Oyoun | Culture rethinking

April 19, 2024 04:28 p.m.

THE CREAMY KIKI BALL

Eros Marciano presents: THE CREAMY KIKI BALL It's a quite spontaneous event, so the theme is something easy! You can choose between the colors: brown, beige and white. You can decide whether you want to mix all three, just two or go with just one color. Shoes and accessories don't count. All categories will be [...]

April 19, 2024 04:28 p.m.

Fourth wave film festival #niunamenos

(See German translation below) On November 13th the Vierte Welle Film Festival will introduce a new category: #niunamenos. The category #niunamenos presents short films made by Latin American filmmakers who identify themselves as women and who claim to be part of the #niunamenos movement. "Ni una menos" (no more) is a feminist movement that emerged in [...]

#Not one less, Latin American filmmakers, Fourth wave, Fourth wave film festival

April 19, 2024 04:28 p.m.

After Party feat. Leila Moon & Aïda Salander | Moudjahidate* – women*, resistance, queer alliance

DJ Leila Moon is a Songwriter, Producer and DJ specializing in Funk, Disco, Rai, Gnawa, Afrobeat, R'n'B, Mahraganat, Electronic and House! Her eclectic musical style is a culmination of her collective influences and cross-cultural experiences. Born to an Algerian mother and a Moroccan father, she grew up with anime and Bollywood, listening to Raï music, Arabic pop, French chansons, [...]

Moujahidate*, party

February 28, 2021 11:30

Tjef Sema Paut Neteru Yoga with Nane Kahle

Let's decolonize yoga practice together 🧘🏾‍♀️🧘🏿‍♀️🧘🏽‍♂️🧘🏿‍♂️: Join Nane Kahle (IG: @nanekahlesound) on a yoga journey ... The “Tjef Sema Paut Neteru” System is a yoga practice based on Ancient Egyptian knowledge. This somatic technology brings you the awareness of the connection with your mind, your spirit, your body and your inner world in a way that celebrates [...]

Embodied temporalities, Nane Bald, yoga

March 10, 2021

a'21: techno utopia x post-digital ignorance___10 March - 18 May, 2021

► a'21: techno utopia x post-digital ignorance ► 10 MARCH - 18 MAY, 2021 :: EXHIBITIONS :: PERFORMANCES :: TALKS, WORKSHOPS & LECTURES :: & MORE :: ABOUT a'21 FESTIVAL :: The past few decades have witnessed a tremendous proliferation of digital technology. References to a techno-utopia where knowledge would be available to each and [...]

a21, collaboration, decolonizing technology, Festival Cosa Sarà, future research, Lab, new media, post-digital ignorance, queer ecology, techno utopia

March 10, 2021 21:00 pm

a'21: Songs of return: Alsarah and The Nubatones

► a'21: Alsarah & the Nubatones: live concert :: ABOUT :: Alsarah & the Nubatones were born out of many dinner conversations between alsarah and rami el aasser about nubian 'songs of return', modern migration patterns and the cultural exchanges between sudan and egypt. A common love for the richness of pentatonic sounds, and shared [...]

a21, activism, East African, Live, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

March 15, 2021 12:30 pm

a'21: Techno-social solutions to disinformation_amberPlatform

►a'21: Techno-social solutions to disinformation_amberPlatform When: March 15, 2021 Time: 12: 30-14: 00 :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: Disinformation is fed by ignorance and in its turn it feeds ignorance. This will be a seminar activity in which humans' technological solutions and their limitations in countering disinformation will be reviewed. The seminar, which will be evaluated [...]

a21, archive, collaboration, new media, Open Call, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

March 16, 2021 12:00 pm

a'21: Ignorant Fairies: New Materialist Queer-Feminist Political Ecological Approaches_amberPlatform

►a'21: Ignorant Fairies: New Materialist Queer-Feminist Political Ecological Approaches_amberPlatform In this workshop, we will be studying selected new materialist texts and works of art regarding non-human life, nature and matter in this digital era which also intersects with Anthropocene discussion starting from the beginning of 2000s to better confront the growing 'uncertainty' 'unintelligibility' of non [...]

a21, Festival Cosa Sarà, post-digital ignorance, post human, queer theory, queer ecology, queer * feminist, techno utopia, workshop

March 17, 2021 15:00 pm

a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance # 1: Critical approach to decolonization of the Arts_Kounaktif

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge / Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities. It's relating to each other horizontally beyond any power / organizational structure. Abdeslam Ziou Ziou, researcher in arts, will tackle the subject from the prism of arts, by giving his approach to decolonization in the [...]

a21, doctor, decolonize, Festival Cosa Sarà, history, morocco, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

March 18, 2021 15:00 pm

a'21: How can we decolonize Images and Aesthetics? _Kounaktif

►a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance # 2: How can we decolonize Images and Aesthetics? _Kounaktif How can we decolonize cinema, and how can we approach Oral Knowledge as a tool of resistance to colonialism. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge / Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities. It's [...]

a21, anti colonial, artist talk, decolonizing technology, decolonize, Festival Cosa Sarà, images, morocco, movie, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

March 18, 2021 19:00 pm

a'21: Removing passive observers_Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

► a'21: Removing passive observers :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: This world rewards us when we just watch silently. The line between inaction and activism has grown smaller. We cant afford for people to passively watch on anymore. You actions have consequences. You lack of action has repercussions. Let's find out what they are. [...]

a21, activism, artist talk, BIPoC, Festival Cosa Sarà, Gaming, lecture, post-digital ignorance, Queer Trans *, techno utopia, Trans *

March 19, 2021 15:00 pm

a'21: Decolonization of Epistemology_Kounaktif

► "a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance # 3: Decolonization of Epistemology_Kounaktif :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR / FR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge / Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities . It's relating to each other horizontally beyond any power / organizational structure. Seloua Luste Boulbina, philosopher, will speak about ways of decolonizing paradigms, and different ways [...]

a21, decolonizing technology, Festival Cosa Sarà, lecture, philosophy, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

March 19, 2021 17:00 pm

a'21: Dust to Come_New Media Society / Parking Video Library

►a'21: Dust to Come_New Media Society / Parking Video Library :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Dust to come is a re-screening of a former online program at New Media Projects which will take place both online / offline in our space and via our website. Was it ever our future? “The Removed Agency” got me by surprise [...]

a21, Iran, new media, panel discussion, post-digital ignorance, screening methods, techno utopia

March 20, 2021 12:00 pm

a'21: online VR Storytellers and Hackathon

► a'21: online VR workshops and hackathon (Schedule below) “Urban spaces and places transform the way we explain the world to ourselves and others and define the way we see ourselves; provide the necessary infrastructure to transform the way we see our bodies and genders globally. " (Jerram, 2011) :: ABOUT THIS EVENT :: Amber Network [...]

a21, artist talk, exhibition, Festival Cosa Sarà, hackathon, Open Call, post-digital ignorance, storytelling, techno utopia, VR, workshop

March 20, 2021 15:00 pm

a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance # 4: Intersectional approach to decolonization and Arts_Kounaktif

►a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance # 4: Intersectional approach to decolonization and Arts_Kounaktif :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge / Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities . It's relating to each other horizontally beyond any power / organizational structure. Lamyaâ Achary, researcher in sociology, will present their approach to the [...]

a21, artist talk, decolonizing technology, KounActiv, morocco, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

March 20, 2021 20:00 pm

a'21: MidEast Tunes w / İpek İpekçioğlu

►a'21: MidEast Tunes w / İpek İpekçioğlu :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Explore and enjoy the tunes of İpek İpekçioğlu who will be preparing a special set merging traditional and electronic sounds. Based between Berlin and Istanbul, queer-living DJ, producer and curator, İpek İpekçioğlu has an established reputation across nightlife scenes worldwide. She has performed [...]

a21, İpek İpekçioğlu, Live, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

March 21, 2021 15:00 pm

a'21: Decolonising Imaginaries: Inve [r] / [n] ting paradigms_Kounaktif

►a'21: Decolonizing Imaginaries: Inve [r] / [n] ting paradigms_Kounaktif :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Post-digital Ignorance in our region may refer to our ignorance of our roots, pre-colonial values , mythologies and imaginaries. This category of Ignorance is very visible in the mainstream art field where we try to duplicate the model found in the West. Our galleries, [...]

a21, decolonizing technology, morocco, panel discussion, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

March 21, 2021 16:30 pm

a'21: Engagement with the neighborhood through art and design_ Darağaç

►a'21: Engagement with the neighborhood through art and design_ Darağaç Audience will have information on alternative exhibition methods and how one can implement virtual reality to re-define a space. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: A conversation with Güzden Varinlioğlu and Emre Yıldız about the transformation of a neighborhood with the engagement of art and [...]

a21, neighborhood, new media, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia, VR

March 22, 2021 10:00 pm

a'21: Sustainability and Resource Mobilization_Ouafa Belgacem

► a'21: Sustainability and Resource Mobilization :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: The workshop will introduce participants to the notion of sustainability vs fundraising. The speaker will share with the attendees basics of sustainable resources mobilization strategy. :: BIO :: Ouafa is an expert in cultural and creative projects fundraising. She is also a researcher [...]

a21, cultural funding, post-digital ignorance, sustainability, techno utopia, tunisia, workshop

March 23, 2021 10:00 pm

a'21: Resources Mobilization for Festivals what COVID has changed in the process_Ouafa Belgacem

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: The workshop will be in the form of a conversation with the attendees sharing experiences and analyzing trends and perspectives. The impact of digitalization and the emergency response mechanisms adopted by funders and stakeholders will be the main focus of the discussion. :: BIO :: Ouafa is an expert [...]

a21, cultural funding, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia, tunisia, workshop

March 23, 2021 10:00 pm

a'21: Art-based research: new protocols in action_Relais Culture Europe

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Starting from the consideration that there are no precise boundaries delimiting what is art-based research, we would like to put into discussion such an emerging practice in the cultural field, by questioning it from the perspective of knowledge production as well as its link to education or generative practices. [...]

a21, doctor, decolonize, Festival Cosa Sarà, history, morocco, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

March 23, 2021 16:00 pm

a'21: Knowing is an Illusion: Water Truth Egg_amberPlatform

The workshop focuses on the aesthetics of the cumulative nature of information that is unlearned and relearned in a holistic, experience-oriented, democratic and de-colonialist manner, in which the practice travels around the theory and the mainstream meanings attached are questioned. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: Taking the birth and transmission of knowledge via digital [...]

a21, Festival Cosa Sarà, post-digital ignorance, post-truth, techno utopia, workshop

March 24, 2021 13:00 pm

a'21: Trouble Market _amberPlatform

►a'21: Trouble Market _amber Platform As part of the workshop, we focus on humanity's current troubles and make them marketable. Come on, start selling your troubles now! :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: Many problems facing humanity today are actually the problems that companies and states (or power centers) generate to protect their economic or political [...]

a21, Festival Cosa Sarà, post-digital ignorance, speculative design, techno utopia, translocal, workshop

March 26, 2021 18:00 pm

a'21: A conversation about collective's role in İzmir_ Darağaç

►a'21: A conversation about collective's role in İzmir_ Darağaç Audience will have an insight information about the influence of collectives in the art scene of Izmir. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: A conversation with Tom Keogh and Ali Kemal Ertem from Maquis Project in İzmir and Hande Bozbıyık about the roles of collectives in [...]

a21, collective, Festival Cosa Sarà, neighborhood, panel discussion, post-digital ignorance, public insurance, public space, space, techno utopia

March 27, 2021 09:00 pm

a'21: Queer Feminist Interventions in Filling Open Resource Gaps: Wiki Edit-a-thon_amberPlatform

►a'21: Queer Feminist Interventions in Filling Open Resource Gaps: Wiki Edit-a-thon_amberPlatform For this event we are focusing on artistic practices that revision existing mythologies and by unraveling these dominating narratives re-tell them from a queer / feminist perspective. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey (WMTR) and Amber Platform will host an online [...]

a21, editathon, post-digital ignorance, queer * feminist, techno utopia, wikimedia

March 27, 2021 16:00 pm

a'21: one to one sessions (30min) _Talk to CFW_Ouafa Belgacem

► a'21: one to one sessions 30min each - Talk to CFW When: 27 March - 16: 00-17: 00 (two sessions) 03 April - 16: 00-17: 00 (two sessions) 04 April - 16: 00-17: 00 (two sessions) :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: CFW CEO, Ouafa Belgacem will be holding 6 one to 6 session to offer a guidance a counseling [...]

a21, cultural funding, Festival Cosa Sarà, one on one, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia, tunisia

March 27, 2021 20:00 pm

a'21: Breaking News_WAF & Deena Abdelwahed

► a'21: Breaking News_WAF & Deena Abdelwahed An audiovisual collaboration and video performance work. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / FR / AR) :: Let's think of this work as an object. An object without any (injunction) An object as a (proposition) Proposition et non pas une injonction. Des choses sans sens (avec une part d'insignifiant). Proposer la chose [...]

a21, Audiovisual <strong>postproduction and matching</strong>, collaboration, electronic music, Festival Cosa Sarà, Performance, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia, video lesson

March 28, 2021 12:00 pm

a'21: Slap of the century__Shahraban

► a'21: Slap of the century__Shahraban This event is a panel discussion. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Shahraban is an open space for knowledge and experimentation includes a library and a Lab, based in “Boday” a small village in Baalbek, its goal is to share knowledge to produce different knowledges , it is an [...]

a21, agriculture, Knowledge, lebanon, post-digital ignorance, sustainability, techno utopia

March 28, 2021 14:00 pm

a'21: Needle hole and cannabis leftover_Shahraban

► a'21: Needle hole and cannabis leftover by Shahraban * A documentation of local productions from Lebanese leftover cannabis to fresh milk, and more. A philosophical process fusing traditional practice with new media elements. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Needle hole is a series of four events, each events title is a product from the [...]

a21, agriculture, cannabis, documentation , lebanon, post-digital ignorance, sustainability, techno utopia, traditional

March 30, 2021 10:00 pm

a'21: From “The Zen of Pad.ma -The current situation”, and how to work in it, together

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: The Zen of Pad.ma is a collection of lessons learned, and questions encountered, in over a decade of collaborative archiving projects. They are concerned with the way in which digital technologies are always intertwined with their analogue surroundings, try to address some of the - technological, social and conceptual [...]

a21, archive, collaboration, new media, Open Call, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

April 2, 2021 16:00 p.m.

a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Launch Event

►a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Launch Event Audience will attend to a happening in the neighborhood. : ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: Sounds of Darağaç project was brought to life with the collaboration of Darağaç Collective Istanbul and Amsterdam-based record company Lu Records and Izmir's subcultural music collective Apeiron. Sounds of Darağaç is an auditory memory [...]

a21, Festival Cosa Sarà, neighborhood, post-digital ignorance, sounds, techno utopia

April 3, 2021 18:00 p.m.

a'21: Sounds of Darağaç

►a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Using sound to document a neighborhood and collaboration of collectives will be main topics in this conversation. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: Sounds of Darağaç project was brought to life with the collaboration of Darağaç Collective Istanbul and Amsterdam-based record company Lu Records and Izmir's subcultural music collective Apeiron. Sounds [...]

a21, collaboration, documentation , Festival Cosa Sarà, neighborhood, post-digital ignorance, sounds, techno utopia, Turkey

April 4, 2021 15:00 p.m.

a'21: Random Walks_amberPlatform

►a'21: Random Walks_amberPlatform :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: There will be 4 podcasts which are 12 minutes length. Podcasts will be based on keywords created by the a'21 festival community, which will be based on an ongoing podcast named Random Walk by Bager Akbay and Tevfik Uyar. ► Click "going" on Facebook to stay [...]

a21, Festival Cosa Sarà, conversations, Podcast, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

April 5, 2021 13:00 p.m.

a'21: Sudan education curriculum_BAAB Collective

►a'21: Sudan education curriculum_BAAB Collective This event aims to understand the ongoing fight until now that took place in the social media, also the daily life. The debate about the education curriculum content after the change of past regime and the important question of the fight why the portrait of the Creation of Adam "Michael [...]

a21, BAAB Collective, curriculum, Festival Cosa Sarà, lecture, post-digital ignorance, Revolution, Sudan, techno utopia

April 7, 2021 15:00 p.m.

a'21: The Intermingled_BAAB Collective

The name of the exhibition is pointing over a huge success of the sit-in space during the Sudan revolution that people come together which never happened in the history of (what's call Sudan) and which shows a victory against the plan of colonialism and the post colonialism operation that's mean to suppress the unity of [...]

a21, Festival Cosa Sarà, panel discussion, post-digital ignorance, Revolution, Sudan, techno utopia

April 7, 2021 18:00 p.m.

a'21: Motavali 2 | Media Performances_New Media Society

►a'21: Motavali 2 | Media Performances_New Media Society :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Motavali 2 (Continuous in Persian) brings together performative positions across different disciplines: lecture performance to Multimedia Installations. Projects which are being made, being revised, or tested; while most of our interactions and urgent matters in life are happening “online”. It's inevitable [...]

a21, Festival Cosa Sarà, installation, Iran, new media, panel discussion, Performance, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

April 8, 2021 14:00 p.m.

a'21: The new liberalism crises and the emergence of mediatised subjectivity_BAAB Collective

►a'21: The new liberalism crises and the emergence of mediatised subjectivity_BAAB Collective During in the last past decade Sudanese get harm by the US sanctions that affect the whole state and now we are shifting to neoliberal state supporting by US politics and come the question how the new system work and exactly when come [...]

a21, BAAB Collective, Festival Cosa Sarà, political action, post-digital ignorance, Revolution, Sudan, techno utopia

April 8, 2021 18:00 p.m.

EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL

[English below] EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL - ON THE TRACKS OF EMBODIMENT MEMORIES ♦ ️ ♦ ️ ♦ ️ Embodied Arts Festival Guide ♦ ️ ♦ ️ ♦ ️ What do our bodies embody? What memories can our bodies tell us? - about ourselves, our past and our future? We invite you to pursue these and many other questions artistically with us during the EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. We [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, Performance

April 8, 2021 18:00 p.m.

Opening Ceremony | Embodied Arts Festival

It is within the intersections of body memory and history that our bodies are potentially at their most revealing. Memories interrupt history and open up another possibility of embodied living, one that spatialises time and temporalises space. Hence, treating the body as memory and discussing the role of the body in witnessing authoritarian capitalism, memorializing [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 8, 2021 19:00 p.m.

The Geography of Hate | Performance & Exhibition Walk-Through

Hate is an entity that spreads like a wildfire. An entity that creates "the Other". It becomes the prime lens through which the other is read and dehumanized. Hate exists as an emotion that brings communities or groups together questioning expressions such as empathy, love and care. In the collective act of the world making [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, The Geography of Hate

April 9, 2021 12:00 p.m.

Black post box

[German below] Co-curators of the BLACK POST BOX, Gugulethu Duma and Dylan Greene, explore racial and cultural melancholy by centralizing the work of Saidiyah Hartman who asks, "... what if depression could be traced to histories of colonialism, genocide , slavery, exclusion, everyday segregation, and isolation that haunt all of our lives, rather than to biochemical imbalances? [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 9, 2021 19:00 p.m.

Ascension - Intimate Bodies Forbidden Stories

Ascension is a theater play - an outcome of a durational project about gender, femininity and menstruation. The project engaged participants with a community debate in order to reflect on gender equality and social change. The project explored menstruation, taboos, and identity from all potential directions such as historical, political, embodied, cultural, religious, social, health, [...]

Ascension, Embodied Arts Festival

April 9, 2021 21:00 p.m.

The Body Undone Film Screening: “Nakorn Sawan”

The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a program of film screenings and discussions organized by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, The body undone

April 10, 2021 16:00 p.m.

The Body Undone Film Screening: "Birha"

The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a program of film screenings and discussions organized by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, The body undone

April 10, 2021 18:00 p.m.

a'21: How to build a world. (Storytelling in digital environments) _ADEF

►a'21: How to build a world. (Storytelling in digital environments) _ADEF The Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF), through its core team and rich web of affiliates, creates and documents models of collaboration to design activities and projects which build on technology in order to develop self-expression, knowledge dissemination and production of thought. In its new iterations, [...]

3D MODELING, a21, creative coding, CREATIVE CODING, Festival Cosa Sarà, post-digital ignorance, storytelling, techno utopia, workshop, WORLD BUILDING

April 10, 2021 19:00 p.m.

Ilk عِلْق - (Per) forming a Queer Arab Muslim Futuristic Vision

Ahmad Baba (Cyclomorphosis), is a Berlin-based Lebanese multidisciplinary performer, a social artist, and a Master's student in Dance Movement Therapy. With Ilk عِلْق, Ahmad is investigating queerness from a queer Arab perspective, tracking the roots of queer lives lived in Arabic and Muslim societies going back centuries. It is an investigation into how queerness has become, [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 11, 2021 14:00 p.m.

a'21: Underground women_BAAB Collective

► a'21: Underground women_BAAB Collective This Exhibition is a discussion panel. This event explains how women suffer and gives information about the manipulation of the system to get the information about women health and sexuality and how that affect them by exposing them to the major risk behavior and conciseness and how this lead to [...]

a21, BAAB Collective, Festival Cosa Sarà, health and sexuality, post-digital ignorance, Revolution, Sudan, techno utopias

April 11, 2021 16:00 p.m.

The Body Undone Q&A – “Nakorn-Sawan” & “Birha”

The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a program of film screenings and discussions organized by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, The body undone

April 11, 2021 19:00 p.m.

Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real (ese) Ceremony

[German below] The Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real (ese) Ceremony is a procession concluding and honoring the six-week-long, intercultural healing incubator curated and facilitated by cultural researcher, future-folk musician and life-long psycho-spiritual student, Gugulethu 'Dumama' Duma. The five participants identify as part of the BIPOC diaspora in Berlin: KooCha, Indrani Ashe, Yin Cheng-Kokott, Sailesh Naidu [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 12, 2021 14:00 p.m.

The Body Undone Film Screening: “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open”

The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a program of film screenings and discussions organized by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, The body undone

April 12, 2021 15:00 p.m.

a'21: Sudavision_BAAB Collective

► a'21: Sudavision_BAAB Collective This events aims to show how Sudanese men suffer to express gender equality and freedom of expression against class and race. It shows us who we are and presents our self to the other by using recycling materials. It is our way to point out claimant change in the global south. [...]

a21, exhibition, fashion, Festival Cosa Sarà, post-digital ignorance, Revolution, Sudan, techno utopia

April 12, 2021 18:00 p.m.

a'21: Alec Issigonis's Relief and Mural Performance_Darağaç

►a'21: Alec Issigonis's Relief and Mural Performance_Darağaç Audience will be able to see how a public artwork is being produced in the collective. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: This is a live broadcasting event. Illustrator Suat İlyus wants to transform the outer facade of a building in the neighborhood. Artist Ali Kanal wants to place the [...]

a21, daragac, Festival Cosa Sarà, Mural, Performance, post-digital ignorance, sculpture, techno utopia, Turkey

April 12, 2021 18:00 p.m.

Decolonial Contemporary African Diasporic Visions | Exocé Kasongo at May-Ayim-Ufer

The multidisciplinary afrocentric artist Exocé Kasongo will walk the ground at May-Ayim-Ufer in Berlin-Kreuzberg, he will move, dance, act, read and sing. He will wear clothes created by Souleyman, which feature the fabrics visualizing Exocé's collage work. The performance is the culmination of Exocé's five-month project DCADV (Decolonial Contemporary African Diasporic Visions), a search for [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 13, 2021 13:00 p.m.

a'21: Becoming With Fungi_Mary Maggic

►a'21: Becoming With Fungi_Mary Maggic A bio art workshop with Mary Maggic. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Human industrial activity (petrochemical, agricultural, and pharmaceutical) has permanently altered the planet through the widespread presence of xenoestrogens, or endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). Molecules such as BPA, phthalates, PCBs, dioxins, and synthetic hormones have hormone-mimicking and displacing [...]

a21, Organic art, bioart, DIY hormones, Estrofemlab, Estroworld, Festival Cosa Sarà, molecular colonization, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia, workshop

April 13, 2021 16:00 p.m.

a'21: Can wonders lead to other synergies? _amberPlatform

The workshop focuses on the aesthetics of the cumulative nature of information that is unlearned and relearned in a holistic, experience-oriented, democratic and de-colonialist manner, in which the practice travels around the theory and the mainstream meanings attached are questioned. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: How can we shift from post-digital ignorance to post-digital [...]

a21, design, Festival Cosa Sarà, misinformation, post-digital ignorance, speculation, speculative design, techno utopia, workshop

April 13, 2021 19:00 p.m.

The Body Undone Q&A – “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open”

The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a program of film screenings and discussions organized by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, The body undone

April 14, 2021 14:00 p.m.

The Body Undone Film Screening – “Debut”

The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a program of film screenings and discussions organized by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, The body undone

April 14, 2021 19:30 p.m.

Who will we be when you stop telling us? - A performance evening with Cornelia and Kerim Melik Becker

A performance evening with Cornelia and Kerim Melik Becker After two weeks of residency at Oyoun, Cornelia and Kerim Becker go on stage - reading, singing, moving and playing - and embody their questions and sought-after answers with lyrical and musical language. “A loved one dies. How do his next of kin - life companion and [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, Who will we be

April 15, 2021 16:00 p.m.

a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces-I “Surplus of Destruction”

► a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces-I “Surplus of Destruction” :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: Our workshop -in three parts- implicates complex cartographies of images of forced displacement and war circulating in the digital sphere. We are particularly interested in discussing the social, material, cultural, and political dimensions of digital media infrastructures and threshold infrastructures [...]

a21, counterForensics, Decolonization, panel discussion, post-digital ignorance, research, techno utopia, video lesson

April 15, 2021 20:00 p.m.

Black Trans Futures | go find me

A talk with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Ebun Sodipo dedicated to giving Black Trans people a space to speculate on their present allowing thought of how a Black Trans future could come from the space we are in now. Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a London- and Berlin-based Black trans artist, game developer and mother. Through video games [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 16, 2021 16:00 p.m.

a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces-II Migrating images

►a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces-II Migrating images :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: After several years spent on the global agenda with its normalized images of misery circulating both in mainstream and alternative channels, in September 2020 the infamous Moria camp was burned to the ground as a result of a riot. Perhaps this [...]

a21, counterForensics, Decolonization, panel discussion, post-digital ignorance, research, techno utopia, video lesson

April 16, 2021 16:30 p.m.

a'21: Inaccessible Present 4.0 _New Media Society

►a'21: Inaccessible Present 4.0 _New Media Society Audience will be able to see how a public artwork is being produced in the collective. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: The seemingly irreversible changes which have occurred since the emergence of the pandemic also manifest themselves via dramatic transformations: a highly polarized and stigmatised ONLINE version [...]

a21, exhibition, Festival Cosa Sarà, Iran, New Media Society, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

April 16, 2021 19:00 p.m.

Taking Root in the Flesh - An Evening of Dialogical Exploration and Performance

Part 1: Dialogical Exploration A discussion with Thokozani Heidi Sincuba, Jessica Korp, and Gugulethu 'Dumama' Duma - interpreting the work of Zora Neale Hurston today, from South African, Ethiopian-German, Moroccan and diasporic perspectives. The first part of the evening will be a discursive exploration where we will listen and learn from one another's [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 17, 2021 13:00 p.m.

Hate, the Ultimate Form of Violence Against the Other?

We invite you to join this panel discussion organized by Artist-Activist Sujatro Ghosh. While opening up the discourses on hate, violence, propaganda, fascism and segregation, we will revisit the curatorial intentions of his project Geography of Hate as well as the artistic contexts of the different performances presented in the exhibition. Geography of Hate questions [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 17, 2021 16:00 p.m.

a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces III Border Infrastructures and Forensics

►a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces-III :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, carrying out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence. In this workshop, FA researcher Stefanos Levidis wants to discuss [...]

a21, Festival Cosa Sarà, Forensic Architecture, panel discussion, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

April 17, 2021 16:00 p.m.

Untangling the Mirage - Forms of Queerness and Resistance

A conversation along with screenings of “Mirage” and “Untangle” by Avril Stormy Unger How do constructs of time and space shape an artistic expression that traverses several disciplines and socio-cultural contexts? How do we look at interdisciplinarity as a form of queer articulation? How do sexuality and queerness build a dialogue with the public space? [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 17, 2021 16:00 p.m.

The Body Undone Film Screening: “Let My Body Speak”, “No Crying at the Dinner Table” & “Kaala”

The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a program of film screenings and discussions organized by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, The body undone

April 17, 2021 18:00 p.m.

BLACK AS I AM QUEER AS I AM BLACK: A Black Queer Poetics reading session

A journey into black queer poetics through the music, poetry and performance works of self-identified black and queer artists from around the world. Kopano Maroga and Maneo Mohale are two black queer cuties who have some questions about what constitutes so called blackness and so called queerness in the realm of poetics. How does identity [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 17, 2021 19:00 p.m.

a'21: A Passion for Ignorance

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Ignorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the constant flood of information and misinformation. It sometimes seems impossible to differentiate between [...]

BAAB Collective, decolonizing technology, ignoring, techno utopia

April 18, 2021 16:00 p.m.

The Body Undone Q&A – “Let My Body Speak” & “No Crying at the Dinner Table”

The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a program of film screenings and discussions organized by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]

Embodied Arts Festival, The body undone

April 18, 2021 18:00 p.m.

THE BODY IS: A MAP, A CAGE, A KEY: Embodied practice as research methodologies

Join us for some embodied reflections during the last event of Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL before the closing ceremony: A panel discussion about embodied and body-based practice as a generative tool for excavation and research and its potential pitfalls of reductionism and the re-application of oppressive body politics. Moderated by Kopano Maroga. Through the diverse [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 18, 2021 19:00 p.m.

a'21: Safety From Artificial Intelligence_amberPlatform

►a'21: Safety From Artificial Intelligence_amberPlatform How can we protect ourselves from this surveillance? What kind of application is artificial intelligence used in social issues? How much can we trust artificial intelligence? Can we fool him? :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / TR) :: Besides the positive aspects of artificial intelligence technology, which has entered almost every area [...]

a21, adversarial Attacks, artificial intelligence, ethicalAi, lecture, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia

April 18, 2021 20:00 p.m.

Closing Ceremony | Embodied Arts Festival

It is within the intersections of body memory and history that our bodies are potentially at their most revealing. Memories interrupt history and open up another possibility of embodied living, one that spatialises time and temporalises space. Hence, treating the body as memory and discussing the role of the body in witnessing authoritarian capitalism, memorializing [...]

Embodied Arts Festival

April 19, 2021 14:00 p.m.

a'21: Absorbing Ignorance: Experiential Illusions_amberPlatform

►a'21: Absorbing Ignorance: Experiential Illusions_amberPlatform While chronologically reviewing the relationship of the moving image with the observer and the way cinematic editing manages mass perception as an art of creating reality, we will examine the concept of Immersion as the purpose of breaking away from existence. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: But man is [...]

a21, Festival Cosa Sarà, new media, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia, video lesson, VR

April 20, 2021 17:00 p.m.

a'21: How Do I Know What I Know? _amberPlatform

►a'21: How Do I Know What I Know? _Amber Platform The workshop focuses on the aesthetics of the cumulative nature of information that is unlearned and relearned in a holistic, experience-oriented, democratic and de-colonialist manner, in which the practice travels around the theory and the mainstream meanings attached are questioned. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: A [...]

a21, earbyear, Festival Cosa Sarà, speculation, post-digital ignorance, speculation, speculative design, techno utopia, unverified information, workshop

April 21, 2021

The new Lucy-Lameck-Straße - renaming and supporting program

The official renaming of the former Wissmannstraße will take place on April 23, 2021. The right time to get to know the new namesake Lucy Lameck and her time better. How were the early years of independent Tanzania shaped? How did Lucy Lameck become the first woman in the Tanzanian parliament? Why was Pan-Africanism so important? What is the Ujamaa idea? What did Lucy Lameck accomplish back then and why is her work still important today?

