Advocating for themselves
From religious recognition to bureaucratic hurdles: The Migrant Advisory Council in Leipzig enables migrants to participate in local politics and make their voices heard at the city council.
From religious recognition to bureaucratic hurdles: The Migrant Advisory Council in Leipzig enables migrants to participate in local politics and make their voices heard at the city council.
Who am I? Where do I belong? What does femininity mean? What does home mean? These are the questions six actresses attempt to answer in the play "Fairytales from home", each in their own personal way.
The Rosalinde association has been hit by severe financial cuts. In the new year, the vital counseling services for queer refugees are facing closure. Nevertheless, the association is fighting back.
At Leipzig’s Sociocultural Center “Die Villa,” volunteers from across Europe spend up to a year contributing to local community initiatives. A former participant shares her experiences.
Wandering through Leipzig's Christmas market, I feel suddenly back in Toronto – Dior Christmas trees, unwashed aprons, four espressos a day, and the peppermint chocolate that still haunts me.
Body, love, politics: euro-scene Leipzig 2025 explores how people become a form of resistance. The festival's opening ‘Healing Hate’, reveals just how political hatred can be.
Everyone is exposed to microplastics nowadays. Nevertheless, humanity is not doomed yet, microplastics researcher Dana Zhaxylykova says. Not only consumption choices could have an impact.
An exhibition shows small pieces of Afghani women’s and queer people’s lives and thematises their oppression and discrimination – in Afghanistan as well as in Leipzig.
Neues Schauspiel Leipzig stages “Eden”, a strange experimental play about the search for meaning.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke at a pro-Palestinian rally in Leipzig. Her stance on Israel and Palestine is dividing the German and the international climate movement.
Melissa came from Mexico to Spain with one goal: to stay. But the process of obtaining citizenship in Spain is anything but easy. Nevertheless, to her European citizenship was worth the struggle.
