1 – 8 July: Cultural Events Online
From science slam to VR art

This week we’ve got yet another bunch of tips for those in search of interesting events on the web, which you can enjoy in the comfort of your own home over the next seven days.

Wednesday 1 July, 8.15–9 pm  
DEBATE |#FuturiumForum: TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE

The state of emergency has changed how we envision the future. So the Futurium asks in a series of debates: What can we learn from the coronavirus crisis to bring about collective action on climate policy, too? For nearly two years now, thousands of schoolchildren in various countries have been holding strikes to call attention to the climate crisis. But how has the lockdown affected the Fridays for Future (FFF) movement and how will it continue? Now that science and research are back in the spotlight thanks to the pandemic, Amely Broda, Jakob Springfeld and Magdalena Hess of FFF discuss how society can make the most of our renewed respect for science to fight climate change.
Language: German
>>> #FuturiumForum
 
 
Thursday 2 July, 8.30 pm
SLAM | PLANETARIUM: SCIENCE SLAM

TICK-TOCK, RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK! These budding young scientists have only ten minutes to report, with a plentiful dose of passion and humour, on the research projects they’re crazy about. It's fun! Because when the scientific tyros leave their labs and lecture halls behind for the (virtual) stage, they make it snappy – and highly informative. This time around, the science slam will be streamed from the Zeiss Grossplanetarium in Berlin, at the end of which the audience gets to vote online to pick the winner!
Language: German
>>> Science Slam
 
 
Thursday 2 July, 9–10 pm
DISCUSSION | COMICSTREAMVASION: REVISIONIST COMICS

THERE’S NO POINT TRYING TO RESIST the invasion of the cartoonists. Owing to the ongoing pandemic, the Berlin comic book scene and their international cohorts won’t be staging their ComicInvasion till November, but a whole bunch of exciting online events are lined up in the meantime. This week, Argentine artist Nacha Vollenweider will be discussing “Past and Present: Revisionist Comics”. Her current project, a graphic novel entitled Zurück in die Heimat (Homecoming), is an autobiographical narrative that starts and ends up in Cordoba, Argentina.
Language: German
>>> Revisionist comics 
 
 

Friday 3 July, 6–7.30 pm
BOOK LAUNCH | LITERATURHAUS BERLIN: “TOGETHER IN ANOTHER WORLD”

IN ANOTHER WORLD. Isabelle Graw, the publisher of Texte zur Kunst magazine, musters the same sharp intelligence she usually applies to the visual arts and critical theory to observing daily life after the death of her parents in her new book, In einer anderen Welt. NOTIZEN 2014–2017 (English translation: In Another World: Notes 2014–2017). Graw will be talking to American filmmaker and writer Chris Kraus (best known for I Love Dick, a contemporary feminist classic), who wrote this blurb on Graw’s book: “She is blindingly frank, addressing the questions that envelop her days: waxing salons, the arrival of Syrian refugees in Germany, exhibitions and grief, electoral and family politics. Subtly, Graw reveals how impressions and beliefs arise out of circumstance.” So this is an unusual book launch between two continents, featuring two smart women in the international art world.
Languages: German and English
>>> Together in Another World
 
 
Friday 3 July, 7.30 pm
BALLET | THEATRE PLAUEN ZWICKAU: MICH EINGESCHLOSSEN

ISOLATION ERUPTS IN EMOTION. What sort of emotions has the crisis stirred up in you? Frustration, inner peace, outbursts of creativity? The dancers of the Plauen Zwickau ballet troupe have worked all these reactions and more into a dance video. In ten solo dances and a montaged group choreography, the dancers grapple with their forced isolation, discovering within themselves the potential to circumvent conventional limitations.
>>> Mich EINGESCHLOSSEN

   

Sunday 5 July, 9 pm
MUSIC | CLUB GRETCHEN – LIVING IN A BOX

OUT OF THE BOX – Several times a week, the Berlin club GRETCHEN brings us a wide range of concerts in its Living in a Box series – this weekend by the band Frollein Smilla. The seven-member Berlin band is hard to pigeonhole, with melodies and lyrics that blend funky guitar and husky soul singing, joie de vivre and melancholy.
Language: Music
>>> Living In A Box
 
 
Monday 6 July, 7 pm       
BOOK LAUNCH | GOETHE-INSTITUT ISRAEL – SALON: THE INDOMITABLE

LOVE LETTERS FROM A GESTAPO PRISON: The Jewish communist militant Olga Benario spent five and a half years in Gestapo prisons and concentration camps before she was gassed in 1942. During her incarceration, she exchanged hundreds of letters with Luiz Carlos Prestes, her Brazilian partner and the father of her child, whilst the Gestapo wrote reports almost daily – a total of two thousand pages – about the “Benario affair”. In the audiobook Die Unbeugsame. Olga Benario in ihren Briefen und in den Akten der Gestapo (The Indomitable: Olga Benario in her Correspondence and Gestapo Files), these letters and reports form a montage rendered all the more poignant by the stark contrast between Nazi officialese and the lovers’ epistolary exchange. The Goethe-Institut in Tel Aviv has invited not only the audiobook speakers and literary scholar Robert Cohen to present the audio book, but also Anita Leocádia Prestes, Benario’s daughter, who was born in 1936 during her imprisonment. The event will be streamed on Zoom.
Language: German
>>> THE INDOMITABLE 
 
 
Tuesday 6 July, 6–7 pm
ART | SYNTHESIS GALLERY: WALKTHROUGHS

A WALKTHROUGH ART TOUR – How would you like to experience VR art through the eyes of the artist? In “walkthroughs” at the Berlin Synthesis Gallery, which specializes in VR art, the artists guide you through their works, letting you in on their creative process and giving you the inside story on their art. Featuring works by Claudia Hart, Armin Keplinger, LaJuné McMillian and Alfredo Salazar-Caro.
Language: English
>>> synthesis gallery