Friday, 09/12/2025

STUTTGART

7:30 pm

Gedok Galerie Stuttgart
Hölderlinstrasse 17
70174 Stuttgart

Free admission!
Donations welcome

The Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (OEIN) is an innovative Bolivian music ensemble dedicated to researching, preserving, and renewing indigenous music and Andean instruments. These instruments escape their museum captivity and connect with their history, transforming it into the aesthetics of our time. In their collaboration with a European duo, the vacancy on the anniversary of her abduction points to the absence of flutist Mariya Kalesnikava. These musical and social acts symbolize the demand for the right to self-determination of every living being.

with

Dos pares de la OEIN
Ethan Olmos Cuiza [traditional bolivian instruments]
Carlos Gutiérrez Quiroga [traditional bolivian instruments]
Tatiana López Churata [traditional bolivian instruments]
Romina Quisbert Maldonado [traditional bolivian instruments]
Nikola Lutz [Saxofon, Elektronik]

music by

Carlos Gutiérrez Quiroga
Nikola Lutz
Neil Luck
Tomomi Adachi
OEIN

sponsored by:

SKAM e.V.
Gedok Stuttgart
Albrecht Beck Stiftung

05/09/2025

COLOGNE

Maria Kalesnikava has been awarded the Günter Wallraff Prize for Press Law and Human Rights 2025, together with the country's journalists' association.

In its citation, the "Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung" states that Maria is “a symbolic figure, representative of the many people who have sacrificed their freedom and their lives for a free and democratic Belarus”.

The prize, which is endowed with a total of 5,000 euros, will be awarded on Friday, May 9, 2025, at the Cologne Forum for Journalism Criticism on Deutschlandfunk radio.

With the prize, the "Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung" aims to draw attention to topics and discourses that are neglected in the German and international media.

DLF press release

Thursday, 04/24/2025

STUTTGART

7:30 pm

vhs Stuttgart
Robert-Bosch-Saal
Rotebühlplatz 28
70173 Stuttgart

Admission free!

Based on Maxim Znak's prison diary, "Zekamerone," zek [зек – Russian for "convict"] explores texts written by Znak in prison. The texts form a thread connecting the prisoners to freedom, to self-determined communication, to their survival, and to our understanding of their circumstances. In zek #5, Klaus Sebastian Dreher, in the premiere of his "Episodes from Prison," addresses the historical continuity of imprisonment as a subject in art. In Nikola Lutz's musical setting of Znak's "Ururu," the prison becomes tangible as an aural environment.

with

Xia Yuan [percussion]
Mathilde Durafour [percussion]
Klaus Dreher [percussion]
Nikola Lutz [electronisc, saxopone]
Natasha Lopez [poem]

music by

Klaus Sebastian Dreher
Nikola Lutz

cooperating: Stadt Stuttgart Abteilung für Chancengleichheit, vhs Stuttgart

powered by: S-K-A-M e.V., Stadt Stuttgart und Musikfonds

Maxim Znak, “Zekamerone. Stories from Prison
“Translated from the Russian by Henriette Reisner and Volker Weichsel
© of the German edition Suhrkamp Verlag AG, Berlin, 2023