►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 a ongoing podcast named Random Walk by Bager Akbay and Tevfik Uyar. ► Click "going" on Facebook to stay [...]
►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 [...]
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 [...]
►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 [...]
►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 [...]
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, memorialising [...]
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 dehumanised. 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 [...]
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? How can [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised 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 [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised 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 [...]
►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, [...]
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, [...]
► 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 behaviour and conciseness and how this lead to [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised 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 [...]
The Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ese) Ceremony is a procession concluding and honouring 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 and Suelen [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised 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 [...]
► 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. [...]
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 D.C.A.D.V (Decolonial Contemporary African Diasporic Visions), a search for [...]
►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 will transform the outer facade of a building in the neighborhood. Artist Ali Kanal will place the [...]
►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 [...]
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 [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised 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 [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised 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 [...]
Ein Performance-Abend mit Cornelia and Kerim Melik Becker Nach zwei Wochen Residency bei Oyoun gehen Cornelia und Kerim Becker auf die Bühne - lesen, singen, bewegen und spielen - und verkörpern ihre Fragestellungen und gesuchten Antworten mit lyrischer und musikalischer Sprache. “Ein geliebter Mensch stirbt. Wie erleben und verarbeiten seine nächsten Angehörigen – Lebensgefährtin und [...]
► 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 [...]
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 game [...]
►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 normalised 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 [...]
►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 polarised and stigmatised ONLINE version [...]
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 [...]
We invite you to join this panel discussion organised 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 [...]
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? [...]
►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 will discuss [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised 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 [...]
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 [...]
:: 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 [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised 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 [...]
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 [...]
►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 [...]
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, memorialising [...]
►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 [...]
►a'21: How Do I Know What I Know?_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) :: A [...]
Am 23. April 2021 findet die offizielle Umbenennung der ehemaligen Wissmannstraße statt. Der richtige Zeitpunkt um die neue Namenspatronin Lucy Lameck und ihre Zeit noch einmal näher kennenzulernen. Wodurch waren die Anfangsjahre des unabhängigen Tansanias geprägt? Wie wurde Lucy Lameck zur ersten Frau im tansanischen Parlament? Wieso war der Panafrikanismus so wichtig? Was steckt hinter der Ujamaa-Idee? Was hat Lucy Lameck damals geleistet und wieso ist ihr Wirken auch heute noch wichtig?
:: 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 [...]
► 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 [...]
► 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 [...]
Gen Z is coming of age in a time of sociopolitical and ecological crises, gathered in online spaces that leave many overwhelmed and paralysed. 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 [...]
EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES - Auf den Spuren verkörperter Erinnerungen Was verkörpern unsere Körper? Welche Erinnerungen können uns unsere Körper erzählen? - über uns selbst, unsere Vergangenheit und unsere Zukunft? Kurator*innen, Künstler*innen und Kulturschaffende setzen sich mit Identitäten, Zugehörigkeit und verkörperten Erinnerungen aus diasporischen, dekolonialen und queeren Perspektiven auseinander. Ein Forschungs-, Archivierungs-, Ausstellungs- und Performance-Projekt, an dem [...]
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 [...]
Exilio, migración y memoria. ¿Tienes algún familiar alemán antifascista que se exilió a Latinoamérica entre 1933 y 1945?¿Volviste a las raíces? ¿Con qué te encontraste cuando regresaste a lo que fue tu país de origen? Como parte del proyecto “Jetztzeit - Lebenserinnerungen zur Migration” se realizará unos encuentros de familiares de exiliados que en la [...]
Am Samstag den 10. Juli 2021 zieht es Brown Skin Mermaids noch einmal in die Hauptstadt! 🚀🎈🧸📚 Im Kulturzentrum Oyoun wartet ein empowernder Nachmittag auf Schwarze Mädchen im Alter von 5 - 10 Jahren. Für Details und Anmeldungen schreibe eine email an: mermaid@brownskinmermaids.de und sichere einen limierten Platz. --- On Saturday, July 10th Brown Skin [...]
The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organised 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 [...]
The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organised 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 [...]
Wir laden ein zu den Premierenaufführungen des Theaterstücks vom Kinder und Jugend-Theaterprojekt Check! Eine Zukunft mit Zukunft! Wünsch sich das nicht jeder? Check! Was ist ein Mädchen, was ist ein Junge, und was bin ich? Die Welt der Kinder verfärbt sich nicht in rosa oder blau. Es sind die Farben der Selbstbilder, die Entwicklung und Interessen [...]
