Upcoming Events
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Continuous screening of CODIFIED ABSENCE - a sound/video poem by Katarina & Vince Damiani
When: July 3, 2026Showing as part of 48 Hours Neukölln (@48studennk) in our back room, this sound-video installation by Katarina Gotic (@katarina.gotic) and Vince Damiani excavates the language of border control. Composed entirely from text found in and erased from the Schengen Borders Code, ‘codified absence’ draws attention to patterns, repetitions, and silences hidden within the legal text. Meaning gathers in what remains. Erasure is presented as a kind of digging.
Featuring a specially curated shelf on the festival theme, ‘OUT/SIDE/IN’, which brings together books and zines about borders, belonging, and the in-between.

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ON THE OTHER HAND - a poetry event as part of 48 Hours Neukölln
When: July 5, 2026Join Katarina Gotic (@katarina.gotic) and thirteen other Berlin-based poets for an experiment in relay-reading on the 48 Hours Neukölln theme of borders. The afternoon unfolds as a spatial choreography of voices, dispersed across transitional zones within the venue. Each voice enters as a continuation, carrying forward an element from the previous reading: a word, image, rhythm, gesture, mistranslation, or echo.
Readings begin at 4pm sharp. Come early to watch the sound-video poem installation by Katarina Gotic and Vince Damiani in our back room, and peruse our curated shelf on the festival theme, ‘OUT/SIDE/IN’, which brings together books and zines about borders, belonging, and the in-between.

Past Events
- Welcome to the Chaoskampf - Reading with Jane Flett June 17, 2026
- Difficult Women Book Club June 11, 2026
- Queer Literary Speed Dating hosted by Emotional Labor Queen June 10, 2026
- The Reader Open Mic May Edition May 28, 2026
- Cat Hepburn and the Party Rats May 27, 2026
- Stories from the Beauty Parlor Feminist Book Club May 26, 2026
- ivallan's Zine Event May 19, 2026
- Book Launch: Hilda Hoy reads from Mother Tongue May 13, 2026
- Crossings - Reading with Liz Rosenfeld May 4, 2026
- Launch! For Those Who Hate a Little Bit of Everything April 9, 2026
- REBIRTH: STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION & ARRIVAL. March 31, 2026
- The Reader Open Mic March 24, 2026
- Poetry Night February 18, 2026
- FLORETS February 15, 2026
- The Reader Open Mic February 10, 2026
- Difficult Women's Book Club February 5, 2026
- Zine launch and readings with Lorraine Rumson January 29, 2026