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SUMMARY:Blact Cats in Berlin (Poetry Reading & Discussion with Black Cat Press)
DESCRIPTION:Black Cats in Berlin\nIntroducing Black Cat Poetry Press\, a small independent press based in Kent\, England\, with a special interest in eco poetry\, who publish anthologies and pamphlets. Come and meet Satya Bosman and Catherine Balaq\, the co-editors of the press and hear them read from their own work and present work from the books the press has published over the last 3 years. Moderated by poet Winifred Wong.\nhttps://www.blackcatpress.co.uk\nDoors open at 19:30. The event will start at 20:00.\nFree entry.\nPlease note the venue is not accessible as there are nine steps down into a souterrain.\nAbout:\nBlack Cat Poetry Press is a small independent press that opened its doors in early 2022. It has grown from strength to strength and has now published 10 books with a busy forthcoming list. Our submission window is open once a year in October for pamphlet submissions. We pride ourselves in providing an opportunity for both established writers and those just starting. We often mentor and support writers with manuscripts that aren’t quite publishing-ready. We care particularly about the poetry of the environment\, women and stories of displacement however are interested in all subjects.\nCatherine Balaq is a writer and body psychotherapist. She is co-editor of Black Cat Press. Her debut poetry collection ‘animaginary’ was published in July 2023. Her second poetry collection\, ‘Deathless’ was published with Verve in October 2024. Catherine is working on her first novel\, ‘Halloweg’ and is represented by Watson Little.\nSatya Bosman is the founder and co-editor of the Black Cat Poetry Press. Her poetry was highly commended in the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Folio competition 2024 and has been featured in several publications including 14 Magazine\, Acropolis Journal\, Suburban Witchcraft and Seaside Gothic. She is currently developing her first pamphlet.\nWinifred Wong is a Singaporean poet\, writer\, and performer based in Berlin. Her poetry has appeared in SAND Journal\, Softblow and SingPoWriMo\, among others. As a journalist\, she covers cultural events and has written for arts institutions such as Esplanade Theatres and news outlet Yahoo!.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/685636464048442/
URL:https://clockworkbanana.com/event/blact-cats-in-berlin-poetry-reading-discussion-with-black-cat-press/
LOCATION:Lausitzer Platz 17\, 10997 Berlin\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Art,Bar,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetic Hafla - Spring Edition
DESCRIPTION:Poetic Hafla (arab. for party) is an event series that focusses on presenting middle eastern/mediterranian artists based in Berlin.\nThe main idea of the Poetic Hafla is creating a place to experiment and to share ideas. This idea is complemented with many artistic forms of expression: readings\, music\, stand-up comedy\, and performances.\nThe organisers say about themselves and their artists: “We are Mediterranian – a sea!”\, referring to the diversity of backgrounds\, expressions\, aesthetics and contributions. The event series shows the liveliness of Middle Eastern culture and the importance of Berlin as a cultural hub and home of the many. The Poetic Hafla provides a safe/brave space that is all about listening\, embracing\, sharing\, appreciating each other and coming together.\nPoetic Hafla was founded in 2015 by Barack Moyal and Mati Shemoelof\, two Israeli/German artists and authors who live in Berlin. Poetic Hafla is held mostly in English\, Arabic and Hebrew.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1157515192445290/
URL:https://clockworkbanana.com/event/poetic-hafla-spring-edition/
LOCATION:Veteranenstraße 21\, 10119 Berlin\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Art,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Girl\, Show Me That Body (of Work): Passion and Poetry of Womxn Artists at Solstice
