Berlin Africa Conference, West Africa Conference, Congo Conference – until today circulate different names for that meeting that took place in Berlin from 15th November 1884 until 26th February 1885. This conference gave the go-ahead to the extensive colonization of the continent – the arbitrary partition of Africa in absence of the Africans. The Berlin Conference is an unresolved chapter of German and global History. One that, as opposed to the Naziera, still is hardly anchored in the public consciousness.<\/p>\n
Through different Perspectives and different forms of artistic expression the Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe wants to make this event visible and tangible for the public. From November 2014 to February 2015 – following the actual duration of the Berlin conference\u00a0 –\u00a0 We are tomorrow will provide a wide range of interdisciplinary events. With theater, performance, dance, exhibitions, literature, film, visual arts and music the curators and artists illuminate the historic event in new facets.<\/p>\n
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EXHIBITION SERIES:\u00a0Yesternow. Zwischen Jetset und Vergessen As in many other contexts colonization of the African continent has also taken place in the visual arts. About a hundred years ago, the Expressionists\u00a0took the formal language of African countries and influenced Western art up to the present day in a decisive way without any reference to the origin of their influences. Without this, modernity would certainly have taken a different direction. For the exhibition\u00a0Yesternow. Zwischen Jetset und Vergessen<\/em>\u00a0contemporary African visual artists\u00a0are invited from Angola, Senegal and South Africa. With their work they participate in the discourse on the tension between the incredible pace of economic development and a sometimes very close wartime past in their countries. That this tension results from\u00a0the colonial past is the starting point of the exhibition project.<\/p>\n Curated by\u00a0Manuela Sambo<\/strong><\/p>\n Featuring:\u00a0Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Thabo Thindi, Manuela Sambo<\/strong>\u00a0and others<\/p>\n <\/p>\n FILM SERIES – \u00ab\u00a0BEYOND THE MAPS\u00a0\u00bb – African Resistance against Colonial Power The series is dedicated to film productions of various genres that deal with both the resistance against European colonialism on African soil, and\u00a0the conference itself. In addition to film screenings there are public discussions with the filmmakers and invited artists.<\/p>\n Curated by\u00a0Enoka Ayemba<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n LITERATURE SERIES: Literary topographies of colonialism Till the end of February, the series presents book readings followed by round-table discussions with African (Diaspora) writers in conversation with scholars of different disciplines. The literary journey through time begins with real as well as fictional biographies situated in the 1880\u2019s of the German Empire, then moves on to African landscapes of memory in poetry, letters, and diaries during the time of genocides in Namibia and modern-day Tanzania as well as during German colonial rule in Cameroon, highlights the memoirs of African (Diaspora) soldiers during World War I which have remained in the shadows of western historiography, pays a fleeting literary visit to Germany\u2019s colonial neighbours, and finally arrives in the present where migration and transnationality in the African (Diaspora) novel chart \u201cold new borders\u201d.<\/p>\n Curated by\u00a0Nadja Ofuatey\u00adAlazard<\/strong><\/p>\n Featuring:\u00a0Theodor Wonja Michael, Jessica K\u00f6ster, Maaza Mengiste, Everlyn Nicodemus, David Olusoga, Malek Alloula<\/strong>\u00a0among others<\/p>\n <\/p>\n POLYPHONIC – SPONTANEOUS TOWN MEETINGS The Spontaneous Town Meeting is an interdisciplinary jam session in the format of a talk show taking place every month in the context of the series WE ARE TOMORROW \u2013 Visions and Retrospection on Occasion of the 1884 Berlin Conference. Jazz musician Jean\u00adPaul Bourelly invites musicians and writers, DJs, historians and actors to an afro-futuristic meeting in order to open up the gates of a Black collective knowledge archive. In an interaction between language and music, guests and audience, emotion and didactics, current and historic discourses are negotiated so as to emphasise new aspects and develop perspectives which so far seemed limited by the framework of their negotiation. As a consequence, discussions on the situation of refugees living in Berlin, the destruction of family relationships owing to the continuity of colonial conditions, the power dynamics between Old Europe and New Africa obtain an unknown variety of fresh perspectives and possible interpretations.<\/p>\n Curated by\u00a0Jean\u00adPaul Bourelly<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n DURATION COLONY BERLIN –\u00a0Postcolonial city tour Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) and Schlossplatz, \u201cMohrenstra\u00dfe,\u201d Wilhelmstra\u00dfe and May-Ayim-Ufer: all of these very different places have one thing in common \u2013 they were the sites of German policies of enslavement and colonialism. This is where crimes against humanity were planned, committed or celebrated by honouring the aggressors. Goods, art treasures and also human beings stolen in the colonies came into this city. Up to the present day the colonial propaganda from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich continues to have an effect in Berlin\u2019s cityscape. And until this day people in Berlin, Germany and Europe benefit \u2013 unconsciously and self-evidently \u2013 from colonial continuities shaping everyday life \u2013 from the morning coffee to the smart phone. The bus tour provides insights into a history and present which are at the same time suppressed and existent, starting out from local vestiges while also addressing the resistance of Black people which quickly emerged.