Hanging out at the gas station? If you did it in your youth, you can relive those times once again this Saturday (21.05.2022) at Kultur.tanken. Held at a former filling station, the one-day music and performance festival is organized by nine students from the FH Potsdam’s Cultural Studies program and has a lineup that celebrates Neukölln’s diversity. The students have created a program where 80% of the artists are either female, people of color or from different cultural backgrounds, and have engaged performers from Neukölln’s LGBTQ+ scene.
The music line-up includes Enana, whose sounds will carry you into another world, and WaqWaq Kingdom, who serve beats that will make it hard for you to keep your feet still. The location of the festival is itself noteworthy: the entire event takes place on the forecourt of the former Esso filling station on Sonnenallee. It’s a unique and poignant setting that reminds you of the dramatic changes in Neukölln’s physical and social makeup. A previously unused space is being revived with music and performance, a fact the students hope will show how vacant spaces can become sites of culture and community. This weekend’s festival is the first Kultur.tanken event – and hopefully not the last.
Text: Anabelle Grundmann / Photos: David Loeffler & Sima Dehgani
Kultur.tanken at the Esso filling station, Sonnenallee 9, 12047 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Saturday 21.05.2022 14–21h30
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