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Vernissage

Wednesday, April 26th, 6pm
Opening of the 5th "ART an der Grenze"  festival with guided tours through the exhibition, the Frankfurt-Słubice Pub Choir and the Polish indie pop folk band Paula & Karol.
free entry

Wednesday, April 26th, 6pm

VERNISSAGE​

Große Scharrnstraße
free entry
Opening of the 5th "ART an der Grenze"  festival with guided tours through the exhibition, the Frankfurt-Słubice Pub Choir and the Polish indie pop folk band Paula & Karol.

18 Uhr | Opening ​.
19.30 Uhr | Frankfurt-Słubicer Kneipenchor 
20.30 Uhr |  Paula i Karol 
Now, if you don’t know much about the band, Paula & Karol may seem like a Canadian girl and a Polish guy who got together to write a few happy folk pop songs on a few folky instruments. 
​But the real Paula & Karol are not just a duo but a large family of Warsaw-based musicians who, for the past seven years, have been capturing the hearts of young and old alike, across Poland and abroad. It all started when the Guardian listed them in their “sound of 2011 around the world”, stating that „They are Poland’s new superheroes. Not the tight pants, fluttering cape kind. More like, come to our concert – we’ll break your heart, and then we’ll fix it up kind.”
By singing in English, and writing songs filled with catchy melodies and lyrics that prioritize honesty, community, and love over hype and postmodern blase, the band has been touching listeners that cross a range of generations and nationalities.
http://www.paulaikarol.com/
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ab 22 Uhr |  Aftershow-Party WG Bar
Picture
Foto: Ronald Benke

Friday, 28.04. 7 pm

A quirky literary journey with werewolves

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
free entry
organized by the student representatives of the cultural faculty of Viadrina University.
Supported by music  the author Jakob Nolte reads his latest book “Schreckliche Gewalt” (published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2017). 

11 pm

ART Party

BASSement, Lindenstraße 7
organised by the student representative of the law faculty of the Viadrina university.
 Have a nice ending of the evening in the club BASSement.
Free entry for visitors of the ART festival with festival-bracelettes 

Saturday, 29.04., 8 pm

Film "My Escape / Meine Flucht"

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
free entry
Die studentische Initiative Deutschunterricht für Asylbewerber*innen (IDA) lädt ein zu dem Dokumentarfilm „My Escape / Meine Flucht“ (D 2016, 90 Min., Regie: Elke Sasse), der Menschen aus Syrien, Afghanistan und Eritrea auf ihrer Flucht in eine sicherere Zukunft begleitet. Die Geschichte wird aus ihrer eigenen Sicht erzählt, denn der Film benutzt ausschlißelich (Handy-)Videos, um die verschiedenen Stationen nachzuerzählen. Dadurch wird der Zuschauer mitgenommen in einen emotionalen Einblick. Intensive Interviews ergänzen das Ganze.

Sunday, 30.04., 1-3 pm

Workshop “Telling stories with pictures”

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
free entry
with Ernst Niemand.

4 pm

Reading with Sören Bollmann

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
free entry
ART an der Genze prowdly presents the first reading of Bollmanns new fantasy novel for children.​

Monday, 01.05. 5 - 7 pm

Writing workshop with Sören Bollmann

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
free entry
The author from Frankfurt shows writing techniques from telling stories to the finished novel. The workshop is for every one who always wanted to write a book but never knew how.​

7 pm

ART-Pub quiz

Festivaltreff WG Bar
free entry - please register
ART an der Grenze presents a pub quiz of another kind. 70 questions in the categories art, culture and peculiar wait to be answered. To participate you need to form teams of up to 4. There will be spectacular prizes.
 
Register at
[email protected] - the number of participating teams is limited.

Tuesday, 02.05 7 pm

Interactive Comic-reading

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
 free entry
by Ernst Niemand
Reading a Comic without text aloud?
Ernst Niemand shows us how it’s done.
World premiere of his Comic “Rockin Rooster meets Hula Lady”.

Wednesday, 03.05. 6 pm

Krimidinner (Dinner with thrills)

verbuendungshaus fforst, Forststraße 4
3 Euro - please register
presented by the student representatives of the culture faculty
Already registered for this years Krimidinner? No? Then get up and hurry to Fforst!
For the price of 3 € you will get a three course menu as well as an interactive criminal case. Excitement and fun are guaranteed.
 
Seats are limited! To participate register via E-Mail:
[email protected]
Door open/ begin: 6 - 6.30pm
We’re looking forward to see you!

Thursday, 04.05 7.30 pm

Nippel Jesus

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
 free entry
Stage play by Nick Hornby, performed by the Modernes Theater Oderland  (Director: Melanie Stein, actor: Stefan Stern)
Former doorman Dave has to watch over a controversial piece of art on his first day as a museum watchman.
The monologue in the play questions the often asked question: “Is this art or can we throw this away?” from the perspective of a man who knows more than he understands.​

Friday, 05.05. 7.30 pm

Finally downwards - An optimistic musical program

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
​free entry
withClaudia Wołoszyn, Heike Mildner und Jacek Fałdyna 
(Support: Onomatopoeia)
​The two songwriters Claudia Woloszyn und Heike Mildner, from Frankfurt (Oder) and Berkenbrück, will solve this discrepancy durig the musical evening. The two women complete each other's  songs with the guitar, violin, percussion and voice.
Claudia Wołoszyn writes and sings about snails and wolves, about searching and finding, about life and love.
Her songs tell stories of the particular in the general with charm and intensity. Her concerts are characterised by her warm voice, strong telling pictures and a touch of irony.The style of Claudia Wołoszyns songs vary from Chanson and Ballads to Bossa Nova.
Claudia Wołoszyn lived in Rostock, Berlin and Krakau. She calls Frankfurt Oder her hom for six years now. “I like living by the river as a commuter between two different worlds,” she tells us in person and in her songs.
Besides being a songwriter Claudia Wołoszyn is also a nurse, a teacher, founder of a family and mother to two children. A lot of life that she translates into her poetic songs.
 
