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The Sound of Biodiversity

Museum fürNaturkunde | 19.12.2020

What do club culture and biodiversity have in common? Both are complex, fragile
systems, acutely endangered and their preservation is elementary. That is why Dominik
Eulberg and United We Stream are joining forces to create awareness of the uniqueness,
diversity and fragility of both systems and to provide a special impulse for social change.

Under the heading THE SOUND OF BIODIVERSITY, the natural scientist and well-known
music producer Dominik Eulberg presents a specially created live set, which he has
arranged, tailored to a digital museum tour with the scientific assistant Dr. Kim Mortega.
The tour takes the viewer into the exhibition rooms of the Museum of Natural History
Berlin and to a variety of research collections that are normally hidden from the public.

“Human beings only perceive what they are aware of and only protect what they
appreciate.” Dominik Eulberg

With generous support from:

Twilight Hours

Hamburger Bahnhof | 03.12.2020

With the second closure of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin due to the pandemic, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin is continuing the cooperation started by Neues Museum with the Berlin label DUATRECORDS and the international online platform United We Stream. As part of Volkswagen Art4All – Online Edition this joint project supports the collaboration between musicians and artists, giving DJs and performers the opportunity to perform and granting the audience virtual access to the works of art and exhibitions in Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, bringing visibility to cultural locations during the lockdown.In her solo performance project Frankie, Franziska Aigner combines her cello playing with hyper-emotional singing in the installation Science Fiction / be happy here and now (2001) by Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tillmans. Indicative of a bygone scene of nightlife and urban creative spaces following the German reunification, the work of art jointly created by the artist friends also forms the setting for the psychedelic synthesizer sounds of South African duo Atelier.The DJ set by Sven von Thülen aka s:vt, co-author of the book “The Sound of Family. Berlin, Techno and the Reunification”, is being placed in close proximity both visually and by its subject matter to Michael Schmidt’s photographs of Berlin’s subculture and architecture of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as in the installation of Wolfgang Tillmans.The synergy of the back-to-back sets by DJs Tama Sumo and Lakuti, who regularly perform at the Panorama Bar and whose musical roots lie in jazz and Chicago house, results in new audio-visual references to the color harmonies of the expansive exhibition ” KATHARINA GROSSE It Wasn’t Us” in the historic hall of Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin.

Schwanengesang re-imagined

Theater im Delphi | 29.10.2020

Classical music and progressive club sounds come together in “Schwanengesang re-imagined” and unify into a genre-breaking reinterpretation of Schubert’s last song cycle.
The backdrop for the live stream is an extraordinary cultural and historical site in the capital, the former Delphi Silent Film Theatre. Outstanding artists of electronic music, such as Matthew Herbert, Seth Troxler or Born In Flames, among others, show their very individual approach to this piece of music in specially composed works.
For the stream, donations were collected for Baytna Baytak – a social initiative in Lebanon that has been rebuilding houses since the explosion in Beirut and accommodating people who have lost their homes.

UWS Festival

25|07–26|07|2020

United We Stream hosted a virtual music festival on 25 and 26 July 2020 at four iconic locations in Berlin: the Neues Museum, the Botanical Garden Berlin, the former Tempelhof Airport, and the old Monopol distillery. 

This innovative fusion of cultural-historical places with artists from a club cultural background sends a clear message: club and high culture take place at eye level.

The donations went to our campaign ‘Save Berlin’s club culture in quarantine’ to support Berlin clubs in the Covid-19 crisis. 8% of the festival proceeds went to the non-profit initiative ‘Gesicht Zeigen!’ (Show your face), which encourages people to take action against xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and right-wing extremist violence.

#SaveClubCulture #UnitedWeStream #UnitedWeStreamFestival #LeaveNoOneBehind #GesichtZeigen

Locations

Botanical Garden Berlin

The Botanischer Garten Berlin (Botanical Garden Berlin) has always kept pace with contemporary discourse – bringing science and art together and opening up spaces for different ways of experiencing nature.
In solidarity with the crisis of Berlin’s cultural scene, the Botanical Garden supports the rescue of our spaces and the promotion of an interactive dialogue to create a new dimension of cultural events. Time-relevant developments are the key to responsible growth. On 43 hectares with more than 20,000 plant species, the Botanical Garden emphasizes the diversity of nature that needs to be protected – as well as the diversity in club culture, which is a place of retreat and protection for visitors.

Monopol Berlin

The Monopol is an old distillery in Reinickendorf, on the border to Gesundbrunnen and Pankow, which is currently being revived. The federal monopoly administration for spirits was once located here for a long time.

Now a new alliance of entrepreneurs and organizations has come together to slowly bring this place back to life. In the next few years, a campus will be built here, where people from the most diverse cultures and fields will come together to jointly shape the future of the food industry. Where new digital technologies and artistic perspectives will find their space. Where working, living and learning merge in a contemporary way.

