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To celebrate World Localization Day, we want to shed light on elements of the regional localization movement and show promising bidirectionally fruitful bridges between rural and urban areas.

This event will take place at Backstein Bakery in the urban garden of the Museum for Contemporary Art (GfZK). The garden and the museum are partners in the slow textile project "Self Experiment Linen" from lokaltextil. This small field was used for education, culture and exchange up through 2021, when lokaltextil created a canvas from the flax grown and harvested there. Now it is time to celebrate the handing over and transition of this space. Local, urban farming grew the base for a new piece of art. Artist Inga Kerber will paint the canvas with pigments from our dye plant gardens in Leipzig and Belgershain, and the fiber farming project will continue at the Belgershain Nursery. 
 
On the day of the event, Inga will present a sea of self-cultivated "slow flowers" from both urban gardens and the rural Belgershain Nursery, with the opportunity to purchase bouquets.
 
Stephan Schürer will design floral foccacia with rural edible slow flowers from the Belgershain Nursery on urban dough, prepared and baked by Backstein. 
 
Marthe Howitz, an artist and curator from Berlin, is creating a special "slow drink."
 
As part of the Fête de la Musique Leipzig and Midsummer Night, the event will conclude by turning up the music and dancing the localization idea until 10pm.

June 21st, 5pm - 10pm Central European Summer Time.

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