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Tiny OyoUnity @ ZK/U (Centre for Art and Urbanism)
September 18, 2023 10:00 AM - September 24, 2023 19:00 AM

*Please note that these events do not take place at Oyoun, but at ZK/U (Center for Art and Urbanism)!*
Oyoun's Tiny House is going on tour!
Between the end of August and mid-October, our Tiny House will be travelling through various Berlin districts. For one week at a time, we stop at different cultural places and institutions and interact with the surrounding urban space, the neighbourhood and local partners.
FromMonday, 18.9. to Sunday, 24.9. the Tiny House casts a glance over the Westhafen and stands in front of the back of the ZK/U (Centre for Art and Urbanism). There is access to a large green area and the neighbouring park.
You can expect an extensive programme with recurring workshops on podcasting with Hamam Talk, mix taping with Maurice Leoni-Osionand photography with Queer Analog Darkroom, as well as pop-up exhibitions and performances:
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Mon 18.9. 15:00-18:00 h
⇒ Workshop | “The Home ReMixtape Archives”
w/ Maurice Leoni-Osion
For many of us, home is where we are born, reside, genealogically rooted, or establish a sense of belonging. However, this definition of the home is not always shared by a broader population, specifically marginalized communities, who, like everyone, should be accepted for instinctual birthrights to provide an inner structure/shelter to protect cultures, languages, loved ones, stories, dreams, memories, and futures.
The Home ReMixtape Artchives is a series of art workshops utilizing the creation of home mixtapes as an archival approach to document, protect and preserve untold stories centered around the home experience. Participants will explore mixed media; graff writing, illustrations, timelines, found sounds, interviews, audio recordings, songs, and music production to collaborate on a community mixtape. The goal is to provide a creative space for various voices to tell their younique stories while finding a cohesive rhythm amongst each other that celebrates future narratives from their neighborhoods.
The workshops will culminate in an interactive exhibition from 16 to 30 November 2023 at Oyoun, where the public will have access to the five editions of the Mixtape series, each representing a community archive from five districts across Berlin.
Tickets: Free (registration required) | Registration here
Language: English
Please note that spots are very limited and we appreciate you cancelling your registration in case you cannot make it.
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Di 19.9., 11:00-14:00h
⇒ Workshop | "Casting Spells: A Songwriting Workshop with Ria Boss"
w/ Riya Boss
There is a song for every mood, a sound that takes you back to a memory, and a lyric that can make you wish you could travel in time. The music, the words, the force, the songs take a life of their own when we breathe our experiences into them. How do we breathe this life? How do we cast spells that move, bend and create the magic that is the music we know and love?
'Casting Spells' is a songwriting workshop that helps you tap into your own memories, your own sense of self and gives you the tools to make magic.
Tickets: Free entry (registration required)| Registration here
Language: English
<em>Please note that spots are very limited and we appreciate you cancelling your registration in case you cannot make it.</em>
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Wed 20.9., 10:00-15:00 p.m
⇒ Workshop | “How to Podcast?- Podcasting im antirassistischen/aktivistischen Kontext”
w/ Hamam Talk
The workshop "How to Podcast? - Podcasting in an anti-racist/activist context" offers participants the opportunity to learn the basics of podcasting while exploring the potential of podcasts in the context of anti-racism and activism. A balanced mixture of theoretical input and practical exercises enables the participants to design, record, edit and present their own podcast episodes. The workshop aims to encourage raising voices for positive change and create a space for creative expression in the service of social justice.
Tickets: Free (registration required) | Registration here (Open until September 19.9th, 18:00 p.m.)
Language: German
Please note that spots are very limited and we appreciate you cancelling your registration in case you cannot make it.
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Thu 21.9., 18:00 a.m. - 22:00 p.m
⇒ Pop Up Event | “rituals for the anthropocene”
w/ hugo x tibiriçá
human supremacy over the planet has already brought the world to climate collapse, mass extinction of species and the possibility of our own extinction. we are living in the anthropocene: the human-dominated planet. “rituals for the anthropocene” is a multi-disciplinary work by hugo x tibiriçá – a series of impromptu video-rituals to help us go through these times of unprecedented planetary change. the audience is invited to become witnesses and participants of the rituals – to challenge our status as a dominant species, scrutinize our history and legacy of domination, place the very meaning of being a human at stake as well as commit to more life-affirming ways of going forward inhabiting the earth.
Tickets: Free admission (no registration required)
Language: English
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Fri 22.9 September, 18:30 a.m. - 20:30 p.m
⇒ Workshops | "Breaking Poetics and Aesthetics" by John Lee"
w/ John Lee
Breaking aka b-boying and b-girling is an urban dance form originated from the Bronx, New York in the 1970s. Though its legacy runs half a century, its popular representation does not reflect the richness of the knowledge and spirit within the art form. Breaking, to quote Joseph Schloss, “is a profoundly spiritual discipline, as much as a martial art as a dance, as much a vehicle for self-realization as a series of movements.” One of the reasons that “the internal discourse of b-boying has been overlooked is that most academic hip-hop scholarship still operates within the framework of literary analysis and cultural studies. (Foundation, 2009) . "Breaking Poetics and Aesthetics" is a hybrid workshop where participants are invited to dance and write about the movement of themselves and each other. By focusing on the foundation moves and sharing writings anonymously with each other, the workshop seeks to designate the essence of the art form as an intersubjective phenomena. At the end of the workshop, participants will have actively contributed to the embodied theorization of breaking with the ideas and feelings set in motion by the physical movement as well as the words to describe or instruct them.
Tickets: Free (registration required) | Registration here
Language: English
Please note that spots are very limited and we appreciate you cancelling your registration in case you cannot make it.
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Sun 24.9., 15:00-19:00 p.m
⇒ Workshop | “Seeing Yourself: Queer Self-Portraits”
w/ Jasper & Sophie – Queer Analog Darkroom
Two workshops by Jasper & Sophie from Queer Analog Darkroom will explore how photography can function as a tool of queer liberation movements. The power structures on which photography is based both in theory and in practice will be discussed together. One focus is on the history of the camera in the course of colonialism and heteronormativity and the resulting power differences between the photographed and the photographer. What ways and possibilities are there to queer, recode and deconstruct these power structures? Two workshops are offered, which can be attended independently of each other. The second workshop will take place the following week at the Korea Association.
In the first workshop you will experiment with putting yourself in front of the camera. The aim is to deal with self-portraits in queer art history, to talk about ideas, to help each other with the implementation and to talk about the photos that should be taken. This workshop is supported by instant photography, through which one can see directly how the picture is created and at the same time get a kind of ownership of the picture. The participants can present the results at the end of the Tiny House Project in a group exhibition in November.
Tickets: Free (registration required) | Registration here
Language: English
Please note that spots are very limited and we appreciate you cancelling your registration in case you cannot make it.
Do you need a translation for the event? Are you in need of a companion that is also joining? Do you need a sign language interpreter? Or are you joining with a wheelchair? Then please get in touch with us via kommunikation@oyoun.de and we will try to accommodate your needs as good as we can.
The Tiny OyoUnity project is part of the DRAUSSENSTADT initiative funded by the Berliner Project Fund Urban Practice and the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
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Accessibility
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