The Wicked Festival 2021: Identity
The Wicked Festival will be a celebration of Spoken Word Art, showcasing its diversity and potential as an artistic and political form of communication and intervention. The festival will take place in Berlin on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of October, 2021. The goals of the festival will be to establish and develop inter-community links and exchanges between like-minded community members from across Europe who are engaged in promoting Spoken Word Art; through various workshops and activities, to provide a platform for the possibilities and range that Spoken Word Art offers; and, to showcase the talent of the finalists from 10 individual heats run across Europe.
The theme of the festival this year is Identity. We find this pertinent and appropriate, as it acknowledges the immediacy and necessity to reflect upon, address and redress the both individual challenges to identity, as well as attend to the social tapestry that forms and weighs upon identity.
In addition to the Superheroes of Slam final, the festival will also feature a host of free satellite events, including: panel discussions, spoken word workshops, discussion forums, poetry booths, event management seminars, a spoken word movie premiere, open mics, comedy events, and much more. All satellite events are free, however you need to reserve a seat in advance: just email wicked WickedProjects2017@gmail.com
To purchase a ticket for the Superheroes of Slam: https://tickets.kiezpoeten.com
Superheroes of SLAM Final
The Superheroes of Slam will feature the winners from the heats in 10 different countries who will be flown to Berlin for the final. The eventual winner of the slam will win 500 Euros.
The final will be held in the open-air courtyard of the Student Hotel in Mitte.
Tickets can be purchased:
https://tickets.kiezpoeten.com
Location: The Student Hotel, Alexanderstraße 40, 10179 Berlin
Please note that the event will be taking place outdoor in the hotel courtyard.
SATURDAY EVENING
Workshops
Led by an internationally acclaimed and award winning Spoken Word artist, this workshop will take place on the Saturday afternoon.
Stillness, Time, and Perception: What can be learned from the tedium of a place or time? Does this slowed information carry more weight than sensational information? Or are they just different frameworks for perception? How can these be political?
Cost: 10-30 Euros, pay what you can
To reserve a place, please email wickedprojects2017@gmail.com
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Movie Screening
We will be showing a movie that focuses on how 3 very different people’s lives intersect in a spoken word community. The showing will be followed by a live Q&A session with the director.
Cost: FREE
Reservation via email
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Discussion spaces
A series of discussion spaces will be organised on topics covering performing art, finding inspiration, creative processes, artist and audience diversity, and event organisation.
Cost: FREE
Reservation via email. Please check individual Facebook events for details or email us.
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
Best of Berlin
Some of Berlin’s finest performers take to the stage in this opening event.
Cost: 5 Euros. Tickets can be purchased at the door but reservations must be made in advance via email.
Location: Prachtwerk, Ganghoferstr. 2 12043 Berlin, Germany
Berlin Spoken Word
Berlin Spoken Word open mic invites but is not limited to: spoken word, prose, lyric, poetry, storytelling, acoustic song, rap. Performances up to 5 MINUTES.Sign up will be on the night
Cost: FREE
Brauhaus Neulich, Selchower Str. 20 12049 Berlin, Germany
SUNDAY NIGHT
Youthful talent (U18)
This event will feature some of Berlin’s youngest talent. The format will be an open mic and will be in both English and German. If you are interested in participating, please email wickedprojects2017@gmail.com
Cost: FREE
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Poetry Booths
These uniquely designed booths will be available at limited times during the festival. So, if you are interested in getting your own personal poetry experience, this is for you. Viewers enter individually and select which artist they would like to watch. Entrance into each phone box is determined and paid for prior to entry, and the subsequent profits are forwarded directly to the artists.
Cost: FREE
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
To reserve a seat at any of the Festival events (not including the Superheroes of slam final and The best of Berlin event), please email WickedProjects2017@gmail.com. Please note, seats are limited and will be given out on a first come first served basis.
PROGRAM
FRIDAY
1930 Best of Berlin Open Mic @ Prachtwerk
SATURDAY
0930 Welcome meeting for performers and community event organisers - @ the Student Hotel
1000 “Running events: challenges and solutions”- @ the Student Hotel
1100 “Negotiating identities” - @ the Student Hotel
1200 “Hip Hop Showcase – BLESZ” @ The Student Hotel
1230 Lunch
1300 “Identity in and through art” - @ The Student Hotel
1400 “Creative processes” @ The Student Hotel
1600 “Writing workshop” @ The Student Hotel
1830 The Superheroes of slam final @ The Student Hotel
SUNDAY
1200 “Cultivating diversity and creating community” @ Keith Bar
1300 “Storytelling, the self and liberation/ing art” @Keith Bar
1500 Movie screening: The Truth Underground @ Neulich Brauhaus
1900 BSW Open mic @ Neulich Brauhaus
The Student Hotel, Alexanderstraße 40, 10179 Berlin
Prachtwerk, Ganghoferstr. 2 12043 Berlin, Germany
Keith Bar, Schillerpromenade 2, 12049 Berlin
Brauhaus Neulich, Selchower Str. 20 12049 Berlin, Germany