SimpleToGo

We have a critic of our own on our team. Our blogger Arne Siebert is an avid fan of Sommerblut. But he doesn’t like everything, of course. He knows: “We are so diverse. If you want to know whether it was really good or not, just go!” (#einfachhin) He reveals in his blog: what should you definitely not miss? And what were our performances like? He sometimes takes you backstage. And is Arne as non-binary and inclusive as Sommerblut? Find out on his blog #Simple2Go!

#Simple2Go 3: Artists in War

Our blogger Arne writes about the project Artist in War of the Jam Factory Art Center from Lviv.

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#Simple2Go 1: What is the Sommerblut Culture Festival?

Experts say: "The Sommerblut Kulturfestival is a diverse, inclusive, multipolar cultural festival from Cologne".
Does that make your eyes roll? What does that actually mean?

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#Simple2Go 6: The Happy Island - Sommerblut premiers at Schauspiel Köln

The Sommerblut Cultural Festival 2022 celebrates its opening with Happy Island at Schauspiel Köln. Arne tells you why inclusive art belongs on stage and at Schauspiel Köln.

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#Simple2Go 2: Make it new!

Everything is new in May. That's why we've prepared ourselves for a new season: Make it new!

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#Simple2Go 4: #Simple2Backstage - Why do we gender?

Why do we write a colon and the feminine ending?
Here you can find out the why and the wherefore. All compiled by Arne for you and us.

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#Simple2Go 5: #Simple2Backstage - Nico Randel's white doves for peace

Nico Randel is an actor and artist at Kunsthaus KAT18. 24 artists with disabilities are working there. Nico has made 100 peace doves. He presented them at the Sommerblut press conference.

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#Simple2Go 7: UNSEEN: A glimpse into our inner life

Arne writes about Unseen, the exhibition of photographs by Suzie Larke, which is available to the public at the Stadtgarten in Köln from 07 to 22 May. 

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#Simple2Go 8: Nature once again turns into theatre

In the midst of a small forest, two female singers can be heard. Are they singing about loneliness? We're getting closer. They are looking at the surroundings of a wooden ruin, picking up dead wood or leaves, singing to it as if reviving it.

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#Simple2Go 9: #Simple2Backstage - High-performance art settles accounts with the achieving society

The fourth floor in an office building in Ehrenfeld is the perfect place for issuing a settlement concerning the German unemployment benefit II, colloquially referred to as Hartz IV.

With video, sound art, as well as scenes running parallel to each other, “AGENDA” puts to question: What happens when humans are being turned into files?

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#Simple2Go 10: The herb collection - finally not having to reflect for once

Herbarium is an exhibition that you, as a visitor, take part of. Herbarium is what it sounds like; a collection of herbs. Our Polish colleagues within the Face to Faith-project have collected dried herbs and other scents for the exhibition. 

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#Simple2Go 11: A Universal Person without additions

"A Universal Person" is a dance piece dealing with perception and truth.
It's been a long time since I attended a performance without accessibility add-ons. This way I can better perceive the sounds and energies in the audience and on stage. Otherwise, a description over headphones fills this silence: audio description.

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#Simple2Go 12: The Giant Aquarium

"BIOTOPE" literally means “living space”. The lively dance piece was created by the Dutch artist collective “United Cowboys”, together with Sommerblut.

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#Simple2Go 13: Simply contemporary theatre

The theatre performance "Alles aber anders" (Everything but different) combined everything I expect from inclusive contemporary culture.

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#Simple2Go 14: Not easy - the dance with the skin

The dance piece is called "SKIN". It is about the skin being the boundary of the body.

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#Simple2Go: #Simple2Background – Expressively Simple

I told you the other day about the exhibition "Unseen". Today I report about a guided tour through the exhibition.

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#Simple2Go 15: The machine man as god - The Human Measure

"The Human measure" was the prelude to our cultural finale. 
The program text was puzzling. The spoken text was English. But the visual language was strong enough.

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#SimpletoGo 18: The demon will never die

"VAGABUNDEN" is a play. In Simple Language, Vagabonds means: People who travel.

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#SimpletoGo 17: FI-NA-LE! — and far from over

At last outdoors again and with an audience: the Sommerblut cultural finale at Ebertplatz! Featuring the touching theater performance "The Human Measure," the faith app "iBelieve," and much more.

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