Alternative Art Exchange Berlin 2-9  March 2019

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image:Frank Dudda

Interaktiv - space schmink & accessoire mit gogogtrash & czentrifuga

Bands, Live Acts & DJs:

VAN HOLZEN
21Downbeat & T.Raumschmiere
Graf Fidi
BudZillus
Ickmachwelle
Housemeister
Hypnorex
Supastar Soundsystem
Kat Kat Tat
Nogat Singers
ROCKSTRØM - A Tribute To AC/DC
puto production

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Strukturell hinkt Berlin ja immer noch ein bißchen hinterher mit der Inklusion. Aber in der Berliner Musikszene, da tut sich was! Es gibt inklusive Partyreihen wie die Spaceship im Mensch Meier, inklusive Bands wie 21Downbeat, einen inklusiven Workshop für elektronische Musik namens Ick Mach Welle und ein Festival namens Rock am Berg, das sich der Inklusion per Gitarrenmusik verschrieben hat.
Dieses Jahr tun sich Spaceship und Rock Am Berg zusammen, und stellen ein riesiges Fest namens SPACEBERG auf die Beine, das keine Wünsche offen lässt: Die aufstrebenden Indie-Rocker Van Holzen treffen auf die Nogat Singers, einen inklusiven Chor aus Neukölln. Der Rapper Graf Fidi macht fast alles mit links und reicht das Mikro weiter an 21Downbeat & T.Raumschmiere, die deutschen Elektro-Pop in bester dadaistischer Tradition zum Besten geben. Es gibt Budzillus mit ihrem Mix aus Gipsy, Swing und Polka, Rockstrøm, die mit AC/DC-Coverversionen die Halle rocken und Puto Production mit ihrem kraftvollen Elektro Percussion Trance. Das Supastar Soundsystem gibt noch etwas Yaam-Feeling hinzu und ab Mitternacht übernehmen dann die Teilnehmer des Ick Mach Welle-Projektes mit einem Live-Set, bevor Housemeister, Hypnorex und Kat Tat Tat im Anschluss mit Techno den Dancefloor nochmal richtig umkrempeln.

Ein Festival so bunt wie unsere Stadt!
Das Ganze für nur 2€ - kommt alle rum!

intergalaktische!  barrierefrei!!  ... ... ...  mit euch feiern ob mit oder mit ohne "handicap":  spaceship ist eine inklusive partyreihe der lebenshilfe im mensch meier club  (auf drei floors: 18 - 23 Uhr = 2€ eintritt)

auf drei Floors

Czentrifloor: Bastel Bastel Bastel !!!  Pimp Your Rollstuhle!  Siebdruck Spass (bring eure klamotten)

Djs Mischa (Lebenshilfe Massive) & Dj Ben Assassin (UK)

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czentrifuga @ fusion festival 26-29 june 2019  open daily from 10 till 22:00

once again the united forces of czentrifuga gravitate into the ever expanding kulturkosmos!

we have a very nice n shady spot  where we will be presenting our associations socio cultural

activities, in particular, our front-burner intiative vagabundencongress 2020

Vagabumm2020 from CZENTRIFUGA on Vimeo.

-Come around and browse our screenprint gallery!

-Update yourself  at our Propaganda and Mediation Kiosk

-Live Pimp Print!

-Sticker - Cutting Meditation  Workshop

As ever, any € generated through the sale  of screenprint articles

including stickers, ltd. edition books and posters 

goes to our parent association in Berlin for helping the homeless

Here are a few fotos from previous Fusion adventures plus some vid clips  from the crew and guests in action....

NEON KUNST 48h_neukölln from werner Kernebeck on Vimeo.

Czentrifiga *Jekami @  Mensch Meier

*jeder kann mitmachen!

18:00 - Dj Mischa (lebenshilfe massive)

20:00 - Marko Krojac - Beats & Open mic.

21:00 - Live "Rabatt"

+ Siebdruck, Deco & Kostume - Pimp your Style!

voll program hier

Wer Spaceship noch nicht kennt: Wir sind ein intergalaktischer, barrierefreier Reiseanbieter den ihr in eurem Vergleichsportal nicht finden werdet. Das inklusiv - subversive happening im Mensch Meier möchte mit euch die Grenzen ins All schießen und mit euch feiern – ob mit oder mit ohne Handicap.

Spaceship ist eine inklusive Partyreihe der Lebenshilfe im Mensch Meier Club; Berlin. Hier rocken Stars der Szene und Künstler*innen mit Behinderung die Bühnen.

Wie immer haben wir ein kostenloses Shuttle vom SBahnhof-Landsberger-Allee zum Club.

Anmeldungen zum Shuttle bitte an 030/ 60 00 00 23

Abflug dieses Mal um 16Uhr bis mitternacht !

