Emergent Berlin Festival 2023 : Nov 17-19 @Baumhaus & @Panke

The Evolution Will Not Be Gentrified

Our 10th annual festival brings together fellow local initiatives, organizations and neighbors who want to take action for sustainability from personal, ecological, aesthetic, cultural, economic and social perspectives.

Emergent Berlin is a self-organised gathering and invitation for open exchange, connections and creating synergies. This year’s festival theme is a riff on the 1971 song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” by Gil Scott Heron and sets the tone for the gathering.  The main point of the song is that the first change needs to take place in your mind and that we can not rely on main stream forces to come up with or enact the solutions we need in time enough to save and preserve what is left of our world.  In 2023 it seems that our situation is quite similar…

Join us for:
• 3 days program to reflect, share experiences/learnings and make plans in the cozy, informal and creative atmosphere of Baumhaus
• 2 evenings of parties in Panke Club
• 1 art exhibition at Baumhaus

Download program overview: in Englisch or in German

No registration, just come by, whether for just one afternoon, for the parties or for the whole festival! Program @Baumhaus: free. Donations are welcome to help cover our costs for the space, drinks, snacks and the dinner buffet… Concerts/parties @Panke: 10€ entrance for the musicians. Languages: EN and/or DE, whisper translations.

Program

Friday November 17

14:00-22:00 @Baumhaus - Open House & 11 years Baumhaus program

It’s not just the 10th Emergent Berlin Festival. Also, it’s 11 years of Baumhaus! The first day will be all about Baumhaus and our network, partners and neighbors. We’ll present our current projects and plans and celebrate the 11 years of the Baumhaus project. A special invitation to new neighbors to come by and get to know us & Baumhaus!

14:00 DOORS OPEN

15:00 – 17:00 WELCOME, BAUMHAUS STORY TIME
Short story of Baumhaus and 11 years Baumhaus slideshow, short presentation of current Baumhaus projects (including LMP, FoodSHIFT 2030 and SWITCH) and opportunities to collaborate and network with us on these projects and beyond

17:00 – 20:00 OPEN HOUSE, OPEN GREETING ZONE
Meet & greet, collecting ideas and interests for collaborations with Baumhaus in the future, plus if you’re already part of our network, share your Baumhaus stories and help co-create a timeline of the past years

20:00 – 22:00 CELEBRATION DINNER
With old and new friends and neighbors of Baumhaus (buffet with regional seasonal CSA veggies, all vegan, donation based!)

22:00 PARTY @PANKE
featuring the Immaculate Contraption (live), dj’s, mc’s
– more infos below

Saturday November 18

14:00-22:00 @Baumhaus - Open Gathering & Community Night

Saturday will be all about exchange, networking and discussing ideas and open questions. Over the last decade, not just Baumhaus but many other projects for sustainability in Berlin were founded and built up. That’s a reason to celebrate, but also to think about what comes next. Everyone who wants to take action for sustainability is invited to join the conversation! In the evening: celebrate and enjoy the community, music, cooking together plus the concert and party at Panke. Come by anytime!

14:00 DOORS OPEN

15:00 – 15:30 WELCOME, INTRODUCTION ROUND
What brought you here? Where are you at in your engagement for a better world?

15:30 – 17:30 OPEN CONVERSATION & NETWORKING
How are we – local projects and people who want to make the world a better place in Berlin – doing? How can we support each other & become more resilient? How can we accelerate lasting change?

17:30 – 18:00 FINAL ROUND
What did we come up with? What are ideas and thoughts do you want to follow up on?

18:00 BREAK / CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION / JOIN THE KITCHEN TEAM

20:00 COMMUNITY DINNER BUFFET OPENING
It’s all vegan, with CSA/Solawi veggies, and the standard tea, water, coffee or bring your own drinks! We recommend joining us the latest at this time so you can enjoy some of the food.

