Highlights(Selection)

Highlights (Selection)
2016/2017
© Sylvio Dittrich
JANUARY
Exhibition: Disegno. The art of drawing for the
21st century
» Royal Palace, Collection of Prints, Drawings and
Photographs | www.skd.museum
21 September 2015 – 19 March 2016
11th SemperOpernball & SemperOpenairball
» Semperoper, Theaterplatz
www.semperopernball.de
29 January 2016 | 3 February 2017
FEBRUARY
Exhibition: Worldview and knowledge around 1600
» Royal Palace | www.skd.museum
Opening in February 2016
25th Karl May Festival
» Radebeul, Lössnitzgrund
www.karl-may-fest.de
6 – 8 May 2016 | 26 – 28 May 2017
46th Dresden International Dixieland Festival
» various venues
www.dixieland.de
15 – 22 May 2016 | Mid May 2017
JUNE
2nd German Protestant Trombone Day
www.dept2016.de
3 – 5 June 2016
MARCH
Reopening of Dresden Kulturpalast concert hall
March 2017
Baroque festival
» Semperoper Dresden | www.semperoper.de
18 – 27 March 2016
23rd Sandstone and Music Festival
» Saxon Switzerland, various venues
www.sandstein-musik.de
2 April – 11 December 2016 | April – December 2017
APRIL
Opening of the Trabantensaal and
Kurfürstliche Garderobe (Armoury)
» Royal Palace | www.skd.museum
Spring 2017
28th Dresden International Film Festival
» various venues | www.filmfest-dresden.de
12 – 17 April 2016 | 11 – 16 April 2017
800th Anniversary of Dresden Kreuzchor
» Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross) etc.
www.kreuzchor.de
15 – 24 April 2016
8th Dresden Steam Railway Festival
» Railway Museum, Zwickauer Strasse
www.dresden-dampfloktreffen.de
15 – 17 April 2016 | mid April 2017
5th Long Night of Dresden’s Theatres
» various venues
www.lange-nacht-der-dresdner-theater.de
23 April 2016
14th Dresden Long Night of Sciences
» various scientific institutions
www.wissenschaftsnacht-dresden.de
10 June 2016 | 16 June 2017
Bunte Republik Neustadt
Street festival in Dresden’s ‘Alternative Quarter’
www.brn-dresden.de
17 – 19 June 2016 | 16 – 18 June 2017
26th Dresden Riverside Festival
» from Dresden-Loschwitz to Pillnitz
www.elbhangfest.de
24 – 26 June 2016 | 23 – 25 June 2017
22nd Film Nights at the Elbe river
www.filmnaechte-am-elbufer.de
30 June – 24 August 2016 | June – August 2017
JULY
8th Night of the Dresden Castles
» Schloss Albrechtsberg, Lingnerschloss, Schloss
Eckberg
www.dresdner-schloessernacht.de
16 July 2016 | 15 July 2017
OSTRALE ‘16
10th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art
» Ostragehege
www.ostrale.de
15 July – 25 Sept 2016 | 25 Aug – 7 Sept 2017
AUGUST
19th Upper Elbe Marathon
From Königstein to Dresden
www.oberelbe-marathon.de
24 April 2016 | 23 April 2017
Moritzburg Festival 2016
International Festival of Chamber Music
» various venues
www.moritzburgfestival.de
6 – 21 August 2016 | 5 – 20 August 2017
MAY
Fleet Parade of the Saxon Steamship Company
» Terrassenufer
www.saechsische-dampfschiffahrt.de
1 May 2016 | 1 May 2017
www.dresden.de/ehighlights
39th Dresden Music Festival
» various venues
www.musikfestspiele.com
5 May – 5 June 2016 | 17 May – 11 June 2017
CANALETTO – 18th Dresden City Festival
» city centre
www.dresdner-Stadtfest.com
19 – 21 August 2016 | 18 – 20 August 2017
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Winery Open House
» Saxon Wine Route from Dresden-Pillnitz to DiesbarSeußlitz
www.elbland.de
27 – 28 August 2016 | 26 – 27 August 2017
SEPTEMBER
18th Museum Summer Night in Dresden
in more than 45 museums
www.dresden.de/museumsnacht
17 September 2016 | 16 September 2017
Wine Harvest Festival in Radebeul and Meissen
www.radebeul.de | www.meissner-weinfest.de
23 – 25 September 2016 | 22 – 24 September 2017
OCTOBER
Exhibition: Paradise on Earth –
landscape painting from Brueghel to Rubens
» Kunsthalle Lipsiusbau
www.skd.museum
October 2016 – Januar 2017
19th Heinrich Schütz Music Festival
» various venues
www.schuetz-musikfest.de
7 – 16 October 2016
18th Morgenpost Dresden Marathon
www.dresden-marathon.com
23 October 2016
NOVEMBER
16th Jazztage Dresden (Dresden Jazz Festival)
» various venues
www.jazztage-dresden.de
4 – 13 November 2016 | early November 2017
Christmas capital Dresden: 582nd Striezelmarkt &
ten different Christmas markets
www.dresden.de/weihnachtshauptstadt
www.dresden.de/striezelmarkt
24 Nov – 24 Dec 2016 | 29 Nov – 24 Dec 2017
DECEMBER
Opening of the Kraftwerk Mitte cultural centre and
the new theatres for Dresden State Operetta and
Theater Junge Generation
www.kraftwerk-mitte.de
End December 2016
New Year’s Eve open air party on Theaterplatz
www.silvesterstadt.de
31 December 2016 | 31 December 2017
Information | Booking:
Dresden Information
Phone + 49 (0)351 501 501
Fax + 49 (0)351 501 509
www.dresden.de/tourismus
info@dresdeninformation.de
Publisher:
Dresden Marketing Board
www.marketing.dresden.de
06/2015
Subject to alterations