{"title": "Puma Camillê: A Workshop about Capoeira History", "start": "2026-10-30T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23640", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance"], "description": "A workshop titled “Puma Camillê: A Workshop about Capoeira History”, part of “The School of Self-Defense”, held in English. It is led by Puma Camillê, an artist, activist, South American Princess of the House of Basquiat and founder of the movement Capoeira Pra Todxs. In her practice CapoeiraVogue she combines Capoeira and Voguing, two cultural forms born from experiences of resistance, community and self-assertion. The workshop brings the Ginga and Mandinga of Capoeira together with the lines, poses and expressiveness of Vogue, thinking of movement as a form of knowledge, freedom and collective experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/puma-camille-a-workshop-about-capoeira-history-266/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/20261030-1500/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cdbe4340aad27d2358f6c6e421bcb811e97679a43d8dee507ad428dc4957db3f-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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-Platz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "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": "https://noky.io/images/59cd6512c26f08518e7f5fac601fe1fa0fca5966e2b948fefbecca5052b1658e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "TANESHA: Intensive Kunty Class with the South American Queen", "start": "2026-11-01T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23641", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/ballroom"], "description": "TANESHA: Intensive Kunty Class with the South American Queen is a workshop in English at the Roter Salon. 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For Yoggaton's tenth anniversary, the practice leads participants from reflection on embodiment to celebration, blurring the lines between shared learning, performance and the dance floor; the workshop is open to all, with no prior experience needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/yoggaton-transformative-pleasure-23701/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8081701a8c79779a8fba76cfdf3d0e0aa2f1587e6c87d6e3984e24af01d2176-600.webp"}, {"title": "Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Método Elementar (Elementary Method)", "start": "2026-10-30T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23637", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/participatory-art", "wellness/meditation"], "description": "The workshop \"Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Método Elementar (Elementary Method)\" is a two-day practice held in English as part of The School of Self-Defense. The artist, author and psychologist Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro (born 1996 in Vitória, Brazil) has developed a practice at the intersection of healing, spirituality and artistic work. Shared meditation along with breathing and imagination exercises form its basis, from which drawings, texts and images emerge; at its center is learning to listen differently – to one's own body and memories. 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It is led by Lau, a multidisciplinary non-binary artist who works mainly as a hair and makeup artist for stage, film, fashion and advertising, and who was formerly a drag performer and club kid closely connected to Berlin's queer scene. After a short introduction to skincare, each participant can focus on a technique of their choice, such as eyes and eyebrows, brow blocking, foundation, contouring and lips, or painting a beard without prosthetics. 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Behind the piece are choreographers Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira, who, together with six performers, expand their choreography of self-defense developed since 2018. It asks how choreography can become a form of self-defense and confronts racist violence beyond fear or melancholy. Elements from funk and ballroom, humor and mockery open a poetic space in which body and imagination are negotiated.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mata-leao-262/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/mata-leao/20261029-1830/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eab49078707f1581aa37bd69e264704b5a7955ba6c82988c70f5bc63e1ef3733-600.webp"}, {"title": "Boxing Girls: Wendo (Feminist Self-Defense Course)", "start": "2026-10-30T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Prater Biergarten", "address": "Kastanienallee 7-9, 10435 Berlin", "price": "15,00 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/bestseatselect?eventId=23648", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["sport/martial-arts/self-defense"], "description": "Wendo is a feminist self-assertion and self-defense course that sees self-defense as more than just a physical technique. 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The focus is on strengthening abilities that often remain invisible or are suppressed under conditions of structural violence and social inequality, combining practical self-defense with an intersectional understanding of empowerment, solidarity, and collective care.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/boxing-girls-wendo-feminist-self-defense-course-57993/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6ba0e526cd5b6f558c570e8724d2af89470b49795854f10e28addb1b1549a30-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Boxing Girls: Wendo (Feminist Self-Defense Course)", "start": "2026-10-30T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23648", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/feminism", "wellness/self-defence"], "description": "Boxing Girls: Wendo is a feminist self-defense workshop held in English, part of the series The School of Self-Defense. 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