21:00 NEWS U CAN USE
You can briefly introduce yourself, let us know what you need help with, if you have resources to offer or know of something interesting going on we might want to know about

22:00 CONCERT & PARTY @PANKE
with Milonaut record release
– more infos below

Sunday November 19

14:00-21:00 @Baumhaus - Super Hero Training Camp

On the last day we invite you to become an Evenger, a real life hero dedicated to making the world a more sustainable place. In a very real sense, it is us the everyday people who need to rise up and become the real heroes who can save the day.  A real hero is someone who strives to create and maintain more balance in the world personally, ecologically, aesthetically, culturally, economically and socially (peaces). These days it takes many collaborative leagues of heroes to get the job done. Our league is called the Evengers because we work to bring more balance or ‘evenness’ into the world. Do you have what it takes to be a real hero, to be an Evenger?

14:00 DOORS OPEN

15:00 INTRODUCTION & REFLECTION
What does it mean to make the world a more sustainable place?

16:00 START WORKSHOP STATIONS
Flow freely between workshop stations to help each other to identify your super powers, discover more ways to use your superpowers (concept catalyzers), develop some new superpowers and develop and deepening alliances with other super heroes…

20:00 LEFTOVER POTLUCK BUFFET

21:00 COLLECTIVE CLEAN UP

21:30 FLOW MEDITATION WORKSHOP
in the back room
– more info below

21:30 @Baumhaus - Flow Meditation

FLOW

A guided vocal meditation

It is very easy to participate, no musical talent or training is required, anyone is welcome to join! Just make sure to be on time: We will explain a few basic and intuitively understandable concepts to make it super easy to dive in for everyone.
Flow is a state of being… an experience when you allow yourself to be 100% fully engaged in the present moment in a feedback loop between clarity and satisfaction. It is an undeniable sensation where things seem to be more effortless, pleasurable, in sync, and you can easily sense a connection with something greater than yourself; this is what we will create…:
• a connected and mindful meditation where it is possible to blissfully surf the cutting edge of the present moment together…
• a game where it’s possible to feel excited and calm in the same moment, and everyone can win as much as they like…
Scott Bolden, co-founder of Das Baumhaus Berlin will share some very easy, practical and effective methods developed during the last 8 years of facilitating the “Improvisational Groove Orchestra” (I.G.O.) improv vocal jam sessions. Within 20 minutes participants learn to use the common sound space to create resonance in the form of improvisational music where it is quite common to experience some real flow moments…
It is very easy to participate, no musical talent or training is required so anyone is welcome to join. Most of the session is done with eyes closed to avoid visual distractions and keep focus on the co-created sound space. During these sessions we will also have special guest instrumental musicians, poets, writers and beat-boxers etc… If you would like to be a special guest, please send us a message.
Important – if you have never done this in the Baumhaus before and can not make it in time for the intro and warm up, then please wait until the next session to join. It is very important to understand the methodology and warm up in the group before joining in!
Sound examples:
• http://www.baumhausberlin.de/…/11/19/proof-of-real-magic/
• https://soundcloud.com/…/improvisational-groove…
• https://soundcloud.com/scott-bolden/ebb-and-flow-p2-edit-2
• https://soundcloud.com/scott-bolden/gently-flowing-through-a?in=scott-bolden/sets/ego-session-5-nov-13-2014

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All Weekend - artwork by Jingwen Yao

Jingwen Yao is a Chinese visual artist living in Europe since 2012, currently based in Berlin. She addresses pressing issues such as environmental crises and gender challenges through her art. She is also the artist we decided to work with to develop this year’s festival poster design.

Growing up in metropolitan Beijing, Jingwen was always drawn to nature and greenery. Weekend family hiking tours in the mountains nearby gave her the chance to experience the beauty of nature, but also sense the deterioration of the environment. Since then, she has started reflecting on various environmental problems such as pollution, deforestation, and global warming through paintings and drawings.

In recent years, she visited and volunteered at different ecological projects in Europe. This experience has deepened her understanding of the climate crisis we face and its urgency. In 2020, Jingwen created a 12 meter long banner as an art activism act in Suderbyn ecovillage on Gotland, Sweden, to deliver the message “Make gardens, not war” to the military base directly opposite of the ecovillage.

Jingwen’s work is not limited to environmental issues. The experience of living and working in different cultures in Asia, Europe and Africa also has broadened her perspectives on a wider range of topics such as gender inequality, discrimination, and cultural isolation. Creating art around these issues has become her way of expressing herself and communicating with the world.

Website: www.jingwenyao.art
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jingwenyao_art