{"title": "Back to the Future: IMAGINE! x Kunst, Poesie, Gespräch", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flutgraben e.V.", "address": "Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "\"Back to the Future: IMAGINE! x Kunst, Poesie, Gespräch\" is an openly designed evening that combines spoken word, an artist conversation and collective thinking. At its centre are tensions, contradictions and the space between apparent opposites. Behind the evening are Meriem Mohamed, an interdisciplinary artist and creative strategist whose practice is shaped by decolonial perspectives, and Glacier, an independent artist, musician, psychological counsellor and systemic thinker who moderates the conversation. Using the Know Thyself calendar as an example, it shows how a different view of time, memory and inherited orders can be translated into a personal practice and lived in everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/back-to-the-future-imagine-x-kunst-poesie-gesprach-96864/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7c7194f94e18c0d052ed221d5f988deaa411306333266c2a8946b1bc9320c6e-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flutgraben e.V.", "address": "Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "„Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort“ is an evening devoted to the question of how a central learning and memorial site on the history of colonialism could be designed in Berlin. The event brings together perspectives from academia, art, architecture, activism and memorial policy practice, sharing with a broad audience the conceptual and spatial foundations of the future site as well as the structures and networks that could sustain it. Artistically, the evening is framed by the dance company Fii ak Fee with the work DEM DEM and by Nathalie Vairac, who reads for the first time from Felwine Sarr's „Traces – A Speech to African Nations“. The event takes place in cooperation with „Kolonialismus erinnern“ and further partners, with simultaneous translation into English and French.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kolonialismus-erinnern-vom-konzept-zum-ort-293/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261113-1900/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm.", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A keynote dialogue on the question of how a central place of learning and remembrance for the history of colonialism and its continuities can be shaped. Following an introduction by literary scholar and curator Ibou Diop, Alice Hasters and Khuê Phạm take up questions about forms, practices and politics of remembering and bring them into conversation with each other, after which the exchange continues with the audience. The event reflects on the Erinnerungskonzept Kolonialismus (2025), initiated by actors of Berlin's civil society, which combines activist, scholarly and artistic positions and presents guidelines for engaging with and remembering Berlin's long-suppressed colonial history. In cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern, the dialogue opens the event „Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort.“ on 13 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erinnerungsort-kolonialismus-call-response-mit-alice-hasters-283/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261109-1700/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Was bewirkt Kunst? - Über die Zukunft der Kunst", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+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"], "description": "This event is an evening of the public talk series \"Warum Kunst?\" at the Berlin University of the Arts, asking what art achieves and where its future lies. Speaking are Wolfram Lotz, a dramatist, poet and radio playwright, and Prof. Iris ter Schiphorst, a composer, musician and author, with the evening moderated by Prof. Marion Hirte. At its center is the question of the value of artistic practice in a time of multiple crises and of art's capacity to open new spaces of thought, experience and imagination. The series sees itself as an open forum for exchange between artists, scholars, students and the public and is held in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-bewirkt-kunst-uber-die-zukunft-der-kunst-29003/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/was-bewirkt-kunst-ueber-die-zukunft-der-kunst/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Imagining European Quantum Futures", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/physics/quantum-technology", "art"], "description": "\"Imagining European Quantum Futures\" is a workshop where participants jointly imagine alternative futures for quantum technologies. It brings together perspectives from the arts, quantum research and technological reflection, building on the Q-Narratives project. Using artistic and participatory methods, dominant narratives are examined and new visions developed that connect quantum technologies with social values, cultural meaning and responsibility. Adrian Schmidt is among those taking part. The event is held in English in the Teresia Teaiwa Room, entry is free, places are limited and registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/imagining-european-quantum-futures-8362/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/imagining-european-quantum-futures", "image": ""}, {"title": "Hör hin!Ein Abend über Erinnern, Erzählen und Heilung", "start": "2026-11-14T21:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Biergarten Weltwirtschaft", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "\"Hör hin!