Day 1
11:30 – 12:00 OPENING RE:WRITING THE FUTURE FESTIVAL
with Max Czollek, Silvia Fehrmann and Helge Lunde. Host: Esra Küçük.
A conversation between the festival‘s curators and organisers.
12:00-13:30 REPORT ON THE STATE OF ARTISTIC FREEDOM 2021
with Shurooq Amin, Rasha Nahas, KAK, Srirak Plipat, Mary Lawler, Ramy Essam (tbc), Jasmina Lazović (tbc), Luis Manuel Otoro Alcántara; Host: Nazeeha Saeed. Freemuse presents its annual Report on the State of Artistic Freedom after the opening of the Re:Writing the Future festival.
14:30 – 15:00 ARTIST TALK 1 - Ali Hasan
Host: Esra Karakaya.
16:00 – 17:30 ARTS IN EXILE – CHALLENGES, EXPERIENCES UND CULTURAL PRACTICES IN BERLIN
with Khaled Barakeh, Ali Hasan, Shermin Langhoff, Marina Naprushkina, Sasha Waltz. Host: Esra Küçük.
A panel discussion on the challenges encountered by Berlin-based cultural practitioners and artists in exile. Event in English and German.
Day 2
10:30 – 11:30 ARTIST TALK 2 - Mariana Katzarova, Maryna Rakhlei
Host: Esra Karakaya.
12:00 – 13:30 BERLINER KULTURPOLITIK NACH DER PANDEMIE: WIE LASSEN
SICH KULTURELLE VIELFALT UND TEILHABE WIEDERHERSTELLEN? mit Vera Allmanritter, Klaus Lederer und Janet Merkel. Moderation: Sven Sappelt. Eine Diskussion von der Hertie School zu den Auswirkungen der Pandemie auf die Kunst- und Kulturlandschaft Berlins. In German.
14:30 – 15:00 ARTIST TALK 3
Host: Esra Karakaya.
16:00 – 17:30 EROSION OF THE RULE OF LAW
– AUTHORITARIANISM AND SHRINKING SPACES
with Katja Gloger, Veysel Ok, Sascha Girke (tbc) and Yiota Masouridou; Host: Wolfgang Kaleck.
19:30 – 21:00 UNDOING PRISON
with Zehra Doğan, Can Dündar
and Aslı Erdoğan. Host: Nil Mutluer.
What does it mean to a society and to the work of artists and authors when one is in danger of being censored or convicted for their work?
In Turkish with English translation.
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