Friday, 16 Oct 2026 • Doors 23:00
Gewölbe
Hans-Böckler-Platz 2- 1LDK 1LDK
- Crystallmess Crystallmess
- Animistic Beliefs Unfortunately, KAVARI can’t make it due to visa issues. Animistic Beliefs
- Deena Abdelwahed Deena Abdelwahed
Information
Tickets
The following passes and tickets are available for online purchase:
Festival Pass
Day Pass Thursday 15 Oct
Day Pass Friday 16 Oct
Clubnight@Gewölbe 16 Oct
Day Pass Saturday 17 Oct
Supporter Pass
Box office tickets for individual events are available at the venues.
Venues
Gewölbe, Hans-Böckler-Platz 2 – website
JAKI, Venloer Straße 40 – website
Klosterkirche Heilig Kreuz, Lindenstraße 45
Stadtgarten, Venloer Straße 40 – website
Stoff-Pavillon Möller, Hahnenstraße 8
Theater im Bauturm, Aachener Str. 24-26 – website
Volunteers
Three Skies is looking for volunteer staff members. Interested in helping us during the festival? Join the team!
Register now!
AboutDear music lovers and the curious,
dear people of Cologne and guests from near and far,After more than a decade of Night of Surprise – filled with extraordinary artists, a wonderful audience, unexpected encounters and music from different worlds and traditions – we are opening a new chapter.Read on…
With Three Skies, we are launching a new festival for adventurous contemporary music, experimental sound and transdisciplinary practices in Cologne. Rooted locally and connected internationally, it is driven by curiosity, musical excitement and radical diversity.
In a world that often feels bewildering and oppressive, we bring the avant-garde, the unconventional and the experimental to the forefront. We celebrate the creative spirit, beauty and courage of extraordinary music – its lightness and its seriousness, its many possibilities and its power to resist and challenge.
Over three days, across six venues and deep into the night, Three Skies unfolds a universe of unexpected sounds: from raw emotional intensity to contemporary abstraction, from patient, immersive drones to high-speed electronic mutations, from spiritual depth to youthful exuberance.
As diverse as the music are the spaces that Three Skies brings together. Alongside established venues such as Stadtgarten, Gewölbe, JAKI and Theater im Bauturm, the festival also opens up the historic Klosterkirche Heilig Kreuz and the Stoff-Pavillon Moeller, creating fresh connections between music and architecture.
Despite changing circumstances, one thing remains essential to us: culture must be wild, polyphonic and free to find its own course – while remaining accessible, welcoming and open to all. Unlike Night of Surprise, this edition is not free of charge, but we are committed to keeping ticket prices fair and affordable.
Our heartfelt thanks go to all our funders and partners, friends and supporters, volunteers and, of course, our audience. You have helped make this new adventure possible. We wish you a festival full of beautiful encounters and discoveries.
A gathering in the spirit of difference and creative defiance, beneath one sky – or many.
Thomas Gläßer, William Gill, Juliane Höttges, Kieran Kaul and Klara Trawny
Contact
Three Skies – Unexpected Music and Sound
Zentrum für Aktuelle Musik e.V.
c/o Kutschker
Kurfürstenstraße 6
50678 Köln
info@threeskies.de
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