\" is an evening of conversation, film, spoken word, poetry and an open mic about remembering, telling and healing. Asila Taifour invites guests on the occasion of the podcast \"Der Mörder meiner Mutter\" (ZEIT Verbrechen). Spoken-word artist Jessy James LaFleur and Carolin Haentjes with an impulse will take part. Admission is free, registration is possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/hor-hinein-abend-uber-erinnern-erzahlen-und-heilung-40404/", "official_url": "https://weltwirtschaft.berlin/event/hoer-hinein-abend-ueber-erinnern-erzaehlen-und-heilung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f95a8d92003bfbb39f68b1221d02da296308427aa359895a7431ff228c393f3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Was bewirkt Kunst? - Über die Zukunft der Kunst", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+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": ["art"], "description": "“Was bewirkt Kunst? – Über die Zukunft der Kunst” is a public evening as part of the discussion series “Warum Kunst?” at the Berlin University of the Arts. The playwright, poet and radio playwright Wolfram Lotz and the composer, musician and author Prof. Iris ter Schiphorst discuss what effect art has today and how it can gain new relevance. The evening is moderated by Prof. Marion Hirte and takes place in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-bewirkt-kunst-uber-die-zukunft-der-kunst-31795/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/was-bewirkt-kunst-ueber-die-zukunft-der-kunst/", "image": ""}, {"title": "After Art History: Future Paradigms for the Contemporary Art Museum", "start": "2026-11-12T08:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Admission free of charge, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/museum"], "description": "“After Art History? Future Paradigms for the Contemporary Art Museum” is a one-day symposium at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. The event is organised by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, with speakers including Dr Sam Bardaouil, Dr David Joselit and other scholars from art history, sociology and science and technology studies. The symposium asks what happens when art history is no longer the unquestioned epistemic centre of the museum but becomes one form of knowledge among many. It explores how museums can classify, interpret and preserve under conditions of uncertainty, and how historical knowledge can coexist with provisional, situated and collaborative forms of knowledge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/after-art-history-future-paradigms-for-the-contemporary-art-10939/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/after-art-history-future-paradigms-for-the-contemporary-art-museum-2026-11-12-083000-160217/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Salon: ÜberMorgenLand", "start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "TAK - Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg", "address": "Prinzenstr. 85 F im Aufbau Haus am Moritzplatz 10969 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/iran", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "The „Salon: ÜberMorgenLand“ transforms the theatre space into a haven of possibilities with artistic performances, discussion topics and encounters. It is an initiative by the suite42 collective in cooperation with the tak Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, building on a first series that ran at Radialsystem V until 2017. This time the focus is on the perspectives of artists in Iran and Iranian artists in the diaspora. The overarching theme is the productive transformation of our ways of life towards a future built on solidarity; the evening is hosted by Lydia Ziemke.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/salon-ubermorgenland-24680/", "official_url": "https://www.tak-berlin.org/programm/salon-%C3%BCbermorgenland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30c89d5317a02a0d9258df0a8b8be76ccca935054d884bf57f2ecdce77bc85af-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ins Mikro denken: Podcasting als öffentliche Praxis", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Publix Kantine", "address": "Hermannstraße 90", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "A conversation on podcasting as public practice, held in German, about the space new forms of storytelling take in a medium shaped by the crisis of democracy, wars of aggression, AI and climate change. Julia Tieke and Viktoria Tkaczyk talk with Rasha Khayat and Moritz Metz. The talk is part of a book project in the series \"Humanities in Action\" at intercom Verlag.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ins-mikro-denken-podcasting-als-offentliche-praxis-72385/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9973cd6b0137bfff051a75bb5ad66f239874c22fa1c270798f7817eba36da135-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Koloniale Gewaltgeschichte erinnern - Gespräch mit Abenaa Adomako und Dr. Ibou Diop", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schöneberg Museum", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/racism"], "description": "A conversation on remembering German colonial history of violence takes place at Schöneberg Museum. Abenaa Adomako and Dr. Ibou Diop discuss civic engagement within Berlin's decentralized culture of remembrance, coming to terms with German colonial history and researching Black German history. Adomako has been campaigning against racism and for making Black history visible for over 40 years. Diop curates discourse programmes and art exhibitions in Senegal and Germany and, since 2022, has been shaping concepts and places of remembrance for Berlin's colonial history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/koloniale-gewaltgeschichte-erinnern-gesprach-mit-abenaa-adom-12563/", "official_url": "https://museen-tempelhof-schoeneberg.de/events/koloniale-gewaltgeschichte-erinnern-gespraech-mit-abenaa-adomako-und-dr-ibou-diop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c149d30805acc9a39ff7783253385b478b15a133ac14bb4278dd607fc8dc1706-600.