MS DOCKVILLE FESTIVAL 2012 by MS DOCKVILLE FESTIVAL

MS DOCKVI LLE www.MSDOCKVILLE.DE

DOcU M E NTATION Hamburg | Germany

MS Dockville FESTIVAL Music: Bands & DJs, including 54 international acts; Art: Eleven artists or artist collectives from nine different countries. Poetry Slam: 11 German speaking poetry slammers presented by Kampf der Künste e.V. Free trade Zone: 35 creative do-it-yourself-traders. Visitors: About 20.000 visitors from all around Germany and the surrounding countries. ~ 40 % less than 21 years old, ~ 48 % between the age of 22 and 28 , ~ 12 % older than 29

Once again the three day MS Dockville Festival was the highlight of an eventful MS Dockille Summer in Wilhelmsburg! All Elements that make up the MS Dockville summer were joined by the presence and performance of 120 Bands & DJs as well as 10 poetry slammers. This set the stage for all shades of current sociocultural and pop movements. Just as the years before many stages were custom built and designed by our in house work crew in the weeks before the festival. These stages such as the wood construction “Butterland” or the Container Installation “Nest” contribute to the special flair and are landmarks on the festival compound. These Projects grew as part of the Art Camp and functioned as stage, welcome desk, meeting point and exhibition space in one. This unique combination of artistic elements with good german craftmanship is special to the Dockville and supports its mission of connecting art, structure and communication. Apart from the usual set of stages we were able to convince the Schauspielhaus Hamburg of giving us a giant Cake formerly seen in last year’s production of Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby which we redesigned as Stage and named it “Torte”. The diverse line up of established names in the show business playing side by side with talented new acts of the international underground create the special sound of the Dockville. Well know headliners such as Hot Chip, Maximo Park, Tocotronic and James Blake as well as young acts like Friends, Retro Steffson, Future Islands, Dillon, Lucy Rose and Team Me all contributed a special sound and power to make the festival to what it is. Same as the years before we kept our promise that the night would never end and invited notorious Acts such as Negrot, Dauwd, RSS Disco and many more to turn the night into a massive dream of beats and dancing people. Art Camp The Art Camp during the three weeks before the festival set the stage for the festival setting by designing the premises, designing installations around the festival and live contributions throughout the festival weekend. Projects such as the local Künstlerkollektivs Krautzungen were very present on the festival by writing passages of Tolstoy’s War and Peace all over people’s bodies and projecting one of the grand oeuvres of world literature to a crowd of thousands. As well established element of the festival program over the last couple of years is the notorious Ms Dockville poetry slam. Ten slammers from all over Germany performed in the Maschienenraum to engage the crowd in thought and confront them with the beauty of words. Once again the slammer Andy Strauß was able to convince the audience of his talent and style and took the trophy home with him. Apart from

the performances on and off the stages our free trade zone offered the opportunity for various projects to present themselves to the public: Do It yourself design booths, non commercial design and fashion and many supported organizations such as Greenpeace, Viva con Agua and Kein Bock auf Nazis had the chance to sell their ideas, their products or gather support and collect donations for their work. The orientation and focus of the festival is still unique in Europe. Many festivals have come up with own concepts of combining Art and Music to match their ideas. But what makes the Dockville special is the well working symbiosis of all these cultural and social elements to make it a humane haven for everyone. The MS Dockville will stay a playground to try out new concepts and ideas and is a great motivation to all people contributing to this special event. Sustainable Dockville Festival For our means we understand sustainability on three levels: the social, the ecologic and the cultural level. Every festival has a certain negative ecological impact – so the main focus has to been to minimize this impact and make all visitors aware of these issues. A festival with this kind of outreach is a great platform to communicate and push social and ecological topics which has to be understood as great responsibility to the organizer. Same can be said for the summer camp Lüttville. A short overview of our activities:

ECOLOGICAL OVERVIEW Mobility + 25 % more space for bikes and about 3.500 visitors that used the bike to get to the festival. 1000 guests took advantage of the bike rental offered by KonzertKultour and the Wilhelmsburger Arbeitsloseninitiative that had 30 bikes running around the clock. 12.800 shuttle tickets were sold (~ 4.266 guests used the shuttle service/d) Gastronomy 50% of the offers sold only organic. 34% of the food stands offered vegetarian or vegan options 73% of the offers were local Electricity 75 % oft he electricity was sustainable fixed current Trash reduction 23 % less printed material (the year before was 43 % less than 2010 already) 100 % the plates and cutlery were biodegradable In parts of the festival compound such as the backstage

area or around the food court we were able to establish and maintain waste separation during the entire festival. SOCIAL DIMENSION Lüttville 160 children - 150 of which were there on every day of the Lüttville week - 139 from boroughs south of the Elbe Age span 5-14 years old (average age 8,9 years) 13 creative workshops in cooperation with 10 partners: sound rascals, handicrafts, soap box races, circus workshop, photographic experiments, construction workshop, Lüttville newspaper, drawing workshop, capoeira, short film, new style dance, choir, beatbox. Budget: about 42.000 Euro (~ 262 Euro per child) Charitable Organizations Viva con Agua Information booth concerning

the organization; collection of donations by asking people to donate the deposit on their cups; gathering support by artists for future projects Result: 1472 cups donated amounted to a total of 1727, 31 in donations. This will ensure the access to clean water for 1727 people in Burkina Faso. Greenpeace Information booth about the organization and information material concerning current campaigns. Result: good communication with the festival guests, discussion of the shell-campaign and CO2 regulations Kein Bock auf Nazis Information booth on the organization and material concerning current topics and problems in the struggle to overcome nationalist attitudes. Result: Very good feedback and highly motivated discussions. Reduced entrance fee for all visitors living south of the Elbe All local residents were offered a reduced entrance fee

of 15 Europer day (regular price 40 Euro per day). A total of 1500 residents took advantage of this offer which adds up to a total subsidy of 37.500 Euro. CULTURAL DIMENSIONS Fine and performing arts Eleven artists or artist collectives from Germany, Serbia, Austria, Italy, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, USA – 3 artists from Hamburg. 9 installations, 2 performances Art Mediation / Qualitative Feedback 25 walks with in total about 500 participants, 3 discussions with each 2 guest speakers and 1 host Bands & DJs at the festival 128 Bands & DJs - 74 acts from Germany - 41 from Hamburg Poetry Slam 11 German speaking slammers - 4 from Hamburg

Complete press review: www.msdockville.de/dockvillefestival-pressespiegel.pdf MS DOCKVILLE Festival is a project of the Kopf & Steine GmbH Max-Brauer-Allee 277, 22769 Hamburg, Germany www.msdockville.de | www.fb.com/dockville Directors: Frank Diekmann, Enno Arndt Booking: Enno Arndt, Annika Hintz booking@spektrum.ms Press & Collaboration: Jean Rehders Jean.Rehders@dockville.de Sponsoring: Susanne Schick Susanne.Schick@dockville.de Art Camp: Dorothee Halbrock, Susanne Schick kunst@dockville.de Editorial: Maike Lรถschmann, Susanne Schick, Jean rehders Photos: Stefan Malzkorn, Tim Kaiser | Design: yytt.de Thank you very much to all our supporters, sponsors and media partners: