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The Forward Calendar brings you the most important events from our community. In contrast to regular event calendars, we don’t just collect an innumerable amount of exhibitions and conferences. Our calendar is a collection of the most inspiring events from the Forward universe. The kind of calendar that brings you forward.
Berlin Questions
Berlin questions is an annual, multi-day conference and a platform for transdisciplinary dialogue – providing ideas for structural change and collective action. Since 2017, the conference has made Berlin a home for debate, inviting politicians, journalists and artists from all over the world to address topics of global importance. This year, the conference under the motto “Metropolis – The New Now” will take place in a hybrid format for the first time: both in person at various locations in Berlin and online, via livestream or in a 3D virtual environment.
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Date: August 11th – 14th 2021
Place: Berlin
Find more info here.
Berlin Commercial
Networking and exchange with other creatives is what we are all craving in times like these and the Berlin Commercial this August is inviting like minded people to share and express their opinions. From August 10th to 14th renowned production companies and agencies throughout the city of Berlin come together to transform global businesses and the way we tell stories via moving images today. And best of all: You can register for any location for free!
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Date: August 10th – 14th 2021
Place: Berlin
Find more info here.
Berlin Photo Week
Under the motto “Claim the CITY”, Berlin Photo Week is back this summer at a new location, the modern Haubentaucher in the middle of Berlin, to bring us new and iconic artists, international speakers, and a whole new Funplace experience. With speakers like Thomas Hoepker, Evelyn Bencicova and Sven Marquardt at their 2019 event, one should not expect anything less from the Berlin Photo Week 2021.
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Date: August 26th – September 3rd 2021
Place: Berlin
Find more info here.
MISA Art Market
Due to the extended lockdown, the third edition of MISA (Messe in St. Agnes in Berlin Kreuzberg) was postponed to August 10th – 22nd 2021. The fair has established itself as a sales format for emerging art from the primary market as well as for established art from the secondary market. This year, a special focus was put on curated hanging, where works are shown thematically in booths to create contextual connections. The program consists of a diverse selection of artworks by internationally renowned artists.
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Date: August 10th – 22nd 2021
Place: St. Agnes Church in Berlin
Find more info here.
Elevate Festival
The Elevate Festival for music, art and political discourse is an interdisciplinary festival with a strong focus on cultural and sociopolitical issues – this year, under the motto “Momentum”. The multifaceted program consists of performances, concerts, installations and DJ-Sets, as well as workshops, film screenings, keynote talks and discussions. With this extraordinary mix of critical political discourse, art, electronic music and audio-visual experiments, the Elevate Festival opens up a unique space for inspiring encounters.
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Date: August 4th – 8th 2021
Place: Graz, Austria
Find more info here.
Design Biennale Zürich
The third Design Biennale Zürich presents design in its diversity: What’s the contradiction between analogue and digital? Which creative potential lies in cultural differences? What happens when expectation meets reality? And when does something natural become artificial? The Design Biennale Zürich lets different values, traditions and expectations collide.
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Date: August 12th – September 5th 2021
Place: Zürich
Find more info here.
Alvar Aalto Week 2021
In 2021, the Alvar Aalto Week will take place in Kouvola from August 14th to 22nd, celebrating the rich industrial heritage of the locality. The yearly festival is a vivid urban event organised around themes arising from architecture, design and art as well as from the underlying phenomena in present time, culture and history. Alvar Aalto’s works in Kouvola are a great example of a holistically planned environment and thus make an extremely interesting destination.
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Date: August 4th – 22nd 2021
Place: Kouvola, Finland
Find more info here.
ImPulsTanz
In case you haven’t already, check out this year’s 38th edition of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. For a whole month, a uniquely dense program of contemporary dance and performance from both established and rising stars, numerous dance workshops as well as research projects and other side happenings are brought to Vienna, making the capital an international hotspot of the scene.
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Date: July 15th – August 15th 2021
Place: Vienna
Find more info here.
dotdotdot Short Film Festival
With hand-picked short films, the festival uncovers cross-connections and points of departure for discourse and further action, and makes the diversity of contemporary short film visible and tangible. dotdotdot focuses on films that take formal, content-related and aesthetic risks, question inscribed codes and explore the range of possibilities in film. Film talks, discussions, workshops and artistic interventions dock onto the film program and open up space of in-depth discourse.
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Date: July 25th – August 24th 2021
Place: Vienna
Find more info here.
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