Programme
Festivals, evenings and a meeting place that happens every week.
The biggest date is Nauruz in March. In between: music, literature, film, panels — and three days a week of simply having the door open. We announce concrete dates as soon as they are fixed.
Biggest date
Nauruz, around 21 March
Every week
Mon · Wed · Fri open meeting place
Entry
Free, no registration
The year at the association
Four seasons, one rhythm.
March
Nauruz
نوروز
The Afghan New Year around 21 March is the biggest date of the year. Music, food, dancing, Haft Mewa — and the whole neighbourhood is invited.
Spring / summer
Eid
عید
Eid al-Fitr after Ramadan and Eid al-Adha: celebrating together, especially for families who have nobody here.
Autumn
Literature & music
ادبیات
The dark season is the time for poetry evenings, music and long conversations. Bilingual, with translation.
All year
Panels & stance
حقوق بشر
Lectures and discussions on the situation in Afghanistan — when there is something to say, not according to a calendar.
Our formats
What takes place here.
Six formats that have settled in over the years. You can come to all of them — and you can help with all of them if you want to.
One evening, once a year
Nauruz festival
The Afghan New Year festival with music, food and dancing. For members, families, neighbours — open to everyone who wants to celebrate.
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Evenings, several times a year
Music evening
Rubab, tabla, harmonium. Classical Afghan music and what young musicians in Berlin make of it.
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Evenings, several times a year
Literature & poetry evening
Poems in Dari, prose in German, translation in between. Often with guests, always with a discussion afterwards.
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Evenings, announced in advance
Film & discussion
A documentary or feature film about Afghanistan, then a moderated discussion — bilingual.
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As the situation demands, with guests
Human rights panel
On the situation in Afghanistan, on the rights of women and girls, on flight and asylum. With people who are affected by it.
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Mon, Wed and Fri — every week
Open meeting place
No programme, no entry fee, no registration. Tea, conversation, and whoever has a question asks it. This is the real core.
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Every week, no registration
The date that always holds.
Everything else in the programme has a date. The open meeting place does not — it is simply there. Three days a week the door on Reuterstraße stands open. You need no request, no invitation and no membership.
Directions & opening hoursCurrent dates
No date invented yet.
The concrete dates will be here soon — with day, time and address. As long as none is confirmed, we do not write one down. Sign up and you will be the first to get the next one.