Arts

Artist showcases Europe's largest calligraphy work

Video: Masaaki Hasegawa at the Museo Zapadores in Madrid (source: Mask Movement)
As part of his project "Connect People Thru Art Beyond Borders", the artist Masaaki Hasegawa (Tokyo, 1987) has devised the largest calligraphy work in Europe to date. It consists of a 1,926 square meter area in the Museo Zapadores of Madrid that represents a transition process of our world from chaos to coexistence through language. Hasegawa is interested in the abstraction of the concept of letter. Although the...

The Loveliest Lullaby

Could there be a song that is universally known to all Christians and many more of other denominations? It is said that the Advent classic, Silent Night, is sung in 52 languages. It was composed 200 years ago this coming Christmas. Here is the story of how it all began. Consider the catastrophe. A performance is expected, everything is set, anticipation runs high and then your organ breaks down on Christmas Eve. A mouse nibbling the bellows was suspected. One might consider some hopeful...

Meet Fred - I think I might be a puppet

Welcome to the show and meet Fred who is a simple but curious and very lively canvas puppet who aims to lead a normal life.  "Meet Fred" was the opener at Munich Stadtmuseum of the "mit:gefühl" International Puppet Theater Festival in Munich taking place from 17 to 28 October 2018 with 31 different productions from ten countries. The festival´s title "mit:gefühl" translates as compassion and stresses empathy - empathy for a lifeless object like a puppet. Or for people with learning...

The World's Biggest Horse Racing Events

Horse racing is a sport loved worldwide, but most of us only enjoy race meetings in the country that we reside. On the other hand, there a some racegoers who are very serious about the sport, and it's these sort of racing fans that will do whatever it takes to travel around the world to enjoy the very best in the sport. So the question for us ordinary folk is where are the biggest races held? Cheltenham  Cheltenham Festival is one of the biggest and special horse racing spectacles the UK has...

The Meerkats are back in Town

Munich Zoo (Tierpark Hellabrunn) proudly presents their new inhabitants - three male and one female meerkat that moved in right next to the giraffes' enclosure.

Coming from a wildlife park in Saxony, the four little predators are busy exploring their new Bavarian environment and scraping around for food.

Despite the fact that the animals originally stem from Africa, the local winter weather does not bother them. They either retreat into the cave system or lie down underneath the heat lamps or on...

Top 10 Sledging Hills for Kids in Munich

If you're looking for a sledging opportunity in Munich where you can easily take your kids without much fuss, here are some suggestions:

1. Olympiaberg in Olympic Park
The highest sledging hill in Munich also offers the best panoramic view and a large variety of sledging routes. You can chose from long and flat slopes for the little ones to steep high speed slopes for the more adventurous tobogganist. Additionally there is a snow tubing rack directly at the Olympic Lake.
How to get there: U3 to...

Foo Fighters meet Lollapalooza Berlin

"We've played Lollapalooza before, but we've never played Lollapalooza Berlin!" 85,000 people, 22 years of rock'n'roll music, 9 records encored in a smashing playlist and a show to remember. This was the music festival Lollapalooza Berlin and the only concert in 2017 for Foo Fighters (so far) in Germany, as part of their tour "Concrete and Gold". Dave Grohl (front and guitar), Taylor Hawkins (drumms), Nate Mendel (bass), Chris Shiflett (lead guitar) and Pat Smear (rhythm guitar) rocked the...

How to have fun playing online?

In recent years, technology has become a part of our lives and, for this reason, it is important to emphasize that many habits have changed. In which way? Today we spend more time with our smartphone, tablet or PC and this is an incontrovertible fact: both adults and teenagers are always connected and, for that reason, there are new ways of having fun.

If we open the app store of our devices, we notice that there is a big number of applications dedicated to fun. There are some applications with...

Tollwood Summer Festival 2017

From the 21st of June to the 16th of July, Olympiapark South in Munich hosts this year's Tollwood Summer Festival.

For the next 26 days visitors are invited to enjoy the full variety of theater and performance groups, live concerts and the "Market of Ideas".

There is a lot to discover such as the market stands with handicraft and international gastronomy. In other spaces visitors can be active themselves and ake part in activities. Over 70 percent of all performances - including children's...

Biergarten Season Finally Arrives

It´s summer in the city and most Munich people can be found in what they call their second living room: their favorite Biergarten (beer garden).
If you are new in town or visiting as a tourist you might have already had the opportunity to rest in the shade of a tree and enjoy a cold beer and a giant pretzel (Bavarian: Brezn) - and you may have wondered about a few things: why are customers allowed to bring their own food? Why do they sit on beer benches rather than decent chairs? And why is the...

Frühlingsfest (spring festival) 21.04.2017 - 07.05.2017 Theresienwiese

The 53rd "Mini-Wiesn" is currently taking place at the Theresienwiese München, providing young and grown-up visitors with a large range of market stalls, fairground rides and the obligatory and beer tents.

Next to the popular fairground amusements there are also some highlights you shouldn't miss:

• the giant flea market on the first Saturday of the festival
• the old-timer meeting on the first Sunday of the festival
• family days with reduced prizes on the two Tuesdays
• the Street Artist Contest...

Auer Dult Spring Fair

First mentioned in 1310, the Auer Dult has a long history as a church feast and traditional market in Munich. With around 300 participants, it developed into a huge market for kitchen utensils, pottery, antiques, arts and crafts and novelties accompanied by food stalls and a small fairground to please the little ones.

Three times a year you can visit the Dult on the Mariahilfplatz:

• the spring fair (Mai-Dult) from April 29 to May 7, 2017, 10am - 8pm
• the summer fair (Jakobi-Dult) from July 29 to...