Floating Gardens call for contribution: Conserving through growing of ancient seeds

Floating Gardens are committed to the in-situ conservation of non GMO seeds! Our community seed saving and growing practice embeds a living archive of botanical diversity in the ecological context of the site. This year, we are inviting individuals, seed networks and organisations to share ancient seeds and their stories with us, from crops, herbs and spontaneous flowers!
In autumn, the harvested seeds of these then grown plants will be shared with local horticultural communities and individuals to be planted again next year, promoting and multiplying the in-situ conservation of these valuable endangered species in urban spaces.
~ ❋ ~
If you’d like to send us a choice of seeds and their stories, we look forward reading from you: gardens@floating-berlin.org

Yours, Floating Gardens (Lorene Blanche, Adriana Gahona)

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

STARTS NOW: every MONDAY 

9-11am

Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.

(In English and German)

 
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau

With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.

08.05.2025
2pm-10pm

Floating e.V. invites you to explore the history surrounding the former Tempelhof Airport in the context of the liberation in 1945. The traces of the war are explored with artistic activities to counteract forgetting and the misappropriation of history.

The Floating Kidsuni invites children to explore the neighbourhood photographically and to create an exhibition together in which their discoveries are presented and discussed.
A Memory Walk through the Tempelhof suburb sheds light on the persecution of various groups and focuses on the former Columbia concentration camp.
The Office for Neighbourhood Networks, together with the Learnscapes programme for university cooperation at Floating University, is collecting reports from contemporary witnesses and collaging a map of memory. People from the neighbourhood are invited to contribute materials.
Visitors come together at a discursive dinner and share their experiences of the day.
The event will conclude with a film programme with further perspectives. 

We want to remember in order to understand the present and draw strength for future democratic action.

You can find the full programme and further information here.

The programme is a cooperation with Kulturprojekte Berlin and takes place in the context of 80 Years of the End of the War

10.05.2025
3 – 6pm

In cooperation with VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

In this workshop, we will explore the unique ecosystem of the rainwater basin. We will exchange ideas on ecological practices used to strengthen local biodiversity, such as promoting natural plant alliances, supporting insect-friendly flora, and understanding the role of wild plants in ecosystem regeneration. We will kick off the gardening season with a collective sowing activity and conclude our gathering with a seed swap to help spread biodiversity throughout the city.
With Adriana Gahona Miranda.

Register here

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

every MONDAY 

9-11am

Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.

(In English and German)

 
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau

With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.

Thirsty Thursday:

Floating will be open in the evening from 6-9pm.

MarsOnEarth: Die Marsnahme | andcompany&Co.

8pm

A combination of art, science and activism: With “MarsOnEarth,” the theatre collective andcompany&Co. is staging a science fiction happening on the grounds of the Floating University Berlin. Inspired by Soviet science fiction, the performance addresses the exploitation of resources and uses music and sustainable materials to develop new visions for a future worth living on Earth.

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MarsOnEarth: Die Marsnahme | andcompany&Co.

8pm

A combination of art, science and activism: With “MarsOnEarth,” the theatre collective andcompany&Co. is staging a science fiction happening on the grounds of the Floating University Berlin. Inspired by Soviet science fiction, the performance addresses the exploitation of resources and uses music and sustainable materials to develop new visions for a future worth living on Earth.

More Info

MarsOnEarth: Die Marsnahme | andcompany&Co.

8pm

A combination of art, science and activism: With “MarsOnEarth,” the theatre collective andcompany&Co. is staging a science fiction happening on the grounds of the Floating University Berlin. Inspired by Soviet science fiction, the performance addresses the exploitation of resources and uses music and sustainable materials to develop new visions for a future worth living on Earth.

More Info

MarsOnEarth: Die Marsnahme | andcompany&Co.

8pm

A combination of art, science and activism: With “MarsOnEarth,” the theatre collective andcompany&Co. is staging a science fiction happening on the grounds of the Floating University Berlin. Inspired by Soviet science fiction, the performance addresses the exploitation of resources and uses music and sustainable materials to develop new visions for a future worth living on Earth.

More Info

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

every MONDAY 

9-11am

Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.

(In English and German)

 
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau

With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.

WasserkostBar | Havelland Grundschule
9am – 1pm

We invite you to become part of Floating University‘s WasserkostBar. Floating University is located in a rainwater retention basin. Find out what it is a “sponge city” and why Berlin wants to become one. We’ll also take a look at where our water comes from, where water is found and what we put into it and why. We will find, drink and eat different water mixes together and once you have become water experts, you will make your own drinks for the WasserkostBar and for our water library.
These can be delicious, thought-provoking, shocking and funny. Let us surprise you!

The WasserkostBar is funded by Berliner Wasserbetriebe.

Floating will be open in the evening from 6-9pm.

WasserkostBar
9am – 1pm

We invite you to become part of Floating University‘s WasserkostBar. Floating University is located in a rainwater retention basin. Find out what it is a “sponge city” and why Berlin wants to become one. We’ll also take a look at where our water comes from, where water is found and what we put into it and why. We will find, drink and eat different water mixes together and once you have become water experts, you will make your own drinks for the WasserkostBar and for our water library.
These can be delicious, thought-provoking, shocking and funny. Let us surprise you!

The WasserkostBar is funded by Berliner Wasserbetriebe.

WasserkostBar | Canisius College
12 – 2 pm

We invite you to become part of Floating University‘s WasserkostBar. Floating University is located in a rainwater retention basin. Find out what it is a “sponge city” and why Berlin wants to become one. We’ll also take a look at where our water comes from, where water is found and what we put into it and why. We will find, drink and eat different water mixes together and once you have become water experts, you will make your own drinks for the WasserkostBar and for our water library.
These can be delicious, thought-provoking, shocking and funny. Let us surprise you!

