Open Solitude [Open Doors at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart]

Akademie Schloss Solitude [Stuttgart], Saturday, June 27 at 02:00 PM GMT+2

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https://keepkarlsruheboring.org/event/open-solitude-open-doors-at-akademie-schloss-solitude-stuttgart-1

Pope Leo To Visit Algeria Amidst Increasing Christian Persecution

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/pope-leo-to-visit-algeria-amidst-increasing-christian-persecution/

Ausgeschlachtet

Alter Schlachthof, Sunday, May 10 at 11:00 AM GMT+2

https://keepkarlsruheboring.org/event/ausgeschlachtet

Kleidertausch

https://events.graz.social/events/31935723-9ec5-4df5-aec9-0ad8a309bf16

Kunstrauschen: Die Lange Nacht der Projekträume in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe [different locations], Friday, February 6 at 05:00 PM GMT+1

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Am 6. Februar 2026 wird Karlsruhe erneut zum Hotspot für zeitgenössische Kunst abseits des Mainstreams. Bereits zum dritten Mal lädt das Kunstrauschen von 17 bis 23 Uhr dazu ein, die lebendige Offspace- und Projektraum-Szene der Stadt zu entdecken. Über 20 Räume öffnen ihre Türen und zeigen ein vielfältiges Spektrum an künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen – von Malerei, Skulptur und Installation bis hin zu Performance und Medienkunst – einmal im Jahr, parallel zur art karlsruhe.

Von Hinterhofwerkstätten über private Wohnungen bis hin zu Ateliers und ehemaligen Industriehallen, die teilnehmenden Räume zeigen, wie facettenreich, lebendig und überraschend Kunst sein kann. Besuchende begegnen hier nicht nur Werken zeitgenössischer Kunst, sondern auch den Künstler:innen selbst, die ihre Prozesse und Perspektiven unmittelbar erfahrbar machen. Jede Station wird so zu einem individuellen Erlebnisraum, in dem Kreativität in unmittelbarer Nähe zu ihrem Entstehungsprozess erfahrbar wird – offen, vielfältig und überraschend. Diese Offenheit macht die Erkundung der künstlerischen Orte noch unmittelbarer.

Parallel zur Kunstmesse art karlsruhe bietet das Kunstrauschen einen alternativen Blick auf künstlerische Produktion und schafft Raum für Formate, die unabhängig von etablierten Institutionen entstehen. Das Kunstrauschen versteht sich als Einladung zum Dialog, als Plattform für Austausch und Inspiration. Jeder Raum gestaltet sein Programm individuell und gemeinsam entsteht ein kaleidoskopartiger Blick auf die kreative Energie der Stadt. Die Veranstaltung rückt damit jene Vielfalt ins Zentrum, die Karlsruhe als UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts auszeichnet.

Das Kunstrauschen ist eine Veranstaltung des Kulturbüros der Stadt Karlsruhe, der Geschäftsstelle UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Karlsruhe sowie den teilnehmenden Projekträumen und Offspaces, unterstützt durch die art karlsruhe.

Standorte: https://www.cityofmediaarts.de/de/kr-kunstrauschen/kunstrauschen-2026/

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On February 6, 2026, Karlsruhe will once again become a hotspot for contemporary art beyond the mainstream. For the third time, Kunstrauschen invites visitors from 5 to 11 p.m. to explore the city’s vibrant offspace and project-space scene. Over 20 venues will open their doors, presenting a diverse range of artistic expressions—from painting, sculpture, and installation to performance and media art—once a year, in parallel with art karlsruhe.

From backyard studios and private apartments to artist studios and former industrial halls, the participating spaces showcase just how multifaceted, lively, and surprising art can be. Visitors will encounter not only contemporary artworks but also the artists themselves, gaining direct insight into their creative processes and perspectives. Each location becomes an individual experiential space, where creativity can be experienced close to its point of origin—open, diverse, and unexpected. This openness makes exploring the artistic venues all the more immediate and engaging.

In parallel with the art karlsruhe fair, Kunstrauschen offers an alternative view of artistic production, creating space for formats that emerge independently of established institutions. The event is an invitation to dialogue, serving as a platform for exchange and inspiration. Each venue curates its own program, collectively forming a kaleidoscopic view of the city’s creative energy. In doing so, the event highlights the diversity that distinguishes Karlsruhe as a UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts.

Kunstrauschen is organized by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Karlsruhe, the UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts Karlsruhe office, and the participating project spaces and offspaces, with support from art karlsruhe.

Locations: https://www.cityofmediaarts.de/en/kr-kunstrauschen/kunstrauschen-2026/

https://keepkarlsruheboring.org/event/kunstrauschen-die-lange-nacht-der-projektraume-in-karlsruhe

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Opinion | America is losing scientists. Here’s a solution – The Washington Post

Opinion

The best and brightest scientists won’t put up with this

The assumption that top researchers will endure any visa hardship to stay in the U.S. is obsolete.

December 1, 2025 at 5:45 a.m. EST, Yesterday at 5:45 a.m. EST, 5 min

By Chris R. Glass, Chris R. Glass, a professor of the practice at Boston College, researches international student mobility and global talent flows.

America’s scientific dominance was never inevitable; in the 1920s, serious PhDs went to Europe. World War II changed everything. Afterward, the United States built an unmatched innovation ecosystem with massive federal investment in basic science coupled with risk-tolerant capital markets to commercialize new discoveries.

American policymakers grasped a crucial insight: They were investing in people, not just research. As scientists became strategic national assets, immigration policy was redesigned to recruit them.

America’s advantage persists. But bureaucratic ossification now threatens it, as our global rivals pick off the best and brightest that we have trained but can’t retain — unless we change our visa system.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned last year that the U.S. lacks a “whole-of-government talent strategy” for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Though U.S. universities rank first globally on research quality, our visa system is among the slowest and least predictable in the developed world. Our talent policy assumes that top researchers will endure any visa lottery or processing delay to stay in the U.S. That assumption is obsolete.

Both our allies and our adversaries have created visa systems that are faster, simpler and more certain. China’s new K-visa targets young STEM talent, and its Qiming Program recruits top scientists with $420,000 to $700,000 signing bonuses and full housing subsidies. Germany’s Opportunity Card allows skilled workers in before they find jobs. Britain’s High Potential Individual visa requires no job offer, just a top university degree. Japan’s J-Find gives recent PhD graduates two years to job-hunt or launch companies. And there are more.

Open Doors, an annual survey tracking international student enrollment in the U.S., reports significant growth in international PhD enrollment (up 25 percent over the past decade). Yet the Organization for Economic and Commercial Development’s 2023 Talent Attractiveness indicators ranked the United States eighth among OECD countries for highly skilled workers but note that it would have ranked second if not for its visa policies. Competitors have noticed and are happy to accept the talent we train but fail to keep.

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