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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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SPECIAL GUEST TINY HOUSE -- "GIVE ME 3 WORDS - TYPEWRITER POETRY" with Dan K. Sigurd
For years now, the poet Dan K. Sigurd has been sitting in the Mauerpark in Berlin Prenzlauer-Berg on Sundays, where patrons and passers-by give him three words which he uses to compose spontaneous poems. Now he’s setting up his typewriter at The Nature of Cities Festival! Give him your three words and he will write you a personalized poem containing these words.
The street artist Dan K. Sigurd was born in 1990 in the city of Berlin, but he mainly grew up in Hamburg. In between numerous travels through Europe and the US, he studied film, politics and psychology at the Freie Universität as well as directing at the filmArche in Berlin. Cinematic adaptations of some of his short stories that he directed himself have won awards at a number of film festivals. He regularly performs his works at readings and has been writing poems for passers-by in the Mauerpark for more than a decade now. His first books GIVE ME 3 WORDS, 3 WORTE UNTERWEGS and GIB MIR 3 WORTE were published by the Periplaneta Verlag.
ONGOING DURING BREAKS
FLAMINGO HOUSE – "URBANFOREST I" BY FUTURE IN NATURE Interactive sound installation, encouraging the audience to create new city soundscapes.
FLAMINGO HOUSE – "LISTENING TO BALLONA" BY DANIEL ROTHMAN, DEIKE PETERS, ANDREA HEILRATH A soundscape of the Ballona Eco-Reserve of Los Angeles, created by pedaling a stationary bicycle.
KIOSK – "POSITIVE PROTEST POSTER PAINTING (PPPP)" BY FRIEC & TNOC Have a positive message to bring to the festival? Make it into a poster using natural ocher soil pigments.
TINY HOUSE – "UNDERGROUND SOUND PROJECT" BY NIKKI LINDT Live listening to the interior acoustics of a tree, and drawing a collaborative visual sonic memory.
TINY HOUSE – "PLANTING FOR BIODIVERSITY & CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION" BY ANNE HILLER AND JAMIE CHAN Growing regional and climate-adapted plants onsite.
NATURE PLAY – "DROP IN BUILDING + PLAY SESSIONS" BY BEN HELPHAND, DAWN HERRERA HELPHAND Take part in the creation of a mini nature play site on the Festival grounds using natural materials.
RADICAL THEATER (LUNCH) – "URBAN ART LABORATORIES FILMS" BY FRIEC & TNOC Filmed actions, connecting people with places in poetic yet pragmatic ways in Bogotà, Daejeon, Den Haag, Izmir, Margate, New York City, PaNAJI, Paris, and São Paulo.
