At the heart of it
Family festival, Drop-Ins and more
Sat, 21 August – Sun, 22 August 2021
| Free admission |
| Tickets for the Drop-Ins can be obtained on 21/08/21 from the information desk in the Stair Hall. No tickets are needed for other programmed events. |
| English, German, No language skills required |
| Foyer, Humboldt Lab, 1st floor, Workshops, First Floor, Berlin Exhibition, 1st floor, World Studio |
A festival for anyone who wants to find out about, and get involved with, the Humboldt Forum’s cultural education programme
1,000 square metres of flexible workspace – right at the heart of the action. This is where education takes a completely different form: a creative process that involves, inspires and energises all the senses.
Cultural education sits at the heart of everything the Humboldt Forum does. It opens up space for a diverse society to experience new encounters, to exchange ideas and engage with socially relevant issues. Our Workshops are central to this mission – literally and metaphorically. We are celebrating the opening of these 1,000 square metres of open space with a big family festival. Come and join in – you’re welcome!
In the Foyer, you can help build a paper sculpture by Collective Paper Aesthetics; four separate, free workshops – the drop-ins – invite you to get involved; there will then be theatre performances and DJs to round off the day.
Programme
10am–8pm
Paper sculpture collaboration
Foyer
With artist Noa Haim from Collective Paper Aesthetics
2pm
Official opening of the Workshops
Workshops
Hartmut Dorgerloh, General Director, Humboldt Forum
Kathrin Kollmeier, Director, Akademie der Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
1pm, 2.30pm and 4pm
I can see something you can’t see
Theatrical performance leading from the Foyer to the workshops
Director: Franziska Ritter, staging: Klaus Noak
With: Ngako Keuni, Franziska Kleinert, Franziska Krol
The cardboard pieces from the paper sculpture will become the props and stage setting for a performance. Follow the actors & actresses into the workshops and work together to decide whether an object could be a UFO, a swim ring, a giant earring, a boat or a miniature stadium – or maybe something else entirely? Multiple perspectives made simple, for all visitors aged 4+.
2pm–5pm
Drop-Ins for all
Workshops, GLOBAL STUDIO, Humboldt Lab
11am and 2.30pm
Tell me something!
Schlüter Courtyard
Multilingual storytelling programme
12.30pm and 4pm
Street Radio Blaster
Schlüter Courtyard
Mobile radio community to join
Four different Drop-Ins to choose from, each starting at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm. Please register on the day of the event at the information desk in the Humboldt Forum Stair Hall. One-hour tickets for the events at 2pm, 3pm or 4pm will be available at no extra charge.
Maker Space – Humboldt Hologram
Explore some of Alexander von Humboldt’s discoveries, and bring them to life! Work together with young programmers to turn images of plants, animals, hieroglyphs and more of Humboldt’s famous illustrations into a fascinating hologram. You will then use self-built projectors to transform it into a three-dimensional light image.
Location: Workshops, First Floor
Tricksters, Beasts and Shapeshifters
Tales of trickster characters can be found on every continent. Many of the objects in the Ethnological Museum reflect the theme of these creatures – for example, Anansi, the cunning spider from West Africa, or the wily hornbill of Papua New Guinea. They are usually tricky, ambivalent and heroic characters! Using these stories as inspiration, as well as a plentiful supply of bright ideas and resources, families can work together to bring their own trickster to life.
Location: Workshops, First Floor
Maps as you’ve never seen them before in the GLOBAL STUDIO
Three huge map-making machines await you in the GLOBAL STUDIO. Visitors can create their own unusual maps using wooden balls, thread and even their own bodies. Weave maps from threads, create huge posters with individual stories about the world, or craft little guides to favourite places. Collaborate on a creative project as you build, weave, draw, stamp and much, much more, and examine map-making in a way that’s fun for children and adults alike.
Location: GLOBAL STUDIO, First Floor (access via BERLIN GLOBAL)
Behind the shoal – interactive immersion in the Humboldt Lab
How does a shoal of fish operate? How did the hand of a 19th century chimpanzee end up in a museum in Berlin? How can you use a fossilised footprint to reconstruct a whole primeval animal? What exactly do researchers do? And what does science have to do with our lives? The After Nature exhibition in the Humboldt Lab gives visitors the chance to engage interactively with these questions and many more.
Location: Humboldt Lab, First Floor
10am–8pm
Work on the collaborative paper sculpture in the Foyer continues. Come and help us build it!
12 noon–4pm
Workshops are open for you to participate. Come and speak to us!
12 noon–6pm
Short introductions – no booking necessary: our on-site Flying Guides will offer insights into the history and architecture of the site. Location: courtyards and History of the Site exhibition.