May Festival for all
On the opening weekend of the International May Festival on 3 and 4 May, the square in front of the Staatstheater will become a cultural center of encounters from 2 pm: Under the motto "May Festival for All", the festival opens up into the city and offers a free open-air event on the Warme Damm.
On both days, the event presents a varied program that reflects the artistic diversity and lively atmosphere of the May Festival and invites you to linger. Food trucks are available for your physical well-being.
Saturday, May 3: Dance workshop, opera open air
On Saturday, May 3, the audience can look forward to a dance workshop for anyone who wants to get moving, as well as the bands Sparkling with electro-post-punk-pop from Cologne and Forward Rain Boy with indie-pop-rap from Munich on the open-air stage. Special highlight: at 7.30 pm, the opera performance of George Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers" will be broadcast live on the LED screen of the open-air stage. Wherever it has gone, this production has sold out houses: with a clever twist, the FC Bergman collective transposes the exotic coastal landscape of Ceylon's pearl fishers into a retirement home. The performance is an invitation to dissolve the boundaries between the theater and the public space - indoors and outdoors as an experience for opera lovers and newcomers alike. You are welcome to bring your own chairs or picnic blankets.
Sunday, May 4: Family festival
Sunday, May 4, is all about the family festival, which will create a platform for community experiences from 2 to 6 p.m. with a variety of activities and interactive programs for all ages. The Warme Damm will become a meeting place where children and adults alike can immerse themselves in creative games and artistic performances. For example, the percussionist and singer Khadim Seck invites you to play along to West African rhythms
to discover new sides to yourself and leave everyday life behind you while having fun.
In LIGNA's interactive radio play, the audience explores a "space without walls" using headphones and joint movements. The Junge Staatsmusical gets the park in the mood with musical hits and choreographies to dance along to. Further highlights of the program are the movement workshops with Alexander Baab and Emmanuel Edoror, where children and young people can get active themselves.
On Sunday evening, the festival once again invites you to picnic with a theater film on the LED screen. You are welcome to bring your own chairs or blankets. "The Sheep Song" shows a different side of the award-winning collective FC Bergman, one of our Associate Artists. The impressive performance, which caused a sensation at the Holland Festival, tells the story of a sheep that wants to leave the monotonous everyday life of its fellow species behind and become a human being.