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Exhibition
ANTIWAR INKTOBER

10 February 2023, 18:00 - 22:00 Opening Night
11 - 15 February 2023 Exhibtion

We invite you to visit the exhibition of art works by civil artists created for the network action ANTIWAR INKTOBER, organized by a horizontal protest movement Feminist Anti-War Resistance. Throughout October 2022 artists sent us a picture per day in response to a new day topic related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Many of the authors live in Russia, so most works are anonymous. At the exhibition we show only a part of the whole collection.

At the opening of the exhibition on Friday, February 10, we’ll be helding a poetry evening and Playback Theater event.

On the evening of Saturday, February 11, we invite you to create birthday greeting cards to political prisoners in Russia together with us.

On Wednesday, February 15, we are waiting for you at 18:00 to watch documentaries about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the Russian invasion. After watching, we will discuss the viewing experience together in a cozy space over a cup of tea.

lecture-workshop series
how to go through the anthropocene

9 January 2023, 17:30 - 20:30
16 January 2023, 17:30 - 20:30
24 January 2023, 17:30 - 20:30
30 January 2023, 17:30 - 20:30

human influence on earth has already brought the world to climate collapse, mass extinction of species and the possibility of our own extinction. thus, we have created the anthropocene: the human-dominated planet. in this lecture-workshop series, we will come together to explore creatively and somatically what does it mean to be living in a human-dominated planet, and gather resources to help us go through these times of unprecedented planetary change – while also asking ourselves: how can artistic and somatic practices support our experiences through the anthropocene?

please register via e-mail to hugoxtibirica(at)gmail.com

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Image: Darja Lukajenko

Workshops
It’s All About Education… Again and Again
30 November – 2 December 2022, 16:00 – 22:00

Altes Finanzamt will turn into a free university. Again, we will meet in an attempt to mobilize and unveil some of the potential of collaboratively created knowledge. Again, and again, we will be asking ourselves: If education is supposed to prepare us for life, what kind of world do we want to be preparing for? Berlin and Prague artists, creative practitioners, and thinkers will be facilitating workshops, lectures, dances, seminars, dinners, discussions, exchanges, concerts, brainstorming and dreamstorming, readings, etc.

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Workshop series
Geheimwege - Rituals and Games
22 November 2022
29 November 2022
13 December 2022
13 December 2022

What relevance do rituals still have in such times of growing technification, metaverses, late-stage capitalism, climate collapse and unprecedented planetary change? Together we will try out impromptu rituals, make connections from our everyday lives to the history and backgrounds of rituals and, very importantly: we will play games as we may know them from our childhoods; games are important precursors and relatives of rituals, which bring us in the simplest way and without any obligation into a liminal state: the concrete here and now, from where somatic transformation can happen.

Please register via mail to post[at]jakobklaffs.de

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Image: Sarah Berger

Lesung und Party
Book Release Party
25 November 2022, 19:00

Am 21.11. erscheint Sarah Berger’s neuste Buch “Wen es etwas angeht” im Berliner Herzstückverlag und das gehört gebührend gefeiert! Kommt vorbei am 25.11. & feiert mit uns! Es gibt eine Lesung, Performances, eine Installation & Snacks!

Dance and Reading Group
P0SSE #2
10 November 2022, 18:00 - 20:00

P0SSE - dance and reading group is a gathering for people wanting to spend time dancing and reading together. It is an open-ended study circle for practitioners within contemporary dance and other curious ones.
This session will be hosted by Liza Rinkema Rapuš & Denise Lim. We will be reading from the essay ‘the Artworld and the Artworld’ by Alina Popa and doing different exercises, moving between dancing, writing, drawing and talking. There will be soup afterwards, you are welcome to eat and hang out.

Dance and Reading Group
P0SSE #2
15 September 2022, 18:00 - 20:00

P0SSE - dance and reading group is a gathering for people wanting to spend time dancing and reading together. It is an open-ended study circle for practitioners within contemporary dance and other curious ones.
This session will be hosted by Denise Lim, a dance artist based in Berlin. We will first read the essay ‘On Style’ by Susan Sontag, then we will go through a series of exercises, moving between dancing writing drawing talking. There will be soup afterwards where you are welcome to eat and hang out in our newly renovated kitchen.

Exhibition
HOLES
24 June - 1 July 2022

Exhibition & Installation by Altes member Sarah Berger during 48h Neukölln.
Opening Event 24.06. 18:00 - 22:00

Photography: Sarah Berger
Curatorial Direction: Ben Egger

Lesung und Party
48H NEUKÖLLN: 48 Stunden Lesen by Dickc.Lit
24 - 26 November 2022

Ob klassische Kurzgeschichten, Romanabschnitte, Fragmente, Rap, Gesang, Lyrik, Improvisation, Theater oder einfach nur zuhören: Beim (beinahe) 48 Stunden Open Mic des queer-feministischen Lesekollektivs "Dickc.Lit" im Keller des Alten Finanzamts ist jede*r willkommen.

Texteinreichung: 48hLesung@gmail.com. Gerne multilingual, nicht länger als 20 Minuten und auf jeden Fall selbst ausgedacht mit Bezug zum Festivalthema.

Festival
The Urge to ... land
7 - 8 May 2022

The Urge to … land is the extended festival of the queer feminist collective Altes Finanzamt, originating from our event series The Urge to…

On May 7 and 8 artists from the collective will show their work, in-process or un/finished.
We’ve been trying to deal with the situation around Covid as gently and carefully as possible and decided that the event will only be accessible with a mask, though we’ve lifted the restrictions of social distancing. We wish for everyone to feel safe in our sparkly cellar and would appreciate it if you'd also do a Covid test the day you join us, even though it is not mandatory.

Programme

Festival
The Urge to ... Extended
10 - 12 July 2020

The URGE to... Extended #1 was created as a one-on-one performance weekend, without live streaming, living the trouble and sharing matters, textures, sounds and voices of the members of queer feminist collective Altes Finanzamt (as well as guests).
More info here