THIRD EDITION OF FESTIVAL CONTINUES TO PAIR ELECTRONIC MUSIC COLLECTIVES OF EASTERN EUROPE + BERLIN TO CELEBRATE DIY ARTS & COMMUNAL ETHOS
The Easterndaze x Berlin festival once again invites artists, actors and activists from the electronic music scene of Eastern Europe to Berlin, pairing them with locally-based labels/collectives for live performances, DJ sets and talks.
The opening night stars live performances curated by the Berlin experimental music label Conditional and Vienna/Tallin’s collective Serious Serious.
LINE-UP
Steph Horak & Renick Bell (live)
Jennifer Walton (live)
Daniel Katinsky (live)
Ratkiller (live)
Benzokai (live)
Kisling (live)
ABOUT
Established in 2010, the blog Easterndaze has explored and mapped local DIY scenes operating in Eastern and Central Europe. Founders Lucia Udvardyova and Peter Gonda travelled across the region to record interviews and collect perspectives on how contemporary artists and independent music-related initiatives operate in the region and its socio-political context. The initial result was a series of audio documentaries which then expanded to: a label (Baba Vanga); a networking initiative; radio shows (Resonance FM, Czech Radio, Berlin’s Cashmere Radio); and finally, events around the region, as well as the festival’s first two editions in Berlin (2016, 2018). As the fascination with and discourse around contemporary Eastern European culture gradually enters the mainstream, Easterndaze remains one of the pillars of these investigations nearly a decade strong.
Full festival program:
FB: Easterndaze × Berlin 2019
RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1331242
Partners: Cashmere Radio, KAJET Journal, D'EST
Curated by Lucia Udvardyova, produced by Natalie Gravenor, graphic design by Marijn Degenaar. Funded by Musicboard Berlin, supported by Estonian Embassy in Berlin