Kulturfabrik Esch-sur-Alzette (luxembourg)
The Culture Factory ( officially Centre culturel Culture Factory ) is a cultural center in Esch -sur-Alzette in the south of Luxembourg, in the buildings of a former municipal slaughterhouse of the 19th century.
History
From 1885 / 86-1979, the building was used as a slaughterhouse of the city of Esch- Alzette. From 1982 a troupe of young actors, begins " Theater GmbH ", so to convert the existing premises in rehearsal and performance halls. 1983 created the Association Culture Factory. From 1984 to 1995 artistic and socio-cultural activities of every kind there are unfolded. End of 1996, a convention between the state, community and culture factory is signed on 2 October 1998, the cultural center of the culture factory officially opened.
The culture factory is now a place of exchange and creation, as well as an engine for sustainable development and provides artist residencies.
Equipment
The culture factory has 4,500 m² of floor space, which consists of a large function room with 950 standing room and 270 seats, a small meeting room with 250 standing room, the " rate Lach " for literary evenings and cabaret with 35 seats, an art gallery ( " Gallery Terres Rouges" ) six rehearsal rooms for bands and three rooms for studios, workshops, musical groups and theater as well as samples of the ceramic factory and two other important premises, the cinema ( " Kinosch " ) and the restaurant " K116 " made .
Networks and expansion
- Luxembourg Association of decentralized cultural centers
- Trans Europe Halles
- European Federation of Maisons de la poésie
- Theatre Federation
- Circus Lorraine
- Certified Center of the Service National de la Jeunesse ( SNJ )
- Approved center for apprenticeship of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce
Missions
The Cultural unstützt local and regional artists, promotes talent, artistic activities and educational projects. In addition, it is committed to cross-border projects (Festival du film de italy Villerupt, Autour de Taslima Nasreen, Regards sur le cinéma, text sans frontières ... ) and motor for sustainable development.
Program
Are aligned within and outside the Culture Factory 250 events per year.
The offer includes Current Music, World Music, Theatre & staged readings, new clowns, Film (Festival du film italien de Villerupt ), Literature / Poetry ( editor of the bilingual magazine " Transkrit " ), conferences, conventions and dance and percussion workshops.
Festivals such as Out of The Crowd Festival Flamenco Festival Esch, Africa Festival Esch, Clowns In Progress and Bang Your Head found throughout the year instead: The groups are rehearsing in the studios Chief Mart 's, Mutiny on the Bounty, Artaban, Mount Stealth, Scarred and Abstract Rapture.
The following artists have already occurred in the Culture Factory: Music Bands and Artists Queens of the Stone Age, A Silver Mount Zion, Mono, Suicidal Tendencies, Monster Magnet, Motorpsycho, Apocalyptica, King's X, The Gathering (band), Dream Theater, Fu Manchu (band), The Black Dahlia Murder, Forward Russia, Morbid Angel, Modest Mouse, Will, Broken Social Scene, Red Sparowes, Battles, Cult of Luna, Architects, Unearth, PVT, Poison the Well, The Notwist, Clutch ( band ), Parkway Drive, Tortoise, The Melvins, Wax Tailor, Imogen Heap, Katatonia, IAMX, 65daysofstatic, Bolt Thrower, CocoRosie, Iron & Wine, Bonobo ( musician), Asking Alexandria, Envy (band), Beatsteaks, Fink (band), Meshuggah, Gentleman, Julian Marley, Ky- ma, Barrington Levy, Einstürzende Neubauten, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Sophie Hunger Marky Ramone; the flamenco artists Manolo Franco, Marie- Josée Franco, Antonio Serrano, Andrés Pena, Pedro Ricardo Mino, Gualberto Garcia Segundo Falcon, Patricia Guerrero, Francisco Espinosa, Olga Pericet, Pastora Galván, Leonor Leal, La Tremendita, La Lupi, Javier Baron, Rafael Campallo, Fuensanta La Moneta, Belén Maya, performing artists Cie Les Matapeste, Calixte de Nigremont, clowns from Hanoï, from Saint-Petersburg, Francis Albiero, Isabelle Wéry, Ludor Citrik, Colette Migné, Gilles Defacques, Alan Fairbairn, Gurai et Asli, Isabelle Lemetay, Michel Deltruc, Sebastien Coste, Camille Perrin, Antoine Arlot, Didier Barrois, Julien archers, Véronique Mougin & Michel Deltruc, Bonaventure Gacon, Alba Sarraute, Heinzi Lorenzen, Constantin Cojocaru, Marja- Leena Junker, Andrei Elek Valéry Plancke, Elena Popa, Luc Schiltz, Josiane Peiffer, Martin Engler, Simon Pitt, Marc tree, Soren Evinson, Claire Thill, Luc Spada, Maelle Giovanetti, Roch- Antoine Albaladejo, Lorène Ehrmann, Jérémie Graine, Héloïse Levain, Jean- François Wolff, painters, photographers, artists Diane iodine, The'd Johanns, Sonya Schönberger, Véronique Kolber, René Gillain, Marcel Wolff, Tim Battin, Frauke Hänle & Claus Kienle, Sébastien Cuvelier, Slava Mogutin, Atelier d' Empreinte, Collectif Marge Flott Antes, Yvon Lambert, studio créatif Jardin de Wiltz