Free & Outdoors!

90 days - 90 events. Free of charge and outside. Everywhere in Berlin. There has never been a festival like this before. Whether on the water, in the park, between skyscrapers, in front of the museum or on the street: 90 partners turn Berlin places into a stage, a screen, a dance floor - in every district, for all Berliners and guests.

The Mark Twain Library is a program partner of the BERLIN 2022 CULTURAL SUMMER FESTIVAL and will host a concert with NUNO AND THE END and HUMMANA on Victor Kleperer Square in front of the Freizeitforum.

The music of NUNO AND THE END moves on the fine line between meditative character and constant surprise for the listener at the same time. The soft electronic sounds combined with rhythms let the listener into a dreamy sound world, where much more seems possible than in everyday life. The feelings conveyed through the vocals and lyrics are personal and relate to struggles that are very familiar to all of us such as longing, betrayal and overcoming one's limitations. The moment the listener feels that he is familiar with this soundscape, a subtle change is introduced that forces him to stay tuned and asks him to adapt, rethink and go with the flow.

The HUMMANA music project is Convergence. Identity. Unity. Collective memory. Communication. Cultural heritage. It presents a personal interpretation of traditional compositions. Work songs, circle dances, melodies woven by the people. Popular poetic texts of pagan and religious nature. A platform where popular poetry and the traditional Madeiran songbook find a new approach without losing their ethnographic essence, where old compositions are reinterpreted and influences of the current world and rock music scene are absorbed.

In the courtyard of the Freizeitforum, Antonia Isabelle Weisz weaves a lyric bouquet with visitors and young people from the Marzahn writing workshop about the thought slogan: "That's all I needed!". They refer to the diverse topics of the library's book collection. Short texts are written on paper. The sheets are linked with threads. Afterwards, the text bundle is carried to the square in front of the leisure forum. Selected texts are read out with a megaphone. The poetic interweavings tell what Berliners are missing. And thus indirectly also what they wish for and what they have.

At the same time, reading enthusiasts can look for reading material in the book jumble.

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