Events & Veranstaltungen

***ATTENTION: CHANGE OF LOCATION
@Sinema Transtopia, Lindower Str. 20/22/Haus C, 13347 Berlin

›Kiez‹excursion: Music & Film
Afrolution 2025 presents an outdoor experience at Sinema Transtopia that pays homage to the Panafrican movement history of the 1970s: A mix of Congolese music, film and swag!

Trailer & Artist’s Talk:  Akwaaba by Aya Cissoko
The Malian-French amateur boxing world champion, author and political scientist Aya Cissoko presents the trailer for her first documentary film Akwaaba, which is currently in production.
Aya had to fight to defend herself against the madness fuelled by generations of rage. In order to heal, she embarks on a spiritual and choreographic journey between the visible and invisible worlds to find her way back to her memories and tears. Akwaaba is about the difficult construction of identity, the preservation and transmission of memory and reparation. An initiatory journey in the footsteps of the African diaspora between New Orleans and Paris.

Concert: Christian Kossakamvwe Mpongo & Band:
»Ebale ya congo, tokeka! Congolese rumba – soundtrack of independence and solidarity«

Artistic Statement: Christian Kossakamvwe Mpongo 

Gentle, authentic yoga for relaxation and self-regulation for the Black community with Swami Dhyānānanda Saraswati - no fitness or gymnastics - just bliss. An appointment with yourself.

Teacher: Swami Dhyānānanda Saraswati
Venue: CUZ, EOTO e.V., Togostr. 76, 13351 Berlin, (2. Courtyard)
Time: Sunday, 22 June 2025, 9:00 - 10:00

**This Community Self Care event is designed as part of the UN Decade for People of African Descent and as a space for Black people. We ask that you respect this collective self- designation and the spaces associated with it. The workshop will take place in the future Community Centre building in the second courtyard of Togostr. 76.

Three public intellectuals talk about how spirituality shapes and sustains their work and about the spiritual dimensions of resilience in their respective working and living environments.

Conversation: Barly Baruti, Aya Cissoko and Mshaï Mwangola
Venue: EOTO e.V., Togostr. 76, 13351 Berlin
Time: Sunday, 22 June 2025, 11:00 - 13:00
Parallel: AFROLUTION »Sunday ›Church‹ Brunch«* 

»Black Parents Reading«:
Reading session with Black Parents Germany. Curated by Schwarze Kinderbibliothek Bremen

Black Parents Germany is an initiative for Black families in Germany in which they offer inspiration, empower-ment, support and advocacy as parents of Black children. Under the motto »It takes a community to raise a child«, they organise events, network meetings, readings and much more.

Black Children Library Bremen is the first children‘s library in Germany to centre Black children and young people in the stories of the books as heroes and main characters. The children‘s and young adult books are a carefully selected range of diversity-conscious children‘s and young adult literature that aims to empower readers and raise awareness of a wide variety of realities and everyday experiences. 

CommUnity** Programme
MEDITATION & PASTORAL CARE

»Ask a Monk«: Opportunity for one-to-one conversations with Swamiji, for example about self-regulation, lifestyle, spiritual boundaries and religious-colonial dilemmas. Appointments in 30-minute blocks. The registration list is displayed in front of the room.

Teacher: Swami Dhyānānanda Saraswati
Programme I: Individual talks every 30 minutes
Venue: CUZ@EOTO, Togostr. 76, (2. CY, 2. floor), 13351 Berlin
Time: Sunday, 22 June 2025, 11:00 , 11:30, 14:30, 15:30, 17:30 

In a poetic summary of AFROLUTION 2025, our festival griot*tes Mshaï Mwangola and Philipp B. Williams, together with EOTO‘s Librarian Philipp Koepsell reviews the AFROLUTION Festival 2025.

Griotage: Mshaï Mwangola and Philipp B. Williams
Venue: EOTO e.V., Togostr. 76, 13351 Berlin
Time: Sunday, 22 June 2025, 14:00 - 14:30