<\/p>\n Meeting point: EOTO e.V., Paul Gerhardt Stift, M\u00fcllerstra\u00dfe 56-58<\/p>\n Please note: The tour starts here and ends at May Ayim-Ufer, Kreuzberg. We therefore recommend public transport to reach the meeting point.<\/p>\n The tour includes walking in the open, please be prepared for cold and rainy weather.<\/p>\n Host: Joshua Kwesi Aikins<\/p>\n <\/p>\n FIRST INDABA CONFERENCE – OF BLACK CULTURAL WORKERS Curated by Philipp Khabo Koepsell<\/p>\n <\/p>\n DANCE & PERFORMANCE:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n PERFORMING BACK Performing Back is an artistic engagement with the continuity of Germany\u2019s colonial past. The centre of the performance is constituted by Simone Dede Ayivi\u2019s meticulous search for traces in the seemingly unremarkable cityscape between motorway and swan pond. Accompanied by the voices of Black German activists and creative artists, she travels to the sites of former human zoos, colonial monuments and colonial street formations, chronicles resistance and visions, offers outlooks and retrospection.<\/p>\n In a compilation of past, present, and future artefacts, hegemonic processes of historiography are called into question, colonial and racist imageries are deconstructed, ultimately inventing a new, post-colonial aesthetic.<\/p>\n Produced by Simone Dede Ayivi and team.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n COLORED WOMAN IN A WHITE WORLD – WORKSHOP PRESENTATION Workshop presentation by Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat<\/p>\n In 2013 Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat opened the festival Black Lux \u2013 Home Festival from Black Perspectives at Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe with her trio Women Part II \u2013 you might think I\u2019m crazy, but I\u2019m serious. In November she starts developing a new project here, titled Colored Woman in a White World, with female artists from Berlin. Her main source of inspiration is the autobiography with the same title by Mary Church Terell (1863\u00ad1954).<\/p>\n Women of color are invited to describe their impressions of their current lives. After 130 years \u2013 are they still \u201cwomen of color in a white world\u201d? Do they still feel that\u2019s what they are and how do they deal with that? On stage, Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat is concerned with intimacy and honesty \u2013 focusing on the women\u2019s very personal stories as well as the motivation to relate experiences as Black women.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A FREAK SHOW FOR S. A Freak Show for S. is a solo performance. It is a tribute to Sarah Baartman, the \u201cBlack Venus,\u201d a woman of Khoisan heritage who in the 19th century was exhibited naked and against her will as an exotic curiosity for the amusement of a European audience. Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat enters the process of exploring the scope of action of a sexualised Black woman.<\/p>\n Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat experiments with eroticism and surrender, with control and resistance, and the question, if these things cannot actually be the same thing after all. She breaks the mould of self-perception and external perception of the sexualised body, of the exoticised. And in doing so, she simultaneously criticises the shocking normality of sexist and inherently racist viewing habits.<\/p>\n A Freak Show for S. is the attempt of a performative transformation for both the audience and the performer; from the dehumanized object of sexual desire to a resistant and self-determined Black woman right up to a state of pure dancing energy.<\/p>\n Created by and featuring: Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat<\/p>\n <\/p>\n STILL \/ life <\/p>\n THEY ARE, THEN WE ARE <\/p>\n Lecture Performance\u00a0\/Artist Talk<\/strong> <\/p>\n COLOR ME B <\/p>\n DECOLONIZE BODIES! MINDS! PERCEPTIONS! <\/p>\n Theater CORN IN GERMANY AND OTHER GALAXIES\u00a0–\u00a0world premiere by Olivia Wenzel<\/p>\n Text: Olivia Wenzel <\/p>\n SPECIAL ISSUE: KIEZ-MONTH REVIEW – 130 Years Berlin Conference <\/p>\n <\/p>\n www.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":9589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"exh_abstract":"Berlin Africa Conference, West Africa Conference, Congo Conference - until today circulate different names for that meeting that took place in Berlin from 15th November 1884 until 26th February 1885. 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This conference gave the go-ahead to the extensive colonization of the continent - the arbitrary partition of Africa in absence of the Africans. The Berlin Conference is an unresolved chapter of German and global History. One that, as opposed to the Naziera, still is hardly anchored in the public consciousness.\r\n\r\nThrough different Perspectives and different forms of artistic expression the Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe wants to make this event visible and tangible for the public. From November 2014 to February 2015 - following the actual duration of the Berlin conference\u00a0 -\u00a0 We are tomorrow will provide a wide range of interdisciplinary events. With theater, performance, dance, exhibitions, literature, film, visual arts and music the curators and artists illuminate the historic event in new facets.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nEXHIBITION SERIES:\u00a0Yesternow. Zwischen Jetset und Vergessen\r\n<\/strong>15 November 2014 - 26 February 2015\r\n\r\nAs in many other contexts colonization of the African continent has also taken place in the visual arts. About a hundred years ago, the Expressionists\u00a0took the formal language of African countries and influenced Western art up to the present day in a decisive way without any reference to the origin of their influences. Without this, modernity would certainly have taken a different direction. For the exhibition Yesternow. Zwischen Jetset und Vergessen<\/em>\u00a0contemporary African visual artists\u00a0are invited from Angola, Senegal and South Africa. With their work they participate in the discourse on the tension between the incredible pace of economic development and a sometimes very close wartime past in their countries. That this tension results from\u00a0the colonial past is the starting point of the exhibition project.