in the Minorite Church, Minoritenplatz 5; Kunstmeile Krems; and others, all: 3500 Krems a.d. Donau

www.donaufestival.at

Sound Art June 13 – September 15, 2024 • Sound Art – In the nave of the Minorite Church Andreas Trobollowitsch: SÄGEZAHN 7.2. (2024) • Sound Art – Chapter Room Jonáš Gruska: commissioned work (2024) Site-specific works, orchestrated interplays of sound, space, light, time, movement, and form, create exceptional experiences with the architecture and acoustics of the early Gothic church and its chapter room. This year, a recent work by Andreas Trobollowitsch will be presented in the Minorite Church and a commissioned work by Jonáš Gruska in the chapter room.

Opening times: Tue–Sun 11 am to 5 pm, free entrance.

Venues: Klangraum Krems in the Minorite Church and the chapter room, Minoritenplatz 5, 3500 Krems a.d. Donau

www.klangraum.at

Kino im Kesselhaus All year round from September to end of July (screening days Wed–Sun) | campus Krems Krems’ arthouse cinema not only screens the finest productions all year round, it hosts talks with filmmakers, discussion rounds, Valentine/Easter/Halloween/Christmas specials, live concerts, cabaret, children’s puppet theatre, cinema workshops, poetry slams, an extensive educational programme for schools, as well as various cooperation events.

Scheduled live events: Jan 26 Hosea Ratschiller, Feb 22 Ulrich Drechsler, Mar 7 Poetry Slam, Mar 21 Anna Mabo, April 11 Garish, May 23 Thomas Gansch Duo, Oct 20 Kindertheater Trittbrettl: Von der

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2024 FESTIVALS, CINEMA, AND SOUND ART IN KREMS / LOWER AUSTRIAS Prinzessin die sich um alles in der Welt den Mond wünschte, Oct 26 Trickfilmworkshop beim Animation film workshop at KINDER.KUNST.FEST, Film.Club Events, Film.Bar.Quiz, and much more.

Open Air Kino beim Kesselhaus July 4–21, 2024 | campus Krems Once per year, the Kesselhaus cinema relocates to a neighbouring green space. Come and enjoy the major film highlights of the year, film classics, and exciting new releases on the big screen in a wonderful ambience under the starry sky. The open-air cinema at the Kesselhaus in the midst of vineyards and modern campus architecture is one of the highlights of Krems’ culture summer!

Venue: Kino beim Kesselhaus and open air beside the Kesselhaus, am campus Krems, Dr. Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems a.d. Donau

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Glatt&Verkehrt Festival “Encounters” July 12–28, 2024 • July 12–14, 2024 | Spitz Castle • July 13–20, 2024 | Music Workshop in Göttweig Abbey • July 24–28, 2024 | Winzer Krems, Sandgrube 13 In music, no one is on their own. There needs to be a counterpart, be it a listener or someone playing along. Music is always an encounter. This is what the renowned festival for contemporary music ideas from all over the planet has focused on since its inception: encounters between musicians from different regions of the world who come together to create something new. Encounters between the artists and the audience, between the audience and previously unheard music.

For its 28th edition, Glatt&Verkehrt invites a legion of acts in this spirit. The intensity of the encounter varies from concert to concert: sometimes, the artists share the stage, play in one setting, but each for themselves, just listening to the other ensemble. This alone unleashes a special energy of togetherness. Then again, two formations might merge into a new band. Or two acts simply share the evening in a double concert. For example, during the first weekend in Spitz Castle.

The five well-known venues, also including Göttweig Abbey, the Klangraum Krems in the Minorite Church, the Wirtshaus Salzstadl, and, of course, the Winzer Krems courtyard, host a total of 20 ensembles and soloists and their contemporary musical ideas – from India to Spain, from Croatia to Sweden, from the USA to Estonia. As always, some of the acts are Austrian premieres. Our partner radio station Ö1 will be on site at Sandgrube 13 to broadcast the concerts live.

The Music Workshop will once again take place from July 13–20 at Göttweig Abbey and elaborate its special Glatt&Verkehrt sounds in diverse educational and pedagogical concepts, led by seven guest teachers from as many regions and countries.

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2024 FESTIVALS, CINEMA, AND SOUND ART IN KREMS / LOWER AUSTRIAS Early bird five-day passes (for Winzer Krems) are available now. The first acts and programme details will be announced in spring 2024.

Venues: Spitz Castle, Schlossg. 3, 3620 Spitz a.d. Donau.; Benedictine Abbey, 3511 Göttweig; Winzer Krems, Sandgrube 13, 3500 Krems a.d. Donau, and others.

www.glattundverkehrt.at

KINDER.KUNST.FEST October 26, 2024| Kunstmeile Krems An exciting programme on Austria’s National Holiday with art, theatre, music, literature, and cinema at 17 venues hosting almost 40 events. Including: a musical children’s play at Klangraum Krems, a sound workshop in cooperation with AIR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Krems, and a children’s film and workshop programme at Kino im Kesselhaus.

Venues: All Kunstmeile Krems institutions

www.kunstmeile.at | www.klangraum.at |www.kinoimkesselhaus.at

European Literature Days November 7–10, 2024 | Klangraum Krems in the Minorite Church Since 2009, the European Literature Days, under the artistic direction of author and curator Walter Grond, have brought international writers and literature enthusiasts together to discuss current topics and books and to stimulate debate. Once a year, the Klangraum Krems becomes an inspiring meeting place for contemporary European literature: a dense four-day programme offers various discussion formats and readings as well as soirees and matinees with stunning contrasts between the latest in literature and music (curated by the Glatt&Verkehrt Festival) or visual art. At the end of each festival, the Honorary Prize of the Austrian Book Trade for Tolerance in Thought and Action is awarded. Various school outreach programmes complement the programme, also in cooperation with eljub – European Youth Meetings.

Venues: Klangraum Krems in the Minorite Church, Minoritenplatz 5, 3500 Krems a.d. Donau, and others

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