{"title": "I want revenge, grandma", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Pay what you can (3/5/10/15/20/25)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/tanzfabrikberlin/grandma/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"I want revenge, grandma\" is a performance and dance work by Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, presented as part of the Shape Festival. The artist, rooted in Liberia's Kpelle community, asks about the colonial relationship between Liberia and Germany and what it reveals about Europe's centuries-long oppression of Africa and its people. In a sensual, multi-layered performance she invites the audience to face old wounds, hard shells and dusty museum display cases, to remember them and to break them open. Using her own framework of the four R's – restitution, reparations, revenge and return – she connects analysis of the past with concrete demands for the present and future.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/i-want-revenge-grandma-10004/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/3483", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dac8f0a3a5c2254de440b00dc1d0276e4a7b6b24d945add346451684208fa667-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sankofa - Fäden der Erinnerung", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://stage.get-vibe.de/tickets.asp?eid=206605", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/circus/contemporary-circus", "history/colonialism"], "description": "SANKOFA – FÄDEN DER ERINNERUNG is an interdisciplinary performance and research project by Helen Schwochert and Brenda Akele Jorde and the first creation of their company Zwischen Seilen und Sein. The contemporary circus piece deals with cultures of remembrance and colonial continuities between Germany and Ghana. At its centre stands a transformable multisilks prop that serves as a stage set and a metaphor for a plural culture of remembrance. Two short films open the evening, followed by an exchange with the audience, artists, filmmakers and a representative of berlin decolonial tours.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sankofa-faden-der-erinnerung-3736/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhausprinzenallee.de/spielplan-ballhaus/sankofa-faden-der-erinnerung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db340cd2473f2bd5d3a3f205fbf32315239787429c89cf440d0f0ed4837f0904-2000.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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "NEW TECHNIQUES XVII: Naledi Majola", "start": "2026-10-30T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sophiensæle", "address": "Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "A showing performance as part of the Sophiensæle residency programme NEW TECHNIQUES, taking place in the Hochzeitssaal. South African choreographer and performer Naledi Majola, who lives in Berlin, is developing a group performance practice with Sarhaly aka Goldie, Chiyedza Mukada and musician and vocal teacher Lindiwe Pale, guided by the question \"How do we sing through the body?\". The research is inspired by the history of Black South African musicians during apartheid who lived in exile in the West, and translates musical principles such as rhythm, call-and-response and repetition into movement and voice research. Duration: 1h 30 min., free admission with registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/new-techniques-xvii-naledi-majola-31729/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/new-techniques-xvii-naledi-majola", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a440795b9712d0787bb6a31740f1e6d63005b3ad80bc2d873677249515b1740-1200.webp"}, {"title": "ANCXSTRAL FREQUENCIES: Re-Rootings - Weaving Sonic Histories of the Global South", "start": "2026-10-31T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "20nine30", "address": "Paul-Linke Ufer 29-30 10999, Berlin,Germany", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://jungesfeld.de/2025/10/15/sinnich/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/electronic/experimental-electronic", "history/colonialism", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "ANCXSTRAL FREQUENCIES: Re-Rootings - Weaving Sonic Histories of the Global South is a series of live ritual performances. It is created by the artists RUSNAM and Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro and combines experimental sound art, historical sound recordings, movement and participatory rituals. The project brings suppressed musical histories, feminist memory and decolonial perspectives into sound and experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ancxstral-frequencies-re-rootings-weaving-sonic-histories-of-20388/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a035cc8f558c17441f07afcfe01e73dd160fc0e0d5caab8b699d3ebf8c436e52-600.webp"}, {"title": "All that I left behind is here", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Uferstudios: Uferstudio 1", "address": "Badstraße 41a 13357 Berlin", "price": "Pay what you can (3/5/10/15/20/25)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/tanzfabrikberlin/left-behind/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/dance", "society"], "description": "\"All that I left behind is here\" is a solo performance by Romuald Krężel that draws on his personal and artistic experience. The Polish choreographer, based in Berlin, returns to his very first dance experience, a free ballroom dance course at his primary school, to examine various aspects of classism in the performing arts. By relearning and critically reflecting on movements, steps, poses and styles such as cha-cha-cha, rumba and jive, he investigates his social background and its relation to his current choreographic practice. Echoed by ghostly figures and post-punk music, the audience is led through Krężel's past, culminating in a moving conversation with his mother about class, body, work, shame and dance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/all-that-i-left-behind-is-here-16645/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/de/events/3485", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7fc01fa7e78e8d65c265c58d23ab62ad06f0e948b201491b30bb439026289866-600.webp"}, {"title": "ANCXSTRAL FREQUENCIES - sonic rituals", "start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T22:30:00+01:00", "place": "20nine30", "address": "Paul-Linke Ufer 29-30 10999, Berlin,Germany", "price": "0", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "music/experimental"], "description": "ANCXSTRAL