DIY in June

Saturday, June 5, 2021

A village tour of subsistence farming - auction of wayward things at the fisherman's house - sheet cake from the oven - music - salon talk - open workshop offer.

The Oderbruch Museum Altranft invites on 05.06.'21 to its first program day this year. The focus is on the annual theme "obstinacy". 

Oderbrücher are stubbornThey don't let anyone tell them what to do and generally have a mind of their own. "But obstinacy is not to be confused with stubbornness, even if a bit of stubbornness is part of it," is how Kenneth Anders, program director of the museum, wants the theme of the year to be understood. So on Saturday, the first program day of this year will be devoted to stubbornness. At 11 a.m., the castle will host a Walk to two Altranft farmsThe owners still do as much as they can: grow vegetables, keep animals, repair their own equipment. "In the shadow of the service society, quite a few people persistently and confidently manage the land, farm or garden they call their own. We want to know: Why do they do it?"

The tour will be followed at 1:30 p.m. by a "Auction for special things" at the Fischerhaus, among other things, prints and drawings by the artist Johanna Benz will be auctioned off. The proceeds will be donated to selected local history museums in the region. The idea came from Lars Fischer, who also works in the museum's program management: "Local history rooms stand for a completely different form of do-it-yourself: they write village history, but are usually underestimated and, above all, underfunded. With this auction we want to directly support projects of the volunteers. Be it the digitization of a special diary from Golzow, the repair of a handmade toy tractor in Neulewin or the renewal of the village tour in Reitwein."

At Coffee and cake from the wood oven then gives the highly stubborn Ukulele orchestra "Luckylele from Wriezen a serenade, before Kenneth Anders at 15:30 clock to a open discussion round with representatives of local politics. The topic: the obstinacy of regional politics in small municipalities.

Whoever thinks that the youth would be forgotten at this program day, knows the Oderbruch Museum badly. Two creative offers invite to participate. At KulTourBus from Buckow, which stops at the Altranfter church, the children can paint their favorite neighbors, while in the so-called Open Workshop in the castle a Monster from garbage and scrap is created. Here, everyone is called upon to bring things themselves that can be built. Admission to all events and to the museum on this day is free.