\r\n\r\nCurated by Manuela Sambo<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFeaturing:\u00a0Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Thabo Thindi, Manuela Sambo<\/strong> and others\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFILM SERIES - \"BEYOND THE MAPS\" - African Resistance against Colonial Power\r\n<\/strong>at fsk cinema<\/a> - from 16.11.2014 - 22.02.2015 each Sunday 3pm\r\n\r\nThe series is dedicated to film productions of various genres that deal with both the resistance against European colonialism on African soil, and\u00a0the conference itself. In addition to film screenings there are public discussions with the filmmakers and invited artists.\r\n\r\nCurated by Enoka Ayemba<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLITERATURE SERIES: Literary topographies of colonialism\r\n<\/strong>19th November\u00a0& 20th December 2014, 8pm \/ 25th January & 12 February 2015, 8pm\r\n\r\nTill the end of February, the series presents book readings followed by round-table discussions with African (Diaspora) writers in conversation with scholars of different disciplines. The literary journey through time begins with real as well as fictional biographies situated in the 1880\u2019s of the German Empire, then moves on to African landscapes of memory in poetry, letters, and diaries during the time of genocides in Namibia and modern-day Tanzania as well as during German colonial rule in Cameroon, highlights the memoirs of African (Diaspora) soldiers during World War I which have remained in the shadows of western historiography, pays a fleeting literary visit to Germany\u2019s colonial neighbours, and finally arrives in the present where migration and transnationality in the African (Diaspora) novel chart \u201cold new borders\u201d.\r\n\r\nCurated by Nadja Ofuatey\u00adAlazard<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFeaturing: Theodor Wonja Michael, Jessica K\u00f6ster, Maaza Mengiste, Everlyn Nicodemus, David Olusoga, Malek Alloula<\/strong> among others\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPOLYPHONIC - SPONTANEOUS TOWN MEETINGS\r\n<\/strong>18th November\u00a02014, 8pm \/\u00a021th December 2014, 7pm \/ 21th January, 8pm\r\n\r\nThe Spontaneous Town Meeting is an interdisciplinary jam session in the format of a talk show taking place every month in the context of the series WE ARE TOMORROW \u2013 Visions and Retrospection on Occasion of the 1884 Berlin Conference. Jazz musician Jean\u00adPaul Bourelly invites musicians and writers, DJs, historians and actors to an afro-futuristic meeting in order to open up the gates of a Black collective knowledge archive. In an interaction between language and music, guests and audience, emotion and didactics, current and historic discourses are negotiated so as to emphasise new aspects and develop perspectives which so far seemed limited by the framework of their negotiation. As a consequence, discussions on the situation of refugees living in Berlin, the destruction of family relationships owing to the continuity of colonial conditions, the power dynamics between Old Europe and New Africa obtain an unknown variety of fresh perspectives and possible interpretations.\r\n\r\nCurated by Jean\u00adPaul Bourelly<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDURATION COLONY BERLIN -\u00a0Postcolonial city tour\r\n<\/strong>22. November 2014 + 13th December 2014 + 17th January 2015 \u00a0, 1pm\r\n Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) and Schlossplatz, \u201cMohrenstra\u00dfe,\u201d Wilhelmstra\u00dfe and May-Ayim-Ufer: all of these very different places have one thing in common \u2013 they were the sites of German policies of enslavement and colonialism. This is where crimes against humanity were planned, committed or celebrated by honouring the aggressors. Goods, art treasures and also human beings stolen in the colonies came into this city. Up to the present day the colonial propaganda from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich continues to have an effect in Berlin\u2019s cityscape. And until this day people in Berlin, Germany and Europe benefit \u2013 unconsciously and self-evidently \u2013 from colonial continuities shaping everyday life \u2013 from the morning coffee to the smart phone. The bus tour provides insights into a history and present which are at the same time suppressed and existent, starting out from local vestiges while also addressing the resistance of Black people which quickly emerged.<\/p>\r\n Meeting point: EOTO e.V., Paul Gerhardt Stift, M\u00fcllerstra\u00dfe 56-58<\/p>\r\n Please note: The tour starts here and ends at May Ayim-Ufer, Kreuzberg. We therefore recommend public transport to reach the meeting point.<\/p>\r\n The tour includes walking in the open, please be prepared for cold and rainy weather.<\/p>\r\n Host: Joshua Kwesi Aikins<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nFIRST INDABA CONFERENCE - OF BLACK CULTURAL WORKERS\r\n<\/strong>31. January and 01.\u00a0February\u00a02015, 12noon - 6pm\r\n\r\nCurated by Philipp Khabo Koepsell\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDANCE & PERFORMANCE:<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nPERFORMING BACK\r\n<\/strong>21. + 22. November 2014,\u00a08pm\r\n\r\nPerforming Back is an artistic engagement with the continuity of Germany\u2019s colonial past. The centre of the performance is constituted by Simone Dede Ayivi\u2019s meticulous search for traces in the seemingly unremarkable cityscape between motorway and swan pond. Accompanied by the voices of Black German activists and creative artists, she travels to the sites of former human zoos, colonial monuments and colonial street formations, chronicles resistance and visions, offers outlooks and retrospection.\r\n\r\nIn a compilation of past, present, and future artefacts, hegemonic processes of historiography are called into question, colonial and racist imageries are deconstructed, ultimately inventing a new, post-colonial aesthetic.