#3000Garages-Festival
The big party of garage culture(s) for young and old
Surrounded by almost 1,000 garages lies a meadow. It is the venue for a festival that is all about garage culture. The programme takes place with the active participation of garage users and follows their biographies, hobbies and skills - be it vaulting on a mechanical horse, perfuming fragrant wonder trees or a culinary record. The evenings then belong to the artist Tanja Krone and many Chemnitz residents, who perform the music performance SONGS OF (IN)SECURITY - The First Security Conference of the Former East.
When? From 06 to 08 June 2025
Where? Chemnitz, Harthweg 7-9 garage yard, central meadow
Free admission
Stage programme
From 18:00 Opening
19:30 Premiere Songs of (In)Security - musical theatre with Tanja Krone and team
21:00 Cassette disco with Maik Sparwasser (Instagram)
Stage programme
12:00 programme start with the Starlight Cloverteens Cheerleaders
12:30 Concert SJU (Trenčín - Capital of Culture 2026)
14:00 Show Team Pferdestärke - Vaulting RV Lößnitz e.V
15:00 Three walls that mean the world: The garage talk show with Lukas Rietzschel (part 1)
16:30 Concert Swing Art Quartet
17:30 Concert Accordion Harmonists® Chemnitz
19:30 Songs of (In)Security - musical theatre with Tanja Krone and team
21:00 Music by Lutz Stolberg
Workshops
12:00-16:00 Airbrush tattoos for children & fans
16:00-19:00 Make crown cap men with the Institute for Eastern Modernism
12:00-16:00 Felting bird's-eye views with Sabine Hochmuth
16:00-19:00 Chemnitz Garage School with Constructlab
30 kg of mustard for Chemnitz - the city bet
All of Chemnitz pitches in! Together with Olivia Schneider (Instagram: @tumvlt) and Uwe Wirkner, we're collectively stirring the mustard pots. Will Chemnitz manage to crack the 30-kilo mark by Sunday evening? Throughout the festival, you can drop by, make mustard and add your own.
The literary garage
Bookseller Katja Lücke is opening the doors of her garage for the festival. The team from the MDR Kultur podcast "Unter Büchern unterwegs" will also be there with their bright yellow book van and book tips for the summer.
13:30-14:30 Garage stories by Markus Lehmann and Leonore Cebulla
18:30-19:00 I'll leave one door open - reading by the Chemnitz puppet theatre
The Sparda Bank Garage
Exhibition A look back that leads forward
Stage programme
12:30 p.m. Concert by The Nosebleeds (Trencin - Capital of Culture 2026)
14:30 Three walls that mean the world: The garage talk show with Lukas Rietzschel part 2
16:00 Concert Gruppa Karl-Marx-Stadt
18:00 Songs of (In)Security - music theatre with Tanja Krone and team
Workshops
12:00-18:00 Make your own scented trees
12:00-18:00 Building garages with Uwe Bodenschatz and Robert Meisenäcker (Garage 42)
30 kg of mustard for Chemnitz - the city bet
All of Chemnitz lends a hand! Together with Olivia Schneider (Instagram: @tumvlt) and Uwe Wirkner, we're collectively stirring the mustard pots. Will Chemnitz manage to crack the 30-kilo mark by Sunday evening? Throughout the festival, you can drop by, make mustard and add your own.
The literary garage
Bookseller Katja Lücke is opening the doors of her garage for the festival. The team from the MDR Kultur podcast "Unter Büchern unterwegs" will also be there with their bright yellow book van and book tips for the summer.
13:30 + 16:30 KiKANiNCHEN party for children
The Sparda Bank Garage
Exhibition A look back that leads to the future
Arrival
Festival location: Garagenhof at Harthweg 7-9, central meadow (Google Maps)
Please note that there are many garages on site, but no parking spaces for guests. We recommend travelling by bus or bicycle via Waldenburger Straße (bus stop Ernst-Heilmann-Straße). From the bus stop it is a 12-minute walk to the garage courtyard.
Shuttle service: On Sunday between 12:00 and 18:00, a shuttle from Scheunenfund - Die KultTourGarage will run every half and full hour from the Ernst-Heilmann-Straße bus stop to the festival site and back. Seats are limited.