As a child Heike Mildner learned to play the violin and switched to playing the guitar later on. She also owns a piano, music is everywhere in her life.
In Schwerin she became a teacher, played the violin in the “Singeclub” and tryed to write her first songs. After the collapse of the Soviet Union Heike Mildner studied music, played the violin in the Berlin Avantgarde-Band “Wund- und Spritzköpfe” and founded, composed and arranged for  the acapella group “vocaLiesen”.
Today Heike Mildner works as a Journalist for a agricultural weekly newspaper. After she moved from the big city to a more rural area her songs tell stories about the rural life, the people that live there and everything else that makes life worth living.
 
​www.claudia-woloszyn.de | www.mildnerlieder.de

Saturday, 06.05 2 - 7.30 pm

Offene Ateliers Brandenburg
exhibition opened​
free entry

3 - 5 pm

Workshop hot wax painting

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
free entry
by Karla Siering
Encaustic painting is an ancient painting technique (developed 3.000 years b.c.). Wax crayons are heated and poured onto paper for this technique. It is the perfect technique for a fun hobby

7.30 pm

Films about Słubfurt

Große Scharrnstraße
 free entry
2 documentaries about the region:
NOWA AMERIKA (D, 2016, 60 min) and ZU FRIEDENSZEITEN WURDE HIER GEBAUT (D, 2010, 50 min)

​NOWA AMERIKA, the “land in between” is a constructed reality created by the artist Michael Kurzwelly. It describes the german polish border area. This constructed reality with its own language and anthem, questions nationalist ideas. The documentary by Kristof Kannegießer is a roadmovie that leads through an unknown and mostly invisible land.

The documentary ZU FRIEDENSZEITEN WURDE HIER GEBAUT was directed by the Viadrina graduates Janine Halka and Johann Scharfe in 2010. Residents and shop owners tell the story of the “Große Scharrenstraße” and their personal relationship to the street which was designed as a strolling promenade by the late GDR regime. Original historical material of the street are shown in the documentary.

Sunday, 07.05 2 - 4 pm

Sculpting workshop

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
 free entry
by Matthias Wiedwald.

4-6 pm

Offene Ateliers Brandenburg
exhibition opened
 free entry

Montag, 08.05. 7pm

Singer - songwriter evening

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
 free entry
with Merle (Cello), Andreas Zimmer (Guitar) and Janet Gillette (Guitar)

In her songs Merle tells us stories about cherry blossom vacuum cleaners, cracks in the pavement,  laughter above her head and seagull shit that drops next to her. And about the nighttime turmoil.
Grewing up on the north sea island Föhr Merle always made music. Since 2011 Merle writes her own songs between her different realities (Moldawia, music studies, political activism). She is inspired by the “Rotzfreche Asphaltkultur (RAK)” an affiliation of musicians from the political left.
Since 2013 she is on tour as a solo artist. Her first album supported the project Wulkania that provides housing for refugees. She also lives in this housing space north of Berlin herself with her two children.
 
“Singing for me is the closest to flying” says Songwriter Janet Gillette. Her songs try to express the experiences gained from her journey. Her calm and soft voice takes us along on journey to our personal  inner landscape. Her songs reflect a quest, for the “things that want to be sung, to be heard”. She is inspired by Jazz, english folk music from the 60s and irish ballads. Improvisation is a big part of her compositions. “Always I search for this one chord that opens up new spaces, that lifts, weiden or drops the melody - the melos, the dance with my soul.”

www.merlecello.de  | www.soundcloud.com/janet-gillette

Tuesday, 09.05. 3 - 6pm

Europes day in Frankfurt Oder and Słubice
exhibition opened
​free entry

5 pm

Improvised glove puppet play

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
 free entry
by Karla Siering and Ines Hirt.

Wednesday, 10.05. 4pm

Jonglage workshop

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
free entry - please register
Fireshow artist Theresa shows how to make simple Jonglage-Poi and how to use them.
 Please register via E-Mail:
[email protected] - limited participation.

7:30 pm

Finissage: LipSync-Battle

Raum A, Große Scharrnstraße 23a
free entry  - register with songs
presented by the student representatives of the business and economics faculty - singing is strictly mandatory!
 
As part of this years ART an der Grenze the student representatives of the economics faculty has something extraordinary! We bring the first “LipSync Battle” to Franky O!
 
Perform selected songs lipsyncing alone or in teams up to four. The teams will compete against each other and will be judged by a jury.
The stage is yours for 1 ½ minutes, 1 ½ minutes to take your selfe not too seriously and to feel like a star.
Don’t take yourself too seriously, the more creative and eccentric the performance the better!
To select the song you want to perform write an E-Mail as fast as possible to this address: [email protected]
Tell us your names, your alias if you have one, and the name of your prefered song as well as the timeframe you want to perform in. If possible please send us a link or a file with the song.
If you need special Equipment please let us know. If you decide to participate on the very evening please bring a file with your song.
We’re looking forward to your creative performances.
Your FSR WiWi

10 pm

Ending

Festivaltreff WG Bar
 free entry
Ending with fireshow and aftershow party in the WG bar