Kids Kiez Slam
{{ time.start_TS | TS2dateFormat('MMM') }}
{{ time.start_TS | TS2dateFormat('YYYY') }}
| free admission |
| no ticket required |
| from 8 years |
| German |
| Workshops, First Floor |
| Belongs to: After Nature |
Can buzzwords buzz? Does a blend word come from the blender? How does a love poem sound in Denglish? Can words stumble or play hide-and-seek?
Poetry slam is the art of inspiring, captivating and surprising an audience with words. In our poetry slam workshop, language artist Bas Böttcher gives insights into his sentence construction kit. He will show you how to use text tricks to invent your own short pieces and realise your ideas. We bring your idea to the text and onto the stage at high speed! Fun and creativity are more important than perfection.
The workshop is aimed at children aged between 8 and 12. Anyone interested in music lyrics, theater or fantasy stories is in good hands in the poetry slam workshop. If you feel like it, you can even present your freshly written poetry slam piece on July 1, 2024 in the morning at the big “Kids’ Kiez Slam” at the Humboldt Forum.
The workshop lasts one hour.
Start times:
14:00 h
15:00 h
16:00 h
Bas Böttcher
Bas Böttcher is one of the co-founders of the German-language spoken word scene. He studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and has lived in Berlin since 2000. His texts are considered exemplary for contemporary stage poetry. They appear in school textbooks (Schroedel, Cornelsen, Klett) and important collections of German poetry (Der Neue Conrady, Lyrikstimmen, etc.).
He has also published the three volumes of poetry “Dies ist kein Konzert”, “Neonomade” and “Vorübergehende Schönheit” with Voland & Quist. Bas Böttcher has performed at venues including the Elbphilharmonie concert hall (Hamburg), and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris) as well as at book fairs in Beijing, Guadalajara, Moscow, São Paulo and Bangkok.
Bas Böttcher is the inventor and programmer of various media formats for poetry. He developed the electronic hypertext Looppool as a new form of expression on the Internet. He has taught at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, the German Literature Archive in Marbach, the Kulturakademie Baden-Württemberg, the University of the Arts in Berlin and at Goethe Institutes worldwide.