Dear audience, dear (un)Learners

On Sunday, September 25, the FAVORITEN Festival ended. We had the pleasure of welcoming visitors from all over NRW as well as international guests on site in Dortmund. People from Germany, Norway, Turkey, India, Finland, South Africa, Nigeria and the USA joined us digitally.

We are very happy about this great response and would like to thank you very much!

Our media library with 11 exciting works is online only until tomorrow! Enter a post-human world, think about truth(s), listen to a queerfeminist essay, dive into the festival once again with our streams…

Heute!

24.09. / ab 22:30 / Mittelhalle im Depot

Line Up:

#1: n7zza
#2: „Ectoplasma” by Enco & Andras_2020: Ein emotionaler Poltergeist übersetzt in einen performativen Akt.
#3: Andras_2020

The performance today Saturday, 24.09. at 18:30 must unfortunately be cancelled.

After the violent death of Zhina Amini on 16 September 2022, there are nationwide protests in Iran against forced veiling and against the dictatorial regime. Videos on social media show women removing their headscarves during demonstrations, shouting slogans against the system…

“Glossary of (Un)Learning”: Exhibition with Voices of the City
10 September to 30 October at the MKK.

The exhibition can be seen during the museum’s regular opening hours with free admission.

Curator’s tour: 16.09.2022 at 16:00

Artists
Get Together

Dear audience, dear friends, dear (un)learnees,

our ticket presale can finally start. At the moment, however, only via PayPal… We are very sorry about this complication. If you are not able to pay via PayPal, please contact us directly at tickets@favoriten-festival.de. Then we will reserve the tickets for you.

We are looking forward to seeing you,
your FAV-Team!

Instead of Geneigter, we are showing Deep-Source Eruptions: Deep-Source Eruptions: Cracking Open the Legacy of German Colonialism in Namibia. | WARP & WEFT in the FAVORITEN Festival 2022.

Friday, 19 August 2022, 6pm – in the context of (Un)Learning Perspectives

Two people meet and have something to tell each other. What does your reality look like, what drives you, why do you do what you do? How can your “normality” expand my “normality”?

On 19.08.2022, the last after work beer (Feierabendbier) at the .dottwerk before the FAVORITEN Festival will take place from 18:00. This time the Dortmund landscape architect Usha-Moni Naskar and the stage and costume designer and fashion designer Sylvia Straub will meet.

The festival is approaching and we are very pleased that, thanks to short-term funding commitments, we have the opportunity to show three more artistic works that have been close to our hearts for a very long time at this year’s FAVORITEN Festival. New to the programme are the “one-to-(n)one”-performance Nobody’s There by Hofmann&Lindholm, the video work I Don’t See Colour by Akasha Daley and the Zoom-performance Allegedly by Mallika Taneja.

The programme for FAVORITEN festival 2022 is online!

It was an exciting year in which we travelled the country for FAVORITEN 2022: We have experienced a lot, were able to witness wonderful artistic works and would like to thank you very much for this.
We fell in love with NRW’s independent scene and were now faced with the task of making a selection from all these special experiences, in which unfortunately only a fraction of these impressive works could find space.

In numbers: We saw over 500 works last year and can now “only” give 30 positions a place in the programme, which is about 6%.

FAVORITEN 2022 deals with forms of learning and (un)learning. In order to get a better idea of what this can mean in reality and on location, we will be exploring the festival’s spatial and thematic neighbourhoods in advance and holding discussions…

Sunday 29 May, Theater im Depot (Werkhalle) – in the context of (Un)Learning Perspectives

(Un)Learning Perspectives is a format of the FAVORITEN Festival that focuses on experts from different fields and their knowledge. We want to learn from each other and include perspectives from outside the artistic field: from care workers to activists to mushroom researchers. Their perspectives will be given a platform before and during the festival in the form of workshops, tours and roundtable discussions.

Dear independent artists of North Rhine-Westphalia,

we love you – and we’re heartbroken.

It’s been an extremely exciting year, travelling across the state for FAVORITEN 2022: we have been through a lot with you, been able to encounter some wonderful art works and been able to see you, listen to you and you’ve given us some remarkable experiences.