Querbeet Sommerlicht 2026 im Gemeinschaftsgarten an der Bochumer Strasse Gelsenkirchen Ückendorf

June 27, 2027

"Querbeet Sommerlicht"in the community garden on Bochumer Straße

On June 27 from 2 p.m., the community garden on Bochumer Straße will become a place of experience.

"Querbeet Sommerlicht" invites you to join in. music, dance, literature and visual arts

up close and personal.

Invited are: the municipal music school with small demonstrations of various musical instruments. Nic Koray, a German-Turkish singer-songwriter, Kioomars Musayyebi (santur) & Andreas Heuser (guitar) with world music, Melody Reich (narrative theater) and Laetitia Stengel with jazz & pop vocals. Finally, there will be a musical journey with Aeham Ahmad and Steve Schofield on electric piano and saxophone.

Between the musical program points, the Japanese-born dancer Junko will perform meditative improvisational dances.

Wooden sculptures by Roger Löcherbach and digital artworks by artist Ahang Nakhaei will be on display in the "FreilichtGalerie" (open-air gallery)

A feast for the senses in the "green". "Querbeet Sommerlicht" promises a multi-faceted event.

Art and nature come together to create a place of encounter and creativity for all ages.

The event begins at 2 p.m. with a Querbeet program by the municipal music school. The garden opens at 1 pm.

Free admission.

Organizer is: Metropolengarten auf Dahlbusch e.V.

https://metropolengarten.de/

Community garden,

Bochumerstrasse 143

45886 Gelsenkirchen

Program

2:00 p.m.
Municipal music school

A small cross-section through the music school classes. Especially the städt. Music School represents the musical diversity of Gelsenkirchen.

approx. 15:30
Laetitia Stengel (small solo concert)

Laetitia Stengel studies Jazz&Pop at the ArtEZ music academy in Zwolle NL. She has already performed several times in Gelsenkirchen in the music theater and together with the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen. Among other things, she took part in 'ABBA forever'. Lätitia Stengel sings jazz and pop songs.

approx. 16:45
Nic Koray

The German singer/songwriter with roots in Turkey and a strong affinity to Ireland & Great Britain goes on a sometimes exuberant, sometimes melancholic and thoughtful indie-folk-pop journey in her folky songs.
Whether on acoustic guitar or piano, Nic Koray always focuses on personal contact when the likeable singer & composer shares her lyrical songs, which are often based on a short story, with the audience. Her other life as an illustrator and shepherdess also comes through, as many songs are inspired and shaped by a close connection with nature.

approx. 18:30
Melody Reich
"summer night's dream!" - freely adapted from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Narrative theater by and with Melody Reich
The setting: a large, summery forest near the ancient city of Athens, which harbors magical secrets.
The characters: four young people madly in love, an elf king and queen who have fallen out badly and a troupe of craftsmen who think they are great actors.
Melody Reich leads her audience step by step into this forest, atmospherically dense, so that the audience can feel the cooling shade of the trees on their skin and smell the fragrant earth. Only then does she gradually bring all the characters to life with the help of kitchen utensils and special branches. She poetically and amusingly unfolds the play about jealousy, confusion and delusion. With her version of the well-known play, she shows a shade of the material that cannot be experienced in other productions. She skillfully weaves motifs from classic fairy tales into the events in the forest and combines free storytelling with puppetry.
At the end of the short hour, everyone goes home with a smile on their face - and who knows, maybe one or two of them will dream of a big, summery forest that night.

approx. 19:45
Kioomars Musayyebi with Andreas Heuser

World music with diverse string dialogs
Kioomars Musayyebi (santur) and Andreas Heuser (guitar) - both members of the Ruhr area world music big band Transorient Orchestra - meet musically halfway between Orient and Occident, with their instruments entering into diverse dialogs with each other.
They play oriental traditionals in new arrangements and original compositions that combine musical influences from East and West.
Both have a profound musical education and many years of experience in a wide variety of musical constellations, are virtuoso instrumentalists and individual composers.
They make imaginative use of the numerous tonal and rhythmic possibilities of their instruments and fuse the sounds of the 72-string Persian santoor, various guitars and the violin to create diverse soundscapes: rhythmic, dynamic, lyrical, meditative.

ca 21:00
Aeham Ahmad and Steve Schofield

World music - piano and saxophone
Aeham Ahmad, known worldwide as "The Pianist of Yarmouk", touched people in 2014 when pictures went around the world showing him playing the piano amidst the rubble of the Syrian civil war. His music defied the violence and became a symbol of hope. After ISIS took control of Yarmouk in 2015 and burned his piano, his only option was to flee. He reached Germany via the Mediterranean and the Balkan route - carried by his music, which not only enabled him to survive, but also to make a new start and later reunite with his family.

In his concerts, Aeham Ahmad tells this moving story musically: oriental melodies merge with western influences, classical music meets modern jazz arrangements. His performances are a journey of cultural and musical integration.

He is accompanied by Steve Schofield, an Australian saxophonist whom he met in Berlin in 2017. Together they recorded the album "Syria - Music for Peace".

Together, Aeham Ahmad and Steve Schofield take the audience on a sonorous journey from Syria to Australia, from traditional to modern, from classical to jazz. Piano and saxophone merge in a special way to create a multi-layered sound that is constantly given new, surprising facets through the use of flute and electronically amplified synthesizer flute.

A concert that connects - musically, culturally and humanly.

Dance

Junko (stage name Junko von Kiefernwäldchen) from Cologne, born in Asakusa, Tokyo, currently lives in Cologne and is a dancer and performance artist.
In her work, Butoh dance, traditional Japanese dance and elements from other dance styles such as tribal fusion merge into a meditative improvisation.
Her movements arise from inner landscapes and the dialog with space, nature and the moment.
In this way, she opens up a poetic space of experience between stillness, presence and transformation."
Junko will dance between each concert.

Wooden sculptures

Roger Löcherbachs is a wood sculptor dedicated to the human form. In a lengthy process of observation that traces the natural growth form, he sculpts, even peels, individual human figures, often naked or scantily clad in swimsuits, from whole and strikingly grown trunks of native wood species.
These sculptures can be characterized by the gestural style of the working process, i.e. by the traces of the chainsaw. Their haptic quality can also be emphasized by partially remaining bark. In this case, it is not the details but the posture and silhouette that determine their overall effect. Other works are smoothed with a carving iron or sandpaper.
The resulting images of different types of people seem to reflect their nature in their posture and implied movement. However, one quickly becomes aware of their ambiguity. Do these colorful and lively works not allude to human vanity? Does the powerful presence of the figures not also herald the futility of human endeavor, of loneliness and isolation?

Digital Art

Ahang Nakhaei
Iranian-born artist Ahang Nakhaei has lived in Germany since 2012 and has shown her work in many exhibitions.
For the first time, Ahang Nakhaei is showing her series of digital paintings.

The silent memory of walls

Walls are not just boundaries; they are memories. Over the years, stone and plaster preserve what passes before people's eyes: Traces of hands, slogans, images, anger, hope and silence. People come and go, generations change, but the walls remain and observe. Youth, age, love, fear, politics, violence and dreams - everything passes by these silent surfaces and leaves invisible traces. As if the walls were witnesses whose memories last longer than those of people. If walls had a language, they would not tell history from books, but from wounds, scratches and layers of paint.
This series of works is an attempt to hear the silent voice of the walls.