Decolonoize Berlin

02/11/2024

We loved seeing you at our Tag der Clubkultur Event held at and ! Thank you to and for the insightful workshops and and .music for the wonderful music! ✨And a special thank you again to for making it all possible!

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17/10/2024

DECOLONOIZE presents
✨OY (Avantpop, Electronica, Afrobeats)
with Nkech and MDT

24.10.2024 CONCERT | POETRY at

Decolonoize Berlin is inviting you to a night of poetry & music. Our goal as a collective is to create spaces that recognize and support BIPoC artists. We design spaces of mindfulness where we create a better world and promote meaningful exchange. As in every event of this year’s poetry and concert series, we open with powerful contributions from poets creating an atmosphere of reflection and empathy. It will be followed by the Duo OY’s danceable and colourful show — a celebration of diversity and full of positive energy.

Poets:
MDT
MDT’s writings of notions and poetry are deeply rooted in nature and indigenous heritage, reflecting the rich tapestry of an intertwined cultural background and intriguing travels.

Nkech
NKW, or Nkechukwu, is a multi-disciplinary writer, artist, curator- human hybrid.
“I am a storyteller first, inspired by patterns journeys, and the exploration of communal and self-identity within the human experience”

Band:
OY
The Berlin-based duo with roots in Ghana and Switzerland thrill audiences on stages around the world at festivals such as Eurockéenes in France, Rec Beat in Brazil, or clubs in downtown Cairo and New York. Singer/keyboardist Joy Frempong and producer/drummer Melodydreamer have been making music across all musical, linguistic and cultural boundaries for a decade. Therefore the title of their current album “World Wide We” came quite naturally. Polyglot negotiations of political and personal themes are musically woven into catchy songs. From Electronica Afrobeat Avant-Pop to Hip-Hop, Trap and Jazz - the music of OY is more versatile and unified, stylistically more open and independent than ever. “World Wide We” is an open invitation to dance all clichés into the ground at the duo’s acclaimed concerts.
www.oy-music.com

Line-up:
8:00 Doors
8:30 Poetry: MDT & Nkech
9:15 OY live

Free entry (donations welcome)— no pre-sale link.

03/10/2024

⚡️Beyond tomorrow: Decolonoize Our Future⚡️

8TH OCTOBER 2024
Free entrance; donations welcome
Please sign up if you want to attend a workshop! (Link in Bio!)

PROGRAM:

WORKSHOPS VENUE
⚡️18:00 - 19:30 WORKSHOP BY
Verónica Mota Galindo is a sound artist, musician, writer & academic, researching emancipation & philosophy of technology. Born in Mexico City, now based in Berlin, she explores the potential of storytelling in different disciplines. This year, her first book on the concept of the Cyborg as an emancipatory figure in the theoretical corpus of Donna Haraway’s Manifesto will be published.

Funded by 🖤

03/10/2024

⚡️Beyond tomorrow: Decolonoize Our Future⚡️

8TH OCTOBER 2024
Free entrance; donations welcome
Please sign up if you want to attend a workshop! (Link in Bio!)

PROGRAM:

WORKSHOPS VENUE
⚡️18:00 - 19:30 WORKSHOP BY
NKW has been performing spoken word on stages and in festivals in the UK and Berlin since 2016. As a writer, she has also led writing and poetry workshops for over 4 years and is passionate about aiding anyone and everyone in self-expression and the honing of creativity.

Funded by 🖤

27/09/2024

DECOLONOIZE presents
✨OY (Avantpop, Electronica, Afrobeats)
with Nkech and MDT

24.10.2024 CONCERT | POETRY at

Decolonoize Berlin is inviting you to a night of poetry & music. Our goal as a collective is to create spaces that recognize and support BIPoC artists. We design spaces of mindfulness where we create a better world and promote meaningful exchange. As in every event of this year’s poetry and concert series, we open with powerful contributions from poets creating an atmosphere of reflection and empathy. It will be followed by the Duo OY’s danceable and colourful show — a celebration of diversity and full of positive energy.

Poets:
MDT
MDT’s writings of notions and poetry are deeply rooted in nature and indigenous heritage, reflecting the rich tapestry of an intertwined cultural background and intriguing travels.

