The "Rainwater Symphony" celebrates precipitation: raindrop music and water basin dance, rubber boot tours, taste explosions at the water tasting bar and bar talk with wet experts. A day in, at, around rainwater for the whole family!
Urban wilderness and experimental architecture in a functioning water infrastructure: the Floating University and its program are inspired by constantly changing water levels. The "Rainwater Symphony" as part of the Cultural Summer Festival celebrates precipitation: raindrop music and water basin dance, rubber boot tours, taste explosions at the WasserkostBar and tresentalk with wet experts*. A day in, on, around rainwater for the whole family!
Program
- 12 - 2 pm: Water tasting bar with the Floating Kidsuni
People from 6 years old are invited to create their personal, delicious, shocking, stimulating rainwater mix and perform their story at the bar. This is how we get talking about our water story. With Anja Fiedler and Ute Lindenbeck.
- 1 - 5 pm: Rubber boot tours with club members.
Association members of Floating e.V. tell their personal story about stormwater on a tour through the retention basin. The tours can take place in several languages.
- 2 pm: Stormwater reading circle with hooops
Together we read texts about rainwater - compiled by Hooops
- 3 - 4:30 pm: Suminagashi Workshop.
Japanese marbling technique with water (today: rainwater) and ink on paper. With Alizèe Serazin.
- 4 pm: Rainwater Basin Dance
Dance around, at and in the water with dancer Ghazal Ramzani.
- 6 pm: Tresentalk
Artist Mirja Busch behind the bar and talking about puddle mapping and research.
- 7 pm: Rainwater Buffet
Gülsüm Güler and Inci Güler from TDD - Tischlein Deck Dich prepare a performative rainwater buffet.
- 8 p.m.: Open Air Piece for a Post-Human Orchestra
[rain]water version
A spontaneous performative intervention that treats all animate and inanimate actors* in the rainwater basin as equal partners in sonic-kinetic communication.
With: Elo Masing (violin), Vincent Laju (cello), Meltem Nil (movement, voice)
All human and non-human sound producers in the Floating University
- 21:30 Film: "after a while what is strange".
In a flooded Berlin of the near future bizarre things happen. The water is up to the second floor of the buildings, but life goes on, oscillating between catastrophe and catharsis.
A short film by Florine Schüschke
No registration is required.
family-friendly event