9/30/25
Tue,
19:00

Vocations – open space
Songs and vocal practices based on poetry

Performance
Vocations 2025
silent green
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barblina c © Paolo Gallo

Axel Bauni © Mark Schultze Steinen

Coretta Klaue

Ms. Butterfly © Dya Singh

Joseph James Francis © Ida Sophia

As a meeting point for Berlin’s international contemporary poetry and music scene, Vocations offers a stage for artists exploring a wide range of musical and vocal practices that are based on or deeply rooted in poetry. Vocations invites poets, musicians, and audiences alike to engage in creative exchange—whether on stage, over a drink between performances, or as a way to round off the evening.

With: barblina c, Axel Bauni & Michael Pflumm, Ms. Butterfly & Joseph James Francis, Don Mee Choi, Imeon, Coretta Klaue, Irene Kurka & Anna-Katharina Schau, LAB51 (Magdalena Cerezo & Johanna Vargas), Laura.aLL & Elsye Suquilanda, Lilian Robl

Authors & composers: Mayako Kubo, Bernhard Lang, Gérard Pesson, Dominique Quelén, Ying Wang

Performances in the original languages; English translations will be made available to the audience.

Content Note:
Please note that the program also addresses topics of abuse and sexual violence.

Upcoming events in 2025: October 28, und December 2

Vocations –open space is an event series organised by Haus für Poesie in cooperation with Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste, silent green Kulturquartier, the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, and Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf and in 2025 is funded by the German Capital Culture Fund.