June 2025
How can I find a little bit of ecology, some dancing and a splash of bad taste this month? Through déi aner’s cultural agenda for June! As always, a curated list of queer, activist and cultural events, to keep your curiosity and humor on edge.
Tuesday 3 June 2025, 18:30 - 20:00
Fucking Åmål. Queer loox screening @ Cinémathèque
Åmål is a small Swedish town where Agnès, a recently arrived teenager, is bored. A loner, she shies away from her classmates and secretly admires young Elin, the class favourite. By chance, they meet and fall in love...
"Using amateur actors, a hand-held camera and grainy images, this film takes on the look and feel of a reportage to tell the story of these budding loves and their impulses, in complete freedom but with delicacy. A sensitive film about the school years, with all their cruelties and friendships. (Guide des Films)
"Teenage angst is the same all over the world. In permissive Sweden, learning to love is not easy, especially when it comes to discovering and coming to terms with homosexuality. Fucking Åmål takes a close look at its characters to describe the suffering of love and the feeling of not being understood by anyone. (Positif)
Introduction to the film by the queer loox team in French
Historically, queer women have been less represented in film than cis gay men. That's why, for this edition of Pride Season, queer loox - in collaboration with the Cinémathèque - is inviting you to delve into the world of the cult lesbian film Fucking Åmål. Both a coming-of-age and coming-out story set in a small town, this film, released almost thirty years ago, remains relevant for its depiction of marginalised young women and their quest to find themselves - beyond their own prejudices and those of their environment. In a world wary of anything outside the norm, finding and embracing your own pride remains a struggle, and we stand with Agnès and Elin to defend our rights.
Participation fee: 3,70 € / 2,40 € (reduced)
Location: Cinémathèque. 17, place du Théâtre - 2613 Luxembourg
Booking required
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 19:30
Smut Slam Luxembourg: "EPIC FAIL" @ Letz Boys
Luxembourg's community dirty storytelling open mic! Sign up to tell a story and win prizes, or just sit back and enjoy! With yours truly, déi aner, as part of the Jury.
Luxembourg's only community dirty storytelling open mic rolls back into town on Tuesday, June 3, with the theme of "EPIC FAIL." Tell us the times when things really, totally, spectacularly didn’t work. Schedules. Expectations. Toys. Romance. We’re celebrating the best of the worst.
Smut Slam features real-life, first-person sex stories, special prizes, amazing guest judges, and also THE FUCKBUCKET, a convenient receptacle for all your anonymous questions and confessions!
Smut slammers sign up on the night to tell a 5-minute dirty story, based on their real lives, and a lucky six to eight names will be drawn at random.
Smut Slam is queer-friendly, kink- AND vanilla-friendly, fat-friendly, sex worker-friendly, virgin-friendly, polyamory-friendly, we're really, really friendly. We welcome people with all types and amounts of sexual experiences. We DO NOT welcome stories involving racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or any other kind of discrimination. All activities depicted must be CONSENSUAL!
Not a smut slammer? Don't worry. The audience is in for a good time at smut slam! Sit back and enjoy. All we ask is: - No interrupting. - No heckling. - No necking in the front row.
Smut slam is created by Cameryn Moore, an award-winning playwright/performer, event producer, and former phone sex operator. When not performing, writing grant applications, or actually having sex herself, Cameryn writes Sidewalk Smut: custom type-written erotica as street performance and literary art.
Participation fee: €15/adv, €20/door
Location: Letz Boys, 60 Grand Rue, 1660 Ville-Haute
Booking required
Friday 6 June, 10:00 - 12:00 + Sunday 29 June, 14:00 - 16:00
Cafés Tricot @ Villa Vauban
Mamie et Moi invites you to a new season of knitting events at the Villa Vauban. The aim is to offer as many people as possible, whatever their culture or age, an opportunity to exchange and share skills around knitting, art and culture.
These get-togethers help to forge friendships, provide opportunities to practise local languages, and give rise to collective projects.
Whether you're an expert or a novice in the art of handling knitting needles or crochet hooks, you're welcome to share in these convivial moments.
Workshops are free and open to all, subject to availability.
Location: Villa Vauban
Free admission, no booking required
Saturday 7 June, 14h30 – 16h00
Artist Talk: Lubaina Himid. Revisiting the canons, another History of Art in Europe @ Mudam
Lubaina Himid, Mudam Luxembourg, 2025. Photo: Marion Dessard © Mudam Luxembourg
In this special event, artist Lubaina Himid discusses how visual art offers a distinct mode of storytelling – one that affords insights into hidden historical narratives. For over four decades, Lubaina Himid’s art has sought to create conversations with audiences. In this illuminating talk, the artist discusses this approach of storytelling as well as her inspiration – from her grandmother MaShulan’s kangas, British pattern and textile, her affinity for opera, through to her inspired engagement with the work of artists such as late English painters, William Hogarth and James Tissot, sketching out her own strategies of response and interpolation.
