15 hours of culture on the 15th Long Saturday

On November 12, the whole of Chur will once again become a stage, a museum, a concert hall - and this for the 15th time. To celebrate this in a fitting manner, the Chur Culture Festival extends the program into the night: 15 hours of culture for the 15th edition.

The Long Saturday remains a fixed date in Chur's cultural calendar. Every year in mid-November, the cultural institutions of the cantonal capital join forces to present an atmospheric potpourri of all artistic genres. Starting at 12 noon, the short programs are lined up one after the other: literature, music, theater, visual arts, photography, performance, cultural history - among them always offerings especially for children and young people.

Chur as a museum
During the Long Saturday, Chur is transformed into a large museum. In the Bündner Kunstmuseum, for example, you can admire the diversity of embroidery in the special exhibition "Venice Stars. Art and Embroidery". Forum Würth Chur is dedicated to the geometric art of François Morellet, and Galerie Obertor to the Graubünden painter and sculptor Patrick Devonas. What is possible with artificial intelligence in the archive can be seen at the Fotostiftung Graubünden. The Rhaetian Museum offers around the special exhibition "beguilingly disturbing. Collectables from Overseas" a non-stop program from noon to midnight.

Chur as a stage
The Long Saturday also offers much in the way of literature, theater and film. Slam poet Lara Stoll makes a guest appearance at CUADRO22, cabaret artist and multi-instrumentalist Flurin Caviezel invites you to Torculum. Silent films accompanied by live music flicker across the screen in the Klibühni. Daniela Candinas tells the story of little Timo through texts and songs in the Martinskirche. At the Cantonal Library, the improv theater group DRAUFFischem from Samedan meets the High Definition Theatersportverein from Zurich. RTR gives workshops on video storytelling in the Media House and Winterberg's Bestiarium, the special science show, celebrates its 150th anniversary with the Graubünden Museum of Nature.

Chur as a concert hall
Musically, Long Saturday covers the entire spectrum. In the Werkstatt, organic synthesizers by Pablo Nouvelle resound, while Les Reines Prochaines move between pop and performance at CUADRO22. In the GKB AUDITORIUM, the solo students of the Singschule Chur can be heard, as well as jazzy sounds from the Kammerphilharmonie. Jazz is also the order of the day at the Marsöl Bar and the Kulturgarage, both of which will be the venues for JazzChur. The Young Orchestra of the Grisons and the salon orchestra "Kur & Tanz" will perform in the Postremise. There will also be a taste of "spa air" at the Theater Chur - with the ChurSüd ladies' choir and Michael von der Heide.

Chur as an outdoor space
Long Saturday also takes place outdoors and entices visitors to discover Chur as an urban space. For example, in the Lacunaquartier, where they can trace the lives of gladiators in the exhibition Prehistory, or in the Cabinet of Visionaries, which is dedicated to street art and offers a graffiti workshop. The Rhaetian Railway takes the "Flying Raetian", a nostalgic railcar, accompanied by Leo Hirschbühl from Chur station to the Sand depot. Finally, Chur Tourism is offering two guided tours of art in public spaces.

New late-night shows
For the 15th edition, Long Saturday will be even longer. Various venues will present late-night programs late at night and after midnight. As before, there will be dancing at CUADRO22 with DJanes Jeanine, Jamira and Gina, as well as at the Postremise, where DJ Fiedel from Berlin's Berghain will once again provide mountain assistance. At JazzChur in the Kulturgarage, The Robots improvise live instrumental and electronic dance music. The entire late-night offering is included in the ticket. However, there is also a new late-night ticket for those who can only join in from 11 p.m. onwards.

For thefirst time
With the Druckwerkstatt Schloss Haldenstein, the Long Saturday can welcome for the first time since the merger a Haldenstein cultural institution at the event. The active artistic members will show their etchings, silkscreens and lithographs and how they are created. Also new is the association GRAIN CIRCLE. The analog photography collective will demonstrate in the darkroom how to go from negative to finished image and will exhibit photographs by its members. As part of the late-night offerings, GRAIN CIRCLE can be visited on the 1st floor at Bahnhofstrasse 8 until 3:00 am.

Over 200 performances for one ticket
The participating houses will again present more than 80 different short programs on this year's Long Saturday - this in over 200 individual performances. The online program with its practical filter functions provides an optimum overview of this large number of offers at any time. As always, it is sufficient to purchase a one-way ticket for the Long Saturday. The trip with the extra buses is included, as is the trip home with the RhB - only the outward journey to Chur must be paid for. Tickets are available online. Alternatively, advance booking is available at Chur Tourism, on Long Saturday until 1.30 pm.

Program, online tickets and all further information: langersamstag.ch

Participating houses Exhibition Prehistory / Bündner Kunstmuseum / Bündner Naturmuseum / Chur Tourism / CUADRO22/ Druckwerkstatt Schloss Haldenstein / Forum Würth Chur / Fotostiftung Graubünden / Galerie Obertor / GKB AUDITORIUM / GRAIN CIRCLE / JazzChur / Kabinett der Visionäre / Cantonal Library of the Grisons / Klibühni, The Theater / Martinskirche / Postremise / Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha / Rhaetian Museum / Rhaetian Railway / Theater Chur / Torculum / Werkstatt ChurNote: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.