DESCRIPTION:Doors open: 7.30 PM\nStart of the program: 8 PM \nHow compelling must a woman be to meet society’s expectations? Feminine\, vulnerable\, but also strong\, skilled in a variety of tasks\, able to manage both housework\, freedom\, friendship\, family and career. Able to fix a washing machine\, have negotiation skills\, manage the emotional labor in a couple and at the same time accumulate wealth. Remember to defend her territory when necessary\, be attractive and take care of her appearance. Don’t complain too much\, smile more\, be fully available while self-caring\, and maintain an aura of mystery while enduring pain. Be leftist\, powerful and determined while being demure. All these aspects seem incompatible\, like the contrast between a lioness and a lily\, between a motherly saint and a witch. The ripples of this contrast still spread far and wide. \nAnd are not sustainable.\nIn art\, this contrast is perhaps most visibly represented. Cinema\, literature\, music\, performance\, as mirrors of society\, have often been challenged for their stereotypical portrayal of women characters\, often limiting them to superficial roles and to their physical appearance\, instead of their ever-evolving\, transformative\, and perhaps uncomfortable bodies of work.\nGirl\, Show Me That Body (of Work) is an event series exclusively showcasing womxn writers\, poets\, and performers from migration backgrounds\, illuminating the transgenerational trauma borne by lineage\, politics\, and society\, and the work womxn artists do to heal it.\nCreated by author and journalist\, Ioana Cristina Casapu\, the first event serves as a bridge through the shortest night of 2024\, when nature’s forces peak. \nWe will show six different performances of womxn artists who gather on the brightest day of the year to move us together through the darkness. On June 21\, the sun sets at around 10 p.m. This is the brightest\, longest day of the year\, and the shortest\, yet\, deepest\, darkest night. As we gather\, we set the night on fire. We invite you to take in the light and shadow from these stories into your next half of the year. \nWe bring you poetry\, prose\, performance\, and song in ritualistic celebration\, honoring womxn’s resilience against historical perils.\nJoin us in experiencing bodies of work that challenge parsimony and forward progressiveness\, illuminating our dance and passing through this night.\n—————————————————————————\nWe are pleased to present a LINEUP of six performances created by international womxn artists connected to Berlin\, showcasing works of poetry\, prose\, performances and music\, written and interpreted in English for this edition.\nPROGRAM\n—————————————————————————\nAmbika Thompson (they/them) has been published in Electric Literature\, Riddle Fence\, Crab Fat Magazine\, Fanzine\, Joyland\, The Fiddlehead and PANK. They have an MFA in creative writing from Guelph University\, are a fiction editor at Berlin’s SAND journal\, and are one-half of the Riot Grrrl cello duo Razor Cunts.\n—————————————————————————\nShlomit Lasky (she/her) has been a relationship columnist for ‘Laisha\,’ Israel’s leading women’s magazine since 2006. Originally from Tel Aviv\, Berlin has been her home since 2010. Alongside writing\, she guides tours in Berlin and works as a voice-over artist for the German public news broadcaster\, Deutsche Welle (DW). Currently\, Shlomit has an original series in development with UFA. She has received grants from the Israeli Film Fund and the German National Film Fund (FFA) to develop original screenplays that were later optioned. Her short play\, ‘The Imaginary Ex’\, was selected for Zavta’s Short Plays Festival (2011). She was awarded a grant from the Zurückgeben Foundation (Berlin\, 2020) to develop her debut novel. Shlomit has an acting diploma from Beit-Zvi Academy of Performing Arts (Israel) and a master’s in screenwriting from the University of the Arts\, London (LCC).\n—————————————————————————\nRuby Russell (she/her) is a writer and editor\, originally from London\, living in Berlin. For more than a decade\, her journalistic work has focused on the ecological crisis and the ideas that shape our responses to it. Her first book\, Doing It All: The Social Power of Single Motherhood was published in 2024 by Dialogue Books in the UK and Seal Press in the US.\n—————————————————————————\nDana Berghes (she/her) is a Romanian writer\, content designer\, and music industry consultant. Dana transited Bucharest\, Berlin\, Hamburg\, and Brussels\, exploring topics such as identity\, trauma and memory\, migration and conflict\, as well as music and community building. Her work includes translations\, short stories\, personal essays\, poems\, reviews\, and interviews. Between 2011 and 2017\, Dana ran a music column in an online urban culture magazine. In 2018\, her work received the Press Prize awarded by the National Centre for Contemporary Dance in Bucharest for an interview with Mexican artist Christina Maldonado. One year later\, Dana coordinated qualitative research for and co-authored a Romanian essay collection on the grammar of attraction\, discourses on sexuality\, and the politics of sex (Don’t Bite Your Tongue\, 2020). In 2023 she published her first photo essay with the German print mag ”Acts of: Affection”.