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Welcome to the Nature of Cities Festival 2024! A gathering to get inspired, to learn, to present, collaborate, or to meet hundreds of new best friends and urban nature co-conspirators. The Berlin segment is an all-inclusive multi-day experience featuring field-trips, in person talks, workshops, art interventions, a film festival, Farm-to-Table dinners, various opportunities for socializing, and much more. All of it takes place at the Atelier Gardens venue, and various other locations around Berlin.

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Tuesday, June 4 • 08:00 - 09:30
Short Film Program 1 – Radical Care

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Welcome to part 1 of our 5 part short film program! Today the Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Cultures at TNOC presents diverse perspectives and transformative stories, from ancient rituals connecting us with the earth to the overlooked resilience of indigenous grains, celebrating life's triumphs amidst urban landscapes, and forging paths towards peace and collective happiness in our communities.

ONE: Chelsworth, 2022
by Nazli Gurlek / 14 minutes
A mesmerizing exploration of ancient rituals connecting human bodies with the earth, as two women invoke healing ceremonies inspired by a Neolithic wall painting, embodying the interconnectedness of life and the wisdom of the ages.

A poem for Oryza
by Tamara Walcott Singh / 5 minutes
A poetic art film brings us into an intimate relationship with Oryza Glaberrima, an overlooked indigenous west African rice variety, and its potential in fostering resilient rice strains amidst climate and food insecurity.

Life’s Dust
by Sandra-Viviana Murillo-Morales / 3 minutes
An intimate portrayal of personal resilience and rebirth, as a woman celebrates life's journey after overcoming a life-threatening illness, intertwining themes of healing, urban landscapes, and creative transformation.

Cities4Peace
by Mandar Apte / 4 minutes
Witness a real-life journey towards nonviolence in South Los Angeles, as LAPD officers, former gang members, and community members unite in an eight-week program to promote peace and build trust within the community.


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Don't miss this lineup of films that challenge conventional thinking and inspire conversations on radical communication.
Artists
avatar for Mandar Apte

Mandar Apte

Executive Director, International Association for Human Values
Mandar currently manages Cities4Peace a strategic consultancy that promotes peace in cities and communities across the world worldwide. He has recently written an ORF thought leadership blog on leveraging India's soft power in promoting conflict resolution and peacebuilding, ba... Read More →
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Carmen Bouyer

Arts Co-Director, The Nature of Cities
Hello, I am an artist based in Paris and art curator at The Nature of Cities. I am passionate by all the cultural ways that strengthen our relationships with each other as humans across variety of cultures and practices, as well as with wide diversity of non-human life forms, especially... Read More →
avatar for Nazlı Gürlek Hodder

Nazlı Gürlek Hodder

Hi! I am a visual artist, curator and ritual facilitator based in Istanbul. I am currently developing my own healing method offering ritual practices of freedom, agency, resistance and empowerment in connection with ecology.
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Patrick Lydon

Arts Co-Director, The Nature of Cities
An ecological artist and urbanist based in Korea, Patrick helps re-discover our role as ecological beings through story, film, illustration, and community-centered landscape interventions. Together with Suhee Kang, he founded the creative urban ecology studio called City as Natu... Read More →
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S. Viviana Murillo-Morales

Artist, arQ RunicoS
Sandra-Viviana Murillo-Morales (arQ RunicoS), is a Colombian and Canadian interdisciplinary visual artist practicing synaesthesia art and conscious ambidextrous drawing in Montreal, Canada. Trained as an architect, she seamlessly blends her 20-year professional journey in urban design... Read More →
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Tamara Singh

Of Versatile praxis, Tamara is a mental health professional, an horticultural therapist and an art therapist, using creative writing and visual arts as primary media. Formerly at NYU Langone Hospital in NYC and at the Parisian psychiatric hospital Sainte Anne, she continues to work... Read More →

Tuesday June 4, 2024 08:00 - 09:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin
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