Departures Festival 2025

The Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe is launching 44 cultural projects in the anniversary year – from exhibitions to stage shows to films, readings, and podcasts. A first outlook.

A literary walk between the Hansa coking plant and the Deusberg with Anja Liedtke, expert in "Nature Writing."

State repression, expulsion, and flight, arriving in the foreign land: With her poems, Lina Atfah takes us on the journey - sometimes cheerful and sad, sometimes full of humor, sometimes bitter.

The "Westphalian Bubble Word Parkour" is a literary-sports camp for children aged 8 to 12, which combines parkour sports, bubble ball, stories, and Westphalia.

With the "Literature Express," Sandra Da Vina embarks on a discovery tour to sites of castle and industrial culture in Westphalia, where guided tours and slam poetry are on the agenda.

Participation desired! At the Aufbrüche Festival, poetry is sought in public spaces and recorded on the web. From the submissions, readings and a poetry country map will be created.