Event: Mai 2018
Thu
31/5/18
07:30 PM
Fiston and Friends – Heimat, Heimat
Music
With Denis Abrahams DEU speaker, actor | Ben Kraef DEU saxophone | Marco Mingarelli I drums and percussion | Fiston Mwanza Mujila COD/AUT author | Cymin Samawatie IRN/DEU author, singer-songwriter | Fyodor Stepanov RUS double bass
Fiston Mwanza Mujila came from the Congo as a scholar of the Heinrich-Böll Stiftung to Europe and now lives in Austria where he is literature’s new shooting star. For this evening he is inviting artists and musicians to join him for a Jazz dialogue in which texts, instruments and song meet in a multilingual exchange. Music and poetry are world languages that overcome borders and are understood beyond cultural regions. For people taking flight as refugees or in exile they are also spaces of freedom as much as of refuge and homeland. The performance approaches the idea of “Heimat” (home) with musical variations.
Fiston Mwanza Mujila and the German-Iranian Jazz singer Cymin Samawatie enter into performative dialogue with the musicians while Denis Abrahams performs as “interpreter” with Fiston in German and French.
Fiston and Friends – Heimat, Heimat is made possible with the kind support of the Austrian Culture Forum Berlin.
Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Entrance fee:
10/7 €
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