Maker Advent

Foto: Ernesto Uhlmann

Homemade is always the best! That's why Chemnitz 2025 is turning the Advent season into a hands-on time. At the Maker Advent, workshops, associations, artists and creative people in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture region invite you to work, turn, make lace, print, bake, make hats and sing together.

Because the region has always been characterized by the spirit of do-it-yourself. The Maker Advent creates meeting places and brings people together. It is an invitation to everyone to discover new places and activities and to get creative together with other people.

 

Josephine Hage
Curator Makers, Business & Arts

Maja Frank
Communications Manager Makers, Business & Arts

Stefanie Abelmann
Event Manager Makers, Business & Arts

Selina Eckstein
Event Assistant Makers, Business & Arts

Lisa Laser
Project Manager Makers, Business & Arts

Laura Tzschätzsch

Netzwerkmanagerin Makerhubs Makers, Business & Arts

Nina Rüb
Communications Manager Makers, Business & Arts (on parental leave)

The project “Makers, Business & Arts” is being organised by the Landesverband der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft Sachsen e. V. with funding from the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH.

Would you like to be part of the next Maker Advent with your creative offer? Then you can apply now: To the Maker Advent 2025 call for applications

During Advent 2024, Chemnitz 2025 once again hosted the Maker Advent, a hands-on format that showcases craft and creative offerings in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region and connects people through the theme of Christmas.

Whether traditional techniques such as woodturning, lace-making, baking or carving or modern approaches such as laser cutting, 3D printing, programming or soldering: the Maker Advent offered a diverse selection of workshops, open workshops and courses. The programme was complemented by drawing, printing and knitting courses, in which participants could design their own gifts or decorations.

The updated Maker Advent 2024 brochure was once again distributed in numerous institutions in Chemnitz and the region, for example in libraries, tourist information centres, adult education centres, town halls and cultural institutions, and was also available digitally via the Chemnitz 2025 channels.

In 2024, the Maker Advent also encouraged people to get active beyond the usual consumerism, realise their own ideas and discover new craft skills. The formats strengthened the local maker culture, promoted dialogue and a sense of community and made it possible to experience the cultural diversity and creative potential in the city and region.

The Maker Advent 2024 showed once again that Chemnitz is full of workshops, studios and committed players and is particularly open to creative interaction in the run-up to Christmas.

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Exhibition Edvard Munch. Angst

Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz

Exhibition Main programme
Sunday
until

Festival of Expressionism

Chemnitz, Karl Schmidt-Rottluf House and residential mill

Exhibition Families
Sunday
until

Performance by the Dancing Neighbours followed by a hands-on workshop

Chemnitz, Markersdorfer Oase

Elderly people Families
Sunday
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#3000garages - The exhibition

Chemnitz, Garagen-Campus

Exhibition Main programme
Sunday

Herbal tour and application

Chemnitz, Hutholzgarten

Lecture Families
Sunday
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Guided Tour "Tales of Transformation"

Chemnitz, Industriemuseum

Exhibition Museum
Sunday

And above us the big wagon

Chemnitz, Arthur House of Culture

Education Main programme
Sunday

Chemnitz Utopia: Aliens and Herons in Ústí nad Labem

Ústí nad Labem (CZ)

Excursion Arts
Sunday

Corina Gertz: The averted portrait

Marienberg, Pferdegöpel auf dem Rudolphschacht / Schachthaus

Exhibition Installation
Sunday
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Vietnamese and Buddhist fairy tales

Chemnitz, Tao Qi Centre

Families Festival

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