Werkhalle Wiesenburg Opening Hours:
Dear Friends of Werkhalle Wiesenburg
2024 and onwards will see a restricted programme at Werkhalle Wiesenburg as renovations in the Wiesenburg have begun and are due to be completed by 2027.
Our reduced 2025 programme will be announced below and on our Facebook page – keep checking back. We look forward to seeing you!
EVENTS
This Saturday, 11th May!
New York underground Poetry
Propeller Publishers
and The GAF
proudly present:
SPARROW
&
VIOLET SNOW
HEY-HO!
19:00 Doors open | 20:00 Start
Programme:
1. Jordan Lee Schnee: Introduction
2. SPARROW: Short and Fast
3. Violet Snow: It’s Snowing in Springtime
4. Kitup: Ma’ Kin
5. SPARROW: Shorter and Faster
6. Mads Parsum and his Sonorous Band
The programme is in English
VIOLET SNOW will report some unknown details
from the history of European and American feminism.
Feminism in the early 1900s wasn’t just about getting the vote. Violet Snow‘s great-grandmother expressed her feminism through a women’s club, part of a widespread movement that brought women into public life in the US and in Germany too, through die Frauenvereine. But to the suffragist women, who were marching and hunger striking, the middle-class women’s clubs, both the literary clubs and the social reform groups, seemed unimportant. Violet’s novel To March or to Marry tells the story of two friends whose relationship is falling apart over how women should behave in the struggle for more rights, even as their roles in the world are transforming. Violet Snow is an American journalist and author, living in upstate New York.
SPARROW is one of the most playful poets on Earth:
Warning:
Most
of my
poems
are
even
worse
than
this!
This poem and many others are included into SPARROW’S new poetry collection Songs my Father Taught Me due to be out at Propeller’s and introduced on this night for our common benefit.
Sparrow lives in a trailer in the snowbound hamlet of Phoenicia, New York with his wife Violet Snow. He has published 11 books, including Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies (Monkfish) and The Princeton Diary (Vinal). His poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Sun, and Reptiles of the Mind. Sparrow writes art reviews for Chronogram. He has run for President of the United States nine times.
Mads Parsum is a Danish beat-poet!
EXTRAS
TIP article June 2023
Constanze Suhr
“Paintings from Sweden are on display in the former WIESENBURG homeless shelter..”
Thomas Bo Henriksson and the Werkhalle Wiesenburg
FROM SHELTER TO CULTURAL LOCATION
“It happens. A visit to the Werkhalle Wiesenburg
Thomas bo Henriksson’s studio has been a magnet for the independent art scene since the existence of the complex was threatened…”
Article on Thomas Bo Henriksson and the Werkhalle Wiesenburg by Elizabeth Wirth in Kaleidoskop on TAZ Blogs (German)
English text here
The History of the Wiesenburg
now available in book form
On sale in the Werkhalle 10 euros or on Etsy 14.50 incl. shipping
