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SCHLACHTEN Festival welcome you to our official launch. The theme of this year’s festival is DISPLACED 2015.

An exhibition by international artists, musical performances, a guided tour, our video screenings in the refugee tents of the German Red Cross, drinks and delicious food by a Syrian chef await you.

16:00
Welcome by Emily Pütter
Creative Director DISPLACED 2015
Music by Refugees KM
Michael Neil (GB), Kristoff Becker (D)
Welcome by Sven Oole
Head of Communications Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung
Frau Dr. Schulenburg erzählt ihre eigene Fluchtgeschichte
Personal recollections flight and expulsion

16:40
Panel Discussion With
Prof. Dr. Jan M. Piskorski (PL) Historian, author of “Die Verjagten”
Ronald Reimann, German Red Cross
Anne Frechen, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
Dr. Sabine Meister, Art historian
Khaled Al-boushi, Syrian artist residing in Germany
Colette/ Laboratoire Lumiere, Int. artist
Moderation: Gunda Lahn, Journalist

18:00
Music by Refugees KM & Buffet
Guided tour with – Dr. Sabine Meister

21:00
End of Programme

The artist-pages for DISPLACED 2015 are now live at schlachten.org/artists

We’ve received a large number of excellent submissions, which we are excited to share with you! Artists entires are still being added and we are in the process of translating them into German.

The festival launch is approaching fast – one month to go!

Put the date in your diaries: The Mendelsohn Hall, Luckenwalde, Saturday 13th of June at 16:00

Programme of Events:

13th June, 16:00: Official Launch and panel discussion at the Mendelsohn Hall.
14th June, 16:00: Maharaj Trio performance at the Mendelsohn Hall.
20th/21st June: “Board Game” with Johanna Speidel & Chus López Vidal at the Mendelsohn Hall.
10th July, 19:00: theater 89 performance at the Mendelsohn Hall.
12th July: Logothetis Ensemble concert at Schloss Wiepersdorf.

Our resident artists, local Syrian immigrant artist Khaled Al-boushi and Italian-Spanish artist Angiola Bonnani who has arrived at our Oehna headquarters, are both busy at work. Renowned Polish researcher Jan M Piskorski has arrived at Schloss Wiepersdorf to begin his research-residency for our festival, the Refugees KM are busy composing the music for the launch, and a representative of the German Red Cross has been to the Mendelsohn Hall to discuss the installation of their refugee tents within the hall as part of our exhibition.

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And last but not least, we would like to remind locals of our Wish-Cushion initiative!

Join us!

Cushions needed! Wish-Cushions, filled with your good wishes for those who have suffered and need to start all over again.

Sew a colourful pillow, put in it your good wishes for the refugees who arrive in the state of Brandenburg from around the world, and we will place it inside our tents, provided by the German Red Cross, ready for you to comfortably sit on and watch the films and videos we have lovingly selected for you, and which explore this important issue.

The tents will be erected within the Mendelsohn Hall, whose architect and the original owners were exiled from Nazi Germany in the 1930s: a reminder and an opportunity to uncover to what extent flight, displacement and expulsion are interwoven into our lives.

The messages you all send us inside your cushions, placed in the restored hall, will be a colourful, soft, and joyous welcome – an opportunity for interaction and discussion.

We’re very grateful for your partcipation!!

If you have any questions about the Wish-Cushions, please send us an email to displaced2015@schlachten.org (subject: “Wish-Cushions”) or fill out the form below: