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Team Generation

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Photo: Peter Rossner / Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH

Mastering the challenges of the future together: young and older people create culture together, create art, play sport, invent, make things, celebrate - and share experiences. Team Generation creates a program that involves different generations, picks up on their perspectives and brings them together.

The aim is to bring local generational issues into the European dialog, to involve them in the programme process and to interest local and European partners in joint project work in Chemnitz. With the public call for proposals "Celebrating Generations!", it brings local actors with a focus on generation-sensitive topics into the Chemnitz 2025 program.

The Generation team organizes workshops, interventions and events in the Capital of Culture region for all age groups. For example, an ongoing, interactive dance and movement workshop for older people is already taking place, while the CREATE U participation format gives younger people in particular the opportunity to implement their own ideas in the Chemnitz 2025 programme. In order to develop the programme sustainably, the Generation team works closely with the existing structure of project sponsors, institutions and city and state administrations.

 

Christian Knaack
Head of Generation Team

Dr Alexandra Takats
Head of Participation of Older People

Lena Rothe
Project Manager Youth Participation

Julius Blum
Editor

Ludwig Sontag
Projekt Assitance

Aline Schmidt
student assistant

Benjamin Schäfer
student assistant

Emma Sophie Kirmse
student assistant

via e-mail to teamgeneration(at)chemnitz2025.de

Young people can take part in the Create.U youth programme.

Older people can take part in the "Dancing Neighbours" dance workshops or visit the "Focus 2025" film series.

re:generation - The Conference of Generations is a platform to discuss topics such as intergenerational work in art and culture as well as demographic change in a European context. The next re:generation conference will take place on 26 & 27 October 2024.

Projects

News

What re:generation 2024 was like in Chemnitz

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Discover what connects young and old: the re:generation conference on 26 & 27 October in Chemnitz

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Dancing neighbours at the Day of the Elderly in Chemnitz

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Mourning for employee of the European Youth Capital Lviv 2025 who died in Russian missile attack

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Conclusion of the "Celebrate generations!" tender

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"Dancing Neighbours": Japanese choreographers as guests in Chemnitz

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Exchange between twin towns - seniors' working group organises international meeting

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Dancing neighbours - stay in motion harmoniously. Dance lessons for older people

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Events

Dancing neighbours

Hartmannfabrik

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Monday

CREATE.U - Games evening and lead casting

Schmidtbank Open Space

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Monday

CREATE.U - New Year's reception & getting to know cultural projects

Hartmannfabrik

Young People Workshop
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Saturday

Spread the Word - Creative public relations

Hartmannfabrik

Teenagers Young People …
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Wednesday

Film series "Fokus2025: Generationen"

Metropol cinema

Elderly people Movie
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European Capital of Culture The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Free State of Saxony European Capital of Culture

This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.