Holding Up the Sky

From 12 pm  

Creative Workshop with Isra Abdou 

Isra Abdou invites you to fill our skies with color. Pick a foil, cut, glue and begin designing. Immortalize yourselves and become part of a growing blanket of sky. 

 
From 2 to 4 pm

Discussions & exchange: Celebrating diversity - Our voices, our identities

We cordially invite everyone to our event, which is designed by young people and not just for young people! Together we want to explore topics such as adultism, the visibility of diversity, identity and biography. A creative afternoon full of music, exciting conversations and the opportunity to express your own identity through henna tattoos. Let's create a platform together where every voice is heard and diversity is celebrated!

With voices from:

_Sened Ikalo - helpful, impatient, open to discussion  
_Mohammad al Mafalani - Team-oriented, Reliable, Helpful  
_Mahzat Tschechow 
_Rahand Saleh -  Entrepreneurial, Future-oriented, Committed  
_Alexander Gabriel Lachos Pinchi - Sporty, Humorous, Helpful  
_Himat Albezini - Responsible, Helpful, Disciplined 
_Malek Khair Eddin - Helpful, Reliable and Patient 
_Vladimir Danielyan - Self-confident, Helpful, Considerate
_Elena Bayat - Responsible, Helpful, Disciplined 
_Samuel Grabovski - Open, Creative, Understanding​​​​​​​
_Jonathan Daniel Wittmann - Curious, Open, Self-reflective 
_ Isra Abdou - is an Egyptian artist, educator, educational activist, art mediator and curator. She works primarily in Berlin with a focus on decolonial structures, diasporic identities, self-perception & perception of others and has her own mind wallahy
_Mila Fall - makes the podcast Wir Sprenger - an Afro-diasporic perspective on youth welfare - is a mother and aspiring lawyer 
_Anna Kücking - makes theater, writes and is involved in self-organization with people who grew up in youth welfare

_Anne Lindner - steadfast, humorous, sporty

_João Eduardo Albertini - Generous, Courageous, Loyal  

From 3:30 to 5:30 pm

BEWEGUNSBAUSTELLE in the Studio

Here, simple materials such as boards, boxes, ropes or pipes are used to create creative adventure landscapes that children design and use themselves.

By Psychomotorikverein Berlin & Brandenburg e.V.
 

From 4 to 6 pm 

Workshop: (Re)thinking Mothers  

How is it even possible to be a mother under capitalism? What demands are made, what effect do they have - and for whom? How about, for example, if we think of motherhood as a collective care outside the biological family: including neighbors, friends, other caregivers - let's go into an exchange about our own relationship biographies and take a critical look at the concept of “motherhood”.   

All participants bring an image of a person who has “nurtured” them in some way - a person who can or could be described as a mother figure. This could be a biological mother, a foster mother or a mother by choice, a friend, a neighbor, a historical or literary figure. Together we begin to surround these images with words, materials and colors. We not only focus on what these people created, enabled, protected or carried - but also on what was ambivalent. Their burdens, contradictions, boundaries, their absence.  

From 6:00 to 7:30 pm

Conversation: Of mothers who are (not) mothers - worries, origins, capitalism

Anna and Mila both grew up in youth welfare. In a personal conversation, they approach the experiences of loss, longing and growing up in a welfare state. They ask: What does it mean to lose mothers - and get professionals or caregivers instead? What role does the so-called father state play - and how does it affect our ability to trust, to care and be cared for? What other mothers could we find - and how can we keep them? 

At 7:45 pm

Closing remarks by João Eduardo Albertini