Sideshow – Programm
Grand Opening, Bar Performances, Concerts, Party, Midnight Special
„Sideshow“ will be the scene of numerous Partys, Concerts, Performances, Live-Reviews, Lectures, Artist Talks, a space for Discourse and Discussion during the whole festival period.
All performances will take place at Festivalzentrum studiobühneköln and are admission free.
Grand Opening
Richard Lowdon & Phil Hayes
Performance & Party
Richard Lowdon and Phil Hayes will act as Masters of Ceremony to guide you through the opening celebrations for ‘Sideshow’. To the sounds of jazz, the pair will chair short quiz rounds, stage brief performative interventions to get the audience in the mood and then man the turntables with the most danceable sounds long into the festival night.
Friday, 23 June, from 9 PM
7 Promises
Davis Freeman / Random Scream
Bar-Performance
The Paris Agreement is a milestone in the fight against climate change yet since the US election at the very latest climate change deniers are in the ascendancy. And we all need to play our part anyway. But what can we do? The two eco-preachers in ‘7 Promises’ elicit seven promises from their audience for a sustainable world. Will our actions follow our words?
A late night performance for a better world in Richard Lowdon’s ‘Sideshow’.
Language ENG.
Saturday, 24 June, 9:30 PM
Genau@Impulse
Klub Genau
For five long years Klub Genau created good independent music in the East of Cologne and made a name for themselves on the German music scene. Without their own space since 2015, they have continued to present a series of concerts in the legendary Gebäude 9. For Impulse Theater Festival they are now curating the series ‘Genau@Impulse’ and bring their special vibe with live acts and DJ sets to the festival center for three nights.
Saturday, 24 June, from 11 PM
with Roland Kaiser Wilhelm (live), Seragon Business Band (live) & Miss Stereo / Rhythm Is (DJ-Set)
Wednesday, 28 June, from 9:30 PM
with Nassau (live) & Diana Jones (DJ-Set)
Friday, 30 June, from 10 PM
with Hotel Interocéanique (DJ-Set), Schlammpeitzinger (live) & Der Täubling (live)
For personal reasons, the live act of Der Täubling has to be cancelled. Nevertheless, the party will take place! See you there!
Blow Boys Blow
Dennis Deter
Bar-Performance
Dennis Deter and his seamen sing of home and faraway places, of danger and loneliness, of love and desire and of what it means to be a man…
Language ENG
Thursday, 29 June, 9:30 PM
EMOTIONALE – hört die Signale!
PeterLicht
Midnight Special
For the final finale of the Impulse Theater Festival 2017 and its current team’s farewell the Cologne music performer PeterLicht will open the horizon above the festival center and fly with us in a rocket made of songs, texts and actions into the universe of possibilities. He will be accompanied by his new companion Benedikt Filleböck, formerly known as WOLKE, who will then take over the decks for some last moves.
Saturday, 1 July, midnight
THE ENTIRE SIDESHOW
FRIDAY, 23 June | from 9 PM | Performance & Party |
Grand Opening | ||
SATURDAY, 24 June | 9:30 PM | Bar-Performance |
7 Promises | ||
SATURDAY, 24 June | from 11 PM | Concert |
Genau@Impulse | ||
SUNDAY, 25 June | noon – 5 PM | Theory* |
Reclaim the Words | ||
Ein Arbeitstreffen | ||
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MONDAY, 26 June | 6:30 – 9:30 PM | Theory* |
Exchange for Change | ||
Talk & Workshop | ||
TUESDAY, 27 June | 5:30 PM | Theory* |
Showing the Invisible | ||
Talk | ||
Orte für ein neues Theater | 7:30 PM | Theory* |
WDR 3 Forum | ||
WEDNESDAY, 28 June | from 9:30 PM | Concert |
Genau@Impulse II | ||
THURSDAY, 29 June | from 7:30 PM | Theory* |
Und was soll Kunst sein? | ||
Talk | ||
Blow Boys Blow | 9:30 PM | Bar Performance |
FRIDAY, 30 June | from 10 PM | Concert |
Genau@Impulse III | ||
SATURDAY, 1 July | 10:30 PM | Performance |
Sideshow meets Chez Icke | ||
with Richard Lowdon & Gesine Danckwart | ||
EMOTIONALE – hört die Signale! | midnight | midnight special |
*For more information on our theory program click here