CREATE.U
The Youth Programme for Chemnitz 2025
CREATE.U is the youth programme for Chemnitz 2025 launched by Team Generation. It enables young people to bring their own project ideas to life in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture region: whether that means organising a youth festival independently, putting on photography exhibitions, designing fashion or taking part in sporting activities together.
Room 4 Culture
Series of events on hip-hop culture
[February to November 2025]
Room 4 Culture has been embodying the spirit of hip-hop culture in Chemnitz for years. Through workshops, battles and shows in unusual venues, the team at Room – Hip Hop Spot demonstrates how breaking and hip-hop are intertwined as a creative and respectful culture.
KOSMOS Chemnitz
Festival of Culture, Music and Democracy
[June 2025]
KOSMOS Chemnitz is a major free festival held in Chemnitz city centre. KOSMOS was launched in response to the far-right demonstrations in August 2018. This year, tens of thousands of people will once again be flocking to the city to celebrate and to experience KOSMOS as a platform for democracy.
Summer in the Park
The Open-Air Cultural Festival
[June and July 2025]
The Parksommer transforms the Stadthallenpark into an open-air cultural space. Spreading out on picnic blankets and reclining in deckchairs, visitors can enjoy concerts, poetry slams, yoga and more – all under the open sky and right in the heart of the city.
ibug
Urban Art Festival
[August and September 2025]
ibug brings international urban art to derelict industrial sites – marking its 20th anniversary this year. Over three weekends in August and September, artists and volunteers will transform a derelict industrial site in Chemnitz into a walk-in exhibition.
BDTSK8 Festival
European Skateboard Festival
[August 2025]
The BDTSK8 Festival brings together skateboarding, music and urban art in a three-day event in the heart of Chemnitz. Skaters from across Europe – ranging from under-16s to over-30s – compete against each other in street and bowl competitions. At the same time, open-air art is created, ranging from graffiti to stencil art.
im:puls
Night of Youth Cultures
[September 2025]
In small towns across Saxony, young people are organising their own ‘Night of Culture’. Through the im:puls project, they are developing their own events and bringing their ideas to the stage – creatively, loudly and on their own terms. In 2025, the project will culminate in a Europe-wide youth festival in Chemnitz.
Slam 25
International German-language poetry slam championships
[October and November 2025]
SLAM 25 brings the greatest poetry slam talents from seven countries to Chemnitz, where they will present their best pieces at the 29th International German-Language Championship.
