Fridays 4 pm–5 pm at JES

Block 1: 10 October to 19 December 2025 (10 sessions)

Want to discover theatre playfully?

In the JES Theatre Playground you can try out everything to do with theatre. For example, we will move around the space and suddenly freeze. We will act quickly or very slowly. We will transform ourselves. Sometimes we’ll be loud, sometimes we’ll be quiet. We will build, invent and play together.

The theatre playground is open to all children between the ages of 6 and 8. There is no performance. It takes place every week. Children who want to continue acting or try it out after kindergarten* are very welcome.

Registration starts in September 2025 via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de

*Children from the JES kindergarten project are prioritised when registering. Please indicate the former kindergarten and theatre educator when registering.

Solidarity participation fee: pay what you can afford.

Participation fee for 3 months: €25 / €50 or €75 (includes JES club card for 3 months of free theatre performances at JES)

Block 2: January 2026 – March 2026

Mondays from 4:30 pm to 6 pm at JES

Start: October 6th 2025

Final rehearsals and performances: June 22nd to 27th 2026 at JES

In this acting club, we will perform theatre together from October to June. We will explore a specific theme artistically. We will decide on the theme together. We will develop our own play and design the costumes and stage set ourselves. At the end, we want to perform our play on stage at the ‘Clubtopia. Young Theatre Festival’.

 
With: Katharina Felde

Registration starts in September 2025 via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de

Participation fee: €80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)

Tuesdays from 5 to 7 pm at JES

Start: October 7th 2025

Final rehearsals and performances:  June 22nd to 27th 2026

This acting club is for anyone aged between 12 and 15 who wants to learn about theatre and try their hand at acting. We will improvise and invent, play different games and come up with stories and texts. We will find out what interests us as a group, what concerns us collectively and what we urgently need to talk about. We will then use this to create our own play. In June 2026, there will be several performances of our joint work at the ‘Clubtopia. Young Theatre Festival’.

Registration starts in September via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de

Participation fee: €80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)

Registration also possible via Offenen Hilfen Stuttgart.

Dienstags von 6 to 8 pm Uhr im JES
Start: october 7th 2025

Final rehearsals and performances:  June 22nd to 27th 2026

Do you want to take to the stage – with whatever is on your mind?

There is no finished play. But there is a beginning!

We will ask questions like: What does responsibility mean – for me, for others, for the world? Where do I take responsibility? Where do I evade responsibility? And what happens when no one takes responsibility?

We search for stories, moments, attitudes…We tell them through text, movement or images, experimenting, rethinking, reinventing.

We tell them through text, movement or images, experimenting, rethinking, reinventing.

The end result will be performed at JES.

You don’t need any theatre experience – just the courage to try something new.

With Hannes Michl

Registration starts in September via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de

Participation fee: €80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)

Wednesdays from 6 to 7.30 pm at JES

Start: October 8th 2025

Dance meet-up with different styles and special guests!

A meeting place for dances from many cultures and in different styles, taught by several different instructors. We will meet every week to learn new steps, be together and celebrate! For people with and without a migration background.

Registration is possible at any time.

Participation fee information available soon!

Ages 3 and up (children up to 6 years of age must be accompanied by an adult)

Maximum number of participants: 15

Duration: approx. 60 minutes

Dates:

December 6th 2025 11-12 am

January 10th 2026 11-12 am

How can people of all ages get moving together? How can they inspire and surprise each other? How can we share an experience together? An experience where age, physical abilities and interests do not matter?

Choreographer and dance educator Lina Höhne offers an open and inclusive dance programme. Anyone interested in dance, movement, artistic expression and music is welcome.

Through guided exercises and improvisation tasks from contemporary dance and theatre pedagogy we engage in lively, playful interaction within the group.

You can come with your siblings, parents, grandparents or friends. No previous experience is necessary.

Please bring comfortable clothing. We dance barefoot, without socks.

Participation is free of charge – donations are welcome. All donations go towards financing the JES Peter Pan Ticket.

