Upcoming Events

All of our events are donation based so as to allow access for people from all walks of life. To be able to sustain donation based events of the best quality and to be able to pay our artists adequately we need your help. Find out more about individual upcoming events here and how you can help.

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Grand Opening

27 August 2020

17:00- 21:30

Lindower Straße 20

To launch this year’s Isusu Ffena Pan African festival, we start the ignition with an evening of a specially curated exhibition in collaboration with Our Voices Within, Mavara Org. and amazing photographers. Expect outstanding musical and spoken word performances. There will be a photography session where we will recreate historical photographs of black people - so basically, the category is “Afrikan legends”. ✨

Afro-Feminism in Germany and Beyond 

28 August

18:30 - 21:30

Lindower Straße 20

In this interactive workshop facilitated by ‘Our voices Within’, Aincre Evans and Nora Chirikure aim to deconstruct and reconstruct the ways in which we think about womanhood. In particular we are curious about the women who were instrumental in the Pan-Afrikan movements, with a focus on the 20th century. 

Tiffany Florvil, author of "Mobilizing Germany: Afro-German Women and the making of a Transnational movement" will offer her insights through a virtual conversation. Within this framework, carefully chosen, thought-provoking texts around Afro-feminism will be read out, and a discussion will follow.

German Colonial History Walking Tour

29 August 2020

15:00-17:30

U-Bahn Station Afrikanische Straße

Through this tour Kofi Shakur and Nora Chirikure aim to highlight the process of colonization and give people an understanding of how German colonialism has worked.

The tour will start at the U-Bahn station Afrikanische Straße. During the tour, the audience will be carefully guided with an oral narration from Kofi. In addition, texts and images that add context will be shared. We will pass through the Pan-Afrikan bookstore Africavenir. The tour will end at Lindower Straße 20 where participants can share their, and enjoy a drink before the workshop in the evening! 

Deconstructing Blackness in Digital Spaces

29 August 2020

18:00- 22:00

Lindower Straße 20

The evening will kick off the evening with a conversation between Valerie and Aincre Evans (Our Voices Within) on the deconstruction of blackness through representation - in the hope to not only deconstruct the current discourse but to reconstruct a more honest and complete story of our shared space, history, and experience as Afro-Europeans, Africans, and Black peoples.  

Within this context, a recorded conversation with Wadzanai from The Afro Playlist will be shared. The Afro Playlist is a platform promoting dialogue that is free of adversity and intolerance through performance art; to inspire honest self-expression that provokes the realities of life to find healing, strength and motivation. 

Finally, the phenomenal Gotopo, a powerful female talent with a voice of fire and an urgent message, will perform.  You don't want to miss it! 

Gotopo Live

29 August 2020

20:00- 22:00

Lindower Straße 20

GOTOPO's debut single ‘Malembe’ is the Latin-American soundtrack of the future. FKA Twigs, Bomba Estéreo and The Weekend meet and flirt in a club night in Bogotá...

Malembe’s astonishing music video is a celebration of ‘Latino’, a contemporary time-travel from Prehispanic, through the Colonial era, towards Urban Futurism, filled with epic female representation. Discover Bachué, the golden Goddess from the legend of "El dorado" (Colombia), and the epic Venezuelan indigenous Goddess-Queen; Maria Lionza.

"GOTOPO is this inspiring energy, strength-on-strength on top of it all; she keeps taking you forth, and never let's you go." -Comeherefloyd.

GOTOPO's debut this year resounds also on the big screen; she composed and produced the full soundtrack for the Angolan film “Para lá dos meus passos”, which is scheduled for worldwide premiere in festivals this 2020, starting with 'Encounters' in Southafrica and 'Cinedans' in Amsterdam. The film premieres next to pieces like BALOJI's 'Peau de chagrin / Bleu de nuit'.

Afro-healing Workshop

30 August 2020

12:00-13:30

Lindower Straße 20

“Caring for yourself is not self-indulgence, it is preservation, and that is an act of political warfare”- Audre Lorde

The afro-collective healing workshop aims at opening up a dialogue with ourselves and each other as well as uplifting the Black community. By creating a space of collective healing and conscious expansion of the mind, we intend to get in tune with our true essence. Our focus is on intergenerational healing for all QTBI*PoC (Queer/Trans, Black, Indigenous*, People of colour) experiences. Our intention behind this workshop is to connect the dots between healing and wholeness and it will be led collectively by all who choose to participate. 

Isusu Ffena Afro Market Day

30 August 2020

14:00- 19:00

Lindower Straße 20

Supporting black and brown businesses in Berlin through a market day where all types of products will be sold and advertised!

Come and join us for a round of unique fashion, handmade art, jewellery, natural skin care and presents for your loved ones along with tasty African food from the African communities of Berlin.

How to make queer community more inclusive?

1 September 2020

18:30- 21:00

Lindower Straße 20

This event is all about community care and relearning how to make spaces more inclusive.

The panel discussion is open for all Queers of Colour. QTBI*PoC ( Queer/Trans, Black, Indigenous*, People of colour)

The panel discussion will be held by QTBI*PoC (Queer/Trans, Black, Indigenous*, People of colour). Through the conversation, we want to encourage the audience to think about what their role within their local and wider communities is, and how to reflect on the responsibilities that come along with community e.g: representation, understanding, solidarity and accountability. In particular, we want to bring awareness about how QT BI*PoC get excluded from political discourse. We believe such conversations are necessary in order to actively work towards ending prejudice and discrimination on the grounds (racism, sexism, xenophobia, ableism, homophobia and transphobia). 

Come join us, relearn and unpack! The panel will be held in English.

The Berlin Conference and Germany’s ‘Erinnerungskultur’

2 September 2020

18.00 - 21.00

Lindower Straße 20

The event addresses the forgotten Berlin Conference of 1884 that shaped the identities of both African and European states enormously. We look into how the conference is remembered in the German ‘Erinnerungskultur’ (culture of remembering) and what we as part of the African community would want to be included in this remembrance. 

Legacies of Colonialism in Tourism

3 September 2020

18.00 - 21.00

Lindower Straße 20

Reading Circle and discussion with exclusive interviews from Tsitsi Dangarembga and Dr Mehita Iqani.

The event merges literary reading group of some of our favourite black, femme, Afrikan/ diaspora authors  and roundtable discussion on the topic of Tourism in Africa and the Caribbean.  The first part of the event will be dedicated to literary readings. Each reading will be followed by a  short clip from the respective author commenting on the work. This will be followed by a touch base activity that simultaneously encourages movement during the event.  The second  part of the event will be a discussion for which we will engage an academic knowledgeable about the social aspects of tourism in the Global South.

Is Feminism for Everyone

 4 September 2020

18:00-21:00

Lindower Straße 20

This panel discussion will take bell hooks’ essays on “Feminism is for everyone” and use it to pilot the exploration of African and Black realities within the feminist movement.

The narratives behind the panel are the migratory life experiences of 3 Afrikan and Black diasporans on an array of topics that include feminist masculinity, ending violence, feminist spirituality and  Afrikaness+Blackness.

Closing Event

5 September 2020

Lindower Straße 20

16.00 - 21.00

Hosted by Lerato Manatsa with live performances from TONIJAH and DJ Anele.

Berlin Based South African DJ/Producer TONIJAH , An AfroFuturist on a mission, an international pantsula with a vision with an agenda to keep your body moving with rhythmic precision.

DJ Anele is a South African Deejay from the South Of Durban. Growing up both parents were music connoisseurs - they always had tons of records/ tapes/ CDs in the house. Her sound is mostly influenced by early 90’s music - kwaito(South Africa),hip hop and soul.