CREATE.U - Young Culture made in Chemnitz
Young people design their Capital of Culture programme
Capital of Culture by young people for young people - that's CREATE.U! CREATE.U is the youth programme for Chemnitz 2025 initiated by Team Generation. It enables young people between the ages of 14 and 27 to implement their own project ideas in Chemnitz and the cultural region. You can take part, contribute your ideas and help shape cultural projects!
Julia Palarz
Project Manager Youth Participation
(parental leave)
Lena Rothe
Projektmanagerin Jugendbeteiligung
Email: teamgeneration@chemnitz2025.de
Instagram: @create.urchemnitz
Phone: 0371 33567277
We meet every Thursday from 5 to 7 pm in the Open Space of Chemnitz 2025 in the Schmidtbank-Passage (Hartmannstraße 5). For better planning, please register in advance by e-mail or via Instagram.
Young culture made in Chemnitz
Your own festival, a photo project or a fashion workshop: Would you like to live out your creative side and plan and implement your own cultural project? Then you've come to the right place. Teenagers and young adults between the ages of 14 and 27 who have already gained some experience in event organization and now want even more can take part.
We meet regularly to discuss new ideas and network. We travel to get to know young people and their ideas from other cities and countries. Our big goal is to organize an international youth event lasting several days in 2025. On the way there, we will try our hand at smaller projects such as the KOSMOS Festival or re:generation - the conference of generations.
Create.U meets every Thursday from 5 to 7 pm in the Chemnitz 2025 Open Space in the Schmidtbank-Passage (Hartmannstraße 5, 09111 Chemnitz). For better planning, please register in advance by email or via Instagram.
Betonblühen Festival - Join in!
The Betonblühen Festival (8-12 October 2025 in Chemnitz) is looking for young initiatives, collectives, associations or individual artists who would like to be part of the programme. Whether with music, workshops, a skate contest, a reading or a pop-up, anything is possible!
Application deadline: 20 July 2025 / if you have any questions, please contact us via email festivalcrew@chemnitz2025.de or Instagram @create.urchemnitz
A youth festival called "Gen C" is planned - a multi-day international event for young people in the Capital of Culture year 2025, focussing on the ideas, topics and wishes of the participants. A meeting takes place every Thursday from 5 to 7 pm in the Chemnitz 2025 Open Space (Schmidtbank-Passage, Hartmannstraße 5, 09111 Chemnitz).
Instagram: @create.urchemnitz
Grey electricity boxes in Chemnitz are transformed into colourful works of art! Creative workshops bring colour to the city and invite you to join in.
Instagram: @c._your.power
Old clothes are redesigned in workshops on upcycling, colouring and sewing.
Instagram: @upcycling.studio2025
Exhibitions and photo campaigns offer young artists a stage. There are currently plans to exhibit photographs as large prints in public spaces.
Instagram: @pov_chemnitz
A creative meeting place is being created in Chemnitz: GARTEN 7 offers music, art and encounters in the Capital of Culture year 2025 - a place for new ideas!
Instagram: @garten7_chemnitz
An inspiring film festival is planned! Queer films will be celebrated and a platform for diversity created.
Instagram: @c.the.queeno
Every Thursday it's time to put on your running shoes or get on your bike! The running and cycling group focuses on community, fun and exercise.
Contact: Matthias Keussen
The CORRECTIV youth editorial team is coming to Chemnitz! Here, young people make news for young people.
Contact: salon5(at)correctiv.org / Instagram: @salon5_
The United Club Convention is all about music and club culture! DJ workshops start in February, followed by beatmaking, lighting technology and sound.
Contact: tereza(at)atomino-chemnitz.de
The OstVISION youth conference offers the opportunity to develop ideas for the Capital of Culture Chemnitz together with other young people. Here, young people can shape their OstVISION and have a say in the creative process.
Further information can be found at www.ostivision.de.
