• Events

Rivers Beyond Borders

  • Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site, main entrance / car park
    Rathausstraße 75-79, 66333 Völklingen

    River Walk: The Nature of De-Industrialisation

    River Walk is a series of on-site explorations along the Saar in June and July 2026, each led by a regional expert. The series of workshops offers a situated way of navigating the postindustrial riverscape, and opens a space to reimagine the Saar’s future.
  • Ende Käthe Kollwitz-Straße (an der Schanzenbergsbrücke)

    River Walk: The Saar’s Carried Objects

    River Walk is a series of on-site explorations along the Saar in June and July 2026, each led by a regional expert. The series of workshops offers a situated way of navigating the postindustrial riverscape, and opens a space to reimagine the Saar’s future.
  • Saarbrücker Schloss
    Schloßpl. 1-15,
    66119 Saarbrücken

    River Walk: Women and the Saar

    River Walk is a series of on-site explorations along the Saar in June and July 2026, each led by a regional expert. The series of workshops offers a situated way of navigating the postindustrial riverscape, and opens a space to reimagine the Saar’s future.
  • Kulturgut Ost,
    An d. Römerbrücke 5,
    66121 Saarbrücken

    Rivers Beyond Borders – The Saar as a Worker

    What would a world look like in which not only humans, but also rivers, could claim their rights in court? On 4 July 2026, French writer, philosopher, and curator Camille de Toledo, together with the Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (CURE) and regional and international partners, invites you to a civic forum on this question – focussing specifically on the river Saar.
  • Kulturgut Ost,
    An d. Römerbrücke 5,
    66121 Saarbrücken

    River Walk: Simulation and Gaming for the Saar

    River Walk is a series of on-site explorations along the Saar in June and July 2026, each led by a regional expert. The series of workshops offers a situated way of navigating the postindustrial riverscape, and opens a space to reimagine the Saar’s future.
  • Fischerhütte, Saarstraße 17, 66798 Wallerfangen

    River Walk: The Saar’s 100-Million-Year History

    As part of the visit to the Wallerfangen oxbow and its wider surroundings, the excursion examines, on the one hand, the human-induced changes to the course of the Saar over the past 50 years and, on the other, the influence of human-induced changes within the river’s catchment area.