SITUATED ECOLOGIES – sounding ecological entanglements in urban environments

Situated Ecologies weaves together ecology, art and activism, focusing in on the locality of Berlin. Taking place on 1-3 September at the Floating University, it aims to become a space for reflection on climate justice and ecological entanglements in urban environments.

Featuring workshops, soundwalks, performances, and collective meals, Situated Ecologies invites artistic and collective constellations to open the space for exchange, storytelling and listening. Focusing on migrant and marginalised perspectives, the three-day festival is envisaged as a gathering of artistic practices and community experiences. Through listening with and sounding urban ecologies, it hopes to expand individual practices into a collective ecosystem, cross-pollinating across diverse communities and spaces.

Curated by SONIC TOMORROW (Hanna Grześkiewicz & Julian Rieken)

Produced by IMPULS

Programm:

September 1, Friday (Planting and Becoming)

18.00-19.15 (Auditorium) Re-Rooting – Conversation on migrant perspectives on foraging and community gardening with Zeren Oruc and Juan Donoso (Conectando Territorios)

19.30-20.15 (Water Basin) Voicing Ritual with Otucha Collective

20.30-21.30 (Auditorium) Film Screening

With drinks by FemAle

**September 2,**Saturday (Deep Dive)

11.00-13.00 Workshops new visions – reading circle on queer ecologies (Rain Palace) Karolina Grzywnowicz – on smell, olfactory distillation, and pine trees (Hay Kino)

13.00-14.30 Collective Meal

14.30-15.30 Soundwalk

16.00-17.30 (Rain Palace and Beehives) “For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life” (Khalil Gibran) – Workshop on Urban Beekeeping with Gorazd Trušnovec (Urban Beekeepers' Association)

18.00-19.00 (Rain Palace) Live radio show – SONIC TOMORROW – listening with forests, sounding borderlessness

With drinks by FemAle

September 3, Sunday (Collective Celebration)

11.00-13.00 Workshops Sujatro Ghosh – Memory Jars, pickling workshop on food as memory (Auditorium) Black Earth Collective – climate justice with the Global South (Rain Palace)

13.00-16.00 Collective Meal (Auditorium)

Collective Cooking and Eating with Boiling Room and Monday Kitchen (Mariupol)