Whoriental Festival 2024

In the organizer's words:

🎉✨ WHORIENTAL 2024: A Celebration of QT*BIPOC & Music! ✨🎉

🌟 Do you remember the first time you realized mainstream culture has stolen from your communities? Well, we don't. But we see it every-effing-where! Our music, aesthetics, language, food, and gestures pop up everywhere in pop music, on the streets, and on the runways. From techno to twerking, from HipHop to "Habibi": Black and Brown folks basically invented the wheel wh1te kids are driving the world with. 🌍🎶

Three years ago, we decided to take back what is ours and re-open the space for QT*BIPOC's and s3x workers, giving credit to those made invisible. We cherish body diversity and shift the spotlight on refugees from SWANA countries, dancers, h00kers, and gender benders outside respectability politics. 💃🏽🌈

Since 2022, VVh0riental has unfolded into a radiant festival by and for QT*BIPOC refugees, focusing on beauty and extravagance while centering community building and sharing resources in a hostile political climate. It remains one of the very few spaces in Germany where Black and Brown refugees are given the stage and comfort to be themselves beyond hyper-academic exclusionary discourses. 🎉✨

Our lineup features phenomenal artists who will electrify the stage with their unique sounds and stories.

FRIDAY:

✨ Beauty Corner ✨ Film Screening & Talk: Lola and Bilidikid ✨ Workshop "Decolonize the Dancefloor" with Habibitch ✨ Hadija and Oiposha Bellydance Group ✨ Prince Emrah ✨ Gazino Neukölln ✨ Sabuha Salaam ✨ Adir Jan & Band ✨ Rachid Alexander ✨ Haus of Audacity ✨ Tukie Vanida ✨ Aziza A. & Friends ✨

SATURDAY:

✨ DJ Öz ✨ InterFem Collective ✨ As Per Casper ✨ Lux Venérea ✨ NAS TEA ✨ Nelson Cerqueira ✨ Voguing Workshop with Essi ✨ Bellydance Workshop with Rachid Alexander ✨ Faravaz Farvardin ✨ mandhla. ✨ The Whoriental Kiki Ball ✨ The Whoriental Spicy Showcase with Dunja von K, Chiqui Love, Aurah Jendafaaq, Maria Asskaf ✨ Prince Emrah ✨ Haus of Audacity ✨ Amowia ✨ Esengo ✨ DJ Workshop with NAS TEA ✨ Flirting Workshop with L'aDios & Papi Pistola ✨ DJ AMR ✨ Anta.Can ✨ Alias Shay and many more!

🗓️ Friday, September 20th
📍 Location: Heimathafen Neukölln (Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin)
🕒 Doors Open: 3 PM

🗓️ Saturday, September 21st
🕒 Doors Open: 2 PM
📍 Location: Gretchen (Obentrautstraße 19-21, 10963 Berlin)

👉 Box office:
Friday - 25,00 € / Saturday - 30,00 € / Saturday (party only) - 15,00 €

funded by Musicboard Berlin GmbH