The KAUM Indonesian Alternative Performance & Film Festival organised 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 [...]
▸ 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 [...]
Ezé ist wieder da und wieder wird musiziert, gelacht und gesprungen. Bringt eure Kinder und lasst uns toben, ihr seid alle eingeladen! // ÜBER EZÉ Ezés Workshops lassen sich mit unterschiedlichen Gruppen wie solchen aus Kindergärten, Schulen, Unternehmen, aber auch mit Erwachsenen ohne oder mit Behinderung durchführen. Kurz: Mit Menschen wie Dir! In den Workshops [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"Queer Ping Pong III" DJ-SETS von: - DJ Thundy - Femalemacho - DJ Ipek - DJ Yes Torty Die Spieler*Innenanzahl ist begrenzt. Bitte meldet euch über *queerpingpong@gmail.com* an, wenn ihr an dem Ping Pong Turnier teilnehmen wollt. Alle anderen brauchen keine Anmeldung. Hand an die Kelle und aufs Herz: Ping Pong bzw. Tischtennis ist eine [...]
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 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐩-𝐈𝐤𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐩𝐫ä𝐠𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐝, 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, [...]
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 protestors during the peaceful revolution in [...]
Zwei Einladungen zum Fühlen, zum Erforschen von Atmosphären und zum Verbinden mit den eigenen Geschichten: Wo lebt der Tod? Wo die Liebe? Was passiert mit unseren Körpern? → 9. Oktober 1. Aufführung: Einlass: 16:30 // Beginn: 17:00 2. Aufführung: Einlass: 19:30 // Beginn: 20:00 → Einlass ab 10 Jahren → Kostenfreie Anmeldung über Eventbrite erforderlich [...]
The panel discussion organised 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
¿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 fotos? ¿Qué [...]
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 [...]
◥ 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 extermination of our self-organized free spaces is accelerated. We remain unsupported and mostly unrecognized by local governments, even as [...]
Zur Jahreswende 1794/95 versank das letzte Sklavenschiff „Sao Jose“, welches auf dem Weg nach Brasilien war, mit 512 Schwarzen Personen vor den Toren Kapstadts. Was hat diese Geschichte mit der heutigen Mikroaggression und Schwarzer Realität zu tun? "In Gedenken an diese Geschichte soll die heutige Lebensrealität von 512 Schwarzen Menschen in Berlin visualisieren, wer wir [...]
Mit einer tänzerischen Installation erschließt „Break & Connection“ einen Raum des Innehaltens und der Reflexion, der jenseits von postkolonialen, westlichen Prägungen eine andere Verbindung des Einzelnen zu sich selbst und zueinander öffnet. „Break & Connection“ greift die Zeichen der Zeit auf und beleuchtet Bruch und Verbindung, Pause und Neuanfang von verschiedenen Blickwinkeln aus. Der Moment [...]
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 Bَabَa (interdisciplinary artist) and [...]
RUSNAM präsentiert die experimentelle audio-visuelle Performance „ctrl.xx.tension” - Das 75 - minütige performative Sounderlebnis nimmt das Publikum mit in die musikalische Auseinandersetzung mit dem von weiblichen Pop-Ikonen geprägten Frauenbild, vereint in einer Tanzperformance, die Diskriminierungserfahrungen von BPoC Musikerinnen* sichtbar macht. Losgelöst vom Stereotyp der Pop - Ikone über die Grenzen unserer Herkunft hinaus. → Buche [...]
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 enough cold outside. On 12 February We want to honour the thriving culture of BIPOC immigrants, refugee bodies of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Questioning Queer Archiving Practices Inspired by the teachings of decolonial and queer-feminist knowledge and experiences, we will organize a participatory workshop at Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek 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 [...]
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 [...]
Nach sechs intensiven Workshoptagen werden der syrische Stand-up Comedian Ammar Daba und seine Workshop-Teilnehmer*innen an im Oyoun ihre für diesen Abend konzipierten Sets präsentieren.
Von Nairobi bis New York–spätestens nachdem die Band Anfang des Jahres auf den Bildschirmendes Time Squares erschien, ist ihr internationaler Erfolg unumstritten!Mit Sauti Sol ist der NameProgramm! Mit ihrem Gute-Laune-Sound, der die Sonne in die Herzen jeder ihrer Hörer fließen lässt, bringen die Jungs ein Stück ihrer Heimat mit auf die Bühne. Bestehend aus Bien-Aimé [...]
