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i'm growing fur – reading series for poetry & translation

i'm growing fur – Reading Series for Poetry & Translation

Thursday, April 16, 2026: With Hasune El-Choly (Hamburg), Lisa Jay Jeschke (Munich), Odile Kennel (Berlin)

i'm growing fur is a reading series for poetry, translation, and multilingualism in Hamburg. It offers a space for texts, for exchange and encounters, and aims to help poets and translators gain greater visibility in Hamburg's cultural landscape. i'm growing fur focuses on translation and mediation, on listening to poetry together for all who want to engage in an inspiring reciprocal experience. We come together, we grow together – we surround ourselves and keep each other warm.

Before and after the readings, we invite you to stay with us. Doors open one hour before the start. There will be a small book table, bread, and a bar for drinks.

Curated and moderated by Jonis Hartmann & Ayna Steigerwald

i’m growing fur is supported by Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien.

F-Pavilion, Rentzelstraße 36-40 (entrance, room + restroom on the ground floor), 20146 Hamburg

U2/U3 Schlump / S+U3 Sternschanze

c/o Fringify Independent Arts Festival // https://fringify.hamburg

Doors open at 7:00 pm, event starts at 8:00 pm, suggested donation €8-12 (please note: cash only on site!)

https://wonderl.ink/@imgrowingfur / Contact: imgrowingfur@gmail.com

Dates: April 16, June 18, September 17, 2026

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Infinite Line - Tam Thi Pham Solo (BLURRED EDGES FESTIVAL)

Tam Thi Pham: đàn bầu, real-time sound processing

Infinite Line is a work that combines composition and improvisation, focusing on extended techniques of the đàn bầu together with live, real-time sound processing. The performance is part of the artistic outcome of the project on extended techniques for the đàn bầu. Tam Thi Pham is a Vietnamese multimedia composer, improviser, and performer based in Hamburg, Germany. By merging technology and tradition, poetics and politics, and the sonic and visual realms, Pham creates an integrated mode of expression where music and performance are indivisible parts.

as part of Blurred Edges Festival https://blurrededges.de

Kindly supported by Verband für aktuelle Musik Hamburg

Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture

How can the development of contemporary art be used to tell a story of the counterculture, which continues to influence artistic approaches to the present day? This question guides the exhibition Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture.

The interplay of three important collections – the Falckenberg Collection and the collections of the FRAC Pays de la Loire and the Musée d'arts de Nantes – reveals how artists develop resistant aesthetic strategies, open up alternative spaces and dissolve the boundary between the center and the margins of society.
The project opens up a dynamic dialogue: it reveals how counterculture is collected, disseminated, and understood in diverse contexts. This creates a multifaceted picture of art as a means of questioning social realities and opening up new perspectives. Drawing on Thoreau, Foucault, and Guattari, the exhibition understands counterculture as active, discursive, and transformative. In four thematic chapters—"Claiming the multiplication of points of view and voices," "See, show, divert and denounce," "Rereading history, another story," and "Shock, shake, upset, move the lines"—positions are presented that rewrite historical narratives, challenge social power structures, and make visible artistic strategies of provocation and resistance.

The exhibition is a collaboration with the Centre Claude Cahun, the photographic collections of the city of Nantes and the Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of the Pays de la Loire.

Insight Orchestra

PERFORMERS

Elbphilharmonie Publikumsorchester orchestra

Michael Petermann conductor, moderation

Inspiring China

Selected highlights from the extensive collection of Chinese objects at MK&G, totaling over 3,000 items mediate principles of Chinese art such as modular design and the unity of script and image. The display includes ritual bronzes, imperial porcelain, carved lacquer, painting, calligraphy and woodblock prints.