Lubaina Himid CBE RA was born in Zanzibar in 1954 and now lives and works in the UK. She is an artist who, for over four decades, has explored and expanded the possibilities of painting and storytelling to depict contemporary everyday life, and to fill gaps in art history. Self-described as a painter, cultural activist, witness, storyteller, and historian, Himid is an influential figure within the British Black arts movement in the 1980s and has been a champion of women artists in her role as a teacher, curator, critic and organizer. In 2017, she won the Turner Prize, in 2023 the Maria Lassnig Art Prize, and the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize. Himid has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions globally including a major 2021 survey at Tate Modern, as well as monographic presentations at UCCA, Beijing; Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne; New Museum; Modern Art Oxford; Spike Island, Bristol; Tate Britain, London, and has featured in the 14th and 15th Sharjah Biennials, the 12th Liverpool Biennial; the 10th Berlin Biennale and the 10th Gwangju Biennale. She is Professor Emeritus at The University of Central Lancashire. In 2026, Lubaina Himid will represent Great Britain at the 61st Venice Biennale.
Participation fee: 10€ / free students and kulturpass
Location: Mudam
Booking required
Saturday 14 June, 14:00 - 18:00
Reading Worlds, Silent reading festival @ Schluechthaus
Step into a peaceful space made for book lovers at Reading Worlds, a unique reading festival where the joy of reading takes center stage.
From 2–6 PM, bring your favorite book (or find one at our book swap corner), settle in, and surround yourself with fellow readers.
Let the world fade away as E-lodie from radio 100,7 sets the mood, fuel up with delicious treats by Glow, discover the latest Black Fountain Press titles and connect with local literary choices.
Schedule:
2–3 PM → Arrive, settle in, and get comfortable
3–4:30 PM → Silent reading time
4:30–6 PM → Book chats, recommendations, and community connections
Location: Schluechthaus, rue de l’abattoir, 2342 Hollerich Luxembourg
Free admission, no booking required
Saturday 18 to Monday 23 June, all days and nights
SPIRAL Midsummer Residency @ Vianden and Amsterdam
© Pilot Eliot
Join us for SPIRAL Midsummer Residency: a six-day-long residency held in Vianden (Luxembourg) and Amsterdam (Netherlands)! A rite of passage for us to unite and ignite the spark from within as we play with fire, whisper to the water, pick herbs, cast spells, and drink potions together. Get ready for the next round of queer, pagan, and Eastern European vibes powered by SPIRAL.
Throughout this residency, you can expect workshops, local activities, rituals, and two summer solstice ceremonies, but also plenty of time to just hang out and relax from your everyday responsibilities. Get ready for a week of transformation from a wild rat recharging in the forest to a city rat terrorising the city. Time for you to play, release, and expand. It’s not a brat summer, it’s a RAT summer. We will hold space for you to find peace from within and feel at home with yourself.
The first three days we’re gonna hang out in Vianden - a magical little village in the south of Luxembourg. We’ll spend time in nature, picking herbs and performing rituals in the surrounding forest. Guided meditations in the fields, dance and movement in nature, tree hugging - you get the idea. We will also visit the local spots, and have communal dinners. And last but not least: late night summer solstice ceremony at the end of our stay.
The next day we will make our way to Amsterdam - you’re welcome to join us on our journey :) Our destination is a magical dungeon in the west of the city where we will host a second summer solstice ceremony that very evening to juice the energy of this special time. For the next two days we will host workshops, local activities, guided meditations, and performances. On the last night we’re throwing a closing party to mark an end to our week-long-summer-initiation-rampage!
Participation fee: 38€ per night in Vianden + free donation for workshops (suggested: 10-20€ per day)
Location: Vianden Youth Hostel + 21-23.06.2025, Amsterdam secret location
Booking required
Saturday 21 and Sunday 22.06.2025, 15h00 – 17h30
Workshop: Moving with The Living Pyramid. The body as Nature @ Mudam
© Collage by Elisabeth Schilling including work by Bohumil Kosthoryz and herself
This two-day dance and movement workshop invites participants aged 13 and up into a playful, embodied exploration of Agnes Denes’ The Living Pyramid. Rooted in Denes’ vision of sculptural, living forms, the workshop explores the artwork’s generative tensions: geometry and growth, order and wildness, structure and unpredictability.
