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EXHIBITION
ON SHOW 11.09.–19.10.2025 Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00

SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES

Tours through the Exhibition

REALM OF VANISHING BODIES

WORKSHOP SERIES September & October 2025

SONIC REMITTANCE

LISTENING SESSION 27.09.2025 19:00
With Abraham Tettey

Curatorial Fellow at SAVVY

FelloWship May–September 2025
With Abraham Tettey

THE DESERT SKIES MAKE MOUNTAINSCAPES IN NEW YORK CITY

Radio 28.09.2025 16:00
With Laura Ortman
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Let's Talk About Bodies

EMBODIMENT PRACTICE WORKSHOP
01.10.2025 14:00–17:00
With Ting-An Ying

Others

DIGITAL INTERFACES – SENSORS · PROGRAMS · LANGUAGES WORKSHOP
02.10.2025 19:00–21:00
With Orlando Helfer Rabaça

Come La Notte

Film Screening 05.10.2025 19:00
WITH Liryc Dela Cruz

ulga: entangled roots · shared feasts · collective resilience

WORKSHOP SERIES 08. &15.10.2025

On Grooving

CIRCULAR LISTENING SESSION 3
28.10.2025 19:00
With Laura Robles, Dare Balogun
At Haus der Kulturen der Welt,

REFLEKT RESIDENCY

With Sukma Smita
September–November 2025

REFLEKT RESIDENCY

With Zelin Seah
September–November 2025

Supra-Realities of the Hurricane

Radio Sundays 16:00–18:00
With Marwan Hawash, &&
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Sudnozavod

EXHIBITION & ACTIVATIONS 30.10.–02.11.2025
With Anton Kats / ILYICH

RE-MIXING THE STAGE

CIRCULAR LISTENING SESSIONS July–December 2025

Calendar for a Century

Support SAVVY

Past Events

Thank you, Renan!

END OF THE TERM AS SAVVY'S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Virtual Leaks: Pushing Ideas into Reality

3D-PRINTING Workshop 08.01.2025 14:00–16:00
WitH Quasi Objects (Nancy Naser Al Deen, Sina Ahmadi)

Afro Barber Workshop

Hair Workshop 08.01.2025 16:30–20:30
WitH José Bass

The Symphony of Abandoned Objects

Music Instruments Workshop 11.01.2025 11:00–14:00
WitH Dudù Kouate

Songs of Resistance from the Speak-in-English-Zone

Radio 12.01.2025 16:00
With Dang A Dang
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Sound Stories Silent Site

Sound Workshop 15.01.2025 16:00–19:00
WitH Anton Kats

Lullabies Archive

Recording Session 18.01.2025 15:00–17:00
WitH Mariana García Mejía

Re-forming Memory, Re-forming Futures

VISUAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOP 19.01.2025 12:00–14:00
With Alan Pelaez Lopez

Con el viento a mi favor

Radio 19.01.2025 16:00
With Radical Sounds Latin America
On SAVVYZΛΛR

The City's Polyphonies of Sound

Radio 19.01.2025 17:00
With Yara Mekawei & The City’s Polyphonies of Sound Ensemble
On SAVVYZΛΛR

Surviving Illegality; Imagining Otherwise

Poetry Reading & Salon 21.01.2025 19:00
With Alan Pelaez Lopez

Wandering With Your Eyes

Photography Workshop 22.01.2025 14:00–17:00
WitH Akinbode Akinbiyi & Babajide Adeniyi-Jones

HISTORICAL CHILDREN

EXHIBITION 01.12.2024–25.01.2025
Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00

SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES

Tours through the Exhibition

HISTORICAL CHILDREN

INVOCATIONS 25.–26.01.2025
WITH Mizi Lee with Y-Thanh Võ, Julius Nägele • Tayo Awosusi-Onutor • mit.mach.bühne / Ballhaus Prinzenallee • Canto Diaspora

While Our Parents Worked for Wages

Mecha Sculptures Workshop 25.01.2025 12:00–15:00
WitH Mizi Lee, Y-Thanh Vo and Julius Nägele

JOKESI Club

READING SESSION 26.01.2025 15:00
WITH Tayo Awosusi-Onutor

Die Schule der Diktatoren

Theatre Adaptation 26.01.2025 16:00
WITH mit.mach.bühne by Ballhaus Prinzenallee

Songs to Life and Landscape

CHOIR PERFORMANCE 26.01.2025 16:50
WITH Canto Diáspora

STANDING IN THE CRACKS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES

Microresidency January 2025
With Alan Pelaez Lopez

Mask Compositing

Expanded Cinema Workshop 29.01.2025 14:00–20:00
WitH OJOBOCA

IMMEASURABLE DISTANCE

Film Screenings & Live PERFORMANCE 30.01.2025 19:00
WitH OJOBOCA

Rippling Otherwise

Radio 02.02.2025 16:00
With Dudù Kouate
On SAVVYZΛΛR

Rippling otherwise

SONIC PRogramme
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Temporalities of the Photograph

