Neue Heimat is July’s Capital of Culture Neighbourhood of the Month

Cultural Capital's Neighbourhood of the month

Press information
29 June 2009

Neue Heimat on the south side of Linz will be presenting its most colorful side in July 2009 when, following Alte Innenstadt, Kleinmünchen/Auwiesen, Dornach-Auhof/Katzbach, Neue Innenstadt/Froschberg and Bindermichl/Spallerhof/Keferfeld-Oed, it takes over as Capital of Culture Neighborhood of the Month. Two artists, a youth center, an elementary school, day-care center and kindergarten, a parish, the East African community, neighborhood businesspeople and local residents have formed a synergetic coalition to stage a series of events designed to appeal to visitors from all over town and far beyond!
The concept behind “Waschkultur09 – A Neighborhood Does a Load of Multi-colored Laundry” is that doing the laundry is a global cultural theme that connects neighborhood residents of different ethnic backgrounds. “Creating awareness of a universally familiar activity and getting it across in terms of an artistic form of representation is meant to bring out what people everywhere have in common and to create a sense of identification,” is how artists Karin Wimmer and Ingrid Feichtinger explained their project, which will be running throughout July 2009 in and around Haidgatternpark.