St. Pölten’s bid to be nominated European Capital of Culture 2024 is based on a wealth of ideas contributed by people who live here. In the last summer we launched a call for project ideas to the local art and culture scenes, to private persons, cultural institutions, schools and businesses. All project ideas are published here provided we have been given the green light to do so by the authors. A cross-section has found entrance to Bid Book II.
Cordial thanks to all who have submitted their ideas!
St. Pölten, together with the Culture Region St. Pölten, is applying for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2024. At its meeting on 15 October 2019, the Provincial Government of Lower Austria decided therefore to supplement the Strategy for Art and Culture of Lower Austria (2016). Essential contents of the application were included in this document and should be implemented even in the case of a non-nomination.
The first cultural strategy of the city of St. Pölten was adopted by the municipal council on 30 September 2019. Binding until 2030, it will define focal points, goals and exemplary measures in the fields of art and culture. With this Cultural Strategy St Pölten emphatically acknowledges that art and culture are important factors for the long-term development of the city in that they sharpen the profile of this urbane city located at the heart of a lively Culture Region.
The graphically set complete edition will be published later this year.
7 November 2019 to 1 March 2020 at the City Museum St. Pölten
The city of St. Pölten and ORTE Architekturnetzwerk Niederösterreich invited the renowned city planner, filmmaker and specialist journalist Reinhard Seiß at the beginning of the year to take a critical "look from the outside" at the provincial capital. The results will now be presented in the City Museum St. Pölten.
St. Pölten was and is a city of migration. Together with the Centre for Migration Research and many other partners, buried migration stories are "excavated" in the course of our preliminary project "Migration finds City". Follow in the footsteps of the familiar and the unknown as part of three city walks, hear exciting stories from experts and contemporary witnesses about the people and places of migration in the past hundred years.Everyone is cordially invited!
We rediscover abandoned places and want to celebrate a feast together! In cooperation with the platform KulturhauptSTART and many artists and cultural workers from St. Pölten and the Culture Region, the area around the Landhausteich in the government district will be transformed into a place of art, culture and the feeling that 2024 could bring us with unique, shared experiences. Everyone is cordially invited!
The instrument "European Capital of Culture" as an urban and regional development instrument. On 26 March 2019, city marketing experts from all over Austria visited St. Pölten to immerse themselves in the city and the dynamic process currently taking place as a result of our application.
We are happy to present you the Bid Book I. This version is extended by the graphical elements of our presentation in front of the EU jury on 30 January 2019.
The starting signal for the public space planning process in St. Pölten sounded on Saturday, 17 November 2018, at the event venue Saal der Begegnung. Public space will be a key factor when it comes to winning the European Capital of Culture title, but it also plays an enormously important role in day-to-day life in the city. All of the approximately 50 attendees of the public Stadtforum#1 agreed on that point. Participants had been invited by the city of St. Pölten and the St. Pölten 2024 team together with the planning office Raumposition.
The province of Lower Austria and the city of St. Pölten are taking a further step in their bid to become European Capital of Culture 2024. After intensive preparatory work and analyses, Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner and Mayor Matthias Stadler agreed on a concrete list of cultural infrastructure measures.
A key finding of the current-situation analysis developed on the basis of findings from the public KulturFORUMS is that public space in St. Pölten does not meet the needs of everyone who uses it – not yet, anyway. A public space task group was founded on our initiative to enable a quality development of public space in St. Pölten.
Numerous visitors attended the KulturFORUM#3 public dialogue format at Festspielhaus St. Pölten on 26 September to find out about the current status of St. Pölten’s application for the European Capital of Culture 2024. Besides an extensive musical and artistic supporting programme, the event was focused on participation and hearing thoughts from attendees – in the form of opinion polls, which were evaluated live using a voting system.
St. Pölten’s application to become European Capital of Culture 2024 is on the home stretch. At a joint press conference on 31 August 2018, Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Mayor Matthias Stadler, Managing Director Michael Duscher and Prof. Rudolf Scheuvens from the Vienna University of Technology took stock of the situation. Further concrete steps to be taken include the development of the European Capital of Culture Region and the establishment of a working group to develop proposed solutions for public spaces.
On 26 June 2018, 40 artistic directors and managing directors from St. Pölten and the region gathered at the LAMES association premises in Sonnenpark to work jointly with the application office St. Pölten 2024 on an artistic and cultural programme. Esra Küçük, managing director of the Allianz Cultural Foundation, came all the way from Berlin and gave a keynote lecture on ways in which artistic programming can address current European challenges.
What does the “European Capital of Culture” title mean, and what opportunities does it hold? How can the application for the European Capital of Culture 2024 title benefit not only the city of St. Pölten but also the surrounding region? These questions prompted us to invite the mayors of 77 surrounding municipalities to the Bühne im Hof music venue/cabaret on 13 June 2018.
The second edition of the KulturFORUM public dialogue format was held on 6 June 2018 as part of St. Pölten’s application process for the European Capital of Culture 2024. The application office St. Pölten 2024 invited citizens and interested parties to one of the old industrial halls on the Voith premises to discuss the city’s future prospects together.
Germany, together with Slovenia, will be the European Capital of Culture in 2025. It is high time to discuss experiences, current European issues and possible cooperation. We have now started with a visit to the cities of Chemnitz, Dresden and Magdeburg.
The province of Lower Austria is applying for the title of European Capital of Culture 2024 in partnership with St. Pölten. On Tuesday, 12 December 2017, the application office St. Pölten 2024 presented its first ideas to a packed house at the Bühne im Hof music venue/cabaret.
Aimed at 2030, the city’s cultural strategy defines the focal points for arts management and cultural work in the next few years. It also forms the basis for the bid to become European Capital of Culture 2024.
The first public dialogue format's aim was to identify St. Pölten’s profile, unique strengths, talents and gifts, but also its deficits and weaknesses, and to reinforce its regional identity. Findings from the discussions flowed into a status quo analysis, which in turn forms the basis for developing specific work areas for the “St. Pölten 2030” cultural strategy, as well as a vision and strategy for St. Pölten’s application to be the European Capital of Culture in 2024.
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