Nkech
NKW, or Nkechukwu, is a multi-disciplinary writer, artist, curator- human hybrid.
“I am a storyteller first, inspired by patterns journeys, and the exploration of communal and self-identity within the human experience”

Band:
OY
The Berlin-based duo with roots in Ghana and Switzerland thrill audiences on stages around the world at festivals such as Eurockéenes in France, Rec Beat in Brazil, or clubs in downtown Cairo and New York. Singer/keyboardist Joy Frempong and producer/drummer Melodydreamer have been making music across all musical, linguistic and cultural boundaries for a decade. Therefore the title of their current album “World Wide We” came quite naturally. Polyglot negotiations of political and personal themes are musically woven into catchy songs. From Electronica Afrobeat Avant-Pop to Hip-Hop, Trap and Jazz - the music of OY is more versatile and unified, stylistically more open and independent than ever. “World Wide We” is an open invitation to dance all clichés into the ground at the duo’s acclaimed concerts.
www.oy-music.com

Line-up:
8:00 Doors
8:30 Poetry: MDT & Nkech
9:15 OY live

Free entry — no pre-sale link.

25/09/2024

⚡️Beyond tomorrow: Decolonoize Our Future⚡️

8TH OCTOBER 2024
Free entrance; donations welcome
Please sign up if you want to attend a workshop! (Link in Bio!)

PROGRAM:

WORKSHOPS VENUE
⚡️18:00 - 19:30 WORKSHOP BY
NKW has been performing spoken word on stages and in festivals in the UK and Berlin since 2016. As a writer, she has also led writing and poetry workshops for over 4 years and is passionate about aiding anyone and everyone in self-expression and the honing of creativity.

⚡️18:00 - 19:30 WORKSHOP BY
Verónica Mota Galindo is a sound artist, musician, writer & academic, researching emancipation & philosophy of technology. Born in Mexico City, now based in Berlin, she explores the potential of storytelling in different disciplines. This year, her first book on the concept of the Cyborg as an emancipatory figure in the theoretical corpus of Donna Haraway’s Manifesto will be published.

SHOW VENUE
DOORS 19:30, SHOW 20:00

⚡️LIVE MUSIC BY
MADANII tells an autobiographical story of otherness, un-belonging, and interweaving between cultures, struggles, generational dreams, political absurdities, and female love - all reflected in an unique style that touches on avant-pop, alternative r&b and trap.

⚡️DJ SET BY .music
Focused on decolonizing music practices, RUSNAM creates empowering feminist
music that addresses discrimination, trauma, and exclusion of marginalized female*
artists. She also leads music empowerment workshops for youth and young women*
from conflict areas. Her signature style is a unique fusion of R&B, Hip-Hop, and Middle Eastern & North African sounds, intricately woven into heavy, technotic basslines and beats.

Funded by 🖤

24/09/2024

🌿🖤 DECOLONOIZE 🌿🖤 presents
SOUNDS of SOLIDARITY
FUNDRAISER EVENT

Date: 26th of September 2024
Venue:
Doors: 08:00 pm
Start: 08:30 pm
Entrance: Free entrance; donations welcome

Funds will go to:
Olive Branch

We regret to inform you that Ebaa Monther’s performance this Thursday has been cancelled due to unexpected circumstances. In an email, Ebaa shared that after travelling to the Occupied Syrian Golan for family matters, she was informed that she could not return to Germany. Despite holding a valid permit, the occupation’s restrictions prevent her from crossing borders without a new visa, leaving her stuck.

Ebaa expressed her deep frustration and sent her sincere apologies.
We will collaborate in the future and help her to return as soon as possible. ❤️

We stand in solidarity with Ebaa and all those affected by the harsh realities of the occupation!

Were happy to announce that we found another artists to perform that night tho:

Enana .music is the Sumerian goddess of love, war, s*x and fertility Much like their name, Enana is a multi-dimensional artist. Enana is a trans non-binary Rapper, singer-songwriter, performer and activist whose artistic engine has always been fueled by their quest for freedom and social justice. In the last years they have been nurturing a unique sound that represents their intersectional existence being born in Damascus and based in Berlin since 2015.

photo credit ©

23/09/2024

We had a lovely time dancing through friday night with you to the tunes of and 🦇🖤

Thank you all for coming out! See you at our upcoming event this week ~ 26.09. Sounds of Solidarity- Fundraiser event for Palestine at ~

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19/09/2024

🌿🖤 DECOLONOIZE 🌿🖤 presents
SOUNDS of SOLIDARITY
FUNDRAISER EVENT

Date: 26th of September 2024
Doors: 08:00 pm
Start: 08:30 pm
Entrance: Free entrance; donations welcome

Funds will go to:
World Central Kitchen – Chefs for Gaza
Connecting Gaza

Program:
Going for a Ride?: The video is based on the construction of the art installation Going for a Ride? (23 June 2002) by the Palestinian artist Vera Tamari, documented and produced by film-maker Nahed Awwad.

