AMAN AMAN

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AMAN AMAN is a transnational cultural project exploring interconnected histories of migration, exile, labor, solidarity, and friendship between Greece, Turkey, and Germany through exhibitions, performances, concerts, film screenings, and conversations. Launching on June 3, 2026, the project travels across Athens, Thessaloniki, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Istanbul, and Izmir, evolving through multiple iterations until January 2027.

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Resisting a linear historical narration, the project embraces a polycentric, long-durational, and relational approach: stories, sounds, and images move across locations and formats, reappearing in altered forms and contexts. From the haunting tunes of amanades and türküs to the solidarities forged between Greek and Turkish workers in Germany; from the post-Ottoman laments of the Café Amans in New York to contemporary voices from the Aegean coast and Anatolia, AMAN AMAN moves between past and present and traces connections across time and space. The project opens up cultural imaginaries that challenge ethnocentric narratives and celebrate shared histories across the Eastern Mediterranean and its diasporas.

AMAN AMAN Athens. Kick–Off Event

3 June 2026, 18:00
Goethe-Institut Athen

Kick–Off Event: filía – dostluk – Freundschaft
Garden Party with musical lecture performances, readings, listening sessions, concerts, discussions, DJ Sets

For one summer evening, the Goethe Institute in Athens becomes the setting for a garden party dedicated to friendship. Curated by Habibi Kiosk of the Münchner Kammerspiele, the program includes listening sessions, performances, concerts, discussions, DJ sets, and more. Bringing together artists, musicians, storytellers, and performers, the gathering evolves into a vibrant constellation of encounters, sounds, and shared histories across Greek–Turkish–German realms. All habib(t)is of the city are invited to celebrate friendship through a diverse artistic kaleidoscope shaped by exchange, memory, and cross-cultural connection.

AMAN AMAN BERLIN

12–14 June 2026
SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Lindower str. 20/22, Haus C, 13347, Berlin

Film screenings, listening sessions, concerts, lectures, and culinary interventions

AMAN AMAN comes to life in Berlin with a three-day festival at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA. Through concerts, listening  sessions, film screenings, talks, and culinary interventions, the intertwined echoes of the Eastern Mediterranean and the multilayered histories embedded within them become audible, visible, and experientially accessible.

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AMAN AMAN MUNICH

23–24 July 2026
Habibi Kiosk, Münchner Kammerspiele, Maximilianstraße 26–28, 80539 Munich

Concerts in collaboration with the İÇ İÇE Music Festival

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AMAN AMAN Piraeus

20 September 2026
Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, 32 Iroon Polytechniou Avenue, 18535 Piraeus

Theatrical performance ARTIST UNKNOWN (Elif Sözer, Zeynep Özden)

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AMAN AMAN Athens

8 October 2026 – 30 January 2027
TAVROS, 33 Anaxagora Street, 17778 Athens

Exhibition and public program

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AMAN AMAN Thessaloniki

12 November 2026
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki

Concerts

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AMAN AMAN Izmir

15 November 2026

Concerts

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A collaboration between

AMAN AMAN is a project by Goethe-Institut Athen, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, and TAVROS. Further announcements will follow on a series of events in cooperation with Münchner Kammerspiele, Goethe-Institut Izmir, Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, İç İçe – Festival für neue anatolische Musik, Kulturakademie Tarabya, the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, and DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Frankfurt.