Café Global
The series I founded and ran at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt — an evening where audience and music from all over the world meet as equals.
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Eight programmes,one band.
Series, festivals, conferences and a cultural journey — built over decades, joined by the same question: how does an unfamiliar sound reach a stage in a way an audience understands?
Garten der Kulturen
Music in the open air, for an audience that does not come specially but is already there: programming for public space.
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The Journey to Tunisia
A curated journey to Tunisia — music, places and people you cannot reach without someone on the ground.
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Sharq Taronalari
The international music festival on the Registan in Samarkand — one of the largest gatherings of traditional music in the world, which I have contributed to.
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Heimatklänge
The Berlin summer festival that made world music a matter of course for an entire city.
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DisORIENTation
A festival that takes the notion of the Orient apart instead of illustrating it — contemporary positions instead of folklore cliché.
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Islam et modernité
A conference on Islam and modernity — panel, audience and the question of how to talk about it without falling into the usual trenches.
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Night In Tunisia
An evening between conversation and concert — Tunisia as a sound, not as a map.
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Whether a concert series, a festival strand or a conference evening: tell me in three steps what it is about — we clarify the rest in conversation.