Raghad Isa is 20 years old, is about to start her degree in communication sciences and is aiming to become a presenter in the future. Her grandparents fled from Palestine to Syria in 1948 and are survivors of the Nakba. Raghad’s goal is to stand up for her country, write about it, actively campaign for Palestine and present true news as a journalist.

Ebaa Monther is a Syrian singer, rapper and performer from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. She is a versatile artist whose style spans Rap, Lo-fi, and more, blending traditional folk songs with an alternative, abstract, and experimental sound.

Genrefluid Iranian-American artist Dornika is a singer-songwriter, rapper, producer, activist, fashion designer, model, performance artist and director based in Berlin.
Dornika is an icon in Berlin’s vibrant underground q***r scene, rocking fierce looks and powerful messages of resilience that shine through her art. She fearlessly pushes boundaries, carving out her unique path, and empowering listeners to break free from societal norms surrounding gender, race, s*x, and beauty.

17/09/2024

Are y‘all ready for the dark season? Ready or not, this friday we have our friends serving you dark post punk at 🦇

So get your black eyeliner out and dance with us!

Support is coming by the amazing 🤍

Doors: 20:00
Music: 21:00
No pre-sale only tickets at the door!
If you don’t know where the venue is, ask a punk or drop us a dm!

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03/09/2024

We are very excited to have this little gem coming up for you this month! Spooky season is approaching and there’s no better way to celebrate than with some dark post punk by our beloved from the Netherlands! We had the pleasure to have them for our first Decolonoize Fest in 2022 and now we’re bringing them back for you 🖤

Lifeless Past from The Netherlands blends darkwave, postpunk, garage and goth-rock to create a unique dark musical landscape.
The band consists of Satori (guitars, drumbeats and vocals) together with Brandon on percussions. Both members are currently living in the Netherlands but they are born and raised on the island of Curaçao. Their cultural background can also be heard in their compositions and in some of their songs which are sung in Spanish. The band was founded in 2012 and they have a handfull of releases under their belt.
The group’s unparalleled approach to postpunk music is characterized by its steady and energetic drums, cascading melodic guitars, ta***ic basslines and bone chilling dark vocals.

Support is coming from the lovely who will make you dance with their Dark Wave/Dark Tech sounds! ✨

When: 20.09.2024
Doors: 20h / Music: 21h
Where: OGH
(ask a punk or dm us)
No pre-sale, only door!

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02/09/2024

29/08/2024

🌿🖤 DECOLONOIZE 🌿🖤
presents
SOUNDS of SOLIDARITY
FUNDRAISER EVENT
CONCERT | POETRY

Date: 26th of September 2024
Doors: 08:00 pm
Start: 08:30 pm
Entrance: Free entrance; donations welcome

Berlin’s BIPoC collective DECOLONOIZE organizes series of poetry and concerts to amplify the voices and talents of marginalized musicians and to create space for their rightful recognition, prioritizing the community’s needs.

We are showing solidarity for Palestinian freedom and are raising funds to support the remarkable work of World Central Kitchen - Chefs for Gaza & Connecting Humanity (eSIMs).
Our lineup features poets and musicians of Palestinian / Arab descent uniting to highlight and celebrate their music and cultural heritage.

Line-up:
Poetry by Mudar
Live music with Ebaamonther and more
STOP GENOCIDE. CEASEFIRE NOW & FOREVER.

Full line-up: https://www.instagram.com/decolonoize_berlin/

Funds will go to:
World Central Kitchen - Chefs for Gaza https://wck.org/news/gaza-8-20-24
Connecting Humanity https://gazaesims.com/donate/

15/08/2024

🌿♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿
Code of conduct & information on accessibility

We’re looking forward to have you all at our M I N I F E S T this Saturday! To make sure we can all have a good time, please get familiar with our code of conduct in the slides. We will have an awareness team on site as well.

In the last slide you find information on accessibility of the venue. If you have any more questions on accessibility slide into our DMs!

▪️August 17th 2024
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale)

12/08/2024

♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿
MARKETPLACE ANNOUNCEMENT

Raras Umaratih (they/them/dia), born and raised in Indonesia, is currently based in Berlin as a multimedia artist and organizer. To them, drawing is world-making within an image. Mutated and interconnected bodies – half life, half fiction – and words finding their power by coming to form, is much inspired by the tension in Raras’ experiences between the third world and the belly of the empire.

