{"title": "5. + 6.11. all the rivers flow | The Insisting Body", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ausland", "address": "Lychener Straße 60, 10437 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/violence", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "„The Insisting Body“ is a lecture-performance and installation with integrated audio description. The work by Michael(a) Daoud, developed from a month-long durational performance carried out across thirty sites in Berlin marked by violence, investigates how violence continues to inhabit places through repetition, memory, and institutional structures. Through stillness, exhaustion, sound, projected documentation, and spatial interventions, the performance unfolds as a living cartography that asks what remains after violence has disappeared from view. Concept, performance, and text are by Michael(a) Daoud, with dramaturgy by Zain Saleh, lighting design by Liza Root, and spatial design by Lena Drazinou.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/5-611-all-the-rivers-flow-the-insisting-body-11274/", "official_url": "https://ausland.berlin/event/all-the-rivers-flow-the-insisting-body-michaela-daoud-zain-saleh-lisa-rot-lena-drazinou-bethany-tiger-morgan", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b9150f4f3b3f45d02db3792a2e5a2f55fdd79d4d0272258772aa855a9f26f15-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ausland", "address": "Lychener Straße 60, 10437 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Border Justice: Bodies as Evidence", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Uferstudios", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/law", "art"], "description": "\"Border Justice: Bodies as Evidence\" is a lecture series taking place at Uferstudios in Berlin. It is run by Hanaa Hakiki and Arkadi Zaides. At its center is the question of how the human body is perceived in law – not all bodies are granted the same status or the same capacity to act before the law. Drawing on a range of practices and perspectives from art, the humanities, law and activism, the series examines how embodied knowledge can reveal ambiguities and gaps in legal structures and support the development of alternative models of justice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/border-justice-bodies-as-evidence-32827/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Political Bodies", "start": "2026-11-14T21:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien", "address": "Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/experimental-electronic"], "description": "Political Bodies is a multi-layered music performance fusing live music, electronics, ritual movement and multimedia. Behind the project is composer, performer and multimedia artist Shasha Chen, a 2026 fellow of the Berlin Artists' Program of the DAAD, joined by Carlos Cordeiro on bass clarinet and Georgios Lolas on accordion as recorded playback. At its core lies identity as a movable space between loss, resistance, healing and new connection, with the body understood as medium, metaphor and site of mythical displacements. The work is a cooperation between the DAAD's Berlin Artists' Program and Klangwerkstatt Berlin, moderated by Leonie Reineke.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/political-bodies-24645/", "official_url": "https://klangwerkstatt-berlin.de/2026/programm/16-political-bodies-shasha-chen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7dcda3fc2f9dc1c4b020be45036cafb5f836f2347b22e38898972f862898793e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Border Justice, and Bodies as Evidence", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin", "address": "Uferstr. 8/23, 13357 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/law"], "description": "“Border Justice, and Bodies as Evidence” is an English-language lecture with Hanaa Hakiki and Arkadi Zaides, part of the series “Bodies of Law: Kunst, Aktivismus, und das Recht, einen Körper zu haben”. The series asks how the human body is perceived in law and whether all bodies hold the same status before it. It is curated by Sandra Noeth, with support from Nevena Delić. The events are streamed live and free of charge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/border-justice-and-bodies-as-evidence-29008/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/border-justice-and-bodies-as-evidence/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Was bleibt vom Körper? - Über Materialität und Technologie", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Universität der Künste Berlin – Fakultät Gestaltung", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 5-2, 10823 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "science/technology"], "description": "\"Was bleibt vom Körper? - Über Materialität und Technologie\" is a public talk series at the Berlin University of the Arts, moderated by Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne. It features contributions from Çağla Ilk, a dramaturg, curator and the new artistic director of the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, and Melanie Roumiguière, a curator and head of the fine arts section of the DAAD's Berlin Artists' Program. The evening asks how digital technologies, new media and networked forms of production change our understanding of the body, materiality and presence. At its centre is what bodily presence means today and why it remains central in the age of digital mediation, spanning stage, exhibition, sound, fine arts and public space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-bleibt-vom-korper-uber-materialitat-und-technologie-28991/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/was-bleibt-vom-koerper-ueber-materialitaet-und-technologie/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Bodies we fall