Wow! Our cultural region is amazing!

We have evaluated the strengths of our cultural region. In a workshop yesterday we presented the results of a survey. Conclusion: There is a lot to discover and many cultural offers for you in the region: at least 144 local history clubs, 50 music clubs, 310 sports clubs, 58 customs clubs, a traditional costume club and numerous testimonies of our industrial and cultural history, including at least 37 chimneys.

Most of them don’t smoke any more, but the heads of the workshop participants* from our Capital of Culture team do. We studied maps, evaluated charts and discussed programme items from the bidbook.

Together with the partner cities of all towns and communities from the cultural region we have a large European network. We would like to use this. We want to win even more partners and supporters for the cultural programme in the Capital of Culture year. We need many partners in order to carry out the big programme we are planning for 2025.

In April we sent questionnaires to about 27 communities within a radius of 50 km around Chemnitz. We asked about strengths and special features of the region. 20 questionnaires are already back. Starting next week we are planning interviews with the communities.

The aim of this survey is to find the strengths of our cultural region. We want to work even more closely together. A joint strategy should help us in the future to make our cultural treasures and sights even better known.