Wave Gothic Festival Leipzig
Officially WGT opens on Friday and lasts until early Tuesday morning. Goths from all over the world come to the festival to listen to gothic music and participate in Gothic activities that span the entire Leipzig. According to unofficial data recent years this holiday has drawn up to 30 000 people.
Gothic movement originated in England in the 1970s , this subculture is very diverse, but to some extent it is characterized by the following features: gloomy image, black clothing, interest in mysticism and gothic music.
The first official Gothic festival was held in 1992 in Leipzig in Eiskeller club, and gathered about a thousand and a half people.
The main idea of the festival is to hold concerts at 12-15 venues of the city, where about 200 performers in various musical genres of gothic culture act one by one. Parties with famous DJs are thrown every evening.
The primary attraction of the festival is a wide range of various medieval fairs, films premieres and audio products presentations, exhibitions, theatre performances, role plays, church concerts, all kinds of lectures, seminars, tours to the oldest and most beautiful cemeteries in Leipzig and much more. Many guests of the festival are middle-aged people, not just youngsters.
Since 2001 the festival has been the official and large-scale event in Leipzig and is included in the cultural program of the city tourism department, so the city is preparing for the event in advance, with support including funding from the city authorities.