\r\n\r\nProduced by Simone Dede Ayivi and team.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCOLORED WOMAN IN A WHITE WORLD - WORKSHOP PRESENTATION\r\n<\/b>29. November 2014, 8pm\r\n\r\nWorkshop presentation by Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat\r\n\r\nIn 2013 Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat opened the festival Black Lux \u2013 Home Festival from Black Perspectives at Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe with her trio Women Part II \u2013 you might think I\u2019m crazy, but I\u2019m serious. In November she starts developing a new project here, titled Colored Woman in a White World, with female artists from Berlin. Her main source of inspiration is the autobiography with the same title by Mary Church Terell (1863\u00ad1954).\r\n\r\nWomen of color are invited to describe their impressions of their current lives. After 130 years \u2013 are they still \u201cwomen of color in a white world\u201d? Do they still feel that\u2019s what they are and how do they deal with that? On stage, Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat is concerned with intimacy and honesty \u2013 focusing on the women\u2019s very personal stories as well as the motivation to relate experiences as Black women.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nA FREAK SHOW FOR S.\r\n<\/b>17 +18 December 2014, 8pm\r\n\r\nA Freak Show for S. is a solo performance. It is a tribute to Sarah Baartman, the \u201cBlack Venus,\u201d a woman of Khoisan heritage who in the 19th century was exhibited naked and against her will as an exotic curiosity for the amusement of a European audience. Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat enters the process of exploring the scope of action of a sexualised Black woman.\r\n\r\nGu\u00e9r\u00e9drat experiments with eroticism and surrender, with control and resistance, and the question, if these things cannot actually be the same thing after all. She breaks the mould of self-perception and external perception of the sexualised body, of the exoticised. And in doing so, she simultaneously criticises the shocking normality of sexist and inherently racist viewing habits.\r\n\r\nA Freak Show for S. is the attempt of a performative transformation for both the audience and the performer; from the dehumanized object of sexual desire to a resistant and self-determined Black woman right up to a state of pure dancing energy.\r\n\r\nCreated by and featuring: Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSTILL \/ life\r\n<\/strong>13 & 14 Januyra.1205,8pm\r\nDanceperformance by\u00a0Qudus Onikeku\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTHEY ARE, THEN WE ARE\r\n<\/strong>16.+ 17 January 2015, 8pm\r\nStaged reading by\u00a0Branwen Okpako\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLecture Performance\u00a0\/Artist Talk<\/strong>\r\n18. January 2015 7pm\r\nwith Branwen Okpako and Wendy Sutherland\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCOLOR ME B\r\n<\/b>23 + 24 January 2015, 8pm\r\nPerformance by Mmakgosi Kgabi andStompie Selibe\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDECOLONIZE BODIES! MINDS! PERCEPTIONS!\r\n<\/strong>6 +7 February 2015, 8pm\r\nA project of the Academy der\u00a0Autodidakten Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTheater CORN IN GERMANY AND OTHER GALAXIES\u00a0-\u00a0world premiere\r\n<\/strong>19 February 8pm + 21 February 7pm\r\n23 -25 February 8pm\r\n\r\nby Olivia Wenzel\r\n\r\nText: Olivia Wenzel\r\nDirector: Mohammed Nor Atif Hussein\r\nDramaturgy: Katja Wenzel\r\nWith: Asad Schwarz-Msesilamba, Dela Dabulamanzi, Theo Plakoudakis, Lisa Scheibner, Toks K\u00f6rner, Isabelle Redfern, Atilla \u00d6ner\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSPECIAL ISSUE: KIEZ-MONTH REVIEW - 130 Years Berlin Conference\r\n<\/strong>20 February 2015 , 8pm\r\nA project of the Academy\u00a0der\u00a0Autodidakten Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nwww.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de<\/a>\r\n\r\n [:de]Berlin Africa Conference, West Africa Conference, Congo Conference - until today circulate different names for that meeting that took place in Berlin from 15th November 1884 until 26th February 1885. This conference gave the go-ahead to the extensive colonization of the continent - the arbitrary partition of Africa in absence of the Africans. The Berlin Conference is an unresolved chapter of German and global History. One that, as opposed to the Naziera, still is hardly anchored in the public consciousness.\r\n\r\nThrough different Perspectives and different forms of artistic expression the Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe wants to make this event visible and tangible for the public. From November 2014 to February 2015 - following the actual duration of the Berlin conference\u00a0 -\u00a0 We are tomorrow will provide a wide range of interdisciplinary events. With theater, performance, dance, exhibitions, literature, film, visual arts and music the curators and artists illuminate the historic event in new facets.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nEXHIBITION SERIES:\u00a0Yesternow. Zwischen Jetset und Vergessen\r\n<\/strong>15 November 2014 - 26 February 2015\r\n\r\nAs in many other contexts colonization of the African continent has also taken place in the visual arts. About a hundred years ago, the Expressionists\u00a0took the formal language of African countries and influenced Western art up to the present day in a decisive way without any reference to the origin of their influences. Without this, modernity would certainly have taken a different direction. For the exhibition\u00a0Yesternow. Zwischen Jetset und Vergessen<\/em>\u00a0contemporary African visual artists\u00a0are invited from Angola, Senegal and South Africa. With their work they participate in the discourse on the tension between the incredible pace of economic development and a sometimes very close wartime past in their countries. That this tension results from\u00a0the colonial past is the starting point of the exhibition project.