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Vernissage Photo Exhibition: Women tell stories through photography

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Over the course of a two months photo workshop, a group of 15 women have come together to discuss photography and developed their personal photo projects. They experimented different techniques, studied the work from women photographers around the world and supported each other in the process of carving narratives for image making. Now, we would love to share them with you! Come by the Bezirkszentralbibliothek in the Eva-Maria-Buch-Haus on November 1st for

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Kiez Stories Film Workshop

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Kiez Stories Film Workshop Film your own episode of the web series “Kiez Stories“ This workshop addresses anyone interested in filmmaking and/or story telling! During 5-6 days a professional film crew will assist you in producing a short film about a person, a place or an event in your neighbourhood/your quarter (= your “Kiez”). Participation is free of charge! Please register until 7th May 2020 via email to: contact-english@encounter-blog.com Your

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Best Encounters 

Best Encounters: October 2019

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Monika: I met Hussam at the “Stammtisch” of Encounters Media Workshops. We talked about the different workshops we had been participating in. Hussam told me that he had been learning German intensively for half a year now, but that his studies at the University in Germany take place in English. With his wife he speaks mainly English, too. We had a chat until the others arrived. It was nice having

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Workshop: An Introduction to the Art of Storytelling

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Would you like to go on a journey to the imaginary world of storytelling? Have you ever met your inner storyteller? Are you ready to suprise yourself with your ability to play and improvise?   This two day workshop targets adults with an interest in traditional narratives such as folk tales, fairy tales and myths. We will explore together the methods of telling a story through visualization techniques, improvisation, playfulness

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Encounters at the Library Bus. Lesbian Gay Street Festival 2019 in Schöneberg

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Europe’s biggest Lesbian Gay Street Festival took place in 2019 in Berlin under the motto „Together against right-wing Extremism“  (Gemeinsam gegen Rechts) as a celebration of love and against discrimination and racism. It was a good opportunity for us to present our new Library Buswith its media diversity. The Library Bus addressed this slogan as it offered a protected space for discussions and encounters and, adjusted to the environmental zones,

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Best Encounters: July 2019

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Judith, social anthropologist from Berlin: I met Evelin at the “Picturing Encounters”workshop. She is an amazing and sensitive illustrator. I told a very personal story and she dove into it and researched about the time of the Second World War. Now this story about my relative and the relative of my husband is in the world. Thank you, Evelin, what a gift! Evelin, visual artist from Bogota: When Judith was

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Web series “Kiez stories”

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The web series “Kiez stories”   The web series “Kiez stories” intends to show the polyphony of Berlin. Possibly you know someone you are fascinated by or whose destiny touched you. Or there might be a place in town that you would like to present. Maybe you feel like telling the founding story of a shop, a bar or a café in your neighbourhood/your quarter (= your “Kiez”). You can

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Workshop: Women tell stories through photography

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Description: This photo workshop brings women of different backgrounds together. It creates a space to share their experiences and to find their own language to translate stories into images. During the workshop, we will learn about photography techniques, discuss the work of women photographers from different parts of the world and develop a personal project for a group exhibition. Information: Participation is free Any woman above the age of 18

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M.A.D. Stories – Workshop

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“M.A.D. Stories” A Public Anthropology Workshop  about More-than-German Encounters with the (German) Language When:  Samstag, 17. August 2019, 12:00-15.00 Uhr Where:  Mittelpunktbibliothek Schöneberg “Theodor-Heuss-Bibliothek”, Hauptstr. 40, 10827 Berlin M.A.D. Stories is a public anthropology workshop open to anyone interested in discussing more-than-German encounters with the (German) language in Berlin, elsewhere, and everywhere. If you have a story to tell about your more-than-German (M.A.D.) encounters with the (German) language, you are welcome to join

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Best Encounters 

Best Encounters: May 2019

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Best Encounters: May 2019 Valerie and Yujie met at the Medienwerkstatt Encounters kick-off workshop on May 18th, 2019. Did you have a special encounter in June or July 2019 that you would like to share with us? Then send a picture and 2-3 sentences text written by the parties involved to: contact-english@encounter-blog.com Valerie: I went to the Medienwerkstatt Encounters kick-off workshop without really knowing what to expect. Still, I had

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A report about our kick-off workshop

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Our kick-off workshop marks a new collaborative endeavour: the Medienwerkstatt Encounters project in partnership with the public library Tempelhof-Schöneberg. Our common vision is to make city libraries central places of encounters, where people with various interests and backgrounds come together and shape an active media-savvy community. The workshop introduced and offered space for discussing and experimenting with the ways we work: multi-perspective, critical, reflective. We met on a sunny Saturday

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Picturing Encounters: a Workshop for Storytellers and Illustrators!

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The workshop invites storytellers and illustrators from any background or nationality to participate, meet and work together in the project “Picturing Encounters”. Everybody, who wants to share a short story related to the encounter between different lifeworlds (migration, refugee, travel experiences, encounters between generations, neighbors, human/non-human encounters etc. ) is invited to present his or her story or to write it down. It could be a love story, funny or

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Voices on the move – Part 4

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By Ina Schebler Everyone has a story. Everyone has a voice to tell it. And everyone has ears to hear or eyes to read it. Now it only needs people to listen to these voices, to see these faces and to change first their perspective and later the world. The Idea: In January 2016, I started collecting stories of people who once fled their homes and who are now living

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Films 

Discovering the Human in “mensch. human.”

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What it means to flee from persecution, hunger, death and suffering is hard for many to imagine. That is why it is so important to tell and get told about it. The short film “mensch.human.” tries to approach these experiences between suffering, being and hoping in conversations. As one of four film projects, it was created within three months in collaboration with refugees* from Brück in Brandenburg and German participants.

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A dance visual by Canan Mona Pour-Norouz

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  Text: Sarah Fichtner & Canan Mona Pour-Norouz   “As we move, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved.” (Judith Lynne Hanna, anthropologist and author of “Dancing to Learn”)   Mona impressed me. There was something in the dance video and in the words that she had sent to our encounter team that deeply touched me. I knew I had to meet her. Call it destiny.

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Encounter: our magazine

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2018 has been so special to us! First we created our blog. Then, on October 20th 2018 the first edition of our encounter magazine was born. We spread the fruits of 2 years of work all over Berlin, distributing 1800 copies of the magazine in personal encounters in just one day, involving 16 team members and 60 volunteers. We celebrated with our musical friends: Sadek Democratoz, Adeeb Hadi, Sol Tight

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Picturing an Everyday Life – A German-Refugee Encounter through Photo-Voice

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1. Encountering the Other and Picturing the Unspeakable – Creating a Counter Image in German Discourse Bridging interspaces – the researcher in the field discussing Photo-Voice results with the originators, picture: JB. In the summer of 2015 in the so called “long summer of migration” or the “European refugee crisis” over one million refugees* reached Germany. The German administration, politics and society found themselves quite unprepared for a situation that

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Encounter Magazine Launch on the 20th of October

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The big day is almost here! We are happy to announce the launching of the Encounter Magazine!! To celebrate this special occasion we are having an equally special plan: First we invite you to join us in our flash mob to start off the event and get attention for our cause. Therefore we will split up into teams to distribute the magazine throughout Berlin. Afterwards you are welcome to take

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Tehran vs. Berlin

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Tehran, the capital of Iran, home to the one of the oldest civilizations with a population of 13 million. Berlin, the capital of Germany, with a rich and storied history and population of 3.5 million.                                    Tehran                                                                                 Berlin These two cities have vastly different cultures, religions, topography, and landscapes. During my time spent living in both as an Iranian-born photographer, these cities have revealed unlikely

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Berlin as a person – People imagining their city as a Person

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In November 2016 I spent one short week in Berlin. I went to visit friends and explore Berlin’s realities. Building my traveling and city experiences in mostly southern European destination, the low sky and fairly empty spaces of Berlin stroke me. I wanted to grasp Berlin’s character. During my stay, I spoke to several people; I asked them to imagine Berlin as if it were a person; who would it

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Encounter Blog Lauch 14/04/2018
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We launched!

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On April 14, 2018, the encounter project invited to the Lichtburgforum at Gesundbrunnen to celebrate the many small and large steps that it has already made. Virtual encounters and likes on Facebook turned into connections in real life (see picture gallery of the encounters of the night). Ideas for new contributions and co-operations were created, which we look forward to receive (send to contact-english@encounter-

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On The Bench

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Run, Ahmed, run! You’re late for your German course. Six goddamn minutes until the next train? What will I tell this new teacher? I need to convince her I am the best student. She could now make an impression that I am just another lazy ‘migrant’. How do you say excuse my being late in German? Ouf! The class is closed. There is no course today. Fuck me, how could

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Films 

Safe cities: Film and Reflection

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Safe Cities “The film “Safe Cities” deals with three people, who were unknown to each other and who came to Berlin because of different reasons, from different places and through different ways. The film shows one Turkish, one Mexican, one Syrian person engaging in a conversation that ponders on different dimensions of migration, access to the host society and the social and emotional baggage that is implied in such experiences.

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My Berlin: (be-)longing

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This collaborative article was written in spring 2016 and can thus be seen as a ‘record of encounters’ after the arrival of a large number of refugees in Berlin. What encounters do you recall? And how have they shaped ‘your’ Berlin? Sarah Fichtner in collaboration with Hussam Tumma Al-Saadi, Rawaa Azizi, Alaa Ali, Sarah Hartmann. Illustrations Alvaro Martinez

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