Lucy Lameck Street, Roads renaming

April 25, 2021 14:00 p.m.

► a'21: Ideas & Methodologies for a collaboratively curated network festival

:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: The critics, ideas and methodologies for a truly distributed, collectively curated, international, intercultural, multi lingual network festival. ► Click "going" in facebook to stay up to date. ► Join the event through vimeo. :: LINKS :: ►Amirali Ghazemi ►Youssef El-idrisi ►Rajaa Ahaman ►Hamza Shamas ►Ebru Yetiskin ►Mohsen Hazrati ►Cenkhan [...]

a21, Collective, curation, decolonialist, distributed, networked, workshop

May 7, 2021 14:00

a'21: Exchanges Through The Silk Road_DAHproject

► a'21: Exchanges Through The Silk Road_DAHproject :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: Living in the Middle East region and some parts around it can feel as if you're being held in a euphoric state in a moment, just as it can feel as you're left floating in some kind of vacuum in another. the [...]

a21, exhibition, Festival Cosa Sarà, post-digital ignorance, SWANA, techno utopia

May 7, 2021 19:00

a'21: Bait15 and UAE art scene_DAHproject

► a'21: Bait15 and UAE art scene_DAHproject :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN / AR) :: BAIT 15 is an artist-run studio and exhibition space located in a residential neighborhood of downtown Abu Dhabi founded in late 2017 by Afra Al Dhaheri , Hashel Al Lamki, and Maitha Abdalla. The villa housing BAIT includes; studios, one for each of [...]

a21, DAH Project, Digital art, Festival Cosa Sarà, Iran, Middle East, net art, post-digital ignorance, techno utopia, UAE

May 12, 2021 19:00

Gen Z Dialogues - an online exploration of vulnerability and collaboration

Gen Z is coming of age in a time of sociopolitical and ecological crises, gathered in online spaces that leave many overwhelmed and paralyzed. Our exposure to crowded social media platforms causes, more often than not, disengagement and news-fatigue, paired with insecurities around self-image. Which story does Gen Z tell together? How do they navigate [...]

Gen Z, Naomi Hattler

June 11, 2021 12:00

EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES EXHIBITION

EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES - On the trail of embodied memories What do our bodies embody? What memories can our bodies tell us? - about ourselves, our past and our future? Curators, artists and cultural workers deal with identities, belonging and embodied memories from diasporic, decolonial and queer perspectives. A research, archiving, exhibition and performance project in which [...]

Embodied temporalities

June 19, 2021 12:00

Lucy Lameck x Sonic In (ter) ventions

Replacing monuments and renaming streets is an emancipatory and liberatory act of our time. Lucy Lameck x Sonic In (ter) ventions is a global amplification act and artistic witness for Berlin's historic street renaming: "Wissmannstraße" turned "Lucy-Lameck Straße". At the intersection of art, music, and healing justice, Out of Time Embassy (OOTE) produces their first public project [...]

Lucy Lameck, Out of time embassy

June 26, 2021 17:30

Sonic In (ter) ventions | Out of Time Embassy

Sonic In (ter) ventions is a jam session. As cultural workers responding to the times with community building, Out of Time Embassy (OOTE) consciously meld together sound and healing to form sessions of high-energy improvisation. Spaces are reimagined as interactive meditation sites for historical excavation, archival protest, and creative processing. Open and free artistic expressions are cultivated [...]

kechou, Kerim Melik Becker aka Kechou

June 29, 2021 16:00

Exilio, migración y memoria. | Exile, Migration and Remembrance.

Exilio, migración y memoria. ¿Tienes algún familiar alemán antifascista que se exilió a Latinoamérica entre 1933 y 1945? ¿Volviste a las raíces? ¿Con qué teounterste cuando regresaste a lo que fue tu pais de origen? Como parte del proyecto “Now Time - Memories of Migration” se realizará unos encuentros de familiares de exiliados que en la [...]

Exile, Latin America, Migration

July 10, 2021

Brown Skin Mermaids

On Saturday, July 10th, 2021 Brown Skin Mermaids will be drawn to the capital again! 🚀🎈🧸📚 An empowering afternoon awaits black girls between the ages of 5 and 10 in the Oyoun cultural center. For details and registration write an email to: mermaid@brownskinmermaids.de and secure a limited place. --- On Saturday, July 10th Brown Skin [...]

July 22, 2021 19:00

* Sold out * Reading with Şeyda Kurt: Radical tenderness - Why love is political

Radical tenderness - Why love is political was published on April 20, 2021 by HarperCollins Germany. What is love? Is love the meaning of life, a political alliance, an illusion or an end in itself? Or is it even impossible because we are completely crushed between fears about the future, excessive demands and discriminatory structures? The author Şeyda Kurt answers these questions [...]

of Love, Radical tenderness, Sheyda Kurt

July 31, 2021 17:30

Sonic In (ter) ventions | Out of Time Embassy

Sonic In (ter) ventions is a jam session. As cultural workers responding to the times with community building, Out of Time Embassy (OOTE) consciously meld together sound and healing to form sessions of high-energy improvisation. Spaces are reimagined as interactive meditation sites for historical excavation, archival protest, and creative processing. Open and free artistic expressions are cultivated [...]

kechou, Kerim Melik Becker aka Kechou

August 8, 2021

HARDLY Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival 2021

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare to [...]

Film festival, Performance festival

8 August 2021 14:00

THE CREAMY KIKI BALL

Eros Marciano presents: THE CREAMY KIKI BALL It's a quite spontaneous event, so the theme is something easy! You can choose between the colors: brown, beige and white. You can decide whether you want to mix all three, just two or go with just one color. Shoes and accessories don't count. All categories will be [...]

ball, dance, Music

17 August 2021 13:00

DARE TO BE EAST | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Movie, Hardly any festival, soy division

17 August 2021 18:00

OPENING CEREMONY | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Movie, Hardly any festival, Performance, soy division

17 August 2021 18:00

CAN YOU HELP ME FIND… AROUND HERE? | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Hardly any festival

18 August 2021 15:00

DARE TO BE ONESELF | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Movie, Hardly any festival, soy division

18 August 2021 17:00

DARE TO BE EQUAL | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Hardly any festival

18 August 2021 20:00

OUT ON THE TOWN | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Hardly any festival, Performance

19 August 2021 15:00

DARE TO BE CONSCIOUS | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Hardly any festival, soy division

19 August 2021 20:00

AFTER CARGO AND MALARIA | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Hardly any festival

20 August 2021 15:00

DARE TO BE DIFFERENT | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Movie, Hardly any festival, soy division

20 August 2021 16:30

BlackinTech Berlin - Summer Meet & Greet

We are really excited to invite you to our first summer social event after being apart for a while. Join in and let's celebrate together. We are really excited to invite you to our first summer social event after being apart for more than a year and a half due to the corona pandemic. The [...]

BlackinTech Berlin

20 August 2021 19:15

ARTIST TALK WITH RATU R SARASWATI | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Hardly any festival

20 August 2021 19:30

Theater project Check! presents: “A future with a future!”

We invite you to the premiere of the play from the children's and youth theater project Check! A future with a future! Doesn't everyone wish that? Check! What is a girl, what is a boy, and what am I? The children's world does not turn pink or blue. It is the colors of the self-image, the development and interests [...]

20 August 2021 20:30

THE HACKER | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Hardly any festival, soy division

21 August 2021 17:00

THE SCIENCE OF FICTION | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Film festival, Hardly any festival, Performance festival, soy division

21 August 2021 19:30

CLOSING + AFTERPARTY | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Hardly any festival, soy division

21 August 2021 20:00

AYUNA TRIED TO LIGHT THE VOID | HARD - Indonesian Alternative Film & Performance Festival

The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organized by the Soydivision collective aims to raise underrepresented voices in the Indonesian society on issues related to the environment, the Chinese-Indonesian society, East Indonesia, Feminism, and LGBTQ +. These different topics translate into the categories of the festival: dare to be conscious, dare to be different, dare [...]

Hardly any festival, Performance festival, soy division

29 August 2021 18:00

TBRS x HAVEN

Connecting artist and audience using intimate live sets through, Hip Hop, RnB, Soul, Afro Beats, Dancehall Reggae and more. Get your tickets here The Berlin Radio Show (TBRS) is a Berlin-based radio show centered around highlighting Hip Hop, RnB, Afrobeat, Reggae, Dancehall and Soul artists of the diaspora through conversations and discussions. The goal is [...]

HAVEN, The Berlin Radio Show

August 31, 2021

W / O Additives - Music Exhibition

▸ About the Music Exhibition: This is Mariam's & Miriam's pilot project at Oyoun, with illustrations and music of BIPoc artist. 'w / o additives' is a music project, dedicated to BIPoC musicians from the past and present. These musicians changed the way we listen to music without us even knowing, let alone recognize. The project is [...]

September 3, 2021 20:00 AM

Compañía de teatro Raíces presents: MARTA

MARTA, open-air theater piece through the body and the biography 3rd, 4th + 5th September in German Fear is over We are fighting for our bodies to be respected. We came to set boundaries, to stand up to the gaze. We have awakened from within, we have extended our claws and are resisting. [...]

AQUItheater Berlin, Lorena Valdenegro

4.September 2021

Manuscripts of Foreign Body (s): Foreign intimacies Workshops Weekend

Manuscripts of Foreign Body (s), is a critical visual collective workshops-based project, by Ahmad Baba and Michalina Mrozek, proposing the approach of, TLGBQIA + bodies of color, as manuscripts of duality; being sites of oppressions as well as sites of resilience. The project will be developed, through organizing critical collective practices, in two days of intensive workshops, "Foreign [...]

Ahmad Baba, QTBIPOC

September 4, 2021 19:00 AM

Poetry Meets w / Yugen Blakrok - A Performance Vortex

Reserve your tickets here The Poetry Meets Series pres. lyrical rap prodigy Yugen Blakrok, Berlin's rising talent RCSE, poets Astan KA and Hiwot. Plus a surprise act! The Poetry Meets Series presents South African Headliner lyrical rap prodigy Yugen Blakrok, Berlin's rising talent RCSE, poets Astan KA, Hiwot AND one special kind surprise act. Nach [...]

Poetry meets

September 6, 2021 18:30 AM

“Muslimaniac. The career of an enemy «- author Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç in conversation with Alice Hasters - DJ Xanax Attax hangs up

The new book by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç will be published by Edition Körber on September 6th. In »Muslimaniac. The career of an enemy ”, the political scientist and racism researcher goes in search of“ Orientalika ”, this is what Keskinkılıç calls symbols, linguistic traces and objects that reflect the stubborn clichés of“ Orient ”and“ Occident ”. He links them with current developments and his own experiences [...]

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç

September 8, 2021 16:30 AM

For children: music workshop with Ezé

Ezé is there again and there is music again, laughing and jumping. Bring your children and let's go wild, you're all invited! // ABOUT EZÉ Ezés workshops can be carried out with different groups such as those from kindergartens, schools, companies, but also with adults without or with disabilities. In short: with people like you! In the workshops [...]

Kids Club, workshop

9.September 2021

THE PATH: A Participatory Public Art Project - Exhibition + Installation + Event Series

[German below] 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 [...]

Shehnaz Layıkel, The Path, Umut Azad Akkel

September 10, 2021 19:00 AM

W / O ADDITIVES X DECOLONOIZE present: Breezy / Naari / Oyèmi Noize

w / o additives' has set itself the task of creating spaces and visibility for BIPoC artists. On the exhibition evening, this will happen on three levels - on the one hand, there will be an exhibition that offers an insight into the musical socialization of the founder of 'w / o additives' based on her personal biography. On [...]

W / O ADDITIVES

September 12, 2021 16:00 AM

Artist Walk with Artistic Director and Co-Curator Umut Azad Akkel | THE PATH

Artistic director and co-curator of THE PATH, Umut Azad Akkel, will give a guided tour of the exhibiton at Oyoun and talk about the process of the project and the outcomes. After visiting the indoor exhibition, there will be a walk to the public installation in Tempelhofer Feld. The Artist Walk will take place at [...]

The Path, Umut Azad Akkel

September 15, 2021 18:00 AM

Creating Space in Urban Environment and Exploring Possibilities | THE PATH

Panel with Şehnaz Layıkel, Patrizia Bach & Ina Weber Public space is sometimes an inspiration for art and sometimes a container. It shapes, carries and exhibits art in different forms and at different locations. For the spectator, it may be an unexpected or a planned encounter. In this panel discussion, the relationship between art and [...]

September 16, 2021 18:00 AM

MARGIN - Raise Them

An event series from us for us. Margin is a beneficial community event, supporting different fundraisers each time, hosted by the Soul Sauna Symposium. A collective that is all about Black and Queer Unity. On the 16.9 the second edition will take place in OYOUN! Doors will open at 6 pm. This time we want [...]

September 17, 2021 18:00 AM

Film Screening: 95cm: Mega City's Mini Citizens | THE PATH

The award winning film, 95cm: Mega City's Mini Citizens by Ayşe Adanalı, Yaşar Adnan Adanalı & Gizem Pilavcı, aims to collect, produce and disseminate visual materials, including production of a documentary film, to advocate well-being of young children in rapidly transforming , mega cities around the world, such as Istanbul. Don't miss this powerful film! Doors [...]

Ayse Adanali, Gizem Pilavcı, The Path, Yasar Adnan Adanali

September 18, 2021 14:00 AM

Brown Sugar Black Tea Party (Vintage Edition)

Get your tickets here. This is event is an inclusive high society, themed, tea party for BIPoC to subconsciously cater to their mental health and wellbeing. Bringing people together in the right space for not only great tea, fun and entertainment but peace of mind. Formal Vintage attire (the 60s-70s era preferred, Think the Supremes, [...]

September 18, 2021 18:30 AM

Panel Talk: The Push And Pull Between The Metropolis And Their Inhabitants | THE PATH

Panel Talk: with Yelta Köm (moderator), Asli Duru, Banu Çiçek Tülü, Yaşar Adnan Adanalı Moods of Living | Experiences, Challenges, Hopes This panel discussion will discuss moods of living, engaging the body and emotions, visual and sensual, urban and beyond. With a special focus on collectivity, urban experience, and inhabitants, the panel offers several contributions [...]

Asli Duru, Banu Çiçek Tülü, The Path, Yasar Adnan Adanali, Yelta Com

September 22, 2021 19:00 AM

Panel Talk: Are We Really the "New Wave": Immigration Between Berlin and Istanbul | THE PATH

Panel Talk with Ingo Arend (moderator), Banu Karaca, Verena Niepe, Persefoni Myrtsou Based on the recent immigration of cultural workers and queer people from Turkey to Berlin, in this panel talk, we want to reflect on the reasons and perspectives of this increasingly frequent change of location. In addition, we will focus on the connection [...]

September 24, 2021 17:30 AM

Black & Brown Cabaret Dinner Show

We are excited to invite you to celebrate Queerness, Femininity, Color, and Bodies. Welcome to the Black & Brown Cabaret Show 2021 by Prince Emrah & Queerberg. On 24 September, we want to honor the thriving culture of BIPOC immigrant, refugee bodies of all shapes and sizes with a modern fusion of cabaret & burlesque [...]

BIPoC, Prince Emrah, Queerberg

September 24, 2021 18:30 AM

Film Screening and Artist Talk: 'Rantİstanbul' – 'Surplus of Istanbul' | THE PATH

Film screening and artist talk: "Rantİstanbul" - "Surplus of Istanbul" by Ömer Şamlı, Devrim Çetinkayalı and Alper Şen // Doors Open 18:30 // Event Start 19:00 Book your free ticket here *** Istanbul has expanded its borders and created new living spaces and suburbs according to the rules of neoliberal capital. In the name of [...]

Alper Sen, Devrim Çetinkayali, Omer Samli, The Path

September 24, 2021 21:30 AM

DJ performance: Mobilegirl | THE PATH

As a DJ, Mobilegirl (IG: @mobilegirl) is versatile but thoughtful in her selection - her style behind the decks is focused on creating a highly energetic dance floor that allows for emotionality, for softer moments but also attention-demanding breaks and shifts; an equally fun and challenging combination that gained her traction very early on in [...]

Mobile girl, The Path

September 25, 2021 11:00 AM

Queer Ping Pong III

"Queer Ping Pong III" DJ-SETS by: - DJ Thundy - Femalemacho - DJ Ipek - DJ Yes Torty The number of players is limited. Please register via *queerpingpong@gmail.com* if you want to take part in the ping pong tournament. All others do not need to register. Hand to the ladle and on your heart: ping pong or table tennis is a [...]

September 25, 2021 16:00 AM

Performance: Mapping stories by Autoplot collective | THE PATH

You are invited to take part in an interactive audiowalk by the Autoplot collective. Their project "Mapping stories" are about a playful and accessible installation, a kind of course that deals with questions of identity and its circumstances and tries to make them tangible for as many participants as possible. The focus of the concept [...]

autoplot, The Path

September 26, 2021 18:30 AM

Ebow Concert | THE PATH

As part of The Path's program, the rapper Ebow (@ ebow.mp3) will present a special performance of her tracks at the installation site at Tempelhofer Feld. We are looking forward to seeing you! // Event Start 18:30 Register for your free ticket to take part here About Ebow: Solo, but also as a member of [...]

e bow, The Path

October 1, 2021 20:00 am

ctrl.xx.tension

𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐍𝐀𝐌 𝐩𝐫ä𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 "𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐥.𝐱𝐱.𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧" 𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐀𝐦𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐏𝐨𝐂 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐧 * 𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧. 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐩𝐇𝐨𝐩, 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨 & 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜. DE: 𝐃𝐚𝐬 𝟕𝟓-𝐦𝐢𝐧ü𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐧𝐢𝐬 "𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐥.𝐱𝐱.𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧", 𝐠𝐞𝐟ö𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐯𝐨𝐦 "𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭 𝐟ü𝐫 𝐊𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐚", 𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐳𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐦 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐩-𝐈𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐩𝐫ä𝐠𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐝, 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, [...]

October 3, 2021 17:00 am

ALL EYES ON US

For this year's Tag der Clubkultur La By'le has curated an event called ALL EYES ON US (Discussion & Performances Centering Queer Artists in Berlin's Hip Hop Club Scene) to highlight the contribution of QTIBIPOC artists in Berlin's hip hop scene and encourage the integration and maintenance of safer spaces for queer identities in hip [...]

October 7, 2021 17:00 am

LOOK AT ME: Syria in photography and narration - vernissage and discussion

Vernissage and panel discussion with Syrian photo artists: Guevara Namer (moderator / curator of the exhibition and photographer), Mohammed Badra (panelist / photographer), Ameer Alhalbi (panelist / photographer), Mohammed Abdullah (panelist / photographer) The Syrian uprising and the one that followed War is perhaps one of the best-documented visual events in modern history. There are harrowing images that are burned into people's psyche. That [...]

exhibition, Photography

October 8, 2021 10:00 am

LOOK AT ME: Syria in Photography and in Narration - Photo Exhibition

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 [...]

Photo exhibition, Guevara Namer

October 8, 2021 16:30 am

Finissage + Sound Performance with Merey Şenocak and Steve Schofield | THE PATH

On 8th October, we will celebrate the Finissage of THE PATH on the Tempelhofer Feld around the installation with a joint picnic with all participants. The artists of the Open Call - the singer Mizgina Rengin and the performer Xueqing Yu, Aina Plans, Elisa Kostka and Johanna Schmalöer will also show their performances there. // [...]

Shehnaz Layıkel, The Path, Umut Azad Akkel

October 8, 2021 19:00 am

بتحصل - betahssul - it happens

On October 8, Zeyo - rapper, film maker, music producer and activist - will be premiering his debut album, highlighting the social and political climate in Sudan, the sound of resistance and the opposition against the Janjaweed. The government-backed militiamen gained notoriety through the brutal killing of civilians and protesters during the peaceful revolution in [...]

Zeyo

October 9, 2021 16:30 am

Dark Ocean & Agnicion, two performances between death and love

Two invitations to feel, to explore atmospheres and to connect with your own stories: Where does death live? Where the love? What happens to our bodies? → October 9th 1st performance: Admission: 16:30 pm // Start: 17:00 pm 2nd performance: Admission: 19:30 pm // Start: 20:00 pm → Admission from 10 years of age → Free registration via Eventbrite required [.. .]

Catalina Tello, dance, Lorena Valdenegro, Performance

October 10, 2021 18:00 am

بتحصل - it happens (Betahssul) / Panel discussion

The panel discussion organized by the Sudanese rapper and activist Zeyo will happen on Oct 10 at Oyoun in the realm of the project Betahssul. The discussion will be moderated by the political activist Shadia Abdel-Moneim and the visual artist and activist Eythar Gubara and the writer and filmmaker Ibrahim Aljrefawi, alongside Zeyo. Four speakers [...]

October 12, 2021 18:00 am

LOOK AT ME: Syria between war and peace - panel discussion

Panel discussion with Dr. Dörthe Engelcke (moderator), Dr. André Bank (panelist), Dr. Andreas Reinicke Ambassador retired (panelist) and Ferdinand Dürr (panelist). Note: The event takes place in German.

panel

October 15, 2021 18:00 am

'Love Songs For Revolution' - Performance by Cammack Lindsey | THE PATH

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 [...]

October 17, 2021 14:30 am

THE SUPER SMASH KIKI BALL by Eros Marciano

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 - [...]

ballroom, Eros Marciano, voguingberlin

October 21, 2021 16:00 am

Soura Film Festival

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 [...]

Film festival, Soura Film Festival

October 21, 2021 16:00 am

BACKBONE - سند الظهر - Vernissage

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 [. ..]

October 22, 2021

Backbone - سند الظهر - Exhibition

"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 [...]

Mazen Khaddaj

October 22, 2021 20:00 am

Literary Diverse # 4 - Release Party

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 [...]

October 23, 2021 14:00 am

Empowerment for holistic health

"Accompanying, supporting and strengthening people on their way is a need for me and I see it as my natural task. As a holistic Ayurveda coach / healer, you, as an individual, are the focus of everything that your system (= body / Spirit / soul / emotions). You are the expert in your system and I empower you to find your inner strength to help you [...]

October 23, 2021 19:00 am

Short Documentary Screening: “The Bleaching Syndrome” with panel discussion

With the offline and online information and event series "Mind your privilege", 14,4km aims to reflect on the role of post colonial structures in four cultural domains: films, literature, public places and music. In the frame of this project 14,4km will screen the short documentary "The Bleaching Syndrome" from Eiman Mirghani. Synopsis The filmmaker, Eiman [...]

October 25, 2021 19:00 am

Reading Group: Black Feminism (s) x Palestine

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 [...]

Izdihar Afyouni, Melissande Varin

October 28, 2021 18:30 am

“Hope” – reading and conversation with Nermin Ismail

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 [...]

October 29, 2021 17:00 am

Bizarre Music Festival

"In light of the heavy restrictions the cultural sector has experienced due to the Covid 19 pandemic and the political response to it, playing in front of people again feels many kinds of strange by now. As artists we get a lot of from these exchanges, at the same time we also give much of [...]

kechou, Kerim Melik Becker aka Kechou

October 30, 2021 18:00 am

The Berlin Radio Show presents HAVEN: 90s Pop of Culture

TBRS presents HAVEN: 90s Pop of Culture Halloween Special >> Live performance showcase and music! Hip Hop, RnB, Soul, Afrohouse, Afrobeats and so much more ... << This Halloween live and straight out of Oyoun, come dressed as your favorite 90s icon and watch the hottest live showcase your never thought you needed this Halloween weekend! Come [...]

HAVEN, The Berlin Radio Show

October 30, 2021 20:00 am

Queerberg Soli party - 3rd Anniversary with All Stars Refugee performers

Drag Cinderella Once upon a time, a couple of Queens arrived in Berlin and started a House. To be specific, in 2018, your fav QT * BIPOC refugee collective started to gather to bring some queer magic into the Berlin club scene. For our third anniversary, we have prepared a fairy tale show full of dance, drag [...]

House of Royals, Queer BIPOC refugee, Queer / drag, Queerberg Collective

November 4, 2021 19:00 AM

Climate (In) Justice - an anticolonial evening

What does anti-colonial resistance have to do with the climate crisis? What connects anti-racist struggles with the struggle against environmental and climate destruction? The BUNDjugend project Locals United invites you to an evening with spoken word, reading and music. Also there are poetry artist Sami El Poet, the authors of the brochure "Colonialism & Climate Crisis - Over 500 [...]

November 5, 2021 19:30 AM

عرض كوميدي مع علاء ابو دياب (برلين) - Arabic Standup Comedy - Alaa Abu Diab

"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 [...]

November 6, 2021 12:00 AM

Muse, Folded

Muse, Folded is a group exhibition of a collective experimental art project shared between seven artists. The title refers to the act of folding a letter in order to put it in an envelope but also refers to the expression of a business being closed down because of difficulties, in this case, the crisis that [...]

November 6, 2021 18:00 AM

Impressions / Impresiones - Exhibition

¿Dónde quedan grabadas nuestras impresiones? ¿Cuáles permanecen a través del tiempo y no son visibles? Intersecciones y capas de archivos migratorios y de exilio que revelan otras miradas sobre la cultura de la memoria alemana y otra forma de habitar nuestras impresiones. ¿Pero qué más nos dicen estas imágenes? ¿Qué esconden? ¿Quién hizo las photos? ¿Qué [...]

Ezequiel Monteros, Now time - life memories on migration, Sandra Feferbaum Siemsen

November 6, 2021 18:00 AM

Impressions / Impresiones - Vernissage

¿Dónde quedan grabadas nuestras impresiones? ¿Cuáles permanecen a través del tiempo y no son visibles? Intersecciones y capas de archivos migratorios y de exilio que revelan otras miradas sobre la cultura de la memoria alemana y otra forma de habitar nuestras impresiones. ¿Pero qué más nos dicen estas imágenes? ¿Qué esconden? ¿Quién hizo las photos? ¿Qué [...]

exhibition, Ezequiel Monteros, Now time - life memories on migration, Sandra Feferbaum Siemsen, Opening

November 10, 2021 19:30 AM

Sound Healing Sesh w / Shannon Sea: A Sonic Session to Cultivate Creativity and Imagination

We invite you to relax, re-center, and bathe in sound as composer and sound artist, Shannon Sea, performs a live-set that takes you on a sonic journey to help you manifest your creative intentions, surrender to imagination, and invite self -exploration. During the sound healing session, Sea's live-set performance will feature nature soundscapes, field recordings, electro-acoustic [...]

November 13, 2021 16:00 AM

Fourth wave film festival #niunamenos

(See German translation below) On November 13th the Vierte Welle Film Festival will introduce a new category: #niunamenos. The "Vierte Welle Film Festival" includes in its program audiovisual productions exclusively made by women of the so-called Fourth-wave feminism. The aim of the festival is to provide visibility for female artists and help to raise awareness [...]

#Not one less, Feminism, Fourth wave film festival

November 13, 2021 19:30 AM

Wokakuma Festival

On November 13.11th The 2021th edition of the Woka Kuma Festival on art and culture from Burkina Faso will take place in 7. → Admission: from 19.30 p.m. → Tickets: 15 € // Reduced *: 10 € >>> Link here * Trainees, schoolchildren, students, volunteers (FSJ, FÖJ, BFD), Berlin Pass holders are entitled to discounts (Beneficiaries of Hartz IV, social assistance, basic security or according to the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act). *** [...]

Rama N'goni, Wokakuma Festival

November 14, 2021 19:00 AM

Poetry Meets w / Caxxianne - Vortex Special III

The Poetry Meets Series presents poet, rapper and multidisciplinary artist Caxxianne, Danish-born Somali poet, visual artist and filmmaker Asmaa Jama, visualizing poetry artist Fungi and Mijikenda Kenyan poet Shangazi Masika. We are also looking forward to two short films that will be screened: "ADIKORO - Women in Music Ghana" by Pamela Owusu Ansah @its_pambam and [...]

November 19, 2021

The Squid Game Mini Ball by Eros Ebony

Eros Marciano Ebony (IG: jan.nwattu) presents: THE SQUID GAME MINI BALL. ➤ Doors open for participants: 16:00 p.m. Doors open for spectators: 16:30 p.m. ➤ Ball start: 18:30 p.m. ➤ Tickets: box office only (cash only). Participants - 5 € Spectators: QT * BIPOC - 10 € Other - 15 € *** Commentator: Ocean 007 Host: German Mother Ambrosia [...]

November 19, 2021 19:30 AM

Canceled: Frank's Wite Canvas in Concert - Opening Act: Mauricio Nader

***** The event was canceled due to health reasons of an artist. The event was canceled for health reasons by an artist. ***** The event start with the Chilean Bass Player Mauricio Nader, who will do a 20 minutes opening act with his solo project. He will perform 5 songs, and will be the [...]

November 26, 2021 18:00 AM

HAVEN - All You Can Bling Holiday Special by The Berlin Radio Show

HAVEN: All You Can Bling Holiday Special Live performance showcase and music! Hip Hop, RnB, Soul, Afrohouse, Afrobeats and so much more ... The holiday season is around the corner! To fully usher in the end of the year and the holiday season, come celebrate with The Berlin Radioshow one last time in 2021! All You [...]

HAVEN

November 27, 2021 11:00 AM

Frei (D) räume - Envisioning Free Space: Conference + Afterparty

◥ Come join us in Berlin on November 27th for a full day of workshops, lectures & performances! Are we really reflecting & adapting? Are our spaces and communities resilient enough for the next crises? The termination of our self-organized free spaces is accelerated. We remain unsupported and mostly unrecognized by local governments, even as [...]

Free dreams

December 1, 2021 16:30

Mince eV dance program

(English below) Until December 2021 there are dance courses for children and young people as well as the legendary freestyle session in our house every Wednesday (December 01.12st, December 8.12th and December 15.12th) from 16:30 p.m. to 23:30 p.m. as part of Mince eV instead of. Participation is free - but places are limited. Please register via ev.mince@gmail.com. IG: @ mince.ev *** ◥ Please [...]

December 2, 2021 17:30

Black in Berlin x Sboutiful

At the turn of the year 1794/95 the last slave ship “Sao Jose”, which was on its way to Brazil, sank with 512 black people at the gates of Cape Town. What does this story have to do with today's microaggression and black reality? "In memory of this story, today's reality of life for 512 black people in Berlin should visualize who we [...]

December 3, 2021 18:00

ESCAPISM - Vernissage

(German below) Affective Archives of Resistance- Enter now! With ESCAPISM, Oyoun opens a platform for an artistic and sociocritical experiment, connecting virtual and physical spaces. In an interactive exhibition at Oyoun Berlin from December 3 to 24, viewers can experience 4 hybrid game installations created by ESCAPISM artists: "tarare" by téa boyarchuk, "Thicker Than Blood [...]

Avita Maheen, escapism, Izdihar Afyouni, Sol Martinez-Solé, tea boyarchuk

December 3, 2021 20:00

Jews! Jews! Jews! Chanukkah special

Jews! Jews! Jews !, a minori-tease cabaret, is BACK with a star-studded lineup for your Hanukkah enjoyment! After a two year government-mandated ban on Hanukkah / Chanukkah / Chanukah, Jews! Jews! Jews! returns !! We know you've missed our applesauce antics and sour cream songs. So don't forego this latke-tunity to see this star-studded lineup of drag, burlesque, music, and cabaret [...]

December 4, 2021 12:00

ESCAPISM - Exhibition

(German below) Affective Archives of Resistance- Enter now! With ESCAPISM, Oyoun opens a platform for an artistic and sociocritical experiment, connecting virtual and physical spaces. In an interactive exhibition at Oyoun Berlin from December 3 to 24, viewers can experience 4 hybrid game installations created by ESCAPISM artists: "tarare" by téa boyarchuk, "Thicker Than Blood [...]

Avita Maheen, escapism, Izdihar Afyouni, Rachel Uwa, Sol Martinez-Solé, tea boyarchuk

December 4, 2021 18:00

ESCAPISM - LAUNCH PROGRAM

(German below) Affective Archives of Resistance- Enter now! With ESCAPISM, Oyoun opens a platform for an artistic and sociocritical experiment, connecting virtual and physical spaces. In an interactive exhibition at Oyoun Berlin from December 3 to 24, viewers can experience 4 hybrid game installations created by ESCAPISM artists: "tarare" by téa boyarchuk, "Thicker Than Blood [...]