\r\n\r\nCurated by\u00a0Manuela Sambo<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFeaturing:\u00a0Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Thabo Thindi, Manuela Sambo<\/strong>\u00a0and others\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFILM SERIES - \"BEYOND THE MAPS\" - African Resistance against Colonial Power\r\n<\/strong>at\u00a0fsk cinema<\/a>\u00a0- from 16.11.2014 - 22.02.2015 each Sunday 3pm\r\n\r\nThe series is dedicated to film productions of various genres that deal with both the resistance against European colonialism on African soil, and\u00a0the conference itself. In addition to film screenings there are public discussions with the filmmakers and invited artists.\r\n\r\nCurated by\u00a0Enoka Ayemba<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLITERATURE SERIES: Literary topographies of colonialism\r\n<\/strong>19th November\u00a0& 20th December 2014, 8pm \/ 25th January & 12 February 2015, 8pm\r\n\r\nTill the end of February, the series presents book readings followed by round-table discussions with African (Diaspora) writers in conversation with scholars of different disciplines. The literary journey through time begins with real as well as fictional biographies situated in the 1880\u2019s of the German Empire, then moves on to African landscapes of memory in poetry, letters, and diaries during the time of genocides in Namibia and modern-day Tanzania as well as during German colonial rule in Cameroon, highlights the memoirs of African (Diaspora) soldiers during World War I which have remained in the shadows of western historiography, pays a fleeting literary visit to Germany\u2019s colonial neighbours, and finally arrives in the present where migration and transnationality in the African (Diaspora) novel chart \u201cold new borders\u201d.\r\n\r\nCurated by\u00a0Nadja Ofuatey\u00adAlazard<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFeaturing:\u00a0Theodor Wonja Michael, Jessica K\u00f6ster, Maaza Mengiste, Everlyn Nicodemus, David Olusoga, Malek Alloula<\/strong>\u00a0among others\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPOLYPHONIC - SPONTANEOUS TOWN MEETINGS\r\n<\/strong>18th November\u00a02014, 8pm \/\u00a021th December 2014, 7pm \/ 21th January, 8pm\r\n\r\nThe Spontaneous Town Meeting is an interdisciplinary jam session in the format of a talk show taking place every month in the context of the series WE ARE TOMORROW \u2013 Visions and Retrospection on Occasion of the 1884 Berlin Conference. Jazz musician Jean\u00adPaul Bourelly invites musicians and writers, DJs, historians and actors to an afro-futuristic meeting in order to open up the gates of a Black collective knowledge archive. In an interaction between language and music, guests and audience, emotion and didactics, current and historic discourses are negotiated so as to emphasise new aspects and develop perspectives which so far seemed limited by the framework of their negotiation. As a consequence, discussions on the situation of refugees living in Berlin, the destruction of family relationships owing to the continuity of colonial conditions, the power dynamics between Old Europe and New Africa obtain an unknown variety of fresh perspectives and possible interpretations.\r\n\r\nCurated by\u00a0Jean\u00adPaul Bourelly<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDURATION COLONY BERLIN -\u00a0Postcolonial city tour\r\n<\/strong>22. November 2014 + 13th December 2014 + 17th January 2015 \u00a0, 1pm\r\n Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) and Schlossplatz, \u201cMohrenstra\u00dfe,\u201d Wilhelmstra\u00dfe and May-Ayim-Ufer: all of these very different places have one thing in common \u2013 they were the sites of German policies of enslavement and colonialism. This is where crimes against humanity were planned, committed or celebrated by honouring the aggressors. Goods, art treasures and also human beings stolen in the colonies came into this city. Up to the present day the colonial propaganda from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich continues to have an effect in Berlin\u2019s cityscape. And until this day people in Berlin, Germany and Europe benefit \u2013 unconsciously and self-evidently \u2013 from colonial continuities shaping everyday life \u2013 from the morning coffee to the smart phone. The bus tour provides insights into a history and present which are at the same time suppressed and existent, starting out from local vestiges while also addressing the resistance of Black people which quickly emerged.<\/p>\r\n Meeting point: EOTO e.V., Paul Gerhardt Stift, M\u00fcllerstra\u00dfe 56-58<\/p>\r\n Please note: The tour starts here and ends at May Ayim-Ufer, Kreuzberg. We therefore recommend public transport to reach the meeting point.<\/p>\r\n The tour includes walking in the open, please be prepared for cold and rainy weather.<\/p>\r\n Host: Joshua Kwesi Aikins<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nFIRST INDABA CONFERENCE - OF BLACK CULTURAL WORKERS\r\n<\/strong>31. January and 01.\u00a0February\u00a02015, 12noon - 6pm\r\n\r\nCurated by Philipp Khabo Koepsell\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDANCE & PERFORMANCE:<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nPERFORMING BACK\r\n<\/strong>21. + 22. November 2014,\u00a08pm\r\n\r\nPerforming Back is an artistic engagement with the continuity of Germany\u2019s colonial past. The centre of the performance is constituted by Simone Dede Ayivi\u2019s meticulous search for traces in the seemingly unremarkable cityscape between motorway and swan pond. Accompanied by the voices of Black German activists and creative artists, she travels to the sites of former human zoos, colonial monuments and colonial street formations, chronicles resistance and visions, offers outlooks and retrospection.\r\n\r\nIn a compilation of past, present, and future artefacts, hegemonic processes of historiography are called into question, colonial and racist imageries are deconstructed, ultimately inventing a new, post-colonial aesthetic.\r\n\r\nProduced by Simone Dede Ayivi and team.