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Aligning with the onset of the new year in the Yoruba calendar, HKW re-opens from 2 to 4 June 2023 with a series of blessings, concerts, lectures, performances, processions, readings, and rituals as well as the launch of the exhibition project O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies.&nbsp;

A Choreography of Conviviality, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2&ndash;4.6.2023.

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Acts of Opening Again

Aligning with the onset of the new year in the Yoruba calendar, HKW re-opens from 2 to 4 June 2023 with a series of blessings, concerts, lectures, performances, processions, readings, and rituals as well as the launch of the exhibition project O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies.

In the discussion series Theatre of Reconciliation, Max Czollek encounters people who are exploring questions of memory. How do societies remember? What does the much-lauded German Erinnerungskultur&mdash;culture of remembrance&mdash;have to do with the question of belonging? What does remembrance mean for the German, European, and international present?

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Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Doron Rabinovici (English)

Rumours On the Wind is a spoken piece written in response to Bwa Kayiman. A speculative testimony, unerasable in its mythic form and rooted in its power to recall, this piece centres the unknown voices that weren&rsquo;t present but still had a part to play in the coming Haitian revolution.

Spoken word performance acccompanied by live music as part of Bwa Kayiman, Rasanbleman Soupe Tout Esk&ograve;t Yo. Written and performed by Obaro Ejimiwe. In collaboration with Mar, Rio y Cordillera.

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Rumours On the Wind (2023) 

The Pluri-Rhythm Festival engages diasporic communities in Berlin and opens a platform to live acts, musicians, DJs, and sound artists who are linked by the common thread of their polyrhythmic sound rather than musical genres.

Music Festival, Concerts, DJ Sets, DJ Conversation, 15.7.2023

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Pluri-Rhythm

AI: Ancestral Immediacies presents conversations, performances, and screenings that question the dominant narratives of AI as disembodied, universal, and superintelligent.

Technologies of Making the Past Present, Screenings, Performances, Talks, Lectures, Installations, 28.&ndash;30.7.2023

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AI: Ancestral Immediacies

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Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Doron Rabinovici (German)

The Internationaler Literaturpreis 2023 Reader gathers extracts from the eight&nbsp;works&nbsp;shortlisted for the award, which&nbsp;honours an outstanding work of contemporary international literature that has been translated into German for the first time.

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The Internationaler Literaturpreis Reader 2023 

For the novel Die geheimste Erinnerung der Menschen (Hanser, 2022) author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr and translators Holger Fock and Sabine M&uuml;ller are awarded the Internationale Literaturpreis 2023. The winners were announced at an award ceremony on 9 September 2023 in the Forough Farrokhzad Garden at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW).

Prize for Contemporary Literatures in Translation, Award ceremony, 9.9.2023

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Internationaler Literaturpreis 2023

Inherited Testimonies&nbsp;is a live performance of culturally inherited, collective testimonies, delivered by traditional leaders and oral historians within a continuously transformed visual and auditory immersive environment&mdash;a large projection of evolving architectural and environmental scenes&mdash;conceived by Forensic Architecture/Forensis. This project, led by the Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA) and the Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA), seeks to uncover traces of the genocide buried within the Namibian environment but present in the hearts of its affected communities, within the transformed physical environment, climate, vegetation, and the oral tradition of its peoples.&nbsp;

With contributions from Ashkan Cheheltan, Agata Nguyen Chuong, Omar Ferwati, Gaob Hanse, Angelina Kanduvarisa, Mutjinde Katjiua, Sima Luipert, Mark Mushiba, Tobechukwu Onwukeme, Maboss Ortmann, Eyal Weizman

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Inherited Testimonies

On 13 August 2023, Venus, the planet of feminine energy, aligns with the sun, causing what only happens once a year: the Venus Star Point, signifying her rebirth and transformation from night star to morning star. Hosted within this symbolic reconfiguration of the sky, Danish-Kenyan Flamenco dancer and choreographer Phyllis Akinyi offer a rhythmic gathering of movement that honours the long history of female influences on revolution and justice, whilst specifically paying tribute to the Haitian Vodou priestess, mambo C&eacute;cile Fatiman, who is believed to have led the ceremonial rituals of Bwa Kayiman.

Performance by&nbsp;Phyllis Akinyi&nbsp;as part of Bwa Kayiman, Rasanbleman Soupe Tout Esk&ograve;t Yo

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I Come as a Woman, Dark and Open (2023)

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) invited twelve people from different geographies, grappling with the state of the world in their work across disciplines and contexts, to respond to the question: &lsquo;What to do with the world?&rsquo; Artist Wolfgang Tillmans created typographic and photographic interpretations of the twelve responses, which were displayed on billboards throughout Berlin.

Billboard Campaign in Berlin, 27.3&ndash;11.6.2023

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What to do with the world?

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Upending the format of a sermon, this ritual engages with the complex encounters of patriarchal structures and colonial belief systems with struggles for reproductive justice. Artist and writer Luiza Prado proposes a reflection on alliances between human and more-than-human beings in processes of sexual liberation.

Performance by Luiza Prado as part of Bwa Kayiman, Rasanbleman Soupe Tout Esk&ograve;t Yo

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Celestial Interjections (2023) 

In the title of this production, the Sesotho word lihloela translates directly to &lsquo;sentinels&rsquo;, especially in times of war. This series draws inspiration from Lesotho&rsquo;s history of resistance against colonial rule, including the Basotho Frontier Wars (1858&ndash;68) and the Basotho Gun War (1880&ndash;81). The work is a reminiscence of these times through music and song, a reimagination of the Lipina tsa Mokorotlo, meaning war songs or chants, sung by Basotho warriors before going to war. These songs were intended to instill bravery and heroism in men.Women, seeing their husbands and loved ones off to war, also contributed to the performance of these songs, mainly through ululations and praise-poetry.

Musical Intervention by Morena Leraba as part of Bwa Kayiman, Rasanbleman Soupe Tout Esk&ograve;t Yo

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Morena Leraba le Malingoana-Lihloela (2023) 

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) is a pluri-disciplinary institution in Berlin whose work centers around the practices of visual arts, performative arts, sonic/music, architecture, literature and oraliture, as well as scientific and cultural discursive formats.