Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Tanz für mich

Not only professional dancers have a place in our ballet studios! Especially for dance enthusiasts older than 55 years.

Tara-Louise Wittwer

After four sold-out tours, Tara-Louise Wittwer is going on another major live tour in 2026 with »Alpha Maus«. The show is a mixture of reading, storytelling and humorous social analysis. Anyone who knows Tara knows that it will be direct, unvarnished and also funny.

Please note: The event will be held in German.

PERFORMERS

Tara-Louise Wittwer talk

PROGRAM

The event takes place with an interval.

Terri Lyne Carrington

Four-time Grammy winner and jazz icon Terri Lyne Carrington, together with singer Christie Dashiell, has recorded a vibrant reinterpretation of Max Roach’s »We Insist! Freedom Now Suite«. The album underscores Carrington’s lifelong commitment to jazz, to inclusion and to amplifying the voices of women, transgender and non-binary people within the genre.




Carrington has created a dynamic tribute to the compositions of Max Roach and Oscar Brown Jr. from 1960. The album »We Insist! Freedom Now Suite« was written to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States and is regarded as a defining artistic statement of the African American civil rights movement – one of the most powerful and enduring examples of music as protest.

The new arrangements breathe fresh life into the original music, combining Carrington’s distinctive drumming and electronic effects with Dashiell’s soulful vocals and an all-star ensemble featuring Matthew Stevens, Simon Moullier, Morgan Guerin and Milena Casado. The result is a dynamic interpretation that honours the revolutionary spirit of the original while conveying a message of social justice that remains profoundly relevant today.

PERFORMERS

Terri Lyne Carrington drums

Christie Dashiell vocals

Milena Casado trumpet

Matthew Stevens guitar

Morgan Guerin bass, saxophone

PROGRAM

»We Insist 2026!«

The Great Conversation

What does **home** mean—for you, for us, for Germany? In October 2026, a major experiment will take place, initiated and organized by the **Initiative Offene Gesellschaft**: More than 100 discussion groups across the country will talk about home. All conversations will be analyzed anonymously, creating an overall picture.
A wonderful project, we think, and one that we at **Lebendiges Kulturerbe St. Pauli** are happy to take part in.
**So we invite you to the Great Conversation on October 18, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. in the salon of the St. Pauli Office** (Wohlwillstraße 1)**.**

Ticket special: Happy Holidays Fall

Here, kids, you’re in for an adventure! Play, build, craft, dress up, design, explore and solve puzzles. And best of all: adults accompanying children pay a reduced admission fee of 10 euros. Children (under 18 years) always get in for free. This offer is valid from 17 October until 1 November 2026.

Tracing Movement, Preserving Identity

From 17 October to 6 November 2026, Pashmin Art Gallery Hamburg presents the international group exhibition “Tracing Movement, Preserving Identity”, featuring Zhang Dawo (China), Willem Vos (the Netherlands), Christian Autzen (Germany), and Christine Hallof (Sweden).

The exhibition brings together calligraphic abstraction, expressive figuration, contemporary portraiture, and fluid abstraction. It explores how identity is shaped by movement, memory, personal experience, and cultural transitions.

Zhang Dawo transformed the tradition of Chinese calligraphy into a gestural and abstract visual language. Willem Vos moves between abstraction and figuration, allowing faces and forms to emerge from layered surfaces. Christian Autzen combines portraiture with abstraction and material experimentation, frequently incorporating gold, rust, and patina. Working with watercolour and coloured pencil, Christine Hallof creates flowing organic structures inspired by geological and biological forms.

Together, the four artistic positions present identity not as something fixed, but as an ongoing process of transformation and renewal.

Curated by Nour Nouri, the exhibition opens on Saturday, 17 October 2026, at 19:00. The opening reception will include an art lecture by Dr. Davood Khazaie.

Exhibition period:

17 October–6 November 2026

Opening reception:

Saturday, 17 October 2026, at 19:00

Venue:

Pashmin Art Gallery

Gotenstraße 21

20097 Hamburg, Germany