A Long Night of Culture

Kaiserslautern sponsors its ninth annual “Long Night of Culture” in the evenings from Saturday to Sunday.

The event will feature more than 100 performances, presentations and displays in 17 locations in the center of town, gardens and churches such as Apostelkirche, Stiftskirche, Hoffnungskirche, Fruchthalle, Emmerich-Smola Music School, Theodor-Zink Museum, Pfalztheater, Pfalzgalerie Museum, Youth Center, Architekturgalerie, Cafe 23, Galerie Wack, Youth Center, Union studio for film arts, and Japanese Garden.

Interested visitors can walk from one event to another. Most events are kept short, and  visitors can put together their own individual program.

A family program with classic and jazz will start at 6 p.m. in the Fruchthalle, known as Kaiserslautern’s concert hall. The late night program with DJ-lounge, salsa live music disco and more than 50 presentations on three stages in the concert hall will take place from 10 p.m. Saturday to 3:30 a.m. Sunday. 

Emphasis will be on new regional music and dance productions, school classes with own music compositions, Tibetan, oriental and Chinese dance, juggling with conjuring tricks and klezmer music.

The motto of the Emmerich-Smola Music School for the long night of culture will be “Only Jazz, Rock, Pop.” Various school ensembles will perform inside and outside the music school.

The Pfalzgalerie Museum on Museumsplatz 1 will offer short guided tours of the three special exhibitions at 8, 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 p.m.  Tennogawa, a Taiko ensemble will present its percussion skills at 10 and 11 p.m.

In the Pfalztheater, ballet dancers will take the audience on a world trip at 8 p.m. before actors and singers start performing.

Apostelkirche on Spitalstrasse 28 (entrance Pariser Strasse) will exhibit textile images of the Bible accompanied by organ music. From midnight to 3 a.m. Olivier Messiaen’s “Livre du Saint Sacrement” will be performed by organist Tobias Naumann-Rothe.

Theodor-Zink-Museum on Steinstrasse 48 will present a diversified entertaining program from 6 p.m. to midnight.

The Japanese Garden will be illuminated and is open for free from 7 p.m. to midnight.  Interested visitors can enjoy sound meditations in the teahouse.

Stiftskirche will open a room of silence, lit with candles, from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Admission fee for most places is €9 for adults and €6 for students. Visitors get a wristband, which allows them to enter all facilities that charge a fee.

For a detailed program and location addresses, visit www.fruchthalle.de or stop at the Tourist Information Office on Fruchthallstrasse to get the Long Night of Culture brochure.