Events

🖤 DECOLONOIZE 🖤 presents BERÎTAN @beritanantiimperialist
with poetry by Anita Nguyen @jadegreenriver.space and Bodi 
27/11/2024
Doors 8pm @schokoladen.blnF
Free entry – donations welcome!

Live Music:

Berîtan @beritanantiimperialist is an anti-imperialist centraka punk band made up of migrant bodies in a collective cry, a need to translate dignified rage into joy and noise, created with friends connected in political spaces in different territories (Central America, Guatemala and Ecuador as the centre of the world), who coincided in the anti-colonial movement in Berlin in 2022.

The name Berîtan is in honour of the guerrilla woman in Kurdistan who preferred to martyr herself and end her life in resistance rather than be imprisoned by the Turkish army. Berîtan claims the symbol of resistance and struggle in increasingly fascist German territories. Their sound is anti-music influenced by genres from Mesoamerican raw punk to reggaeton. Their lyrics are collective compositions that address political themes that run through them, such as the anti-border, anti-extractivist, anti-patriarchal struggle and historical memory.

Poets:

Anita Nguyen (jadegreenriver) @jadegreenriver.space, is a Berlin-based artist, designer, and musician who combines interdisciplinary media ranging from poetry and sound design to theory. Their work is influenced by themes of resistance, personal experience, and trauma-informed writing.
Bodi (they/he) @?? is a Black trans disabled artist. His words are inspired by queer love, romance, ancestral stories and dreams. Bodi’s art invites you to feel the sweet, the spicy, the grotesque and the sour of life.