With installations and performances, with dance and music performances as well as a film series, the Bauhaus Festival 2021 thematises art as a cultural and social infrastructure that brings people together in ways that are not commonplace. Art and ceremonial events such as celebrations and festivals create aesthetic occasions, places and atmospheres for a shared experience and extraordinary encounters. In the Corona pandemic, such encounter events were and are hardly possible any more, or only to a very limited extent. Even though the Bauhaus Festival 2021 will also be marked by restrictions resulting from the ongoing Corona crisis, these need not be perceived as such. For, although some performances and presentations can only be attended as part of guided tours (Parcours), such a circumstance promotes concentrated perception and the intensity of the experience. In the Bauhaus building, you are invited to select courses and thus put together your own modular festival programme.