for", "start": "2026-11-14T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Ost", "address": "Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin", "price": "20 | 15 | 10 Euro", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/documentary-theatre", "society/queer"], "description": "„Bodies we fall for“ is an accessible documentary performance about love and sexuality in the Cypriot Greek dialect. Text, research and performance are by Nayia T. Karacosta and roz, with direction and research by Elena Sokratous; it was produced by Ipogeia Skini in Limassol, Cyprus. Based on real accounts, two young women tell their unfiltered, tender and inclusive truth about love live on stage, raising questions about first kisses, dating, sex and digital encounters, and above all whether all bodies have equal access to love. The evening features creative forms of accessibility such as integrated audio description, sign language interpretation, surtitles, haptic guidance and multisensory elements, treats love as a political and universal act of resistance, and is followed after a 30-minute break by a 40-minute audience talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bodies-we-fall-for-3712/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhausost.de/produktion/bodies-we-fall-for/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fff60a14923664c61330f5c6fc759f445fb72a2654d00435aa47c01c0343010b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "AS THE STARS FALL", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "TAK - Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg", "address": "Prinzenstr. 85 F im Aufbau Haus am Moritzplatz 10969 Berlin", "price": "12,00 ermäßigt, 18,00 normal, 3,00 Berlin-Pass", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/war", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"AS THE STARS FALL\" is a performance by Monirah Hashemi having its German premiere at TAK - Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg. The actress, director and playwright from Afghanistan explores survival, embodied memory and the struggle to reclaim the right to one's own story. Moving between an adult and a child's perspective, the performance approaches memory as something fragmented, physical and continuously present. Through storytelling, movement, ritual, repetition and sound, the audience is positioned not simply as spectators but as witnesses.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/as-the-stars-fall-20428/", "official_url": "https://www.tak-berlin.org/programm/asthestarsfall", "image": "https://noky.io/images/014323e9de3ae9002fcc7ef81af2b3204c0229599903647257dc5074054276c1-600.webp"}, {"title": "Was bleibt vom Körper? - Über Materialität und Technologie", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/technology", "art"], "description": "An open discussion evening exploring how digital technologies, new media and networked forms of production change our understanding of the body, materiality and presence. It is part of the lecture series „Warum Kunst?\" at the Berlin University of the Arts, moderated by Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne. The guests are dramaturg and curator Çağla Ilk, the new artistic director of the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, and curator and cultural scholar Melanie Roumiguière. At its centre is the question of what bodily presence means today in an age of digital mediation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-bleibt-vom-korper-uber-materialitat-und-technologie-31783/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/was-bleibt-vom-koerper-ueber-materialitaet-und-technologie/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Im Herzen der Gewalt", "start": "2026-11-01T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz", "address": "Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/racism"], "description": "\"Im Herzen der Gewalt\" is a theatre production at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. The French author Édouard Louis wrote the autobiographical novel about a traumatic night in Paris in which an encounter between two young men abruptly turns into threat, violence and rape. Thomas Ostermeier adapted the novel for the stage together with Édouard Louis, in its first German-language production. The reconstruction of that night and the reactions of those around reveal deeply rooted racism, homophobia and opaque power structures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/im-herzen-der-gewalt-9911/", "official_url": "https://www.schaubuehne.de/de/produktionen/im-herzen-der-gewalt-2.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8edac62854f3908ad75c6c52fec0dd78ea801ca36f6839ab42ff7a6f603d38f5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Half - Dead - Body - Talks", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:30:00+01:00", "place": "Studio dB", "address": "Uferstraße 8-11, 13357 Berlin", "price": "10-20", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Half - Dead - Body - Talks is a dance performance with sound and art installation, unfolding at once as a concert, a poetry recital and contemporary dance. It is organized by Katrine Bregnum 11. The work explores the complexity of human encounters, perceiving and metamorphosing sounds produced by the body, both voluntary and involuntary, into music. It inhabits the space between the fragile and the enduring, searching for what remains when familiar constructs fall apart – a reflection on what comes after the end, grief, trust and the mechanisms of faith.