Sankofa Stages
📅 WHEN: Thu, 02.10.2025 (Doors Open: 7:00pm, Start: 8:00 pm), 06.11.2025 & 04.12.2025 (Doors open 6:00 pm, Start: 7:00 PM)
📍 WHERE: Miriam Makeba Hall, Berlin Global Village
The events will be held in German
Starting in October 2025, a new cultural event series – Sankofa Stages – launches at Berlin Global Village, centering African and Afro-diasporic perspectives. On three evenings, a space will be opened that celebrates the creativity, diversity, and vitality of African and Black arts and cultural production in Berlin. Each evening combines two forms of expression, creating new connections: for example, between an exhibition and a concert, a reading and a performance, or a film screening and a DJ set.
🎤 Look forward to: Batila & The Dreambus, Sharon Dodua Otoo, MFA Kera & The Black Heritage, and more.
The events bring together established, emerging, and experimental artists, musicians, filmmakers, and other cultural practitioners. At the center is the meaning of Sankofa – a symbol from the West African Adinkra tradition that stands for learning from the past in order to consciously shape both the present and the future. Sankofa invites us to look back in remembrance, bringing impulses, practices, and narratives from history into the present – not as a nostalgic glance backward, but as an active, transformative process.
Free of charge every first Thursday of the month at Berlin Global Village!
Kicks off is on October 2!
🤝🏿 In cooperation with Afrika-Rat Berlin Brandenburg e.V., ANEE e.V., Initiative Perspektivwechsel e.V., and Sister Cities in Action.