PHOTOGRAPHY Workshop 08.02.2025 15:00–20:00
WitH Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz & Stefanie Kulisch

JINA. A VOICE FOR FREEDOM

Workshop for Kids 08.02.2025 10:00–14:00
WitH Zilan Kößler, Clara Gilod, Berfin Aktay & Blue Boat Books

Samen aus Hanau

Workshop for Kids 09.02.2025 10:00–14:00
WitH Zilan Kößler & Clara Gilod

20. Forum Expanded: Nineteen going on Twenty

Short films 16.02.2025 12:00–22:00
WitH Maite Abella, Zuza Banasińska, Cana Bilir-Meier, Filipa César, Ayşe Erkmen, Kevin Jerome Everson, Harun Farocki, Mohammadreza Farzad, Paul Geday, Ken Jacobs, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Vika Kirchenbauer, Marie Losier, Tomonari Nishikawa, Isabelle Prim, Shelly Silver, Clarissa Thieme, Anton Vidokle und Eduardo Williams & Mariano Blatt

Writing short fiction

Workshop 22.–23.02.2025 10:00–15:00
WitH Chimeka Garricks

Turbo Summation

ALBUM LAUNCH 28.02.2025 19:30
WITH Mushiva

SAVVYZΛΛR meets RADIO ALHARA

Radio Every first Monday of the month 19:00

RIR PRA NÃO CHORAR :: LAUGH SO YOU DON’T CRY

COMEDY Workshop 04.03.2025 18:30–21:30
WitH Naya de Souza

KAMINHU DI NTCHANHA

A collective creation 28.03.2025 18:00
Abotcha Mediateca, Malafo, Guinea-Bissau

PROGRAMME BREAK

SAVVY is on a programme break in March & April

ይስከን // Yesken

Film Screening & Coffee Ceremony 23.05.2025 18:00
With Ainslee Alem Robson

Sensory Democracy

intervention 09.05.2025 20:00
By Arjun Appadurai, with contributions by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Regina Römhild & Dirk Wiemann

Ancestral Repertoires

Workshop 24.05.2025 11:00–14:00
With Romi Ron Morrison

STANDING IN THE CRACKS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES

Microresidency May 2025
With Romi Ron Morrison

Networking situated kitchens

Culinary Co-Learning 15.05.2025 19:00
WITH b.ASIC a.CTIVIST k.ITCHEN at BAK-basecamp, SAVVY Contemporary, Wilde 24
VENUE MACBA, Convent Auditorium, Barcelona, Spain

STANDING IN THE CRACKS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES

Microresidency May 2025
With Ainslee Alem Robson

Círculo de la palabra: Healing knowledge and ancestry

Closed Workshop 27.05.2025
With Maima Elvia Descanse Humenda and Daniellis Hernandez Calderon

ALIMENTARY LONGINGS

Gatherings 29.05.2025 13:00–23:00
With Kathleen Bomani, Maima Elvia Descanse Humenda, Isma Gane, Daniellis Hernandez Calderon, Mark Mushiva, Emeka Ogboh, Yvonne Phyllis, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Catherine Shi Tamufor, +++
Venue LOBE Block

REFLEKT RESIDENCY

RESIDENCY Programme 2025
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
DEADLINE 31.05.2025

Shed not innocent blood

Exhibition in Public Space May 2025
WitH Babajide Adeniyi-Jones

Deterritorialize

OPEN STUDIO 13.06.2025 18:00
With Esteban Cabeza de Baca

Witness Clay // Clay as Witness

PRESENTATION & WORKSHOP 13.06.2025 19:30
By Amara Abdal Figueroa in conversation with Maïa Beyrouti

STANDING IN THE CRACKS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES

Microresidency May/June 2025
With Esteban Cabeza de Baca

STANDING IN THE CRACKS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES

Microresidency May/June 2025
With Amara Abdal Figueroa

echoes of rupture/we remember

Radio 22.06.2025 16:00
With Matana Roberts
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

An Invitation to Action – A Basis for Hope

Radio 24.06.2025 12:30–14:30 [Berlin time]
With DAI COOP study group
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming

Hemispheric Soulscapes

BOOK LAUNCH, Film SCREENING, VINYL SESSION 26.06.2025 19:00
With Matti Steinitz & Dom Filó

Anti/Inter-Connection

PERFORMANCES 27.06.2025 19:00
WITH Reihaneh Mehrad, Sedami Gracia Elvis Theodor Ophelia Azilinon

I’ll listen to you

Radio 29.06.2025 16:00
With Raumstrategien (Montserrat (Kali) Andrade A, Nina Cavalcanti, Patricia Black, Bruno De Marco, Kathleen Bomani, Pedro André, Ana Gabriela García, Ana Júlia Fortes)
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Shorelines: Listening to a Voyage of Echoes

