Now it's getting colourful: All of Munich and the surrounding area invite you to the Flower Power Festival.
There are more than 500 events until October 7th.
Most for free!
You have to imagine it as a large meadow.
Roger Diederen, Michael John Gorman, Gudrun Kadereit, Anna Kleeblatt and Max Wagner loosened the soil and invited everyone, absolutely everyone, to scatter seeds on it.
And although winter will be around for a while, Tuesday morning in the botanical garden's auditorium feels like spring.
Because here the five named announce at a press conference that the seed has sprouted: On February 3, 2023, the Flower Power Festival will start.
A festival that makes Munich and its surroundings flourish.
How nice that will be.
How colourful.
How fragrant.
It's a pity that you can't list them all here, the more than 500 events, to which more than 200 participants are invited until October 7, 2023.
From the state theater to the individual artist, from the university to the group of singers.
Diversity is the fertilizer for a magnificent festival.
Like five years ago, when the "Faust" festival made the city vibrate.
While the focus then was on Goethe's tragedy, this time everything is in the green: All events revolve around nature, culture and flowers.
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Magnificent: Floral works such as Lawrence Alma-Tadema's "The Roses of Heliogabalus" (1888) can be seen in the Kunsthalle Munich from next week.
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The mental flight over the colorful meadow that festival director Anna Kleeblatt (!) undertakes with the assembled press shows how much the participants were inspired by these topics.
Each item on the program is a flower whose fragrance is beguiling.
Art laboratory 2, for example, is reminiscent of the aphrodisiacs that nature has given us to fuel our sexual power - at a workshop you can learn how to make massage oil or erotic incense mixtures from natural ingredients.
At the invitation of the Crime Festival, the brave dare to go to the horror reading in the greenhouse at night;
or on the roof of the Gasteig HP8, where busy bees live.
And then into the building, where in Hall E a video installation refers to the blossom of the month.
Little theater fans experience a “Midsummer Night's Dream” in the Schauburg, and you can train to become a green godparent at Green City.
And how about a trip to the Weltwald Freising?
"A forest with trees from all over the world - right in front of our door," says Kleeblatt happily and admits that he only got to know this 100-hectare area in the Kranzberger Forst through the Flower Power Festival planning.
A nice example of how the festival should broaden the view of what grows in the cultural landscape of Bavaria and wants to be plucked with the eyes.
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Germany's next top flower: That's what Munich photographer Natalie Strohmaier calls her series of flower models.
On view in April at Kunstlabor 2.
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“We are delighted that the festival combines art and science.
An exciting cocktail that tastes good on both sides: We can inspire enthusiasm for science through art and vice versa," emphasizes Gorman, who, as founding director of the Bavarian Natural History Museum, works together with Roger Diederen (Kunsthalle Munich), Gudrun Kadereit (Botanical Garden Munich-Nymphenburg) and Max Wagner (Gasteig) is the driving force behind the project.
As with "Faust", they consciously decided against a festival pass, which you can buy and then visit all events at no additional cost.
"We wanted to give every participant the opportunity to act completely freely," explains Max Wagner.
A single ticket would have acted like a corset into which everyone would have had to squeeze.
Now everyone can set their own prices.
Most of the offers are free.
A walk through the wild flower meadow in the English Garden, for example, which the Bavarian Palace Department created.
Stroll, look, smell, touch.
What a sensual pleasure!
The Flower Power Festival runs from February 3rd to October 7th, 2023 The constantly updated program is available here