{"title": "The School of Self Defence – Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "start": "2026-10-30T13:00:00+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", "tickets_url": "https://www.urbanite.net/berlin/locations/kategorie/shopping/", "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. 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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": "Mata Leão", "start": "2026-11-01T16:00:00+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=23792", "category": "dance", "tags": ["society/racism", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Mata Leão is a dance performance and world premiere as part of The School of Self-Defense. 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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/ac9c27ef8f06d3947020e69ddefbe1d0ef8f7ea1a44ff1d01773b4896e0ec289-600.webp"}, {"title": "Community Bar", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+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=23637", "category": "party-club", "tags": [], "description": "The Community Bar is an accompanying format of the project The School of Self-Defense. 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It is presented by Sophie Yukiko aka Yukiko Revlon and Wallace Ferreira aka Patfudyda Basquiat, in English, with an introductory conversation between André Lepecki and Bafta Sarbo. Part of the School of Self-Defense festival, the ball turns to the culture of protest, exploring questions of visibility, belonging and self-determination. 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Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva develop experimental forms of reading from their artistic practices, using reading tools such as tarot, Political Therapy, palmistry, Fake Therapy, Reiki, astrology and philosophy. The readings work with images and seek to make complexity visible rather than deliver answers or fix single meanings. Conceived as a form of self-defense, they aim to expand perception and open up new possibilities for action beyond settled certainties.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/poethical-readings-mit-valentina-desideri-und-denise-ferreir-269/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/20261031-1300/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c5d390c74b35b5fb1c2a19685e60bdaaf785bf4c06f19f56206287c8af75a71d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Introduction: Pilot Program – School of Resilience // Session 1", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Tanzfabrik Berlin", "address": "Möckernstraße 68, 10965 Berlin", "price": "220/ 190€, Einzeltage 80/65€", "price_from": "65.00", "price_to": "220.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/mental-health/resilience", "dance/contact-improvisation"], "description": "„Introduction: Pilot Program – School of Resilience // Session 1\" is a workshop series at Tanzfabrik Berlin that approaches resilience as a living practice. 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The program invites participants to experience resilience as adaptive, regenerative and relationally oriented, and to actively co-shape how we want to design our world today and tomorrow.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/introduction-pilot-program-school-of-resilience-session-1-73291/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5493e6aa4d376327029a6571f6ab530e6ca466905873b8fb4701b6c1099a9dbd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Método Elementar (Elementary Method)", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Roter Salon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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. The Método Elementar understands itself as a collective practice opening space for transformation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/castiel-vitorino-brasileiro-metodo-elementar-elementary-meth-264/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/the-school-of-self-defense/20261030-1200/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fabda365bd7a9fb31e3d4590c4e514d21ae926840d965ff97038d5469121e6d8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Poethical Readings mit Valentina Desideri und Denise Ferreira da Silva", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00+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://rausgegangen.de/events/poethical-readings-mit-valentina-desideri-und-denise-ferreir-0", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/reading", "religion/spirituality"], "description": "Poethical Readings is a reading at Prater Biergarten that does not aim to deliver answers or fix clear meanings, but helps orient oneself within the complexity of existence. 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The sessions combine guided movement, touch, improvisation and reflection based on consent, autonomy and care. 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Through theatre, music, poetry, film, photography and visual art, new forms of political education emerge that are low-threshold, participatory and language-sensitive, giving young people visibility, expression and a taste of creative activism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kunst-und-empowerment-4638/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/ls/spielplan/kunst-und-empowerment/3256", "image": "https://noky.io/images/02af680e1a502314fa6e914d081139e1a0301b2b397864b4687819a15afd241d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Contradiction as Practice — The Body Between Doubt and Conviction", "start": "2026-10-31T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Uferstudios", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": [], "description": "\"Contradiction as Practice — The Body Between Doubt and Conviction\" is a participatory workshop at Uferstudios. 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