FREQUENCIES - sonic rituals is a live sound ritual and experimental performance at the 20nine30 studio in Berlin. It is created by the artists RUSNAM and Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro, who perform this evening together with Luana Madikera. The set draws on Gnawa percussion, Nigerian talking drums, Bwiti ritual sounds, Afro-Caribbean samples and Arabic rhythmic cycles, layered with vinyl, plant sounds, women's voices, singing, spoken word and improvisation over heavy, pulsating bass and polyrhythms. Part of the series Re-Rootings - Weaving Sonic Histories of the Global South, it brings suppressed musical histories, feminist memory and decolonial perspectives into a shared space of listening and movement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ancxstral-frequencies-sonic-rituals-20282/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/38e88f4231751f72b2d89072bfbefa974be6d038a5bdbefdee8bf49cab6149e9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Theater, Filmscreening & Konzert I Jazzfest Community Week", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Café Kulturfabrik", "address": "Lehrter Straße 35, 10557 Berlin", "price": "frei / Theater 5 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.infield.live/event/undini-uncut-my57qq", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre/shadow-theatre", "film/documentary", "music/jazz"], "description": "A community Saturday at Kulturfabrik Moabit combining a queer shadow theatre piece, a film screening and an open session. The programme features UNDINI Uncut, in which three performers reimagine the little mermaid fairy tale through circus, dance, drag and live music, the Oscar-nominated documentary essay Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat by Johan Grimonprez on jazz, the Cold War and colonial power, and Kiez-Session #5 with students of the Jazz Institut Berlin, open for anyone musical to join. The film tells of African independence struggles in the 1960s and the murder of Patrice Lumumba. The theatre piece is aimed at children aged four and up and their families.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/theater-filmscreening-konzert-i-jazzfest-community-week-75831/", "official_url": "https://kulturfabrik-moabit.de/theater-filmscreening-konzert-i-jazzfest-community-week/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee2dc402fecc2982d1524f86cb556389491b0d1f13f488cc8207945223066d0f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ana Pi", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "KW Institute for Contemporary Art", "address": "Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "https://kw-shop.visitate.net/de/tickets/2041", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance"], "description": "'NoirBLUE – side B' is an in-situ solo performance taking place in the KW Institute for Contemporary Art's attic. Brazilian choreographer and artist Ana Pi moves there between concepts of uprootedness, belonging, memory, colours and everyday gestures, starting from healing processes and the radical imagination of dance of the Transatlantic African Diaspora. It grew out of an etymological observation that some historical languages have no word for 'blue' and even reject the word for 'black', from which the artist imagines an Atlantic journey between the blackness of skin and ultramarine blue pigment to undermine structures of invisibility. At the KW, choreography and black light alter the perception of the body, while the vinyl soundscape rooted in dub music by Jideh High Elements carries the gestures into a space of timeless permanence – amid KOO JEONG A's installation [ SEVEN STARS ], made of phosphorescent paintings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ana-pi-33809/", "official_url": "https://www.kw-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/ana-pi-noirblue-side-b", "image": "https://noky.io/images/277d713c425931bc8757b82bdb6a914fb39c63b634f493422a94e515b5f22666-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Recuperar la oscuridad para recuperarlo todo", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Radialsystem V", "address": "Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin", "price": "Freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "society/indigenous"], "description": "\"Recuperar la oscuridad para recuperarlo todo\" is a joint exhibition with works on body, memory and resistance. Behind it are the visual artist Laura Campaz and Julieth Morales, an indigenous artist from the Misak community. Campaz presents textile prints and paintings on fabric under the title \"En la oscuridad, el negro se hace poder\", exploring darkness from an Afro-Colombian perspective as a space of refuge and resistance. Morales shows the four-channel video work \"Resistencia II\" and the weaving \"Zona Campana\", in which she renegotiates her connection to territory, tradition and the women of her family as an indigenous woman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/recuperar-la-oscuridad-para-recuperarlo-todo-73028/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/95e943ee6a0fe2c377cd2f8d2046d1163d6744bafe0351aae0490ddfb41b48b1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SANKOFA STAGES: Poetry, Konzert und DJ Set", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berlin Global Village", "address": "Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin", "price": "Freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/migration/diaspora", "literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "SANKOFA STAGES is an evening of poetry, a concert and a DJ set in the cultural series at Berlin Global Village. Behind the series are Berlin Global Village and cooperation partners including Afrikarat Brandenburg e.V., ANEE e.V., Initiative Perspektivwechsel and Sister Cities in Action by Bernetzwerk. It puts African and Afro-diasporic perspectives at the centre and celebrates the creativity and diversity of African and Black art and cultural production in Berlin. The evening features a concert by DammyDaas, poetry by Fatim Selina, a DJ set by nilomcmusic and moderation by Maame Konadu; admission is free and no registration is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sankofa-stages-poetry-konzert-und-dj-set-50361/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin-global-village.de/de/event/256/", "image": ""}, {"title": "BEYOND LINES", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tränenpalast", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free admission; registration required / Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "dance", "tags": ["history/cold-war", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "BEYOND LINES is a site-specific dance performance at the Tränenpalast, a significant Berlin memorial site and former border crossing. Behind the project are choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which since 2003 has combined professional dance production with sociocultural practice; it is realised jointly with the Haus der Geschichte Foundation as part of Berlin Freedom Week. The performance explores crossing borders: departure, waiting, fear and hope, leaving behind homeland and the familiar, and the courage to step into the unknown. At this place of farewell and transition, choreographic images of resistance, loss and change emerge, inviting the audience to experience the Tränenpalast as a place of remembrance and of new encounters.