\n—————————————————————————\nLili Khoury (she/her) is a Palestinian/German poet and feminist activist based in Berlin. She believes in the power of poetry to transform communities to become more just and loving. Next to her poetry\, she sometimes writes her own songs and is working for an NGO in the field of development and humanitarian work.\n—————————————————————————\n”Mire” is the dark-ambient drone and atmospheric soundscape project of Andreea Hriscu (she/her)\, a visual\, performance\, and sound Berlin-based artist. With a background in architecture\, she opened her first solo painting exhibition in 2016 at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Beijing\, China\, and her first live painting performance in 2018 in Beijing\, followed by other performances in Bangkok and Berlin. Her photography and painting are mostly abstract\, her sound projects consist of dark ambient soundscapes\, and her painting performances are dark\, emotional\, and viscerally intense. They explore and embody different aspects of the psyche: the subconscious\, the hidden aspects of the self\, and the unfelt raw emotions. Within this embodiment\, she becomes fully immersed in the artistic process\, blurring the boundaries between the self\, the process\, and the object. Andreea Hriscu is co-founder of Kross Collective\, an art collective focused on organising multi-disciplinary art events\n—————————————————————————\nSivia Laporta (she/her) is an Italian\, Berlin-based holistic body worker\, and a gong and soundscapes performer. Her work sheds light on the intriguing connection between sounds\, cognitive experiences and the subtle energies that shape our state of mind. Silvia’s sound landscapes journey to a wide spectrum of oneiric experimental waves of sounds produced by therapeutic & shamanic instruments as Tibetan bowls\, gong\, ocean drums\, koshis\, chimes\, bells & voice. By inducing a deep meditative state\, this ‘psychedelic like’ experience evokes multidimensional aspect of subconscious\, and beyond\, a travel through time and space to meet the self. Silvia offers 1:1 treatments\, group sessions & art performances in Berlin and in Europe.\n—————————————————————————\nIoana Cristina Casapu (she/her/they/them) is a Romanian-born author of novels\, essays\, and poetry\, with contributions to over 30 anthologies and magazines in English\, German\, and Romanian. Community\, a central element of womxn’s lives\, forms the core of her research. Her writing projects for the Goethe-Institut and the Romanian cultural newspaper DILEMA document the lives of Romanian women artists in Germany and the war experiences of women who fled to Germany from Ukraine and Israel. Through her continued writing and projects\, she strives to honor the efforts of women who have fled traumatizing circumstances to live a safer life; to find rooms of their own in the world\, a community that\, in the words of Emily Dickinson\, illuminates-and does not seal their experiences. In 2024\, she founded Girl\, Show Me That Body (of Work) as part of Kross Collective\, the Berlin-based art collective organizing experimental\, intersectional art events.\n—————————————————————————\nDisclaimer: Some of the artistic contributions may contain mentions of sex\, assault or violence.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/376469858702963/
URL:https://clockworkbanana.com/event/girl-show-me-that-body-of-work-passion-and-poetry-of-womxn-artists-at-solstice/
LOCATION:Veteranenstraße 21\, 10119 Berlin\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Bar,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Release Party GIVE ME 3 WORDS - English Edition
DESCRIPTION:Release party and reading for the English edition of Dan K. Sigurd’s book „GIVE ME 3 WORDS – Mauerpark Poetry“. Stories from a decade of typing in the park and brand new poems!\nDotra Di will accompany the reading with live music\, there will be video-projections and Dan will write personalized poems\, live on stage as well as before and after the reading. Of course the book will be available as well. Get your own copy and have it signed by the author!\nEntrance is free\, come in through the beer garden of the Mauersegler. \nwww.Dan.Periplaneta.com\nwww.Dan-K-Sigurd.com\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/429938716138804/
URL:https://clockworkbanana.com/event/release-party-give-me-3-words-english-edition/
LOCATION:Mauersegler Park Kultur
CATEGORIES:Bar,Live Music,Poetry
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