GemSe finally has an elevator!
We want to celebrate this with you, along with delicious food, drinks, and a great lineup.
When: 27.9.2025
Where: Wertschach/Dvorče in Carinthia/Koroška
Admission: free donation (every donation helps finance the construction of accessibility measures)
Accommodation: camping or sleeping arrangements at GemSe (please notify us by email if needed) or renting accommodation in the area
Accessibility: The elevator construction site will be completely finished by the festival. This means that all floors will be accessible by elevator. The construction site for the accessible toilet is likely to still be unfinished, as there are still a few (tedious) steps to be completed. However, a mobile accessible toilet will be set up on site for the weekend.
Care concept: follows in the next few weeks
Questions and further information: gemse_gailtal@riseup.net
Preliminary programme
Friday, 26.9.2025
16:00 Queer Playfight Workshop
Queer Playfight is a space for shyness, trust, trying things out, feeling and, of course, roughhousing and playing.
For adults, no drop-ins after 16:15.
Saturday, 27.9.2025
12:00 Opening with food and the Buntmeisen – mixed choir from Klagenfurt for queers and friends
13:30 Lena Kolter:
verschlaufte zeit ali s časom se celo čas obrne
musical poetic performance (Slo, Ger, Eng)
14:30 The Kostnixladen in the GemSe is opening!
Together with the exhibition ‘Unsichtbar Unaufhaltsam!’ Curated by Daniel Hill
15:30 Dive into the sea with Annegret and accompany the little jellyfish on its search for the POCH!
Picture book reading for children aged 4 and up
16:45 ConTakt: A unique and captivating circus experience that explores the highs and lows of togetherness with exquisite live music
18:15 A Lifting Tea Dance with Tanja –
an elevator that invites you to a tea dance:
It’s teatime, dears! Cheers to access!
Together, we celebrate the new GEMSEN LIFT
by celebrating it as a crip*queer meeting place, a glamorous tea room and an extravagant dance floor
19:30 Talent auction
the proceeds from the auction will go towards breaking down barriers at GemSe
21:00 Concert
Lyrical, warm, natural, direct – Mango Deluxe is an Austrian singer-songwriter duo consisting of singer DeesDelüx and composer and pianist Fabian Mang
From approx. 22:00 DJ set with various DJs