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCOLORED WOMAN IN A WHITE WORLD - WORKSHOP PRESENTATION\r\n<\/b>29. November 2014, 8pm\r\n\r\nWorkshop presentation by Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat\r\n\r\nIn 2013 Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat opened the festival Black Lux \u2013 Home Festival from Black Perspectives at Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe with her trio Women Part II \u2013 you might think I\u2019m crazy, but I\u2019m serious. In November she starts developing a new project here, titled Colored Woman in a White World, with female artists from Berlin. Her main source of inspiration is the autobiography with the same title by Mary Church Terell (1863\u00ad1954).\r\n\r\nWomen of color are invited to describe their impressions of their current lives. After 130 years \u2013 are they still \u201cwomen of color in a white world\u201d? Do they still feel that\u2019s what they are and how do they deal with that? On stage, Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat is concerned with intimacy and honesty \u2013 focusing on the women\u2019s very personal stories as well as the motivation to relate experiences as Black women.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nA FREAK SHOW FOR S.\r\n<\/b>17 +18 December 2014, 8pm\r\n\r\nA Freak Show for S. is a solo performance. It is a tribute to Sarah Baartman, the \u201cBlack Venus,\u201d a woman of Khoisan heritage who in the 19th century was exhibited naked and against her will as an exotic curiosity for the amusement of a European audience. Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat enters the process of exploring the scope of action of a sexualised Black woman.\r\n\r\nGu\u00e9r\u00e9drat experiments with eroticism and surrender, with control and resistance, and the question, if these things cannot actually be the same thing after all. She breaks the mould of self-perception and external perception of the sexualised body, of the exoticised. And in doing so, she simultaneously criticises the shocking normality of sexist and inherently racist viewing habits.\r\n\r\nA Freak Show for S. is the attempt of a performative transformation for both the audience and the performer; from the dehumanized object of sexual desire to a resistant and self-determined Black woman right up to a state of pure dancing energy.\r\n\r\nCreated by and featuring: Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSTILL \/ life\r\n<\/strong>13 & 14 Januyra.1205,8pm\r\nDanceperformance by\u00a0Qudus Onikeku\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTHEY ARE, THEN WE ARE\r\n<\/strong>16.+ 17 January 2015, 8pm\r\nStaged reading by\u00a0Branwen Okpako\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLecture Performance\u00a0\/Artist Talk<\/strong>\r\n18. January 2015 7pm\r\nwith Branwen Okpako and Wendy Sutherland\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCOLOR ME B\r\n<\/b>23 + 24 January 2015, 8pm\r\nPerformance by Mmakgosi Kgabi andStompie Selibe\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDECOLONIZE BODIES! MINDS! PERCEPTIONS!\r\n<\/strong>6 +7 February 2015, 8pm\r\nA project of the Academy der\u00a0Autodidakten Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTheater CORN IN GERMANY AND OTHER GALAXIES\u00a0-\u00a0world premiere\r\n<\/strong>19 February 8pm + 21 February 7pm\r\n23 -25 February 8pm\r\n\r\nby Olivia Wenzel\r\n\r\nText: Olivia Wenzel\r\nDirector: Mohammed Nor Atif Hussein\r\nDramaturgy: Katja Wenzel\r\nWith: Asad Schwarz-Msesilamba, Dela Dabulamanzi, Theo Plakoudakis, Lisa Scheibner, Toks K\u00f6rner, Isabelle Redfern, Atilla \u00d6ner\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSPECIAL ISSUE: KIEZ-MONTH REVIEW - 130 Years Berlin Conference\r\n<\/strong>20 February 2015 , 8pm\r\nA project of the Academy\u00a0der\u00a0Autodidakten Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nwww.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de<\/a>\r\n\r\n [:fr]Berlin Africa Conference, West Africa Conference, Congo Conference - until today circulate different names for that meeting that took place in Berlin from 15th November 1884 until 26th February 1885. This conference gave the go-ahead to the extensive colonization of the continent - the arbitrary partition of Africa in absence of the Africans. The Berlin Conference is an unresolved chapter of German and global History. One that, as opposed to the Naziera, still is hardly anchored in the public consciousness.\r\n\r\nThrough different Perspectives and different forms of artistic expression the Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe wants to make this event visible and tangible for the public. From November 2014 to February 2015 - following the actual duration of the Berlin conference\u00a0 -\u00a0 We are tomorrow will provide a wide range of interdisciplinary events. With theater, performance, dance, exhibitions, literature, film, visual arts and music the curators and artists illuminate the historic event in new facets.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nEXHIBITION SERIES:\u00a0Yesternow. Zwischen Jetset und Vergessen\r\n<\/strong>15 November 2014 - 26 February 2015\r\n\r\nAs in many other contexts colonization of the African continent has also taken place in the visual arts. About a hundred years ago, the Expressionists\u00a0took the formal language of African countries and influenced Western art up to the present day in a decisive way without any reference to the origin of their influences. Without this, modernity would certainly have taken a different direction. For the exhibition\u00a0Yesternow. Zwischen Jetset und Vergessen<\/em>\u00a0contemporary African visual artists\u00a0are invited from Angola, Senegal and South Africa. With their work they participate in the discourse on the tension between the incredible pace of economic development and a sometimes very close wartime past in their countries. That this tension results from\u00a0the colonial past is the starting point of the exhibition project.