Radio 29.06.2025 17:00
WITH Raumstrategien (Viviana Druga, xindi, Nischal Khadka, Xiao Zhang, Yupanqui Ramos, Mariana Garcia Mejía, Jason Kunwar)
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

“FOR NOW”: Diasporic Provisions. Containers – Storytelling – Return

CONFERENCE 02.07.2025 14:30–21:00
With Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Making adobe bricks

Workshop 04.–05.07.2025
WitH Marinho de Pina
AT Callie's

Songs slipping into the cracks of my body

Radio 06.07.2025 16:00
WITH Ola Zielińska
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Body Rhythms: Where percussion, voice, and movement meet

DANCE Workshop 11.07.2025 19:30
WitH Doriane Mbenoun & Jarita Freydank

On Partying

CIRCULAR LISTENING SESSION 1
12.07.2025 21:00–4:00
With LY:I, Ngwaka Son Systeme, Ra Mava, SACA SAL, SHUSH
At Studio dB

SCHWARZE MEDUSA: SIEBEN GESÄNGE ÜBER KÖRPER UND SCHLACHTFELDER

SPOKEN WORD & CONCERT 24.07.2025 19:00
WITH Malonda and Luna Duran

Sound Stories Silent Site

Radio 27.07.2025 16:00
WITH Anton Kats
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES

Tours through the Exhibition

EYES, COME BACK

A STAGED EXHIBITION
OPENING 12.06.2025 19:00
ON SHOW 13.06.–03.08.2025 Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00

On Polyphonies

CIRCULAR LISTENING SESSION 2
09.08.2025 14:00–24:00
With Ariel William Orah & Tengal, Cashmere Radio [Giorgia & Susanna], Círculo de la Palabra with SAVVY, Dudù Kouate, Fania Brava Party [Lionza], Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos de Bolivia, Oroko Radio, TRU:L
At Refuge Worldwide

DE PIE ENTRE LAS GRIETAS DE MÚLTIPLES HISTORIAS

INVOCACIONES 15.08.2025 13:00–21:00
WITH Ainslee Alem Robson in collaboration with Roberto Colon and Vidal Irizarry, Alan Pelaez Lopez, Amara Abdal Figueroa, Awilda Sterling-Duprey with Omar Obdulio Peña Forty, Cianga Gracia, and Matana Roberts
AT Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico

RITUAL 100% DANÇANTE

MOBILE SOUND INTERVENTION 02. & 03.09.2025 13:00–16:00
With SACA SAL
IN São Paulo, Brazil

AN ALTAR FOR OUR ASHES

OFFERING & INSTALLATION
with Panthea Lee
IN São Paulo, Brazil

TO THE MEASURE OF OUR FEET

Conjugation in São Paulo 07.09.2025 16:00–18:00
With Akinbode Akinbiyi & the SAVVY team

BUT IT IS WITH THE SONIC

SAVVY IN São Paulo 02.–07.09.2025
With Akinbode Akinbiyi, Panthea Lee, SACA SAL, and the SAVVY team

The Congo He Saw

Radio 07.09.2025 16:00
With Cianga
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Vocal Affairs

Tanznacht 2025 13.09.2025
With Doriane Mbenoun & Jarita Freydank, Harun Morrison, Justin F. Kennedy / Bodysnatch

Rooted in Rhythm: A Journey Through Movement, Music & Breath

Dance Workshop 13.09.2025 17:00
With Doriane Mbenoun & Jarita Freydank

After Nostalgia

PERFORMANCE 13.09.2025 20:00
With Harun Morrison

Tanznacht Party

Party & DJ-Set 13.09.2025 22:00
With Justin F. Kennedy / Bodysnatch

Supra-Realities of the Hurricane

Radio 14.09.2025 16:00
With Marwan Hawash
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

This is Not a Beginning We Were Always Here

Launch 15.09.2025 12:00–22:00
With Prof. Dr. Aleo Arndt, Electrosexual, Juliana Gleeson, JMxCAT, Cat Jones, Isu Mignon Mignonne, Nicky Miller, Sol Sebastián Solórzano, +++
By Institute for Queer, Trans, and Intersex Autonomy (IQTIA) e.V.

FAINTED LONGING

B.I.R.D. Dialog I: LAUNCH & LECTURE
19.09.2025 18:45

Cosmogenic Transformation

Radio 21.09.2025 16:00–18:00
With Tanka Fonta and Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Bubble Beats

INSTRUMENT MAKING & BUBBLE TEA WORKSHOP
24.09.2025 10:30–14:00
With Ya-Nung Huang

In the Shape of My Ghost

MOVEMENT-BASED WORKSHOP
25.09.2025 19:00–21:00
With Po-Nien Wang