Please take note of our weekly Course offers!
Come join us for a special movie experience! This Friday, we’ll be screening a documentary titled “Disturbing the Peace in the Cosmos – The Paul Fröhlich Office.”
The film explores electronic music, idealism, and shared visions of a better world. It also delves into themes of friendship, family, and love.
Let us take you on a journey through Dresden’s electronic subculture and make yourself comfortable in our theater seats.
Volunteers, tenants, and other dedicated individuals meet to tidy up the building, clean, carry out minor repairs, and maintain the interior and exterior areas.
For interested neighbors, the day is a great opportunity to get to know the building. For parents, history buffs, and local residents, parallel events are taking place:
Open parent-child meet-up from 10–11 a.m. (consultations with midwives)
Open consultation hours from 4–5 p.m. (also by phone)
Meeting of the Neighborhood Culture Working Group from 4–6 p.m.
The Neues Volkshaus Cotta thrives on participation from the neighborhood. Many of its regular programs are made possible by volunteers. We’re grateful that this allows us to offer a diverse program for different generations and interests. Organizational tasks related to the center are also partly handled by volunteers. Feel free to stop by and see how you can get involved!
Accessible entry to the grounds is via the path from Steinbacher Str. (between nos. 18 and 20).
Feel free to come to us with any questions you have about pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting during the first year. Twice a month, we offer counseling sessions led by midwives and supported by our staff, who have training in early childhood education and social pedagogy.
Unfortunately, there are stairs leading to the premises—but we’re happy to help with the stroller.
If possible, please bring your chip card with you to the counseling session.
This program is part of the ESF Plus funding initiative.
The AG Stadtteilkultur is a working group of people who want to get involved in the Cotta district. It deals with urban planning and urban development, monument protection, the history of the district, its people and buildings and other topics. The members of the working group want to network and support existing initiatives in the district together with interested Cotta citizens.
The working group meets regularly every 4th Tuesday in the new Volkshaus Cotta.
There is an article from March 2025 about the commitment of the AG Stadtteilkultur: https://kirchspiel-dresden-west.de/news/neue-wege-fuer-die-stadtteilkultur
Registration is essential, as the group is sometimes out and about: stadtteilkultur01157@gmail.com
A special summer evening in the garden.
A concert featuring music that transports us to other worlds. Original songs, improvisations, jazz, and favorite classical pieces. A concert to listen to, sing along with, paint to, and simply relax in nature. For young and old alike. Under the direction of Klara Fabry, the members of the ensemble step away from their usual professional routines and give their passion—music—a stage.
You can just drop by, sit down, listen, have a drink—or even paint, if you like.
Featuring an opening act & world premiere
Admission: €10, including one free drink
This closed event for professionals in social work, youth services, and education is a project of the Cotta Neighborhood Council.
We aim to facilitate exchange between social projects and organizations in the Cotta district. There will be a stage for brief presentations and many tables with materials and information about the projects.
Participation is by registration only at mitmachen@neuesvolkshaus.de!
On June 16, we want to keep brainstorming what we can build together! We have various tools at the Neues Volkshaus Cotta, and we can work together to build something out of wood before summer break. It could be a birdhouse, a deck chair, or something completely different. Feel free to bring your own ideas!
The Parents’ Café at the Neues Volkshaus Cotta takes place every other Tuesday and is a place to get to know one another and engage in conversation. On some dates, we collaborate with other projects that also offer advice on selected topics—but fundamentally, the Parents’ Café is a place to network and spend time with other parents, mothers, and fathers, as well as a space where you can bring your children. We have a large garden that offers plenty of space to play and run around, and we also have everything you need to organize a barbecue or other activities. Just stop by and join in!
The last date for the workshop at the open Parents’ Café is June 30.
This program is part of the ESF Plus funding initiative.
Fathers from the neighborhood are warmly invited to join us for our self-organized barbecue evenings in June. There’s plenty of space outside in front of the house to sit together and chat about everyday life. Get to know other fathers from the neighborhood and share stories. Just come and enjoy a relaxing evening in our garden.
Feel free to bring something of your own to grill.
If there is interest, we can also take a look at the public areas of the Neues Volkshaus Cotta together.
The next date is June 30.
Open art group for everyone, especially for people in challenging phases of life.
The resource-oriented group cordially invites all people - especially those who find themselves in challenging or changing phases of life, for example due to illness, career changes, the transition to retirement or similar situations.
In a protected and appreciative space, creating art together offers the opportunity to calm down and recharge your batteries. Creative inspiration promotes solution-oriented thinking and opens up new perspectives. This creates space for strengthening, personal development and confidence. Participation is free of charge.
Registration via: farbeleben@gmx.de
The offer is part of the ESF Plus funding.
Since April, the artist Jamel Nakoua has been exhibiting a selection of his works in our hall. He is a calligrapher and visual artist specializing in Arabic writing. His artistic and exploratory work is dedicated to the development of aesthetic and formal approaches to Arabic script, its dynamics and the relationship between legibility and illegibility.
Jamel Nakoua's works can be viewed during opening hours if there is no current offer. Please contact us if you are interested or come to the open consultation hours, every Tuesday 4-5 pm.
The event and exhibition is part of the ESF Plus funding.
The artist Victoria Gentsch is offering a new format from March: a place for free painting - without any previous knowledge. There will be different materials and colors and all participants are invited to discover new creative sides of themselves. There will then be three more dates until January 2027 to deepen new skills and get to know each other. Victoria Gentsch works as a visual artist in Dresden and also has studio space with us in the Neues Volkshaus Cotta.
Next date:
Thursday, 18.06. from 3 p.m
Follow-up dates on 01.10.26 and 14.01.27
The offer is part of the ESF Plus funding.
Exhibition format: "Seen like this."
In the period 2026-2028 is the 100th anniversary of the Volkshaus Cotta. We look forward to your help in this context! The house has been brought to life by so many people, ensembles and initiatives over the years. Every story, every picture and every document is an important part of it.
That is why we invite you: Share your memories! Whether it's a personal anecdote, an old photo or a drawing - your contributions are invaluable. Help us to preserve the stories surrounding the Volkshaus Cotta and make them visible for future generations.
Let's discover together the many facets of the former "Richard-Gärtner" district cultural center, which many of you will surely remember as the "Rote Hütte". We have collected treasures from private and public archives - from chronicles of the "Spielbrett" theater group to rediscovered photos of the reopening in 1980 and finds from the Deutsche Fotothek.
We would like to develop projects together with senior citizens in and around the Volkshaus Cotta to revitalize the house and garden. Together with the volunteers and project manager Yvonne, you can develop and present your personal project idea in two ideas workshops. Perhaps you will find like-minded people in the group who would like to work on an idea together.
Finally, we will support you in bringing your project to life. To do this, you can take part in our monthly meetings. The entire offer is free of charge.
Please register by e-mail with Yvonne at yvonne@konglomerat.org or at 0176-22352779
The "Senior:innen für Cotta" project, funded by the Social Welfare Office of the City of Dresden, serves as an incubator and supporter for your project idea. Here you can implement your own creative ideas or take part in artistic and craft workshops and meet new people and exchange ideas. We have the following offers in our repertoire in 2025.
> Ideas Café 60+
> The joy of singing
> Open craft and games get-together
> Repair café get-together for senior citizens with smartphone advice