Eintritt: 2€ Bitte einsteigen...

LINK TO FOTO ARCHIVES

For this transnational Step Across the Border meeting and skill sharing exchange, the setting was in the Belle de Mai  area of Marseille centered around the culture center lEmbobineuse. The visiting project participants: Caro Smart, Rasheeqa Ahmad, Raggi Kotek and Lucy Van de Wiel  from the organisation True North Health in London and Yt Winterthaler, Stine Brinklov, Tanja Ehmann , Renate Rey, Angelika Wenzel, Minnie Griffith, John Moulden a.k.a."Coost" and Beat Gipp , representing the Berlin associaton  Unter Druck - Kultur von der Strasse e.V.

Elsa Gobert, project coordinator at lEmbobineuse, organised  a comprehensive and dynamic  programme of educative and creative activiities and exchanges,which included discussions, demonstrations, workshops, communal cooking, radio cinema, live music and theater . The daily activities were mainly at locations in the local area, which is a  traditionally poorer part of the city, with a majority of African French citizens and migrants. A large social issue here, is  the  push of gentrification  at the expense and exclusion of the existing vibrant and diverse culture and community. As we found out, there are many  innovative  socio cultural initiatives in Marseille and, thanks to our wonderfull hosts, we were very priveliged and gratefull  to have the chance to look, listen and learn by submerging  into this unique community allbeit for five  short days......

20.05 2018

Arrival, checking in, meeting, eating and greeting at lEmbobineuse with an early evening  visit to  Radio Galère  in the culture complex Frische de la Belle Mai, for a live broadcast on  Dataplex radio   hosted by long standing  Marseille cultural operator Damien Morel, whereby  we  talked on air about the Marseille SATB mission and the various planned activities.

meeting and greeting at lembobineuse ----------- yt from czentrifuga checks the artwork at le dernier cri ------------- propaganda --------------  stine and yt at the compagnie peanuts film premiere              

locker system  at la baggagerie ------  Jardin du Couvent Levas -------- life on mars

21.05 2018

Morning visit to Le Derner Cri cult, art print factory at  Frische de la Belle Mai  with  introduction by Dernier Cri master printer,  local  social-cultural  activist and lEmbobineuse sponsor, Pakito Bolino. At midday we met and ate together  with representatives from Compagnie Peanuts at lEmbobineuse. This theater company of circa 30 people are residents from the neighbourhood, now in their third year of  working and co-producing together with Magdi Rejichi,  Philippe Zunino, Jérôme Fino and Mohammed Ali. The majority of the ensemble have migrated to Marseille from the Comoros islands on the east African coast , north of Madagascar. The age range is from 25  to 70 and approximately  two thirds are women. As an ex French colony , Comoreans are allowed to come to France, however, there are imposed  limitations to this, which means its important for the organisers to try and help company members integrate into society and find work in order to improve their chances of remaining . In this sense, the theater group  is a means by which its possible to help people with fundamental migration issues as well as the more obvious social and creative benefits.

Representing Compagnie Peanuts

La Cabane Métamentale

That  same afternoon the SATB group took part in the Company Peanuts workshop, which centered around La Cabane Métamentale "a heterotopic space where time is suspended". Within this enlosed, dark space and, through the use of psycho social and emancipatory interviews, single participants are invited into this safe yet mysterious isolation chamber, allowing them to connect with their subconsciousness which can help participants to release intimate, often hidden, words and sounds that "need to come out". The purpose is to tap into the positivity within people by being welcoming and respondent.

For the puposes of the SATB workshop, the cabin was installed on the lEmbobineuse stage. People in the room were invited to sit or lie  around the cabin and listen in on headphones to the conversations within. Meanwhile, there were 4 other stations, spread around the venue, and  participants  were escorted from one station to the next  by theater members dressed as medical staff.  These "doctors and nurses"  dressed in surgical gowns and masks, talk in Comorian, Arabic, French, English (often all mixed together). The "Patients" (participants) are first received  at the bar  area, where they are  are given their "Meta Mental" documents, before being escorted from one station/scenario to the next. Each  scenario  has a different twist on classical  doctor - patient interview situations: lying down, sitting, or being observed remotely through a glass window (in this case, the actors improvise using  the venues  cloakroom window) . Participants are asked  how they feel? , what do they like? or are simply lulled into a relaxed state through via  the use of abstract  words and sounds. 

One scenario requires that the  participant squeeze between two actresses into the backseat of a very small car  (theres an actual car in the venue); whereupon these two "doctors" whisper and sing trance-like  into the participants ears. These actions are designed to  gently encourage the  participants to relax and step out of their normal mind set, to  open their  minds and prepare them for the final ultimate cabin experience. The hut  experiment is also part of an ongoing project, which is to record excerpts from the exchanges within  and also in the immediate area around the hut. The recordings are supervised and edited by invited S.A.T.B. guest Philippe Zumino. In this video teaser  "La Cabane", we see how the Company are very much pro active in promoting themselves within the neighbourhood . We also  see how La Cabane Métamentale is  constructed,  as well as showing Philippe Zumino making interviews inside  the Cabin.

