GLOBAL WOMEN’S GENERAL STRIKE. We will gather in front of the Brandenburg Gate, sit, lie down, dance, shout, listen, and picnic. If you want to help shape what happens, join the Berlin regional group.

Program

09:00
Placement & set-up of a picnic landscape (help most welcome)
Location: In front of the Brandenburg Gate / Platz des 18. März

10:00
Aleksandra Schreiber – Workshop: Making protest signs
Location: Foyer, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz

11:00
Glitzi Lehmann – Rehearsal of the participatory dance performance “Streik-Resonanz”
after Las Tesis (Note: Please bring comfortable shoes and clothing in red, pink, or orange)
Location: Forecourt, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz

12:00–14:00

Official Opening & Welcome
Adrienne Goehler and Anja Vatter

Warm-up: Unconditional Basic Singing
Claudia Wiedemer & Chor der Statistik, Bernadette La Hengst & Chor der Statistik

Collective Screaming

Exclamation!
Estera Sara Stan

Performance: Fair Share
with 20 women

Exclamation! Care Work, Feminist Economics, Speculative Futures
Mikala Hyldig Dal

Collective Screaming

14:00–18:00

14:00
Paula Paula– Concert

14:20
Glitzi Lehmann – Performance of the dance piece “Streik-Resonanz”

14:50
Chor der Statistik with the audience
“We Sing to Lower Work Morale” / “Woman of the World Go Striking!”

15:00
Faravaz – Concert

15:15
Minute of Silence & Collective Exclamation
Woman, Life, Freedom / Jin, Jiyan, Azadî / Zan, Zendegi, Azadi

15:30
Chor der Statistik – Hymn “Woman of the World Go Striking!”

16:00
Marie-Florence Mahwera – Exclamation!

16:15
Sisters of Solidarity – Performance
“It Was Never Competition – It Was Construction”

16:40
Meckerchor / Stephanie Hannah

18:00–20:00

“Harvest of the Day” – We celebrate ourselves and the day
Location: Foyer, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz

From 6 pm onward, we gather our shared impressions from the first day of strike in Berlin at the Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz.