{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "tickets": "few"}, {"start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "tickets": "sold_out"}], "similar": [{"title": "Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. 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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": "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": "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": "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"}, {"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": "Kolonialismus Erinnern", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "", "address": "Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23831", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "\"Kolonialismus Erinnern\" is an event by the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz at the Prater. It is \"Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm\". The event takes place in cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern. It is part of a programme of two events by the Volksbühne on the theme of Kolonialismus Erinnern.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kolonialismus-erinnern-20444/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/13617f7eb373257c9033bd314444d5e49b3759cb4c2cae8978624f3441fc6b2b-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": "Haus-Geschichten #3", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sophiensæle", "address": "Sophienstraße 18, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rundfunkchor-berlin.de/konzerte/rundfunkchorlounge-26-27-sauberes-wasser-und-schmutzige-geschaefte/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "stage/theatre"], "description": "\"Haus-Geschichten #3\" is a discussion format with soup, bread and drinks, where small table groups talk about how a theatre venue remembers. The Sophiensæle invite audiences and, at the end of their double anniversary, look back on 120 years of the building's history and 30 years of independent theatre. With guests Anujah Fernando and Heinrich Horwitz, they discuss the role of archives and artistic strategies for making gaps visible, focusing on anti-colonial and queer historiography and the neighbourhood around the house. Moderation is by Elias Capelle and Stefanie Hauser. ", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/haus-geschichten-3-16776/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/haus-geschichten-3", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b142d2b931e7f01f56cb3a361f28153e4c3e19960932fd940238f55b18982f3-600.webp"}, {"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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "https://noky.io/images/329132cfdc6e62bbf56f4d99a2545873f591cd7059a253d659e06c3ba751762f-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": "Not All Travellers Walk Roads: Humanity as Practice", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "€10 / reduced €7", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/colonialism"], "description": "Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice is an exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Berlin edition of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, staged in Germany for the first time. It was conceived by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung together with co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz and Thiago de Paula Souza, with Alya Sebti curating the Berlin edition. More than thirty international artists contribute installations, performances, sound works, storytelling and spatial interventions, departing from a poem by the Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo. The works approach listening and humanity as a living practice, engaging with the political and colonial inheritances of modernity as well as with care, interdependence, animal and plant life, memory and spirit.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/not-all-travellers-walk-roads-humanity-as-practice-3145/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Dragana Bulut: Membering", "start": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+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/553769", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Membering is a participatory performance that invites the audience to practise a collective form of repairing together with the performers. Choreographer Dragana Bulut starts from a personal family history marked by war, fascist violence and loss. Around fragments, memories and inherited stories, everyone moves through acts of restoration, therapy and archiving. Membering asks how grief travels through bodies, generations and collective memory, and how we can carry it together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dragana-bulut-membering-20017/", "official_url": "https://sophiensaele.com/de/stueck/membering", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92ab556ca0af8ae43f6db3c8d6d060ee5ccce4df9d5b42af89abf10f3b6fec8d-600.webp"}, {"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": "Kintsugi! Neu im Chamäleon", "start": "2026-10-11T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Chamäleon", "address": "Rosenthaler Straße 40-41, 10178 Berlin", "price": "ab 39 €", "price_from": "39.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.chamaeleonberlin.com/de/spielplan/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["art/east-asian", "stage/circus"], "description": "Kintsugi! Neu im Chamäleon is a contemporary circus production at the Chamäleon Theater in the Hackeschen Höfen. The work is made by Machine de Cirque from Québec, one of Canada's most established contemporary circus companies, and marks their debut at this Berlin venue. Nine acrobats gather at a bus stop that resembles purgatory and, over the course of a day and a night, work together to find a way forward, drawing on the Japanese art of kintsugi, in which broken pottery is mended with gold so that the cracks remain visible. Dreamlike staging brings many circus disciplines together, and the show lasts 110 minutes including an interval and is recommended for ages 12 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kintsugi-neu-im-chamaleon-10352/", "official_url": "https://chamaeleonberlin.com/de/shows/kintsugi-berlin/?utm_campaign=partneranzeige&utm_source=visit-berlin&utm_medium=banner", "image": "https://noky.io/images/396094c1ce08097566d21e228dc51595c556855ea5e12f55e614925b996fba1e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Performance Projekt - Sensing towards speech", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "price": "Regular: 250€ / reduced: 230€ / professional dancers: 205€; Early Bird until 11.10.2026: 230€ / redu", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/improvisation"], "description": "\"Sensing towards speech\" is a performance project drawing on somatic practices, guided improvisation, and movement research, opening a space for exploration, intuition, and embodied listening. The project is led by Maddi Fuente Ubani, a Basque interdisciplinary artist. At its core is instant composition, a practice in which research becomes performance and stories, meanings, and relationships unfold in real time. Movement, voice, sound, presence, time, and space are explored as living elements of composition, with speech itself becoming another performative material.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/performance-projekt-sensing-towards-speech-73296/", "official_url": "https://www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de/en/events/3476", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9467b0aa3913ebf4c6afc098315ceea922ec54682e0524eb0a937600fd71f98b-1200.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"}]}