Reading List # 60
An entirely subjective list of things happening in Berlin
July 21
Oliver Bulas: Action as a Landscape
A lived experience or workshop in two parts as a platform to exchange and explore collectively different ways of relating and inhabiting social and natural landscapes, and how these performances could change public life. Oliver Bulas organises participant-centric meetings that will take body-sensorial experience and game play to conjure up memories from the future through a fluid emergent process.
Please register by emailing oliverbulas@gmx.net and let the organizers know about any specific needs you have including food allergies.
The meeting starts at the courtyard of Hopscotch Reading room. Part 2 of the Workshop takes place on July 28.
(EN)
2-6 pm | Hopscotch Reading Room, Kurfürstenstr. 13-14
July 22
Berlin Erinnert München (OEZ)
July 22, 2024 marks the eighth anniversary of the right-wing terrorist attack at the Olympic Shopping Center (OEZ) in Munich. We remember: Armela, Can, Dijamant, Guiliano, Hüseyin, Roberto, Sabine, Selçuk and Sevda.
Their lives and stories, their murder for right-wing, racist motives and their relatives, the survivors and those affected must not be forgotten.
With:
with Elona Beqiraj, Yousra, Tanasgol, Ebow, Berlin Remembers Munich OEZ, NSU Watch, KOP, October 9th solidarity group (Halle), Burak Bektas Initiative, Sibel Leyla, mother of the murdered Can Leyla.
(DE)
5-7.30 pm | Oranienplatz
July 25
POETIC COUNTERWORLDINGS #2: Fatemeh Shams
A series of living room readings & conversations by Omar Kasmani and Carlos Kong.
POETIC COUNTERWORLDINGS is a recently launched series of poetry readings and conversations in Berlin living rooms that traverses modes of the personal, the poetic and the political as a way to think through public archives of feeling and felt genres of counteracting. Featuring a guest poet, each gathering is envisioned as a three-way conversation. Together, we will savor poetry but also delve into its politicality, especially as it relates to questions of belonging: inter-generational memory and family history, racial alterity and sexual difference, indigeneity, migrancy and the affective life of settler colonialism.
For the exact location of the reading in Berlin-Charlottenburg, rsvp to carlosdkong@gmail.com or kasmanio@gmail.com .
(EN)
7-9 pm | S-Bhf Charlottenburg / U7 Wilmersdorfer Str.
July 26
Book launch: Schlafen by Theresia Enzensberger
Reading and conversation with Miryam Schellbach in the garden of Hansabibliothek.
Theresia Enzensberger can't sleep. Instead, she writes about sleep, a book tracing the different stages we go through during the night. She begins in the teeth-grinding light sleep phase with an essay about the stigmatization of sleep, weakness and illness; about sleep as political metaphor and the consequences of widespread sleeplessness. In the deep sleep phase, her text offers a more intense, more personal perspective of the in between of sleep, of sleepwalking and nightmares in art, pop culture and literature. The REM phase is itself a dream: An uncanny story about perception and class. "Schlafen" is an exciting, clever, stimulating attempt to grasp the essence of a basic human need that is so far beyond our control.
(DE)
7.30 pm | Hansabibliothek, Altonaer Str. 15