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-lines-30497/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance", "image": ""}, {"title": "Im Kino mit Fiston Mwanza Mujila", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Delphi LUX", "address": "Kantstraße 10, 10623 Berlin", "price": "€ 14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/events-ticket-tipps-berlin", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction", "history/colonialism"], "description": "This film screening with an introductory talk features a guest presenting a favorite film in person. It shows «Neptune Frost»: in the hills of Burundi, a group of fugitive coltan miners founds an anticolonialist hacker collective, trying from a camp on a surreal e-waste dump to overthrow the authoritarian regime that exploits the region's natural resources and its people. When an intersex runaway and a fugitive coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their bond causes disruptions in the overarching divine circuit. The guest is poet in residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/im-kino-mit-fiston-mwanza-mujila-16786/", "official_url": "https://www.deutscheoperberlin.de/de_DE/production/im-kino-mit-fiston-mwanza-mujila.1390442", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f408bee78fa29c476cd866aa84a5b1381bdaec1889026547ae779487caa1d5aa-600.webp"}, {"title": "Elvan Tekin: THIS IS (NOT) THE END", "start": "2026-11-12T22:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sophiensæle", "address": "Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin", "price": "10€/15€/20€/25€", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://sophiensaele.reservix.de/p/reservix/group/553772", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"THIS IS (NOT) THE END\" is a dance and performance work by Elvan Tekin, produced in coproduction with Sophiensæle. In it, dance forms that have migrated across places, borders, communities and generations meet, and are connected, overlaid and transformed by Elvan Tekin and Samuel Francis Perreira into a hybrid movement vocabulary. The piece unsettles familiar notions of virtuosity, beauty, gender and social norms, asking who may look, who is looked at, and what happens when a body refuses to be fully legible. Accompanied musically by Krzysztof Bagiński and Saemi Jeong, the performers' relationships shift constantly, and the audience becomes part of this changeable dynamic.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/elvan-tekin-this-is-not-the-end-20018/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/this-is-not-the-end", "image": "https://noky.io/images/572d3da62ff09f930ddc98052d40c7c90fc8ece770ea75115b2a7a8760960de8-2000.webp"}, {"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", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23831", "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": "AUSSTELLUNG", "start": "2026-10-25T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T15:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kiezkapelle", "address": "Hermannstraße 99–105", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/colonialism"], "description": "The exhibition „KERNFRAGEN. GRAINS OF MEMORY.“ takes an object from the collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin as its starting point: a handful of charred grape seeds from an approximately 5,000-year-old Egyptian grave. Starting from this historical find, it critically examines colonial collecting practices, museum power structures and questions of cultural heritage. It was curated by students of the master's programme in museum management and communication at HTW Berlin in cooperation with the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin. With artistic contributions by Yupanqui Ramos, Julia Emslander and Carlos Sfeir Vottero, films, contemporary art and participatory formats open a space for memory and reflection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ausstellung-72684/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/84cc7d527e6705fb4946b0457ac7ce5e281aada6dcf5b7181179b2616943e3d4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "BEYOND LINES Tanzperformance zur Berlin Freedom Week", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tränenpalast", "address": "Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free admission; registration required / Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://app.cituro.com/booking/3221113?presetService=11f1bb401d37e788bf1b918037f4ae89", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance/performance", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "BEYOND LINES is a site-specific dance performance staged for Berlin Freedom Week. Behind the project are choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos and the initiative LUNA PARK e.V., which has combined professional dance production with socio-cultural practice since 2003, together with the Haus der Geschichte Foundation at the Tränenpalast. The performance deals with crossing borders: departure, waiting, fear and hope, as well as leaving behind home, language and the familiar. In the Tränenpalast, a place of farewell, control and transition, choreographic images of resistance, loss and change emerge, asking which borders people had and still have to overcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/beyond-lines-tanzperformance-zur-berlin-freedom-week-7137/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/traenenpalast/veranstaltungen/beyond-lines-tanzperformance", "image": "https://noky.io/images/01d7f31a0635db0e4343515ffb94a51dc3b5f4334e7f7a9b0eeddd5c51ec88dd-600.webp"}]}