Overview

• The free festival drew roughly 70,000 visitors from June 13 to 15 as part of Chemnitz’s European Capital of Culture programme.
• Highlights included pop acts Juli and Deine Freunde plus a crossover performance by Blond alongside the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie.
• Organizers installed more than 1.1 kilometres of slacklines across urban sites such as the Schlosskirche, Konkordiapark and the Ermafa-Passage.
• The event’s roots in the 2018 #wirsindmehr democracy concert underlined its ongoing focus on community cohesion and inclusivity.
• Fifty food vendors serviced crowds through the weekend; extra night trains and buses ran under Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen schedules; city-enforced road closures managed traffic flow.