What do we experience in the metropoles of today's world and what do the metropoles experience? Amidst all the flux of migration, gentrification and rapid urban change is the metropole able to contain us and vice versa? What if the paths we take every day start from nowhere and lead nowhere? Is it a togetherness [...]
The Syrian uprising and the war that followed are perhaps among the most visually documented events in modern history. There are harrowing images that are burned into people's psyche. The picture of Aylan Kurdi lying lifeless on a Turkish beach. Drone images of bombed Syrian hospitals and cities. But this is not [...]
For their performance, Cammack Lindsey will sing a collection of love songs for resistance and revolution, that embody our shared experiences of oppression under exploitative capitalism. The selection will feature songs written by themselves, along with songs that have inspired them, hoping in turn to inspire you! // Event start 18:00 Register for your free [...]
Eros Marciano (IG: @ jan.nwattu) presents: THE SUPER SMASH KIKI BALL ➤ Doors open: 14:30 ➤ LSS / Roll Call: 17:00 Participants and audience are welcome to come to our in-house café / bar @abadan .berlin and garden after the ball for something to eat and drink and a little meeting place. Tickets: box office only! CASH ONLY! Participants - [...]
With this vernissage Lebanese artist Mazen Khaddaj opens his multidisciplinary exhibition “Backbone”. The show is a collection of video performances, multichannel installations, and documentation by the artist that signify his relationship with his father, and his death in December 2020. After a long and heavy battle with COVID19, his dad surrendered and passed away at [. ..]
The third edition of Soura Film Festival, hosted at Oyoun, will take place from October 21st - 24th 2021 in Berlin. The festival will present a program curated with the idea to address queer culture, filmmakers, and characters relevant to South West Asia and North Africa; a region commonly known as SWANA In the majority [...]
"Backbone" is a multidisciplinary exhibition by Lebanese artist Mazen Khaddaj. The show is a collection of video performances, multichannel installations, and documentation that signifies the relationship with his father, and his death in December 2020. After a long and heavy battle with COVID19, his dad surrendered and left him at the age of sixty -three. His [...]
Release party! For the fourth edition of Literary Diverse we want to meet and spend a nice evening together. We look forward to unknown and familiar faces. Bring your friends with you too! There are drinks, music, smaller readings and of course the magazine. → Start of the event: October 22nd, 20:00 p.m. → This event is free of charge. A registration [...]
A twice-monthly online reading and discussion group curated and facilitated by Action Research collective (artists and researchers Izdihar Afyouni and melissandre varin) as part of the program for the Except for Palestine: New Pedagogies for Art and Activism project, curated by Izdihar Afyouni. This reading group is only open to BIPoC participants. Please register to [...]
Hope is universal. We cannot live without hope. It is she who does not let us despair when faced with disappointments, setbacks or blows of fate. It strengthens the backbone in times of crisis. If we can hope, giving up is not an option - instead we get up and follow the silver lining. But what is hope, what does it feed on [...]
For their third anniversary, the Queerberg Collective has prepared a fairytale show. The Queerberg Collective (House of Royals) was founded in 2015 by Queer BIPOC Refugee performers in a small venue in Kreuzberg. It was very difficult for refugee newcomer performers to get performance opportunities from many other parties and venues due to communication, professionalism [...]
"لوكداون" - عرض كوميدي مع علاء ابو دياب بعد أكثر من سنة ونصف على بداية جائحة كورونا, يصل علاء أبو دياب برلين لأول مرة بعرض ستاند أب جديد عن تجربته في فترة الإغلاق, عن العائلة والمجتمع وكيف هي الحياة في ظل الوباء ومواضيع أخرى إجتماعية تضيء على الفرق بين السويد والوطن العربي تُفتح الأبواب لإستقبالكم [...]
A twice-monthly online reading and discussion group curated and facilitated by Action Research collective (artists and researchers Izdihar Afyouni and melissandre varin) as part of the program for the Except for Palestine: New Pedagogies for Art and Activism project, curated by Izdihar Afyouni. This reading group is only open to BIPoC participants. Please register to [...]
A twice-monthly online reading and discussion group curated and facilitated by Action Research collective (artists and researchers Izdihar Afyouni and melissandre varin) as part of the program for the Except for Palestine: New Pedagogies for Art and Activism project, curated by Izdihar Afyouni. This reading group is only open to BIPoC participants. Please register to [...]
A twice-monthly online reading and discussion group curated and facilitated by Action Research collective (artists and researchers Izdihar Afyouni and melissandre varin) as part of the program for the Except for Palestine: New Pedagogies for Art and Activism project, curated by Izdihar Afyouni. This reading group is only open to BIPoC participants. Please register to [...]
