Forty years after the start of the European Capital of Culture programme and on the eve of the start of a new cycle, a debate on the future of this programme has begun.

To mark the anniversary of “40 years of European Capitals of Culture”, 200 participants from various European countries, including representatives from around 50 former and future Capitals of Culture, delegates from the European Parliament, the European Council, the European Commission and the German federal and state governments, will meet in Chemnitz on Friday, April 4 for a conference. 

A forum to celebrate 40 years of European Capital of Culture in 2025 will be held on April 4 in Chemnitz, a European Capital of Culture along with Nova Gorica-Gorizia. At the moment the schedule is not yet known, but it will surely be announced in the coming days.

How much did the Second World War influence the individual and collective memory of Japan?This is just one of the questions that was attempted to be answered during the Pochen Biennial organised at the Spinnerei e.V. cultural centre in Chemnitz, European Capital of Culture in 2025, in collaboration with Eu Japan Fest.

"Even in Raissa, the unhappy city, there is an invisible thread that connects one living being to another for a moment and then unravels, stretching again between moving points and drawing new rapid figures, so that every second the unhappy city contains a happy city that does not even know it exists".