exploring Bremen & its surrounding areas
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Current events, dates, activities
New and worth seeing near Bremen:
Dangast on the Jade Bay - naturally with rhubarb cake
New and worth seeing near Bremen:
SAiL Bremerhaven - a maritime festival with tall ships from many nations, concerts, and culinary diversity
New and worth seeing near Bremen:
Neu-Helgoland / Hammehafen Worpswede. A great destination for campers, cyclists, and those who enjoy being on or near the water.
New and worth seeing near Bremen:
Oldenburg. The third-largest city in Lower Saxony.
Annual recurring events
Kunsthandwerk mit Köpfchen
January
Ice Bet - Ice Test on January 6th at Sielwall Ferry near Osterdeich - https://eiswette.de
Bremen Six-Day Race - Cycling event in the ÖVB Arena on Bürgerweide - www.sechs-tage-rennen.de
Ice Test at Punkendeich
February
Bremen Carnival - https://Bremer-karneval.de
Bremen Classic Motorshow - Classic car show in the exhibition halls - www.classicmotorshow.de
Whether in January or February: the artistic projections on historic facades in the city center during "Lichter der City" (Lights of the city) are always impressive
March
Osterwiese - Fair on Bürgerweide, slightly smaller than Freimarkt - www.osterwiese.com
May
Kajenmarkt at Weser Promenade/Schlachte (until September) - every Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM featuring culinary delights, handicrafts, and live music
Great Bremen Rowing Regatta - Rowing event with 1500 m and 1000 m courses on Werdersee
April
jazzahead! - internationally attended trade fair in Messe Bremen and ÖVB Arena with extensive jazz music program - https://jazzahead.de
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June
Vegesacker Hafenfest - three-day festival with plenty of live music in Vegesack harbor - www.hafen-vegesack.de
Long Night of Museums - numerous museums and exhibition houses open until 1 AM with exhibitions and events, one ticket for all venues
La Strada - international street arts festival - www.lastrada-bremen.de
July
Breminale - multi-day cultural festival at Osterdeich since 1987 - www.breminale.de
Handmade, live, and in color usually conveys more than canned music
August
Bremer Theater-Sommer - the Bremen Shakespeare Company performs outdoors on Melcherswiese in Bürgerpark since 1983 - www.shakespeare-company.com
"Summer in Lesmona" - Open-air festival by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in Knoops Park, Bremen-Lesum - www.kammerphilharmonie.com/de/
Musikfest Bremen - event series with classical music until September - www.musikfest-bremen.de
Festival Maritim - internationally attended open-air festival in Vegesack - www.festival-maritim.de
September
"Light and Music at Hollersee" with fireworks - The Bremen-Mitte Youth Symphony Orchestra performs by the lake in Bürgerpark under torchlight
Maritime Week - events with maritime themes at Schlachte - www.maritimewoche.de
Rehearsals for "Light and Music at Hollersee" take place on the afternoon before the concert
October
Freimarkt on Bürgerweide, fireworks on opening night, Freimarkt parade on the second Saturday of the fair, small Freimarkt on the market place in city center
swb-Marathon - well-attended running event with routes through the city - www.swb-marathon.de
December
Christmas Market on market place in city center - www.Bremer-weihnachtsmarkt.de
Schlachtezauber at Schlachte - www.schlachte-zauber.de
Christmas Market on the market place in city center, with the Town Hall in the background
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Freimarkt
What some might simply call a fair or a large amusement park is, for others, an event of equal importance to Christmas. However, the fact remains that for most residents of Bremen, the Freimarkt is considered the "fifth season" and an unshakable Bremen tradition. This isn't surprising, as Bremers can look back on nearly a thousand years of history for their festival - and with that, the Freimarkt is Germany's oldest folk festival.
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Eiswettprobe & Eiswette (Ice Trial & Ice Wager)
The prize for the contest - a "patriotic brown cabbage (kale) with accompaniments" -was likely not a particularly significant reward for the 18 well-to-do gentlemen involved, given that each had staked one taler in 1828. None of them could have anticipated that their wager -whether the Weser River would freeze over by dawn on January 4th of the following year or not - would spark a tradition lasting into the next millennium.
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Impressions from Events
Klaus Major Heuser Band
Jutta Weinhold
Intermission
Sound Technology
6-String
Latvian Voices
Expectation
Reading
To another year ...
