Chemnitz is the Capital of Culture and we want a slice of the cake - that's why we applied for funding to build a new "intervention space" and won!

And we have a lot planned: A large open-air stage with multifunctional features is to be built on the space behind our site, a former sports field. Designed by an artist from Halle, this stage is not just an elevation, but a work of art in itself - many different surfaces, movable modules and a 360° viewable area. This creates a wide range of possible uses for this area and there are no limits to your imagination. Whether theater, school choir, concert or parkour - it's your stage!

But that's not all - the rest of the green space should also be used in the best possible way and in a spirit of solidarity. To this end, separate working groups have collected ideas and are working on their implementation.

In many European cities, SoKüs (also known as Küfas, Küffas, VoKüs, etc.) provide the basic culinary supplies for the left-wing movement and subversive subculture.

Our basic idea is to offer an emancipatory space in which we ALL, guests and co-creators, actively work out our own rules of living together again and again. For us, this means providing a socio-cultural space for exchange and networking, strengthening DIY ideas and offering freedom for individual self-realization. For this to succeed, we havehave opted for a low-threshold approach approach, dthat offers everyone the opportunity to participate in social life and culture, regardless of their budget. This approach includes, for example, free concerts, lectures, films and vegan food. We want a low-hierarchynon-hierarchical space that is free of racism, homophobia, sexism and discrimination, where we can ALL develop and participate freely. For us, this represents a structural basis on which we can ALL build our participation.

Dhis place is intended for self-administration and self-organization, where there is no separation between guests and "staff". We want thats over time, we want more and more people who eat here to also cook or stand at the bar, so that the space can really become a kind of collective property and free space that everyone can help shape on an equal footing.

We want a space that is open to everyone, regardless of whether they have money or not, regardless of what other forms of domination they are subject to. Here we want to break with all this discrimination and make plans for the liberation of society as a whole from all this crap. All visitors are actors and designers of the space and the Sokü is the sum of all participants.

The Sokü includes various areas from cleaning, ordering, shopping, cooking, bar, booking to administration, which are all on a voluntary basis are carried out on a voluntary basis.

Get involved! Get involved! Food is important! SoKü is important!

The Kantine is a theory festival that has been focusing on the life and work of political thinkers for a week every year since 2018. After the "Marx", "Luxemburg", "Benjamin" and "de Pizan" editions, the "Gramsci" canteen will follow from August 1 to 7, 2022.

The event is a cooperation between WkB e. V. and Subbotnik e. V. It will take place at Subbotnik in Chemnitz.

If you are interested in helping with the organization and content of the canteen, simply get in touch using the contact form on the homepage.