RADAЯ: Open-air live sessions in Pankow
Welcome to RADAЯ – a unique concert series in Berlin!
Experience the fascinating melodies of talented migrant women and FLINTA artists at RADAЯ. Immerse yourself in diverse musical expressions – from jazz, blues, indie, and hip-hop to the best rhythms of South America.
Look forward to eight unforgettable open-air concerts on Thursdays from August 3rd to September 28th at the Bibliothek am Wasserturm in Pankow.
Share this unique experience with your friends and mark the dates in your calendar! Admission is free – come and enjoy live music in a summery atmosphere.
Line Up
03.08.2023
NANACO is a versatile artist. She showcases her versatility every time she plays her violin. She transforms everything with her music. While her focus is on jazz, her versatility allows her to blend any style professionally, from hip-hop and R&B to classical. Her musical influences result from over 10 years of traveling worldwide, immersing herself in knowledge and culture to combine with her Japanese culture. Besides violin and vocals, Nanaco uses loops, consoles, and keyboards to create huge soundscapes in her performances.
She enjoys going out, playing freely in the streets, participating in jazz jam sessions, and discovering new people and places. Due to her constant artistic projects, Nanaco always travels between Berlin and Tokyo, the two places she has defined as “her two homes.”
Instagram: @nanacoviolin.
10.08.2023
KAYAN Project. With a strong influence from the Middle Eastern culture, the quartet led by the main voice, Eden Cami, transcends border and language barriers. Adding improvisation and original compositions, Kayan Project creates a fascinating and emotional atmosphere on stage, bringing together two sister languages and musical traditions with Arab and Jewish roots in a boldly positive approach for today’s times. This vocal vibration is enhanced by the sober instrumental sound of a double bass, oud, percussion, and drums played in each of their compositions.
Instagram: @kayanproject
17.08.2023
ASTAN KA encompasses it all. She is a performer, composer, singer, dancer, actress, model, and art curator. She refers to herself as the “daughter of reconciliation” due to her dual culture (French-Malian). Her musical universe constantly experiments with various genres such as jazz, punk-rock, afro-tech, trip-hop, slam, and trap. Currently, she is working on a musical universe she calls “Gangsta Jazz” and leading the band “Asphalt Djelis,” whose compositions blend nostalgia from the past with futuristic sounds. Her compositions deal with love, life, friendship, protest, intellectual rebellion, and women’s and racial rights. While much of her work celebrates black women, her message is strong and clear about universality. Instagram: @tisskeen
Rüveyda applies lyrical and musical elements to her identity and speaks of a young Muslim woman living in the diaspora. With her art, she combines her roots and culture, denying every social and political contradiction or prejudice through her most passion: singing. Rûveyda is her own art. Through her “a capella” singing in her mother tongue, Turkish, she creates a diverse, intimate, and comfortable atmosphere giving to her audience an intimal and unique musical experience. |
07.09.2023
D.$AHIN. The mix between R&B and Indie-rock-pop of her compositions comes from the influences between her two worlds: traditional Turkish music (Saz, the Turkish guitar) and Western pop music. Originally from Istanbul, D.$HAIN arrived in Germany in the early 1990s with her family as a refugee; she was granted asylum and citizenship as a teenager. D.$HAIN versatility is infallible. It´s her voice and guitar. It may sound like just a definition, and is not. It´s a musical spectacle.
14.09.2023
Zazuka. This is the artistic name of the Jordanian producer, and composer, Zeina Azouqah. She began her career at a young age traveling from Amman to Beirut and Cairo with musical and theatrical productions. Through these experiences, she offers an authentic style for cross-cultural musical arrangements and compositions. Her voice oscillates between the wise and the mischievous, navigating Arabic, Turkish, and English lyrics, while the arrangements travel between sparse soundscapes to glorious polyphonies and tapestry of counter melodies.
28.09.2023
Canto Diáspora. Under the direction of the Colombian singer, Carolina Riaño, Canto Diáspora is a women´s choir from Berlin. It is made up of more than 20 women from different origins, mostly Latin American migrants, who intertwine their voices in Spanish to find collective songs that belong to the Latin American popular songbook, such as traditional rhythms like the Colombian bullarengue and the Bolivian cueca giving the audience the best of the Latin American roots. Canto Diáspora is a meeting point for migrant woman in which, through the music, the strengthen sisterly ties.
TEAM
Belén Marinato | Künstlerische Leitung |
Marcela Villanueva | Management/Organisation |
Renée Boche Olivares | Öffentlichkeitsarbeit |
Rica | Techniker*in |
Antto | Techniker*in |
Estefanía Henríquez Cubillos | Production |
Valeria Nesis | Stage Designer |
Jessica Antúnez | Grafiker*in |
Florencia Camila Peralta | Dokumentation (Fotos, IG-Videos) |
RADAЯ is a project by Sorora e.V. in collaboration with the Bezirkszentralbibliothek Berlin-Pankow Bibliothek am Wasserturm. The artistic direction is led by Ardea Berlin (@ardea.berlin), coordinated by Karne Kunst (@karnekunst), and the sound is curated by Sound Systers (@soundsysters). The project is supported by the DRAUSSENSTADT Initiative (@draussenstadt), the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion (@senkultgz), and the Foundation for Cultural Education and Cultural Consulting (@kulturprojekteberlin).