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#14 — KISSENKINO 4th EDITION! — THURSDAY, March 29TH, 9 PM

Spring is here and it’s about time for another Kissenkino event! Join us at João Cocteau, in Neukölln, as usual. Doors will open at 8.30 p.m.

**FREE ENTRY. Just don’t forget to bring your cushion to sit on!**
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About Kissenkino:

Kissenkino, (that could also go by Cushion Kino, only not as cool) is an event that created with the aim of warming up winter evenings. But Winter is gone and Spring is here to stay (we hope) and asking even more for convivial nights, so we decided to invite you for another film evening, spent among friends, cosy cushions, wine and beer.

Which movie, you may ask? 

Well, we believe that is not the most important and therefore we’ll be keeping it kind of secret until you show up. It’s not exactly about the movie, you see, it’s much more about the experience lost gone, of meeting up friends and watch a nice movie together, while having a drink, chatting about it and laughing (or even crying) together. And that, we believe, should be free. The only price you have to pay to join is to bring your own extremely comfortable cushion (or Kissen) to sit on. We’ll take care of the rest.

#13 — Kissenkino 3rd edition! — Thursday, February 23th, 9 pm

We welcome you to our 3nd edition of Kissenkino! It will take place next Thursday, 23th February, starting at 9 pm, at João Cocteau in Neukölln. Doors will open at 8.30 p.m.

RSVP to the Facebook event page.

**Free entry, as usual. Just don’t forget to bring your cushion to sit on!**

About Kissenkino:

Kissenkino, (that could also go by Pillow Kino, only not as cool) is a new event created specially to warm up your winter evenings. What we propose you is that one Thursday a month you leave the evening comfort of your warmed up flat and step into our kiez corner, to watch a cool movie, have some mulled wine and popcorn.

 Which movie, you may ask? 

Well, we believe that is not that important and therefore we’ll be keeping it kind of secret until you show up. It’s not exactly about the movie, it’s much more about the experience lost gone, of meeting up friends and watch a nice movie together, while drinking some incredibly good mulled wine and eating the usual popcorn, chatting about it and laughing (or even crying) together.

We thought about gathering our friends and presenting a good alternative to boring week evenings. And that should be free. The only price you have to pay to join is to bring your own extremely comfortable pillow (or Kissen) to sit on. We’ll take care of the rest.

#12 — Lavoisier Concert at João Cocteau — Saturday, February 19th, 21h

This Saturday, Lavoisier will be back for a great concert at João Cocteau, presenting new songs and the last copies of their new cd! A special edition of 100 copies, of which only few have left!

About Lavoisier:

“In Nature, there are no losses; there is no creation, only transformations…” Lavoisier 

Lead by the spirit of ”tropicalismo”, we try to see music not only as a matter of individuality, but as a full sense of awareness and presence in the world we’re living in right now. A world that already existed before. 
Antropofagia (act of cannibalism practiced between ancient tribes all over the globe, act of eating someone of their own species), was one of the arguments that represented the modernist movement in Brazil. Oswald de Andrade, a Brazilian poet, wrote in the early 1920’s the manifest of Antropofagia, trying to idealize an identity for such a multicultural and multiethnic people Brazilians were. 
In the beginning of the 1970’s, a movementstarted growing in Brazil, with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil as its most enthusiastic supporters. They both used antropofagia as a way to what they came to call “Tropicalismo”, since they, too,felt they were “eating” European, American and African music, and with this digestion, instead of very pure musical identity, they were mixing their own music’s “melting pot”. Also in the late 60’s, early 70’s, a series called “O Povo que Canta” was being recorded and produced in Portugal. This series had the purpose of recollecting old portuguese folk songs, that were left untouched by the industrialization processes. This project was lead by Michel Giacometti, with the remarkable help of Fernando Lopes Graça. The two had an important role not only in reuniting such precious assets of portuguese culture, but also in the fundamental study of portuguese popular music they developed. 

The project Lavoisier, was built on the inner need of making music. Whether it is sung in Portuguese or in English it doesn’t matter since the principal purpose is to fulfill our very first instinct that was Music. Lavoisier is a Portuguese couple influenced by each other and the whole world of sensations that music can bring along, and while sharing the same spirit of the Tropicalistas, Michel Giacometti and Fernando Lopes Graça, they head towards their own musical expression, with no fears and no preconceptions about anything.

www.facebook.com/whoislavoisier

soundcloud.com/delavoisier/tracks

www.whoislavoisier.com

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#11 — Culturia artists in residence show at João Cocteau — January 20th 2012, 7 PM

Culturia is a residency programme based in Berlin, Germany for artists and researchers who are engaged with alternative ways of producing work. culturia is an intersection of Berlin-based & international artist networks and researchers.
culturia has been building its networks since 2005 and has progressively continued to expand and develop its links with artists and other arts organisations. It started out from a residency that used temporary spaces in Berlin. It developed into an experimental place where the practice of exploring artistic processes became the key concept.

With artists:

Xinglang Guo / performance / China
http://culturia.de/ xinglang-guo/
Yusuke Nishimura / photography / Japan / USA
http://culturia.de/ yusuke-nishimura/
Jelena Fužinato / video / Bosnia and Herzegovina
http://culturia.de/ jelena-fužinato/
Sara Wallgren / drawing / Sweden
http://culturia.de/sara-wallgren/

Exhibition is open for visitors through: 
22,23,25,26 January
between 1pm - 4pm.