Gelsenkirchen
25.04.2013
Today, it is quite common to be part of a network – this feat is not limited to the social elite anymore. In the meantime, a lot of people benefit from networks. Be it in business or private life, they are connected well, last but not least via social media. Still, career portals in the
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17.02.2013
Just a short time ago, a vacant piece of Gelsenkirchen has been reanimated. The former shopping mall BahnhofsCenter in Gelsenkirchen is temporarily used as a meeting place for residents, artists, and initiators who gathered there to discuss the topic of city labs in the first salon organised by
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11.01.2013
Urbane Künste Ruhr and the artistic director of this regional art organisation, Katja Aßmann, offer artists, culturally creative minds, and residents the opportunity to join in the shaping of their urban environment, to experience it artistically and to participate in a process, a discussion. This
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11.12.2011
Without somebody on stage, limelight is just cruel. The same goes for the almost pitch black “studio” in the Westfälischen Landestheater (WLT) which has the appeal of an interrogation room without actors and audience. And this analogy is not even too far fetched: in a few minutes, half
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18.09.2011
The glass arcades of the Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen accomodate the annual exposition bild.sprachen – Messe für angewandte Fotografie. The international event is committed to the credo „think global, act local“, focussing on function and art of photography.
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30.05.2011
Plastik von Otto Herbert Hajek, "3 Schulen unter einem Dach", BochumA WAZ newspaper article dated 14th April („Wohin bloß mit der Kunst?”) reports on the removal and destruction of a sculpture by Otto Herbert Hajek. The sculpture had been standing at its place in Bochum for 40 years –
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16.09.2010
100 years after the premiere to the very day, the Ruhr metropolis managed to perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in a way that the composer would probably have wanted it himself without explicitly ever stating that in writing.At the premiere, there were 858 singers and 171 musicians on stage.
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30.08.2010
The Pixel Project Ruhr Area gave the photo scene a platform. The Gelsenkirchen-born photographer Peter Liedtke has put himself out there passionately since 2003, to expose and preserve the photographic brain of the region. As in the previous years, the exhibition is held at the Wissenschaftspark
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08.06.2010
2010LAB.tv talked to Bobby McFerrin one day before the big !SING - DAY of Song-Concert on June 5th 2010 in the Ruhr Metropolis - Capital of Culture 2010.
We´ve asked him about his intentions to be a part of this extraordinary event and why we postmodern people seem to forget what singing
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04.06.2010
By Saturday, the Ruhr metropolis will be the choir metropolis! On that day, the capital of culture will celebrate one of its biggest and most emotional projects: „!SING - Day Of Song“. The highlight of this week-end is the event in the Veltins-Arena ‚Auf Schalke’: on June 5
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