Avita Maheen, escapism, Izdihar Afyouni, Sol Martinez-Solé, tea boyarchuk

December 7, 2021 20:00

Liquid Rituals - sustainable dance theater positions

"Your future is our now!" is a response of many climate activists of color to the predominately white fridays for future movement. In our work we want to explore aestehetic positions on sustainability from a diverse perspective. Our starting point is the daily use of water, it's meaning, importance, access and what it tells us [...]

December 9, 2021 20:00

Break & Connection

With a dance installation, “Break & Connection” opens up a space for pause and reflection, which, beyond post-colonial, western influences, opens up a different connection between the individual and himself and each other. “Break & Connection” picks up on the signs of the times and illuminates breakages and connections, breaks and new beginnings from different perspectives. The moment [...]

December 10, 2021 18:00

Manuscripts of Foreign Body (s) X MeeM عَ Podcast

Manuscripts of foreign body (s) visual screening panel event, taking forms of manifestation of stories that Queer & Trans * bodies of color hold as a form of existence, from pain to resilience as a cycle, to the in between. Manuscripts of Foreign Body (s) is a critical visual collective workshop-based project by Ahmad B َ ab َ a (interdisciplinary artist) and [...]

December 17, 2021 20:00

ctrl.xx.tension

RUSNAM presents the experimental audio-visual performance "ctrl.xx.tension" - the 75-minute performative sound experience takes the audience into a musical examination of the image of women shaped by female pop icons, combined in a dance performance, the discrimination experiences of BPoC musicians * makes visible. Detached from the stereotype of the pop icon beyond the borders of our origins. → beech [...]

January 21, 2022 18:00 PM

The Significance of the Nakba in Palestinian History and for Palestinian Identity - Book Discussion and Maqam Session

Nahed Awwad invites you to a book talk “Palestine and the Palestinians. A story from the Nakba to the present ”with the author Dr. Muriel Asseburg and the journalist Kristin Helberg. The focus of this book talk is the question of the importance of the Nakba - the flight and expulsion of around three quarters of a million Palestinians from 1947 to 1949 - for [...]

reading, Nahed Awwad, Palestine

February 6, 2022 15:00

BLACK DADS READING - Let's heal together: Celebrating Black Stories

(German version below) Just in time for the start of the BLACK HISTORY MONTH, we invite you to the special event of the BLACK DADS READERS on Sunday, February 06.02.2022th, 15, from 00:XNUMX p.m. For all Black children and families, the Black community and anyone interested, the wonderful Black DADS READER read the books "HAIR LOVE" by Matthew Acherry and [...]

BLACK DADS READER, Black History Month, Children

February 12, 2022 15:00

Higher Self Breathwork - Let's heal together: Celebrating Black Stories

(German version below) Do you know your breath? Our breath is so close to us, but sometimes so far away. With a conscious, focused and full breath it is possible to enter an expanded state of consciousness. This allows us to question our beliefs and change perspective. We can perceive ourselves in a protected framework [...]

February 12, 2022 20:00

Black & Brown Cabaret Dinner Show

We are excited to invite you to celebrate Queerness, Femininity, Color, and Bodies. Welcome to the Black & Brown Cabaret Show Winter 2022 by Prince Emrah & Queerberg. This show will be extra hot because it's cold enough outside. On 12 February We want to honor the thriving culture of BIPOC immigrants, refugee bodies of [...]

BIPoC, Cabaret, Dinner, party, Prince Emrah, Queer, Queerberg

February 21, 2022 18:00

Manuscripts of Foreign Body(s) (screening + discussion) in Birmingham

During the LGBT History Month UK, Berlin based Lebanese multidisciplinary performer and social artist Ahmad BaBa will present a plethora of his bodies of work in collaboration with SHOUT Festival and Midlands Arts Centre. His work focuses on claiming more visibility for underrepresented communities such as the LGBT+ refugee community in Berlin, and creating dance/storytelling [...]

Ahmad Baba, Embodied Arts Festival, Embodied temporalities

February 22, 2022 18:00

Deconstructing the Aesthetics of Embodiment (workshops) in Birmingham

During the LGBT History Month UK, Berlin based Lebanese multidisciplinary performer and social artist Ahmad BaBa will present a plethora of his bodies of work in collaboration with SHOUT Festival and Midlands Arts Centre. His work focuses on claiming more visibility for underrepresented communities such as the LGBT+ refugee community in Berlin, and creating dance/storytelling [...]

Ahmad Baba, Embodied Arts Festival, Embodied temporalities

February 24, 2022 18:00

QueeЯevolutions (screening + discussion) in Birmingham

During the LGBT History Month UK, Berlin based Lebanese multidisciplinary performer and social artist Ahmad BaBa will present a plethora of his bodies of work in collaboration with SHOUT Festival and Midlands Arts Centre. His work focuses on claiming more visibility for underrepresented communities such as the LGBT+ refugee community in Berlin, and creating dance/storytelling [...]

Ahmad Baba, Embodied Arts Festival, Embodied temporalities

February 25, 2022 20:00

House of Harem Show by Prince Emrah & Queerberg Collective

Welcome to the “House of Harem” show by Prince Emrah & Queerberg collective. Prince Emrah and Queerberg invite you to celebrate both queerness and the Middle Eastern culture in Berlin. House of Harem is born out of necessity. A necessity of providing a shared space for LGBTQIA+ individuals of Muslim cultures. A space for absolute [...]

Prince Emrah, Queerberg

February 27, 2022 14:00

Fugitive Archives: Unheard and Unseen

Questioning Queer Archiving Practices Inspired by the teachings of decolonial and queer-feminist knowledge and experiences, we will organize a participatory workshop at America Memorial Library on Sunday, February 27th to ask questions about alternative mediums and ontologies on queer archives that challenge dominant narratives of queer BiPOC histories. Following a theoretical discussion of queer and decolonial [...]

March 31, 2022 08:00 pm

Test Event

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April 4, 2022 19:30 p.m.

Queens Against Borders: Ukrainian Queers relief

Ukrainian Queers relief will be a solidarity event from & for the trans and queer artists of Berlin with acts and performances by the residents of QAB plus, guests performers from (Iran, Egypt, Brazil and more) showcasing their art and expressing their emotional and personal experiences with the audience. Acts of spoken word, stand up [...]

Performance, Queens Against Borders, Queer, Transqueer community

April 10, 2022 19:00 p.m.

AS* PAPANGUS Street Performance in Sao Paulo

AS* PAPANGUS Street Performance in São Paulo - 2pm São Paulo / 7pm CET - street performance at Bananal arte e cultura contemporânea - live-streamed via Oyoun's Instagram account AS* PAPANGUS is a carnival for, by and with women* that does not objectify any marginalized body. In AS* PAPANGUS, the Afro-Brazilian artist Bruna Amaro performs [...]

AS* PAPANGUS, Bruna Amaro, Mightier than a Trampled Flower

April 17, 2022 11:00 p.m.

BOOK CLUB MEET – TEXTS TO HANAU

⁣All readers and interested parties are welcome to our book club meeting together with Stolzeaugen.books! Also present: artist ⁣Keça Filankes, she will read her contribution to texts to Hanau. The event will be moderated by ⁣Pardis Zarghampour, the founder of the intersectional feminist book club Cologne "ifbkoeln". This has existed since June 2020 and was launched to ensure a safe [...]

April 17, 2022 19:00 p.m.

Concert: SAUTI SOL

From Nairobi to New York - at the latest after the band appeared on the screens of Times Square at the beginning of the year, their international success is undisputed! With Sauti Sol the name says it all! With their feel-good sound, which lets the sun flow into the hearts of each of their listeners, the guys bring a piece of their homeland to the stage. Consisting of Bien-Aimé [...]

April 17, 2022 19:00 p.m.

Arabic Stand Up Comedy with Ammar Daba

After six intensive workshop days, the Syrian stand-up comedian Ammar Daba and his workshop participants will present their sets designed for this evening at the Oyoun.

April 22, 2022 19:00 p.m.

(DE)CODING TRAJECTORIES

(DE)CODING TRAJECTORIES - The body was always a center of an ongoing investigation (De)Coding Trajectories will be a performance research process taking place in Prague. Artists Ahmad BaBa and Gugulethu Duma invite practitioners concerned with decoding and recoding embodied memory to enter into an exchange where the body is a center of the ongoing [...]

Ahmad Baba, Embodied temporalities, Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama, Kerim Melik Becker aka Kechou

April 23, 2022 20:00 p.m.

Black & Brown Cabaret dinner show 2022 spring

We are excited to invite you to celebrate Queerness, Femininity, Color, and Bodies. Welcome to the Black & Brown Cabaret Dinner Show 2022 Spring by Prince Emrah & Queerberg collective. On 23 April We want to honor the thriving culture of BIPOC immigrant, refugee bodies of all shapes and sizes with a modern fusion of [...]

April 26, 2022 19:30 p.m.

What's your radio show? - An evening with independent radio makers in Berlin

Berlin has a vibrant scene of independent and artist-run radio stations that provide frameworks and platforms for musicians, DJs and other artists to produce mixes, radio shows, and sound art. To play music they care about, to share new releases by other musicians, to also use the airspaces as experimental grounds for creative new [...]

April 27, 2022 14:00 p.m.

We Should All Be Dreaming (Only for BIPoCs)

"The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible!" -Sun Ra WE SHOULD ALL BE DREAMING is a concept that focuses on the radical potential of dreaming as a restorative and subversive practice. It comes with a straightforward suggestion: we should all be dreaming radical utopian dreams [...]

Asmaa Sbou, Maryan Abdulkarim, PerformEurope, Sonya Lindfors, We should all be dreaming

April 28, 2022 19:00 p.m.

We should all be dreaming

"The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible!" -Sun Ra WE SHOULD ALL BE DREAMING is a concept that focuses on the radical potential of dreaming as a restorative and subversive practice. It comes with a straightforward suggestion: we should all be dreaming radical utopian dreams of common futures. [...]

Asmaa Sbou, Maryan Abdulkarim, PerformEurope, Sonya Lindfors, We should all be dreaming

April 29, 2022 19:00 p.m.

We should all be dreaming

"The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible!" -Sun Ra WE SHOULD ALL BE DREAMING is a concept that focuses on the radical potential of dreaming as a restorative and subversive practice. It comes with a straightforward suggestion: we should all be dreaming radical utopian dreams of common [...]

Asmaa Sbou, Maryan Abdulkarim, PerformEurope, Sonya Lindfors, We should all be dreaming

April 30, 2022

AS* PAPANGUS Exhibition

Exhibition opening + introduction by Bruna Amaro on April 30.4.2022, 18 from 00:20 p.m. to 00:1.5 p.m. Afterwards (from May 27.5.2022 - 12, 00) daily from 20:00 p.m of women* whose daily life is a struggle against ubiquitous femicide and structural oppression. The celebration of their [...]

AS* PAPANGUS, Bruna Amaro, Mightier than a Trampled Flower

April 30, 2022 17:00 p.m.

Cult 'Sup'

Panel Discussions | dance performance | Stand up comedy | Concerts | DJs The gathering, Cult Sup, is curated as a celebratory exploration of all things pertaining to the diverse expressive arts that supplement our well beings with inspiration, contemplation and the multidimensionality emerging from expressive art forms. This event is an invitation to deepen collective [...]

May 1, 2022 18:00

Venue change: DECOLONOIZE presents Proper

Attention: The event will now take place in the Loge (Kinzigstr. 9, 10247 Berlin). DECOLONOIZE BERLIN organizes Punk and Alternative shows representing BIPoCs in the scene. As a warm-up for the upcoming DECOLONOIZE FEST (28.-29.05.2022) we present to you the Berlin Show of PROPER. on their EU tour, serving you finest Indie Rock / Emo Punk from [...]

Decolonize

May 3, 2022 19:30

'ABBAS' Screening + Q&A

“ABBAS” is a short documentary about Sudanese in Calais on their way towards a more dignified and hopeful life in freedom and peace. Instead, they are confronted with everyday struggle with police surveillance and acts of violence.

Zeyo

May 6, 2022 19:00

Benim Adim - My name

Story of a self-defense Theater performance followed by a discussion with the artist The play “My Name” tells the story of a self-defense. In the play, Meryem embodies the fate of three women from different generations. In the play we bravely climb the mountains with the "crazy Hatice" and sing songs while we follow her village [...]

May 7, 2022 15:00

AS* PAPANGUS Street Performance in Berlin

AS* PAPANGUS is a carnival for, by and with women* that does not objectify the marginalized body. In AS* PAPANGUS, the Afro-Brazilian artist Bruna Amaro performs a carnival in its most queer-feminist and decolonial form with more than 50 women* in São Paulo and Berlin. In this participatory project, the foundations for [...]

AS* PAPANGUS, Bruna Amaro, Mightier than a Trampled Flower

May 7, 2022 20:00

El Far3i in Berlin, supported by Jundi Majhul

The celebrated songwriter and rapper El Far3i returns to Berlin for an exclusive show at Oyoun supported by a very special guest - Jundi Majhul. A combination of electro-acoustic sounds, jazzy grooves and powerful raps from the pioneering artists will light up Berlin for this May date. Get your tickets here. Biographies El Far3i Encapsulating [...]

May 16, 2022 11:00

FRATZ Festival: TAH DAM! (2+)

Music and dance performance by MusicDance Cape Town (South Africa) TAH DAM! is a music and dance performance for families and children. The partly traditional African, partly traditional European music is played on many interesting instruments: Mbira (from Zimbabwe), Djembe (from West Africa), Umtshingo (from South Africa), Adungu (from Uganda) and also a piano, rain sticks and singing are used . [...]

Festival Cosa Sarà, Theater

May 16, 2022 12:30

FRATZ Festival: Performing Arts for the Youngest in Hong Kong

Live zoom talk and screening of HK5senses work with Gemini Wong Yuk Tak FRATZ Festival curator Marie Yan spent half a year in Hong Kong in 2021 for a theater project and during this time got to know the HK5Senses Theatre, which is dedicated to work for babies and dedicated to toddlers. As part of the FRATZ 2022 symposium, we want to [...]

Festival Cosa Sarà, Theater

May 17, 2022 10:00

FRATZ Festival: TAH DAM! (2+)

Music and dance performance by MusicDance Cape Town (South Africa) TAH DAM! is a music and dance performance for families and children. The partly traditional African, partly traditional European music is played on many interesting instruments: Mbira (from Zimbabwe), Djembe (from West Africa), Umtshingo (from South Africa), Adungu (from Uganda) and also a piano, rain sticks and singing are used . [...]

Festival Cosa Sarà, Theater

May 18, 2022 09:30

FRATZ Festival: KOLOFU (2+)

Performance by KiNiNso Koncepts (Nigeria) When it comes to people, colors often have judgmental and negative connotations. The global attributions based on skin colors such as black, white, red, yellow, ... are absurd, discriminatory and deprive us of the joy of the beauty of colors. The KOLOFU team did not want to accept this state of affairs and asked themselves: "Can [...]

Festival Cosa Sarà, Theater

May 18, 2022 11:00

FRATZ Festival: KOLOFU (2+)

Performance by KiNiNso Koncepts (Nigeria) When it comes to people, colors often have judgmental and negative connotations. The global attributions based on skin colors such as black, white, red, yellow, ... are absurd, discriminatory and deprive us of the joy of the beauty of colors. The KOLOFU team did not want to accept this state of affairs and asked themselves: "Can [...]

Festival Cosa Sarà, Theater

May 18, 2022 18:00

UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation

UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation _a musical documentary performance on the soundtracks of war_ UN:IMAGINABLE is an extraordinary theater production that emerged from the lived reality of trauma, war, exclusion and exile. The genocides of the 1990s in Rwanda and the Balkans shook the world - and are still among the bloodiest [...]

CommonStories, LounaSbou, unimaginable

May 19, 2022 19:30

UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation

UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation _a musical documentary performance on the soundtracks of war_ UN:IMAGINABLE is an extraordinary theater production that emerged from the lived reality of trauma, war, exclusion and exile. The genocides of the 1990s in Rwanda and the Balkans shook the world - and are still among the bloodiest [...]

CommonStories, LounaSbou, unimaginable

May 20, 2022 19:00

UN:IMAGINABLE – Screening: Quo Vadis, Aida?

Screening, followed by a Q&A with Melina Borčak An unforgettable movie! - The New York Times ABOUT "QUO VADIS, AIDA?" - a film by Jasmila Žbanić Bosnia, 11 July 1995. Aida is a translator for the United Nations in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among [...]

Movie, screening methods, unimaginable

May 20, 2022 20:00

Rotimi - All Or Nothing World Tour

Rotimi comes to Germany with the debut album "All or Nothing" for an exclusive show! With co-signings from T-Pain, 50 Cent, JAY-Z, Jamie Foxx and TI, singer-songwriter Rotimi ushers in a new era of game changers. While he has so far been best known for his acting roles, such as in the American hit series "STARZ", he [...]

May 21, 2022 15:00

UN:IMAGINABLE – Talk: Urgency of Remembrance

Talk on the urgency and politics of remembrance and art as a form of healing and trauma reflection With Dr. Emilia Roig, Maryan Abdulkarim and Jasmina Musić Moderated by ShaNon Bobinger In this talk, four extraordinary creatives get together and discuss the many ways in which trauma can be reflected through various forms of art [...]

BIPoC, Decolonial, Queer, unimaginable

May 21, 2022 16:00

UN:IMAGINABLE – Kids' Club & Afro Beats for children with DJ Cuby

If you are looking for a day party where parents, children and friends get together, this is your dance! DJ Cuby is known for bringing a mixture of baile funk, afro beats, hip hop and international edits to the dancefloor. For this special edition, Cuby has selected some fine tracks, so make sure you wear [...]

Kids Club, party, unimaginable

May 21, 2022 17:00

THE STEAMY KIKI BALL by Mother Dream Louboutin

German Mother Dream Louboutin invites you to a steamy spring evening. Think of spring vibes, sauna, shisha, wellness and most important: fun! Let's make it hot while having a kiki! Door open: 17:00 Show start: 19:00 Tickets (box office): Participants: 5 € QT*BIPOC: 10 € Spectators: 15 € registration for participants: https://forms.gle/oGz7rkB4NgkZ8iFq5 Dress code for participants : [...]

Eros, Kiki Ball

May 22, 2022 10:00

UN:IMAGINABLE – Community Brunch with DJ Robert Soko

With a community brunch event, we are inviting the Rwandan, German and Bosnian cast of “UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation” to get together and share with you their journey, experiences and food. On the decks, we will be musically accompanied by the one and only Robert Soko at the café on the ground floor. [...]

BIPoC, Decolonial, Healing, unimaginable

May 22, 2022 14:00

Theater and storytelling workshop for Arabic & English speakers with Nadeem

يالا نحكي ونمثل ونلعب ونزقطط وبالعربي كمان! Community theater and storytelling can be lovely tools to connect, feel seen, entertain/get entertained and just have a lot of fun. During these workshops we aim at learning theater and storytelling techniques together. We will tell each other's stories in a safe space, reenact them, and play around [...]

workshop

May 22, 2022 15:00

UN:IMAGINABLE – Panel // Us too? Germany's (selective) welcoming culture

With Jeff Kwasi Klein, Jess Korp and Nina Alerić Moderator: Ouassima Laabich “Europe is showing impressively these days that it is able to cope with large movements of refugees. Refugees from the Ukraine often find private accommodation for the first few days, receive a status immediately after registration, and are allowed to move and work freely. It turns out that [...]

decolonial, panel, unimaginable

May 22, 2022 16:00

UN:IMAGINABLE – Live Music: Sonic Intervention / Out Of Time Embassy / Jam

When you experience Sonic Intervention, you experience a holistic uplifting of your body, mind and soul through high-energy forms of healing. There are no words to describe the emotions set free when they come together. - Louna Sbou Sonic Intervention by Out Of Time Embassy is a perfect way to spoil yourself on a Sunday [...]

decolonial, Louna Sbou, sounds, unimaginable

May 22, 2022 19:30

UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation

UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation _a musical documentary performance on the soundtracks of war_ UN:IMAGINABLE is an extraordinary theater production that emerged from the lived reality of trauma, war, exclusion and exile. The genocides of the 1990s in Rwanda and the Balkans shook the world - and are still among the bloodiest [...]

CommonStories, LounaSbou, unimaginable

May 24, 2022 11:59

PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL | Festival center in Oyoun

Day #1 – Living together The traveling festival center of this year's Performing Arts Festival (May 24.05th - 29.05th) will stop at Oyoun (Neukölln) on the first day and ask: How do we want and can we live together in the future? How can solidarity structures be created and maintained in which complex realities of life find space? In workshops and discussions, collectives and [...]

Check!, festival center, Performing Arts Festival, Theater

May 24, 2022 17:30

Theater and storytelling workshop for Arabic & English speakers with Nadeem

يالا نحكي ونمثل ونلعب ونزقطط وبالعربي كمان! Community theater and storytelling can be lovely tools to connect, feel seen, entertain/get entertained and just have a lot of fun. During these workshops we aim at learning theater and storytelling techniques together. We will tell each other's stories in a safe space, reenact them, and play around [...]

workshop

May 25, 2022 12:00

PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL | KEYNOTE #1: Soup & Chatter – Living Together

How do we want to live together in the future? How could we work together? How do we want to grow old together? The Oyoun is dedicated to these questions as part of this year's Performing Arts Festival Berlin (May 24.05 - 29.05). Oyoun conceives, develops and implements artistic-cultural projects through decolonial, queer*feminist and migrant perspectives. Dami Choi and Louna Sbou report as members of [...]

Dami Choi, Louna Sbou, Paf, Performing Arts Festival

May 25, 2022 14:00

PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL | Workshop #1: Cultures of Resistance – CommUnity Theater and Activist Networks 

How does a theater position itself in society? How does it stay connected to burning issues? For us, the theater should be an activist place and a place by and for the community(s). For this movement has to go into the theater and theater into movement - that is only possible through networking. In this workshop, Annika Füser and [...]

Paf, Performing Arts Festival, workshop

May 25, 2022 14:00

PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL | Workshop #2: Cross-Species Togetherness – Togetherness, Fermentation and Bacterial Cultures

All people who are interested in experimenting and want to explore new forms of cross-species togetherness are welcome in this workshop. This workshop deals with the art of fermentation, one of the oldest methods of preserving food on the one hand and changing its taste on the other. Depending on the culture, the recipes are very different. Included [...]

Paf, Berlin Performing Arts Festival

May 25, 2022 16:00

PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL | Workshop #3: Gathering, community and empowerment – a check! – Theater workshop!  

Have you always wanted to stage your own story? Do you find it exciting to slip into different roles? The creators of the theater project Check! invite you to immerse yourself in the world of theater together. In this workshop we exchange ideas on topics such as gender, feminism and queerness. We improvise, learn different breathing and [...]

Check!, Kids, Lorena Valdenegro, Paf, Performance, Berlin Performing Arts Festival, senait sebhatleab, Theater, workshop

May 26, 2022 16:00

PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL | CHECK!

A Future with a Future Children's/Youth Group led by Senait Sebhatleab and Lorena Valdenegro What is a girl, what is a boy, and what am I? The world of children does not turn pink or blue. Under the name Check! hides a group of young people from the LGBTIQ* and PoC community who have set themselves the task [...]

youth group, Children, Lorena Valdenegro, Berlin Performing Arts Festival, senait sebhatleab

May 26, 2022 19:30

Becoming Alman (Opening)

Physical artefacts, mixed media and performance - in this artistic field of tension, the Bulgarian artist Lora Krasteva invites you to a performative exhibition with "Becoming Alman", which revolves around the themes of identity and nationality. After the first events in the Czech Republic ("Becoming Czech") and Romania ("Becoming Romanian"), "Becoming Alman" is the third of four editions of their [...]

Becoming Alman, Elif Celik, Jingyun Li, jô osbórnia, Lora Krasteva

May 27, 2022 10:00

Becoming Alman (exhibition)

Physical artefacts, mixed media and performance - in this artistic field of tension, the Bulgarian artist Lora Krasteva invites you to a performative exhibition with "Becoming Alman", which revolves around the themes of identity and nationality. After the first events in the Czech Republic ("Becoming Czech") and Romania ("Becoming Romanian"), "Becoming Alman" is the third of four editions of their [...]

Becoming Alman, Elif Celik, Jingyun Li, jô osbórnia, Lora Krasteva

May 27, 2022 19:00

Becoming Alman (Closing)

Physical artefacts, mixed media and performance - in this artistic field of tension, the Bulgarian artist Lora Krasteva invites you to a performative exhibition with "Becoming Alman", which revolves around the themes of identity and nationality. After the first events in the Czech Republic ("Becoming Czech") and Romania ("Becoming Romanian"), "Becoming Alman" is the third of four editions of their [...]

Becoming Alman, Elif Celik, Jingyun Li, jô osbórnia, Lora Krasteva

June 1, 2022

Mohamed BadarneForgotten Team

Opening on 01.06. at 19:00 p.m. Afterwards from 02.06. - 07.06., daily from 12:00 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. "FORGOTTEN TEAM", photographed by Mohamed Badarne, is a photo exhibition in solidarity with the migrant workers in Qatar. The photographic storytelling project focuses on the lives of migrant workers who laid the foundation for FIFA [...]

decolonial, exhibition, Mohammed Badarne

June 3, 2022 19:30

Concert by Massar Egbari

Formed in Alexandria in 2005, Massar Egbari has grown to become one of the most influential and widely played bands in the Egyptian independent music scene. With three studio albums under their belt and millions of adoring listeners, the band has remained true to their name, which translates to "forced detour" - a reflection on how society forces people to [...]

June 5, 2022 12:00

Saot Festival: A Home With Us | exhibition

The Saot - Palestine Solidarity Festival in Berlin invited artists to participate in the exhibition "a Home with us" and to share ideas and interpretations of their personal homeland. This exhibition aims to visualize different designs of home through memories and leftovers that have been brought, lost or had to be left behind. For the [...]

exhibition, Palestine

June 5, 2022 17:00

Saot Festival Opening

The event is the opening ceremony of the Saot Festival. Organized by a collective of Palestinian diaspora artists and activists concerned with the culture and politics of the Palestinian issue and intersectional struggles, live music and DJs are planned to kick off at Oyoun's café. The entire timetable can be found here: 5PM – As per casper [...]

concert, Music, opening, Palestine

June 7, 2022 18:00

Matla Ahuna – The Power is in Me

Jocelyn B. Smith, an internationally successful musician and coach, will start her new company on June 7th at the Oyoun in Berlin. It is a women* driven program for growth, wellness and success, and it is called Matla Ahuna. You are cordially invited to attend this special event where you can experience first-hand what [...]

decolonial, Healing, Jocelyn B Smith, Matla Ahuna

June 8, 2022 20:00

NOMAD (work in progress)

"One evening when I was a little girl, I was sitting on the beach with my father. The sea was as dark as the sky. Suddenly a drop of light appeared on the horizon. It didn't come from boats and didn't move. Right across from us was a different country, like a fairytale land with shining lights in the middle [...]

Theater

June 10, 2022 18:00

Socialism in Our Time - Jacobin Conference

Jacobin magazine and Transform! Europe invite you to two days of stimulating debate in summery Berlin. Join us as leading left voices from Europe and North America speak in English and German about what socialism today can look like. Times: Friday, June 10 | 18:00 p.m. – 21:30 p.m. Saturday, June 11 | 10:00 – 21:30 [...]

Decolonial, panel

June 10, 2022 18:00

Akinbode Akinbiyi - May Ayim: Poet. 1996. | exhibition opening

Meandering, wandering, amongst densely woven threads. This is how life unfolds: in constant wandering, in constant search for meaning, on never-ending paths, streets and alleys, highways and byways - labyrinthine in their infinity, in their invitation to the wanderer: here, yet another fascinating corner, barely visible footprints [...] on earth, traces of silent vibrations on the [...]

Akinbode Akinbiyi, exhibition, May Ayim, Photography, rongin shagor

June 11, 2022 12:00

Akinbode Akinbiyi - May Ayim: Poet. 1996. | exhibition

Meandering, wandering, amongst densely woven threads. This is how life unfolds: in constant wandering, in constant search for meaning, on never-ending paths, streets and alleys, highways and byways - labyrinthine in their infinity, in their invitation to the wanderer: here, yet another fascinating corner, barely visible footprints [...] on earth, traces of silent vibrations on the [...]

Akinbode Akinbiyi, exhibition, May Ayim, Photography, rongin shagor

June 13, 2022 19:50

İDEAL (theater performance)

(German text below) Yıllar boyu süren araştırmaların sonucu, teknolojinin ve hatta antropolojinin geldiği son nokta, “İdealler Makinası”, ayağınıza geldi! Sizlere angeboteta neler sunuyor, neler: Nur topu gibi ürünler, Alles inclusive yazlık seyahatler, Her damak tadına uygun migrantlar, Görli'de huzur dolu piknikler, Memleketten son haberler, davetli davetsiz misafirler, en yeni dalgalar ve daha nice sürprizler... guest collective [ ...]

guest collective, Performance, Theater

June 14, 2022 19:50

İDEAL (theater performance)

(German text below) Yıllar boyu süren araştırmaların sonucu, teknolojinin ve hatta antropolojinin geldiği son nokta, “İdealler Makinası”, ayağınıza geldi! Sizlere angeboteta neler sunuyor, neler: Nur topu gibi ürünler, Alles inclusive yazlık seyahatler, Her damak tadına uygun migrantlar, Görli'de huzur dolu piknikler, Memleketten son haberler, davetli davetsiz misafirler, en yeni dalgalar ve daha nice sürprizler... guest collective [ ...]

guest collective, Performance, Theater

June 17, 2022 20:00

Booty Therapy Dance Show with Bootykilleuses & Guests

For the first time Maïmouna offers her Booty Therapy Show with the "Bootykilleuses" (Booty Therapy students) in Berlin. Come and enjoy this unique show that combines dance, theater and lots of booty shake twerk with a political message that will move us all forward. The number of participants is limited! Tickets About the artist Maïmouna Coulibaly, originally from Mali [...]

dance, decolonial, Maimouna Coulibaly, queer * feminist

June 21, 2022 21:00

Saot Festival: Bu Nasser + Hello Psychaleppo

Concert as part of Saot Festival Berlin Bu Nasser Bu Nasser Touffar AKA Naserdine Al Touffar, Lebanese writer and a rapper who raises his voice by singing to break the silence of a marginalized society, which the state has persisted in imposing and silencing it. His songs and writings were used as anthems in the [...]

concert, Palestine, saot festival

June 24, 2022 19:00

Salah Saouli: Birds' Symphony - Canticle of the Birds

Installation with 4-channel sound As suggested by the 48-hour Neukölln festival theme “kafayı yemek”, the work Birds' Symphony – Canticle of the Birds aims to question the current moment in which everything seems to be turned upside down. How do we as humans relate to the current situation? Instead of lamenting the loss of our former "normal" (the [...]

48h Neukoelln, installation, visual art

June 24, 2022 20:00

Saot Festival: Salwa Jaradat

Isalwa Jaradat (1989) is a Palestinian researcher and musician living in Beirut. She holds a bachelor's degree in Media Studies and Political Science from Modern University College in Palestine and another bachelor's degree in Musicology (Oriental Savant Music) from the Higher Institute of Music, Antonine University in Lebanon. She studied 5 years at the Edward Said National Conservatory [...]

concert, Palestine, Salwa Jaradat, saot festival

June 25, 2022 12:00

Salah Saouli: Birds' Symphony - Canticle of the Birds

Installation with 4-channel sound As suggested by the 48-hour Neukölln festival theme “kafayı yemek”, the work Birds' Symphony – Canticle of the Birds aims to question the current moment in which everything seems to be turned upside down. How do we as humans relate to the current situation? Instead of lamenting the loss of our former "normal" (the [...]