\r\n\r\nCurated by\u00a0Manuela Sambo<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFeaturing:\u00a0Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Thabo Thindi, Manuela Sambo<\/strong>\u00a0and others\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFILM SERIES - \"BEYOND THE MAPS\" - African Resistance against Colonial Power\r\n<\/strong>at\u00a0fsk cinema<\/a>\u00a0- from 16.11.2014 - 22.02.2015 each Sunday 3pm\r\n\r\nThe series is dedicated to film productions of various genres that deal with both the resistance against European colonialism on African soil, and\u00a0the conference itself. In addition to film screenings there are public discussions with the filmmakers and invited artists.\r\n\r\nCurated by\u00a0Enoka Ayemba<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLITERATURE SERIES: Literary topographies of colonialism\r\n<\/strong>19th November\u00a0& 20th December 2014, 8pm \/ 25th January & 12 February 2015, 8pm\r\n\r\nTill the end of February, the series presents book readings followed by round-table discussions with African (Diaspora) writers in conversation with scholars of different disciplines. The literary journey through time begins with real as well as fictional biographies situated in the 1880\u2019s of the German Empire, then moves on to African landscapes of memory in poetry, letters, and diaries during the time of genocides in Namibia and modern-day Tanzania as well as during German colonial rule in Cameroon, highlights the memoirs of African (Diaspora) soldiers during World War I which have remained in the shadows of western historiography, pays a fleeting literary visit to Germany\u2019s colonial neighbours, and finally arrives in the present where migration and transnationality in the African (Diaspora) novel chart \u201cold new borders\u201d.\r\n\r\nCurated by\u00a0Nadja Ofuatey\u00adAlazard<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFeaturing:\u00a0Theodor Wonja Michael, Jessica K\u00f6ster, Maaza Mengiste, Everlyn Nicodemus, David Olusoga, Malek Alloula<\/strong>\u00a0among others\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPOLYPHONIC - SPONTANEOUS TOWN MEETINGS\r\n<\/strong>18th November\u00a02014, 8pm \/\u00a021th December 2014, 7pm \/ 21th January, 8pm\r\n\r\nThe Spontaneous Town Meeting is an interdisciplinary jam session in the format of a talk show taking place every month in the context of the series WE ARE TOMORROW \u2013 Visions and Retrospection on Occasion of the 1884 Berlin Conference. Jazz musician Jean\u00adPaul Bourelly invites musicians and writers, DJs, historians and actors to an afro-futuristic meeting in order to open up the gates of a Black collective knowledge archive. In an interaction between language and music, guests and audience, emotion and didactics, current and historic discourses are negotiated so as to emphasise new aspects and develop perspectives which so far seemed limited by the framework of their negotiation. As a consequence, discussions on the situation of refugees living in Berlin, the destruction of family relationships owing to the continuity of colonial conditions, the power dynamics between Old Europe and New Africa obtain an unknown variety of fresh perspectives and possible interpretations.\r\n\r\nCurated by\u00a0Jean\u00adPaul Bourelly<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDURATION COLONY BERLIN -\u00a0Postcolonial city tour\r\n<\/strong>22. November 2014 + 13th December 2014 + 17th January 2015 \u00a0, 1pm\r\n Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) and Schlossplatz, \u201cMohrenstra\u00dfe,\u201d Wilhelmstra\u00dfe and May-Ayim-Ufer: all of these very different places have one thing in common \u2013 they were the sites of German policies of enslavement and colonialism. This is where crimes against humanity were planned, committed or celebrated by honouring the aggressors. Goods, art treasures and also human beings stolen in the colonies came into this city. Up to the present day the colonial propaganda from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich continues to have an effect in Berlin\u2019s cityscape. And until this day people in Berlin, Germany and Europe benefit \u2013 unconsciously and self-evidently \u2013 from colonial continuities shaping everyday life \u2013 from the morning coffee to the smart phone. The bus tour provides insights into a history and present which are at the same time suppressed and existent, starting out from local vestiges while also addressing the resistance of Black people which quickly emerged.<\/p>\r\n Meeting point: EOTO e.V., Paul Gerhardt Stift, M\u00fcllerstra\u00dfe 56-58<\/p>\r\n Please note: The tour starts here and ends at May Ayim-Ufer, Kreuzberg. We therefore recommend public transport to reach the meeting point.<\/p>\r\n The tour includes walking in the open, please be prepared for cold and rainy weather.<\/p>\r\n Host: Joshua Kwesi Aikins<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nFIRST INDABA CONFERENCE - OF BLACK CULTURAL WORKERS\r\n<\/strong>31. January and 01.\u00a0February\u00a02015, 12noon - 6pm\r\n\r\nCurated by Philipp Khabo Koepsell\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDANCE & PERFORMANCE:<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\nPERFORMING BACK\r\n<\/strong>21. + 22. November 2014,\u00a08pm\r\n\r\nPerforming Back is an artistic engagement with the continuity of Germany\u2019s colonial past. The centre of the performance is constituted by Simone Dede Ayivi\u2019s meticulous search for traces in the seemingly unremarkable cityscape between motorway and swan pond. Accompanied by the voices of Black German activists and creative artists, she travels to the sites of former human zoos, colonial monuments and colonial street formations, chronicles resistance and visions, offers outlooks and retrospection.\r\n\r\nIn a compilation of past, present, and future artefacts, hegemonic processes of historiography are called into question, colonial and racist imageries are deconstructed, ultimately inventing a new, post-colonial aesthetic.\r\n\r\nProduced by Simone Dede Ayivi and team.