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Thu01Feb202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: free
Book launch with Chana Porter
The Berlin Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Chana Porter to celebrate the launch of THE THICK AND THE LEAN.
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Fri09Feb202419:30Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, 9/6€
Lyriklesung und Gespräch
Am 9. Februar begrüßt Book and you die Québecer Dichterin Maude Veilleux in der Lettrétage. Im Gepäck hat sie mit „Last call les murènes“und „Une sorte de lumière spéciale“ zwei Gedichtbände, die im Januar zum ersten Mal in Frankreich bei Bouclard erscheinen. Jennifer Dummer wird den Besuch der Dichterin moderieren.
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Sat10Feb202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Eintritt: 6,-
A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Experimental Arts. With Tuce Alba, Ioana Cristina Casapu, Days Like Television, Andreea Hriscu, Silvia Laporta, Georg Leß and David Spittle
CONVERGENCE is an evening of immersive, multi-sensory performances, exploring dialogues between sound, text, and visuals. The evening will host a reading by Ioana Casapu accompanied by a gong performance by Silvia Laporta, a screening of a short-film by David Spittle which explores ideas of how moving-image and poetry might interact and coalesce, a sound performance by Andreea Hriscu that includes a poem by Georg Leß. Two extended performances will follow, including a piece by the musician and performance artist Tuce Alba, and a new collaborative piece by the painter and performance artist Andreea Hriscu, and the experimental musician Days Like Television.
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Wed14Feb202419:30Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Eintritt auf Spendenbasis (Empfohlen: 15€)
Reading and Performance by Soul and the City
We are thrilled to invite you again to our Valentine’s Special Edition Event focused on diversity, individuality and the richness of languages and cultures with the purpose of uplifting and empowering individuals and communities, in an overall atmosphere of amazing vibrations, good times, inherent hope and love manifestations through multidisciplinary artists and an array of thought-provoking, engaging artistic displays.
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Fri01Mar202420:30 UhrLettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: 15,-/10,-
Reading and Performance
(c) Natalia Reich
Poetic Hafla, a variety show with a Mediterranean flare! 10 artists, 1 host, lots of magic! Poetic Hafla is a celebration of Berlin art and culture. It will be a night full of performances from up-and-coming recording artists, spoken word performers, dancers and actors.
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Tue05Mar202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Eintritt frei
Lesung und Gespräch
(c) Privat ; (c) Alhierd Bacharevič Wie sehen das Arbeiten, die Erfahrungen und Realitäten von Autor*innen aus, die aufgrund von Krieg oder politischer Repression ihre Heimatländer verlassen mussten und nun in Berlin bzw. Deutschland leben? In regelmäßig stattfindenden Abendveranstaltungen der Reihe “Literaturen im Exil” präsentieren jeweils zwei Autor*innen unterschiedlicher Herkunft ihre Texte und tauschen sich über ihre Exil-Erfahrungen sowie über Chancen und Herausforderungen in der (deutschen) Literaturszene aus. [read more…]
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Sat09Mar202420:30 UhrLettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: free
Reading by Donna Stonecipher, Alexander Booth and Ryan Ruby
Copyright: Alexander Wells “He accompanies me across the street it was the 1 icy winter day he wasn’t wearing a jacket, not just what’s written but existence, too, must be poetic.” So Friederike Mayröcker (1924-2021) ends, at the age of 89, a section of her stream-of-consciousness meditations, CAHIER, crystallizing a sense of her epic life and work: “not just what’s written but existence, too, must be poetic.”
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Sun10Mar202420:00 UhrLettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: 5,-/3,-
Reading by Pete Carvill
Copyright: Biteback Publishing DEATH OF A BOXER is the story of boxing and boxers. But it is, overall, a series of love stories. And it is more about sport than it is about the people who choose to exist in his harsh, marginalized world that is oddly full of beauty and grace. Famed US author Donald Ray Pollock, writer of THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME and KNOCKEMSTIFF, has called DEATH OF A BOXER the ‘best and most-important book on boxing’ that he has ever read.
