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This tour is fully booked.

The planned end of coal mining brings with it not only socio-structural change but also the reshaping of the landscapes that have been formed by open cut mining. This tour to Lusatia traces ongoing devastation caused when entire villages are engulfed by mines, confronts state-led attempts at re-naturalisation and reflects embodied experiences with extraction and its consequences. Using past, present and future insights into the region's places and landscapes, we will draw on associative imagery and tie it to global perspectives as well as personal memories from the Rhein region’s coalfields, juxtaposing them to the Lusatian context. The tour begins and ends at the IBA (International Building Exhibition) terraces on the Großräschen Lake.

With: Inge Broska, Aurora Castillo, Constanze Fischbeck, knowbotiq (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler), Mercedes Villalba

Further information:

Tour begins: Saturday, June 25, 9:45 am, Bhf Ostkreuz (exact location tbc) – train to Großräschen leaves at 9:58 am, arrival 11:31 am

Tour ends: Saturday, June 25, ca. 8 pm – trains to Berlin at 8:26 pm, 10:08 pm, 10:51 pm, 00:27 am

Contributions in: English and German, whisper translation on demand

Transfers: regio-train, bicycle

Meals: vegetarian (light lunch and dinner)  

Please carry with you: Water bottle, walking shoes

Costs: 15 € for bicycle rental / Großräschen, payment on site in cash