▪️ August 17th 2024
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale)

11/08/2024

♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿
MARKETPLACE ANNOUNCEMENT

irem Kurt is an illustrator and comic artist based in Berlin. She enjoys drawing quirky characters in vibrant settings on any topic that captures her interest. Alongside her personal projects, she creates illustrations for a variety of clients, often exploring sociopolitical issues, feminism, tech and culture. She will present her latest comic project, *Shababz! Jung. Muslimisch. Selbstbestimmt.*, a collaboration with Dr. Lana Sirri, along with some prints featuring lovely humans, which will be available at the market.

www.iremkurt.com


▪️ August 17th 2024
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale

10/08/2024

♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿
MARKETPLACE ANNOUNCEMENT

Patu is a Berlin based comic artist, illustrator, zinemaker and one of the founders of Boomzines – a web platform and archive for BIPoC Zines and Self Publishing.
Patus’ work focuses on the intersections of the personal and the structural in everyday life from the perspective of q***r and racism-critical empowerment.

▪️ August 17th 2024
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale)

09/08/2024

♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿
MARKETPLACE ANNOUNCEMENT

Leh Hwang is a Berlin-based illustrator, designer, and master’s student in Visual Communication at Weißensee Kunsthochschule. Her work, influenced by experiences abroad and a strong foundation in political values, centers on anti-racism, political design, and critical design. As a freelance graphic designer, Leh Hwang uses design as a medium to convey powerful ideas and also offers workshops that explore anti-racism within a creative context.

▪️ August 17th 2024
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale)

08/08/2024

♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿
MARKETPLACE ANNOUNCEMENT

Nicky Chue (they/them) aka seedling library is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker of Jamaican and Indonesian-German descent from Berlin. They create zines and postcards that invite you to dream and learn from nature. Nicky’s work connects visual art, poetry, narrative playlists and an appreciation for bees, while aiming to centre and archive fellow Black & PoC perspectives of q***r and trans experience.

▪️ August 17th 2024
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale)

07/08/2024

♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿
MARKETPLACE ANNOUNCEMENT

https://www.instagram.com/janjirakyun/
https://www.instagram.com/janjira.zone/

Christine (She/They) works as a graphic designer and illustrator.

In Christine’s illustrations you shall find a menagerie of fantastical creatures and q***r manga heroines, all woven into an artistic reality, which doesn’t take itself too seriously. Is this a form of escapism? Or a way of amplifying feelings and experiences? It is okay to be both as long as it spreads as stories to be seen and to make one feel seen.

Christine has started a fruitful collaboration with their partner and 3D-designer Emile Cerf (They/them) as they have been working on candle-making whimsical characters. They both bring their illustrations into the realm of the tangible, manifested in prints, ceramic work or sticker sheets.

▪️ August 17th 2024
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale)

06/08/2024

🌿♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿
SCHEDULE

Check out the schedule of our M I N I F E S T (2nd slide)

Bring your friends and let’s celebrate together!

▪️ August 17th 2024 - Doors: 4:30 pm
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale)

03/08/2024

🌿♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿
POET ANNOUNCEMENT

Super happy to announce our second poet performing at our M I N I F E S T

Quang (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist. Through video, text and performance they are interested in making the tensions between world histories and the self tangible. Drawing from q***rness as a mode of creating, imagining and rejecting, their works aim to illustrate the poetics in moments of insight, re-membrance, intimacy and incoherence.

Working solo and collaboratively, they have been featured at House of World Cultures, Oyoun, ausland.berlin, Museum of Visual Arts (Leipzig) and A.Farm (Ho Chi Minh City) and are currently playwriting about translation dilemmas rooted in the experience of Vietnamese German diaspora for the theater piece “Hörst du mich?” at Hoch-X (Munich), premiering in November ‘24.

They co-founded the arts & empowerment collective Spicy Ginkgo Collective () and Vietnamese poetry project tạt lon poetry (.lon.poetry).

▪️August 17th 2024
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale)

02/08/2024

🌿♦️M I N I F E S T♦️🌿

We’re looking forward to get together with you for our MINI FEST at on august 27th.

LIVE MUSIC
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POETRY
✨ .poetry
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MEET YOUR FUTURE BAND MATE
✨ Networking for bipoc with Lilian from &

FILMSCREENING
✨ LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD - AŞK, MARK VE ÖLÜM.

JAM SESSION
✨ get on stage & shred together (bipoc only)

MARKETPLACE
tba

Schedule will be released soon!

▪️ August 17th 2024
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▪️ entrance donation (no pre-sale)