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Fri15Mar202420:00 UhrLettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: free
Reading and Concert by Paul Brody
(c) privat SPRACHMELODIEKLANGFARBENMELODIE: Part 4 of Paul Brody’s live electronics & poetry concert will feature the voices of poets that Brody recorded in the past year. Each concert explored different ways of combining poetry and music, always with the idea of creating what Brody calls musical translations of poems.
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Sun17Mar202420:00 UhrLettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: 8,-/5,-
ariel rosé and Uljana Wolf in reading and conversation with Karolina
Golimowska (moderation)
Copyright: privat Whereas Uljana Wolf’s first poetry collection, KOCHANIE TODAY I BOUGHT BREAD (2005) was inspired by a Polish-German translation workshop and explored the silences and gaps in German-Polish history during time spent in Kraków and Silesia, ariel rosé’s last poetry collections (MORZE NOCĄ JEST MIĘŚNIEM SERCA, 2022 and PÓŁNOC. PRZYPOWIEŚCI, 2019) were written outside of Poland — in Norway, in Berlin, in constant movement. How does changing one’s home change the relation to one’s poetic language? How does the fact that both poets work as translators influence their thinking about what home is, or origins and originals are, or whose history is to be translated, and where language belongs – and according to whom?
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Tue26Mar202420:00 UhrLettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: free
Reading by Sarah Schulman
Copyright: Farrar, Straus & Giroux The Berlin Writers' Workshop and the Schwules Museum present a reading and discussion with Sarah Schulman and her most recent book LET THE RECORD SHOW: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF ACT UP NEW YORK, 1987-1993: Twenty years in the making, LET THE RECORD SHOW is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of Act Up and American AIDS activism.
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Fri05Apr202419:30Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Eintritt frei
PORTAL: Book Launch & Party
with Tracy Fuad, Zoe Darsee, Patty Nash and Lotta Thießen
(c) Privat Please join us to celebrate the launch of PORTAL, a new collection of poetry by Tracy Fuad published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Thu11Apr202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, 15/5€
Deutsch / English / DGS (mit Dolmetschung)
Ausgehend von zwei Videoarbeiten entwickelt sich eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem *Tauben Performance Künstler* Eyk Kauly und dem hörenden Sound-Duo HYENAZ (Kathryn Fischer und Adrienne Teicher). Gemeinsam untersuchen sie mittels Gebärden, Tönen, Performance und Video, was es heißen könnte, die Bedingungen der Hörbarkeit zu queeren.
On the basis of two video works a collaboration develops between deaf performance artist Eyk Kauly and the hearing sound artists HYENAZ (Kathryn Fischer and Adrienne Teicher). Together they explore through sound, signs, and performance how conditions of audibility can be challenged.
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Sat13Apr202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission free
Performative Reading
(c) Siesta SIESTA FESTIVAL returns with an thrilling exploration of literature and performance, ensembling the voices of three authors: Antonio Ungar, renowned for his acclaimed novels, invites audiences into crafted narratives that traverse languages and cultures, while Giuliana Kiersz, a poet and playwright, offers poetic insights into the human
condition through multimedia landscapes. Felipe Sáez Riquelme , a
boundary-pushing poet and performance artist, challenges the forms and explores through oral expressions and listening, alternatives forms of writing.
Their works will be translated by Susanne Lange #SusanneLange, Timo Berger, and Laura Haber, who bring experience and linguistic fluency to expand languages, exploiting the richness of the texts and the performances.
Adding a visual dimension to the experience are Rocío Rodriguez, and Ian Kornfeld, infusing the event with an immersive aesthetic backdrop. Moderator Regina Riveros will walk us through the night, while the Musician Mauricio Fleury will make us celebrate the closing of another unforgettable journey.
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Wed17Apr202419:30Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, 12/6€
Reading and Discussion
European Young Literature Berlin is part of a series of events, readings and publications stretching from Paris, Matera, Stockholm to Berlin.
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Sat20Apr202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, 10€
Reading and Performance
CONVERGENCE is an evening of experimental, multi-sensory performances organized by Kross Collective, which explore dialogues between sound, text, and visuals. For our second event, we are delighted to premiere a new, live A/V performance by vocalist Wilma Sävström and experimental musician Days Like Television. Von Jeglichem Wort- a sound & text project- will present an ambient sound performance of poetry and video. Mire is the dark-ambient drone and atmospheric soundscape project of Andreea Hriscu, and for this evening she will present a sound and art performance.