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/half-dead-body-talks-29103/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/792fae6a6ce3e4a57eceb2e765ca01a89a763cadb95689ec355f3b27b32b798b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The School of Self Defence – Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "start": "2026-11-01T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "", "price": "19,75 EUR", "price_from": "19.75", "price_to": "19.75", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance", "stage"], "description": "The School of Self-Defense is an open program of workshops, talks, performances, ballroom events and dance theatre taking place in the Roter Salon of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Behind it are the artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira from Rio de Janeiro, whose work explores how violence inscribes itself in bodies and how resistance can be mounted against it through one's own movements. The school invites people to rethink self-defence – not merely as a reaction but as a practice that can be shared, in the body, in space and in community. It is curated by Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira in collaboration with Sophie Yukiko and Marlene Engel.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-school-of-self-defence-volksbuhne-am-rosa-luxemburg-plat-73345/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense", "image": ""}, {"title": "Was wir mit uns tragen: Über die Auswirkungen der Migration", "start": "2026-11-05T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Campus Berlin-Buch", "address": "Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/migration"], "description": "An installation titled „Things We Carry“ that examines how the experience of migration affects the body, perception and emotional life. It is created by an artists' group associated with the CORE Kollektiv. Based on artistic research, visitors are invited to immerse themselves through scents, images, languages and memories in the experience of being uprooted and its relation to the perception of place and time. The presentation is part of Science Week.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-wir-mit-uns-tragen-uber-die-auswirkungen-der-migration-72196/", "official_url": "https://berlinscienceweek.com/de/programme/things-we-carry-impact-migration", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Knife Attack - A documentary-research based theatre play (Faculty Colloquium)", "start": "2026-11-03T12:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-03T13:30:00+01:00", "place": "Bard College", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society"], "description": "As part of the Faculty Colloquium, Noam Brusilovsky and Maria Magdalena Emmerig present their theatre work “Der Messerangriff (The Knife Attack)” and share insights into their research and artistic process. The play is their third production at Stadttheater Klagenfurt dedicated to a sensitive local issue, following “Nicht Sehen” (winner of the 2022 Nestroy Special Prize) and “QUEERinthia” (2024). Taking the 2025 ISIS terror attack in Villach as its starting point, it explores terrorism, radicalization, and the enduring wounds such attacks inflict on the public sphere. Brusilovsky is a writer and director working in theatre and radio, while Emmerig is an artist, scenographer, and costume designer who merges classical scenography with immersive, participatory formats.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-knife-attack-a-documentary-research-based-theatre-play-f-91780/", "official_url": "https://berlin.bard.edu/events/the-knife-attack-a-documentary-research-based-theatre-play-faculty-colloquium", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b2b37d88f338810380e172181c28206d5302da126ce28edd48653a7d3d0ccaa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The School of Self-Defense", "start": "2026-10-29T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 45, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance", "stage"], "description": "\"The School of Self-Defense\" is a multi-day format of workshops, talks, performances, ballroom events and dance theatre taking place at various venues around Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. It is presented by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and curated by the Rio de Janeiro-based artists Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira, together with Sophie Yukiko and Marlene Engel. Its starting point is the two artists' practice, which examines how violence inscribes itself in bodies and how one can respond to it and resist through one's own movements. The School rethinks self-defence – not merely as a reaction but as a practice that can be shared in the body, in space and with one another, bringing together artists, thinkers and communities from Berlin, Brazil and beyond.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-school-of-self-defense-73466/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/", "image": ""}, {"title": "A house and two windows", "start": "2026-11-02T17:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schaubude Berlin", "address": "Greifswalder Straße 81-84, 10405 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/installation"], "description": "An artist talk takes place in the foyer of a Berlin theatre. It is devoted to the installation \"A house and two windows\" by Montréal artist Myriam Jacob-Allard, moderated by cultural scholar Beate Absalon. In a house being built or torn down, objects and body fragments stir, their traces of movement haunted by the bodies that once performed them. Newly reassembled, these remains create a narrative linking different biographies and times, oscillating between life, death and what lies between.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/a-house-and-two-windows-16723/", "official_url": "https://schaubude.berlin/de/spielplan/a-house-and-two-windows/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f57746c380291a67deca9971437efcc86f4d26746c3b927a0c394a93ff18fe17-2000.webp"}]}