Bühne Kastellplatz
24 May 2026 at 15:00
Once upon a time…True to the theme of the upcoming 55th moers festival 2026, the interdisciplinary participatory project for children and young people revolves around the idea of “…like in a fairy tale.” Together, and on equal footing, with the now boot-wearing composer Lukas Döhler and the frog-transformed conductor Leh-Qiao Liao, kids, young “little goats,” and participants aged 9 to 19 will develop, rehearse, and improvise a new musical fairy tale. This tale will inhabit the wide, imaginative sonic spectrum between Sergei Prokofiev’s vivid musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf and Morton Feldman’s tender radio theater Words and Music.
Text, music, stage design, and direction are given equal importance, encouraging children and young people with a variety of creative talents to register, contribute, and shape their own roles. During rehearsals and the main program concert at the Moers Festival, the young participants will be supported by the INprogRES Ensemble for Contemporary Music as well as renowned artists from the (Bremen Town Musicians scene) international improvisation scene.
Project management will once again be handled by trumpeter and longtime project participant Leticia Carrera-Kirschgens, who will oversee organization, collaboration, and the involvement of all participants from music schools, schools, and youth centers in the Märchenraum Niederrhein — allegedly via a mirror on a wall (probably a digital device).
To extend the reach of the fairy tale, entire school classes, art courses, and others will be encouraged—through “poisoned Apple products”—to contribute creatively to stage design, costume design, and visual arts. A specially dispatched wicked witch from the Moers Festival Forest will oversee this. And if she is not supported, she will make no mischief.