The WasserkostBar is funded by Berliner Wasserbetriebe.

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

every MONDAY 

9-11am

Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.

(In English and German)

 
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau

With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.

Floating Gardens call for contribution: Conserving through growing of ancient seeds

Floating Gardens are committed to the in-situ conservation of non GMO seeds! Our community seed saving and growing practice embeds a living archive of botanical diversity in the ecological context of the site. This year, we are inviting individuals, seed networks and organisations to share ancient seeds and their stories with us, from crops, herbs and spontaneous flowers!
In autumn, the harvested seeds of these then grown plants will be shared with local horticultural communities and individuals to be planted again next year, promoting and multiplying the in-situ conservation of these valuable endangered species in urban spaces.
~ ❋ ~
If you’d like to send us a choice of seeds and their stories, we look forward reading from you: gardens@floating-berlin.org

Yours, Floating Gardens (Lorene Blanche, Adriana Gahona)

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

every MONDAY 

9-11am

Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.

(In English and German)

 
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau

With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.

Pandoras Podcast | Neuköllner Oper
8pm

The box is rattling: For far too long, Pandora has been blamed for all the world’s misfortunes. But that’s all over now. And now is exactly the right time for a change of image – the battle has begun!
It’s not a podcast about babbling, but ‘organic sludge for your frown lines’ and a scenic concert with experimental jazzy-pop compositions by Franziska Aller with performances at the Neukölln Opera, the Floating University (open air) and the Galerie im Körnerpark.

Pandoras Podcast | Neuköllner Oper
8pm

The box is rattling: For far too long, Pandora has been blamed for all the world’s misfortunes. But that’s all over now. And now is exactly the right time for a change of image – the battle has begun!
It’s not a podcast about babbling, but ‘organic sludge for your frown lines’ and a scenic concert with experimental jazzy-pop compositions by Franziska Aller with performances at the Neukölln Opera, the Floating University (open air) and the Galerie im Körnerpark.

Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse
7- 9 pm

A conversation between Elizabeth Gallón Droste, Pablo Calderón Salazar, and Lorenzo Gerbi, moderated by Rosaura Romero about pluriverse in artistic practices, radical pedagogy, and community-led knowledge.

SIT-PLU is a Creative Europe project addressing socio-ecological challenges through site-specific art. Inspired by the Zapatista pluriverse, it fosters diverse ways of knowing, communal interdependence, and human/more-than-human relations.

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

every MONDAY 

9-11am

Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.

(In English and German)

 
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau

With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

every MONDAY 

9-11am

Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.

(In English and German)

 
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau

With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.

Sonic Fragilities | Errant Sound

3 – 10 pm

More info soon

Sonic Fragilities | Errant Sound

12 – 10 pm

More info soon

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

every MONDAY 

9-11am

Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.

(In English and German)

 
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau

With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

every MONDAY 

9-11am

Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.

(In English and German)

 
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau

With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.

Floating Gardens call for contribution: Conserving through growing of ancient seeds

Floating Gardens are committed to the in-situ conservation of non GMO seeds! Our community seed saving and growing practice embeds a living archive of botanical diversity in the ecological context of the site. This year, we are inviting individuals, seed networks and organisations to share ancient seeds and their stories with us, from crops, herbs and spontaneous flowers!
In autumn, the harvested seeds of these then grown plants will be shared with local horticultural communities and individuals to be planted again next year, promoting and multiplying the in-situ conservation of these valuable endangered species in urban spaces.
~ ❋ ~
If you’d like to send us a choice of seeds and their stories, we look forward reading from you: gardens@floating-berlin.org

Yours, Floating Gardens (Lorene Blanche, Adriana Gahona)

26.04.2025
3 – 6 pm

Rainwater retention basin – history of the site

This workshop invites participants to collectively explore the history of a unique urban site. The retention basin is a technical structure in which the Floating University has been coexisting since 2018, creating an experimental space, where city and nature, research and imagination, seamlessly intertwine. Through a guided tour and shared reflections, we will observe the fragile interplay between environment and urbanity and ask ourselves: What stories do places like this tell — and which ones do we want to carry into the future?

At the heart of the workshop are questions of appropriation and responsibility:  

What does it mean to appropriate spaces in the city — not as possessions, but as shared practices in solidarity with their past? How can a place be more than just used — how can it be cared for and thoughtfully developed? And how can we understand places like the Floating University as spaces of possibility that allow us to renegotiate our relationship to the city, to nature, and to one another?

Workshop-organization: Ute Lindenbeck

Register here ! 

A workshop tour by VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in cooperation with Floating e.V.

Magic & Power: Reclaim Walpurgis Night

3pm-10pm | FULL PROGRAM

The figure of the witch is deeply rooted in our culture – often as a threat, an outsider, an evil old woman. Behind this narrative lies the history of oppression, power and resistance. The image of the witch is a symptom of patriarchal structures – but it can also be a symbol of self-empowerment.

We are taking Walpurgis Night as an opportunity to confront this negative narrative with artistic-discursive formats and counter it with feminist narration.

A sound installation brings together voices that illuminate the political dimension of the witch. A workshop imparts knowledge about medicinal plants as a resistant practice from a decolonial perspective. At an experimental dinner, we will talk about what health equity means and the sauna will become a symbolic fire, accompanied by a collective reading. 

We invite you to create a space for empowerment, solidarity and new narratives together.

Silja Teresa Huppertz in cooperation with Floating e.V.

All events are free and open to everyone. Children are welcome!

Supported with funds from the Kultur am 1. Mai project fund of the Friedrichshaim-Kreuzberg district authority.