The admiration of mankind for the nightingale is shown in various songs and stories. Live on Facebook and YouTube, we celebrate the poetry about the Kings of the Night in a digital picnic and listen to the poet herself at her singing performance. Embark on a dream journey from home with poetry, music and dance – all around the world: from New York via Accra to Berlin, Tehran or Manaus.
With an estimated 3,000 nightingales, Berlin is the capital of these singing birds. But where does the nightingale sing in Berlin? Does the nightingale sing in dialects? What longings do people associate with their characteristic singing? In the Citizen Science project Forschungsfall Nachtigall, we investigate these questions together with the citizens. With the Naturblick app you can record nightingale chants, have them determined and thus make them available for research at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Event information
- Live on Facebook and YouTube
- Starting 11 PM CEST
- Duration: approximately 1.5 hours
- Event mainly in English
Programme
- David Rothenberg (New York) plays clarinet live
- Dominik Eulberg (Germany) presents a nightingale sound installation
- Roland Borgards (Frankfurt am Main) recites live with nightingales
- Ines Theileis (Berlin) sings “Die verschwiegene Nachtigall” (Edvard Grieg) while Katharina Meves dances in the presence of nightingales
- Maryam Mohry (Iran) performs “The Nightingale and the Rose”
- Lima Vafadar recites Hafez in Farsi with Ali Sayah (Berlin) playing Tar
- Mona Matbou Riahi plays clarinet, electronics and nightingale “Golbol” (The Nightingale and the Rose)
- Erin Doyle (Berlin) reads her poem “Musician of Nature”
- Gaby Hartel (Berlin) and Peter Cusack (UK) talk about soundscapes and listening to and recording nightingales in Berlin and Chernobyl
- Gilbert Adum (Ghana) tells us about the Ghanaian significance of nightingales
- Ceberta Adum (12 years), Markus Adum (9 years), Christel Adum (4 years) perform “Nightingale, the Wanderer” a poem (Kasem)
- Sam and Sounds (UK) sings “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”
- Natalia Rodrigues and Eddie Stacchini (France) perform Florbela Espanca’s poem “Alma perdida”
- Sam Lee (UK) performs “Birds in the spring”, a Sussex folk song live with nightingales
Related Links
- Website Forschungsfall Nachtigall
- An overview of further digital offers can be found here: For Nature digital.