July at HKW
4.7.2025
July at HKW
Heimatization: Is that a thing? Colonialism and Memory Culture
Conversation
Wed., 9 July, 19:00
In Is that a thing? Colonialism and Memory Culture, Manuela Bauche, Mekonnen Mesghena, Khuê Phạm and Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai discuss with Max Czollek and Ibou Diop the question of how Germany engages with its colonial past and how such memory work might be situated within a global context. The aim is to underscore that remembrance is never solely retrospective. It shapes the present and offers impulses for future-orientated, transformative engagement.
Publication series
In the third 'haɪ̯maːtn̩ volume, author Ndey Bassine Jammeh-Siegel and illustrator Diana Ejaita create a world of colour and magic around the beauty of stories. The Mosaic Library, a story for people aged 6 and over, shows that books can be a home worth fighting for.
Podcast
In Episode 4 of Who Does Germany Belong To?, Max Czollek speaks with Kelly Laubinger, activist and managing director of the Sinti Union Schleswig-Holstein, about strategies of resistance developed by Sinti* and Roma* communities since 1945. They discuss the vitality of these communities, as well as the long history of structural discrimination and persecution.
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Concerts, DJs, Lectures
until 2 August
In July and August Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures presents a range of daytime activities followed by concerts and DJ sets in the evening. A place where voices, rhythms, and stories intersect.
Concerts
Fri., 4 July
Manou Gallo, The Congos and Sammy Dread
Sat., 5 July
Mohini Dey, Ana Tijoux and Sarah Farina
Fri., 11 July
Perera Elsewhere, Kumbia Boruka and Selektor Bony & Calamidades Lola
Sat., 12 July
Fri., 18 July
Novalima, The Dhol Foundation and Harry Kalsi
Sat., 2 August
Jowee Omicil and Boukman Eksperyans (part of Bwa Kayiman)
Further highlights: The film Sound System Sanskriti by Roy Dipankar and Dakta Dub, which deals with the reggae scene in Hyderabad, will be shown on all festival days. In the lecture Archiving the Afrosonic on 5 July, Safia Siad will present the work of the Afrosonic Innovation Lab and Onkar Singh Kular will give the lecture performance Rebuilding Archives: A Mixtape Methodology on 12 July.
Internationaler Literaturpreis 2025:
Award Ceremony
Thur., 17 July, 19:00
On this evening, the winners of this year's Internationaler Literaturpreis will be announced at a festive award ceremony. After an opening speech by the intendant and chief curator of HKW, Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the award-winning author Geetanjali is holding a keynote. The members of this year's jury will then announce the winners and give a laudatory speech, which will be followed by a discussion with the author and translator about the award-winning work and its translation. Childcare will be available from 5pm.
Reading Groups
Mon., 7 July, 18:00: Sankofa
Tue., 8 July., 20:00: Autobiographie des Todes
Mon. 14 July, 18:30: Übungen in Gehorsam
Shaped to the Measure of the People's Songs: Ileum
Pavilion Opening
12 July, 15:00
2023 marked the inception of a tradition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW): the construction of a yearly pavilion. Entitled Shaped to the Measure of the People’s Songs, endeavour embraces an impetus to critically consider space and to explore its various material and immaterial implications. Each year, a new pavilion takes on a creative translation and realization of the complex question of living together into spatial and material propositions. The series continues in 2025 in the frame of heimaten with an artistic intervention in public space by Mae-ling Lokko and Gustavo Crembil.
The pavilion Ileum opens on 12 July with Mae-Ling Lokko, Gustavo Crembil, Daniel Quist und Marvin Brooks.
Sabar Workshops 2025
Dance Workshop
Mon., 7–Tue., 8 July
In 2025 HKW continues the drum and dance workshop series Sabar, Polyrhythm, and the Politics of Body Movement led by Nago Guèye Koité & SAF SAP. Drumming and sabar are traditions that constitute a pillar in Senegalese oral history. The sounds circulate from each vibrating drum through each person present in the circle. Although the dancing portion of the sabar starts from the individual who is at the centre of the circle, the general choreography grows through collective movements. The polyphony provided by the collective drumming aims to align the body with the rhythm of the drums, fostering a strong conversation with the beats offered.
Calendar
Fri., 4 July
16:00–22:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Sound System Sanskriti
Film installation
Free entry
19:00–00:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Manou Gallo, The Congos, Sammy Dread
Concerts
€23/€19
Sat., 5 July
16:00–22:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Sound System Sanskriti
Film installation
Free entry
17:00–18:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Archiving the Afrosonic
Lecture
EN, free entry
19:00–00:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Mohini Dey, Ana Tijoux, Sarah Farina
Concerts
€23/€19
Sun., 6 July
13:00–14:00
HKW–I feel you
Guided tour for blind, visually impaired, and sighted visitors
DE, free entry, please register
Mon., 7 July
17:00–19:00
Dance workshop
EN/DE/WOLOF, free entry, please register
18:00
Internationaler Literaturpreis 2025
DE, free entry, please register
Tue., 8 July
17:00–19:00
Dance workshop
EN/DE/WOLOF, free entry, please register
Wed., 9 July
19:00
Heimatisierung
Is that a thing? Colonialism and Memory Culture
Conversation
EN/DE/DGS, €5
Fri., 11 July
16:00–22:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Sound System Sanskriti
Film installation
Free entry
19:00–00:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Perera Elsewhere, Kumbia Boruka, Selektor Bony & Calamidades Lola
Concerts
€23/€19
Sat., 12 July
15:00
Conversation, Music
EN, free entry
16:00–22:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Sound System Sanskriti
Film installation
free entry
17:00–18:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Rebuilding Archives: A Mixtape Methodology
Lecture
EN, free entry
19:00–00:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Concerts
€23/€19
Mon., 14 July
18:30
Internationaler Literaturpreis 2025
DE, free entry, with registration
Thur., 17 July
17:00–21:00
Free of charge, please register
19:00
Internationaler Literaturpreis. Award Ceremony 2025
Free entry
Fri., 18 July
16:00–22:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Sound System Sanskriti
Film installation
Free entry
19:00–00:00
Sonic Pluriverse Festival: Bass Cultures
Novalima, The Dhol Foundation, Harry Kalsi
Concerts
€23/€19
Visit Information
Opening Times
Wed.–Mon. 12:00–19:00
Free admission on Mondays
Extended opening hours during evening programmes
Childcare
HKW offers free childcare for many of its programmes. For further information visit hkw.de.
Current information about visiting and accessibility.
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