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Participate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Do you want to be part of our theatre?
You want to play, write, dance, watch or participate?
Then you’ve come to the right place: here you’ll find all the current offers to PARTICIPATE: play clubs, holiday workshops, open trainings and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Events<\/strong><\/h2>
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CLUBTOPIA. Young Theater Festival
June 2026<\/strong>

The JES is committed to the children’s right to cultural participation:
Throughout the year, many very different artistic projects are created at JES with children, teenagers and young adults. In addition to the regular play clubs, which have been rehearsing together since the start of the school year, there are dance projects that are created in intensive holiday workshops and performative collaborations in which the interaction between children and adults is questioned and reinvented. They can all be seen at Clubtopia 2026: in the second edition of the new festival at JES, we are giving the stage to young theatre makers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Register now!<\/strong><\/h2>
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OWN IT! \u2013 Dance Lab<\/strong>
15\u201323 years<\/h2>
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Wednesdays from 6 to 7.30 pm at JES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start: October 8th 2025<\/strong>

Are you between 15 and 23 years old?
Are you BIPOC or do you or your family have a migration background? 
Would you like to be part of a dance group?

Then come to our Dance Lab!

Every Wednesday the Dance Lab, a dance class, takes place at JES. It’s a place to meet up, express yourself, move around and be part of something! Come alone or with your friends, everyone is welcome. 

The Dance lab is free of charge und you don\u2019t have to have any skills or experiences \u2013 you just have to bring your enthusiasm for movement and dance! 

Wednesdays from 6 to 7.30 pm.
At JES Theatre
Free of charge!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

JES-Theaterspielplatz<\/strong>
6\u20138 years<\/h2>
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Fridays 4 pm\u20135 pm at JES

Block 1: 10 October to 19 December 2025 (10 sessions)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want to discover theatre playfully?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019ll be loud, sometimes we\u2019ll 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<\/a>

*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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participation fee for 3 months: \u20ac25 \/ \u20ac50 or \u20ac75 (includes JES club card for 3 months of free theatre performances at JES)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Block 2: January 2026 \u2013 March 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Spielclub 1<\/strong>
9\u201311 years<\/h2>
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Mondays from 4:30 pm to 6 pm at JES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start: October 6th 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final rehearsals and performances: June 22nd to 27th 2026 at JES<\/strong>

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 \u2018Clubtopia. Young Theatre Festival\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 
With: Katharina Felde

Registration starts in September 2025 via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/a>

Participation fee: \u20ac80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Spielclub <\/strong>2
In cooperation with Offene Hilfen Stuttgart<\/strong>
12\u201315 years<\/h2>
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Tuesdays from 5 to 7 pm at JES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start: October 7th 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final rehearsals and performances:  June 22nd to 27th 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2018Clubtopia. Young Theatre Festival\u2019.

Registration starts in September via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/a>

Participation fee: \u20ac80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration also possible via Offenen Hilfen<\/a> Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Spielclub <\/strong>3
16\u201325 years<\/h2>
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Dienstags von 6 to 8 pm Uhr im JES
Start: october 7th 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final rehearsals and performances:  June 22nd to 27th 2026
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Do you want to take to the stage \u2013 with whatever is on your mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

We will ask questions like: What does responsibility mean \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We tell them through text, movement or images, experimenting, rethinking, reinventing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end result will be performed at JES.
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You don’t need any theatre experience \u2013 just the courage to try something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Hannes Michl

Registration starts in September via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/a>

Participation fee: \u20ac80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Generations\u00fcbergreifendes Tanztraining 1<\/strong><\/h2>
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Ages 3 and up (children up to 6 years of age must be accompanied by an adult)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maximum number of participants: 15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: approx. 60 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 6th 2025 11-12 am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 10th 2026 11-12 am<\/strong>
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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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choreographer and dance educator Lina H\u00f6hne offers an open and inclusive dance programme. Anyone interested in dance, movement, artistic expression and music is welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through guided exercises and improvisation tasks from contemporary dance and theatre pedagogy we engage in lively, playful interaction within the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can come with your siblings, parents, grandparents or friends. No previous experience is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please bring comfortable clothing. We dance barefoot, without socks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participation is free of charge \u2013 donations are welcome. All donations go towards financing the JES Peter Pan Ticket.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Generations\u00fcbergreifendes Tanztraining <\/strong>2<\/h2>
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Ages 8 and up<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maximum number of participants: 15<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration: approx. 75 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 10th 2025, 11-12.15 am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 23rd 2025, 11-12.15 am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 13th 2025, 11-12.15 am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choreographer and dance educator Lina H\u00f6hne offers an open and inclusive dance programme. Anyone interested in dance, movement, artistic expression and music is welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through guided exercises and improvisation tasks from contemporary dance and theatre pedagogy we engage in lively, playful interaction within the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can come with your siblings, parents, grandparents or friends. No previous experience is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please bring comfortable clothing. We dance barefoot, without socks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participation is free of charge \u2013 donations are welcome. All donations go towards financing the JES Peter Pan Ticket.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Queer*Town (AT)<\/strong>
16\u201327 years<\/h2>
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A research project in cooperation with UTOPIA Kiosk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursdays 6 pm to 8.30 pm, alternating each week between JES and UTOPIA Kiosk<\/strong>

