Kultur ohne Kohle
Eine rheinische Landpartie
A festival with a lot of culture and without coal art & culture instead of coal & destruction
„Kultur ohne Kohle – eine rheinische Landpartie“ („Culture Without Coal - A Rhenish Country Outing“) is a free of charge, decentralized festival within and around the villages close to the open-face mine Garzweiler II.
Even though it’s clear that energy production through brown coal mining is an outdated technology, that boosts the climate crisis, the open-face mine is still supposed to expand and therefore destroy the homes of thousands of people. Because of that, there has been a fight for a climate just and brown coal free future for several decades now. We want to contribute to that!
Thats why Culture without coal invites people to strengthen and celebrate the resistance in anti-discriminatory spaces against brown coal and the International climate unjustice. Culture without Coal wants to try out to live the utopian dream of a fair and worth to live in society in a small space, to organize itself free of the logic of exchange and therefore ensuring the possibility of participation for everybody.
We want to fill the endangered villages with life, art, culture and resistance. We want to bring, in participation with the local residents, new liveliness to their homeland and celebrate with the resistant people in solidarity.
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Info and program booklet
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Come along!
There is a lot going to happen in the villages - stay curious!
Part of the Kuloko
Many different groups are part of the Kuloko and design individual actions, places or program points:
KCR – The core of the climate movement in Germany
Since 2010, climate camps have become one of the most important places where people come together around the topic of climate, to network, live together in a self-organized way that is tried to be aware of hierarchy, to educate themselves and to create diverse protests and actions together.
Unser aller Wald
Unser aller Wald – In was für einer Welt wollen wir leben?
The tree house village on the outskirts of Keyenberg not only wants to stop coal, but also to take a stand against fossil capitalism, which continues to feed global social injustice and the climate crisis. Here, people seek answers to the question: How do we shape our coexistence in a more equitable world?
Kirchen im Dorf lassen
Kirche(n) im Dorf lassen – für eine christliche Klimabewegung und globale Gerechtigkeit
In the local resistance, Christians stand in the way of the hostile open-cast mining, the destruction of villages and churches with creative actions and fight for a good life for all within the framework of the global climate movement.
Mahnwache Lützerath
Mahnwache Lützerath – gemeinsam sind wir stark!
Since 22.07.2021, the picket is located between Lützerath and the open pit mine as a place for networking, meeting and direct resistance. Only a few hundred meters away from the excavators, people from the threatened villages, activists and interested people meet there to set a sign together against the dirtiest fossil fuel.
MaStaMo
MaStaMo – Machen statt motzen – Gemeinschaftlich und selbstorganisiert Freiräume ermöglichen und gestalten
Our world needs change! MaStaMo is a camp for connectedness, inspiring and constructive exchange, peace, joy (and vegan pancakes), mindful interaction with ourselves and the world, a desire to learn, liveliness, enthusiasm and responsibility to test a sustainable society!
Lebenslaute
Lebenslaute – Widerständige Musik an unmöglichen Orten
Through civil disobedience, the open music and action group makes predominantly classical music sound where it is not expected - on military training grounds and deportation airports, in front of nuclear factories and missile depots, in immigration offices and other places that threaten people.
BIPoC-Klimakonferenz
BIPoC-Klimakonferenz - No Justice in a Racist Climate
BIPoCs create a BIPoC only space in Berverath City where people can formulate their own viewpoints, narratives, and opinions undisturbed and without having to pre-negotiate them with white perspectives. The discourse around the climate crisis is dominated by white supremacy, even though BIPoCS are much more extremely affected by its consequences. This needs to be disrupted.
