Cultural Center
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Since the University of Potsdam was founded its campuses were placed in four different locations - all in the periphery: in Golm, at Neues Palais, in Griebnitzsee and until 2007 in Babelsberg. This arrangement complicated the exchange between the students of the different locations. Common cultural activities and consequently a strong public perception in the city of Potsdam were barely existent.
To rectify that drawback the 1998 AStA developed a first concept to create a students´ cultural center in the city and introduced this to the town´s responsibles. The idea gained great courtesy.
The NIL students´cellar at Neues Palais emerged as a lateral project from this idea in a co-operation with the University of Potsdam in 1998.
The first interesting offered municipal object was the old town school in Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. Several recommendations followed, but all fell through out of different reasons and it became more and more uncertain to get an adequate municipal place in "downtown".
Nevertheless the project had got many supporters in the student body. Therefore the 2001 AStA changed the course and after recommendation of then mayor Matthias Platzek they bargained with the private owner of Hermann-Elflein-Straße 10, the VDLB GmbH. So a subsidiary AStA-office in the city could be opened in 2002.
Together with Sanierungsträger Potsdam, the citie´s departments for buildings and culture, the owner and the Land Brandenburg the AStA developed a concept to use the object as a students´cultural center. The city, the country and the owner invested about 1 million Euros for building operations. 2004 the AStA signed a contract to rent the complex in Hermann-Elflein-Str. 10 and in November 2005 the cultural center was opened after 1 1/2 years of building activities with a week of festival.
There are a couple of mailing lists where You can take part.
Here are instructions for preparing events in the Kuze: Preparation of Events
If You want to recommend a certain act take part in the Kultur-Orga group: Kultur-Orga
In Kuze there is also a free w-LAN!