48h Neukoelln, installation, visual art

June 25, 2022 19:00

فرط الاحترام Much respect – Arabic stand-up comedy

Arabic stand-up comedy in Berlin Mohamad Andeel from Eygpt and Ammar Daba from Syria make their first appearance together in this show about life in exile and comedy in the Mena region. About the Artists: Barra talent management_ who run the show are a collective that supports young Arabic speaking talent to gain access to performing opportunities [...]

arabic, much respect, Performance, stand up

June 25, 2022 20:00

Saot Festival: Terez Sliman

Terez Sliman is an independent Palestinian singer, songwriter and founder of Nafas workshops and retreats, oscillating between word and voice, navigating between the personal and the public. Drawing from raw human experience, she transforms worry and anger into song through her soothing sounds. Born in Haifa and raised between Haifa, Akka [...]

concert, Palestine, saot festival, terez sliman

June 26, 2022 12:00

Salah Saouli: Birds' Symphony - Canticle of the Birds

Installation with 4-channel sound As suggested by the 48-hour Neukölln festival theme “kafayı yemek”, the work Birds' Symphony – Canticle of the Birds aims to question the current moment in which everything seems to be turned upside down. How do we as humans relate to the current situation? Instead of lamenting the loss of our former "normal" (the [...]

48h Neukoelln, installation, visual art

June 26, 2022 19:00

فرط الاحترام Much respect – Arabic stand-up comedy

Arabic stand-up comedy in Berlin Mohamad Andeel from Eygpt and Ammar Daba from Syria make their first appearance together in this show about life in exile and comedy in the Mena region. About the Artists: Barra talent management_ who run the show are a collective that supports young Arabic speaking talent to gain access to performing opportunities [...]

arabic, decolonize, Performance, stand up

June 28, 2022 18:30

“Breaking Borders to Build Bridges: 20 years of Women in Exile” – book premiere + reading

Women in Exile invite you to a reading (in English) and celebration of their book "Breaking Borders to Build Bridges: 20 years of Women in Exile" which will be published in June. After the reading there will be time for questions from the audience. The discussion will be moderated by Napuli L. About the book: Escape and [...]

Feminism, Music, women in exile

June 29, 2022 09:00

The Netz – Community Event 2022 – Strongly Connected(t)zt

The wait is finally over! The annual Das Nettz community event will take place on June 29th and 30th, 2022 - finally live and in color again! As always, many great guests, exciting topics, interactive formats and of course lots of NETTZworking await you. From AI to racism, resilience, research, democracy to disinformation - [...]

community events, the net, hate speech, networking

June 30, 2022 09:00

The Netz – Community Event 2022 – Strongly Connected(t)zt

The wait is finally over! The annual Das Nettz community event will take place on June 29th and 30th, 2022 - finally live and in color again! As always, many great guests, exciting topics, interactive formats and of course lots of NETTZworking await you. From AI to racism, resilience, research, democracy to disinformation - [...]

community events, the net, hate speech, networking

July 3, 2022 14:00

Creative Writing Workshop - “Who has the right to tell whose story?”

Who has the right to tell whose story? Are we really expected to write about our unique, fetishizable, heartbreaking lives? Or do we have the right to write about lives and worlds that are beyond us? Where does empathy begin and where does it end? How can we create a three-dimensional "other" without [...]

Creative writing, decolonial, workshop

July 3, 2022 18:00

Decolonizing Voices - Kick off Wearebornfree Decolonial Mission Academy

Networking party with DJ at the end of the event Wearebornfree Decolonial Mission Academy, an association that is still being founded, cordially invites you to its kick-off event. An evening is planned to present the ideas and goals of the association, which should encourage exchange and networking through readings and discussions. Program: Two decolonial poems, [...]

Decolonial, panel discussion, Poetry

July 8, 2022 18:30

Chile: composing the future

Conversation with activist and member of the Constitutional Convention Manuela Royo The uprising in Chile in 2019 was followed by a referendum on a new constitution. A directly elected constitutional convention then spent a year discussing its content. The result is the world's first social-ecological-feminist constitution. In another referendum on September 4th about [...]

Chile, Feminism, Manuela Royo

July 8, 2022 19:00

The Dreamy Birthday Mini Ball by Dream Miyake-Mugler

Dream Miyake-Mugler invites you to celebrate her birthday. But even more to celebrate their biggest ballroom inspirations, parents, role models and influences. The categories will be inspired by them - to pay homage and give them their flowers. 🌹❤️ From Creamy to Steamy to Dreamy - you know it will be a blast! Participants: 10€ [...]

Eros, Kiki Ball

July 9, 2022 20:00

İDEAL (theater performance)

(German text below) Yıllar boyu süren araştırmaların sonucu, teknolojinin ve hatta antropolojinin geldiği son nokta, “İdealler Makinası”, ayağınıza geldi! Sizlere angeboteta neler sunuyor, neler: Nur topu gibi ürünler, Alles inclusive yazlık seyahatler, Her damak tadına uygun migrantlar, Görli'de huzur dolu piknikler, Memleketten son haberler, davetli davetsiz misafirler, en yeni dalgalar ve daha nice sürprizler... guest collective [ ...]

guest collective, Performance, Theater

July 11, 2022 18:00

Ministry of Compassion + Rosa Shakur – performance, concert and live visuals

The Ministry of Compassion invites you to the garden of Oyoun. The ministers of the collective, which emphatically resists social coldness and the brutalization of language, answer questions on the topics of compassion, empathy and grief. The band "Rosa Shakur" around the musician and activist Vincent Bababoutilabo, together with live visuals by the artist [...]

Ministry of Compassion, Performance

July 15, 2022 20:00

Médine Tidou – Fallen Figures | exhibition opening

The Fallen Figures exhibition, which premiered in 2020, examines the idea of a possible memorial to Europe's colonial past from the perspective of the colonized countries. Colonial memorials are noticeable everywhere in Ivory Coast, with statues of former colonists at intersections and magnificent buildings on the beach. In Germany, too, colonial history can be found in street names, statues [...]

falling figures

July 16, 2022 12:00

Queer ping pong

Hand on the trowel and on the heart: Ping Pong or table tennis is a queer sport - it is open to almost everyone, is contactless and is a lot of fun for beginners and pros alike. Therefore, four table tennis tables will be set up for a queer ping pong tournament on Saturday – for us, for you, for the community. Everything in [...]

Queer, Queer ping pong

July 16, 2022 12:00

Médine Tidou – Fallen Figures | exhibition

The Fallen Figures exhibition, which premiered in 2020, examines the idea of a possible memorial to Europe's colonial past from the perspective of the colonized countries. Colonial memorials are noticeable everywhere in Ivory Coast, with statues of former colonists at intersections and magnificent buildings on the beach. In Germany, too, colonial history can be found in street names, statues [...]

falling figures, Medine Tidou, Nane Kalhle

July 17, 2022 20:00

UN:IMAGINABLE @ Ubumuntu Arts Festival Kigali

UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation _a musical documentary performance on the soundtracks of war_ In mid-July, the entire UN:IMAGINABLE team, including some Oyoun team members, will be at the Ubumuntu Arts Festival at the Genocide Memorial Kigali. In addition to the first performance of the transnational collaboration in Rwanda, Oyoun's Louna Sbou will take part in a panel on "Diversity as an element [...]

theater, unimaginable

July 22, 2022 20:00

Classic Minority Presents: Fundraiser for NYU Tisch (Film Screening, Discussion & Party)

Classic Minority cordially invites you to Fundraiser #2! The aim is to raise money for Maisa Lihedheb's visa and housing expenses in the USA so that she can start her master's degree in directing at NYU Tisch in the fall. To make this evening unforgettable for everyone, we have planned a great program with various media reports. First, [...]

bipocfilmsociety, classic minority, Movie, fundraising

July 24, 2022 18:30

Nyama (MEAT) FILM – Screening at the Fundraising Event for the Equal Earth Experience (EEE) Project

Since the illegal evictions of Uganda's native Batwa in the 1990s, profit-driven tourism projects in these forests have largely excluded the Batwa from trespassing or administering the lands to which they have been entitled for generations. This made them dependent on either adapting to capitalist agricultural production techniques, trophy hunting, or cultural [...]

Equal Earth Experience Project

July 26, 2022 17:30

Life Drawing Club

The Art Expression Life Drawing Club is back in Berlin! As of this month – July 22 – Art-Expression Studios will host at least one Life-Drawing session in the last week of every month at Oyoun. Come and join us for three hours of Life-Drawing with live models posing. The event will take place at the club [...]

July 27, 2022 20:00

Cancelled: Sham Trio & Basma Jabr

Bulbul Berlin and Sham Trio cordially invite you to the live concert here at Oyoun! About the musicians: _Sham Trio, a musical trio formed in Berlin and consists of three Syrian musicians: Sam, Hasan and Yazan. The three started making music together with other friends and musicians in Damascus, Syria in 2013. They moved [...]

basma jabr, decolonial, sham trio

July 31, 2022 19:00

Poetry Meets Pop'n'Soul | Headliner Blazey, RnB rising star Sadik Wave and Poets Ana Lucão & Jil Jilec.

The Poetry Meets Series pres. a special edition of Poetry Meets Pop'n'Soul with Headliner BLAZEY, upcoming RnB Singer Sadik Wave from Cologne and poets Ana Lucão and Jil Jilec. Film Screening: 'Scars' by Yemi Osokoya (Nigeria) ENTRY: 7PM START: 8PM Tickets available here. Headlining Act: BLAZEY BLAZEY is a 22 year old queer Afro-German singer, [...]

Music, Poetry, Poetry meets

2 August 2022 19:00

Final Screening – Mad World (Short Film)

Painting, Film and Music – Short Film Screening, 2 Live Special Acts + 1 Painter Exhibiting their Art Paintings We contribute to the growth of our society every day. We like to experience beautiful moments, need contact with many people and have enough opportunities to occupy ourselves or to distract ourselves. Why not? All the more diverse, [...]

Movie, Music, visual art

3 August 2022 19:00

AUTOPOIESIS: Recognizing Kin Across Antipodal Topologies | exhibition opening

Andrew Ananda Voogel in Khirkee Voice / Christopher Udemezue / Dhrubo Jyoti / Elyla / Jesús Hilario-Reyes / Prabhakar Pachpute / Rajyashri Goody / Subas Tamang Curated by Shaunak Mahbubani with curatorial advice from Vidisha-Fadescha, Eli Moon and Madhumita Nandi Opening: 03 August 2022 , 19:00 - 22:00 Exhibition: 04 - 30 August, Tuesday - Saturday, [...]

exhibition, autopoiesis, exhibition, Queer

3 August 2022 22:00

Antipodal After Party with MORENXXX and Fadescha

The exhibition opening of “AUTOPOIESIS: Recognizing Kin Across Antipodal Topologies” will be followed by an Antipodal After Party with MORENXXX and Fadescha, both having their first ever gigs in Berlin! Tickets at the door: 5 € If you are QTBIPOC* and cannot afford the entrance fee, please write an email to ragil@oyoun.de. About the artists: [...]

autopoiesis, party

4 August 2022 12:00

AUTOPOIESIS: Recognizing Kin Across Antipodal Topologies | Exhibition (Tuesday to Saturday)

Andrew Ananda Voogel in Khirkee Voice / Christopher Udemezue / Dhrubo Jyoti / Elyla / Jesús Hilario-Reyes / Prabhakar Pachpute / Rajyashri Goody / Subas Tamang Curated by Shaunak Mahbubani with curatorial advice from Vidisha-Fadescha, Eli Moon and Madhumita Nandi Opening: 03 August 2022 , 19:00 - 22:00 Exhibition: 04 - 30 August, Tuesday - Saturday, [...]

exhibition, autopoiesis, exhibition, Queer

5 August 2022 18:00

AUTOPOIESIS: Opening Program – Friday

As part of the opening week of the exhibition "AUTOPOIESIS: Recognizing Kin Across Antipodal Topologies", some of the artists and curators are not only in town for the vernissage, but also tell their stories in a series of additional events. The Friday program starts in the garden of Oyoun with a conversation between the (co-)curators Eli Moon & Shaunak Mahbubani on [...]

autopoiesis

7 August 2022 19:30

DIASPORADICA

RUPTURE is like breathing underwater Against all appearances of the impossible, breathing for those who have preferred (insert word) to captivity RUPTURE is the knowledge that every time we gather our bodies in a room, something shifts up and down and all becomes tangible around us, is in motion and on our [...]

diasporic, breaking

17 August 2022 19:00

Book premiere: Confidentialities – Max Lobe. Discussion and reading (German/English/French)

A warm invitation to talks, readings, drinks & music in the Oyoun garden! In "Confidentialities" Max Lobe returns to his native Cameroon and travels to the Bassa forest to learn from the old Mâ Maliga what she knows about the independence movement in Cameroon and its leader Ruben Um Nyobè. "Confidentialities" is the narration this talkative and [...]

akono, Max Lobe, confidentialities

18 August 2022 18:00

SOUP3 - Gathering

We invite you to drink soup with us! After our “Open Call” on the SOUP3 project a few weeks ago, numerous activists and artists from the neighborhood applied with their great ideas. Three selected project groups want to tell you their ideas over a cup of soup! We were very enthusiastic about your contributions and look forward [...]

networking, soup3

20 August 2022 16:00

AUTOPOIESIS: Recognizing Kin Across Antipodal Topologies | NARRATIONS II

The AUTOPOIESIS public program continues this weekend with a deeper exploration of the histories and neighborhoods that drive exchanges between South Asia, Central America and the Caribbean. From 16:00 p.m. to 17:30 p.m. there will be a curatorial tour with the exhibition curators Shaunak Mahbubani, Eli Moon and Vidisha Fadescha, followed by the discussion "Two Positions [...]

autopoiesis, Queer

20 August 2022 20:00

Queer Arab Cabaret

queerfalafel and kleo.lafaraona are on a queer Fdi7a family trip, visiting Berlin from Barcelona. They are invading the city deconstructing binarisms and performing their anti-colonial shows. Tickets: Free admission / donation based ◥ In Oyoun there is no place for sexism, queer hostility, transphobia, any form of racism or discrimination such as anti-black, anti-Muslim [...]

arabic, Queer, Queer / drag

22 August 2022 17:30

Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club is back in Berlin! In the last week of every month, Art-Expression Studios hosts at least one life drawing session at Oyoun. Come and join us for three hours of life drawing with live models posing for you. >> The event will take place in the Oyoun club room. >> The participation fee is donation-based and begins [...]

Life Drawing Club

24 August 2022 18:30

Yoga for BIPOC – Diaspora Wellness Club

From next Wednesday, August 24.08.2022th, XNUMX, there will be the weekly opportunity to practice yoga together with Helen Workneh, Jivamukti yoga teacher with Ethiopian roots, in a comfortable and safe setting. And that with us on the first floor of the Oyoun! It's a BIPOC only space and open to all levels, so no previous experience is necessary. One [...]

diaspora wellness club, Helen Workneh

28 August 2022 18:00

Building Lives in the Context of Forced Migration – Film Screening

Film screening Life plans in the context of forced migration Five short films about the life of refugees in Berlin Screening & Celebration The five short films give intimate insights into the different life plans of people in the context of forced migration in Berlin. The films are part of an MA seminar on visual anthropology at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität [...]

screening methods

29 August 2022 20:00

Firefly Women

The performance "Firefly Women" unfolds feminist dreams and weaves utopias of solidarity in times of oppression. Between documentary and fiction, the play follows the letters of two women who were wrongfully jailed during the Citizenship Bill protests that swept across India in 2019. Through FIREFLY WOMEN there are revolutions on the streets, mass protests and [...]

Firefly, Firefly Women, Performance

31 August 2022 18:30

Yoga for BIPOC -Diaspora wellness club

We meet every Wednesday at 18:30 p.m. on the first floor of Oyoun to practice yoga together in a comfortable and safe setting. This is a BIPOC only space and open to all levels. So you don't need any previous experience. Bring your mat and a towel or blanket for final relaxation. If you do yoga blocks [...]

BIPoC, QTBIPOC, yoga

September 2, 2022 18:30 AM

Everyday Life in an Imperial Archipelago - Digital Exhibition, Performances and Party

Doors: 18:00 | Programs: 18:30 p.m. - 21:30 p.m. Free admission | No registration needed! With Ariel William Orah (sound/performance artist), Hinemoana Baker (poet/musician), Pepe Dayaw (performance/dance artist), Theresa Arriola (anthropologist), Karin Louise Hermes (storyteller/storyweaver), Rosa Castillo (anthropologist), Caxxianne (rapper/songwriter) and Makossiri (DJ). After party music by DJ Makossiri. Catered by: Cafe Bulbul While was [...]

Digital art, exhibition, indigenous

September 3, 2022 21:00 AM

Bia Ferreira - Concert

Admission: 20:00 p.m. | INACY: 21:00 | Bia Ferreira: 22:00 | + DJs Nara + Grace Kelly tickets: 20 € | Presale at the bottom of the page | Tickets are also available at the box office! _Bia Ferreira, Afro-Brazilian musician and activist, is performing a live concert here at Oyoun on September 3rd! Born in Minas Gerais, [...]

Bia Ferreira, concert

September 7, 2022 18:30 AM

Yoga for BIPOC -Diaspora wellness club

We meet every Wednesday at 18:30 p.m. on the first floor of Oyoun to practice yoga together in a comfortable and safe setting. This is a BIPOC only space and open to all levels. So you don't need any previous experience. Bring your mat and a towel or blanket for final relaxation. If you do yoga blocks [...]

BIPoC, QTBIPOC, yoga

September 10, 2022 20:30 AM

Farah Nakhoul - concert

Farah Nakhoul arrives in Berlin for a concert Farah Nakhoul is a Lebanese singer who rose to social media fame with her video presentation of Sabah w Masa by Fairuz. With more than 2 million views across social media platforms, Farah's voice has captivated many and enabled her to launch her professional career at the GCC [...]

concert, DJ Weldmousa, Farah Nakhoul

September 13, 2022 20:00 AM

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

September 14, 2022 18:30 AM

Yoga for BIPOC -Diaspora wellness club

We meet every Wednesday at 18:30 p.m. on the first floor of Oyoun to practice yoga together in a comfortable and safe setting. This is a BIPOC only space and open to all levels. So you don't need any previous experience. Bring your mat and a towel or blanket for final relaxation. If you do yoga blocks [...]

BIPoC, QTBIPOC, yoga

September 15, 2022 19:00 AM

CANCELLED: Angel Haze – Girl with the Fun Tour

Already with her first mixtapes and EPs, she was able to get extremely good responses, so that soon a bidding war between the big labels started, which Universal won. From then on, she devoted herself exclusively to music and within a very short time developed her own, stable unique selling point, which quickly found great approval in the male-dominated rap scene. [...]

Angel Haze, concert, street life

September 16, 2022 21:00 AM

Sabine Salamé Live at Oyoun!

Sabine Salamé is arriving at Oyoun on September 16th__ Live! She is a Lebanese journalist who found in rap a method to express herself away from the censorship of media platforms. She will be performing "التعايش مع البقاء " "Co-existence with Survival" EP funded by AFAC and produced by William Mahfoud. In addition to many [...]

concert, lebanon, Music

September 18, 2022 19:30 AM

Night of Lights feat. Nesrine Belmokh - concert

Babylon ORCHESTRA Presents: Night of Lights is an evening dedicated to women in music, bringing three cultures together with music from Iran, Syria and Algeria. The young musicians' own compositions and songs by Nesrine Belmokh combine to form this special encounter. In addition to the Paris-based Franco-Algerian singer, cellist [...]

BABYLON ORCHESTRA, concert, Nesrine Belmokh

September 19, 2022 17:30 AM

Life Drawing Club

The Art Expression Life Drawing Club is back in Berlin! Every month Art-Expression Studios will host at least one Life-Drawing session in the last week of every month at Oyoun. Come and join us for three hours of Life-Drawing with live models posing. The event will take place at the club room in Oyoun. If you want [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

September 19, 2022 20:00 AM

dance performance | Nora Amin: Rerooting

A dance performance based on the vocabulary and techniques of Baladi dance, Raqs-Sharqi, from a feminist perspective. The performance follows the style of choreographer Nora Amin who works with Baladi dance in contexts of liberating emotionality, retrieving the personal and autonomous held of identity and sexuality beyond the modes of patriarchal tradition, subjugation, discrimination, and [...]

dance, Feminism, Performance

September 20, 2022 20:00 AM

dance performance | Nora Amin: Rerooting

A dance performance based on the vocabulary and techniques of Baladi dance, Raqs-Sharqi, from a feminist perspective. The performance follows the style of choreographer Nora Amin who works with Baladi dance in contexts of liberating emotionality, retrieving the personal and autonomous held of identity and sexuality beyond the modes of patriarchal tradition, subjugation, discrimination, and [...]

dance, Feminism, Performance

September 20, 2022 20:00 AM

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

September 21, 2022 16:30 AM

Workshop | Llewellyn Mnguni: Contemporary Dance Class

Llewellyn Mnguni hails from the small town of Mafikeng in the North West Province of South Africa. As a performer, Llewellyn Mnguni grew up in many different artistic and educational settings in South Africa which led Llewellyn to appreciate the many different dance styles and disciplines, especially in the many cultures of her country where dance is an integral part of [...]

dance, LGBTQ, Queer, South Africa, workshop

September 21, 2022 18:30 AM

Yoga for BIPOC -Diaspora wellness club

We meet every Wednesday at 18:30 p.m. on the first floor of Oyoun to practice yoga together in a comfortable and safe setting. This is a BIPOC only space and open to all levels. So you don't need any previous experience. Bring your mat and a towel or blanket for final relaxation. If you do yoga blocks [...]

BIPoC, QTBIPOC, yoga

September 21, 2022 20:00 AM

Performance | Llewellyn Mnguni: Resilience

Resilience tells the true and complicated story of a South African-born LGBTQIA+ activist raised in South Africa's strict Setswana culture. Being gay and being an artist brought with it obstacles stemming from the old values of previous generations and the influences of society in which a man's identity is constantly under attack, wrong [...]

LGBTQ, Performance, Queer, South Africa

September 22, 2022 18:00 AM

Workshop | Llewellyn Mnguni: Contemporary Dance Class

Llewellyn Mnguni hails from the small town of Mafikeng in the North West Province of South Africa. As a performer, Llewellyn Mnguni grew up in many different artistic and educational settings in South Africa which led Llewellyn to appreciate the many different dance styles and disciplines, especially in the many cultures of her country where dance is an integral part of [...]

dance, LGBTQ, Queer, South Africa, workshop

September 22, 2022 19:00 AM

Healing Circle 4 BIPOC Men

This is a BIPOC Men Circle. The aim is to get together and share different experiences in this journey called life. Being a BIPOC Man in this society brings different challenges. Participants come together as brothers, as men. Letting go of our toxic masculinity and exploring sustainable masculinity. This is a safe space and everything [...]

BIPoC, masculinities, masculinity, Oyounty

September 23, 2022 20:00 AM

Ali Azimi Live in Berlin

Ali Azimi Live at Oyoun! After a successful 11-city sold-out North American tour, Ali Azimi will be playing Berlin for the second time, at the Oyoun! This concert in Berlin is part of his European tour in 2022. The show will feature songs from the current album Kahrobaye Arezou as well as many classics such as [...]

Ali Azimi, Tehran On Their Ground

September 24, 2022 20:00 AM

Black & Brown Cabaret Dinner Show

Ready to be the change you want in the world? Then come to the Black and Brown Cabaret of the most diverse and authentic performance cabaret dinner shows in Berlin (or maybe even the whole nation). The Black and Brown Cabaret is a trans*, queer*, feminist, POC and refugee-run, inclusive space for celebrating all types of bodies [...]

black and brown cabaret, Performance, Prince Emrah, Queerberg, Queerberg Collective

September 27, 2022 18:30 AM

Sold out: Book premiere – Mohamed Amjahid: Let's Talk About Sex, Habibi

Our view of love and desire in North Africa is heavily influenced by clichés, orientalism and fetishization. But what freedoms are there in supposedly closed societies? Where are the boundaries and who defines them? Mohamed Amjahid shows how the everyday sexuality of North Africans really is and does away with racist stereotypes. He talks about orgies [...]

decolonial, reading, Mohammed Amjahid

September 27, 2022 18:30 AM

Livestream transmission: Book premiere - Mohamed Amjahid: Let's Talk About Sex, Habibi @ Oyoun-Club

In addition to the sold-out reading by Mohamed Amjahid, we are offering a live stream in the Oyoun Club. Tickets are free but must be reserved using the ticket button at the bottom of this page. Our view of love and desire in North Africa is heavily influenced by clichés, orientalism and fetishization. But what freedoms are there in supposedly closed societies? Where [...]

decolonial, reading, Mohammed Amjahid

September 27, 2022 20:00 AM

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

September 28, 2022 14:00 AM

Living Together / Looking Apart – Activist and Artistic Gathering

The three-day academic, activist and artistic gathering focuses on the representational strategies, practices and histories of living together in the so-called multicultural and multi-ethnic societies in the Global South and within Europe. We draw attention to what Fathima Tobing Rony calls visual biopolitics whereby visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than [...]

Art, decolonial, Feminism

September 28, 2022 18:30 AM

Yoga for BIPOC -Diaspora wellness club

We meet every Wednesday at 18:30 p.m. on the first floor of Oyoun to practice yoga together in a comfortable and safe setting. This is a BIPOC only space and open to all levels. So you don't need any previous experience. Bring your mat and a towel or blanket for final relaxation. If you do yoga blocks [...]

BIPoC, QTBIPOC, yoga

September 28, 2022 19:00 AM

RIOT NOW! Denazification - Germany, the land of lone perpetrators

With: Asal Dardan, Seda Basay-Yildiz and Mely Kiyak. Moderator: Koray Yilmaz-Günay Generations of people with a history of immigration, PoCs and Black people live here, shape the culture and write German history. Every day. But the "self-image of the Germans" continues to lag behind this irreversible fact. Which institutions and laws protect those who express their frustration and anger or [...]

anti-semitism, BIPoC, Germany, Immigration, Poc

September 30, 2022 16:30 AM

Workshop | Llewellyn Mnguni: Contemporary Dance Class

Llewellyn Mnguni hails from the small town of Mafikeng in the North West Province of South Africa. As a performer, Llewellyn Mnguni grew up in many different artistic and educational settings in South Africa which led Llewellyn to appreciate the many different dance styles and disciplines, especially in the many cultures of her country where dance is an integral part of [...]

dance, LGBTQ, Queer, South Africa, workshop

September 30, 2022 19:00 AM

concert | JadaL X Disco Misr

JadaL x Disco Misr: The ultimate music experience for the first time in Europe! The Arabic rock band JadaL, founded in 2003, will take the stage this evening with soulful words and perfectly timed melodies between rock, Jordanian-Arabic lyrics and pop sounds. In addition to JadaL, the Egyptian music producers Amr Emad, Mostafa El Sherif and Chady Mobasher will also be performing as Disco [...]

concert, Disco Misr, jadal band, Live, Mir'a

October 1, 2022 16:30 am

Workshop | Llewellyn Mnguni: Contemporary Dance Class

Llewellyn Mnguni hails from the small town of Mafikeng in the North West Province of South Africa. As a performer, Llewellyn Mnguni grew up in many different artistic and educational settings in South Africa which led Llewellyn to appreciate the many different dance styles and disciplines, especially in the many cultures of her country where dance is an integral part of [...]

dance, LGBTQ, Queer, South Africa, workshop

October 1, 2022 18:00 am

Date Killer Academy Showcase Event

Over the past few months, this year's Datteltäter Academy Fellows have turned their ideas into artistic projects with a social impact and are presenting them publicly for the first time at the showcase event. We want to celebrate this together with you. With a keynote by special guest Yassmin Abdel-Magied and the artistic input of the fellows, we want to create connections and space [...]

Date Killer Academy

October 2, 2022 19:00 am

Film (INDIANARA) + Performance + Live Stream Brazil Elections | Kisses of the Spider Men (_Beijos de homens aranha_)

ESRAordínaer * & Indianara DON'T LOOK AWAY, rather LOOK AWAY! October 2nd is a landmark day. For the world and especially for Brazil, because that's where the elections take place. ESRAordínaer* & friends* take the day as an opportunity to focus on the visibility of the current martyrdom of LGBTIQ+ people as part of a queer art event! Will be shown [...]

Movie, LGBTQ, Performance, Queer, Trans *

October 3, 2022 11:00 am

Matla Ahuna - Special Event with Live Band

Matla Ahuna means "The power is within me". With this transformational special event, your power is waiting to be discovered so you can truly create your best life. Where do we go from here? That will be the overarching question of this event, which aims to provide not only answers but also helpful solutions that really work. The [...]

Jocelyn B Smith, Matla Ahuna

October 4, 2022 20:00 am

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

October 6, 2022 15:00 am

rongin shagor/রঙিন সাগর | Speculating 'Caste' - Workshop with AROH AKUNTH

Aroh will host a craft talk that brings the themes emerging out of caste to the writers, enables them to see and read it in different contexts, and also possibly write about it. All systems of discrimination have an inherent logic of merit to them, caste just amplifies it differently than others, it literally produces [...]

Creative writing, rongin shagor, workshop

October 8, 2022 12:00 am

Queer ping pong

Dear friends and future friends, Due to the weather conditions, Queer Ping Pong has decided to postpone the event by one week to October 08th, 2022. LINE UP and CONCERT remain unchanged. Thanks for your understanding! We hope that we can reach all of our ping pong players and music lovers! We hope that on October 08th [...]

Queer, Queer ping pong

October 11, 2022 19:00 am

Healing Circle 4 BIPOC Men

This is a BIPOC Men Circle. The aim is to get together and share different experiences in this journey called life. Being a BIPOC Man in this society brings different challenges. Participants come together as brothers, as men. Letting go of our toxic masculinity and exploring sustainable masculinity. This is a safe space and everything [...]

BIPoC, masculinities, masculinity, Oyounty

October 11, 2022 20:00 am

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

October 14, 2022 15:30 am

BVT-Fachtage 2022 Knowledge Transfer – Research by and for Transcommunities

The Federal Trans* Association invites you to the first BVT* specialist days. The specialist days offer a platform for scientists, multipliers and interested individuals to network and to discuss current research projects on trans* issues. In addition to networking, there will be an opportunity on this day to discuss research ideas in areas such as health, social policy and law, as well as communities and [...]

Federal Association Trans*, Trans *

October 15, 2022 17:30 am

Talc | AUTOPOIESIS | Publishing as Poiesis

Featuring Party Office (Coral, Pranita Thorat, Vidisha-Fadescha), Fehras Publishing Practices (Sami Rustom & Kenan Darwich) and Nino Bulling, moderated by Shaunak Mahbubani Continuing AUTOPOIESIS, curator Shaunak Mahbubani invites Party Office, Fehras Publishing Practices and Nino Bulling to elaborate on recent publishing projects presented at documenta fifteen. Party Office collaborators Coral and Pranita will speak about [...]

autopoiesis

October 18, 2022 20:00 am

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

October 20, 2022 08:00 am

Conference | My City is a Battleground—Intersectionality and Urban Violence

4th International Conference of the Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces”, October 20-21, 2022 The Collaborative Research Center “Re-Figuration of Spaces” has a particular interest in how spatial and social conflicts interplay and how these conflicts connect with the intersectional tensions that accompany processes of urban spatial refiguration. Taking its inspiration from decades of research [...]

October 22, 2022 19:00 am

INDIGO: a friends & family event

[German version below] The black community project “INDIGO” welcomes you to a night that merges a variety of artistic expressions. We want to showcase and celebrate the impact of black womxn in our society. Indigo is a poetic, afro-surrealist short film telling the story of two black German womxn who meet during a hair braiding [...]

