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12.01.2021
Digital Events from the Gasteig: Concerts, Comic Bar, Dance and More
Behind the scenes, everyone at the Gasteig is working hard to provide culture buffs with digital events during the lockdown. To find out about these, click here. Some of our events are available on our Vimeo channel for you to watch any time.
A few recommendations from the Gasteig editorial team:

Want to hold Vigil over Munich yourself? To set the mood for the year-long »Türmer München« (Munich Vigil) community art project and offering new perspectives on our city, the Opening Ceremony on 12 December 2020 in the Carl Orff Hall can be viewed online. »Türmer München« Opening Event
The Munich City Library has plenty of digital offerings: As well as readings, talks and e-tutorials, available on its YouTube channel, a number of popular formats, such as the Sprachcafé Deutsch German Language Café and the Comic Bar are happening online. On 28 January at 7 PM, German comic author and illustrator Mikaël Ross was a guest of Comic Bar host and Munich cartoonist Barbara Yelin, you can watch the event here on Youtube. For a full list of the City Library’s digital offerings, click here (external link).
Irrespective of time and space, jazz fans can now beam themselves into the cosmos of Jazz & Universum. The special guest at the event, which was recorded live on 7 December 2020, was the astronomer and cosmologist Josef M. Gaßner.
The online activities of the Münchner Volkshochschule adult education centre provide plenty of ways of alleviating lockdown boredom. Destinations include Australia and East Prussia as well as virtual museum visits – there’s bound to be something for everyone. www.mvhs.de

Alfonso Fernández Sánchez’s extraordinary dance project presents contemporary dance on different stages. Two dancers plus plenty of emotion, poetry and music – you can watch the dance premiere of »Gasteig moves: TELL ME – Chapter 1« from 5.12.2020 and Chapter 2 about »Love« from 14.2.2021 any time here. »TELL ME« will continue in 2021 with further chapters on various themes. Next date: March 25th, 7 pm, »Gasteig moves: TELL ME – Chapter 3« in the stream from the library
The Munich Philharmonic periodically broadcasts selected concerts by video stream on its own website mphil.de/stream. Watch the city’s premier orchestra with top-class conductors and soloists from the comfort of home!
If you have any questions about using digital media, you can contact the PIXEL team in the Gasteig by phone on Tuesdays from noon to 4 PM. For your questions about computers and using tablets and smartphones, call the »Digitale Hilfe am Telefon« (»digital help hotline«), a project of KulturRaum München e. V. and Medienzentrum München. The number is +49 89 21528594.
We wish all virtual Gasteig visitors a healthy and inspired 2021!