spoken verse at the poesiefestival berlin
Spoken Word, HipHop, jazz und poetry – at the poesiefestival berlin, performance, music, video and voice merge into an impressive total work of art. On 13 June 2013 Ise Lyfe (USA), TJ Dema (Botswana), Kosal Khiev (USA and Cambodia), Peh (Germany), Reverend Aden (DJ, USA and Germany), Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq (jazz saxophonist, USA), Ana Tijoux (rapper, Chile and France) and Amewu (rapper, Germany) will be carrying the audience off into a world of the poetries of four continents, while confronting themes that are as topical here as they are there. Their work mixes social commitment and political themes, personal dreams and cultural influences from their home countries.
Kosal Khiev discovered new worlds through poetry while in prison; Ise Lyfe opens new horizons for his audience and, as a street worker, for young people in poetry; and TJ Dema’s engagement for the language and culture of her homeland takes place in poetry. Reverend Aden’s work on the streets uses HipHop culture to speak to young people and nurture them.
Ana Tijoux, one of the world’s few female MCs to manage to break through in the world of HipHop, and Berlin rapper Amewu have found their form of expression in rap. Sensuous or staccato, in double time and at the same time emotional and melancholy – they manage n impressive musical range.
As well as performing at the events in the Academy of Arts, the artists will be taking part in several social projects by the city of Berlin as well as connecting the arc between rap and poetry and working on texts with the young people in the Berlin juvenile correction facility.
5 pm Poetry Talk: “Poems are bullshit, unless they teach”