INDIGO

October 23, 2022 19:00 am

Film, Exhibition, Performance | Hybrid visuals

An art event showcasing art films, digital exhibition, Q/A, performances and Dj The presented works deal with the subject of deconstructing identity in the context of Visual Arts and aim to raise awareness within our communities. Hosted by Astan Meyer, Cille Sch and Arnaud Ele Featuring Nicholas Rose, ZOEYLEE, [...]

dj, exhibition, Movie, hybrid visuals, Performance, visual art

October 24, 2022 17:30 am

Life Drawing Club

The Art Expression Life Drawing Club is back in Berlin! Every month Art-Expression Studios will host at least one Life-Drawing session in the last week of every month at Oyoun. Come and join us for three hours of Life-Drawing with live models posing. The event will take place at the club room in Oyoun. If you want [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

October 25, 2022 18:00 am

rongin shagor/রঙিন সাগর | Embodying Community: A Small-Group Pillow Talk with ALICE YUAN ZHANG 张元

How does the diasporic body transmit, sense, and cache memories of community? Explore this inquiry together with an intimate group of POC at Embodying Community, a peer-learning gathering hosted by artist Alice Yuan Zhang at Oyoun. We will start by reading the Afro-German poet and activist May Ayim's poem “Community”, which is the focal point [...]

Alice Yuan Zhang, rongin shagor

October 25, 2022 20:00 am

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

October 26, 2022 18:00 am

rongin shagor/রঙিন সাগর | Stitching the memory - workshop with CARLA ABILÉS

The workshop is presented as a group meeting to reflect on the poem "Community" by May Ayim and to create a banner or banner collectively that encapsulates experiences, impacts, projections of the poem and the idea of what community means. It will seek to create a space for listening and dialogue among participants to reflect [...]

Carla Abiles, rongin shagor

October 26, 2022 18:15 am

Yoga for BIPoC – Diaspora Wellness Club

Every Wednesday at 6:15pm at Oyoun Yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 [...]

BIPoC, yoga

October 28, 2022 19:00 am

We sing our songs for peace - concert for solidarity

Academics for Peace invites to support their “Boundless Academic Solidarity” campaign which aims to support young scientists in Turkey who have been unjustly punished by the Turkish state and lost their livelihood after they died on January 11th In 2016, the peace petition entitled "We will not be part of this crime!" had signed. [...]

concert

October 28, 2022 20:00 am

Exhibition opening + film | Wake up calls for my ancestors

20:00 p.m. Ethnographic Gaze Film Screening : "India's Stone Wonders" (1934) With Tanya Talwar and Johanna Függer-Vagts (Institute for Art and Visual History) 20:30 p.m. - 22:00 p.m. Artist Walk and Exhibition Opening With Rajyashri Goody, Kirtika Kain, Sajan Mani and Upendranath TR Colonial archives in various museums and institutions across Europe generate diverse discourses [...]

decolonial, exhibition, Movie

October 29, 2022 12:00 am

Exhibition | WAKE UP CALLS FOR MY ANCESTORS

The exhibition can be viewed from 29.10. until 15.11. can be visited daily from 12:19 p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. ADMISSION FREE! Information about the opening of the exhibition here. ––– ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Colonial archives in various museums and institutions across Europe generate diverse discourses related to history, memory, archiving, art and the authenticity of the colonized nations. "Wake up calls [...]

decolonial, exhibition, Movie

October 29, 2022 19:00 am

Poetry Meets Hip Hop w/ SAMMUS

The Poetry Meets Series is back: Poetry Meets Hip Hop with Headliner MC and producer extraodinaire SAMMUS, Special Guest Mushiva, legendary Slam-poet Sir Black from Ghana and Spoken Word Artists Nana d'Artist and Avrina Prabala-Joslin. Film Screening: by Mark Mushiva (Namibia) Doors: 19:00 Start: 20:00 Tickets available here. Headlining Act: Sammus SAMMUS (Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo) is [...]

hip hop, Poetry meets, rap, spoken word

November 1, 2022 17:30 AM

Vernissage | Moudjahidate* – women*, resistance, queer alliance

18:00 | Vernissage with Nadja Makhlouf, Maya Inès Touam and Sarah El Hamed 19:30 p.m. | Artist talk followed by Q&A Afterwards from November 02.11.2022nd, 30.11.2022 to November 12th, 00 open daily from 19:00 p.m. the commitment of [...]

Maya Inès Touam, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, Sarah El Hamed

November 1, 2022 20:00 AM

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

November 2, 2022 12:00 AM

Exhibition | Moudjahidate* – women*, resistance, queer alliance

*** The exhibition has been extended until December 7th. *** Vernissage on 01.11.2022 Afterwards from 02.11.2022 - 30.11.2022 open daily from 12:00 p.m , queer alliance" the commitment of female fighters* in the fight for freedom and autonomy for [...]

Maya Inès Touam, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, Sarah El Hamed

November 2, 2022 18:00 AM

Exhibition Tours | Moudjahidate* – women*, resistance, queer alliance

During a tour of the exhibition on November 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th at 18:00 p.m. you have the opportunity to get to know the artists of the exhibition "Moudjahidate* - women*, resistance, queer alliance" personally and get an impression of their work and get the project. --> FREE ENTRY ––– ABOUT THE EXHIBITION In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Algeria's independence [...]

Maya Inès Touam, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, Sarah El Hamed

November 2, 2022 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC – Diaspora Wellness Club

Every Wednesday at 6:15pm at Oyoun Yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 [...]

BIPoC, yoga

November 2, 2022 19:00 AM

Waacking Dance Workshop with Habibitch | Maghreb* alike

*** Update 2.11.: Registration only possible until 18:30 p.m. After that box office! *** By focusing on the specific training techniques for this dance, we can discover the cultural and political history of Waacking. In doing so, Habibitch directs our attention to the communities, affects, and beliefs that make up this practice. The Waacking Dance Workshops arise from [...]

decolonial, Habibitch, LGBTQ, Maghreb* alike, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, Queer, Waacking Dance Workshop, workshop

November 3, 2022 18:00 AM

Exhibition Tours | Moudjahidate* – women*, resistance, queer alliance

During a tour of the exhibition on November 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th at 18:00 p.m. you have the opportunity to get to know the artists of the exhibition "Moudjahidate* - women*, resistance, queer alliance" personally and get an impression of their work and get the project. --> FREE ENTRY ––– ABOUT THE EXHIBITION In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Algeria's independence [...]

Maya Inès Touam, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, Sarah El Hamed

November 3, 2022 19:00 AM

Demystifying womanhood – realities in (post)colonized North Africa (BIPOC only) | Maghreb alike

*** Update 3.11.: Registration only possible until 17:30 p.m. Then admission at the box office! *** Featuring Kenza Mala Badi, Louna Sbou, Badiaa Bouhrizi, Nadja Makhlouf, Sarah El Hamed and Maya Inès Touam Sitting on a rug, drinking tea together, six+ individuals come together to share their realities, experiences and critical reflections on their Relationship [...]

Badia Bouhrizi, BIPoC, decolonial, LGBTQ, Louna Sbou, Mala Badi, Maya Inès Touam, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, North Africa, Queer, Sarah El Hamed

November 3, 2022 21:00 AM

concert | Badiâa Bouhrizi | Maghreb* alike

This project is almost a trance, feminine, the fact that I am behind every sound that is played makes this project an intimate universe where being a woman is felt and heard without venturing into feminist discourses. - Badiâa Bouhrizi Emerging from the Tunisian music underground, Badiâa Bouhrizi is a powerful-voiced singer and songwriter who [...]

BIPoC, concert, decolonial, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*

November 4, 2022 18:00 AM

Exhibition Tours | Moudjahidate* – women*, resistance, queer alliance

During a tour of the exhibition on November 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th at 18:00 p.m. you have the opportunity to get to know the artists of the exhibition "Moudjahidate* - women*, resistance, queer alliance" personally and get an impression of their work and get the project. --> FREE ENTRY ––– ABOUT THE EXHIBITION In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Algeria's independence [...]

Maya Inès Touam, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, Sarah El Hamed

November 4, 2022 20:30 AM

concert | Sonic Interventions feat. Liam Iman | Maghreb* alike

Liaam Iman invites you on a journey through poetic ancestral landscapes, diverse voice registers and polyrhythmic drumming, inspired by North African, Celtic and Balkan music, calling on silent voices and stories for a moment of remembrance, togetherness and healing. Liaam is a multifaceted singer, composer, percussionist and Reiki practitioner of Algerian and Kabyle descent. After graduation [...]

BIPoC, concert, decolonial, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Neysatu

November 5, 2022 18:00 AM

Exhibition Tours | Moudjahidate* – women*, resistance, queer alliance

During a tour of the exhibition on November 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th at 18:00 p.m. you have the opportunity to get to know the artists of the exhibition "Moudjahidate* - women*, resistance, queer alliance" personally and get an impression of their work and get the project. --> FREE ENTRY ––– ABOUT THE EXHIBITION In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Algeria's independence [...]

Maya Inès Touam, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, Sarah El Hamed

November 5, 2022 20:00 AM

Performance | Kenza Mala Badi “War on Bodies” | Maghreb* alike

"War on bodies" sheds light on the chronological process of body control in relation to colonialism, which attempts to jump through different times experienced by Moroccan people and their bodies. The performance tries to show how French colonialism has changed, how we deal with our bodies, our genders and sexualities, and [...]

Maghreb* alike, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Performance

November 5, 2022 21:30 AM

Closing Party feat. Leila Moon & Aïda Salander | Maghreb*alike

DJ Leila Moon is a songwriter, producer and DJ specializing in raï, r'n'b, electronic, mahraganat, bass music, drum and bass, breakbeat. Her eclectic musical style is a culmination of her collective influences and cross-cultural experiences. Born to an Algerian mother and a Moroccan father, she grew up with anime and Bollywood, listening to Raï music, Arabic pop, French chansons, [...]

Maghreb* alike, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, party

November 6, 2022 10:00 AM

Community Brunch | It's a wrap! | Maghreb* alike

It's a wrap! In the truest sense of the word ... With a community brunch at the end of the six-day discourse program, we invite you and the participating artists from Moudjahidate* to meet and meet in person, to have conversations and to make friends. --- Start: 10:00 End: 15:00 Admission free, prices à la carte --- CONTEXT This [...]

BIPoC, decolonial, Maghreb* alike, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*

November 8, 2022 20:00 AM

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

November 9, 2022 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC – Diaspora Wellness Club

Every Wednesday at 6:15pm at Oyoun Yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 [...]

BIPoC, yoga

November 11, 2022 18:00 AM

rongin shagor/রঙিন সাগর | Critical Collective Practices | a lecture presentation anchored by Aroh Akunth

In societies that weaponize the alienation of individuals for economic gains, the idea of collectives should offer respite, and alternatives. Though historically these queer organizations have defined affinity to particular kinds of peoples and politics, delegitimization of pro-people ideologies en mass, including workers' rights has led to the role of collectives gaining renewed importance in [...]

Aroh Akunth, rongin shagor

November 12, 2022 12:00 AM

Llewellyn Mnguni | Jazz Dance Workshop

A feisty combination of contemporary dance and modern dance movements. This dance workshop is curated specifically for beginner dancers who are interested as well as the LGBTQIA+ community and POC people in Berlin. The focus is on body positivity, fitness and freedom of movement. Another jazz dance workshop will be offered on the 19th of [...]

dance, Llewellyn Mnguni, workshop

November 12, 2022 19:00 AM

rongin shagor/রঙিন সাগর | concert reading | “The Whisper of Others”

"The Whisper of Others" is a lyrical examination of hegemonic historiography and the injustices deeply rooted in it. The poems combine world events with individual stories of flight and exploitation and invite the reader to take on new perspectives. Her poems are longing, sad and uplifting at the same time. They are accompanied musically by Hakan Tugrul on the [...]

Alain Alfred Moutapam, the whispering of the others, Djelifly Sako, Hakan Tugrul, rongin shagor, Sarah Ehsan

November 12, 2022 19:30 AM

Concerts | Marwan Moussa

PLEASE NOTE: Due to visa issues, Afroto will not be joining his friend on stage in Berlin. Marwan Moussa will still be performing his own hits, including new releases. Spearheading the infectious wave of Arab-trap in the region, the Egyptian artists Marwan Moussa and Afroto make their Berlin debut. The two artists from ra2smal collective, [...]

afroto, arabictrap, Marwan Moussa, Oyoun, Performance

November 13, 2022 18:00 AM

Website launch | rongin shagor/রঙিন সাগর – An artistic dialogue starting with a poem by May Ayim

*** rongin shagor is now online and available via www.ronginshagor.com *** With answers from Kondo Heller, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Amira Zarari, Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, Arijit Bhattacharyya, Bruna Barros and Jess Oliveira, Alice Yuan Zhang, Sara Ehsan , Carla Abiles, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, Jumoke Adeyanju and you … rongin shagor/রঙিন সাগর , translated from Bengali as much [...]

dance, May Ayim, Music, Performance, Poetry, Poetry meets, rongin shagor, website

November 13, 2022 20:00 AM

May Ayim Vortex | pres. by Poetry Meets and rongin shagor

The Poetry Meets Series is an international, multilingual community event showcasing spoken word, visual art and film, musicians and poetry talent from Berlin and beyond. The line-up always promises a remarkable conglomeration of soulful, multilingual wordsmiths, musicians and visual stories, accompanied by the infamous open mic vortex. Poetry Meets and rongin shagor present [...]

May Ayim, Poetry meets, rongin shagor, V

November 15, 2022 20:00 AM

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

November 16, 2022 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC – Diaspora Wellness Club

Every Wednesday at 6:15pm at Oyoun Yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 [...]

BIPoC, yoga

November 16, 2022 19:00 AM

Reading and Conversation | Standing still is not an option – Europe Keep writing

Reading and discussion with Sam Zamrik, Rasha Alqasim, Abdalrahman Alqalaq, Widad Nabi and Omar Kaddour | Moderator: Sam Zamrik, Translation: Günther Orth Europe is too valuable to be left to the Europeans. Following this quote from the Brazilian author Rafael Cardoso, "Next Writing", the portal for literature from war and crisis zones, invited authors to [...]

Abdalrahman Alqalaq, reading, Omar Kaddour, Rasha Alqasim, Sam Zamrik, Vidad Nabi

November 19, 2022 12:00 AM

Llewellyn Mnguni | Jazz Dance Workshop

A feisty combination of contemporary dance and modern dance movements. This dance workshop is curated specifically for beginner dancers who are interested as well as the LGBTQIA+ community and POC people in Berlin. The focus is on body positivity, fitness and freedom of movement. To register send an E-mail address to: tlmnguni@gmail.com Tickets: 15 € [...]

dance, Llewellyn Mnguni, workshop

November 19, 2022 19:00 AM

Concerts | Adonis

Adonis perform their anticipated album 'Hadis El Layl' at Oyoun! Famed Lebanese pop/rock band Adonis first came into sight with its debut single “Stouh Adonis” (2012), a dance tune relaying tales of night-time adventures on the rooftops of the group's small suburban town. Renowned for its signature Arabic lyrics and blistering live performances, Adonis captured [...]

Adonis, BIPoC, concert

November 19, 2022 19:00 AM

Poetry meets ALTE w/ Otis Mensah & Somadina

The Poetry Meets Series is presenting their first intimate Poetry Meets ALTE edition with main acts Otis Mensah and Somadina as well as an array of magnificent poets, celebrating alternative music, the metaphysical and the poetics of the inbetween. Doors: 19:00 p.m. Start: 20:00 p.m. Tickets: via Eventbrite Program Main acts: Otis Mensah is a [...]

Music, Poetry, Poetry meets

November 21, 2022 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC – Diaspora Wellness Club

Every Wednesday at 6:15pm at Oyoun Yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 [...]

BIPoC, yoga

November 22, 2022 20:00 AM

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

November 24, 2022 13:00 AM

Film + Workshop | 30 years after the racist murder attack in Mölln: where do we stand today?

This November marks the 30th anniversary of the racist assassination attempt in Mölln. In memory of the victims and on the important issue of dealing with racist attacks in the Federal Republic then and now, the Turkish Association in Berlin-Brandenburg (TBB) eV will hold a commemoration event including a workshop with Ibrahim Arslan, who was affected. [...]

Movie, workshop

November 25, 2022 18:00 AM

8th Edition CultSup | ANDROGYNEITY & AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY

Cult' Sup' is an exploration of African, Afro-descendant, and Afrofuturist culture as well as the of course the world. Like it is written in their name, Cult' Sup' are here to supply culture from their community, to their community, but also aim to reach communities beyond their own. Organized by Anaïs Astan Meyer aka Astan [...]

afro futurism, Anaïs Astan Meyer, cult sup, Nane Bald, Natisa Exoce Kasongo, Performance

November 26, 2022 09:00 AM

coaching workshops | Hayatuna Power Day

Be there for INSPIRATION, MOTIVATION, WONDER and POWER. It's time to live the day instead of just surviving. "I am living now." Are you living your real life? Or are you just trying to survive your everyday life? On November 26.11.2022th, XNUMX it's all about finding out about getting out of the past and not being afraid of the future [...]

Healing, Khloud Zaher-Iraqi

November 26, 2022 14:00 AM

ADAN Inspires Berlin – your future in your hands!

ADAN Inspires is an event of the Afro German Academics Network eV, where inspiring people present their different professions and share their hurdles and successes on their professional path with you. There are also helpful application tips and we are available to answer any questions you may have about the various courses and job descriptions. Those interested from the age of 14 [...]

afro german, afro german, Decolonial

November 26, 2022 20:30 AM

Theater performance | NOMAD

"One evening when I was a little girl, I was sitting on the beach with my father. The sea was as dark as the sky. Suddenly a drop of light appeared on the horizon. It didn't come from boats and didn't move. Right across from us was a different country, like a fairytale land with shining lights in the middle [...]

Nomad, Performance, Theater

November 27, 2022 14:00 AM

MARTA theater performance

On the occasion of the “International Day against Violence Against Women*” on November 25th, RAICES will perform an excerpt from the performative play MARTA, which accuses all forms of sexualized discrimination and violence. MARTA, a play about the body and the biography, tells the story of two women* who simultaneously experience gender-specific violence in their everyday life, who end up in a woman*murder [...]

MARTA, Performance, Theater

November 29, 2022 20:00 AM

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

December 2, 2022 19:00

Reading and Conversation | The homes I have - Europe Continue writing

Reading and discussion with Ali Abdollahi, Zia Qasemi, Mostafa Hazara and Batool Haidari | Moderator: Tigran Petrosyan, Translation: Jutta Himmelreich Europe is too valuable to be left to the Europeans. Following this quote from the Brazilian author Rafael Cardoso, "Next Writing", the portal for literature from war and crisis zones, invited authors to write letters, [...]

reading, literature, keep writing

December 2, 2022 20:00

Kollinz Release Concert and Afterparty

Special Guests: Great 9, Gidberry, Kushkid, Papa-G Babyface and Zeyo Mann Afterparty w/ DJ Makossiri + DJ PVRE Kollinz is an Afro-Ukrainian rapper, songwriter and producer currently based in Berlin after leaving Kyiv due to the war fled. His musical style is a unique blend of Afro-Hip-Hop and Afro-Pop. His new single with the [...]

December 3, 2022 17:00

reading + panel | Ten years night: Free Ahmed Douma: الحرية لأحمد دومة

The panel will shed the light on Ahmed Douma's case history, the mistreatment he's facing in his arbitrary detention, testimony from a recently released journalist and political prisoner who spent two years with Douma, testimony from Douma's ex-wife about the intimidation his family and she suffered from and a brief about political prisoners situation and [...]

reading, panel, Reading

December 6, 2022 20:00

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

December 7, 2022 18:15

Yoga for BIPoC – Diaspora Wellness Club

Every Wednesday at 6:15pm at Oyoun Yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 [...]

BIPoC, yoga

December 9, 2022 12:00

Exhibition | Queer Sex Workers On EXISTING AND LONGING

The perspective of queer sex workers on sexuality, gender, relationships, love, fantasies, desires, the body, money and work is very special. But more often than not, their stories are told by outsiders with greater power, forcing them into narrow molds that leave no room for the nuances of their existence. EXISTING AND LONGING is a collective archive of [...]

exhibition, EXISTING AND LONGING, Queer

December 9, 2022 19:00

Poetry meets SOUNDS w/ Douniah & Damian Soul

The Poetry Meets Series presents its first edition of Poetry Meets SOUNDS celebrating alternative music, sound art and the intersecting power of poetry. ENTRY: 7PM | START: 8PM Ticket: via Eventbrite MAIN ACTS: Douniah Douniah creates art that breaks boundaries. Her sense of aesthetics is reflected in both her music and her visual productions. Here [...]

Poetry, Poetry meets

December 10, 2022 14:00

Workshops | “Our own family ties”

Workshop “Our own family ties” by KAy Garnellen and Alice Gedamu For queer families there is always the question of the form and structure of family ties; nothing is given, neither rights nor norms and there are still too few role models. KAy Garnellen and Alice Gedamu want to read from their performance “Our [...]

Queer, Rainbow Family

December 13, 2022 20:00

New Standard Jam Session

The "New Standard Jam Session" is back and has found a new home at Café Bulbul + Oyoun! Jazz is allowed to be fun again. Lot of people follow us, keep coming back and put Tuesdays Jam in their to do list under “nice things to do”. Some session animals follow us since the very [...]

December 14, 2022 18:15

Yoga for BIPoC – Diaspora Wellness Club

Every Wednesday at 6:15pm at Oyoun Yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 [...]

BIPoC, yoga

December 17, 2022 19:30

IDEAL | Tiyatro Oyunu

(German text below) Tiyatro Oyunu | 19:30 - 20:40 Tartışma | 21:00 - 22:00 Yıllar boyu süren araştırmaların sonucu, teknolojinin ve hatta antropolojinin geldiği son nokta, “İdealler Makinası”, ayağınıza geldi! Sizlere angeboteta neler sunuyor, neler: Nur topu gibi ürünler, All inclusive yazlık seyahatler, Her damak tadına uygun migrantlar, Görli'de huzur dolu piknikler, Memleketten son haberler, [...]

guest collective, Performance, Theater

December 18, 2022 14:00

IDEAL | Tiyatro Oyunu

(German text below) Tiyatro Oyunu | 14:00 - 15:10 Tartışma | 15:30 - 16:30 Yıllar boyu süren araştırmaların sonucu, teknolojinin ve hatta antropolojinin geldiği son nokta, “İdealler Makinası”, ayağınıza geldi! Sizlere angeboteta neler sunuyor, neler: Nur topu gibi ürünler, All inclusive yazlık seyahatler, Her damak tadına uygun migrantlar, Görli'de huzur dolu piknikler, Memleketten son haberler, [...]

guest collective, Performance, Theater

December 20, 2022 08:00

Winter break: Thank you and see you in 2023!

The calendar year is coming to an end, our program is airing for a moment and we are taking the opportunity to send out a huge thank you to everyone who was there, who followed our work, realized projects with us, new events and formats, believed in ideas and then after long evenings [...]

December 21, 2022 18:15

Yoga for BIPoC – Diaspora Wellness Club

Every Wednesday at 6:15pm at Oyoun Yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 [...]

BIPoC, yoga

January 4, 2023 18:15 PM

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every Wednesday at 6:15pm at Oyoun Yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 [...]

BIPoC, yoga

January 9, 2023 12:00 PM

Exhibition | Different perspective - show your face

Afrikakzent Media eV cordially invites you to the exhibition opening of "Other Perspectives - Show Your Face"! This project is about introducing people with African connections based on their activities. This happens in video portraits lasting a maximum of 10 minutes, in which the protagonists are accompanied with the camera through their everyday work and, in addition to gaining insights into their [...]

Afrikakzent Media eV, AccentTV, Other perspectives – show your face

January 12, 2023 20:00 PM

Tiyatro Oyunu | IDEAL

(German text below) Tiyatro Oyunu | 20:00 - 21:15 Tartışma | 21:30 - 22:30 Yıllar boyu süren araştırmaların sonucu, teknolojinin ve hatta antropolojinin geldiği son nokta, “İdealler Makinası”, ayağınıza geldi! Sizlere angeboteta neler sunuyor, neler: Nur topu gibi ürünler, All inclusive yazlık seyahatler, Her damak tadına uygun migrantlar, Görli'de huzur dolu piknikler, Memleketten son haberler, [...]

guest collective, Performance, Theater

January 13, 2023 18:00 PM

Interactive Performance | Draw Me Close

Draw Me Close is a solo, multidisciplinary performance that combines drawing with dance. The walls and floor are covered in large sheets of paper, and Matagumpay is a medium for mark-making. Alone, he can only move languidly, aimlessly, producing weak and noncommittal lines. At what point do you want to interrupt? Lead him in dance, or guide [...]

drawing, Performance

January 13, 2023 20:00 PM

Tiyatro Oyunu | IDEAL

(German text below) Tiyatro Oyunu | 20:00 - 21:15 Tartışma | 21:30 - 22:30 Yıllar boyu süren araştırmaların sonucu, teknolojinin ve hatta antropolojinin geldiği son nokta, “İdealler Makinası”, ayağınıza geldi! Sizlere angeboteta neler sunuyor, neler: Nur topu gibi ürünler, All inclusive yazlık seyahatler, Her damak tadına uygun migrantlar, Görli'de huzur dolu piknikler, Memleketten son haberler, [...]

guest collective, Performance, Theater

January 14, 2023 16:00 PM

Interactive Performance | Draw Me Close

Draw Me Close is a solo, multidisciplinary performance that combines drawing with dance. The walls and floor are covered in large sheets of paper, and Matagumpay is a medium for mark-making. Alone, he can only move languidly, aimlessly, producing weak and noncommittal lines. At what point do you want to interrupt? Lead him in dance, or guide [...]

drawing, Performance

January 14, 2023 17:00 PM

panel | Berlin Cultural Majlis

This series is called "The Berlin Cultural Majlis". A similar version has already been organized in Washington DC by Sultan Al-Qassemi and was very well received by the intellectual scene in the American capital. The series of talks should offer Berlin/European based artists from the MENA region a platform in Berlin to present their works [...]

Arab region, arabic, MENA region, Sultan Al Qassemi, The Berlin Cultural Majlis, Ziad Dalloul

January 21, 2023 17:00 PM

panel | Berlin Cultural Majlis

Arab region, Majlis, MENA region, Rula Khoury, Sultan Al Qassemi, The Berlin Cultural Majlis

January 21, 2023 19:00 PM

comedy show | Comedy Bunker Berlin

Have a good laugh with Alaa El Sheikh and Mohamed Helmy Alaa El Sheikh and Mohamed Helmy will make their audience laugh with their stories on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at Oyoun. Ticket: 25,99 euros - ticket sale here! Language: Arabic All ages are welcome! Children under the age of 8 get free entry. Biographies ADEEF [...]

ADEEF, Alaa El Sheikh, Comedy, Mohamed helmy, stand up

January 24, 2023 10:00 PM

Workshop by Kwasukasukela Arts Collective | Ngoma Consciousness

The etymology of the root word 'Ngoma' is found amongst many nations' tribes and regions in southern, central and West Africa. Janzen argued that Ngoma is a proto- Bantu cognate within which exists an ecology of related institutions such as the practice of medicine, divination, crafts, music, and ritual. Kwasukasukela Arts Collective practices and believes [...]

African, dance, empowerment, Healing, Kwasukasukela Arts Collective, Song, Performance, performance art, workshop

January 25, 2023 10:00 PM

Workshop by Kwasukasukela Arts Collective | Ngoma Consciousness

The etymology of the root word 'Ngoma' is found amongst many nations' tribes and regions in southern, central and West Africa. Janzen argued that Ngoma is a proto- Bantu cognate within which exists an ecology of related institutions such as the practice of medicine, divination, crafts, music, and ritual. Kwasukasukela Arts Collective practices and believes [...]

African, dance, empowerment, Healing, Kwasukasukela Arts Collective, Song, Performance, performance art, workshop

January 25, 2023 19:00 PM

panel | Berlin Cultural Majlis

(English version below) الأعزاء والعزيزات المهتمين والمهتمات بمجلس برلين الثقافي, !نشكركم على حضور مجلس برلين الثقافي الثاني كما و يسعدنا دعوتكم/ن لحضور مجلس برلين الثقافي الثالث يوم الأربعاء يوم الخامس و العشرون من يناير في مركز عيون الثقافي في برلين. ضيفتن ستكون الب– السورية ا حديفة ا ا ستنستن أبح أبح أعمأعم ا الفن السوري [...]

Arab region, Majlis, MENA region, Rula Khoury, Sultan Al Qassemi, The Berlin Cultural Majlis

January 28, 2023 15:00 PM

The DIY Kiki Ball (Fundraiser for Magia 007)

It's time to get crafty. For this Kiki, at least one significant part of your outfit has to be handmade by yourself. The craftier the better! Spectators feel free to wear whatever you want. This is a fundraiser event to support Magia 007. Magia needs to urgently cover costs for their FFS, a necessary milestone [...]

ballroom, Kiki Ball

January 29, 2023 19:00 PM

Poetry Meets JAZZ & Vortex Special

The Poetry Meets Series is starting off the year with a plethora of good news. "Poetry Meets Jazz" is back for its 3rd iteration with exceptional soul and jazz artist Yazmin Lacey as our main act. After a long hiatus Egyptian-Australian musician Mariam Sawires will be back as a special guest accompanied by harpist Zainab [...]

Poetry, Poetry meets

January 30, 2023 17:30 PM

Life Drawing Club

The Art Expression Life Drawing Club is back in Berlin! Every month Art-Expression Studios will host at least one Life-Drawing session in the last week of every month at Oyoun. Come and join us for three hours of Life-Drawing with live models posing. The event will take place at the club room in Oyoun. Entry fee is [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

February 2, 2023 14:00

Workshops | RE-WRITING THE WALL

"If our walls could talk, If our walls could sing, What would they say? If we all stood together looking at the same blank wall, what would we, individually and collectively, want to say?" Join this workshop that is about empowering each other, giving space to the Black community, and creating public art through introspection, [...]

Black community, Black Lives, RE-WRITING THE WALL, workshop

February 3, 2023 18:00

Food, Movie, Party | Vibrations of Blackness: Connecting The Diaspora With The Continent

A series of performances, films, food, and after-party celebrating Black History Month. Curated by Blindian Project Vibrations of Blackness is a curated evening of performances, film, food and dance that connects the diaspora with the continent. In honor of Black History Month, it aims to bring the BlindianProject ethos of celebrating Black x Brown culture [...]

Vibrations of Blackness: Connecting The Diaspora With The Continent

February 3, 2023 18:30

QAD (Queer Analog Darkroom) Get together

The Queer Analog Darkroom (QAD) is finally opening the doors to the community for its first get together here at Oyoun! Since accessing and practicing analog photography has its limits for discriminated and marginalized groups, the QAD puts emphasis on engaging with the broader community of practice. Come and join the introduction into the project [...]

#QADgettogether, QAD, Queer Analog Darkroom

February 4, 2023 17:00

Film Festival Wake up Europe | Screening: Grbavica, Land of My Dreams

Screening, followed by panel discussion on topic of Wartime sexual violence Language: OMU Bosnian with English Subtitles ABOUT the movie Grbavica – The Land of my Dreams GRBAVICA is a story about contemporary Sarajevo…Single mother Esma wants to grant her twelve-year-old daughter Sara's wish to participate in a school trip. A certificate proving her father [...]

Did We Really Wake Up?, Europe Wake Up, European Academy Berlin

February 6, 2023 18:00

Panel discussion with parties on the election | What will the SPD, Greens, Left, CDU and FDP do to implement our German-Arab demands?

The election for the Berlin House of Representatives on February 12, 2023 is getting closer and closer. This takes the stats "Our voice counts - for participation and anti-racism" as an opportunity to ask the candidates of the SPD, Greens, LINKE, CDU and FDP on February 06, 2023 what they will do for the German-Arab community. You have over 20 receivables from [...]

Berlin election, German-Arab community, Our vote counts! - Participation. anti-racism. activism, Election to the Berlin House of Representatives

February 8, 2023 19:00

panel | Berlin Cultural Majlis

.ضيفون مدر مدر مدر ا اس ب بردوي بردوي في في في في نق نق عم عم س س س ا ا و و جدو كم كم كم ي مس6 مس مس مس 45: القاسمي) 7:7-8:15 مساءً: ختام المجلس يرجى الرد على دعوة الحضور باستخدام ا؄ر ا؄ر ا؄ر ا؄ر ا؄ر يرجى الانتباه أن عدد الضيوف محدود وسيتم [...]

