silent green Sommerfest 2025
Once again we are opening our doors and invite you to come and celebrate the summer with us. You can explore the site and hear its history told, listen to music outside and inside, watch films and enjoy summer drinks and all kinds of treats from MARS I Café & Bar.
You also have the opportunity to view the exhibition Breathing Matter(s) in the Betonhalle (11 am – 8 pm).
Programme
- 2:30 pm kids reading (age 3 years and up): Oh, wie schön ist Panama by Janosch – in collaboration with Drehbühne Berlin – at Atelier 2
- 3 pm concert KOOB S in the Kuppelhalle
- 3 pm Taco- & Quesadilla cooking class for kids, Atelier 1 (participation with prior registration here)
- 4 pm concert Mykola Lebed on the lawn
- 4:30 pm kids reading (age 7 and up): Jonathan Aikins will read Moor Myrte by Sid Sharp – in collaboration with the international literature festival berlin – in the Kuppelhalle
- 6 pm Taco- & Quesadilla cooking class for kids, Atelier 1 (participation with prior registration here)
- 6:30 pm concert Milan Ring in the Kuppelhalle
– in collaboration with Musicboard Berlin - Historical guided tours: 2 pm (de), 3:30 pm (de) & 5:30 pm (de),
meeting point lawn (please register here) - Summer short film programme for children by Kino Arsenal:
- Por primera vez (For the First Time, Octavio Cortázar, Cuba 1967), original version with German subtitles (OmdtU)
- The Tramp (Charles Chaplin, USA 1915), OV
- Bird Calls (Malcom Sutherland, Canada 2006), no dialogue
- Circle Phases (Lara Faroqhi, Germany 2018), no dialogue
- A Chairy Tale (Norman McLaren & Claude Jutra, Canada 1957), no dialogue
Kids programme
Die Drehbühne Berlin
In 2004, directors and actors Lorenz Chr. Köhler and Nanda Ben Chaabane founded the independent theater company Drehbühne Berlin. Their debut production, The Little Prince — which was performed regularly at Berlin’s Admiralspalast for over ten years and most recently in the 2024/25 season at Heimathafen — has drawn more than 350,000 audience members to date
Oh, wie schön ist Panama by Janosch
“If you have a friend, you don’t need to be afraid of anything!”
Every child knows that Little Bear and Little Tiger are the best of friends. Together, they are wonderfully strong—strong like a bear and strong like a tiger. They live happily in their cozy house by the river. One day, Little Bear finds a box that smells like bananas from top to bottom. On the box, it says “Panama.” So Little Bear and his friend, Little Tiger, set off on a journey to find it—the land of their dreams.
KOOB S
KOOB S is the intimate duo project of Belarusian singer and composer KOOB and Swedish bassist Seth Sjöström. As bandmates of KOOB, they bring their deep musical connection into a more intimate setting. Their sparse yet nuanced sound blends raw improvisation, haunting melodies and deep groove, moving between jazz, avant-garde, and Nordic folk.
Mykola Lebed
Mykola Lebed creates a multi-layered stream of feelings on the crossroads of ambient, spiritual jazz and leftield electronics by combining timbral diversity of saxophone with synthesizers and field recordings.
A deep sense of sound and a free-jazz approach to composition makes each of his performances an eclectic happening with unique sonic experience.
internationales literaturfestival berlin
The international literature festival berlin, ilb for short, is one of the most important literature festivals in the world. Every year in September, the festival brings together over 100 international authors for book premieres, readings and panel discussions. For more than 20 years, the festival has been offering literature enthusiasts the unique opportunity to gain curated insights into the fascinating world of international literature.
Moor Myrte
In the moor, deep within a truly dark forest, lives the eerie Moor Myrte, who turns anyone into a fly who doesn’t respect nature. The kind-hearted Beatrice gains her trust and receives a magical yarn, with which she can knit a warm sweater for her grumpy sister. But Magnolia isn’t interested in the sweater—she only cares about the profit to be made from the magical yarn. Shamelessly, she exploits her sister and the spiders who help her, until... until the source for production suddenly runs dry.
Sid Sharp tells a humorous and child-friendly story about how greed and exploitation harm our society. Sid weaves fairy-tale elements into the story and urges respectful and responsible treatment of nature. A picture-book graphic novel at its finest.
Jonathan Aikins
Jonathan Kwesi Aikins (born 1989 in Berlin) is a German actor and voice actor. He became known for his leading role in the film Mikel as well as for playing investigator Thomas Okonjo in Tatort since 2019.
Milan Ring
Milan Ring is a Berlin-based songwriter, producer, guitarist, and mix engineer crafting genre-bending alt-electronic pop and R&B. Her work is a rich tapestry of intricate vocal layering, lush guitar tones, and raw percussive energy – woven from the organic and digital, the intimate and expansive, the ethereal and the tangible.
Originally from Sydney, Milan has been a leading force in Australia's alt-R&B music scene, earning an ARIA Award nomination for her acclaimed album Mangos.
Saturday, 23. August
Entire Site
2–8 pm
Admission free
Readings in collaboration with
