Street Music

One of the music acts of last weekend's "Buskers Festival".

The Bubble Fairy

Last weekend the "Buskers Festival" took place on Karlsplatz for the 4th time. Artists from across Europe presented their wide-ranging repertoires at the open-air spectacle: musicians and drummers, fire artists, acrobats, pantomimes, jugglers, magicians, break-dancers... The Bubble Fairy enchanted young and old with her huge soap bubbles.

Urban Gardening #9

First I thought this is another community garden, but then I did some research and found out that this pop-up garden, located in the courtyard of a former school  in the 4th district, is part of an art festival. "Paraflows" is dedicated to open gardens, cultures and data. The festival was opened some weeks ago with a culinary performance, the produce came only from this garden.

Vienna Design Week

Currently the Vienna Design Week is turning the city into a showroom for design. In cooperation with the Vienna museums, manufacturing enterprises and designers from around the world, the festival offers different options for becoming familiar with the subject of design - exhibitions, installations, parties. At the festival headquarter (located in a former polytechnic) the British designer Oscar Wanless presents - in cooperation with the Austrian company Riess - unconventional forms of enamelware.

Buskers Festival

Last weekend the third Vienna Street Art Festival ("Buskers Festival") took place on Karlsplatz. Artists from across Europe presented their wide-ranging repertoires at the open-air spectacle: musicians and drummers, fire artists, acrobats, pantomimes, jugglers, magicians, break-dancers... As today every good street artist has a website, I can tell you that the artist in this photo, Murray Mollow, has been performing all over the world for more than fifteen years and is one of less than fifty artists sufficiently trained to swallow swords currently performing in the world.

Eyes On

Vienna is currently taking part in the European Photography Month: With more than 200 photography exhibitions as well as an extensive program of events taking place at more than 100 different sites "Eyes On - Month of Photography" is Vienna´s largest photography festival. Some days ago I went to the old markethall in the 3rd district to throw a glance at an exhibition of young photographers. The ambiance was very peculiar but also interesting as the market hall is currently a construction site. Some of the photographs were really good, unfortunately I didn´t note any name - that is why I can´t tell you who created the photograph pictured above.

ImPulsTanz Bicycles

Some days ago I presented to you the International Dance Festival ImPulsTanz that´s currently taking place in Vienna. Yesterday I stumbled upon these ImPulsTanz bicycles near my place and found out that the festival participants can rent such a bike for € 6,- a day. I love the colours of the bicycles! How about you?

ImPulsTanz

ImPulsTanz is Vienna´s International Dance Festival, this year it takes place for the 27th time: For five weeks thousands of professional dancers, choreographers and teachers from all over the world come together for performances, research projects and workshops (e.g. HipHop, Bollywood dance, African dance, jazz, bodywork) that are open for anyone of any age.

Come sail away

Today is the third day of the 27th Donauinselfest ("Danube Island Festival"), Europe´s biggest open air festival with free entry. The festival area extends over 4,5km with 13 stages, 21 "islands", more than 300 music bands, theatre and cabaret groups. This year the organizers of the festival are expecting 3 million attendants. As I don´t like the crowd, I have never even thought of visiting the festival in all these years. I prefer to enjoy the quiet spots of Donauinsel, like this small harbour for sailboats.

Vienna Festival

The Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) is a cultural festival that takes place every year for some weeks in May and June. It was established in 1951 when Vienna was still occupied by the four Allies. It is one of the major highlights of the city´s annual cultural programme and throughout the years it has become one of the world´s leading cultural festivals. The emblem of the festival is a red and white "w" - I stumbled upon this big one in front of the Vienna State Opera.