Arab region, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, Majlis, MENA region, Sam Bardaouil, Sultan Al Qassemi, The Berlin Cultural Majlis, Til Fellrath

February 11, 2023 17:00

Film Festival Wake up Europe | Screening: Quo Vadis Aida

Screening, followed by panel discussion on the topic of genocide Language: OMU Bosnian, English, Dutch with English Subtitles ABOUT the movie Quo Vadis Aida? QUO VADIS, AIDA? tells of just a few dramatic days in the life of a woman whose fate stands for that of an entire generation of women who survived the war [...]

Did We Really Wake Up?, Europe Wake Up, European Academy Berlin

February 14, 2023 19:00

panel | Berlin Cultural Majlis

كم و يسعدن يسعدن حضور مج بر برocket الثق ا ا الثلثench ا فبر ق ا ا ا ا ا ا الثق في ا الثق في بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر. ضيفتنا ا اايو شفيق نق نق نق السينم– ا س س ا ا ا ا اوق وووو وووو. جدوocket كم كم كم يلي: 6: 45-7 مساءً: وصول الضيوف 7-8: 15 مساءً: محاضرة المج مج (الط وسلط سعود ا ا مس8: 15 مساءً: ختام المج يرجى [...]

dr Viola Shafik, Hani Zaitoun, Majlis, Sultan Al Qassemi, The Berlin Cultural Majlis

February 16, 2023 18:45

movie | Emilia Bau – documentary screening

This 16th of February is the second anniversary of Emilia Bau's murder. This evening is dedicated to honor the memory of Emilia Bau and the inspiring legacy she left to us with her life choices, convictions and strength by screening a 20 minute documentary that gives a glance on who she was, the force of her [... ]

Emilia Bau, LGBTQ, Trans *

February 18, 2023 17:00

Film Festival Wake up Europe | Screening: Hive

Screening, followed by panel discussion on the topic of rebuilding after the war Language: OMU Albanian with English Subtitles ABOUT the movie Hive Fahrije's husband has been missing since the Kosovo war and, in addition to her grief, her family is also struggling financially. To support them, she starts a small farming business, but in [...]

Did We Really Wake Up?, Europe Wake Up, European Academy Berlin

February 18, 2023 20:30

Concerts | Afro Valentine Party with Special Guest Kollinz

Special Guest: Kollinz Featuring Gidberry, KushKiddz, Papa-G Babyface, DJ R1ZON, DJ Paradise & DJ Squad + MC Henry Salvador After inviting us to a very special record release party late last year, Oyoun-fellow Kollinz brings his Afro-Hip Hop and Afro-Pop back to the club for another round. Alongside fellow artists Gidberry, KushKiddz and Papa-G Babyface, [...]

Afro Valentine Party, Afro-Ukrainian rapper, afrobeats, Amapiano, concert, collinz, rap

February 23, 2023 19:30

Screening: "The Sound of Masks": A tribute to Atanásio Nyusi

A tribute screening of “The Sound of Masks“ (2018), directed by award winning filmmaker Sara Gouveia. The documentary film follows the history of Mozambique through the eyes (and life) of the late and legendary Mapiko dancer, choreographer and storyteller Atanásio Nyusi, who passed away in November 2022. “The Sound of Masks“ celebrated its world premiere [... ]

Atanasio Nyusi, blkbanaana, Pure, screening methods, The Sound of Masks

February 24, 2023 19:00

Poetry Meets Soul x Black Love Edition

The Poetry Meets Series is inviting you to a once in a lifetime experience of breathtaking vocalists and lyrically endowed poets: A very special edition themed Black Love. Indulge yourself into an intimate, meditative and ambient atmosphere encompassing the varying realities and complexities of Black Love with an exquisite acoustic live setting. The line-up [...]

Poetry, Poetry meets

March 4, 2023 16:00 pm

Album Release Concert | Faraj Abyad and Ensemble – “Kisses of Poetry”

Presented by Berlin Cultural Majlis *** Ticket proceeds will be donated to Syria and Turkey *** Join Faraj Abyad and his 10 piece ensemble for an evening of new wave classical Arabic music. This concert will be a celebration of the release of his new album "Kisses of Poetry" - a musical tribute to the [...]

arabic, concert, faraj abyad, old

March 6, 2023 18:30 pm

Book reading with Women in Exile – “Breaking Borders to Build Bridges”

German version below The International Women's Day is not only meant to set a sign against the daily and worldwide oppression of girls and women, inter, trans and non-binary persons in patriarchal systems. It also celebrates the courageous fights against social injustices, discrimination, sexist and racist violence. The book “Breaking Borders to [...]

Reading, women in exile

March 16, 2023 19:30 pm

British Council Literature Seminar | Bernardine Evaristo

Author and Professor Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, talks to creative director and literary agent Sharmaine Lovegrove about her most recent works. This event launches the British Council's annual Literature Seminar which focuses this year on 'Class and Contemporary UK Writing'. Tickets can be bought for this event separately or are included [...]

Bernardine evaristo, British Council, Literature, Talk

March 17, 2023 19:30 pm

British Council Literature Seminar | Kit de Waal

Prize-winning author Kit de Waal (My Name Is Leon) reads and discusses her latest works in this event on the second evening of the British Council Literature Seminar 2023. Kit worked for fifteen years in criminal and family law, was a magistrate for several years and sits on adoption panels. Her first novel, "My Name [...]

British Council, Waal Kit, Literature, Talk

March 18, 2023 17:00 pm

panel | Berlin Cultural Majlis

الأعزocket والعزيز االمهتم بمجلس ا ا ا ع ع حضور مج بر بر ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا التocket كم و يسعدن يسعدن حضور مج مجocket ا ا ا ا ا ا م م م ا ا الثق بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر ضيوفن سيكونون ابب د خ خ خ خ برك برك برك ا ا علحف العربي العربي ا ا س س س س س س س س س س س س س س س س س س س Moreط [...]

dr Basle Dalloul, Hani Zaitoun, Majlis, Saleh Barakat, Sultan Al Qassemi, The Berlin Cultural Majlis

March 25, 2023 20:00 pm

Performance + Afrobeats Dance Party | The Theme is Joy: A Variety Show

The Theme is Joy, is a variety show hosted by Mayowa where 4 performers perform material around the concept of joy. After the showcase there will be a dance party with DJ FemdelaFem playing afrobeats & hip hop music so come prepared to dance as well. Artists: Mayowa - stand up comedian, YouTube, discourse girlie [...]

afrobeats, hip hop, Mayowa, The Theme is Joy: A Variety Show, variety shows

March 26, 2023 20:00 pm

Benefit concert for the earthquake victims in Khoy (Iran) | “Iran Ava” – Conducted by Yaser Bayat

Benefit concert for the earthquake victims of the city of Khoy in Iran The benefit concert has the theme ''A dialogue between the Iranian and the international instruments''. The music band ''Iran Ava'' will be performing, which will present a unique performance under the direction of Mr. Yaser Bayat - a composer and musician from Iran. Yaser Bayat: [...]

benefit concert, concert, Iran, Iran Ava, Yaser Bayat

March 27, 2023 17:30 pm

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art Expression Life Drawing Club is back in Berlin! Every month Art-Expression Studios will host at least one Life-Drawing session in the last week of every month at Oyoun. This month's event will be hosted by our guest artist facilitator, Shabnam Sarmadi. Come and join us for three hours of Life-Drawing with live models posing. The [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

March 31, 2023 20:00 pm

Monstrosity Show – Trans Visibility Day

Monstrosity is a show that challenges the gender binaries through the re-appropriation of the unimaginable, forbidden and pleasurable! This show has a lot of surprises in store for you, with the potential to make you feel deeply connected to yourself, dance, cry and even scream to liberate your soul! The monstrosity show originated from the [...]

Performance, Trans, Transqueer community

April 1, 2023 15:00 p.m.

The Space Age Kiki Ball and Party

Mother Dream Louboutin invites you to a journey through time, space, pop culture and fashion. The Space Age Fashion of the 60's was game changing. Elegant fashion paired up with technology, futuristic objects, aliens and much more! But tonight we want to see your own version of Space Age. So have fun with it and get [...]

ball, ballroom, Kiki Ball

April 1, 2023 17:00 p.m.

panel | Berlin Cultural Majlis

الأعزocket والعزيز االمهتم بمجلس ا ا ا ع ع حضور مج بر بر ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا العocket كم و يسعدن يسعدن حضور حضور مجلس بر ا ا ا ا ا السبت ا أبري في ا ا ا ا ا ا ا بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر بر برocket. ضيفن سيكون ا ا ا س س س نق نق إنه إنه ا ا ا س س ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا ا اense. يرجى [...]

dr Basle Dalloul, Hani Zaitoun, Majlis, Saleh Barakat, Sultan Al Qassemi, The Berlin Cultural Majlis

April 6, 2023 14:00 p.m.

Itinerant Geographies - A Proposition for Radical Unbelonging

I invited a group of friends and colleagues to "unbelong together", which resulted in the exchange of practices that make up this program. Following an intuition that gardens, as places of the "could have been" and the "could be", that is, of failure and hope, could be the lenses, the place, the set of [...]

itinerant geographies, Performance

April 15, 2023 21:00 p.m.

Concerts | Afro spring break

Artists line up: Kollinz, Gidberry, Nana J, P.w3sh, MC Fresh Fuzz, DJ R1ZON Oyoun's former fellow Kollinz returns to Oyoun for an evening of Afrobeats, Amapiano, Rap and Dancehall. The Afro-Ukrainian rapper, songwriter and producer will be accompanied by his colleagues Gidberry, Nana J, P.w3sh, MC Fresh Fuzz and DJ R1ZON. Together they will celebrate [...]

Afro spring break, Afro-Ukrainian rapper, afrobeats, Amapiano, concert, collinz, rap

April 19, 2023 20:00 p.m.

Brown labels

BROWN LABELS arises from the understanding of "being different". Viewed both from the inside and from the outside. The idea of "being mixed", be it through "racialization" or different origins, alienates a person, but can also enrich them in many ways. Often “browns” or “mixed people” describe the feeling of not belonging, creating a disproportionate difficulty in fitting in. [...]

brown labels, dance, Music, Performance, Poetry

April 20, 2023 20:00 p.m.

Brown labels

BROWN LABELS arises from the understanding of "being different". Viewed both from the inside and from the outside. The idea of "being mixed", be it through "racialization" or different origins, alienates a person, but can also enrich them in many ways. Often “browns” or “mixed people” describe the feeling of not belonging, creating a disproportionate difficulty in fitting in. [...]

brown labels, dance, Music, Performance, Poetry

April 21, 2023 20:00 p.m.

Brown labels

BROWN LABELS arises from the understanding of "being different". Viewed both from the inside and from the outside. The idea of "being mixed", be it through "racialization" or different origins, alienates a person, but can also enrich them in many ways. Often “browns” or “mixed people” describe the feeling of not belonging, creating a disproportionate difficulty in fitting in. [...]

brown labels, dance, Music, Performance, Poetry

April 22, 2023 17:30 p.m.

Dance, live music + conversation | Solidarity Fundraiser for Flood Affectees in Pakistan

This year's Earth Day, join the group Critical Pakistan for a solidarity fundraiser for flood affectees in Pakistan. While Pakistan is responsible for a statistically small share of global carbon emissions, Global Climate Risk Index 2021 ranked Pakistan the 8th most vulnerable country to climate change. Climate change has caused frequent floods, unpredictable rainfall, [...]

conversation, dance, fundraising, live music, pakistan

April 22, 2023 20:00 p.m.

Party | Kabul Nights Party

An unforgettable night of music and dance from South Asia and Central Asia awaits you! The organizers of Kabul Nights cordially invite you to a party. With music from Afghanistan, Bollywood, Iran and Tajikistan, the whole night should be celebrated and danced. Experience a musical journey through cultures and let the rhythms and [...]

Afghanistan. , Bollywood, DJ Dang, Iran, Kabul Nights, party, Tajikistan

April 24, 2023 17:30 p.m.

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month Art-Expression Studios will host at least one Life-Drawing session in the last week of every month at Oyoun. Come and join us for three hours of Life-Drawing with live models posing. The event will take place at the club room in [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

April 27, 2023 20:00 p.m.

Reading | A Reading by Adania Shibli

You are warmly invited to a reading by Adania Shibli. Adania Shibli (Palestine, 1974) has written novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays. Shibli has twice been awarded with the Qattan Young Writer's Award-Palestine in 2001 on her novel Masaas, and in 2003 on her novel Kulluna Ba'id bethat al Miqdar aan el-Hub. Her latest [...]

Adania Shibli, reading, Reading

April 29, 2023 18:00 p.m.

Booty therapy party

Maïmouna invites you to a Booty Therapy Party on April 29th here at Oyoun! The event will be a multidisciplinary show. Expect dance, twerk, stand up, songs all mixed with political messages about Women, LGBTQIA+ and Bipoc rights. There will be DJ sets of African urban, Dancehall, Afrobeat, Perreo, Brazilian funk music. The event supports [...]

Booty therapy, dance, party

May 2, 2023 17:00

Talc | Getting Started as a Transnational Artist in Berlin

With Salah Zater (performance artist, dancer, curator) How can a transnational artist gain a foothold in the independent scene? How do you deal with the challenges of freelance work, the bureaucracy and the burden of finding your way in a new system? How do you access funding opportunities when language is a barrier [...]

arab*, Talk

May 5, 2023 18:00

Kurdistan Soli Küfa x Şeyda Kurt Soli Reading

Due to the still tragic situation, Soli Küfa is organizing a solidarity event for the earthquake victims in Kurdistan, Turkey and Syria on May 5th. Şeyda Kurt will read from her current book “HASS”, Elu will present an exhibition and Adnan Çelik will play Kurdish and Turkish songs for us. Soli Küfa started as a solidarity kitchen, [...]

reading, Sheyda Kurt

May 5, 2023 19:30

Performance | Our Queer future is a past tense – أجسَادٌ مِن عَلَق

To those Exiled from Earth, so they chose the sky ق) Our Queer future is a past tense' is an installation performance in a form of a promenade, based on a post migration perspective on Queerness in relation to Arab* Identity(s). As a term, queerness does [...]

Ahmad Baba, arab*, Mansur Ajang, Performance, Queer

May 6, 2023 17:00

Dance | Varnam Salon Germany 2023

With Lavanya Subramaniam and Neela Bhaskar Varnam Salon Deutschland (VSD) is a series of performances by Germany-based senior art practitioners, mid-career artists, and upcoming dancers. Varnam is often the “main” piece in a solo Bharatanatyam performance. Our aim is to create an opportunity for young artists to explore his or her connection to the timeless [...]

indian dance, Swarajathi

May 13, 2023 17:15

Alaa Abu Diab علاء أبو دياب – BERLIN – Mesh Abiad مش أبيض

* THERE WILL BE TWO SHOWS BACK TO BACK * Early show: Doors 17:15 | Start 18:00 | Finish 20:00 Evening show: Doors: 20:15 | Start 21:00 | Finish 23:00 Since stepping into the scene a few years ago, Jerusalem's funniest man Alaa Abu Diab has gone on to sell out shows across the world from Cairo [...]

Comedy, spoken word

May 22, 2023 17:30

Cancelled: Workshop | Life Drawing Club

*Unfortunately, the May edition of the Life-Drawing Club had to be cancelled. The next edition will be on June 26.* The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month Art-Expression Studios will host at least one Life-Drawing session in the last week of every month at Oyoun. come and join [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

May 26, 2023 17:00

SOUP3 | Vernissage of the Ceramics Club exhibition

For a week, Ceramics Club presents works that have been created in the ceramics workshops of the last two years. Personal works by Ina and Nhu will also be on display. The interactive exhibition invites you to take part - come by, play with sound and let your objects become part of the exhibition. Ceramics Lub was founded in 2021 by Nhu Huynh [...]

ceramic club, soup3, Opening

May 26, 2023 19:00

SOUP3 | Telephassa: The journey has begun

Presentation of the project "Telephassa: The journey has begun". Are you ready to challenge dominant narratives and rewrite the myth? Are you ready to hear the stories and perspectives of those who have been overlooked? Join us at the Telephassa First Look Event and be a part of the journey. At Telephassa, hidden stories are [...]

Bakkhos, soup3, storytelling, tazir, Telephassa, workshop

May 27, 2023 12:00

SOUP3 | Ceramics Club + Telephassa exhibition

Following the vernissage on May 26th, Keramiklub and Telephassa will be exhibiting their projects and works created within the framework of Soup3 and beyond for a week at Oyoun. In this context, Keramiklub presents works that have been created in the ceramic workshops of the last two years. Personal works by Ina and Nhu will also [...]

ceramic club, soup3, Telephassa

May 31, 2023 18:00

Performing Arts Festival Berlin MARTA

MARTA tells the story of two women who simultaneously experience gender violence in everyday life, and which ends with femicide. This story is told through physical and biographical theater and tries to invite the viewer to understand this topic not as a private matter but as a problem of society as a whole. MARTA was produced by AQUItheater Berlin, funded by the Fund [...]

AQUItheater Berlin, Feminism, Lorena Valdenegro, MARTA, Performance, Roots, theater

June 1, 2023 18:00

Performing Arts Festival Berlin MARTA

MARTA tells the story of two women who simultaneously experience gender violence in everyday life, and which ends with femicide. This story is told through physical and biographical theater and tries to invite the viewer to understand this topic not as a private matter but as a problem of society as a whole. MARTA was produced by AQUItheater Berlin, funded by the Fund [...]

AQUItheater Berlin, Feminism, Lorena Valdenegro, MARTA, Performance, Roots, theater

June 2, 2023 20:00

Booty Therapy Show & Party

Come and spend a whole evening with Booty Therapy Vybz here at Oyoun! Schedule 20h-22h Shows-Performances hosted by Maïmouna with Les Bootykilleuses 22h-00h Party Time - Clubbing + DJ SET by DJ Efanestia - DJ Chichi Banana The Bootykilleuses (students of Booty Therapy) are offering you a wonderful show with group dances, solos, duos. Come [...]

Booty therapy, dance, Performance

June 3, 2023 18:30

conversation | 20 years later: the Iraq war and the aftermath

Failed anti-war movement, instrumentalized aid and the Iraqi protest movement Shortly before the start of the Iraq war in 2003, the worldwide anti-war movement mobilized 15 million people. In Berlin alone, more than 500.000 people took to the streets in February and demonstrated against a US-led military intervention. On March 20, 2003, the military intervention began under demonstrably false claims. It led to [...]

June 3, 2023 19:30

Stand Up Comedy Show | Πρώτα ο Θεός με τον Χριστόφορο Ζαραλίκο

(German version below) Το Δ.Σ. του Συλλόγου Ελλήνων Επιστημόνων Βερολίνου/Βρανδεμβούργου σας καλεί Stand Up Comedy με τίτλο «Πρώτα ο Θεός» με τον Χρ 3:2023 (ώρα έναρξης), στον πολυχώρο πολιτισμού OYOUN, Culture New Thinking, στη διεύθυνση: Lucy-Lameck-Str. 19, 30 Berlin. Περιγραφή [...]

Christoforos Zaralikos, Political satire, Stand up comedy show, Πρώτα ο Θεός

June 10, 2023 14:00

We Want the Sky - Remembering Sarah Hegazi Three Years Later

!Content warning: suicide, violence! This June marks three years since Sarah Hegazi - activist, lesbian, advocate for women's and queer rights, communist, software developer, sister, and daughter - decided to take her own life. In 2017, Sarah Hegazi was imprisoned after raising a rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in her hometown of Cairo. [...]

#raisetheflagforsarah

June 15, 2023 18:30

Workshops | Between Identities: From Roots to Wisdom

In a world of globalization and migration, where do I belong to? They say that knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom, and through this workshop Maryse and Johanna will guide you through the journey of discovering our own identities. Using a de-colonial perspective the workshop will question how the world around us defines [...]

de colonial, Johanna Wollin, Kulturweit tandem program, Maryse Gabuganze, Open Call, UNESCO, workshop

June 16, 2023 14:30

Exhibitions | Digital vital

Digital Vital is an exhibition curated by The Bachchao Project. This exhibition is an attempt to showcase the gendered perspectives on digital rights issues in India. The exhibits look at issues of access, censorship, data privacy and usage of online platforms. The exhibits are created by artists in India who have attempted to look at [...]

Bachchao Project

June 17, 2023 14:30

Exhibitions | Digital vital

Digital Vital is an exhibition curated by The Bachchao Project. This exhibition is an attempt to showcase the gendered perspectives on digital rights issues in India. The exhibits look at issues of access, censorship, data privacy and usage of online platforms. The exhibits are created by artists in India who have attempted to look at [...]

Bachchao Project

June 17, 2023 15:00

Music, Fashion, Food | Rice and Beans

Rice and Beans Events invites you to a day full of food, fashion and music. Music: Immerse yourself in the smooth sounds of RnB, the foundation of music that holds a special place in our hearts. Take a break from fast-paced, loud music and let yourself fully enjoy the rhythm of RnB. Food: Join us for [...]

Black owned businesses, fashion, Food, Music, Rice n' Beans

June 19, 2023 18:00

Workshops | Black Freedom Circle: Juneteenth Edition

Juneteenth, a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, holds a profound significance not only for Black Americans but for Black people around the world. It serves as a powerful reminder of the enduring spirit of resilience, strength, and triumph in the face of adversity. While this holiday originated in the context [...]

BIPoC Healing Circle, Black Freedom Circle

June 23, 2023 19:00

48h Neukölln | Exhibition opening: Alternative monument for Neukölln

*The inauguration will take place on Friday, June 23rd at 19pm at Hermannplatz* What could a monument honoring migration experiences look like? In this exhibition, Mikala Hyldig Dal embarks on a search for traces through memories of migration and at the same time towards a new form of urban monument that merges digital and urban spaces. The process [...]

48h Neukoelln

The picture shows excerpts from the short film. Valerie Fortin, Bri Phelps, Mae Chesney and Tuti Lennon star.

June 23, 2023 19:00

48h Neukölln | Accomplished Women by Ncube

Come, come everyone! Bring your musical instruments to accompany the silent film soundtrack: Accomplished Women! The black and white short film is set in San Miguel, a city built on crystals in Mexico in 1923. It is the story of politicians from Utah, USA trying to raise money for their mayoral campaigns by winning games played by [...]

48 hours Neukoelln, Accomplished Women!, Ncube, screening methods, movie shorts

June 23, 2023 20:00

48h Neukölln | Accomplished Women by Ncube

Come, come everyone! Bring your musical instruments to accompany the silent film soundtrack: Accomplished Women! The black and white short film is set in San Miguel, a city built on crystals in Mexico in 1923. It is the story of politicians from Utah, USA trying to raise money for their mayoral campaigns by winning games played by [...]

48 hours Neukoelln, Accomplished Women!, Ncube, screening methods, movie shorts

June 24, 2023 14:00

48h Neukölln | Exhibition opening: Alternative monument for Neukölln

*The inauguration will take place on Friday, June 23rd at 19pm at Hermannplatz* What could a monument honoring migration experiences look like? In this exhibition, Mikala Hyldig Dal embarks on a search for traces through memories of migration and at the same time towards a new form of urban monument that merges digital and urban spaces. The process [...]

48h Neukoelln

June 24, 2023 17:00

48h Neukölln | Accomplished Women by Ncube

Come, come everyone! Bring your musical instruments to accompany the silent film soundtrack: Accomplished Women! The black and white short film is set in San Miguel, a city built on crystals in Mexico in 1923. It is the story of politicians from Utah, USA trying to raise money for their mayoral campaigns by winning games played by [...]

48 hours Neukoelln, Accomplished Women!, Ncube, screening methods, movie shorts

June 24, 2023 18:00

48h Neukölln | Accomplished Women by Ncube

Come, come everyone! Bring your musical instruments to accompany the silent film soundtrack: Accomplished Women! The black and white short film is set in San Miguel, a city built on crystals in Mexico in 1923. It is the story of politicians from Utah, USA trying to raise money for their mayoral campaigns by winning games played by [...]

48 hours Neukoelln, Accomplished Women!, Ncube, screening methods, movie shorts

June 25, 2023 10:00

48h Neukölln | Exhibition opening: Alternative monument for Neukölln

*The inauguration will take place on Friday, June 23rd at 19pm at Hermannplatz* What could a monument honoring migration experiences look like? In this exhibition, Mikala Hyldig Dal embarks on a search for traces through memories of migration and at the same time towards a new form of urban monument that merges digital and urban spaces. The process [...]

48h Neukoelln

June 25, 2023 12:00

48h Neukölln | Mr. Metitsch – play in sign language

Mr. Metitsch has created his own world. He collects things and objects and integrates them into a sophisticated system of order, which he meticulously protects. Without his order of things, Mr. Metitsch could not exist. Because NOTHING is much more threatening than something. Mr. Metitsch has a past. adventures and experiences that depend on him like [...]

sign language, Theater

June 25, 2023 15:00

48h Neukölln | Queer Comedy Show: Ghetto Wrestling

Ghetto Wrestling is a queer comedy show centered around a “camp” wrestling performance. In this extravaganza, the creativity of the costumes and characters is more important than actual wrestling skills. A totally unprofessional comedy show, Ghetto Wrestling is looking for candidates who wish to wrestle for the occasion. To apply you need a wrestling name [...]

Camp, comedy show, Ghetto wrestling, Unprofessional wrestling performance

June 25, 2023 15:00

48h Neukölln | Mr. Metitsch – play in sign language

Mr. Metitsch has created his own world. He collects things and objects and integrates them into a sophisticated system of order, which he meticulously protects. Without his order of things, Mr. Metitsch could not exist. Because NOTHING is much more threatening than something. Mr. Metitsch has a past. adventures and experiences that depend on him like [...]

sign language, Theater

June 25, 2023 17:00

48h Neukölln | Accomplished Women by Ncube

Come, come everyone! Bring your musical instruments to accompany the silent film soundtrack: Accomplished Women! The black and white short film is set in San Miguel, a city built on crystals in Mexico in 1923. It is the story of politicians from Utah, USA trying to raise money for their mayoral campaigns by winning games played by [...]

48 hours Neukoelln, Accomplished Women!, Ncube, screening methods, movie shorts

June 25, 2023 18:00

48h Neukölln | Accomplished Women by Ncube

Come, come everyone! Bring your musical instruments to accompany the silent film soundtrack: Accomplished Women! The black and white short film is set in San Miguel, a city built on crystals in Mexico in 1923. It is the story of politicians from Utah, USA trying to raise money for their mayoral campaigns by winning games played by [...]

48 hours Neukoelln, Accomplished Women!, Ncube, screening methods, movie shorts

June 26, 2023 17:30

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

June 28, 2023 19:30

Launch + Talk | Josephine Apraku: How can we counter racism and take radical responsibility? Moderated by Angelo Camufingo

»We all learned racism. And it's up to us to reflect and learn anti-racism. It depends on you. And it's work. Work that we all urgently need to do. Josephine Apraku invites you and this invitation is a gift« -Mareice Kaiser In her*his work as a trainer*in for intersectional anti-racism educational work, [...]

Book launch, Familial Faces Publishers, Josephine Apraku, Talk

Graphic with red dots on a light background and the words Outsiders in Berlin

July 8, 2023 19:00

Movie + Discussion | Outsiders in Berlin

Outsiders in Berlin seeks to center and unpack consent in the form of movement/the absence of autonomy, counter the ideals of Völkerschau, & discuss what it means to be viewed and consumed without acquiescence. All with the focus on how Black transmasculine individuals navigate space in Berlin. Programming will take place over the course of [...]

black, QTBIPOC, Queer, Trans

July 9, 2023 19:00

Performance | Outsiders in Berlin

Outsiders in Berlin seeks to center and unpack consent in the form of movement/the absence of autonomy, counter the ideals of Völkerschau, & discuss what it means to be viewed and consumed without acquiescence. All with the focus on how Black transmasculine individuals navigate space in Berlin. Programming will take place over the course of [...]

black, QTBIPOC, Queer, Trans

The image shows hands with distorted fingers in front of a red background.

July 9, 2023 19:30

Album Launch + Concert | The Art of Boo: BROKEN

Our Fellow Bernard Hage invites everyone to launch his second music album and live concert on the 9th of July here at Oyoun! "Kaput" is the second music album by Lebanese cartoonist and musician Bernard Hage, also known as "The art of Boo". The work consists of a series of piano based tunes that chronicle [...]

Bernard Hage, The Art of Boo

July 11, 2023 16:30

dance workshop | what moves you

What moves me? What motivates me? What do I want to change in this society? Which topics are important to me? How can I express myself? Our dance theater project “What moves you?” FLINTA* invites between 15 and 18 years of age to bring these questions to the stage through dance and theater and thus about identity, motivation and opinions [...]

Dance, what moves you

July 12, 2023 18:15

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 minutes and [...]

BIPoC, yoga

July 13, 2023 16:30

dance workshop | what moves you

What moves me? What motivates me? What do I want to change in this society? Which topics are important to me? How can I express myself? Our dance theater project “What moves you?” FLINTA* invites between 15 and 18 years of age to bring these questions to the stage through dance and theater and thus about identity, motivation and opinions [...]

Dance, what moves you

July 15, 2023 14:00

Lecture Performance + Screening | Species, Soil and Successors

Lecture performances, screening and discussion with contributions by Hillside Projects, Julia Schuster, Devadeep Gupta, Lea Maria Wittich and Nilanjan Bhattacharya. Curated by Arijit Bhattacharyya Oyoun's curatorial focus Listening to the Land launches with Species, Soil and Successors by Arijit Bhattacharyya, a curatorial project consisting of three chapters. Based on curatorial research and a remote art residency, the project shares [...]

Arijit Bhattacharyya, Listening to the Land

July 15, 2023 14:00

Exhibition Opening | Species, Soil and Successors

Multimedia exhibition opening with artworks by Studio 33/3, Devadeep Gupta and Julia Schuster. Oyoun's latest curatorial focus Listening to the Land launches with “Species, Soil and Successors” by Arijit Bhattacharyya, a curatorial project consisting of three chapters. In its second segment “Soil and Successor”, the project holds space for artistic engagement in peripheral socioecologies. Through a [...]

Listening to the Land

July 15, 2023 15:00

Movie + Discussion | Transnational apartheid? Namibia, South Africa, USA and beyond - A Community Conversation

Film screening of “Germans in Namibia: Apartheid continued...”, a 2-part documentary. To be followed up by a community discussion round The film dives into the enduring coloniality of German settler colonialism in Namibia and its legacy on the sociopolitical context in Namibia today. A community-based discussion round will follow to tackle the still existing issue [...]

Colonialism, Namibia, screening methods

July 16, 2023 13:00

Exhibitions | Species, Soil and Successors

Multimedia exhibition with artworks by Studio 33/3, Devadeep Gupta and Julia Schuster. Oyoun's latest curatorial focus Listening to the Land launches with “Species, Soil and Successors” by Arijit Bhattacharyya, a curatorial project consisting of three chapters. In its second segment “Soil and Successor”, the project holds space for artistic engagement in peripheral socioecologies. Through a remote [...]

Listening to the Land

July 16, 2023 14:00

Concerts | Lekker Presents: A Backyard Sunday

The Lekker Collective is excited to announce their first Lekker Collective event for the year - Lekker Presents: A BACKYARD SUNDAY! Teaming up with friends in the creative community, next Sunday afternoon full of soulful music will be co-piloted by The Inner Pockets as house band, at OYOUN's outside space in central Neukölln. Tickets: limited [...]

concerts, DJs, Lekker collective, live music

July 19, 2023 18:15

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 minutes and [...]

