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9:00 PM-10:00 PM

Zeyo Mann

Concert|live

  • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Price free entrance
Born in Sudan and raised in Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates, Zeyo Mann moved to the Gulf with their family at the age of five, after the father secured work there. During childhood, frequent school changes—driven by experiences of bullying related to a stutter—disrupted any sense of continuity, and the family rarely stayed in the same home for more than three years. Eventually, when the father was finally able to purchase a house in Khartoum and the family prepared to return and settle, war broke out just two weeks later. Forced to flee once again to the UAE, they lost not only their homecoming but also the savings of a lifetime.
The festival theme Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds resonates with Zeyo Mann on a profoundly personal level—not merely as a metaphor for displacement, but as a reflection of never having been rooted to begin with. It was through hip-hop that they found grounding: a space of belonging, self-expression, and identity.
“I became a tree in hip-hop.”

Musician

Zeyo Mann

Zeyo Mann is a songwriter, rapper and filmmaker from Wad Madani, Sudan.
With his work he documents the violations that he felt and sees. At the age of 5 he moved with his family to the United Arab Emirates, where he spent his youth. At the age of 14 he began to write poetry. But it was difficult for him to find his own flow.
Despite his passion for the art of speaking, it was always a challenge for him as a stutterer. One day he spotted a beat on YouTube and tried to rap on it. He succeeded. From that moment on, he rapped on many stages in Sudan and since 2021 also in Germany. “Music and films are my only comfort zone,” he says, “where he can express himself and share his thoughts”.
Art helped him overcome his difficult childhood of stuttering.

Agenda

  • GroovRoots

    Happening & Procession | with ZIP Group and Serhiy Demchuk

  • Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds

    Exhibition | Exhibition Pop-up Projection

    • ACUD Galerie, Berlin

  • The Cradle (Installation's Activation)

    Installation | by ZIP Group

    • Kunsthaus ACUD Courtyard, Berlin

  • Opening of the festival

    Opening event |

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Run Fast, Bite Hard

    Performance | by Elisabete Finger | only with registration

    • ACUD Theater, Berlin

  • Letters Home. Mutus

    Performance | by Ivan Nikolaev and Alena Starostina (aliveduo)

    • Kunsthaus ACUD Courtyard, Berlin

  • Zeyo Mann

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Radio Jaguar

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Amado León

    DJ-Set | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • All my Best Deaths

    Performance | by Dante Buu

    • Kunsthaus ACUD Courtyard, Berlin

  • Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds

    Exhibition | Exhibition Pop-up Projection

    • ACUD Galerie, Berlin

  • From Places to Traces

    Talking event | with Carmen Herold, Reihaneh Mehrad, Maik Müller, Nicole Vögele, moderated by Anna Karpenko

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Birds in the Skies, Mycelium Under the Ground

    Talking event | with Ma Thida, Ali Abdollahi and Aya Sammani, moderated by Kholoud Bidak

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Letters Home. Acedia

    Performance | by Ivan Nikolaev and Alena Starostina (aliveduo) with music by Dmitry Vlasik

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Sarvenaz Mostofey

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • {un}Settled: A body between feathers

    Music Performance | by Pure

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Ludmila Pogodina

    DJ-Set | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Pure

    DJ-Set | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Flying Backward

    Film Screening | by Igor Vidor, Vahid Zarezadeh, Emrah Gökdemir and Zeynep Güzel

    • ACUD Kino, Berlin

  • Memory Jars

    Workshop & Performance | by Sujatro Ghosh

    • ACUD Galerie, Berlin

  • Film Screening & Extended Q&A

    Film Screening & Q&A | with Igor Vidor, Vahid Zarezadeh, Emrah Gökdemir and Zeynep Güzel, moderated by Anna Karpenko

    • ACUD Kino, Berlin

  • Parham Alizadeh's trio JazzAvaa

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Soheil Soheili

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

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