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCOLORED WOMAN IN A WHITE WORLD - WORKSHOP PRESENTATION\r\n<\/b>29. November 2014, 8pm\r\n\r\nWorkshop presentation by Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat\r\n\r\nIn 2013 Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat opened the festival Black Lux \u2013 Home Festival from Black Perspectives at Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe with her trio Women Part II \u2013 you might think I\u2019m crazy, but I\u2019m serious. In November she starts developing a new project here, titled Colored Woman in a White World, with female artists from Berlin. Her main source of inspiration is the autobiography with the same title by Mary Church Terell (1863\u00ad1954).\r\n\r\nWomen of color are invited to describe their impressions of their current lives. After 130 years \u2013 are they still \u201cwomen of color in a white world\u201d? Do they still feel that\u2019s what they are and how do they deal with that? On stage, Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat is concerned with intimacy and honesty \u2013 focusing on the women\u2019s very personal stories as well as the motivation to relate experiences as Black women.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nA FREAK SHOW FOR S.\r\n<\/b>17 +18 December 2014, 8pm\r\n\r\nA Freak Show for S. is a solo performance. It is a tribute to Sarah Baartman, the \u201cBlack Venus,\u201d a woman of Khoisan heritage who in the 19th century was exhibited naked and against her will as an exotic curiosity for the amusement of a European audience. Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat enters the process of exploring the scope of action of a sexualised Black woman.\r\n\r\nGu\u00e9r\u00e9drat experiments with eroticism and surrender, with control and resistance, and the question, if these things cannot actually be the same thing after all. She breaks the mould of self-perception and external perception of the sexualised body, of the exoticised. And in doing so, she simultaneously criticises the shocking normality of sexist and inherently racist viewing habits.\r\n\r\nA Freak Show for S. is the attempt of a performative transformation for both the audience and the performer; from the dehumanized object of sexual desire to a resistant and self-determined Black woman right up to a state of pure dancing energy.\r\n\r\nCreated by and featuring: Annabel Gu\u00e9r\u00e9drat\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSTILL \/ life\r\n<\/strong>13 & 14 Januyra.1205,8pm\r\nDanceperformance by\u00a0Qudus Onikeku\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTHEY ARE, THEN WE ARE\r\n<\/strong>16.+ 17 January 2015, 8pm\r\nStaged reading by\u00a0Branwen Okpako\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLecture Performance\u00a0\/Artist Talk<\/strong>\r\n18. January 2015 7pm\r\nwith Branwen Okpako and Wendy Sutherland\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCOLOR ME B\r\n<\/b>23 + 24 January 2015, 8pm\r\nPerformance by Mmakgosi Kgabi andStompie Selibe\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nDECOLONIZE BODIES! MINDS! PERCEPTIONS!\r\n<\/strong>6 +7 February 2015, 8pm\r\nA project of the Academy der\u00a0Autodidakten Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTheater CORN IN GERMANY AND OTHER GALAXIES\u00a0-\u00a0world premiere\r\n<\/strong>19 February 8pm + 21 February 7pm\r\n23 -25 February 8pm\r\n\r\nby Olivia Wenzel\r\n\r\nText: Olivia Wenzel\r\nDirector: Mohammed Nor Atif Hussein\r\nDramaturgy: Katja Wenzel\r\nWith: Asad Schwarz-Msesilamba, Dela Dabulamanzi, Theo Plakoudakis, Lisa Scheibner, Toks K\u00f6rner, Isabelle Redfern, Atilla \u00d6ner\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSPECIAL ISSUE: KIEZ-MONTH REVIEW - 130 Years Berlin Conference\r\n<\/strong>20 February 2015 , 8pm\r\nA project of the Academy\u00a0der\u00a0Autodidakten Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nwww.ballhausnaunynstrasse.de<\/a>\r\n\r\n [:]","post_excerpt":""},"acf":{"video_url":null,"Dachzeile":null,"short_teaser":null,"modul_1":null,"modul_4":null,"modul_5":null,"modul_2":null,"modul_3":null,"weitere_shortcodes":null,"teaser":null,"smys":null,"image_only_slide":null},"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/strong>15 November 2014 – 26 February 2015<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>at\u00a0fsk cinema<\/a>\u00a0– from 16.11.2014 – 22.02.2015 each Sunday 3pm<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>19th November\u00a0& 20th December 2014, 8pm \/ 25th January & 12 February 2015, 8pm<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>18th November\u00a02014, 8pm \/\u00a021th December 2014, 7pm \/ 21th January, 8pm<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>22. November 2014 + 13th December 2014 + 17th January 2015 \u00a0, 1pm<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>31. January and 01.\u00a0February\u00a02015, 12noon – 6pm<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>21. + 22. November 2014,\u00a08pm<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>29. November 2014, 8pm<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>17 +18 December 2014, 8pm<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>13 & 14 Januyra.1205,8pm
\nDanceperformance by\u00a0Qudus Onikeku<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>16.+ 17 January 2015, 8pm
\nStaged reading by\u00a0Branwen Okpako<\/p>\n
\n18. January 2015 7pm
\nwith Branwen Okpako and Wendy Sutherland<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>23 + 24 January 2015, 8pm
\nPerformance by Mmakgosi Kgabi andStompie Selibe<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>6 +7 February 2015, 8pm
\nA project of the Academy der\u00a0Autodidakten Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>19 February 8pm + 21 February 7pm
\n23 -25 February 8pm<\/p>\n
\nDirector: Mohammed Nor Atif Hussein
\nDramaturgy: Katja Wenzel
\nWith: Asad Schwarz-Msesilamba, Dela Dabulamanzi, Theo Plakoudakis, Lisa Scheibner, Toks K\u00f6rner, Isabelle Redfern, Atilla \u00d6ner<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>20 February 2015 , 8pm
\nA project of the Academy\u00a0der\u00a0Autodidakten Ballhaus Naunynstra\u00dfe
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n