(DE)CODING TRAJECTORIES - The body was always a centre 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 centre of the ongoing [...]
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 [...]
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 to use the airspaces as experimental grounds for creative new [...]
Austellungseröffnung + Einführung von Bruna Amaro am 30.4.2022 von 18:00 bis 20:00 h Danach (vom 1.5. – 27.5.2022) täglich von 12:00 h – 20:00 h Die Ausstellung wird ein Ort des Gedenkens und der Ehrung der Frauen* sein, deren tägliches Leben ein Kampf gegen den allgegenwärtigen Femizid und die strukturelle Unterdrückung ist. Die Feier ihres [...]
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 [...]
“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.
Geschichte einer Selbstverteidigung Theateraufführung mit anschließender Diskussionsrunde mit der Künstler*in In dem Theaterstück “Mein Name” wird die Geschichte einer Selbstverteidigung erzählt. Meryem verkörpert in dem Stück das Schicksal von drei Frauen aus verschiedenen Generationen. In dem Stück erklimmen wir mit der “verrückten Hatice” mutig die Berge und singen Lieder während wir ihr Dorf hinter uns [...]
AS* PAPANGUS ist ein Karneval für, von und mit Frauen*, der marginalisierte Körper nicht objektiviert. In AS* PAPANGUS führt die afro-brasilianische Künstlerin Bruna Amaro mit mehr als 50 Frauen* in São Paulo und Berlin einen Karneval in seiner queer-feministischsten und dekolonialsten Form auf.In diesem partizipatorischen Projekt wurden in einer Reihe von Performance-Workshops die Grundlagen für [...]
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 [...]
Musik- und Tanzperformance von MusicDance Cape Town (Südafrika) TAH DAM! ist eine Musik- und Tanzperformance für Familien und Kinder. Die teils traditionell afrikanische, teils traditionell europäische Musik wird auf vielen interessanten Instrumenten gespielt: Mbira (aus Simbabwe), Djembe (aus Westafrika), Umtshingo (aus Südafrika), Adungu (aus Uganda) und auch ein Klavier, Regenstäbe und Gesang kommen zum Einsatz. [...]
Live-Zoom-Gespräch und Screening der Arbeit von HK5senses mit Gemini Wong Yuk Tak Die FRATZ Festival-Kuratorin Marie Yan verbrachte 2021 ein halbes Jahr wegen eines Theaterprojekts in Hongkong und lernte in dieser Zeit das HK5Senses Theatre kennen, das sich der Arbeit für Babies und Kleinkinder widmet. Im Rahmen des Symposiums von FRATZ 2022 wollen wir die [...]
Performance von KiNiNso Koncepts (Nigeria) Farben haben in Bezug auf Menschen häufig wertende, auch negative Assoziationen. Die weltweit verbreiteten Zuschreibungen aufgrund von Haut-Farben wie schwarz, weiß, rot, gelb, ... sind absurd, diskriminierend und nehmen uns die Freude an der Schönheit der Farben. Das Team von KOLOFU wollte diesen Zustand nicht hinnehmen und fragte sich: »Können [...]
UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation _a musical documentary performance on the soundtracks of war_ UN:IMAGINABLE ist eine außergewöhnliche Theaterproduktion, die aus der gelebten Realität von Trauma, Krieg, Ausgrenzung und Exil entstanden ist. Die Genozide der 1990er Jahre in Ruanda und auf dem Balkan erschütterten die Welt - und zählen bis heute zu den blutigsten [...]
UN:IMAGINABLE - our histories in conversation _a musical documentary performance on the soundtracks of war_ UN:IMAGINABLE ist eine außergewöhnliche Theaterproduktion, die aus der gelebten Realität von Trauma, Krieg, Ausgrenzung und Exil entstanden ist. Die Genozide der 1990er Jahre in Ruanda und auf dem Balkan erschütterten die Welt - und zählen bis heute zu den blutigsten [...]
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 [...]
Rotimi kommt mit dem Debütalbum „All or Nothing“ für eine exklusive Show nach Deutschland! Mit Co-Signings von T-Pain, 50 Cent, JAY-Z, Jamie Foxx und T.I. leitet Sänger und Songwriter Rotimi eine neue Ära der Game Changer ein. Während er bislang vor allem für seine Schauspielrollen wie in der amerikanischen Hitserie „STARZ“ bekannt ist, startete er [...]
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 [...]