The monopoly is the best example of our vision of the United We Stream Festival. From its initial construction as a distillery, it is now evolving into a visionary campus where art, culture, technology and the future of food production merge and the course is set for a shared future.

Neues Museum x DUAT 

The Neues Museum brings together exhibits from three collections that are interrelated in terms of space and content: the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, the Museum of Pre- and Early History and the Collection of Classical Antiquities.
The stream took place in cooperation with the Berlin record label DUAT, which has been involved with ancient Egyptian culture and art since its founding in 2017. Amin Fallaha, born in Frankfurt, and Ruede Hagelstein, born in Berlin, combine a culture handed down thousands of years ago with contemporary dance music. Amin Fallaha follows the paths of his own origins. As the child of a Syrian father and an Egyptian mother, he has gotten to know different cultural circles since his birth in Germany. Through his roots he establishes a special connection to the exhibits of the Papyrus Collection.

Flughafen Tempelhof

Tempelhof Airport in its present form was built between 1936 and 1941 according to the plans of Ernst Sagebiel. The largest architectural monument in Europe stands for the monumental self-dramatization of the National Socialists, but has also become a symbol of freedom through the Airlift of 1948/49. In view of the opening of the new major airport BER in Schönefeld, Tempelhof Airport was closed forever on 30 October 2008. With the end of flight operations at Tempelhof, Berlin regained a large inner-city open space and one of the world’s largest buildings in a central location. Since then, the disused Tempelhof Airport with its monumental buildings and open tarmac has offered a place for experimentation and a new city quarter for art, culture and the creative industries. United We Stream sees the location as a symbol for the assumption of responsibility towards the past by giving it a format for the future.

Artists

Awareness Manifesto

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Preamble

Values

Awareness-Criteria

Events and programming

1. The booking should be made with due consideration of discrimination based on skin colour, sexual and gender identity, age, physical constitution, religious affiliation, financial possibilities, social milieu, etc.


2. With the program we design and broadcast, we can either perpetuate existing unequal social structures or break them up and redesign them in a positive way. That is why we pay special attention to a balanced proportion of female and male identified people as well as non-binary people and artists of different social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, People of Color etc.


3. A diverse program that reflects the diversity of our society and club culture requires the conscious support of artists from underrepresented groups. The introduction of quotas can be helpful, but should not lead to acts being booked only to make the lineup more diverse. Rather, it is about building a culture in which artists feel encouraged to perform, who are less confident than others or who are structurally disadvantaged. A balanced relationship between newcomers and better known acts can help establishing that.


4. For an event with five different musical acts in five hours streaming time, we recommend filling at least two to three positions with female identified or non-binary persons.


5. Clearly and explicitly misogynist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic, racist or otherwise humiliating events will not be tolerated.


6. Within the media used (music, visuals, stickers, clothing, banners, posters etc.) no objectification based on certain characteristics of persons, homophobia, racism or other discrimination may occur.


7. DJs have a responsibility towards the audience to consciously choose the selection of tracks (in relation to point 6). The lyrics of the songs and their messages are known to the DJs. The organizers or bookers are therefore responsible for which artists they select for the program. This responsibility also applies to clothing worn with symbolism.


8. We are aware of the fact that the programming and production of the streams is currently taking place against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting exceptional situation for clubs. Challenges are, among other things, a potentially short time prior to the events in the program planning, limited availability as well as short-term cancellations by artists. Should this lead to restrictions in program diversity, the UWS structure is always available for exchange in order to find solutions together.


9. By quantitatively and qualitatively evaluating our programs, we can better identify inequalities and derive targeted measures from them.


10. Labour in the field of club culture often takes place under precarious circumstances. Under the current exceptional situation, this problem becomes extra apparent. A club, an event and also a stream only becomes possible and successful through the effort and input of many people. This includes management, technicians, bookers, artists and many more. Especially in these existentially threatening times, it is more than ever important to honor and appreciate the work of everyone involved.

In the event of obvious disregard for the formulated awareness criteria (points 1-8), UWS reserves the option to:

• initiate an open dialogue to jointly redesign the program according to the above criteria
• cancel a live stream or not broadcast a recorded program
• end the partnership

UWS understands awareness in the process. It is not about right and wrong, but about constant reflection of our own position, our possibilities and the prevailing situation. It is not about pointing the finger at each other, but about taking the opportunity and responsibility that we all have as actors in the club culture together. We are many – and as diverse as the club culture is, as different may be the extent to which we have all actively engaged with concepts of awareness and equality measures. Rather, UWS offers the chance to learn from each other, to support each other, to ask questions, to exchange ideas and to bring about positive change – together with understanding.

Fundraiser

Not only the venues are threatened by the pandemic, but also the people who breathe and live club culture every day. This time we want to shed a light on the artists and help everyone who makes nightlife what it is – stage, light and sound technicians, stagehands, staff and the musicians.

This fundraiser list is work in progress. More fundraisers will be added during the next days. Stay tuned.

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