Culture factory (Esch an der Alzette)
The Kulturfabrik (officially Center culturel Kulturfabrik ) is a cultural center in Esch an der Alzette in the south of Luxembourg , in the buildings of a former municipal slaughterhouse from the 19th century.
history
From 1885/86 to 1979 the building was used as a slaughterhouse for the city of Esch-Alzette. From 1982 onwards, a group of young actors, «Theater GmbH», began converting the existing premises into rehearsal and performance halls. In 1983 the Association Kulturfabrik was established. From 1984 to 1995 artistic and socio-cultural activities of all kinds were developed there. At the end of 1996 a convention is signed between the state, the municipality and the Kulturfabrik. On October 2nd, 1998, the Kulturfabrik cultural center is officially opened.
Today the Kulturfabrik is a place of exchange and creation as well as a motor for sustainable development and offers artist residences.
Furnishing
The Kulturfabrik has over 4500 m² of usable space, which consists of a large event room with 950 standing places and 270 seats, a small event room with 250 standing places, the "Ratelach" for literary evenings and cabaret with 35 places, an art gallery ("Galerie Terres Rouges"), There are six rehearsal rooms for music groups and three rooms for studios, workshops, formations and theater rehearsals as well as the ceramic factory and two other important rooms, the cinema ("Kinosch") and the restaurant "K116".
Networks and Expansion
- Luxembourg Association of Decentralized Houses of Culture
- Trans Europe Halles
- European Association of Maisons de la poésie
- Theater federation
- Lorraine Circus
- Approved center of the Service national de la Jeunesse (SNJ)
- Approved center for apprenticeship training of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce
Missions
The cultural center supports local and regional artists, promotes talent, artistic activities and educational projects. It is also involved in cross-border projects (Festival du film italien de Villerupt, Autour de Taslima Nasreen, Regards sur le cinéma, Textes sans frontières ...) and is an engine for sustainable development.
program
250 events per year are organized inside and outside the Kulturfabrik.
The offer includes current music, world music, theater & staged readings, new clowns, film (Festival du film italien de Villerupt), literature / poetry (publisher of the bilingual magazine "Transkrit"), conferences, congresses and dance and percussion workshops.
Festivals like Out of The Crowd Festival, FlamencoFestival Esch, AfrikaFestival Esch, Clowns In Progress and Bang Your Head take place all year round: The groups that rehearse in the studios are Chief Mart's, Mutiny on the Bounty, Artaban, Mount Stealth, Scarred and Abstract Rapture.
The following artists have already performed in the Kulturfabrik: the music groups and musicians Queens of the Stone Age , A Silver Mount Zion, Mono , Suicidal Tendencies , Monster Magnet , Motorpsycho , Apocalyptica , King's X , The Gathering (Band) , Dream Theater , Fu Manchu (Band) , The Black Dahlia Murder , Forward Russia, Morbid Angel , Modest Mouse , Testament, Broken Social Scene , Red Sparowes , Battles (Band) , Cult of Luna , Architects , Unearth , PVT , Poison the Well , The Notwist , Clutch (Band) , Parkway Drive , Tortoise , The Melvins , Wax Tailor, Imogen Heap , Katatonia , IAMX , 65daysofstatic , Bolt Thrower , CocoRosie , Iron & Wine , Bonobo (musicians) , Asking Alexandria , Envy (band) , Beatsteaks , Fink ( Band) , Meshuggah , Gentleman , Julian Marley , Ky-ma , Barrington Levy , Einstürzende Neubauten , Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , Sophie Hunger and Marky Ramone ; the flamenco artists Manolo Franco, Marie-Josée Franco, Antonio Serrano , Andrès Pena, Pedro Ricardo Mino, Gualberto Garcia, Segundo Falcon, Patricia Guerrero, Fran Espinosa, Olga Pericet , Pastora Galván , Leonor Leal, La Tremendita, La Lupi, Javier Barón , Rafael Campallo, Fuensanta la Moneta , Belén Maya , the performing artists Cie Les Matapeste, Calixte de Nigremont, clowns from Hanoï, from Saint-Petersburg, Francis Albiero, Isabelle Wéry, Ludor Citrik, Colette Migné, Gilles Defacques, Alan Fairbairn, Guraï et Asli, Isabelle Lemetay, Michel Deltruc, Sébastien Coste, Camille Perrin, Antoine Arlot, Didier Barrois, Julien Bogenschütz, Véronique Mougin & Michel Deltruc, Bonaventure Gacon, Alba Sarraute, Heinzi Lorenzen, Constantin Cojocaru, Marja-Leena Junker , Valéry Plancke, Elena Popa, Luc Schiltz, Josiane Peiffer, Martin Engler, Pitt Simon, Marc Baum, Soren Evinson, Claire Thill, Luc Spada, Maëlle Giovanetti, Roch-Antoine Albaladéjo, Lorène Ehrmann, Jérémie Graine, Héloïse Levain, Jean-François Wolff, the painters, photographers, artists Diane Jodes, The'd Johanns, Sonja Schönberger, Véronique Kolber, René Gillain, Marcel Wolff, Tim Battin, Frauke Hänle & Claus Kienle, Sébastien Cuvelier, Slava Mogutin, Atelier d'Empreinte, Collectif Marges Flottantes, Yvon Lambert, Atelier créatif Jardin de Wiltz
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ luxemburger Wort , 3 octobre 2013, édition Saint-Paul Luxembourg, page 12.
- ↑ Lëtzebuerger Journal , 29 September 2013, édition Editions Lëtzebuerger Journal, page 24.
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '14.4 " N , 5 ° 59' 16.8" E