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": "TOUCHING BOUNDARIES. What Drives Art and Science Collaboration", "start": "2026-11-07T14:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "TOUCHING BOUNDARIES. What Drives Art and Science Collaboration is a talk and panel hosted at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of the Berlin Science Week Festival Centre. It is organised by Art Laboratory Berlin. The panel brings together Špela Petrič, Marcus Maeder, Miha Turšič, Matthias Rillig, Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz. The discussion centres on how scientific research and artistic intelligence meet, on the frictions and new forms of insight this creates, and on the human role in such collaborations and their effect on stakeholders from policymakers to the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/touching-boundaries-what-drives-art-and-science-collaboratio-8358/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/touching-boundaries", "image": ""}, {"title": "80. Waisenhausgespräch – “Lernt die Menschheit nie? Erinnerungskultur als Mehrgenerationenprojekt”", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "literature/reading"], "description": "The 80th Waisenhausgespräch asks how a culture of remembrance can succeed as a project across generations. Organized by the Cajewitz Stiftung together with the SchuleEins and the Theater OfW, it features pupils presenting their research into the history of the former orphanage, a staged reading by Anja S. Gläser and Florentine Schara (text and staging by Philipp Urrutia, with English surtitles), and a panel discussion with Lena Ditte Nissen and Rosa Jellinek. In this way the historic building's Betsaal becomes a place of living memory where past and present enter into dialogue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/80-waisenhausgesprach-lernt-die-menschheit-nie-erinnerungsku-72986/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Flüsse als Lebens- und Konflikträume | Rivers as places of life and conflict", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bezirkszentralbibliothek Pablo Neruda", "address": "Frankfurter Allee 14a, 10247 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/rivers"], "description": "A multi-sensory discussion, the senSONICtalk©, bringing science, art and the public into dialogue about the Oder and Spree and the future of our rivers. The artist collective FrauVonDa// invites you together with researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). Accompanied by sound and video installations, it explores how we can manage rivers as habitats and resources in an era of climate change and increasing exploitation. Questions and contributions can be shared in German or English, and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/flusse-als-lebens-und-konfliktraume-rivers-as-places-of-life-96841/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-friedrichshain-kreuzberg/bibliotheken/bezirkszentralbibliothek-pablo-neruda/veranstaltungen-projekte/fluesse-als-lebens-und-konfliktraeume-rivers-as-places-of-life-and-conflict-1719362.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09dd640fe39eaa9d554e7c8e16189bf1ac89bba08a40ce8f04bbdb88a06f4802-600.webp"}, {"title": "Eine Ästhetik der Gerechtigkeit oder How does Justice look like", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "Maxim-Gorki-Theater", "address": "Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/human-rights", "art"], "description": "This event opens a series on law and justice at the Maxim Gorki Theater. It was initiated by Wolfgang Kaleck, who brings together voices from different fields and regions. At the opening, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar and art historian Florencia San Martin discuss the common ground between artistic work and human rights work through the terms mourning, accountability and failure. The series examines the core principles of international law and human rights and, beyond that, develops visions as concrete utopias.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eine-asthetik-der-gerechtigkeit-oder-how-does-justice-look-l-23564/", "official_url": "https://www.gorki.de/de/eine-aesthetik-der-gerechtigkeit-oder-how-does-justice-look-like", "image": ""}, {"title": "Nova Tribe Voices – Erinnern. Zuhören. Verstehen.", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen Berlin", "address": "Köpenicker Allee 39-57, 10318 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/terrorism", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "„Nova Tribe Voices – Erinnern. Zuhören. Verstehen.“ is an evening of conversation with Tamir Leshetz and Yuval Siman Tov, survivors of the terror attack on the Nova music festival in Israel on 7 October 2023. The Universität der Künste Berlin invites guests, and the journalist Anina Pommerenke moderates the talk. It centres on the speakers' personal experiences and their aftermath, on remembrance, social responsibility and understanding after traumatic events. The evening is hosted by Dr. Michaela Conen, process officer for the prevention of antisemitism at the UdK Berlin, together with contact persons from other universities; afterwards there will be audience questions and an open discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nova-tribe-voices-erinnern-zuhoren-verstehen-79972/", "official_url": "https://www.khsb-berlin.de/hochschule/service/nachrichten/nova-tribe-voices-erinnern-zuhoeren-verstehen.html", "image": ""}]}