3. KinderKulturFestival

In the organizer's words:

On October 25 and 26, 2025, the 3rd KinderKulturFestival will take place at FREIraum21:
Both days from 12 - 5 pm.
A festival by children and young people for children and young people: Performances, work shows and free activities offer space for singing, dancing, romping, playing theater, doing handicrafts or just being together.
The "Next Alphabet Theaterlabor KIDS", theater groups from the youth art school, the Talisman singing groups and there will be circus and BMX, among others.
In our new "Friends of the House" section, the Taiwan Do Akademie Krefeld will be coming to the festival with a presentation and workshop.
From Friday until Sunday, young people aged 14 and over can take part in a workshop with "the mighty creatives" from Krefeld's twin city Leicester and present their results at the festival.
On Saturday at 2:30 pm, the patron of the festival, Jan Dieren, MP, will answer questions from children and young people in the KinderDemokratieArena.
The program:

Fri, 24.10. - Sun, 26.10. / 10-16 h each (Friday 11:30-16 h).
"Without Walls" A workshop is a work of art.
The bedroom is probably everyone's! retreat. Sleeping, gambling, dreaming - even more dreaming, crying, arguing, making up - later (but we won't reveal that here).
In this workshop, a bedroom will be built. Everything you think should be in the bedroom will be brought together - installed. Sometimes you only really discover yourself when all your favorite pieces are brought together. What is really important to me - what else do I need?
This bedroom then becomes a walk-in installation. Visitors can lie down in the beds, lie in the cozy corner, play games or spread out at the dressing table - but we don't even know what you are putting together and building yet.
After a successful transnational collaboration last year, the Werkhaus and the mighty creatives are looking forward to continuing their collaboration with the new project "Without Walls": Young people from Krefeld and Leicester are teaming up to shape the future together in their respective hometowns using artistic means.
Registration at: https://werkhaus-krefeld.de/without-walls-2025/

SATURDAY, 25.10.25:
Open Spaces
12 to 5 p.m.
Adventure spaces for children aged 3 and over
including painting and craft activities, finger paints, face painting, water tattoos.
Also: "My story in fabrics"
Nurten Kocaman creates a space in which people connect with themselves in a textile way.
Participants create a small work of art from fabric remnants, old items of clothing and personal finds that makes their own story visible: a textile memento that is not about sewing techniques or previous artistic experience. It's about what makes us who we are:
About life paths, breaks, new beginnings.
About memories that are in a button.
About colors that do something to us.
About the silent power of creating something of our own - and being seen in it
Installations
12 - 5 p.m.
e.g. cinema in the basement, without walls
Performances
12:30 h Talisman
Singing group / Direction: Larysa Savchenko
13:00 h Behind the mirror
Theater group / Directed by: Predrag Kalaba
14:00 h Talisman
Singing group / Direction: Larysa Savchenko
14:30 h Children's Democracy Arena
The right of children and young people to participate is a key to democracy.
Here the children decide. They plan and moderate an interactive discussion with Jan Dieren, member of the Bundestag and patron of the festival.
Moderated by Lotte de Brujin and Jontahan Singer
16:00 h Nothing/New/Summer Night's Dream
The Werkhaus shows "Classics Next Level"
Should we dance fairies while inhumanity and lies tear society apart? No, we work out what lies behind it. What has always existed and how differently people have dealt with it. The classic exposes machinations. It names what is happening. Does it also contain a solution?
Play location: A four-storey staircase with an infinite number of doors. The second time you open the same door, it's a different world. Nothing is reliable!
A performance by and with young people.
Directed by: Anna Brass and Andreas Simon

SUNDAY, 26.10.25:
Open Spaces
12 to 5 pm
Adventure spaces for children aged 3 and over
including painting and craft activities, finger paints, face painting, water tattoos.
Also: "My story in fabrics"
Nurten Kocaman creates a space in which people connect with themselves in a textile way.
Participants create a small work of art from fabric remnants, old items of clothing and personal finds that makes their own story visible: a textile memento that is not about sewing techniques or previous artistic experience. It's about what makes us who we are:
About life paths, breaks, new beginnings.
About memories that are in a button.
About colors that do something to us.
About the silent power of creating something of our own - and being seen in it
Installations
12 - 5 p.m.
e.g. cinema in the basement, without walls
Friends of the house
13:30 h Taiwan Do Academy
Kung Fu: performance and workshops afterwards
Performances
12:30 h BOBO
A sensitive story about friendship, courage and growing up.
After a difficult day at school, Alexa meets the peculiar creature Bobo in her room - together they discover how powerful imagination can be in the fight against fear. A short piece of circus theater about the small steps that turn strangers into friends.
With: Dorde and Alexa
Directed by: Dritan Sejamini
14 h BMX Action Drive
Performance and participation. Feel free to bring your own bikes.
With: Emerson von Stülpnagel Muniz
15 h Presentation "without walls"
16 h Hustle and bustle on the farm and Next Alphabet Theaterlabor KIDS
Hustle and bustle on the farm: a small theater scene created by children. A sheepdog, two sheep and a fox meet.
Theater group "Discover Theater". Directed by: Carina Mischke
Next Alphabet Theaterlabor KIDS: As we like it - a piece from our play. Under the motto "Dance meets theater", the Theaterlabor KIDS will show the first scenes from their play, which will premiere on 3.12.
With: Silas, Ida, Leandra, Kiana, Theo and Maxim.
Directed by: Anna Brass and Andreas Simon
16:30 h Circus Ponzelar
The groups of the Ponzelar Circus show artistry, equilibristics and juggling
Directed by: Vlad Naumenko
Afterwards: Festival closing party


Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia through Soziokultur NRW



FREIraum21 is our new space for dance, movement and much more, which we are developing for our educational work at Dießemer Straße 21 as part of the NEUSTART program of the Fonds-Soziokultur. This content has been machine translated.