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11:00-21:00 DISPLACED 2015 Exhibition & Video-Tent
Artworks by selected international artists to the theme DISPLACED 2015: fine art, sculpture, video and much more.

14:00 Guided tour of the exhibition
with Emily Pütter, artistic director of DISPLACED 2015

15:30 DISPLACED Film #3 69 min (3€)
International film festival Difference Screen present a collection of short and longer art films about displacement, by filmmakers from five continents. In this programme, films by Andrew Darke (UK), Daniel Brefin (Switzerland) and Sophia Tabatadze (Georgia). Artists Sophia Tabatadze and Andrew Darke will be present to talk about their work. View screening programme

Sun 28th June, Mendelsohn Hall

12:00-21:00 DISPLACED 2015 Exhibition & Video-Tent
Artworks by selected international artists to the theme DISPLACED 2015: fine art, sculpture, video and much more.

14:00 Guided tour of the exhibition
with Emily Pütter, artistic director of DISPLACED 2015

15:30 DISPLACED Film #4 65 min (3€)
International film festival Difference Screen present a collection of short and longer art films about displacement, by filmmakers from five continents. In this program, nine short films from Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Egypt and Syria. View screening programm

Also coming up:

theater 89 performs at the Mendelsohn Hall on Friday 10th July

The festival Finissage Party is on the Saturday 11th July

and the Closing Concert by the Logothetis Ensemble is on Sunday 12th July.

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Festival Launch and World Refugee Day Weekend

June 15, 2015/in Featured, News /by SCHLACHTEN TEAM

Following on from our successful festival launch we are looking forward to the next four weekends of DISPLACED 2015.

The launch-weekend featured a panel-discussion on the theme of Displacement and the meeting of art and science, there was a delicious buffet prepared by Luckenwalde resident Syrian refugee Marwan Osso, a guided tour of the exhibition, and the German-British duo Refugees KM gave a performance inspired by the correspondence of exiled Mendelsohn Hall architect Erich Mendelsohn and his wife. The weekend was topped by a performance by the world-famous Maharaj Trio.

Check out the image gallery

This coming weekend is very special, with Saturday the 20th June marking World Refugee Day. In addition to the DISPLACED 2015 Exhibition with artworks by our selection of 32 international artists, we will offer a large interactive sculpture-board-game, recycled-art and music workshops, screenings in our Red Cross Video-Tent, and bouncy castles for the children – all at the Mendelsohn Hall. We will be screening Iva Radivojevic’s award-wining film Evaporating Borders, as well as short films on the theme of Displacement by artists from Bulgaria, Hungary, Argentina, Georgia, Germany, USA and the UK. Filmmaker Verena Kyselka will talk about her work The Formosa Experiment.

Check out the festival programme for Saturday 20th June & Sunday 21 June

Also coming up:

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June, with more DISPLACED Film screenings, by artists from the UK, Switzerland, Georgia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Egypt and Syria.

theater 89 performs at the Mendelsohn Hall on Friday 10th July

The festival Finissage Party is on the Saturday 11th July

and the Closing Concert by the Logothetis Ensemble is on Sunday 12th July.

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SCHLACHTEN | DISPLACED 2015 Künstlerin Colette in der Mendelsohnhalle | Image © Emily Pütter

We Are Setting Up!!!

June 11, 2015/in News /by SCHLACHTEN TEAM

The launch is on Saturday at 16:00. Info here.

Launch Programme

June 6, 2015/in Featured, News /by SCHLACHTEN TEAM

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.

DISPLACED 2015 Launch

Sat 13th June 16:00, Mendelsohn Hall, Industriestraße 2, 14943 Luckenwalde

Launch Programme

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

Wish-Cushions : New Submissions

May 23, 2015/in Featured, News /by SCHLACHTEN TEAM

New Wish-Cushion submissions have arrived!

Director of Schloss Wiepersdorf, Anne Frechen, offers white roses for the foreigners; artist Isabella Gresser quotes the German saying: “Whoever places a pillow under a stranger’s head, when in need will find a bed.”

To submit your Wish-Cushions, see our Wish-Cushion initiative!

SCHLACHTEN | Wanderboje | Image © Anne Peschken & Marek Pisarsky (Urban Art)

DISPLACED 2015 Artists

May 13, 2015/in Featured, News /by SCHLACHTEN TEAM

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!

© Image: Emily Pütter, Poster Design: Dan Farberoff

Launch!

May 1, 2015/in Featured, News /by SCHLACHTEN TEAM

The official launch of DISPLACED 2015 will take place on the 13th of June at 16:00 in the Mendelsohn Hall, in Luckenwalde.

There will be a panel discussion with international artists and historians, music and performance, including a cello piece by the The Refugees KM, as well as wine and appetisers.

We look forward to seeing you all. Further details will be continuously added here.

On the 14th of June at 16:00 there will be a concert by the renowned Maharaj Trio from India.

Wish-Cushions : Call-Out for Partcipants

March 30, 2015/in Featured, News /by Emily

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: