Come to the Rosengarten inside the park on Saturday, 4.30 pm to listen to Alan Raphaeline and Friends present English language poetry. Apparently the headline is HOT AND COOL...

The homepage for the festival is over here in case you do not know where the Rosengarten is.

Whoever wants to join is very welcome. Bring your poetry and be there in time.

you know those long monday nights, when the bookshop is closed and one feels so lonesome? well why not join us for a hell of a honky tonk night?




Monday 2.6.08 at 21:00
The Hot Eskimos
(country, Punk, Rockabilly)
www.myspace.com

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The Hunters
(country, country, country)
www.myspace.com

at White Trash Fast Food only 3 euros !!!
(schönhauserallee 6-7, u2-rosa luxemburgplatz)

click on the links - they work!

From The Exberliner: Two engaging artists take the stage at this month's Wednesday at Burger event. British writer Lewis Crofts reads from his biographical novel The Pornographer of Vienna, based on the life of Austrian artist Egon Schiele.

The reading is followed by a concert by Berlin-based Spanish songwriter J. Pastor Martin Rodirguez, a.k.a. El Caracol Velocista. The Tenerife native is a talented guitarist and nuanced vocalist who draws from funk, jazz, flamenco and bossa.
Kaffee Burger, Torstrasse 53/54, Mitte, U-Bhf Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Wed May 28, 21:00, 5 euros

Fuel performance and live music show extravaganza presents:

Britspotting Cabaret and Electro Performance Poetry nights!

2 X evenings..

Hosted by lady gaby

Sunday 11th May 8 pm start

At Wonderbar, Wienerstr 45, Berlin XBERG 36

Monday 12th May 9 pm start

At Schokoladen Club, Ackerst 169 Berlin Mitte

Dominic Berry, from Manchester, England, is a slam winning poet and co-host of Manchester's FREED UP! monthly open mic. Last summer, Dominic was Artist in Residence with Contact Theatre, where he devised his poetry art installation 'Lovely Fruit Salad'. He is currently working with 8th Day co-operative health foods in creating new work exploring identity through diet. Appearing at Fuel is Dominic's first performance in Germany! See more of his work at www.myspace.com/thepoetdominic

"Beautiful writing and a sharp, unflinching eye"

John McGrath, Artistic Director of Contact Theatre

&
John Callaghan, live electro trash performances and male nude model. He is an unusual songwriter / performer of thoughtful and spiky electronica from Birmingham (UK). His self-directed video for "I'm Not Comfortable Inside My Mind" was aired on MTV. His live performances are energetic and imaginative, and range from one-man Auto-Karaoke shows to specially written dance floor sets. www.johncallaghan.co.uk
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Miss Hypnotique (London), electronic cabaret -

'mine is a little more Weimar-influenced - a mix of songs, stories and

instrumental music (I usually play theremin and saxophone, but I will

probably only bring theremin on this trip).' You can hear some music and video at: www.myspace.com/misshypnotique


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Lady Gaby aka Gaby Bila-Günther was born in Romania, grew up in Australia and is now a resident of Berlin. She is curator, artist and performer. Lady Gaby has been invited to many international festivals where she graced the stage with lyrics about many contemporary issues, women’s roles and positions, longings for place and identity, urban issues and other rather pleasurable subjects such as sexuality, lust and fantasies. Her spokenword performances are weird, interactive, political and confronting. Electro beats accompany her powerful lyrics.

Tuesday 04 March 8:30
Killer of Sheep (1977) Charles Burnett




Thursday 06 March 8:30
Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 11 and 12 (1980) R.W. Fassbinder
BOOKSHOP RECOMMENDS:
7pm Opening of Rashidii´s Living Room with Live Music and Artwork by Günter Roth

Friday 07 March 9pm Dinner around 11
Film: Coffy (1973) Jack Hill



Saturday 08 March
Bookshop open 12-6pm
BOOKSHOP RECOMMENDS:
8pm DIENSTbar at Wallywoods

Sunday 09 March
Bookshop open 12-6pm
BOOKSHOP RECOMMENDS:
FUEL 9pm at Schokoladen Club, Ackerstr 169 Mitte, performance & live music show turns 3 year old..party with Gaby and other special guests: American writer P Lewis, songwriter from Seattle now Berlin based: Joe Czarnecki, Berlin's odd spokenword performer: Tom Mars

Monday 10 March
Bookshop Closed

Tuesday 11 March 8:30
This is England (2006) Shane Meadows

RG Event Gallery
Solmstrasse 37 b
10961 Berlin

Thursday March 6, 2008 7 pm--Opening exhibition ,party, and performance

Rashidii Graffiti: piano,guitar,vocals,spoken word
Akira Ando: bass,vocals,cello,flute

Günter Roth
exhibition of paintings

Bio drinks,vegetarian,wellness products

("Pacifiers" by Jowe Head)

Location: Trödler, Dresdenerstr. 123, Berlin (U8-Kottbusser Tor, the little street where the Babylon Cinema and Möbel Olfe is!)

On Friday, February 22, 9:00 PM Jowe Head will be supported by the Incredible Shitty Listener plus the sensational Sister Chain & Brother John.

On Saturday, February 23, 9:00 PM Mr. Head will be supported by Shitty Listener and Kristof Schreuf (Ex-Kollossale Jugend, legendary pioneers of what is now referred to as “Kettcar, Tomte, Tocotronic & Co.” Viele Hamburger Schulen sind nach ihm benannt!)

INFO:
Mister Jowe Head is an artist and a musician from the Midlands of England, now living in east London. Moving from his home town of Solihull, he started his Fine Art training in Manchester in 1976. At the same time he was beginning his musical career with various school-friends, a project that came to be known as Swell Maps. This group emerged in the late 1970s, and are now seen as legendary pioneers of what is now referred to as the “Alternative rock” scene; they set up their own record label and mixed punk rock with experimental psychedelic sounds.

Swell Maps released four singles and two albums in a brief but dramatic career that saw them topping the UK independent charts. When they broke up, Jowe joined Television Personalities who he met as label-mates at Rough Trade Records. Ten years with the TVPs saw Jowe touring with them around Europe regularly, and travelling to Japan and the USA.

At the same time, Jowe was constantly evolving his own visual aesthetic and personal imagery. As well as many solo and group exhibitions in the UK, he has helped to run a community art centre in east London and he also teaches in his neighbourhood. As well as painting murals and designing posters, LP and CD covers, Jowe makes collages, sculpture and clocks using recycled junk and he is also an accomplished print-maker.

Jowe continues to make music and has a new band called Angel Racing Food. He is also a solo performer and recording artist. He continues to develop his eccentric artistic vision and exhibits his art-work internationally.

Links:
www.myspace.com/jowehead
www.myspace.com/angelracingfood

February the 20th, 8 p.m.
In our series of "behind the scenes evenings" we will host an informal dinner with two canadian crime writers / Lecturers / performance artists this week:

Robert Majzels:
He is an experimental writer who has published 4 novels, 1 play and several translations which have won prizes, including the Governor-General's Award for the translation of French-Canadian novelist, France Daigle. His last novel, THE HUMBUGS DIET, is a philosophical detective story set in an old folks home in Yonkers, New York. Robert is currently associate professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. He was born in Montréal and is the son of Holocaust survivors.

Claire Huot bout herself:
I have just published THE PRISON TANGRAM, a detective novel set in Burlington, Vermont; in a reform campus-style prison for women. My detective is, like me, trilingual --English, French, and Mandarin Chinese. My novel is presently #1 bestseller at Pages in Kensington. I'm a sinologist who specializes in contemporary Chinese culture. I'm currently teaching China-related courses at the Unversity of Calgary.

LINKS:

See the award winning limited edition of Apikoros Sleuth, a murder mystery in the form of a Talmudic inquiry, by Robert Majzels

Blog: 285 Bungalow Drive
Publisher: Mercury Press

We will charge 6 Euro for the evening which includes dinner. Alan will make a combination of duck, goose and chicken, a variety of vegetarian dishes and more. The menue will be posted here soon.

Friday 22nd: Claire Hout & Robert Mazjels - Reading at Wonderbar, Berlin

Tuesday 19th: Claire Hout & Robert Mazjels - Reading at East of Eden

Yes, we know it's "the TV-event of the year"! Episode 2 of Season 4! The last three names of "The Oceanic Six" will be revealed (We still take bets!) The invasion has begun! Nothing will ever be the same! All that!

Captain Internet is in charge of having it around whenever it's there. Since I have to work, I have a cold and I have to be at the Berlinale at the same time...

Mission Verein for this week: Pick up some flyers at the shop! We got a lot left! Spread them around Clubs, Kinos and Kneipen this week!

The Berlin Big Chairs project marches on into 2008 by taking over Gallery Wallywoods in Weissensee for an indefinite period and stuffing it with Big Chair art.

At Wallywoods - Saturday, 9 February, 8pm: "Artist, DDR fan and Wallywoods curator Paul Woods plans to build a Big Chair to these proportions on the gallery terrace, then decorate it with the DDR and other 'Kulturhaus' rubbish he has found, daily since Christmas, in the 'Kulturhaus' rubbish-yard. Materials include original posters, paintings, drawings, signs, prints, photos, books, prospects, diaries, certificates, film, records, tapes, ceramics, costumes, scenery, shoes, umbrellas, children's drawings, architectural plans, empty picture frames (glass and contents smashed and gone) and other rescued objects and documentation spanning 40 years in the history of Weissensees most important 'culture' center - now privatised - deliberately it seems, but not quite secretly, disposed of by the previous tenant 'Kulturamt Pankow' (local Ministry of Culture) without a word of warning or invitation to local or national museums, cultural and historical societies, libraries, researchers, arts projects or even private collectors.
Why?
Because inside we need the space, and outside few appear to give a damn. If you come to the meeting (possibly accompanied by live music and/or performance), expect to be roped in.
Because we need help. And not just in this respect.
(Free drinks for spontaneous musicians, builders and journalists!)"