Start: End of September 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: March 20th<\/sup>-22nd<\/sup> 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For anyone who identifies as queer and is interested in a collaborative artistic project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Katharina Felde (JES) and Alisha Soraya Principe (UTOPIA Kiosk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration starts in September 2025 via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Participation fee information available soon!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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OWN IT! \u2013 Dance Stage<\/strong><\/strong>
14\u201323 years<\/h2>
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From March 30th<\/sup> to April 11th<\/sup> 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you like to dance on a stage with other people?
Are you between 14 and 23 years old?
Are you BIPOC, do you or your family have a migration background or are you simply interested in exploring the topic community<\/em>?\u00a0

For a whole week the stage is ours to take at the JES theater. Together we\u2019ll work up a dance performance to show at the end of the week. Come as your are and bring your friends, if you want to \u2013 everybody is welcome!

Our topic is community and connection.
How do individuals become a group?
When and how do I feel connected to other people?
How does it feel in the body, to (not) be part of a community?
When do I want to be a part of a group and when would I rather not?

The whole week is free of charge<\/strong> and you don\u2019t have to bring any language or dance skills \u2013 all you have to bring is your enthusiasm for dance and movement!

Brasilian dancer and theater pedagogue Ang\u00e9lica and Brasilian percussionist Eduardo will be your instructors. The languages spoken will be German and English.

Sign up with an e-mail to clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/a>
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FreiRaum<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
11\u201318 years<\/h2>
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Project week: February 14th<\/sup> to February 21st<\/sup> 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start: see Die JES-Philosoph*innen (JES Philosophers)<\/em><\/strong>

A project week organised by the JES philosophers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results will be presented at JES at the end of the project week, then reflected upon and further developed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Club der Schaulustigen<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
16\u201325 years<\/h2>
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Thursdays from 7 pm to 9 pm at JES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start: End of October 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 
With Marie Herholz

Registration starts in September 2025 via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/a>
Participation fee: \u20ac80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)
*All admission tickets are included in the participation fee.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

JES! Kinderrechte<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
8+ years<\/h2>
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Project week: October 27th<\/sup> to 31st 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 am to 2 pm each day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


An autumn holiday workshop about your rights as a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on this agreement, we want to explore what this means for your everyday life as children in our city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you experience and what is important to you? What should change and how?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on your thoughts, experiences and ideas, we will develop games, perform theatre, draw, do crafts and move and dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


With Lina H\u00f6hne and Larissa Probst  

Participation fee information available soon!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ongoing Projects<\/strong><\/h2>
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Spielclub 1<\/strong>
9\u201311 years<\/h2>
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Mondays from 4:30 pm to 6 pm at JES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start: October 6th 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final rehearsals and performances: June 22nd to 27th 2026 at JES<\/strong>

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 \u2018Clubtopia. Young Theatre Festival\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 
With: Katharina Felde

Registration starts in September 2025 via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/a>

Participation fee: \u20ac80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Spielclub <\/strong>2
In cooperation with Offene Hilfen Stuttgart<\/strong>
12\u201315 years<\/h2>
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Tuesdays from 5 to 7 pm at JES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start: October 7th 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final rehearsals and performances:  June 22nd to 27th 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2018Clubtopia. Young Theatre Festival\u2019.

Registration starts in September via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/a>

Participation fee: \u20ac80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration also possible via Offenen Hilfen<\/a> Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Spielclub <\/strong>3
16\u201325 years<\/h2>
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Dienstags von 6 to 8 pm Uhr im JES
Start: october 7th 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final rehearsals and performances:  June 22nd to 27th 2026
<\/strong>
Do you want to take to the stage \u2013 with whatever is on your mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

We will ask questions like: What does responsibility mean \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We tell them through text, movement or images, experimenting, rethinking, reinventing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end result will be performed at JES.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n


You don’t need any theatre experience \u2013 just the courage to try something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Hannes Michl

Registration starts in September via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/a>

Participation fee: \u20ac80.00 (includes JES club membership card and free theatre performances at JES)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Queer*Town (AT)<\/strong>
16\u201327 years<\/h2>
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A research project in cooperation with UTOPIA Kiosk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursdays 6 pm to 8.30 pm, alternating each week between JES and UTOPIA Kiosk<\/strong>

Start: End of September 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation: March 20th<\/sup>-22nd<\/sup> 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For anyone who identifies as queer and is interested in a collaborative artistic project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Katharina Felde (JES) and Alisha Soraya Principe (UTOPIA Kiosk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration starts in September 2025 via clubs@jes-stuttgart.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Participation fee information available soon!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

JES! Kinderrechte<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
8+ years<\/h2>
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Project week: October 27th<\/sup> to 31st 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 am to 2 pm each day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


An autumn holiday workshop about your rights as a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on this agreement, we want to explore what this means for your everyday life as children in our city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you experience and what is important to you? What should change and how?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on your thoughts, experiences and ideas, we will develop games, perform theatre, draw, do crafts and move and dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


With Lina H\u00f6hne and Larissa Probst  

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