Bauhaus Christmas Market Featuring One-of-a-Kind Gifts, Fairytale Films, and Gingerbread Architecture
On Saturday 7 December 2024, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, together with Studierendenwerk Thüringen, invites you to the annual »Buy Yourself a Piece of Bauhaus« Christmas market. Over 100 exhibitors, more than half of whom are students, will be selling handmade, one-of-a-kind products and Christmas inspiration spread over two floors. Visitors can expect a festive supporting programme with fairytale films, a gingerbread building competition, and wrapping paper sales.
Click here for the Christmas Market programme: www.uni-weimar.de/weihnachtsmarkt
From 10 am to 6 pm, the Mensa am Park will be transformed into a colourful Christmas market. In addition to creative Christmas accessories made out of a broad range of materials. Some of which are recycled, the market will also be offering numerous gift ideas, such as design products and unique everyday pieces designed by Bauhaus-Universität Weimar students, staff and alumni.
Vendors include employee Kathryn Arsenault, who will be there, offering quilts, quilted hot water bottle sleeves, and bags. Students Anna Buhler and Julia Synnatzschke will be selling hair accessories handmade from recycled fabrics, lino prints, comics, and hand-bound sketchbooks, and student Dominic Dives will be selling concrete clocks. Alumna Alessa Dresel will be selling handmade ceramics and alumnus Jascha Fibich will be selling kitchen knives and wooden jewellery.
Fairytale Films and Gingerbread Bauhaus Competition
Alongside the market, the Alumni Office will be screening fairytale films, such as »Die Sieben Raben« and »Rübezahl und der Schuster« from noon to 5 pm. Flexible childcare is available. Later in the afternoon from 1 to 5 pm, the »LebkuchenBauhausWettbewerb« (gingerbread house competition) organised by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism’s Student Council will be open to the public. From 10 am to 6 pm, wrapping paper will also be sold on the ground floor of the Mensa and the Alumni Office and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Freundeskreis will be available at their information stands. The Mensa am Park will be providing food and drinks.
»Buy Yourself a Piece of Bauhaus«
Saturday, 7 December 2024
10 am to 6 pm
Studierendenwerk Thüringen Mensa, Marienstraße 15, 99423 Weimar
Find out more about the Christmas Market at: www.uni-weimar.de/weihnachtsmarkt
The Bauhaus Christmas Market with the slogan »Buy Yourself a Piece of Bauhaus« is organised by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar University Communications Department and the Bauhaus.Atelier team together with Studierendenwerk Thüringen. The event is organised as a mediator between studies and the work world. Students and alumni are given a platform to present their products and to make them accessible to the public.
For further information, contact Raika Nebelung, University Communications, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar at +49 (0) 36 43/58 11 74, or by e-mail to raika.nebelung[at]uni-weimar.de or Thomas Apel, Office of the President, by phone at +49 (0) 36 43/58 2019 or at thomas.apel[at]uni-weimar.de