Check out all the cool posters of Big Chairs and more at Wallywoods.com

The highly acclaimed Indian Bollywood actor, producer
Shahrukh Khan will be one of the special guests at the HAU 1 on sunday at 11 am to talk about "Love International". Other guests on the panel are Maria Schrader and Kate Henshaw-Nuttall.

From the programme: "Moderated by Dorothee Wenner. In cooperation with Federal Foreign Office and Berlinale Special.
There are few things more pleasurable than seeing a
wonderful love story on the big screen. Although love may be regarded as an eternal affair and a natural humancondition, looking at films from the different parts of the world, one can see clear distinctions arising from very different cultural contexts that shape relationships from the “first sight” till “death tears them apart”. Morale, ethics, family constellations, gender relations, economics, traditions and religion – all these issues result in what the Western world likes to describe as the most private sphere of an individual.
Three super stars from the genre of “love depiction” –
Bollywood’s Shah Rukh Khan, Kate Henshaw-Nuttall of the Nollywood fame and German leading lady and Silver Bear winner Maria Schrader – look at today’s cinema and its purpos as a role model for “real” love stories, as well as a fulfilment of audiences’ desire for escapism and as a reflection of the world
we live in – be it in India, Nigeria, Germany or elsewhere."

You can download either the complete Talent Campus Magazine with all information on participants, experts and content of all programme events or just the compact pdf with all programme information.

Fuel performance and live music show extravaganza is relocating to
Schokoladen Club in Acker str 169, Berlin Mitte
On Sunday 10th FEB 2008
START 9pm

So with a bigger sexier stage, more spotlights, disco ball and friendly bar prices,
Fuel has found a new home..so come by to be disturbed yet impressed:


With performers:

Mad Kate's spoken word/dance performance

Mike Haef the poet with something to say!

Femme Façade (one sexy half from Noblesse Oblige group)
performance, mixing text, action, music, spooky mask and mannequin legs..

Lady Gaby's spoken word with musical entourage from Mariya Ocher (Mary and the Baby Cheeses group from Israel)

Live music by: Sister Chain & Brother John! Berlin's answer to Nancy & Lee or Nancy & Sid?

Tuesday 29 January 8:30
The Dixie Chicks Documentary
Shut Up & Sing (2006) Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck

Wednesday 30 January
Reading Group 8:00
History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Thursday 31 January 8:30
Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 2 and 3 (1980) R.W. Fassbinder

Friday 01 February 9pm Dinner around 11 Film
SURPRISE FILM

Saturday 02 February
Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 03 February
Bookshop open 12-6pm around 5pm Film
Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 2 and 3 (1980) R.W. Fassbinder

Monday 04 February
Bookshop Closed

Tuesday 05 February 8:30
Catch 22 (1970) Mike Nichols

Wednesday 06 February 8:30 (FREE)
Sister Chain and Brother John present The Fantasy Cellar
with The Lonesomes! The magical moo-core quartet conducted by Gelbart

Thursday 07 February 8:30
Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 4 and 5 (1980) R.W. Fassbinder

Friday 08 February 9pm Dinner around 11 Film
M*A*S*H (1970) Robert Altman

Saturday 09 February
Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 10 February
Bookshop open 12-6pm around 5pm Film
Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 4 and 5 (1980) R.W. Fassbinder

Monday 11 February
Bookshop Closed

Starts today! Episode 1 of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" at the bookshop around 8.30 ! Reserve your seat in time.

The Week at a Glance....

Thursday 24 January 8:30
Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 1 Die Strafe beginnt (1980)



Friday 25 January 9pm Dinner around 11 Film
HELP! (1965) Richard Lester and the Beatles..... need I say more



Saturday 26 January
Bookshop open 12-6pm

Sunday 27 January
Bookshop open 12-6pm around 5pm Film
Berlin Alexanderplatz Part 1 Die Strafe beginnt (1980)
Click here for Trailer from Bavaria Film


Monday 28 December
Bookshop Closed

Friday 18 January
Dinner 9pm Film 11pm
What´s New Pussycat? (1965)

Sunday 20 January
Bookshop open 12-6pm
The War 5pm
Who ever comes can choose a missed episode.

Tuesday 22 January 9pm
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Joseph Mankiewicz

Starts on thursday the 24th of January around 8.30 with the first two episodes and will continue on thursday until it's over. Nuff said!

Check out this link for an excellent article on this wonderful series.

By the way, there is a copy of the english translation of the book on the "no, no, you can't buy that"-shelf!

This Thursday 9pm
Great live comedy Not to be Missed...
There is a 4 euro cover for this Event, Mention the Mailing List and get your first Beer or Drink on the House


My English Class - the strangest and raunchiest language lesson you’re ever likely to have outside a Polish barber's. That’s us. We’re here. Come and lose it. Our special guest will be one of Britain’s funniest students! The show will be followed by a short and fascinating Q&A session about trans-cultural comedy chaired by Dr. Chris Ritchie, course leader in the world's only comedy degree.