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Mon22Apr202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission free
Magazine Launch
(c) Erotic Reviews Join us to celebrate the (re)launch of the Erotic Review. This launch marks a new chapter in the 30-year-old British magazine's storied history. Showcasing art and writing from around the world, the Review is takes a fresh look at what the erotic is, or could be, in our lives and gives space to an open, playful and compassionate discourse about desire. Find out more about Issue 1 on the website.
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Wed24Apr202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission free
Book Presentation: 'Arab Berlin: Dynamics of Transformation'
Arab Berlin – an Ibn Rushd Lecture with Nahed Samour and Mahmoud Salem
Sonnenallee is one of the most famous streets of Berlin these days - and this no longer related to the legendary 1990s film about the German reunification, but to all the Arab businesses framing its wide sidewalks. Arab groceries stores and halal butcher shops, shisha cafés and shawarma restaurants, Arab banks and Islamic fashion stores gave it it’s second name – for a while known as ‘Little Beirut’ or ‘Gaza Strip’, it now just goes by the name of ‘Arab Street’ to account for the diversity in Arab provenance. But these are just the facades, and there is so much more to Arab Life and Culture in Berlin.
The newly published book "Arab Berlin: Dynamics of Transformation" edited by Hanan Badr and Nahed Samour takes a closer look behind the facades and examines the multifaceted changes in Berlin and its Arab communities. From politics and society over history and migration to gender and beyond, Arabs actively participate in shaping these transformations. Badr and Samour’s comprehensive compilation comprises academic articles, essays, interviews, and photographs, providing profound insights into Berlin's intricate dynamics. Authors from diverse backgrounds contribute their perspectives, fostering a nuanced dialogue on contemporary shifts.
Please register at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsthK20kqgEwFDFlPO9qIcSCOXzqA2vor2NDqmxVy4J9cIag/viewform?sender_campaign=e3GJWM&sender_ctype=email&sender_customer=9rlXNpJ
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Thu16May202420:00 Uhr (Einlass ab 19:30 Uhr)Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: €10/€4
The DEAD LADIES SHOW is a series of entertaining and inspiring presentations on women who achieved amazing things against all odds. Each show hosts passionate cheerleaders of too-oft forgotten women, inviting its loyal audience into a sexy séance (of sorts) celebrating these impressive icons, turbulent lives, and deathless legacies.
It’s us again! Back to our three-talk format but only in English again, unfortunately, due to our continuing funding woes. We’re treating you to talks by your beloved co-hosts Katy Derbyshire and Florian Duijsens, plus the curator, writer and film producer Rachel Pronger. Learn all about three impressive women who faced tough times, pushed boundaries, and gave the world lasting treasures. The aim of the show is to raise money for more podcasts, so we've adjusted the non-reduced price to €10, but reduced tickets still cost €4. Doors open 7.30 pm – come on time to get a good seat!
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Thu23May202420:00 UhrLettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: free
Talks with Hassan Ait-El-Ouali and Saleh Chaoui & music by Quasim Kzar
The "Ibn Rushd Young" series provides a platform for young researchers,
intellectuals, and artists to share and discuss their current projects with an audience of like-minded peers. With this unique format we are opening up an alternative space outside the confines of traditional academia— one that's non-hierarchical and embraces interdisciplinary dialogue on topics, issues, and projects holding significance for the Arab World.In our upcoming event, we're excited to host two sessions delving into the exploration of gender, religion, and social norms in literature.
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Fri28Jun202419:30Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Eintritt frei
(c) privat We’re back! And we too can hardly believe that it’s already been a fall and a spring of workshops and writing! But all these poems have been composed, essays envisioned, and fiction imagined. Time must have passed! Join us and the rest of The Reader Berlin community to hear what everyone's been working on this past year—and to celebrate the summer’s advent. Our writers in Berlin have been penning personal essays and memoirs, spinning out speculative flash fiction, writing poetry, and polishing short stories for submission. Stop by for a listen.
Tutor and writer Sanders Isaac Bernstein will moderate the evening of readings.
Ankerinstitution für die freie Literaturszene Berlin