:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: The Zen of Pad.ma is a collection of lessons learned, and question 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 [...]
►a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Launch Event Audience will attend to a happening in the neighbourhood. : 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 [...]
►a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Using sound to document a neighbourhood 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 [...]
►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 [...]
EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL - AUF DEN SPUREN VERKÖRPERTER ERINNERUNGEN ♦️♦️♦️ Embodied Arts Festival Guide ♦️♦️♦️ Was verkörpern unsere Körper? Welche Erinnerungen können uns unsere Körper erzählen? - über uns selbst, unsere Vergangenheit und unsere Zukunft? Wir laden euch ein, mit uns diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen während des EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL künstlerisch nachzugehen. Wir haben über [...]
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 [...]
Ascension is a theatre 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Radikale Zärtlichkeit – Warum Liebe politisch ist ist am 20. April 2021 bei HarperCollins Germany erschienen. What is love? Ist die Liebe Sinn des Lebens, eine politische Allianz, Illusion oder Selbstzweck? Oder ist sie gar unmöglich, weil wir uns zwischen Zukunftsängsten, überhöhten Ansprüchen und diskriminierenden Strukturen völlig zerreiben? Diesen Fragen geht die Autor*in Şeyda Kurt [...]
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 [...]
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 to [...]
Eros Marciano presents: THE CREAMY KIKI BALL It's a quite spontaneous event, so the theme is something easy! You can choose between the colours: brown, beige and white. You can decide whether you want to mix all three, just two or go with just one colour. Shoes and accessories don't count. All categories will be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 centred around highlighting Hip Hop, RnB, Afrobeat, Reggae, Dancehall and Soul artists of the diaspora through conversations and discussions. The goal is [...]
▸ 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 [...]
MARTA, Frelichttheaterstück durch den Körper und die Biographie 3., 4. + 5. September auf Deutsch Es ist vorbei mit der Angst Wir kämpfen dafür, dass unsere Körper respektiert werden. Wir sind gekommen, um Grenzen zu setzen, um den Blicken stand zu halten. Wir sind von innen erwacht, wir haben unsere Krallen ausgefahren und leisten Widerstand. [...]
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 intensive workshops,“ Foreign [...]
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. After [...]
Am 6.September erscheint bei Edition Körber das neue Buch von Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç. In »Muslimaniac. Die Karriere eines Feindbildes« geht der Politikwissenschaftler und Rassismusforscher auf Spurensuche nach »Orientalika«, so nennt Keskinkılıç Symbole, Sprachspuren und Gegenstände, in denen sich die hartnäckigen Klischees von »Orient« und »Okzident« spiegeln. Er verknüpft sie mit aktuellen Entwicklungen und eigenen Erfahrungen [...]
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 [...]
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 socialisation of the founder of 'w/o additives' based on her personal biography. On [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of The Path's programme, 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Vernissage und Paneldisskusion mit syrischen Fotokünstler*innen: Guevara Namer (Moderatorin/Kuratorin der Ausstellung und Fotorgrafin), Mohammed Badra (Panelist/Fotograf), Ameer Alhalbi (Panelist/Fotograf), Mohammed Abdullah (Panelist/Fotograf) Der syrische Aufstand und der darauffolgende Krieg gehören vielleicht zu den am besten dokumentierten visuellen Ereignissen der modernen Geschichte. Es gibt erschütternde Bilder, die sich in die Psyche der Menschen eingebrannt haben. Das [...]
