Over 300 events at 90 locations
Spiritual summer invites to inner reflection and encounter
Schmallenberg/South Westphalia. With the program booklet for the Spiritual Summer 2017 the network presents "Ways to Life. In South Westphalia." from 01.06. to 03.09.2017 for the sixth time the great variety of spiritual offers and special places in South Westphalia and its holiday regions Sauerland and Siegerland-Wittgenstein. More than 300 events, paths and places offer their guests access to spiritual experience in the encounter with nature, music and art as well as offers to get to know spirituality in Catholic, Protestant, Islamic, Jewish and Buddhist tradition. "In nature and in our impressive cultural landscape, but also in the encounter with the people of the region, the Spiritual Summer 2017 offers the opportunity to take a little pace out of everyday life, to become quieter, to meet oneself and others, and perhaps also to get involved in something new," says Hubertus Schmidt, who is the Schmallenberger Sauerland member of the support association in the network "Wege zum Leben represents.
Light at the centre
As was the case last year, the topic of "light" is at the centre of activities. Many offers take up this quality. "With art projects, concerts, hiking and pilgrimage offers, meditation and prayer, dance, guided tours, lectures, talks and much more, the program approaches the topic in very different ways", Elisabeth Grube (Wittgenstein Protestant Church District) and Michael Kloppenburg (Dean's Office Hochsauerland-Mitte) from the Spiritual Summer steering team are pleased to announce.
Highlights
This year's highlights include a concert with Christian Bollmann, one of Germany's most renowned overtone musicians, and four light art projects, which Dr. Andrea Brockmann from the Schmallenberg Cultural Office is curating for the Spiritual Summer.
The Sternenhaus, a sculpture by the Beckum artist Ulrich Möckel, can be seen and experienced in Schmallenberg-Wormbach together with a small intercultural accompanying programme. Nikola Dicke, artist from Osnabrück, will work on a light art project with children and young people and Martina Muck, artist from Münster, will work together with interested people from the region on a room installation that focuses on the inside of things. Max Sudhues, the Berlin artist who has received many awards for his work, will be a guest in the Christus Kirche in Neheim with an artistic intervention. All
information is available at www.wege-zum-leben.com; the current programme booklet can be found at: issuu.com/schmallenberg/docs/spiritueller_sommer
Organ and choir music in perfection
40. Wormbach Summer Concerts
Schmallenberg. This year's final concert of the Wormbach Summer Concerts is after all the 400th in this series. The 40th anniversary of the Summer Concerts fits into much more important commemorative days this year, all of which play a special role in this year's concert programme: 500 years of the Reformation, the 250th anniversary of the death of Georg Philipp Telemann, the 450th birthday of Claudio Monteverdi. They will all be musically reflected in the 10 concerts that will be held in the Romanesque parish church in Wormbach.
From July 2 to September 3, classical music lovers will experience ten varied and brilliantly presented concerts, in which different string instruments in combination with choir or soprano and of course the organ will play a role. As always, admission to all concerts is free. The carrier of the Wormbach Summer Concerts is the Chamber Choir Schmallenberg in connection with the parish of Wormbach. Further details of the virtuoso concert programme, which begins every Sunday at 8 pm in the Romanesque parish church in Wormbach, can be found at www.wormbacher-sommerkonzerte.de or in the programme booklet, available from: Guest information Schmallenberger Sauerland, Poststr. 7, 57392 Schmallenberg, telephone: 02972 / 9740-0, daily from 9 to 21 o'clock. Admission is free - donations are welcome.
Top-class and family
45. International Music Festival Week in Bad Berleburg
Bad Berleburg. Once you've got a whiff of the festival air, you won't want to miss it: The International Music Festival in Bad Berleburg. This year from 03 to 09 July 2017 at Schloss Bad Berleburg. In the baroque Corps de Logis, the main wing of the castle, a small hall offers excellent acoustics, proximity to the artists and thus an unforgettable concert experience. This is also thanks to the numerous, internationally renowned artists who perform there and meet the audience in a particularly familiar atmosphere. Every evening, the best artists in their field perform in a special programmatic mixture. Klaus Maria Brandauer, for example, takes the audience on a "Literary-Musical Journey", accompanied by Sebastian Knauer on the piano, while the Apollon Musagète Quartet fascinates with both rousing and touching interpretations in its concert "Divinely Musical". Open air in the courtyard of the castle, Jeff Cascaro, Jörg A. Keller and Sebastian Knauer perform with "The International Festival Big Band" and their program "Somewhere over the rainbow". In
keeping with these musical delicacies, a 4-star comfort hotel in the nearby Schmallenberg hunting lodge offers an exclusive all-inclusive package from 265 € per person - including 2 overnight stays, 2 four-course dinner menus in the evening, Category I concert tickets for a classical concert and return transfers to the performance. Further
information: Guest information Schmallenberger Sauerland, Poststr. 7, 57392 Schmallenberg, Phone: 02972 / 9740-0, daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fax: 02972 / 9740-26, www.schmallenberger-sauerland.de
Latroper hiking week
Natural fascination of the Rothaargebirge
Schmallenberg. The Schmallenberger Sauerland offers guided hiking tours over several days in a true hiking paradise from 26 June to 1 July 2017. Organised by the Latrop tourist office, the hiking guide Herbert Kleinsorge shows the most beautiful corners of the Rothaargebirge. With him, map and compass can safely stay in your backpack, the experienced mountaineer and alpine guide will accompany all tours the whole week. Start is always in Latrop at the old schoolhouse. At lunchtime on the 6.5 to 16 kilometre long day tours, regional delicacies and chilled drinks are available. Further information and accommodation: Verkehrsverein Latrop, Tel/Fax 0 29 72 / 6006 or Gästeinformation Schmallenberger Sauerland, Poststr. 7, 57392 Schmallenberg, Phone: 02972 / 9740-0, daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fax: 02972 / 9740-26, www.schmallenberger-sauerland.de or www.latrop.de
