The first 5 Minutes of Rocky Horror Picture Show are up featuring one of my favorite songs from the musical. It's looking and sounding good :-)

Next to the already mentioned MS Artsville and Robi the Dog exhibition I managed to snag quite a few cultural offerings of various kinds in August. What a spread :-)

Journal_ist and I managed to catch a fantastic performance of Porgy & Bess by the New York Harlem Theatre. The story is still sad but the music is also still magnificent ( Read more... )

I spent Sunday merrily chasing street art throughout Berlin only to return late in the evening (curtesy to trains delayed by extremely bad weather) to the news that one of my favourite urban artists had passed away ( Read more... )

About 2 weeks ago I visited the annual outdoors MS Artsville festival on Willhelmsburg. This year's theme was 'Ghosttown'. Thanks to the weather that is exactly what the whole festival area felt like. On the bright side those who, like myself, had braved the weather and the Schienenersatzverkehr were treated with an unobstructed view of the art. ( Check out these examples... )

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"From the Reach to the Stormlands, the Wall to the Arbor - we, the GOT, demand new choices in leadership. The candidates have called their banners. Cast your vote to pick your side in the great wars to come."

The 14th till 17th of June saw art and music return to Millerntor Stadium in Hamburg as the annual Millerntor Gallery got into full gear to entertain and collect money for Viva con Agua. ( Check out some of the art on display... )

A couple of years ago Urban Nation started a project called the One Wall Project. One wall - one artistic message ( Read more... )

After loads and loads of rain over the last week it finally cleared up a bit today so I ventured out to the street festival in St. Pauli for lunch and a little street art hunting. This stencil by Rumo nicely summs up what I think in regards to most people and politics right now.
Oh and the other is just for the Star Wars nerds among you
( Photos behind the cut... )

Check out Laleh Khalili's piece on Brexit and Xenophobia.

Journal_ist and I took a trip to Schwerin today. I had originally planned to go last weekend but was hampered by the bad weather. So in light of the promise of today shaping up to be a fabulous summer day the trip got rescheduled.

So a couple of hours later, lighter in regards to money and richer in the number of blisters (argh 5 in total) I'd like ( to share some impressions... )