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Our crowd-funding is officially LIVE online now! Our first featured prize is quite limited, 10% off 10 tickets for a participatory symposium in Neukölln hosted by Meridian University in just 10 days from now…

Sat 21 May – “Imagination and Social Healing: Learning to Share Our Worlds” The main question being addressed: How can we come together to transform our thinking, and our culture, if we each see a different reality?

Book it out here. 
More info here.

We are pleased to announce the first meeting for this year’s Emergent Berlin festival of sustainable initiatives on Tuesday, May 17 from 20-22:00 at Das Baumhaus, Gerichtstr. 23.  This will just be a kick-off warm up gathering to bring old and new faces together and exchange general visions and ideas.

This year, we will participate in the OSCE Days on June 12 and 13 and use the time to plan how we can make the Emergent Berlin festival (September 23-25) an open source and zero waste event. 

Find out more about our challenge here. 

Find out more about OSCE here.

Today, Weddingwandler, himmelbeet and Baumhaus won the EU-Award for last year’s Zero Waste Week in Wedding. Big thanks & gratulations to Signe Heins, founding member of Baumhaus-Verein, and to Meike Stark from Himmelbeet, who are both part of WeddingWandler, for putting together such a great program, and for you passion about this topic! We’re looking forward to more Zero Waste projects in Baumhaus and beyond…

Here‘s some more info about Zero Waste Week and the award.

21 people, 4 rounds of provocateurs, lots of creative exploration, tons of good conversations, plentitudes of insights, great quantities of fun and laughs plus some healthy portions serious focussed engagement etc… Which, hopefully, will all make more sense when the podcast comes out. Until then, you can always reference the original invite and intent.

… or stop by the next one…

1 Big “Thank You!” to everyone who was there to help create a beautiful evening of satisfying connection with ourselves and each other…

• more work was done to the structures in the seminar room
• water was installed in the kitchen
• cement floors were poured in the kitchen and toilet

• we will install walls on some structures
• build the last major frameworks for a walk in (and on) piece of furniture
• continue designing and developing aesthetic details in the seminar room, the main tree structure, the bar and kitchen.

Last week more work got done to the structures in the seminar room, water was installed in the kitchen, we have new volunteers and interns, a new lighting team collaborator, the vermiculture team made some next steps, we had our first CSA pickup with our new members, we compared different online neighborhood organizational platforms and we had a great improvisational groove orchestra session.

This week we will install Estrich (cement) in the kitchen and toilet area, put walls on some structures, build the last major framework, continue designing and developing aesthetic details.

Sign up to join in:

02.05 – 07.05 : http://doodle.com/poll/6bimsutmmqnnyfi6

09.05 – 14.05 : http://doodle.com/poll/mhesp5vx84zqqbqq

17.05 – 20.05 : http://doodle.com/poll/4pi9mg38sq38tw2d

23.05 – 28.05 : http://doodle.com/poll/6cubwbgrbywf78ev

When: Saturday 7th Many, 8pm-1.30am

Where: Baumhaus Berlin Gerichtstraße 23 (Vorderhaus), 13347 Berlin

An Active Art Salon is like a playground for adults where participants provoke and inspire each other in thoughtful and creative ways, improvisationally or otherwise…

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It’s time for our next social networking event, this time in the partially built Baumhaus space! Parts of the space will act as a blank canvas for your own creative exploration and expression.

This will be an informal salon-style event. Each half-hour a provocateur will have 2 minutes to present an interesting concept, idea, performance or expression as catalytic ‘food for thought’ for everyone else. This could be in the form of spoken word, sound, dance, video or whatever else you’d like.

After each provocation there will be a short Q & A discussion. Then, attendees, artists and creators are invited to interpret and transform the provocateur’s input into their chosen media (drawing, painting, writing, sculpting, conversation or just hanging out.)

Bring any materials you’ll need to enable your own creative exploration. Parts of the physical room will be your canvas. You can draw, paint, collage or hang things on designated walls and structures.

20:00: Meet & Greet
21:00 Active Art Salon event
23:00: Social hang out soirée – we’ll have some drinks and hang out in the space

Come by and check out the space and get to know some of our team!

*If you would like to be a provocateur, you can either let us know in advance or on the night.

Facebook event

We made some great progress in the Seminar Room putting up the frame for the media wall and building stairs to the control room.  The electricity started to get installed and the Orchid Lamp controller is being upgraded.  Come check out the progress on Thursdays during our Open Office hours from 17 – 19:00.  Even better, sign up to volunteer to help build, cook lunch or even document the process in pics and videos…

When: Friday 29.04 from 7pm

Where: Baumhaus Berlin Gerichtstraße 23 VH, 13347 Berlin

This is the second part of a series of talks entitled ‘Beyond Growth in Latin America’ and will include a photo exhibition.

This is the chance to broaden your horizons and learn about something completely different, the alternative economic models and lifestyles of indigenous people in Latin America.

** The talks will all take place in German **

For more information, check out the Facebook event here.