Programme
Programme
The bullets of this rubric reflect the programming structure of the European Capital of Culture 2010 "Essen for the Ruhr". Our programme consists of three guiding themes: mythology, metropolis and Europe. These are interwoven into and portrayed by the disciplines and topic areas of image, theatre, music, language, creative industries and festivals. It is through these media that the programme tells our story of change. Taking the Ruhr mythology as our starting point, we want to show the birth of a new metropolis, one capable of moving Europe through art and culture./ MORE
Illustration: raumlaborberlin
Odyssey Europa Six plays and a voyage of discovery through the interworld
Odysseus comes home and no longer recognises his native island of Ithaca. The theatres of the Ruhr have invited six European authors to retell Homer's famous epic poem: Grzegorz Jarzyna, Péter Nádas, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Christoph Ransmayr, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Enda Walsh. / MORE
Gustav Mahler conducting the rehearsal for the premiere of his Symphony no. 8 (Munich 1910) / Photo: Stadtarchiv München
!SING Symphony of a Thousand
September 2010 will mark the centenary of the world première of Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony. Together with orchestras and choirs from the Ruhr Metropolis, RUHR.2010 is planning the reconstruction of the very first performance of this work, exactly one hundred years later. / MORE
Winter at Alte Emscher river at the Kaisergarten / Emschergenossenschaft/ Photo: Ira Hellenthal
Between Cabbages and Cypresses Garden art on the rivers Emscher and Ruhr
The Ruhr metropolis has a unique variety of garden art. For the first time ever in a museum, the exhibition - designed in cooperation with the Emschergenossenschaft - will show garden art between the Emscher and Ruhr rivers from 18th century Rococo to today. / MORE
