Festival 2016
Every End there is a New Beginning
Where things, ideas and skills find new purposes: practical workshops, inspiring initiatives and sharing with like minded peers - 8th Annual Recycled Creativity Festival 2016!
Trashy & colorful, tasty & critical, the 1-day festival celebrates the end of the summer and beginning of new season! Jamming with trash, sounds and ideas, sharing thoughts and experiences, teaching others and learning new things. As well find there - playground for kids, stage program with poetry, music and performances, soli-cafe and info point.
Timetable
Pre-Events |
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| 21.Sept | Lock and Luck picking 7p.m. @ Braunschweigerstr.80 / 12055 Berlin Warm-up Workshop for Recycled Creativity Festival vol.8! Volunteer training in lock and luck picking mit spooxe & friends! Please register at: info@recycledcreativity.de (Limited participants) |
| 23.Sept | Soli Cakebaking 6 - 8p.m. @ Braunschweigerstr.80 / 12055 Berlin Big volunteer supported get-together for baking and creating wonderful artsy infrastructure for the festival preparation action! |
Main Festival Day |
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| 24.Sept | The Great Recycling Day Workshops, DJ’s and music for everybody, DIY – express yourself with recycling, swapping & talking instead of shopping. Corner for happy children & relaxed parents. 2-10p.m. / Wagenburg Löhmuele, Löhmülenstr.17 |
Contact
If you want to join the festival, or have questions, please contact us on:
info@recycledcreativity.de
If you would like to volunteer at the festival, please mail:
volunteers@recycledcreativity.de
If you have specific questions about workshops, please mail:
workshops@recycledcreativity.de
Need to talk to someone, call Ruta Vimba: +49(0)15781969196
Workshops
These workshops all take place between 2-10pm at the 24. of september at Lohmühle (Lohmühlenstr.17 / 12435 Berlin)
Loesje creative text writing
Come and write about anything that matters to you!
loesje.org
Time: 3-5pm
ReFashion Workshop with Runa
Are your clothes looking tired and ragged? Upcycling is the solution! Learn how you can fix and rejuvenate them with knit-bombs, lace, crochet, beads and objects, textile graffiti and cool print. Experiment and pimp with second hand materials, scraps and lovely trash. Transform your rags. Bring something that needs a make over or use something from our treasure trash trunk.
Time: 3-6 p.m.
Edible Alchemy
Yes wonderful Alexis is enriching this years festival once more with a bubbling Bacteria Bar – sampling probiotic drinks – Kombucha-cocktails, ginger-beer, water kefir-tinies will celebrate their 2 years anniversary in berlin. Learn about Edible Alchemy and upcoming workshops and on fermentation in general. Bacterial cultures (kombucha, water kefir, milk kefir) will be available for sale.
ediblealchemy.co
Time: 3-6pm
Swapshop
The amazing Trial&Error's swapshop is leaving its comfy residence of Mareschstr. 10 for just one day- just to be part of this exciting zone at the Lohmuehle Wagon village. "Bring what you can, take what you need" - clothes, books, ideas, knowledge or some time, everything is welcome in this swap economy. Be surprised what you will discover...
kulturlabortrialerror.jimdo.com/swap-shop
Time: 2-6pm
Lockpicking Workshop
RC without Frank and his lockpicking skills? A workshop with sppoxe & friends, for learning to open closed locks and other closed thinking! All tools supplied – you just need to bring your sneaky curiosity. Wanna become a lockpicking partner in crime? Help Frank at the festival and become a teacher - simply join the lockpicking volunteers training on wednesday the 21rst from 7 PM - 9 PM - see event:
Facebook-Event
Time: 2pm until dark
Plant swapping
Do you ever feel like something’s missing in your living room? Have you got the need to water something but you don’t know what? Or do you want the magic experience of a plant thriving, but you are still missing plant seeds? This is the place for you – come and adopt a sweet , graceful , good-hearted or proud plant or take seeds and offer them a new home . If you, however, can hardly go through your apartment without tripping over and cursing flowerpots – then bring the plant to our festival ! Give them the chance to find a loving home. Or if you have collected too many seeds in the garden or on your balcony, these are also welcome at our festival.
Time: 3-7pm
Optical Toys
Learn more about toys from 19th century, toys which are not only fun, but also played an important role in the history and development of cinema and photography. Come and make your own zoetrope, thaumatrope or flipbook.
Time: 4-6 p.m.
Documentation
Artists
All these artists will play at the 24. of september at Lohmühle (Lohmühlenstr.17 / 12435 Berlin)
Agnethe Melchiorsen
a singer and songwriter with a moving voice and a considerable talent for composing. Her songs, with both Danish and English lyrics, connect to the singer/songwriter tradition but also possess a jazzy vibe
www.facebook.com/agnethemelchiorsen
Mezkalito a.k.a. Ricardo Valdivia
DJ and producer from Peru but based in Berlin with influences of atmospheric sounds of Ethno House and Techno that plays lives and DJ sets.
River Rats
Comprised of two guitars, a bass fiddle and violin, the River Rats is a band that should not be missed! Influenced by the melodic lines of Django Reinhardt, the dark undertones of gypsy music, the heart of French folk and the spirit of old-time-country, the River Rats produce a unique and lively sound that is sure to please. With members from Italy, France and the United States, the River Rats feature the sounds, languages and spirits of the Old World and the New. soundcloud.com/theriverrats
theriverratsberlin.bandcamp.com/releases
The Hans
The Hans - the illegitimate son of Ray Davies, Rock 'n' Roll one-man band, shaker of great songs out of sleeves, just came back from his Platzkart-Tour through Russia - in great shape!
soundcloud.com/the-hans
facebook.com/thehansband
Organisers
Loesje Berlin
The ambassadors of freedom of speech has been with the Recycled Creativity Festival since its birth. The collective, mostly famous for its international networking activities and black and white posters with positively critical slogans, are crafting posters on the topics of the Recycled Creativity Festival, taking good care of all the volunteers tribe as well as sharing their knowledge in an upcycled notebook workshop.
www.loesje.org/berlin
FB: Loesje Berlin
Wagenburg Lohmühle
At the ticking heart of alternative Berlin, Wagenburg Lohmühle is the home and an inseperatable part of the festival. Community living in wagons in environmentaly sustainable ways, it does a great job with community work, urban gardening as well as enriching Berlins cultural life with such events as jazz and punk concerts, film screenings, neighbourhood flea markets and more. This year the community brings the festival support with location, technical equipment and solar power, bar with refreshments and all other important things to make the festival happen.
www.lohmuehle-berlin.de
Kulturlabor Trial&Error e. V.
Trial&Error is Berlin based collective of artists, cultural workers, craftivists, doers and activists. They have shared interests in DIY culture and craft, non-formal education, open design, reuse of waste and open source culture. They are looking for ecologically and socially sustainable ways to live in the city and to activate local people to participate. The area they are working in Neukölln has amount of social and economical problems due to unemployment, immigration and poverty. Trial&Error is one possibility for locals to take part in neighborhood activities and strengthen community in sustainable way.
www.trial-error.org
elektrischerwalfisch
Genious artist and reliable webmaster, who gives a hand in all the web things.
www.elektrischerwalfisch.de
Location
Lohmühle (Main Festival Location)
Wagenburg Lohmühle / Lohmühlenstrasse 17 / 12435 Berlin
