AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
19:30 Entry
20:00 AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE – A spoken word concert
from 22:00 DJ Party with Dj Ipek & Mastika Sounds
Henrik Ibsen writes about truth. About the lonely figure who sees the contamination spreading and refuses to stay silent. But what happens when the truth-teller is not a respectable man in a coat and hat, but a body that is already marked as excess, as waste, as filth? What happens when the truth is not about poisoned water but about the poisoned idea of ‘the people’—who belongs, who is pushed out, who is the enemy? And was Ibsen ever truly a feminist, or was he simply watching women drown in their own stories?
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE is a spoken word concert, a sonic contamination, a broken transmission. Voices glitched, distorted, looping. Spoken word and sound interwoven, unstable, resisting. The theatre keeps playing. We keep playing our roles. The scapegoat, the exile, the unwanted guest. The ones who should not be here, speaking the words we should not say.
March 8 is not about flowers. It is about bodies in the streets. It is about the ones who do not get to prepare for what happens next. It is about us. It is about right now.
With special participation of guest performers and Iulia Rîpan with live visuals
texts: Henrik Ibsen, Cat Jugravu
live music: Andrei Raicu
Live visuals: Iulia Rîpan; Graphics: Pieter Defraene.
Performance: Cat Jugravu u. Special Guests
Lichtdesign: Sol Sebastián Solórzano
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From 22:00: DJ Party with Dj Ipek & Mastika Sounds
It’s happening! Mastika Sounds from Hamburg St. Pauli meets DJ Ipek from Berlin. They’ve been trying for a long time to meet up, and now the Grüner Salon makes it possible. DJ Ipek is an internationally successful, queer DJ, producer, curator, and activist living in Berlin.
She has been a resident DJ for 27 years at the Queer-Oriental party “Gayhane-HomOriental Dancefloor” at SO36 and is a pioneer of Middle Eastern, Balkan, and electronic fusion in Berlin clubs since the 90s. In Ipek’s set, psychedelic Turkish funk meets disco, Balkan folk meets house, Kurdish halay meets electro, Turkish tango meets breakbeat, Bhangra meets moombahton, Albanian pop meets twerk, Iranian folk meets techno, and Anatolian folk songs meet deep house. Euphoric encounters and boundary crossings on the dancefloor – without border controls or integration tests. Ipek enjoys playing with musical clichés while also exciting the crowd with unknown insiders.
Euphoric encounters and boundary crossings on the dancefloor – without border controls or integration tests.
Mastika Sounds (HH) is a collective from the St. Pauli Hafenstraße that unites the musical cultures of the Balkans, Greece, Anatolia, and the Levant in the Buttclub – expressing a clear political stance through music.
Born from a glass of Mastika and the idea of bringing the sounds of childhood, parents, and grandparents to life right in the heart of St. Pauli, our vision is to create a space where everyone can dance together – to the songs that evoke memories and to the rhythms that make our shared history tangible.
The sounds of Mastika have already made waves beyond Hamburg: Whether at Import Export in Munich, Idea Fabrika in Athens, at the Fusion Festival, or at Grüner Salon with Balkan groove – we’ve let our sounds echo everywhere.
Mastika Sounds DJs – Xristina Fotiou and Fesche Lola – will create an unforgettable evening at Grüner Salon, together with DJ Ipek.