Ages 8 and up

Maximum number of participants: 15

Duration: approx. 75 minutes

Dates:

October 10th 2025, 11-12.15 am

November 23rd 2025, 11-12.15 am

December 13th 2025, 11-12.15 am

How can people of all ages get moving together? How can they inspire and surprise each other? How can we share an experience together? An experience where age, physical abilities and interests do not matter?

Choreographer and dance educator Lina Höhne offers an open and inclusive dance programme. Anyone interested in dance, movement, artistic expression and music is welcome.

Through guided exercises and improvisation tasks from contemporary dance and theatre pedagogy we engage in lively, playful interaction within the group.

You can come with your siblings, parents, grandparents or friends. No previous experience is necessary.

Please bring comfortable clothing. We dance barefoot, without socks.

Participation is free of charge – donations are welcome. All donations go towards financing the JES Peter Pan Ticket.

A research project in cooperation with UTOPIA Kiosk

Thursdays 6 pm to 8.30 pm, alternating each week between JES and UTOPIA Kiosk

Start: End of September 2025

Presentation: March 20^th-22^nd 2026

How can spaces affect identity? What are spaces that are visibly queer? And which spaces are invisibly queer? When is it good to be visible, and when might it be a good idea to become invisible?

Together with the UTOPIA Kiosk, we want to ask ourselves these and other questions. We will engage in conversation with queer actors from the city, exchange ideas, and network. We will experiment with various artistic approaches and create our own queer space, which you will actively help shape. At the end of this project, we will present our results in a room installation at the UTOPIA Kiosk.

For anyone who identifies as queer and is interested in a collaborative artistic project.

With Katharina Felde (JES) and Alisha Soraya Principe (UTOPIA Kiosk)

Registration starts in September 2025 via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de

Participation fee information available soon!

Dance Week 1: January 2^nd to January 6^th  2026

Dance Week 2: March 30^th to April 11^th 2026

Develop choreographies, rehearse together, put on costumes and… take to the stage! An intensive week in which we will perform a dance piece together. With special guest artists!

For people with and without a migration background.

Registration two months in advance:

Registration for Dance Week 1 (from 1 November 2026)

Registration for Dance Week 2 (from 30 January 2026)

Participation in the dance weeks is free of charge for participants of the ‘OWN IT! – Dance Lab’.

Participation fee information available soon!

Project week: February 14^th to February 21^st 2026

Start: see Die JES-Philosoph*innen (JES Philosophers)

A project week organised by the JES philosophers!

What do young people want to see in theatre for young audiences? What do they want to experience? Which topics and forms interest them? What have they been missing so far?

For one week, the JES philosophers are given space, advice and financial resources to explore these questions. They will start working together in October 2025 and develop an idea for the project week. They will interview other young people and establish topics, concerns and wishes. They will try things out and develop an artistic, practical and content-related proposal for a new play to be staged at JES in the 2026/27 season.

The results will be presented at JES at the end of the project week, then reflected upon and further developed.

Thursdays from 7 pm to 9 pm at JES

Start: End of October 2025

Would you like to meet new people and discover Stuttgart’s theatre scene? We will take the time to engage with theatre as an artform, discover new places and talk about theatre together. We will watch opera, plays, performances, dance, puppetry and everything else the performing arts in Stuttgart have to offer. We will meet every week. We will always alternate between watching something and then talking about it. From time to time, we will also act, paint or compare our experiences, or have conversations with the artists.

 
With Marie Herholz

Registration starts in September 2025 via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de
Participation fee: €80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)
*All admission tickets are included in the participation fee.

Project week: October 27^th to 31st 2025

10 am to 2 pm each day

An autumn holiday workshop about your rights as a child.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, also known as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is an international human rights agreement that defines the rights of children.

Based on this agreement, we want to explore what this means for your everyday life as children in our city.

What do you experience and what is important to you? What should change and how?

Based on your thoughts, experiences and ideas, we will develop games, perform theatre, draw, do crafts and move and dance.

At the end, our results will be displayed as an installation in the lower foyer of the JES. Our aim is to give children’s rights a permanent place in our theatre.

With Lina Höhne and Larissa Probst  

Participation fee information available soon!