Every year we celebrate the arrival of nightingales in Berlin with our Picnic & Poetry events. This year we invite you to make yourself comfortable at home and livestream the event on Facebook or YouTube. We will celebrate with a host of fantastic international artists and poets and of course a nightingale singing live in Berlin. It will be a dreamlike journey with dance, music, poetry and nature.
Please join us!
Date: 15.05.2020
Time: 23:00 (CEST, GMT+2) to approx. 0:30
To join the Nightingale Picnic and Poetry 2020 please put one of the following links into your internet browser:
We will have live performances from all over the world and hear nightingale stories from Chernobyl, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Iran, Philippines, Portugal and USA.
Our star guests include: Dominik Eulberg (Berlin), Ines Theileis (Berlin), David Rothenberg (New York) and Sam Lee (UK). We will also feature the rising star Sam and Sounds (UK).
The event will be multilingual, but mainly in English.
The full program includes a great line up of performances and many of the performances have been specially created for this event
- David Rothenberg (USA) plays clarinet live with nightingales (Berlin) and Wassim Mukdad (Berlin) plays the oud live.
- Roland Borgards (Frankfurt am Main) performs Johann Matthäus Bechstein’s ‘Das Lied der Nachtigall’ with nightingales and David Rothenberg on clarinet live.
- Dominik Eulberg (Germany) plays a nightingale sound installation ‘Synthigall - Strahlend wie ein Stern in klarer Nacht’.
- Ines Theileis (Berlin) sings ‘Die verschwiegene Nachtigall’ by Edvard Grieg while Katharina Meves (Berlin) dances in the presence of nightingales in Berlin.
- Philipp Golle (Berlin) performs a nightingale.
- Maryam Mohry (Iran) ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’.
- Lima Vafadar (Berlin) recites ‘The drunk nightingale’ by Hafez in Farsi with Ali Sayah (Berlin) playing Tar and David Rothenberg on clarinet live.
- Mona Matbou Riahi (Iran) plays clarinet, electronics and nightingale ‘Golbol’ (Nightingale and Rose) ‘The conference of the birds and the role of the nightingale and his love for his beloved rose’.
- Erin Doyle (Berlin) reads her poem ‘Musician of Nature’.
- Gaby Hartel (Berlin) and Peter Cusack (Berlin) talk about soundscapes and listening to nightingales in Berlin and Chernobyl.
- Gilbert Adum (Ghana) tells us about the Ghanaian significance of nightingales. Gilbert is joined by his family Ceberta Adum (12 years), Markus Adum (9 years), Christel Adum (4 years). They perform a poem ‘Nightingale, the Wanderer’ in Kasem live.
- Sam and Sounds (UK) sings ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’.
- Natalia Rodrigues and Eddie Stacchini (France) illustrate and perform ‘Alma perdida’ a poem by Florbela Espanca in Portuguese.
- Sam Lee (UK) sings ‘Birds in the spring’ a Sussex folk song live with nightingales in Sussex, England.
- Joann Cerdenia and Hans Cerdenia (Philippines) perform the ‘The nightingale’ by Deborah Henson-Conant singing and playing the harp.
- #mynightingale2020 films.
- Jamming session live with a Berlin nightingale, David Rothenberg and friends.