Program 2021

Attention! At the festival 2G+ is applied. This means vaccinated or recovered + mask.

The international Climate Cultures Festival "Planet writes back!" will take place as an in person event from Nov 27-29 2021 at ↗the Red Salon of the Volksbühne and ↗BABYLON. All events at Volksbühne will be interpreted in German and English. Films and talks at BABYLON will mainly be in English, if possible with German subtitles.

Attention! Tickets are now available for events at Volksbühne. For single tickets: Please use the ticket links on this page.
Day tickets Volksbühne ↗Saturday, ↗Sunday, Monday.
Tickets for the film program ↗BABYLON.

Saturday Nov 27.

ARTIC PEOPLE/ CLIMATE CULTURES

11:00am-11:15am
Opening and Welcome Speech

11:15am-12:45pm
Panel 1: Climate Knowledge bottom up

with Mike Hulme, Aqqaluk Lynge, Lill Rastad Bjørst ➔

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1:30pm-2:30pm
Panel 2: Climate Crisis - Culture Contact

with Minik Rosing, Catherine Bush ➔

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3:00pm-4:00pm
Panel 3: New Nature Writing

with Ulrike Draesner, Esther Kinsky ➔

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4:45pm-6:00pm
Panel 4: Shifting Baselines/ Climate Change

with Harald Welzer, Frederic Hanusch ➔

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6:00pm-8:30pm
Vernissage and Reception of the photo exhibition at BABYLON

with J Henry Fair, Rena Effendi, Kiliii Yüyan ➔

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6:30pm-7:00pm
Panel 5: Jessie Kleemann Performance

with Jessie Kleemann ➔

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FILM

8:30pm
Sila and the Gatekeepers of the Arctic

Director: Corina Gamma
+ Q&A with Aqqaluk Lynge, Lill Rastad Bjørst, Jessie Kleemann➔

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10:30pm
Utugaaq

Director: Iva Radivojević

Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

Director: Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro ➔

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Sunday Nov 28.

PETROCULTURES - OIL MODERNITY

10:00am-11:15am
Panel 6: Pipeline Stories - Oil, Landscape, Climate Change

with Imre Szeman, James Marriott, Rena Effendi ➔

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12pm-1:30pm
Panel 7: Oil, Art, Propaganda

with J. Henry Fair, James Marriott, Helon Habila ➔

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2:15pm-3:45pm
Panel 8: The Petromodern(s) - A Retrospective

with Alexander Klose, Benjamin Steininger ➔

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4:30pm-6:00pm
Panel 9: Petrofiction/ Petrofeminities

with Georgiana Banita, Lukas Bärfuss, Katharina Hagena ➔

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FILM

6:30pm
Big Men

Director: Rachel Boynton
+ Q&A with Rachel Boynton, Helon Habila ➔

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9:00pm
Leave it in the Ground

Director: Oliver Ressler

Petropolis

Director: Peter Mettler ➔

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Monday Nov 29.

CLIMATE FICTION - SCIENCE FICTION

2:00pm-3:00pm
Panel 10: Apocalypse No!

with Catherine Bush, Waubgeshig Rice ➔

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3:45pm-5:15pm
Panel 11: Science Fiction from China

(hybrid event) with Chen Quifan, Han Song, Song Mingwei, Regina Kanyu Wang
presented by Kapsel-Magazin ➔

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6:00pm-7:30pm
Panel 12: Kim Stanley Robinson

(hybrid event) with Kim Stanley Robinson, Elisabeth Bösl, Thekla Dannenberg ➔

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FILM

8:00pm
Snowpiercer

Director: Bong Joon Ho ➔

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11:00pm
Lessons of Darkness

Director: Werner Herzog ➔

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