BIPoC, yoga

July 21, 2023 19:00

Reading & Exhibition | Berlin. In Translation – A Multisensory Exhibition and Reading Event about Migration and Movement

Berlin. In Translation is a four-week writing and translation workshop whose participants have a history of migration in Germany. The reading event serves as a final meeting for the public to present the texts and translations that have been created over the past few months. In addition, the participants will exhibit migration- and project-related interdisciplinary artworks. The participants of the workshop all have a migration history as well as work and [...]

Berlin. In Translation

July 22, 2023 13:00

Workshops | Black Freedom Circle (BIPOC Only)

Share, listen, and restore together. Reclaim your rights to be, belong, and become. Join us for growth and community upliftment. *This event is for Black Bodies and Bodies of Culture (Color). Join the transformative Black Freedom Circle, a space carefully designed to offer comfort, understanding and empowerment. Together you will embark on a journey to [...]

BIPoC Healing Circle, Black Freedom Circle, Only BIPOC

July 24, 2023 10:00

Project week | what moves you

What moves me? What motivates me? What do I want to change in this society? Which topics are important to me? How can I express myself? Our dance theater project “What moves you?” FLINTA* invites between 15 and 18 years of age to bring these questions to the stage through dance and theater and thus about identity, motivation and opinions [...]

Dance, what moves you

July 24, 2023 17:30

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

July 25, 2023 10:00

Project week | what moves you

What moves me? What motivates me? What do I want to change in this society? Which topics are important to me? How can I express myself? Our dance theater project “What moves you?” FLINTA* invites between 15 and 18 years of age to bring these questions to the stage through dance and theater and thus about identity, motivation and opinions [...]

Dance, what moves you

July 26, 2023 10:00

Project week | what moves you

What moves me? What motivates me? What do I want to change in this society? Which topics are important to me? How can I express myself? Our dance theater project “What moves you?” FLINTA* invites between 15 and 18 years of age to bring these questions to the stage through dance and theater and thus about identity, motivation and opinions [...]

Dance, what moves you

July 26, 2023 18:15

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a cozy and safe environment. This is a BIPOC only space and open for all levels. You need to bring your own mat. In addition, a sweater or blanket might come in handy for the final relaxation. Classes are 75 minutes and [...]

BIPoC, yoga

July 27, 2023 10:00

Project week | what moves you

What moves me? What motivates me? What do I want to change in this society? Which topics are important to me? How can I express myself? Our dance theater project “What moves you?” FLINTA* invites between 15 and 18 years of age to bring these questions to the stage through dance and theater and thus about identity, motivation and opinions [...]

Dance, what moves you

July 28, 2023 10:00

Project week | what moves you

What moves me? What motivates me? What do I want to change in this society? Which topics are important to me? How can I express myself? Our dance theater project “What moves you?” FLINTA* invites between 15 and 18 years of age to bring these questions to the stage through dance and theater and thus about identity, motivation and opinions [...]

Dance, what moves you

July 28, 2023 16:00

dance performance | what moves you

What moves me? What motivates me? What do I want to change in this society? Which topics are important to me? How can I express myself? Our dance theater project “What moves you?” FLINTA* invites between 15 and 18 years of age to bring these questions to the stage through dance and theater and thus about identity, motivation and opinions [...]

Dance, what moves you

July 30, 2023 16:00

dance performance | what moves you

What moves me? What motivates me? What do I want to change in this society? Which topics are important to me? How can I express myself? Our dance theater project “What moves you?” FLINTA* invites between 15 and 18 years of age to bring these questions to the stage through dance and theater and thus about identity, motivation and opinions [...]

Dance, what moves you

2 August 2023 17:00

Dance Workshop | Llewellyn Mnguni—Jazz Dance Class

Dancer and choreographer Llewellyn Mnguni hails from the small town of Mafikeng in the North West Province of South Africa. As an artist*, Llewellyn Mnguni grew up in many different artistic and educational settings in South Africa, which led Llewellyn to appreciate the many different dance styles and disciplines, especially in the many cultures within [...]

Dance workshop, Jazz, Llewellyn Mnguni

3 August 2023 17:00

Dance Workshop | Llewellyn Mnguni—Jazz Dance Class

Dancer and choreographer Llewellyn Mnguni hails from the small town of Mafikeng in the North West Province of South Africa. As an artist*, Llewellyn Mnguni grew up in many different artistic and educational settings in South Africa, which led Llewellyn to appreciate the many different dance styles and disciplines, especially in the many cultures within [...]

Dance workshop, Jazz, Llewellyn Mnguni

6 August 2023 13:00

Exhibitions | Yukiko Nagakura: Blood runs in our bodies

Solo Show of Yukiko Nagakura The solo show “Blood runs in our bodies"; consists of four movies: 1) “I have a long journey before me.” (2016) on the women in Fukushima and their struggles in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in 2011. 2) “The Mother” (2022) about motherhood and maternity from the autobiographical point [...]

Blood runs in our bodies, Yukiko Nagakura

11 August 2023 19:00

Party | South Asian Hangouts Vol. 3

The South Asian Hangout team invites everyone in the South Asian community to an informal get-together. It primarily creates an open space with low-threshold offers that culturally enrich and empower the diaspora. The event is framed by various cultural offerings such as art, theatre, music, spoken word etc.. The challenging elements of this type of event [...]

CommunitySpace, Hangout, south asian

13 August 2023 17:00

Talk | Queer Footprints: Melodies of Migration Weaving the Threads of Identity

“Art is a refuge for the marginalized, a sacred space where queer people can reclaim their narratives and redefine their place in the world.” - Ocean Vuong Germany stands out as one of the most progressive countries when it comes to LGBTQIAP+ rights. Because of this, a large number of queer people migrate to Germany, [...]

Dipesh Khanal, LGBTQIAP+, photo exhibition, Queer, Queer Footprints: Melodies of Migration Weaving the Threads of Identity, Shuhrat Saidov, Talk

18 August 2023 16:00

Clothing swap party | The Intersections of Colonialism, Fashion industry and Climate crisis

Clothes swap party for racialized people The intersections of colonialism, the fashion industry and the climate crisis are often not highlighted. On that day, along with related information and music from SHI (DJ from Nairobi), we will have a clothes swap party. Bring clothes you no longer wear and swap them for clothes from people in the community. Please pay attention [...]

Black Earth Collective, Clothing swap party, Decolonial, clothes swap party, Climate Crisis, SHIA

26 August 2023 10:00

Workshops + talks | Anti-patriarchal and gender-inclusive community space

This event is aimed exclusively at Muslims and Muslim-read people Solidarity, productive and participatory - this is the description of the project "Muslim-Read Diversity in Conversation". To realize the concept, the Working Group invites Muslims and people who read Muslim to the event 'Anti-patriarchal and gender-inclusive communities'. In recent years, the participants have met in many [...]

Diversity read by Muslims in conversation, workshop

26 August 2023 21:00

Relaxed Performance | Eszka EP showcase: skin_deep

Dive into the world of Eszka and enjoy the very first #RelaxedPerformance at Oyoun! Eszka takes you on her journey, back to her homeland, the last primeval forest in Europe. A journey that leads into concrete and the ruins of industrialization. Driven by sadness and deep pain, imbued with the magic of the Szeptuchas and the rustling [...]

Eszka, Relaxed performance, skin_deep

27 August 2023 10:00

Workshops + talks | Anti-patriarchal and gender-inclusive community space

This event is aimed exclusively at Muslims and Muslim-read people Solidarity, productive and participatory - this is the description of the project "Muslim-Read Diversity in Conversation". To realize the concept, the Working Group invites Muslims and people who read Muslim to the event 'Anti-patriarchal and gender-inclusive communities'. In recent years, the participants have met in many [...]

Diversity read by Muslims in conversation, workshop

28 August 2023 10:00

Tiny OyoUnity @ ufaFabrik

*Please note that these events are not taking place in Oyoun, but in the ufaFabrik!* Oyoun's Tiny House is going on tour! Between the end of August and mid-October, our Tiny House wanders through various Berlin districts. For one week each we stop at different cultural places and institutions and interact with the surrounding urban space, the neighborhood and [...]

Tiny House, Tiny OyoUnity, Workshops

28 August 2023 15:00

Tiny OyoUnity @ ufaFabrik | Maurice Leoni-Osion: The Home Remixtape Archives Workshop

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.

mixtapes, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

28 August 2023 17:30

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

30 August 2023 14:00

Tiny OyoUnity @ ufaFabrik | Queer Analog Darkroom: The Impossible Project

This workshop will concentrate on the paradoxical nature of creating imagery from Black perspectives, while existing in the collective, socio-historical context of violent Black subject/object formation. This is a space to collectively watch, discuss, read and write about Black visuality and embodied representation.

Queer Analog Darkroom, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

31 August 2023 10:00

Tiny OyoUnity @ ufaFabrik | Hamam Talk: How to Podcast?

This workshop offers young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 the opportunity to learn the basics of podcasting while exploring the potential of podcasts in the context of anti-racism and activism.

Podcasts, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 1, 2023 17:00 AM

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Agri/Cultural Practice for Climate Justice

A workshop with Mojisola Adebayo and Nicole Wolf Are you interested in addressing racism and climate injustice? Would you like to explore how art and agroecology can work together? Are you Black, of African or Asian descent, an Indigenous person or Person of Color, from a migration background or a white person committed to anti-racism? [...]

Listening to the Land, Mojisola Adebayo, Nicole Wolf, Sea Behind The Wall

September 2, 2023 10:00 AM

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Agri/Cultural Practice for Climate Justice

A workshop with Mojisola Adebayo and Nicole Wolf Are you interested in addressing racism and climate injustice? Would you like to explore how art and agroecology can work together? Are you Black, of African or Asian descent, an Indigenous person or Person of Color, from a migration background or a white person committed to anti-racism? [...]

Listening to the Land, Mojisola Adebayo, Nicole Wolf, Sea Behind The Wall

September 3, 2023 10:00 AM

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Agri/Cultural Practice for Climate Justice

A workshop with Mojisola Adebayo and Nicole Wolf Are you interested in addressing racism and climate injustice? Would you like to explore how art and agroecology can work together? Are you Black, of African or Asian descent, an Indigenous person or Person of Color, from a migration background or a white person committed to anti-racism? [...]

Listening to the Land, Mojisola Adebayo, Nicole Wolf, Sea Behind The Wall

September 3, 2023 13:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ ufaFabrik | Pop-Up Event: Ojudun Taiwo - EXIT Strategies

The multimedia theater performance titled "EXIT Strategies" sheds light onto and explores eviromental issues, linked to historical colonialism, socio-economic class disparities, and the exploitative nature of the capitalist economic model. Ojudun Taiwo is a dancer, choreographer, curator and performance artist based in Lagos and Berlin.

Performance, Pop up event, Tiny OyoUnity

September 4, 2023 10:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun

Oyoun's Tiny House is going on tour! Between the end of August and mid-October, our Tiny House wanders through various Berlin districts. For one week we stop at different cultural locations and institutions and interact with the surrounding urban space, the neighborhood and the local partners. The Tiny House will be closed from Monday, September 4.9th. until Sunday, [...]

Tiny House, Tiny OyoUnity, Workshops

September 4, 2023 15:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Maurice Leoni-Osion: The Home Remixtape Archives Workshop

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.

mixtapes, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 5, 2023 10:30 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Workshops | Hatice Tahtali + Tariq Bajwa (Oyoun Team) – Cultural Marketing in a Nutshell

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

cultural marketing, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 5, 2023 13:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Workshops | Lara Chahal + Madhumita Nandi (Oyoun Team) - Performing Resistance

Tiny OyoUnity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

Performing Resistance, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 5, 2023 16:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Workshops | Mithra Nezhad (Oyoun Team) - Hacking Systems

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

media lab, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 6, 2023 15:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Queer Analog Darkroom: Let's Get Chemical – B/W Film Development

This will be an intensive workshop on black and white film development over 4 hours taking place at Oyoun in collaboration with Queer Analog Darkroom

Queer Analog Darkroom, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 6, 2023 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

September 7, 2023 10:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Hamam Talk: How to Podcast?

This workshop offers young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 the opportunity to learn the basics of podcasting while exploring the potential of podcasts in the context of anti-racism and activism.

Podcasts, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 7, 2023 16:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Workshops | Louna Sbou (Oyoun Team) – Artful Liberation: Market Placement for Diasporic Artists

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

cultural marketing, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 8, 2023 10:30 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Workshops | Nicola Reißer, Nina Martin + Dami Choi (Oyoun Team) – Design tools to present your artwork

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

design tools, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 8, 2023 16:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Workshops | Dami Choi, Nora Roho + Yodit Gebreheneras (Oyoun Team) – Artist Portfolio as an Empowerment Tool

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun Team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

artist portfolio, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 8, 2023 20:00 AM

Silent Performance | Pure: {Re}Search: An Intimacy with Nature

{Re}Search: An intimacy with nature, is an invitation into ceremony to heal the creative wounding,while aiming to dismantle capitalistic weights that inform, manipulate and burden the creative practice. An invitation for nature to intervene and advocate to re-imagine the practice as sacred and further bridge the separation between our bodies and the great mother - [...]

bodies, deep listening, Embodiment, Healing, installation, Nature

September 9, 2023 10:30 AM

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

September 9, 2023 16:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Pop-Up Event: Alejandra Alarcón Bautista - Dreaming of Water

Dreaming of Water is a small interactive sound installation of coal stones connected to a Midi sound system. As the artist and the audience interact with the rocks, different water sounds will resonate to create a soundscape referring to the rivers and natural resources now destroyed by coal mining. It is a confrontation to discuss under which conditions Berlin and Germany manage to perpetuate their development.

installation, Pop up event, Tiny OyoUnity

September 10, 2023 13:00 AM

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

September 11, 2023 12:00 AM

Un:imaginable in Sarajevo | Our Histories in Conversation – Rwandan, Bosnian and Uyghur Perspectives on the Role of Film and Art in Remembering Genocide

*Please note that the event does not take place in Oyoun, but in Sarajevo.* Panel discussion as part of the AJB Doc Festival Together with Esther Mujawayo-Keiner, Shahnura Kasim and Nihad Kreševljaković, we explore the connections between art, film and culture of remembrance. In the panel discussion "Our Histories in Conversation - Rwandan, Bosnian and Uyghur Perspectives on the Role of Film [...]

panel discussion, sarajevo, unimaginable

September 11, 2023 15:00 AM

Un:imaginable in Sarajevo | Sarajevo Roses to Kigali Kwibuka: Walking through our histories

*Please note that the event does not take place in Oyoun, but in Sarajevo.* With Melina Borčak, Esther Mujawayo-Keiner and Shahnura Kasim As part of UN:IMAGINABLE - Histories in Conversation, the interactive city tour explores Sarajevo Roses to Kigali Kwibuka: Walking through our histories the historically significant sites and places of remembrance in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but also throughout [...]

sarajevo, unimaginable

September 13, 2023 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

September 14, 2023 20:00 AM

Un:imaginable in Sarajevo | Film screening: UN:IMAGINABLE – our histories in conversation

*Please note that the event is not taking place in Oyoun, but in Sarajevo.* The genocides of the 1990s against Tutsis and Bosniaks shocked the world - and are still among the bloodiest events in modern history. The transnational documentary music theater UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories emerged from the lived reality of trauma, war, exclusion and exile.

Film screening, unimaginable

September 16, 2023 10:30 AM

Conference | The Left.Neukölln: Conference for a resistant city

THE LEFT. Neukölln invites everyone who wants to work for a solidary, anti-racist and climate-friendly Berlin to the conference in the Oyoun! Only a few months in office, the policies of the grand coalition in Berlin are already leaving unmistakable traces: the sell-out of the city and the racist law-and-order policy are being pushed forward vehemently and climate justice is becoming a distant prospect. Whether Tempelhofer [...]

Conference, political action, Workshops

September 16, 2023 15:00 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul. Admission: 5 euros (donation basis) Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com Language: English and [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, workshop, yoga

September 16, 2023 16:30 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

September 18, 2023 10:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ ZK/U (Centre for Art and Urbanism)

*Please note that these events are not taking 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 wanders through various Berlin districts. For one week we stop at different cultural places and institutions and interact with the surrounding urban space, [...]

Tiny House, Tiny OyoUnity, Workshops

September 18, 2023 15:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ ZK/U | Maurice Leoni-Osion: The Home Remixtape Archives Workshop

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.

mixtapes, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 19, 2023 11:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ ZK/U | Ria Boss - Casting Spells: A Songwriting Workshop

Tiny Oyounity presents: “Casting Spells: A songwriting workshop with Ria Boss” From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic practices with marketing, design, [...]

Tiny OyoUnity, workshop, ZK/U

September 20, 2023 10:00 AM

Canceled: Tiny OyoUnity @ ZK/U | Hamam Talk: How to Podcast?

This workshop offers young adults the opportunity to learn the basics of podcasting while exploring the potential of podcasts in the context of anti-racism and activism.

Podcasts, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 20, 2023 14:00 AM

MediaLab Scenario Workshop | The joy of being an error

The body, as a gendered material, is seeking a way to reshape a world in which participation would be possible. At a deeper level of this approach to machinic or digital systems, where colonial ideas still dominate the non-white world, we no longer wish to participate in any of these ecosystems. This is because we [...]

Media Lab

September 21, 2023 18:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ ZK/U | Pop-up event: hugo x tibiriçá – rituals for the anthropocene

Tiny OyoUnity presents: rituals for the anthropocene Facilitated by: hugo x tibiriçá *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic practices with [...]

Performance, Tiny OyoUnity

September 22, 2023 18:30 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ ZK/U | John Lee - Breaking Poetics and Aesthetics

Tiny Oyounity presents: “Breaking Poetics and Aesthetics” by John Lee From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic practices with marketing, design, and [...]

Tiny OyoUnity, workshop, ZK/U

September 22, 2023 19:00 AM

Sea Behind the Wall | Outdoor Film Screening | A Closer Look at Crop Exchange

Curated by Mai El-Gammal Film and agriculture, seemingly disparate realms, possess a fascinating dialectic that allows them to mutually inform and enrich one another. The first screening by the curator Mai El-Gammal delves into the intricate dynamics of crop exchange between the global North and South. Two thought-provoking documentaries explore the multifaceted implications of aid [...]

Movie, Listening to the Land, screening methods, Sea Behind The Wall

September 23, 2023 15:00 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul. Admission: 5 euros (donation basis) Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com Language: English and [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, workshop, yoga

September 23, 2023 16:30 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

September 24, 2023 15:00 AM

Vernissage | Ay Kash ای کاش

Theatre, art & activism by young women in Kabul & Herat, Afghanistan. Coming to Berlin in Sep 2023 Since the withdrawal of the US & the UK in August 2021, the situation for women in Afghanistan has spiraled into despair. Women do not even have rights to be violated. They have lost the ability to [...]

Afghanistan. , Hey Kash, Cosmino Productions, exhibition, Rachel Karafistan

September 24, 2023 15:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ ZK/U | Queer Analog Darkroom: Seeing Yourself – Queer Self-Portraits

This workshop is experimenting with putting oneself in front of the camera. For this, the focus lies upon looking at self-portraiture in queer art history, talking about imaginations, trying to help each other realize them, and speaking about the photographs that will be taken.

Queer Analog Darkroom, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 25, 2023 10:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Korea Verband

*Please note that these events are not taking place at Oyoun, but near the Korea Association at the Peace Statue!* Oyoun's Tiny House is going on tour! Between the end of August and mid-October, our tiny house travels through various districts of Berlin. For one week at a time, we stop at different cultural locations and institutions and interact with the surrounding [...]

Tiny House, Tiny OyoUnity, Workshops

September 25, 2023 15:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Korea Association | Maurice Leoni-Osion: The Home Remixtape Archives Workshop

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.

mixtapes, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 25, 2023 17:30 AM

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

September 27, 2023 15:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Korea Association | Seeing Others – Queer Portraits

This workshop is experimenting with putting oneself in front of the camera. For this, the focus lies upon looking at self-portraiture in queer art history, talking about imaginations, trying to help each other realize them, and speaking about the photographs that will be taken.

Queer Analog Darkroom, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 27, 2023 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

September 28, 2023 10:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Korea Association | Hamam Talk: How to Podcast?

This workshop offers young adults the opportunity to learn the basics of podcasting while exploring the potential of podcasts in the context of anti-racism and activism.

Podcasts, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

September 29, 2023 12:00 AM

Sea Behind the Wall | Outdoor Video Exhibition @ various locations | Species, Soil and Successors

*Please note that the exhibition is not only taking place at Oyoun, but at various locations throughout Berlin* Curated by Arijit Bhattacharyya | With works by Studio 33/3 (Soumik Ghosh, Shibayan Halder, Suvojit Roy), Devadeep Gupta, Binita Limbani, Swagata Bhattacharyya and Mahi Ghane The project "Species, Soil and Successors" curated by Arijit Bhattacharyya presents seven audiovisual [...]

exhibition, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall

September 29, 2023 16:00 AM

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

September 29, 2023 20:00 AM

Concerts & Performances | DESIRE. About sex, work and queer desire

On September 29, LGBTQIA+ sex workers will be celebrated on the occasion of the release of the radio play series DESIRE and its soundtrack. Featuring performances by: Aka Kelzz, Alice Danger, Antonio Herrera, Bendix, Breezy, Bunny B. Blaq, Caxxianne, Elio Coulibaly, Emilian, Kumi, Lexi Dark, Puck Ellington and Sanni Est. Admission to this evening is based on free donations and all proceeds [...]

concert, LGBTQIAP+, Performance, Queer, sex work

September 30, 2023 10:00 AM

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Agri/Cultural Practice for Climate Justice

A workshop with Mojisola Adebayo and Nicole Wolf Are you interested in addressing racism and climate injustice? Would you like to explore how art and agroecology can work together? Are you Black, of African or Asian descent, an Indigenous person or Person of Color, from a migration background or a white person committed to anti-racism? [...]

Listening to the Land, Mojisola Adebayo, Nicole Wolf, Sea Behind The Wall

September 30, 2023 10:00 AM

Conference | Jacobin Magazine | Socialism In Our Time 2023

JACOBIN Magazine and Transform! Europe invite you to Berlin for two days of stimulating debate in over 30 panel events and workshops with hundreds of socialists from all over Europe and the world. The political situation may no longer be as favorable as it was a few years ago, but the socialist project is as urgent [...]

Jacobin Magazine, conference

September 30, 2023 14:00 AM

Tiny OyoUnity @ Korea Association | Pop-Up Event: Spicy Ginkgo Collective – Archive-in-the-making for Statue of Peace

Tiny OyoUnity presents: Archive-in-the-making for Statue of Peace Facilitated by: Spicy Ginkgo Collective *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic practices [...]

Performance, Tiny OyoUnity

October 1, 2023 10:00 am

Conference | Jacobin Magazine | Socialism In Our Time 2023

JACOBIN Magazine and Transform! Europe invite you to Berlin for two days of stimulating debate in over 30 panel events and workshops with hundreds of socialists from all over Europe and the world. The political situation may no longer be as favorable as it was a few years ago, but the socialist project is as urgent [...]

Jacobin Magazine, conference

October 1, 2023 11:00 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

October 4, 2023 17:30 am

Vernissage | Queer Footprints: Melodies of Migration Weaving the Threads of Identity

Join us on October 04.10th to celebrate the opening of the photo exhibition "Queer Footprints: Melodies of Migration Weaving the Threads of Identity"! This showcase, organized by Oyoun's fellows Dipesh Khanal and Shuhrat Saidov and the Oyoun Team, features the stories of nine amazing queer immigrant artists living in Germany. Their personal art pieces highlight deep, [...]

Dipesh Khanal, exhibition, fellows, Queer, Queer Footprints: Melodies of Migration Weaving the Threads of Identity, Shuhrat Saidov, Opening

October 4, 2023 18:15 am

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

October 5, 2023 10:00 am

Specialist day | Invisible Struggles: Precarious living conditions for lesbian and queer people in Berlin

An event by Lesbisch*Sichtbar Berlin Short version of the program 10 a.m.: Welcome 10:20 a.m.: Keynote by Katharina Oguntoye Precarious living conditions from the perspective of a feminist and activist of the 1980s and 1990s 11 a.m.: Lecture by Kathrin* Schultz Presentation of how QUEERHOME* works Anti-discrimination work regarding preservation of housing, loss of housing, current statistics from homeless assistance 11:50 a.m.: Lecture by Elsa Paus and [...]

LGBTQ, Queer, Workshops

October 5, 2023 12:00 am

Exhibition | Queer Footprints: Melodies of Migration Weaving the Threads of Identity

Join us to celebrate the opening of the photo exhibition "Queer Footprints: Melodies of Migration Weaving the Threads of Identity"! This showcase, organized by Oyoun's fellows Dipesh Khanal and Shuhrat Saidov and the Oyoun Team, features the stories of nine amazing queer immigrant artists living in Germany. Their personal art pieces highlight deep, vulnerable narratives [...]

Dipesh Khanal, exhibition, fellows, Queer, Queer Footprints: Melodies of Migration Weaving the Threads of Identity, Shuhrat Saidov, Opening

October 7, 2023 13:00 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

October 7, 2023 13:00 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

October 7, 2023 15:00 am

Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul. Admission: 5 euros (donation basis) Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com Language: English and [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, workshop, yoga

October 7, 2023 16:30 am

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

October 7, 2023 19:30 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Outdoor Film Screening | LUPA/TERRE: The Fight for Land and Justice

*Please note: In case of bad weather, the screening will be taking place indoors at Oyoun.* Curated by Savannah Garcia Lupa in tagalog, above else, means land. In the Philippines, the word lupa also resonates with the complex issues of private property and the ongoing oppression faced by sugarcane workers. Hacienda, an exploitative land system [...]

Movie, Listening to the Land, Outdoor cinema, screening methods, Sea Behind The Wall

October 8, 2023 11:00 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

October 8, 2023 11:00 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

October 9, 2023 15:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Gropiusstadt community center

*Please note that these events do not take place in Oyoun, but in the spacious courtyard of the Gropiusstadt community center!* Oyoun's Tiny House is going on tour! Between the end of August and mid-October, our tiny house travels through various districts of Berlin. For one week each, we stop at different cultural locations and institutions and interact with the surrounding urban space, [...]

Tiny House, Tiny OyoUnity, Workshops

October 9, 2023 15:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Community Center Gropiusstadt | Maurice Leoni-Osion: The Home Remixtape Archives Workshop

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.

mixtapes, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

October 10, 2023 10:30 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Community Center Gropiusstadt | Workshop | Hatice Tahtali + Tariq Bajwa (Oyoun Team) – Cultural Marketing in a Nutshell

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

cultural marketing, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

October 10, 2023 13:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Community Center Gropiusstadt | Workshop | Nicola Reißer, Nina Martin + Dami Choi (Oyoun Team) – Design tools to present your artwork

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

design tools, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

October 10, 2023 16:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Community Center Gropiusstadt | Workshop | Mithra Nezhad (Oyoun Team) – Hacking Systems

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

media lab, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

October 11, 2023 14:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Community Center Gropiusstadt | Queer Analog Darkroom: Urban Journey – Exploring Neighborhoods Through Pinhole Photography

This workshop offers the possibility of making simple pinhole cameras using matchboxes to take 35mm photos as well as creating a pinhole camera using a film canister to make solargraphy and loading it with photographic paper

Queer Analog Darkroom, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

October 11, 2023 18:15 am

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

October 12, 2023 10:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Gropiusstadt Community Center | Hamam Talk: How to Podcast?

This workshop offers young adults the opportunity to learn the basics of podcasting while exploring the potential of podcasts in the context of anti-racism and activism.

Podcasts, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

October 12, 2023 18:00 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Electric Lies | Workshop | Uaajeerneq – Greenlandic Maskdance Workshop w/Elisabeth Heilmann Blind

Listening to the Land / Sea Behind the Wall presents: Uaajeerneq – Greenlandic Maskdance Workshop by Elisabeth Heilmann Blind The Greenlandic mask dance Uaajeerneq is the oldest theatrical form of expression of the Inuit in Greenland. In this mask dance workshop, participants will be introduced to the historical significance of the mask dance and gain [...]

Electric Lies, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

October 13, 2023 10:30 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Gropiusstadt Community Center | Workshop | Lara Chahal + Madhumita Nandi (Oyoun Team) – Performing Resistance

Tiny OyoUnity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

Performing Resistance, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

October 13, 2023 13:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Gropiusstadt Community Center | Workshop | Louna Sbou (Oyoun Team) – Artful Liberation: Market Placement for Diasporic Artists

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

cultural marketing, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

October 13, 2023 16:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Gropiusstadt Community Center | Workshop | Dami Choi, Nora Roho + Yodit Gebreheneras (Oyoun Team) – Artist Portfolio as an Empowerment Tool

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun Team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic [...]

artist portfolio, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

October 13, 2023 17:00 am

Photo Exhibition | Antoine Antabi: Tales of a Gully

***The exhibition will be on display until November 7th, daily from 10:00 a.m. to 18:00 p.m.*** *** Please note that the two concerts that were planned after the opening have been canceled *** Urban Photography Solo Exhibition followed by a live concert by The Last Postman, a Syrian Indie/Dream-Pop band, and Anas Maghrebi, a Syrian [...]

concert, exhibition, Photography

October 14, 2023 10:00 am

Photo exhibition | Antoine Antabi: Tales of a Gully

In collaboration between the MENA Art Gallery, Oyoun and AL Berlin, "Tales of a Gully" is presented, a fascinating interplay between chaos and art. "Tales of a Gully" is a photography exhibition by Antoine Antabi that dares to redefine our perception of the everyday through a lens that hovers over ordinary streets. With [...]

exhibition, Photography

October 14, 2023 12:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Community Center Gropiusstadt | Pop-Up Event: Matagumpay – Draw Me Close

Tiny OyoUnity presents: Draw Me Close A performance by: Matagumpay +++The performances will be held outdoors at 13h and once more at 16h (registration below). The Tiny House is open from 12-18h as an oasis space and quiet drawing area.+++ *** From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively [...]

Performance, Tiny OyoUnity

October 14, 2023 12:00 am

Tiny OyoUnity @ Gropiusstadt Community Center | Pop-Up Event: Jaq Lisboa – Incentivora

Tiny OyoUnity presents: Incentivora A performance ritual by: Jaq Lisboa From late August to mid-October, our Tiny House travels through Berlin districts, engaging interactively with the local community and partners at cultural venues and institutions. Through a diverse range of workshops, the aim is to connect decolonial knowledge and artistic practices with marketing, design, and [...]

Performance, Tiny OyoUnity

October 14, 2023 13:00 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Electric Lies | Workshop | Indigenization of the Arts w/Asta Mitkijá Balto

Listening to the Land / Sea Behind the Wall presents: Indigenization of the Arts - a workshop by Asta Mitkijá Balto In her workshop, titled "Indigenization of the Arts," Asta Mitkijá Balto engages with participants to explore the significance of Sámi culture for non- indigenous individuals who express themselves through art. She initiates the workshop by [...]

Electric Lies, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

October 15, 2023 13:30 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Electric Lies | Performance Intervention, Film Screenings and Discussion | ČSV

Listening to the Land / Sea Behind the Wall presents: Performance Intervention, Discussions and Film Screening with ao Asta Mitkijá Balto, Elisabeth Heilman Blind, Liv Aira, Asta Mitkijá Balto, Marika Renhuvud, Luis Bogado, Lars Henrik :: 13:30-15 :30 Performance Intervention ČSV* at Hasenheide (Meeting place at Oyoun) The performance intervention ČSV is the result of the [...]

Electric Lies, intervention, Listening to the Land, Performance, Sea Behind The Wall

October 21, 2023 15:00 am

Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul. Admission: 5 euros (donation basis) Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com Language: English and [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, workshop, yoga

October 21, 2023 16:30 am

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

October 22, 2023 15:00 am

Community event, Talk | afikra Berlin Vol.4

This event had to be postponed to another date. As soon as a new date is set, we will inform you here and via our usual channels. Explore the Afikra community salons, where members of the local community engage with cultural and historical issues of the Arab world that pique their interest. The speakers are not necessarily experts on [...]

Afikra, community events, Talk

October 25, 2023 18:15 am

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

October 26, 2023 19:00 am

Sea Behind the Wall | Outdoor film screening | Irrigation and Degradation

Curated by Mai El-Gammal After the first screening on September 22.09nd. curator Mai El-Gammal continues her exploration of the dialectic between film and agriculture, revealing an unexplored terrain where artistry and nutrition converge to create a deeper understanding of both practices and a shared appreciation for the intrinsic value of storytelling and [ ...]

Movie, Listening to the Land, screening methods, Sea Behind The Wall

October 30, 2023 17:30 am

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

November 1, 2023 18:00 AM

Podium | State of emergency – the new “normal”? State repression and police violence

Podium organized by the Revolutionary Left with speakers from KOP Berlin, the Revolutionary Left and the Palestine Campaign The state reaction to solidarity with the Palestinians has shown it: the mask of the parliamentary republic fell and the ugly face of the repressive police state was revealed. Freedom of expression and assembly disappeared overnight. Who the Kufiya – [...]

exhibition, Photography

November 2, 2023 19:00 AM

Spoken word, concert, short film screening | Poetry meets hip hop 'n blues

Poetry Meets presents: Hip Hop 'n Blues Edition w/ aja monet, Yarah Bravo, Layla Zami & Sami El-Ali Led by curator and presenter Jumoke Adeyanju, Poetry Meets transcends boundaries and brings out a global, multilingual community of artists Berlin and beyond together. This extraordinary series of events features poets, short filmmakers, dancers, musicians and [...]

aye monet, concert, hip hop, Jumoke Adeyanju, Layla Zami, Poetry, Poetry meets, Sami El Ali, Yarah Bravo

November 3, 2023 18:00 AM

Screening | Palestine Cinema Days 2023

Palestine Cinema Days 2023 As international news outlets, world leaders, and major social media platforms are engaging in censorship and distorting the narrative, all while perpetuating the dehumanization of Palestinians and their enduring suffering, we extend our channels in support of "Palestine Cinema Days" Festival, which was forcibly canceled. One day after the summer anniversary [...]

Movie, Film festival, Film screening

November 4, 2023 15:00 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul. Admission: 5 euros (donation basis) Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com Language: English and [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, workshop, yoga

November 4, 2023 16:30 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

November 4, 2023 18:00 AM

20 years of the Jewish Voice – celebration of mourning and hope

In the shadow of October 7th, the ongoing bombing raids on Gaza and the horrific number of civilian casualties, the “Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East” association is marking its 20th anniversary. Contrary to what was originally planned, the original program for an anniversary celebration was adapted to the current situation. In addition to music from the members, there will be speeches and [...]

Jewish voice, funeral service

November 7, 2023 18:30 AM

Book Launch | “Are you disabled or what?” by Rebecca Maskos and Mareice Kaiser

»It would be good for all of us, regardless of whether we are disabled or not, to free ourselves from the pressure to normality and internalized ableism. […] Let's rather build a society in which everyone can be present without fear or pressure." Rebecca Maskos in "Are you disabled or what?" As experienced inclusion experts, Rebecca researches, speaks and writes [...]

Disability movement, Book launch, Sign Language Interpretation, Inclusion, Marice Kaiser, Rebecca Maskos

November 8, 2023 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

November 13, 2023 17:00 AM

Seminar | The Key to Spiritual Healing: Wisdom from the Koran and Quantum Technology

On November 13.11th The writer, screenwriter and lecturer Ferhat Atik gives a seminar on Sufism. The seminar is aimed at members of the Turkish community who would like to embark on a spiritual journey. Participants gain insights into the mysticism of Sufism and learn techniques to calm the mind, increase their energy, and free themselves from negative thoughts.

Religion, seminar, sufism, workshop

November 15, 2023 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

November 16, 2023 18:00 AM

Exhibition opening | Experience Oyounity

An exhibition with this year's impressions of Oyoun's Tiny House on tour After a trip to five different Berlin cultural locations and offering a total of over 34 different events and workshops over the course of five weeks, Oyoun's Tiny House became a nomadic meeting place to create together and lesser-known corners of Berlin [...]

exhibition, Photography, mix taping, Podcasts, Tiny OyoUnity

November 17, 2023 20:00 AM

Concert | November 17th – Uprising at the Athens Polytechnic. Freedom written on walls

Concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the fall of the dictatorship in Greece. On November 17, 1973, the uprising of citizens barricaded in the Polytechnic reached its climax in Athens. This was the first massive and dynamic manifestation of the population in Greece against the military junta, which collapsed a few months later, on July 24, 1974, after seven years of dictatorship [...]

Democracy, Greece, concert, Lieder, Music

November 18, 2023 15:00 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul. Admission: 5 euros (donation basis) Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com Language: English and [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, workshop, yoga

November 18, 2023 16:30 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

November 22, 2023 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

November 24, 2023 19:00 AM

Film screening | A letter to myself – Queer Lebanese short film series

A letter to myself, a short documentary series about Lebanese LGBTQI people, each episode (5 to 10 minutes) follows a vulnerable LGBTQI+ person from Lebanon as they write a letter to themselves while trying to find their way despite the abuse, that she has experienced in the past. The series shows their vulnerability, their hopes and [...]

LGBTQI +, Omar Gabriel, screening methods

November 25, 2023 15:00 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul. Admission: 5 euros (donation basis) Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com Language: English and [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, workshop, yoga

November 25, 2023 16:30 AM

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

November 27, 2023 17:30 AM

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

November 29, 2023 13:30 AM

Film screening + conversation | Documentary “The Aryans” (2014) by Mo Asumang | Only for FLINTA* + BIPoC

The event is exclusively for FLINTA* and BIPoC. DaMigra invites you to a film afternoon. Together with you, they want to use the documentary film by the Afro-German filmmaker Mo Asumang “The Aryans” (2014) to search for the origins of the Aryan term and understand how the term is still misused today by right-wing extremists in Germany and the USA. .]

DaMigra, simple language, film screening

November 29, 2023 16:00 AM

Exhibition | Experience Oyounity

An exhibition with this year's impressions of Oyoun's Tiny House on tour After a trip to five different Berlin cultural locations and offering a total of over 34 different events and workshops over the course of five weeks, Oyoun's Tiny House became a nomadic meeting place to create together and lesser-known corners of Berlin [...]

exhibition, Photography, mix taping, Podcasts, Tiny OyoUnity

November 29, 2023 18:15 AM

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

December 1, 2023 16:00

Film screening + conversation | Documentary “The Aryans” (2014) by Mo Asumang | Only for FLINTA* + BIPoC

The event is exclusively for FLINTA* and BIPoC. DaMigra invites you to a film afternoon. Together with you, they want to use the documentary film by the Afro-German filmmaker Mo Asumang “The Aryans” (2014) to search for the origins of the Aryan term and understand how the term is still misused today by right-wing extremists in Germany and the USA. .]

DaMigra, simple language, film screening

December 2, 2023 15:00

Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul. Admission: 5 euros (donation basis) Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com Language: English and [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, workshop, yoga

December 2, 2023 16:30

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

December 6, 2023 18:15

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

December 8, 2023 18:00

Exhibition opening | Land, Safety and Grief

The loss of land, the search for safety and the search for space to grieve. The loss of land leads to an ongoing grieving process. The need of those affected for a place where they can mourn appropriately and find safety is great. However, in the search for familiarity through people, experiences and language, [...]

decolonial, exhibition, Land Safety and Grief, MENA Art Gallery, UntoldStories, Opening

December 8, 2023 18:00

Conference, panel | She, He, and It – Discussing AI and journalism from a global South perspective

The impact of artificial intelligence will radically change the way we produce and consume media content. The consequences will be even more significant for the activities of media and cultural organizations working in or with the Global South. The event will invite experts who will try, if not to provide answers, at least [...]

KI, MENA region, panel

December 9, 2023 12:00

Exhibition | Land, Safety and Grief

The loss of land, the search for safety and the search for space to grieve. The loss of land leads to an ongoing grieving process. The need of those affected for a place where they can mourn appropriately and find safety is great. However, in the search for familiarity through people, experiences and language, [...]

decolonial, exhibition, Land Safety and Grief, MENA Art Gallery, UntoldStories

December 9, 2023 15:00

Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul. Admission: 5 euros (donation basis) Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com Language: English and [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, workshop, yoga

December 9, 2023 16:30

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

December 11, 2023 17:00

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

December 13, 2023 18:15

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

December 14, 2023 16:00

Threads of Resilience | Party | Kids' Club & Afro Beats for children with DJ Cuby

Organized by Oyoun If you are looking for a day party where parents, children and friends get together, this is your dance! DJ Cuby is known for bringing a mixture of baile funk, afro beats, hip hop and international edits to the dance floor. For this special edition, Cuby has selected some fine tracks, so make [...]

Community, Kids Club, Songs, Threads of Resilience Festival

December 14, 2023 18:00

Threads of Resilience | Workshop | A Conversation about Sustainable Collective Organizing

Workshop by Sarj Lynch In this conversation-based interactive workshop, we will explore together tools, strategies and frameworks for working together with steadfastness, how to distribute labor and use relay models to participate in liberation movements in sustainable ways. Sustainable meaning: embodied, strategic, historically-grounded, collapse-aware, compassionate and planning for a long fight. We want to see [...]

Community, Threads of Resilience Festival, workshop

December 14, 2023 18:00

Threads of Resilience | Panel Discussion | McCarthyism Reloaded

Organized by Oyoun A conversation with Zoë Claire Miller and Lucas Febraro. In a time in which space for nuanced, pluralistic and free exchange of ideas is rapidly shrinking, "McCarthyism Reloaded: Navigating the German Cultural Landscape" centers lived realities of artists and practitioners from varying backgrounds. This panel seeks to address the layers of political [...]

Talk, Threads of Resilience Festival

December 14, 2023 19:00

Threads of Resilience | Concerts | Sounds of togetherness

Organized by Oyoun With Jumoke Adeyanju, Liaam Iman, Qeas Pirzad, AŸA + Batila This evening will gather a plethora of sonic voices. The concerts and spoken word performances will feature both artists close to Oyoun as well as new faces who are joining the session in solidarity with the current situation and as a sign [...]

concerts, Threads of Resilience Festival

December 14, 2023 21:00

Threads of Resilience | Discussion | Multi-Scalar Resistance: How the world solidarity movement for Palestine can decolonize Berlin

Event organized by AATMA How can we move together from a culture of fear, censorship and militarization to that of collective care, knowledge and transformation? AATMA warmly invites you, in grief, persistence and solidarity, to join us for a public discussion tomorrow. It is a great honor to have with us trenchant lawyer Nadija Samour, [...]

panel discussion, Threads of Resilience Festival

December 15, 2023 16:00

Threads of Resilience | Workshop | Fabric of resistance songs

Voice workshop for resistance and restitution | Organized by Jamila and Pro Jamila and Pro offer a voice workshop for resistance and restitution. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to sing and exchange songs from anti-colonial and anti-fascist resistance movements that you grew up with or that you composed yourself. Jamila and Pro [...]

Threads of Resilience Festival, workshop

December 15, 2023 18:00

Threads of Resilience | Reading + Talk | HUMAN, ANIMAL – with Poet Ghayath Almadhoun, moderated by Lana Bastašić

Organized by Lana Bastašić HUMAN, ANIMAL: Reading and Conversation with Poet Ghayath Almadhoun Moderated by: Lana Bastašić Do wars ever truly end? What trace do they leave in language? How does the experience of exile form our sense of self? Who else are we and how can we escape its narrow confinement? After the cancellation of [...]

Ghayath Almadhoun, Lana Bastasic, poet, Talk, Threads of Resilience Festival

December 15, 2023 18:00

Threads of Resilience | Workshop | Contemporary Dance – The political body

Community dance course organized by Camilla Przystawski Mobilization and action means movement and is what is needed now. Dance and movement have the power to connect people beyond language and different societal barriers. This is a contemporary dance workshop that aims to offer a community space to connect through our bodies and through our physical, [...]

Camilla Przystawski, dance course, Threads of Resilience Festival, workshop

December 15, 2023 19:30

Threads of Resilience | Film screening + talk | Silent Narratives: Unveiling the Unheard

Organized by Jüdische Stimme + Pa_allies Film screening followed by a talk by Dr. Anna-Esther Younes, Salah Said (Pa_allies), Udi Raz (Jüdische Stimme) The NGO "Breaking the Silence" - BtS for short - is made up of former Israeli servicemen and women who want to draw attention to everyday military life and the treatment of [...]

Breaking the Silence, documentary film, Dr. Anna Esther Younes, Salah Said, screening methods, Talk, Threads of Resilience Festival, Udi Raz

December 15, 2023 19:30

Threads of Resilience | Listening Session | Meshwar Mixtape – Palestine Edition with DJ Dumtak

Meshwar Mixtape - Palestine Edition organized by and with DJ Dumtak Meshwar Mixtapes takes participants on a journey to Palestine, through music, stories of the songs and people who have a special connection to them. To make it accessible, the song lyrics have been translated to English to reach a wider audience. "Meshwar Mixtapes" is [...]

Threads of Resilience Festival, workshop

December 15, 2023 22:00

Threads of Resilience | Party | Healing And Empowerment Through Dance

Organized by Oyoun We'll close the second day of our “Threads of resilience” festival on the dance floor. In the intimate setting of our club, we're delighted to host none other than Oyoun's favorite saliah (all the way from London), Oyoun-collaborator and Queen of Eklektik BerlinIstan DJ Ipek and DUMTAK's acclaimed celebration of Arabic Pop and [... ]

DJ Ipek, DUMTAK, Queerberg Collective, Saliah, Threads of Resilience Festival

December 16, 2023 13:00

Threads of Resilience | Workshop | Grandmother of the Universe

Organized by Jamila Al-Yousef In this workshop we will connect with our grandmothers through games and writing exercises. Under what circumstances did they grow up and become the women* who brought our parents into the world? And how are they embedded in our identity? What do we know about them and what would we like [...]

Threads of Resilience Festival

December 16, 2023 13:00

Threads of Resilience | Workshop | Exploring Black Lives Matter Protest Performance – a collective reading of The Interrogation of Sandra Bland

Organized by Oyoun With Mojisola Adebayo Theater artist, playwright and academic, Mojisola Adebayo, will briefly share about some of the artistic / activist work she has been making over the past 30 years and invite you to be part of that work, through a collective reading of the Black Lives Matter protest play, performance, memorial [...]

Threads of Resilience

December 16, 2023 14:00

Threads of Resilience | Puppet theater | Party in the princess's castle

The event is organized by Oyoun The Yellow Prince begins his journey to save the princess of his dreams. He's been preparing his whole life! The surprise comes when he arrives at the castle and the princess is not there. She had saved herself! What will happen when both of them meet? What will the [...]

Puppet theater

December 16, 2023 14:00

Threads of Resilience | Exhibition + art auction | Art-ish

Event organized by Artish Immerse yourself in the art world of Berlin! Artish proudly presents the art auction & after-party on December 16th & 17th at Oyoun Berlin. Highlight 1) Local talent 2) Captivating auctions 3) Rousing DJ music 4) A unique networking experience Tickets: Admission is free because art should be accessible to everyone! Places are limited Registration [...]

Threads of Resilience Festival

December 16, 2023 14:00

Threads of Resilience | Workshops | Resistance Bazaar

Organized by Diaspora Rising Collective As part of the Resistance Bazaar, there will be two workshops: Endurance Workshop led by Zïada | R4 | 14:00 p.m.-16:00 p.m. | For BPoC activists and organizers In this workshop, we hold space for questions that particularly organizers and activists of the global majority don't get to ask themselves and check-in often [...]

Threads of Resilience Festival

December 16, 2023 14:45

THREADS OF RESILIENCE | Talk | On Radical Grace

Presented by Rmad Records “Let us go together in two separate paths, Let us go together and let us be kind.” Mahmoud Darwish Rasha Nahas, Udi Aloni & Emilia Roig on inclusive grassroots in time of brutal silencing. The possibility of co-resistance within 48ers, the diaspora & beyond. Tickets: Free admission Language: English Room: Gallery [...]

December 16, 2023 15:00

Threads of Resilience | Exhibition + Performance | Resistance Bazaar

Organized by Diaspora Rising Collective We heard it from Bethlehem: Christmas is cancelled! So come join the Resistance Bazaar! Where we come together to practice solidarity through art and exchange. Resistance through art is as old as time itself, with communication and expressions at its core. When we feel silenced and repressed, we might find comfort [...]

Bazaar, Threads of Resilience Festival

December 16, 2023 16:30

Threads of Resilience | Panel Talk | Replacement nationalism: on the instrumentalization of Jewish fear and anti-Semitism

Organized by Oyoun Emilia Roig, Candice Breitz and Iris Hefets will critically explore how expressions of philosemitism in Germany are increasingly being used as a tool for political and social agendas, often targeting and marginalizing other groups such as Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, and various racialized minorities. In this conversation, they will shed light on the [...]

Threads of Resilience Festival

December 16, 2023 18:00

Threads of Resilience | Online panel talk | Israel, Palestine, Germany and the Doppelgänger Effect: on transnational solidarity, free speech and colonialism

Organized by Oyoun | Via zoom With Naomi Klein, Beth Miller and others In this conversation, Naomi Klein together with other members of US-based Jewish Voice For Peace will join us for an exploration of the ways Israeli ethnonationalism is a double of the European nationalism that oppressed Jews, the dangers of a specific child [...]

Threads of Resilience

December 16, 2023 18:30

Threads of Resilience | Film screening + talk | Papa De: THAT UGANDAN FLAMING GAY

Weaving together pieces of a childhood. revisiting memories. archiving a self that had to retransform and reshape many times. A grandmother's dress becomes a symbol for the transformation of traditions to make room for future generations. What legacy would you want to leave behind if you ceased to exist? How would you want to be [...]

Threads of Resilience

December 16, 2023 20:00

Threads of Resilience | Party | AL.Berlin: Still We Rise

Organized by AL.Berlin with Ebn hoari, Maii&Zeid, DJabali&Vex (AL.Berlin Crew), Leila Moon (DJ), sherryaeri (DJ), FISK & V1V1S3KT10N (AL.Berlin Crew) We're happy to announce that our friends at AL .Berlin will be hosting the closing party of our three day festival! Ticket: 15 € / Donations Language: English/Arabic Room: Main Hall Biographies Ebn Hoari An Arab [...]

Threads of Resilience

December 16, 2023 22:00

Threads of Resilience | Party | Art-ish Exhibition After Party

Afterparty for the Art-ish exhibition and auction happening in the café. Ticket: 5.- € Room: Club --- This event is part of the Threads of Resilience Festival Given the current situation and urgency to express, we decided to co-organize a community-led and collectively curated 3-day festival “Threads of Resilience” from 14-16 December at Oyoun.Those include [...]

Threads of Resilience

Wednesday January 10th 18:15 p.m

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

Friday January 26th 16:00 p.m

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Workshops | Louna Sbou (Oyoun Team) – Artful Liberation: Market Placement for Diasporic Artists

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House After a first round in 2023, we will continue our capacity building workshop series in 2024! *** Are you concerned about your self-marketing as an artist and cultural worker? Are you looking for tips and tricks on how to effectively promote [...]

cultural marketing, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

Saturday January 27th 10:30 p.m

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Workshops | Nicola Reißer, Nina Martin + Dami Choi (Oyoun Team) – Design tools to present your artwork

Tiny Oyounity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** After a first round in 2023, we will continue our capacity building workshop series in 2024! *** Are you concerned about your self-marketing as an artist and cultural worker? Are you looking for tips and tricks on how to effectively [...]

design tools, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

Saturday January 27th 16:30 p.m

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

Sunday January 28th 13:00 p.m

Tiny OyoUnity @ Oyoun | Workshops | Lara Chahal + Madhumita Nandi (Oyoun Team) - Performing Resistance

Tiny OyoUnity presents: Capacity Bridging Workshops with the Oyoun team in Oyoun's Tiny House *** After a first round in 2023, we will continue our capacity building workshop series in 2024! *** Are you concerned about your self-marketing as an artist and cultural worker? Are you looking for tips and tricks on how to effectively [...]

Performing Resistance, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

Monday January 29th 17:30

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

Wednesday February 7th 18:15 p.m

Yoga for BIPoC | Diaspora Wellness Club

Every week at Oyoun, yoga teacher Helen Workneh invites you to practice yoga in a comfortable and safe environment. This is a safe space for BIPoC and open to beginners to advanced users. You must bring your own mat. A sweater or blanket can also be useful for final relaxation. The courses last [...]

BIPoC, yoga

Saturday February 24th 13:00

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

Saturday February 24th 16:30

Workshop | BIPoC Ballroom Session – led by Kris Eshu 007

BIPoC Ballroom Session - Embracing the Rich Heritage of Ballroom Culture In the workshop you will experience the vibrant world of ballroom, an art form that has its origins in the black and Latino drag and trans community in Harlem, New York. The aim of this event is to create a space for the local Berlin community in which [...]

ballroom, BIPoC, Kris Eshu 007, workshop

Sunday February 25th 13:00

Sea Behind the Wall | Workshop | Harvesting Resilience: Foraging and Guerrilla Gardening

Harvesting Resilience – a workshop series by Zeren Oruc This workshop series gives you the opportunity to rethink your relationship with nature, food and consumption. You will be able to connect with different people in an exchange of skill, knowledge and thoughts. What is this workshop about? Harvesting Resilience workshops series are part of a [...]

Harvesting resilience, Listening to the Land, Sea Behind The Wall, workshop

Monday February 26th 17:30 p.m

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

Alttext in German: A collage of four images with art and culture: a painting with a central figure and symbols, a woman looking at a presentation, another in conversation and a sculpture of a face. Alt text in English: A collage of four images featuring art and culture: A painting with a central figure and symbols, a woman observing a presentation, another in conversation, and a sculpture of a face.

Sunday March 24th

Ausstellung / Exhibition — Gadag

(c) from the upper left corner in clockwise direction: Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Quyên Nguyen-Le, Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai, Yukiko Nagakura At the bottom of this website you will find information in DGS in video format. March 24.03th - April 30.04.2024th, 2 @ Oyoun, hall (24nd floor) Vernissage: March 16th, 22 p.m. - 25 p.m. Opening hours: - in the first week (March 31th - XNUMXst): daily [...]

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Alttext in German: A dancer in front of a projection of snake drawings. Alt text in English: A dancer in front of a projection of snake drawings.

Sunday March 24th 16:00

Vernissage — Gadag

(c) Min Yoon tr. "Citizen Truth", photo by Joey Binhammer At the bottom of this website you will find information in DGS in video format. 24.03.2024/2/16 @ Oyoun, hall (22nd floor) 17 p.m. - 20 p.m. Exhibition opening with DGS communication assistance from 18 p.m. - 19 p.m. Further information about the works on display can be found here: https://oyoun.de/gadag-strands/ - XNUMX -XNUMX p.m.: Artist Talk with [...]

gadag, gadag event

Monday March 25th 17:30 p.m

Workshops | Life Drawing Club

The Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month, Art-Expression Studios will host at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun. Come along and experience three hours of life drawing with live models posing. Ticket: The participation fee is donation-based and starts at €15 per session. If you [...]

Oyounty, visual art, workshop

Alttext in German: Two women having a discussion at a conference. Alt text in English: Two women engaged in a discussion at a conference.

Wednesday March 27th 19:30 p.m

Screening: The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger — Gadag

(c) Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung March 27, 2024, 7:30 - 10:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club (Souterrain) Film Screening: Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung, The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger, 2010, 72 min. Followed by a film discussion with the curator* Dami Choi as well as Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen and Rae (Mee-Jin) Tilly. Language (film): English, [...]

gadag, gadag event

Saturday March 30th 18:00 p.m

FILM + Q&A with Sarah Schulman and Ben Mauk | United in Anger (2012)

(English below) Film screening and discussion "United in Anger - a history of ACT UP!" The film will have German subtitles. The Q&A will take place in English. About the film "United in Anger - a history of ACT UP!" (2012, USA): A documentary about the birth and early years of the AIDS activist movement ACT UP and the [...]

act up, Ben Mauk, documentary film, Movie, jewish voice, New York, Oyoun, sarah schulman

Old text in German: A woman looks thoughtfully through a window. Alt text in English: A woman looks pensively through a window.

Thursday April 4th 20:30 p.m

Screening: 기억의 전쟁 Untold (A War of Memories) — Gadag

(c) Bora Lee-Kil At the bottom of this website you will find information in DGS in video format. April 4, 2024, 8:30 - 11:30 PM @ Oyoun, Club (Souterrain) Film Screening: Bora Lee-Kil, 기억의 전쟁 Untold (A War of Memories), 2018, 79 min. Followed by a film talk with the Director and curator* Dami Choi Language (film): Korean and [...]

gadag, gadag event

Old text in German: A photo shows the following text in the background and a stethoscope in the foreground, with the half silhouette of a person on the right: If a woman's body got sick, it was immediately thought that she had had sexual relations outside the norms. .. Even today, this mentality continues to bloom in our society. Ignorance drives women to a world of sllence. Alt text in English: A photo displaying the following text in the background and a stethoscope in the foreground, with a half silhouette of a person on the right side: If a woman's body got sick, it was immediately thought that she had had sexual relations outside the norms... Even today, this mentality continues to bloom in our society. Ignorance drives women to a world of sllence.

Wednesday April 10th 19:30 p.m

Screening: Surname Viet Given Name Nam — Gadag

(c) Trịnh Thị Minh Hà April 10, 2024, 7:30 - 9:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club (Souterrain) Film Screening: Trịnh Thị Minh Hà, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, 1989, 108 min. Subtitles: with English Subtitles (only in places where non-English languages are spoken) You can find information about the DGS program parts/offers from GADAG here. SURNAME VIET [...]

gadag, gadag event

English: Exhibition poster with historical figures and text "Our Bodies, Our Stories." German: Exhibition poster with historical figures and the text "Our Body, Our Stories."

Friday April 12th 14:00 p.m

(Vernissage) Our Bodies, Our Fight, Our History with Korea Association — Gadag

Opening: April 12, 2024, 14 p.m.-18 p.m. @ Oyoun, foyer (1st floor) Exhibition: — April 13-28 April: Wednesdays - Sundays, 14 p.m. - 20 p.m. - 29th - 30th April: 14 p.m. - 20 p.m. Workshop: "Share Your Empathy" A creative workshop for participation and empathy for young people and adults (More information on this link) — April 17th: 15:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. — April 29th: 15:30 p.m. 18:00-XNUMX:XNUMX “Our [...]

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Saturday 13 April

Our Bodies, Our Fight, Our History with Korea Verband — Gadag

Opening: April 12, 2024, 14 p.m.-18 p.m. @ Oyoun, foyer (1st floor) Exhibition: — April 13-28 April: Wednesdays - Sundays, 14 p.m. - 20 p.m. - 29th - 30th April: 14 p.m. - 20 p.m. — Saturdays 14 p.m. - 18 p.m.: Exhibition mediation Workshop: "Share Your Empathy" A creative workshop for young people and adults to participate and empathize (More information on this link) — April 17: 15:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m Clock - [...]

gadag, gadag event

Alt text in German: The image shows an abstract, square work of art with intense layers of color and textures. In the center is a large, darkly shaded Korean character that stands out clearly from the background. The background consists of vibrant reds interspersed with yellowish lines that look like the veins of a leaf. The upper layers of the image show warm orange and yellow tones, fading into a kind of card pattern, while the lower part is in purple and violet tones, interspersed with ocher spots. An impression of overlays and depth is created. Alt-Text in English: The image is a square, abstract artwork featuring intense layers of color and texture. At the center is a large, darkly shaded Korean character that stands out against the background. The background is alive with vibrant reds, intersected by yellowish lines reminiscent of leaf veins. The upper layers of the image transition into warm oranges and yellows resembling a map pattern, while the bottom part is in purples and violets, interspersed with ocher spots, creating an impression of overlay and depth.

Sunday April 14nd 13:00

Visual Storytelling Workshop with Deaf People with Hyemi Jo — Gadag

At the bottom of this webpage you will find information in DGS in video format. April 14, 2024, 1:00 - 6:00 PM @ Oyoun, Lucy Lameck (Seminar Room 1, 1st Floor) A workshop on empowerment through visual storytelling with deaf people. This workshop aims to use various tools to document the lived experiences of deaf people and [...]

gadag, gadag event

English: Creative workshop poster with a historical figure and text "Share Your Empathy." German: Creative workshop poster with a historical figure and the text "Share your empathy."

Wednesday April 17th 15:30 p.m

Share Your Empathy: A creative workshop with Korea Association — Gadag

"Share Your Empathy": A creative workshop for young people and adults to participate and empathize — April 17th: 15:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. — April 29th: 15:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. @ Oyoun, seminar room 2 (1. Stock) A series of workshops in collaboration with the Korea Association As part of the project "가닥 GADAG - Threads of Memories", Oyoun and the Korea Association are organizing the open [...]

gadag, gadag event

English: Painting of an elderly woman speaking into a microphone with Korean text. German: Painting of an elderly woman speaking into a microphone with Korean text.

Wednesday April 17th 19:30 p.m

Screening: I am 93. My name is Kim Bok-Dong. —Gadag

(c) Song Won-Geun / Korea Association eV April 17, 2024, 7:30 - 9:30 PM @ Oyoun, Club (Souterrain) Film Screening: Song Won-Geun, I am 93. My name is Kim Bok-Dong ., 2019, 101 min. Subtitles: with English subtitles The Imperial Japanese Military maintained so-called “comfort stations” for its soldiers from 1932-1945, where countless young women and [...]

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Alttext in German: A picture shows two scenes; In the upper part you see a group of people in a dark room looking into the camera, in the lower part you see a single person dancing on a stage. Alt text in English: An image displays two scenes; the upper part shows a group of people in a dark room looking towards the camera, and the lower part a single person dancing on a stage.

Sunday April 21nd 17:00

Bedtime Stories: Performance evening by GADAG Lab with Min Yoon — Gadag

(c) left: Shirin Moaiyeri; right: Thu Nguyễn. Bedtime Stories: Performance Evening by GADAG Lab with Min Yoon April 21, 2024, 5:00 - 7:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club (Souterrain) - 5 PM (Doors 4:45 PM): "Post/Origins of a Woman" by Min Yoon (Guest Performance) - 6 PM (Doors 5:45 PM): Theater performance by GADAG-Lab (guest list for racialized [...]

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Friday April 26th 20:00 p.m

Program in Seoul — Gadag

April 26, 2024, 8 PM @ 용주골 성노동자 지킴이 농성장 (야외) This event will take place in Paju, South Korea. How can art become a link for a global alliance between the marginalized in war? How can art enable us to share memories of the past and dreams of the future? How can [...]

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Monday April 29th 15:30 p.m

Share Your Empathy: A creative workshop with Korea Association — Gadag

"Share Your Empathy": A creative workshop for young people and adults to participate and empathize — April 17th: 15:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. — April 29th: 15:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m. @ Oyoun, seminar room 2 (1. Stock) A series of workshops in collaboration with the Korea Association As part of the project "가닥 GADAG - Threads of Memories", Oyoun and the Korea Association are organizing the open [...]

gadag, gadag event

English: Person walking along a path through tall grasses. German: Person walking on a path next to tall grass.

Monday April 29th 19:30 p.m

Screening: Okinawa no Harumoni — Gadag

Monday, April 29, 2024, 7:30 - 9:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club (Souterrain) Film Screening: Yamatani Tetsuo, Okinawa no Harumoni, 1979, 86 min. Subtitles: with English subtitles In July 1977, the director Tetsuo Yamatani searches for Korean “comfort women”. He meets the architect Choi Chang-kyu, who studied in Japan. Choi [...]

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Friday November 15th

Winter Academy | How to organize solidarity from below across communities, struggles and nations?

Winter Academy 2024 under the title “The Lost Art of Organizing Solidarity” organized by School of Transnational Organizing. 50 activists, organizers, educators, researchers and artists from Europe and around the world are invited to the Winter Academy, whose work will focus on the question of how solidarity from below can be achieved in and between societies /or social movements in [...]

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