Invitation to the celebratory re-opening from 2 to 4 June and to the press preview on 1 June
22.5.2023
Celebratory Re-opening: Acts of Opening Again. A Choreography of Conviviality
2.–4.6.2023
Please register via e-mail at presse@hkw.de
Press preview: O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies
1.6.2023, 11.00 and 14:00
Please register via e-mail at presse@hkw.de
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (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.
The opening weekend Acts of Opening Again is a chance to welcome the public to the new HKW. Entering in together from 16:00, all visitors are invited to participate in a performative installation with creative gestures in the form of a poem, song, artistic gift, or other symbolic offerings.
A performance by nora chipaumire & Germaine Acogny and concerts by Oumou Sangaré and Awilo Longomba will follow artistic renewal rituals by María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ilê Obá Sileké, Bernardo Oyarzún, and Houngan Jean-Daniel Lafontant on the weekend of the re-opening.
Admission is free throughout the weekend.
For capacity reasons, please register in advance for 2.6.2023 via email at presse@hkw.de
Press previews of O Quilombismo will take place on 1.6.2023 at 11:00 and 14:00. Please register by 29.5.2023 via e-mail at presse@hkw.de
Friday, 2 June 2023
16:00
Welcome in front of Haus der Kulturen der Welt by Prof Dr Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
16:30
Invoking Papa Legba
Ceremonial Opening
17:00–23:00
RELEASE: a living ritual for letting go (vanessa german)
Participatory Performance / Score
17:00–20:00
El Medán (Bernardo Oyarzún)
Participatory Performance and Installation
17:00–23:00
O Quilombismo
Exhibition
17:00
When We Gather (María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Baba Murah & Ensemble, Forum Brasil and Ilê Obá Sileké, Candomblé House in Berlin, and Rasiel Almanza Cairo)
Performance
18:00
Claudia Roth, Prof Dr Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
Opening Speeches
19:00
NOT waiting… (nora chipaumire and Germaine Acogny)
Performance
19:30
Dine on a Mat—A Taste from the Fulani Kitchen (Chef Fatmata Binta)
Cooking Session
20:30
Awilo Longomba
Concert
22:00
SNO
DJ Set
00:00
Edna Martinez
DJ Set
Saturday, 3 June 2023
12:00
Artistic Practices in Conversation: A Curatorial Walk Through the Exhibition
12:00–23:00
RELEASE: a living ritual for letting go (vanessa german)
Participatory Performance / Score
12:00–20:00
El Medán (Bernardo Oyarzún)
Participatory Performance and Installation
12:00–23:00
O Quilombismo
Exhibition
13:00
Subversive Bodies in Conversation: Bodies as Joyfields, Bodies as Battlefields (O’Neil Lawrence, Bruno Zhu, and Grada Kilomba)
Conversation
13:00–15:00
Hand in Hand: a love poem for togetherness (vanessa german)
Participatory Walk
14:00
Restitution in Conversation: Feminist Perspectives on Restitution Beyond Ownership (Tuli Mekondjo, Hermosa Intervención and Lisa Hilli)
Conversation
15:00
The Dawn Incantations III (Tanka Fonta with Eden Meier and Saliou Cissokho)
Sound Performance
16:00
Between Revolution and Repair: Rereading Walter Rodney’s 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' (David Scott)
Keynote Lecture
16:00
Children’s Discoteque
17:00
O Quilombismo—Reader
Book Launch
18:00–20:00
Hand in Hand: a love poem for togetherness (vanessa german)
Participatory Walk
18:00
Neptune Frost
Screening
20:30
Oumou Sangaré
Concert
22:00
Katerinha & Njeri
DJ Set
00:00
MSJY
DJ Set
Sunday, 4 June 2023
12:00–23:00
RELEASE: a living ritual for letting go (vanessa german)
Participatory Performance / Score
12:00–20:00
El Medán (Bernardo Oyarzún)
Participatory Performance and Installation
12:00–23:00
O Quilombismo
Exhibition
13:00
Quilombo Continuum
Screening, Conversation
15:00
Exhibition Walk (Alejandra Saavedra Hernández)
15:00
Bread Scores (Masimba Hwati and friends)
Performance
16:00
Archiving Marginalized Knowledge: Intersectional Black European Studies (Fatima El-Tayeb)
Keynote
17:00
The Butterfly Effect (Simon Njami)
Keynote
18:00
(H)-KWY ìmò and òótó (Leo Asemota)
Performance
19:00
Dine on a Mat—A Taste from the Fulani Kitchen (Chef Fatmata Binta)
Cooking Session
20:30
Estrellas del Caribe
Concert
22:00
mokeyanju
DJ Set
Further information
www.hkw.de/actsofopening
www.hkw.de/quilombismo
Press photos
hkw.de/pressphotos
Visit information
Current information for visitation and accessibility.
The Weltwirtschaft restaurant is open daily from 12:00.
Contact
Jan Trautmann
Pressesprecher
Lead Communications Officer
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
T: + 49 (0) 30 397 87 157
presse@hkw.de