La cabane - teaser from lembobineuse on Vimeo.

Cartographie Meta Mentale (examples from SATB participants  Minnie and Rasheeqa)

Compagnie Peanuts / S.A.T.B. -  La Cabane Métamentale Radio Spot here

Following on from the successfull medicinal plant and flower identification workshop at the first S.A.T.B. meeting at the Bienenwerder farm on the outskirts of Berlin, we visited  Jardin du Couvent Levas, together with herb and plant expert and  True North Health representative, Rasheeqa Ahmad. This ex-convent for nuns in the Belle de Mai are, is now a space for artists in residence surrounded by a community gardening project. Here we were given a tour of the flora and fauna of the garden by Alice who also volunteers at Cantine du Midi  which we  were to  visit the next day. This was a good opportunity for our London and local experts to trade  infos and anecdotes and a great opportunity for the team and guests to learn and reflect more on urban gardening and plant and herb identification.

This full packed day was not yet over, with perhaps the most interesting and intense  experience of the Marseille visit lying before us. Members of the visiting S.A.T.B. organisations  were distributed and hosted amongst the respective homes of Zalahata, Khadja, Kader, Aziza, Mr Mfya and Afakra from Company Peanuts. This was a sublime continuation of the workshop at lEmbobineuse, whereby we were given a rare and priveliged opportunity to share the homes , eat, sleep and make exchange with some  incredibly generous and warm hearted people, most of whom are  from Islamic cultural backgrounds.

22.04

Early the next morning, we assembled at Cantine du Midi on rue Bernard in the Belle de Mai area and began preparing food , some of which (herbs, stinging nettles and  other edible plants and flowers) we had collected from the previous days visit to le Couvant. The Cantine is organised by the En Chantier association  whose aim is to create local solidarity and collective responsibility  based on empowerment values "we pay attention to involving people  using food to reach this goal" As well as the daily low priced, healthy food cantine, the  organisation runs a food shop next door, as well as a mobile kitchen which is used to educate and sensitise children, teenagers and families about healthy food.

That evening the group visited "La Bagagerie" which is an initiative working together with homeless people in the centre of Marseille and, here  we  were given a tour of the space by volunteer Marie. Utilising an empty storefront   property, the space has been fitted out with around 40  lockers, whereby homeless people can leave there belongings and valuables,  which allows them the freedom to walk freely in the city without the fear of losing their possessions as well allowing them anonimity of being unrecognisable as being homeless. This is a model project which deals simply and concretely with an existential homeless issue, which  other countries could  learn from. Many  thanks to the coordintion help from Sonja who was involved in the La Bagagerie set-up and who works for the Emmäus Homeless peoples organisation.

23.04

The SATB team met at lEmbobineuse, whereby  Blandine and Cecile from the La Felure Theater Company, who had made a memorable peformance workshop at the Unter Druck Cafe in Berlin some few months before, gave an informal talk in English, which outlined the  basic feminist perspective. There was around 25 people in attendance, including the technicians, musicians and operators from the venue, and the talk  was aimed as much for the benefit of the assembled  men in the room, as part of a  sensitisation process. The notes from the talk are included as a PDF document within this article (below)

Squatting is very common in Marseille as there is a large amount of long standing empty houses and flats, which  was previously the case in cities like London (now made largely  illegal) and Berlin (where it has never been actually legal but was tolerated until  recent  hyper urban renewal.  This means that socially engaged artisans, activists and the homeless have a greater chance to live in a safe space which encourages social cohesion  and community spirit. In the evening we visited le Guepier, a community squat which was being evicted in the coming week. The programme for this particular evening  was organised by  LGBTQA+  artists , although the audience was mixed ,which made for a positive and familiar environment for the SATB team.

24.04

The day was spent preparing for the evenings public event at lEmbobineuse, the SATB team helped with cooking and cleaning as well as costume design using plastic trash found in the local neighbourhood. Before the event there was a film screening  premiere from Company Peanuts "The Scapegoat Workshops"  at the nearby  le Gyptis cinema.

The scapegoat workshops from lembobineuse on Vimeo.

After the screening, the cinema audience walked the short distance to lEmbobineuse for  food and drink , followed by a programmed evening of entertainmant. in an improvised initiative, Czentrifuga offered the chance to all S.A.T.B: participants to join in with an improvised costume performance. Fotos by Czentrifuga / Erasmus Plus exchange student Minnie Griffith can be seen  here .

More images from this  altogther remarkable Marseille visit  can be seen here.

