To research possibilities, conditions and ways of arriving in a new city Paula Hildebrandt founded the Welcome City Group in 2016. Newcomers and inhabitants, citizens and non-citizens met and assembled for different occasions and activities at different places within the urban space in Hamburg. The Welcome City Group provided a label and at the same time the frame for an improbable assembly of different people to explore their rights and responsibilities, the current conditions of arriving and joining a group or becoming a citizen: How to perform on the stage of the big city?