Working Class! Festival for Worker Culture

ST. PÖLTEN. Am 20. and 21.9. find in the contexts of the tangente and different aspects in St. Pölten Vorträge, Ausstellungen, Performances anyway Konzerte unterschiedlicher Genres zu den Themen Arbeitswelt, Arbeiter:innenbewegung und Gastarbeit statt. Starting in the workshop and in the warehouse, see “Working Class!” in the Löwinnenhof* and ending in the Bühne in Hof.

St. Pölten has, like many other European cities, a transformation process of the classical Arbeiter:inner city into a city of education and culture. The city tentwicklung is an undertaking with operations such as Glanzstoff, Voith, from the ÖBB Hauptwerkstätte St. Pölten or Harlander Coats verknüpft. The answers of the guest workers: all – above all from the Turkish, the evil Yugoslav and Tunisian world – in the mid-1960s the changes in the urban structure and culture took place.
Was this tradition not relevant in the Gegenwart and was the new form lassen sich entdecken and experience? Find Stolze Geschichte und unbestimmte Zukunft during Ausdruck at the Festival “Working Class!”.
Esra Özmen is an oyster reich art and rapper from Wien Ottakring. In my Raps bezeichnet I see myself as a single guest worker.
Thomas Kern is a St. Pölten-born musician, DJ, veranstalter and cultural worker. “Oh, the work of the individual is a business without any problems”, says this is a great pleasure. Weniger said

Program Friday

Labor Chamber Lower Austria
from 2:00 PM “GURBET In der Fremde”, a film by Kenan Kılıç (AK young)
14:00 Einleitende Worte von de Kurator:innen Esra Özmen und Thomas Kern, Tarun Kade (Kuratorischer Leiter Tangente St. Pölten), Landesgeschäftsführer GPA Niederösterreich Michael Pieber (in Vertretung von AK NÖ-Präsident Markus Wieser)
14:30 Gastarbeiter:innen-Beitrag: Podium discussion with ua Künstlerin Cana Bilir-Meier, Director Kenan Kılıç, Musician DJ Mounir, Tayfun Dogan
15:45 Vorstellung Video art project “United Workers” by Susi Rogenhofer
16:15 Song of the Proletenpassion

Warehouse St. Pölten
19:00 „Liebe, D-Mark & ​​​​Tod“ by Cem Kaya, Documentary film essay on 60 years of Turkish music in Germany (Garage)
20:15 EsRap (main stage)
21:00 Song of the Proletenpassion (Garage)
21:45 Buster Shuffle (main stage)
23:15 Euroteuro (Garage)
00:00 Eko Fresh (main stage)
01:30 Electrofloor with DJ Sweet Susi / Eski Tüfek by Eyup Kuş (Mainstage)
01:30 Shake’n’Groove Floor with DJ Mounir / Dj Schurli Danzig / Dj Thomsn (Garage)

Saturday, 21.9.

Free entry
Im & ums Festival Center
from 2:00 PM Schmiedeworkshop for Kinder mit Kunstschmied Mario Werndl
from 2:00 PM Music worker: inner chapel
2:00 PM + 4:00 PM Poems & Stories from and with Artists Cana Bilir-Meier

Stage in the courtyard
6:00 PM Malarina “Serben sterben langesam”
7:00 PM Maria Muhar “Storno”
20:00 Malarina “Serben sterben langesam”
9:00 PM Maria Muhar “Storno”
Cathedral Square
22:00 Steelrain-Performance, Kunstschmied Mario Werndl paints in 12 m Höhe Stahl and lässt ihn zu Boden “rain”.