Through guided movement and somatic practices, we will investigate how our bodies relate to both architectural form and the organic rhythms of nature. Moving between micro and macro perspectives—from the intricate systems within our own bodies to the vast structures of living landscapes—we’ll attune ourselves to cycles of bloom and decay, stillness and transformation.
Across the two days, we will explore shape, pulse and texture through improvisation, play and bodily inquiry. Participants will be encouraged to experience the body as a dynamic, living structure in constant flux – an expression of the same forces that shape the natural world.
Ultimately, this workshop invites us to move beyond the illusion of separation between body and nature, structure and flow. In movement, we’ll come to sense the body not just in nature, but as nature.
Elisabeth Schilling is a dancer, choreographer, and artistic director whose work bridges movement, design, visual arts, and music. She creates transdisciplinary projects that unfold on stage, in museums, public spaces, and rural areas, with both professionals and communities. Touring internationally, her company also brings performances to senior homes, children’s centres, and hospitals. As a performer, she has danced across Europe with leading choreographers and companies. Elisabeth is the founder of Making Dances asbl, with over 300 performances in 19 countries.
Participation fee: 10€ per day / Free for Students + KULTURPASS
Location: Saturday 21 +Sunday 22.06.2025, 15h00 – 17h30, Mudam
Booking required
Friday 27 June, 20:00 - 21:30
Bad taste slam @ Rotondes
© Yves Conrardy
Who’s the baddest of them all? After last year’s mild success, the Géisskan Kollektiv is back to bore you some more! Dad jokes, bad puns, or just complete dadaism, everything is welcome on this stage. The audience will boo the looser – or winner, depending on how you look at it – of the evening.
Why is there no Luxembourgish spoken word scene? That’s what three friends from the worlds of art, culture, and politics wondered back in 2014. They came together under the name “Géisskan Kollektiv” to organize poetry slams and other live literary formats.
“Géisskan” means watering can in Luxembourgish — a metaphorical symbol for nurturing and caring for a young plant, representing the local scene, and at the same time a playful nod to Luxembourg’s “watering can” style of politics. The collective’s goal is to provide a stage for people who write their own texts and poems, giving them the opportunity to share their thoughts.
Location: Parvis Rotondes
Free admission, no booking required
Saturday 28 June, 10:00 – 18:00
We ride. Second-Hand Bike Market @ Rotondes
© Ruben Dos Santos
Got a bike collecting dust in the basement? Looking for the perfect ride to zip around the city? Or maybe a two-wheeler for your kid? We Ride is here for you!
For one day only, the second-hand bike market at Rotondes lets you sell your old bike or find the one that makes your heart race. Road bikes, mountain bikes, vintage rides, BMXs, or kids’ bikes — there’s something for every style and every pair of legs!
And because a bike without accessories is like pizza without cheese, you’ll also find plenty of gear to customize and upgrade your new wheels.
Whether you’re a casual rider or a true asphalt adventurer, come check it out: We Ride is the perfect chance to hit the road in style!
Project Bike is Luxembourg's first Custom Bike Shop. Our online shop welcomes you with the most extraordinary products for urban cyclists. As we are specialized in custom fixed gear and single speed bicycles, our Project is your Bike. Please get in touch with us via FB, e-mail or over the phone since we only work by appointment! Hope to see you soon!
Location: 3, Place des Rotondes, 2448 Luxembourg-Bonnevoie
Free admission, no booking required
Saturday 28.06.2025, 14:00 – 18:00
Fashion swap @ Rotondes
© Laurent Sturm
youngcaritas’s fashion swap brings all second-hand fashion lovers to Rotondes’ courtyard, in order to exchange their clothes.
Here are the rules: bring a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 10 items of clothing and receive tokens in exchange. You can then use these tokens to select the same number of clothes from the swap. It doesn’t matter what you bring in and take out, as long as the clothes are clean and in good condition!
The bar will be open, and DJs from Kollektiv Wohnung will be playing throughout the afternoon. The Repair Café is also back! Get small damages on your clothes repaired.
youngcaritas is a platform giving young people the chance to get involved and make a positive impact on society. We believe that young people need opportunities to create a sustainable world based on solidarity and social justice.
Location: 3, Place des Rotondes, 2448 Luxembourg-Bonnevoie
Free admission, no booking required
Saturday 28 June, 14:00 - 16:00
Open Workshop with Elisabeth Schilling at Grand Théâtre
Plant Dance: The Art of Translating Plant Textures into Movement and Creating Your Own Green Choreography
Join choreographer Elisabeth Schilling to explore the dance processes behind Sensorial Symphonies. Discover plant inspired temporality, texture, and decentralization through movement, engaging all your senses.
Participation fee : 20€ / 8€ / Kulturpass
Location: Grand Théâtre
Booking required: here
