Utopienale IV Public Day
All events on August 31 are open to the public, free of charge and family-friendly.
The Utopienale is an annual future conference in Havelberg that has been taking place since 2022 and is organized by the Old School ICA. At the conference, cultural professionals, academics and activists discuss visions for the future and practical approaches for culture, education and civil society, particularly in rural areas.
Solo exhibition by Dana László da Costa “Ibirapitanga”
Group exhibition of the Utopienale participants with works by Lado Khartishvili, Wieland Krause, Arif Amirov, Olga Fisch, Takwe Kaenders and Natalia Vatsadze
12.00 – 18.00 Film program: Four films from South and Central America compiled by Eileen Amarales Noy: Jany Batista, Resistance, video installation (sparrow’s nest), 2021, José Miguel Cano, Libido, video 2022, Milton Raggi, Vinueza, The Spiral of Formicidae, 2024, Pavel Méndez, Palimpsest, stop-motion animation, 2016
12.00 -16.00 Speakers Corner: Gaston Meskens: “The comforting practice of abandonment”, Mariia Chynkina: New narratives for Ukrainian children and young people in exile, Gerald Walter: A plea for healthy nutrition and sustainable food cultivation, etc.
16.00 – 18.00 Presentation of the project from Hachschara to SOLAWIS followed by a discussion: With Gerald Walter, Miriam Zeller, Gaston Meskens and others.
18.00 – 22.00 Azby Brown: Love’s Labor Slaughtered, 1991, Gaston Meskens: The Consolatory Practice of Leaving, 2025, Stefan Römer: Conceptual Paradise, 2006