Friday
Oct 16th 2015
22:00

DAS WILDE WUNSCHWOCHENENDE
season closing party



Berliner Rundfunk Indoor Festival at Raumerweiterungshalle

Come party with us the last night before the winter break of Raumerweiterungshalle with a special Berliner Rundfunk Indoor Festival.
Das ist Ihr Berliner Rundfunk 91.4 Indoor 2015!

On stage:

Amy Winehouse (@Alex Alvina Chamberland)
Enya
Phil Collins
Annie Lennox

…and the SPECIAL Berlin debut from celebrity escalating performer AH-Mer-AH-Su!!!

Also Berlins Beste Musik with the Berliner Rundfunk dj-team Nicole von Wagner, Sarah Schiwy, Simone Panteleit und Simon Kober.

During das Wilde Wunschwochenende you can come up with any request.
Der Hit-Herbst bei Berliner Rundfunk 91.4! Ihre achtziger, Ihre Neunziger, einfach Ihre Musik! Garantiert Wiederholungsfrei! 

Das Berliner Rundfunk Indoor Festival wird Ihnen präsentiert von Bad Liebenwerda Sanft, dem feinperlenden Mineralwasser mit besonders wenig Kohlensäure.

Thursday
Sept 24th 2015
19:00

THE BICYCLE
screening in presence of the filmmaker



"Susanne is a young single mother who lives a somewhat "carefree" lifestyle. After quitting her job, she finds herself in trouble financially and attempts a minor insurance fraud to make ends meet. Despite its rare view of everyday socialism from a woman's perspective, East German officials were critical of this frank portrayal of a less-than-ideal socialist citizen and turned down all invitations for the film to be screened abroad. In West Germany, however, Evelyn Schmidt's film received much praise for its critical feminist approach. The Bicycle was part of the 2005 Rebels with a Cause: The Cinema of East Germany retrospective, shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York" - DEFA Film Library

http:// eastgermancinema.com/2011/ 07/05/the-bicycle/

This event is organised by the Raumerweiterungshalle collective and T.V.O.D.

T.V.O.D. is a project from Pauline Recke and Fine Freiberg, which used to be working as a project-space for film screenings, exhibitions and queer subculture from 2011-13 in Manteuffelstr. T.V.O.D. has at the moment no fixed address.

Tuesday
Sept 22nd 2015
19:00

ART KINO #11
screening in collaboration with gsl projekt



The second edition of Art Kino in Berlin is a collaboration with GSL Projekt.

Art Kino #11 is presented as an anti-screening; it's as much about the selection of films as it is about creating opportunities for filmmakers active in Berlin to present their new works in a dialogue with older artworks we like. The program is a selection of contemporary video artworks and films representing different tendencies within the medium.

Alana Lake
Rita Macedo
Doireann O'Malley
Natasja Loutchko
Hanna Bergfors & Kornelia Kugler

More artists to be announced...

GSL Projekt is a collaborative curatorial project that produces exhibitions and events in Berlin and internationally. 

The Art Kino Film Club aims to establish a permanent forum for experimental film and video art in Stockholm and Berlin; to give the art films and their audience a place and a context that they deserve, for further exposure and understanding. Art Kino screenings feature both works that have touched and influenced us over the years as well as newer projects and artistry that we've come across only recently. Works from both the Swedish and international art scene. Art Kino was initiated by the curator Giovanni Naves, culture producer Eric Weber and the artist Virlani Rupini in Sweden, 2007.

Art Kino program # 11, is produced together with the filmmaker Hanna Bergfors.

Wednesday
August 5th 2015
20:00

SHORT FILMS - MINI FESTIVAL
screening and music performance



A mini festival curated by Catalina Jordan Alvarez.

Participating artists:
Brian Jordan Alvarez
Tiona McClodden
Althea Mengxi Rao
Adam Diller
Catalina Jordan Alvarez/James Wadsworth Strong
Lily Benson
Daniel Fishkin

more information:
Facebook Event Page

Thursday
July 30th 2015
21:00

NAP / GOLDWIENER / DUBAIS TALKS
concert

NAP is Vancouver-based Daniel Rincon, a Colombian-born producer with a background in “guitar-based noise” music and although direct traces of that seem hard to pin down outside of Discogs. By contrast, the project’s Bandcamp page contains two heavily ambient releases, both consistent with its low-key nomen and the roving, lo-fi house excursions of his Uncharted debut for 1080p.
https://panmusick.bandcamp.com/
http://www.secretdecoder.net/blog/2015/07/02/stream-nap-uncharted/

GOLDWIENER is Darrin Wiener, Berlin based analog techno mastermind and one half of World Gang. 
http://www.goldwiener.com/

DUBAIS is the Arabfuturist pop concept super group by trans discipline artist Nadia Buyse. She will be presenting an experimental and musical lecture about the nature of Emotional Imperialism.
http://dubaispdx.tumblr.com/

Friday
July 24th 2015
20:00

QUEER PUNX
concert



What's in a container and bounces around like it's the end of the world?
- QUEER PUNX AT RAUMERWEITERUNGSHALLE!!!


JOIN OUR TIN CONTAINER OF FUN for a night of queer punk & doom!! Bands, cake, friends - all wrapped in an extended container!! Yard for rolling around as a bonus!!

COME EARLY! The shows WILL START IN TIME, no playing around, pünktlich is the name of the game..!! And seriously.. you don't wanna miss this!

CANINE (AUSTRALIA)
https://caninepunx.bandcamp.com/

From the stolen lands of down under, "Sydneys queer pups" Canine are bringing their political rock and roll power violence on an extensive tour around Europe - and right to our little tin can!! Canine just released their split EP with AGATHA (US)

LITHALSA (BERLIN)
https://lithalsa.bandcamp.com/

Queer feminist post doom. Lithalsas occur when ice forms beneath the ground and lifts the earth above it. Lithalsa are F, J and V who live together and play metal. Lithalsa can be an ocean of possibilities or a black hole.

LA LINEA NEGRA (BERLIN)
https://lalineanegra.bandcamp.com/

Queer-fronted anarcha-feminist vegan edge. Fast and furious, with an explicitly political message.

!!..CAKES BY MINOR TREAT !!

Friday
July 17th 2015
20:00

ART+RESISTANCE
visual acts, queer interventions & activism


Countering violence through visual activism. Countering sexualized, gendered, and racialized violence. Through audio, visual, and performative activism. Where do political strategies and artistic strategies meet – or collide? How do queer cultural interventions become empowering? How do geopolitical conditions, historical legacies, and personal experiences influence forms of queer cultural activism? How do resistant aesthetics and aesthetic/artistic resistance interact?

An evening with presentations by international artists (8pm) and party with Sky Deep on the decks (11pm).

More details:
http://www.queer-institut.de/en/kunst_widerstand/

https://visualacts.wordpress.com/

Tuesday
July 14th 2015
20:00

TWO VIDEOS BY PHILIPP GUFLER
screening in presence of the artist



IMAGINARY MASCULINITY (2012) is an investigation into representations and constructions of masculinity. The artist creates a collage of past and present ideals of masculinity and their transgressions, visualizing the decomposition of supposedly irrefutable gender identities.
PROJECTION ON THE CRISIS (Gauweilereien in Munich) (2014) transfers the spectator into a classical white cube setting, where Gufler presents documents collected from the archive Forum Homosexualität München e.V. in chronological order and complements them with recent works by artist friends. The infamous Peter Gauweiler (former Bavarian State Secretary) and the then Bavarian Minister of Education, Hans Zehetmair, answer the emergence of the AIDS epidemic with the most drastic and shocking proposals. Gufler opposes these homophobic resentments with the emancipatory battle cries of Munich’s gay and lesbian movement and thus draws an oscillating image of Munich and at the same time German history.

Philipp Gufler is an artist based in Munich.

Monday
July 13rd
14:00

Monday
July 20th
14:00

Monday
Aug 3rd
14:00

WRITE/WRONG
a writing workshop with Mysti

Thursday
July 2nd 2015
21:00

SISTER MANTOS + HEIMWEHHOTEL
concert presented in collaboration with La Moustache

SISTER MANTOS

Sister Mantos is bringing their funky-cumbia-punk sounds back to Europe and the UK this SUMMER! Its been three years since Sister Mantos toured Europe and the UK and a lot has happened since then! Sister Mantos has transformed into a live funk-punk-cumbia-reggea band with thumping bass, guitars and synths!
They have realeased two albums - UNK and CALIFORNIA PEACE ALIEN and released 4 eye-popping and tripped out music videos. Sister Mantos guarantees that they will get the people moving, grooving and jumping with their unique blend of funk, latin beats, punky-reggae and avant-pop. Sister Mantos takes the stage in intergalactic costumes and sings songs in English and Spanish and sings about love, queerness and post-capitalist utopias. Sister Mantos is a veteran of live performance and has shared the stage with acts such as Light Asylum, JD Samdson & MEN, Hi Fashion and Very Be Careful. Lets get this party started!!!

https://sistermantos.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sistermantos


HEIMWEHHOTEL

Since 2004 Berlin based Heimwehhotel drifting towards lofi-waves and electronic disco landscapes.
"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni ///Wir irren des Nachts im Kreis umher und werden vom Feuer verschlungen."(unknown Roman author)

http://www.heimwehhotel.de/
https://heimwehhotel1.bandcamp.com/

Friday
June 26th 2015
17:00

PESSIMIST BOOK CLUB #3
reading group



Politically depressed? Tired of humanity? Again, no invitation to the queer picnic in the park? Reality is so unbearable you need to understand its patterns? Join the Pessimist Book Club!

Irregular meetings will be held to discuss and analyse the misery of this historical present.

In our third encounter we'll discuss an excerpts from Richard Sennett's The Corrosion of Character as well as a conversation about hope and hopelessness between Lisa Duggan and José Muñoz.

Richard Sennett - The Corrosion of Character
Duggan/Munoz - Hope and Hopelessness

Friday
May 29th 2015
17:00

PESSIMIST BOOK CLUB #2
reading group



Politically depressed? Tired of humanity? Again, no invitation to the queer picnic in the park? Reality is so unbearable you need to understand its patterns? Join the Pessimist Book Club!

Irregular meetings will be held to discuss and analyse the misery of this historical present.

In our second encounter we'll discuss excerpts from Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism and from Wendy Brown's Undoing The Demos.

Lauren Berlant - Cruel Optimism
Wendy Brown - Undoing The Demos

Saturday
May 23rd 2015
20:00

FILM FUN RAISER PARTY
fundraiser

Thursday
May 21th 2015
20:00

IHRA LILL:
HOW TO MAKE THE MOVIE OF YOUR DREAMS
screening in presence of the artist



This is the director, or "The creator of it all," as she would call herself on a good day. This interview was held on a good day. She was not sober or in the most focused of states, but she was happy and having unusually high good feelings about the progress of this project. She has been enthusiastic about her projects in the past. But this time it felt different. She has made many movies, all with an idea of spreading joy and insight, not taking in account the involuntarily narrow target audience. Up until now she has made about 67 video works, depending on your definition of the terms “made” and “works”.

The story: At some key moments we will know more than our main character does. He is suffering from selective memory loss. We have to assume that he knows himself best, but right now everything is a painful blur to him. As long as Lill Apocalypse is refusing to acknowledge what happens, we can`t really know for sure. He is not to be trusted, we can only follow him into disaster, revelations or nothingness. He is going to need help. That sounds easy enough, but we have to consider what kind of person we're dealing with.

- So you’re making a movie about making a movie before you have the idea for what the movie is?
- Yeah. That’s the plan. 

http://www.ihralill.com/

The screening will be followed by a conversation between Ihra Lill and Mysti who we welcomed last year with her lecture performance "Master's Tool: Is Unpaid Labor Feminist Practice?"

Tuesday
May 19th 2015
20:00

CARY CRONENWETT:PEACE OF MIND
screening in presence of the artist



PEACE OF MIND documents the life of American artist, Flo McGarrell, prior to his untimely death in the earthquake that struck Haiti in January of 2010. Through interviews, local artists discuss McGarrell's impact on the community and the small queer movement that was instigated around the FOSAJ Art Center in Jacmel where he worked.
The director, Cary Cronenwett, was a collaborative partner of McGarrell’s, and through making Peace of Mind, he processes his own grief and copes with the absence of a friend. Prior to the tragedy, Cronenwett and McGarrell were developing a film based on the novel, KATHY GOES TO HAITI, by Kathy Acker. Shot only weeks before McGarrell’s death, with Zackary Drucker playing Kathy Acker, the footage from the unfinished project blurs the line between fiction and documentary.

Saturday
May 9th 2015
21:00

CUTIE.BPOC FEST
fundraiser

Friday
May 8th 2015
16:00

PESSIMIST BOOK CLUB #1
reading group



Politically depressed? Tired of humanity? Again, no invitation to the queer picnic in the park? Reality is so unbearable you need to understand its patterns? Join the Pessimist Book Club!

Irregular meetings will be held to discuss and analyse the misery of this historical present.

A methodological framework will be laid out during the first encounter through Édouard Glissant’s concept of Opacity and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s PARANOID READING AND REPARATIVE READING, OR, YOU’RE SO PARANOID, YOU PROBABLY THINK THIS ESSAY IS ABOUT YOU.

Édouard Glissant - For Opacity
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading