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Last 2 spots for our next workshop The Magic Of Riso ✨

Saturday 20 of November
10am

Whether watching a movie, on a dancefloor, listening at home in the bedroom, shopping at a store, riding a taxi, etc... music shapes how we experience the world in both subtle and really powerful ways. We will explore the role of music in how we perceive the world, concluding the discussion with a listening session.

Emiliano Granada studied Directing at the ECAM (Madrid’s School of Film and Audiovisual) and
finished his master at MetFilm School in Berlin. Over the last years he’s been working as both
director cinematographer and editor for both fiction as music videos while writing as a journalist
for Variety, the entertainment magazine. In it he has interviewed dozens of international filmmakers
that have become the buzz of the industry during the last 5 years. His short films have passed
through dozen festivals all around the world and he is currently on pre production of his first
feature film.

“Make plans and God will laugh” is both a certainty in life as it is an unavoidable part of
filmmaking. Bringing a film to life feels often like a gestating process where you slowly discover
what is the actual film you’re making while being always confronted with what you can not do.
Those limitations, those mini heart attacks where what could go wrong goes wrong and you feel
free falling are both immensely stressful as profoundly tantalizing. Because as you realize that the
picture you’ve been working on for so long, will not be as you imagined, you’re suddenly open to
find what it can be. In this lecture will go over practical and theoretical approaches, from
filmmakers of the past and the present, so that next time you’re on a free fall, you’ll find your way
to glide and land.

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Stephanie Fenner studied Sinology and East Asian Art History in Hamburg, Heidelberg, and Chengdu. She works as an independent cultural manager and curator in Berlin. As a cultural mediator, she researches current trends and developments of non-profit and alternative art spaces in the Asian context. She promotes exchange between artists from different cultural backgrounds and supports them in the communication process.
She has worked as a curatorial assistant and intercultural manager for several projects, such as Bismarck Dekolonial, Diskurs Berlin, MS Dockville, Urban Art Week, Metropolink Festival, and the project space KIMGO in Berlin. Currently, she works as an exhibition assistant at Times Art Center Berlin and organizes The Rhizome Lab artist studio in Berlin.

Introduction to intercultural project management
Intercultural competencies are an essential capability for working in a diverse and constantly changing environment of the art field. This class will help you reflect on your own understanding of culture and its importance for communication processes. It will give you an insight into strategies of intercultural management that can be used to create opportunities in your field. We will support you in the process of developing your ideas from brainstorming, writing your first project proposal, finalizing a concrete concept, and searching for funding opportunities. Here are some key points of the course:
Intercultural dialogue: Finding communication channels
Why is cultural exchange relevant for our societies?
Practical exercise – cultural awareness
Funding opportunities

Poster action with the magic of Riso
This short but intense Risography workshop will offer participants the opportunity to learn the basics of this printing technique and use them to send a message to the world. During three hours we will get to see some examples, explore the possibilities, create an artwork and print together a collection of posters. Using two colors and exploiting the possibilities that gradients and transparencies offer, each participant will be able to print its own poster, exchange ideas and artworks with the rest and take home 10 copies of an A3 2-color riso.
Materials: Bring your computers if you want to work digital. Or any material you think you might want to use to create your artwork: magazines, books for collages, inks, pencils, markers, colors. Everything is welcomed.

Poster action with the magic of Riso
This short but intense Risography workshop will offer participants the opportunity to learn the basics of this printing technique and use them to send a message to the world. During three hours we will get to see some examples, explore the possibilities, create an artwork and print together a collection of posters. Using two colors and exploiting the possibilities that gradients and transparencies offer, each participant will be able to print its own poster, exchange ideas and artworks with the rest and take home 10 copies of an A3 2-color riso.
Materials: Bring your computers if you want to work digital. Or any material you think you might want to use to create your artwork: magazines, books for collages, inks, pencils, markers, colors. Everything is welcomed.

By assisting this Workshop you can expect; to be experimenting with elliptical movements of hanging pendulums, trying to figure out the trajectory only with a glimpse of information. We are going to be venturing ourselves into the method of automatic drawing, permitting the unconscious to guide the process.
Practicing spatial awareness by trying to guide ourselves through space with only sound and doing some fun trick shots with only mental practice.
I will also be mentioning some historic examples, such as Breton, Dalí, Niels Bohr and Einstein that can encourage our willingness to practice our imagination.

‘Exercising the imagination'
A crucial aspect of creative thinking is our ability to imagine. Without imagination, our ability to blend realities and concepts, to see things not as they are but as they could be, is severely limited. A vivid and richly nuanced imagination helps us to create and innovate and to express and embody what we imagine in areas such as art and science.

Daniela is an herbalist and designer based in Barcelona.
For 2 years now, she has been bringing together consultations, workshops, mindful guided walks in nature, an herbal product shop, and all her knowledge of the use of medicinal plants in her project Tiempo Planta
She works with natural medicine, practices and methods to help people understand themselves better and and guide them to take action on their imbalance from a place of bio-individuality.

In her workshop ‘ ‘Guided walk in nature & herbal tea session - Being, Noticing, Feeling’ , Daniela will offer a guided sensory experience in nature to reconnect with our organic rhythms.
The workshop is a slow walking session of approx. 2 hours through nature (Treptowerpark) where we’ll explore what’s around us through conscious creative exercises to awaken and engage our senses and so our intuition.
Finally, we’ll close the walk with a seasonal herbal tea drinking circle to warm up and briefly discuss how to use its medicinal benefits for the winter months ahead.
At the end of the session, participants will receive a small printed guide with a series of sensory exercises to take with them the next time they go out into the forest to make their experience more conscious and restorative.

< Concept inspiration >

The concept of the workshop is based on the practice of 'Forest Bathing', an original Japanese theory that sees going out into nature as a space with therapeutic benefits to help the mind and body relax and connect through our senses.
It has been proved that after spending a few hours outside engaging with the natural environment, our body can better cope with stress, anxiety, sleeping problems, exhaustion, confusion and sadness.

Miguel Canal Marulanda: Visual artist working at the intersection of biology, technology and creative thinking. As a multidisciplinary artist, his interests orbit around videoart, data visualisation, found footage, the fungi kingdom and new media installations. He’s current works are directed towards designing and executing workshops for the development of projects that can bring people closer to a more conscious and nature connected world.

The aim of the workshop is to create an artist journal and to try out one technique of book binding. We will go deeper into one type of binding, the french link stitch, as it is very well suited for the creation of notebooks. We will carefully go through the steps of preparation and binding, and also create a book cover. In the end of the workshop we will have created a beautiful artist journal with an open spine

The aim of the workshop is to create an artist journal and to try out one technique of book binding. We will go deeper into one type of binding, the french link stitch, as it is very well suited for the creation of notebooks. We will carefully go through the steps of preparation and binding, and also create a book cover. In the end of the workshop we will have created a beautiful artist journal with an open spine

Day dreaming

The first step of a creative project doesn't need to be structured or coherent. Think about it as a process, a journey, a dialogue , a playful experiment. What's important is to make sure to be present and attentive to new ideas.

In this first edition of our creative series we want to encourage you to follow your interests and start developing your work of art based your own experience.

In this session you can expect to learn some exercises to kick start your ideation process.

By assisting this Workshop you can expect; to be experimenting with elliptical movements of hanging pendulums, trying to figure out the trajectory only with a glimpse of information. We are going to be venturing ourselves into the method of automatic drawing, permitting the unconscious to guide the process.
Practicing spatial awareness by trying to guide ourselves through space with only sound and doing some fun trick shots with only mental practice.
I will also be mentioning some historic examples, such as Breton, Dalí, Niels Bohr and Einstein that can encourage our willingness to practice our imagination.

‘Exercising the imagination'
A crucial aspect of creative thinking is our ability to imagine. Without imagination, our ability to blend realities and concepts, to see things not as they are but as they could be, is severely limited. A vivid and richly nuanced imagination helps us to create and innovate and to express and embody what we imagine in areas such as art and science.

Daniela is an herbalist and designer based in Barcelona.
For 2 years now, she has been bringing together consultations, workshops, mindful guided walks in nature, an herbal product shop, and all her knowledge of the use of medicinal plants in her project Tiempo Planta
She works with natural medicine, practices and methods to help people understand themselves better and and guide them to take action on their imbalance from a place of bio-individuality.

In her workshop ‘ ‘Guided walk in nature & herbal tea session - Being, Noticing, Feeling’ , Daniela will offer a guided sensory experience in nature to reconnect with our organic rhythms.
The workshop is a slow walking session of approx. 2 hours through nature (Treptowerpark) where we’ll explore what’s around us through conscious creative exercises to awaken and engage our senses and so our intuition.
Finally, we’ll close the walk with a seasonal herbal tea drinking circle to warm up and briefly discuss how to use its medicinal benefits for the winter months ahead.
At the end of the session, participants will receive a small printed guide with a series of sensory exercises to take with them the next time they go out into the forest to make their experience more conscious and restorative.

< Concept inspiration >

The concept of the workshop is based on the practice of 'Forest Bathing', an original Japanese theory that sees going out into nature as a space with therapeutic benefits to help the mind and body relax and connect through our senses.
It has been proved that after spending a few hours outside engaging with the natural environment, our body can better cope with stress, anxiety, sleeping problems, exhaustion, confusion and sadness.

Miguel Canal Marulanda: Visual artist working at the intersection of biology, technology and creative thinking. As a multidisciplinary artist, his interests orbit around videoart, data visualisation, found footage, the fungi kingdom and new media installations. He’s current works are directed towards designing and executing workshops for the development of projects that can bring people closer to a more conscious and nature connected world.

Day dreaming.

The first step of a creative project doesn't need to be structured or coherent. Think about it as a process, a journey, a dialogue , a playful experiment. What's important is to make sure to be present and attentive to new ideas.

In this first edition of our creative series we want to encourage you to follow your interests and start developing your work of art based your own experience.

In this session you can expect to learn some exercises to kick start your ideation process.

The first step of a creative project doesn't need to be structured or coherent. Think about it as a process, a journey, a dialogue , a playful experiment. What's important is to make sure to be present and attentive to new ideas.

In this first edition of our creative series we want to encourage you to follow your interests and start developing your work of art based your own experience.

In this session you can expect to learn some exercises to kick start your ideation process.

November is here ⚡️write us to get a spot !

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