Finally , not to forget to mention Agnes, who has a small studio space at lEmbobineuse, and kindly invited us to visit her urban garden at "Jaudin de Gibraltar" , also in the local area. This garden contrasts the Covenant as it is built on  waste ground and takes into consideration the polluted earth and how it is possible le to slowly clean the soil in order to grow edible vegetables and, of course merci beaucoup to  our hosts and guides for their enthusiasm and kindness and an alltogther enlightening learning experience.

the author John Moulden a.k.a "Coost" Marselle 2018

 “Step across the Border” (Edition Berlin-Arnhem)

This is an educational exchange initiative between  Rijn IJssel school (Arnhem) and Unter Druck Kultur von der Strasse e.V. (Berlin), which reflects upon the ongoing transnational  teacher exchange project of the same name "Step Across the Border" (S.A.T.B.): "an international  grassroots initiative, since 2017, aimed at  using and developing basic creative education techniques with socially marginalised people." (stepacrosstheborder.eu). This Arnhem-Berlin initiative is coordinated by  Marciana Timmermans, teacher  at Rijn IJssel Creative Industry and the  aim is to encourage  the  Arnhem  students to  reflect on S.A.T.B. themes  (link) 

The Rijn IJssel project seeks to generate more understanding for people who live in difficult situations. The students will develop a personal opinion about this and  explore possibilities about how they could contribute with their creative and personal skills in terms of generating more publicity for these problems and generate solutions.

Participants: 42 students: Art&Design(13), Spatial Design (10), Interior Design (19) and 5 teachers, together with staff from the  Berlin homeless peoples initiative Unter Druck Kultur von der Strasse e.V. and its  creative atelier space ,Czentrifuga.  The  respective  periods for  activities are 5th - 19th of May 2018 in Berlin and 2nd - 10th of June 2018 in Arnhem. In both instances, activities will be spread amongst different locations.

Period 1: Plan for S.A.T.B. Activities in May 2018 in Berlin

Monday 7 May 20:00: Discussion at Aquarium In September 2017, the EU supported Step Across the Border project, hosted its “kick off” event in at the aquarium on Kottbusser Tor, Kreuzberg. Now we return to this sympathetic location with a follow up event instigated by the Rijn IJssel school SATB initiative.This relatively new space, specialises in political and socio-cultural events including  discussions, lectures and film screenings and  self help activities run by local residents, such a the social councelling group “Hartzer Roller”. Aquarium is a partner project of the long established Südblock which is a cafe and events space located next door and (also) a safe space for use bv various socially marginalised groups to make their own meetings and activities . Instigating the discussion will be guests, the Syrian born Waael Fares and also Verena Antensterne (Austria) who will join a discussion panel and share their respective experiences of refugee life and living rough on the streets.

10 and 11 May 10:00 - 20:00: Workshop for Design & Construction of  Compact Shelters for the Homeless at B.L.O. Ateliers B.L.O. Ateliers is situated in the former railway depot Berlin-Lichtenberg-Ost, Berlin and is homebase for over 100 artists, artisans and handworkers who make up Lockunst e.V. , an  association that  produces regular cultural activities and open workshops, including  this new international cooperation  together with Rijn IJssel and Unter Druck - Kultur von der Strasse e.V. 

Here, 8 groups of  students will design and create small shelters for possible future use by homeless people, using recycled and found materials. Activities will be organised over two days  in co-op with visitors from the Unter Druck homeless peoples meeting point. Food will be provided by the UK /Berlin waste food recycling project Real Junk Food Project.

Period 2: Plan for S.A.T.B. Activities June 2018 in Arnhem

Unter Druck & Czentrifuga staff will visit Arnhem in June (Saturday the 2 of June until Sunday the 10 of June) 2018 to make print and design workshops, exhibition and performance together with Rijn IJssel school students and staff, and interested artists/citizens in Arnhem.

- Exhibition about CZ and Unter Druck in the first weekend and the first days of the week (Sunday 3 June 15.00 hrs, vernissage with drinks, music and performance). And art work Rijn IJssel students made during their stay in Berlin.

- During the week: workshops with CZ, students Rijn IJssel, interested residents of Arnhem and artists/musicians at  a large warehouse space in the centre of Arnhem.

- Last weekend: exhibition and performances which are the result of the workshops and
other cooperations. (Saturday 9 June 15.00 hrs, finissage with drinks, music and
performance).

Rijn IJssel Participants

Students from Art&Design, Spatial Design, Interior Design, Human Technology, Musician, Make up, Hair Design,

Performing Arts, Event Marketing and Graphic Design faculties together with  Rijn IJssel teaching staff.

Unter Druck/Czentrifuga Participants

Stine Lawine, Yt Winterthaler, David Braithwaite, Werner Kernebeck and Marko Krojac

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