Wed 21.06.23 → 19:00

HOUSE OF MUSIC — LOBBY

PANEL
“Club Culture & Disability“ 

Where are people with disability now?
Challenges and perspectives

Entrance is free!

In recent years, we have increasingly been moved by the topic of inclusion: Why does club culture bring so few artists with disabilities to the stage - even though the electronic music scene places so much value on diversity? This year we want to prove that it is possible to curate a festival with an exciting program whilst bringing a large number of artists with disabilities to the foreground. An event that educates, but that does not necessarily feel like a charity event or a school lecture…

We present a panel on inclusion and cultural activism, bringing together local and international community activists to share insights into their work, discuss principles of inclusion and diversity, and collectively develop perspectives for a subcultural industry in which people with disabilities are afforded with the same opportunities to develop an artistic career, just like people without disabilities. Our goals are to share information, transfer knowledge and exchange ideas.

MODERATION
Amy Zayed, born in 1975, works for ARD and the BBC (World Service, Radio 4, Radio 6 Music). She makes reports, mostly in the field of music and culture, and moderates a documentary series. She is probably the only blind journalist for pop culture in Europe at the moment.

SPEAKER 1 — Werner aka Bläck Dävil (artist)
Werner Soyeaux is headstrong, independent-minded, and special kind of guy that you won’t easily forget, either as a person or as an artist. His motto could be: to turn shit to gold.
Turning broken computers into working ones or discarded turntables into euros. Somehow, Werner keeps going, never standing still, making business deals with half the city to collect everything that he needs to make music. Since 2018 Werner has been part of the Ick mach Welle project and has begun performing live on stage. Anyone who has seen and heard Bläck Dävil live knows the unique energy he brings to the dance floor, be it behind a drum machine, a synthesizer or on the microphone. Bläck Dävil is the dervish who makes you laugh and dance. After his collaboration with the experimental musician MFX in 2020, he went on to collaborate with DJ Normal 4 in 2021 as part of the Warning Showcase at PopKultur Festival, with his first releases just being released on the Killekill label.
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SPEAKER 2 — Markus Lau
Markus Lau is a manager at Lebenshilfe gGmbH, one of the biggest social institutions providing consulting for families with people with disabilities.
- since 2007 working for Lebenshilfe gGmbH
- since 2015 managing FED (inclusive cultural projects)
- since 2016 managing Spaceship, an inclusive event series, which succeeded to establish a fun and really mixed inclusive club event with more than 70% people with disabilities in the audience and on stage
- since 2018 co-organisation of Ick Mach Welle project
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SPEAKER 3 — Daniel Vais
Daniel Vais is a renowned Social Choreographer, Creative
Director and founder of internationally acclaimed Drag Syndrome and Culture Device. He is also the art director for Radical Beauty Project, an international photography project focusing on people with Down syndrome. Daniel is known for merging avant-garde art and pop culture and working with artists with disabilities.
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SPEAKER 4 — Maureen Noe
Maureen Noe is Referent to the Managing Director and Project Manager for artist funding at Musicboard Berlin, a state-owned funding institution for pop music in Berlin that also runs Pop-Kultur Festival and Fête de la Musique in Berlin. In her capacity as project manager for artist funding, she runs the scholarship and international residency program of Musicboard Berlin, connecting over a dozen of music residencies worldwide. Before the Musicboard, she has worked in synch and marketing at Budde Music in Berlin, and in the field of communications and event management in arts, music and urban development projects. She holds a master’s degree in Arts and Media Management by Freie Universität Berlin.
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SPEAKER 5 — LCavaliero Mann
LCavaliero is the artistic director of SchwuZ, one of the largest and longest running queer clubs in Berlin. Besides organizing varying parties for a diverse LGBTIQ audience he conceptualizes and organizes a wide range of events such as concerts, shows, festivals, film screenings and panel discussions.
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Full Schedule → Wed 21.06.23

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.