Workshops
Two programmes that take place every week in places around the neighbourhood.
Open Lens
Photography, phone video and sound.
Open Lens takes place in community kitchens and on location in Neukölln, Kreuzberg and Wedding. A session lasts about three hours. You work with your own phone, and we bring microphones, lights and a few cameras.
Participants decide for themselves what they photograph, film or record, whether people, places, an idea or something they noticed in the city. We help them find a form for it and show the finished films and series in public at the end of a series.
Led by Irfan and Marry. About 18 sessions so far.
Studio Belziger
Film, fashion and design.
Studio Belziger runs in our rooms on Belziger Straße in Schöneberg and in the Kitchen Hub of Über den Tellerrand, just a few streets away. There are sewing machines, cutting tables and a computer for video editing.
We work with what is already there, such as fabric scraps, used clothing, paper and found objects. Many people want to learn how to turn a model into something completely their own, and we work on that together. At the end of each series we show the finished pieces at an evening in our rooms or in the Kitchen Hub.
Led by Liza and Irfan. About 17 sessions so far.
Who comes
So far more than 80 young people and adults have taken part in the workshops, all aged 18 and over. For many it is the first course they have joined since school. The groups are very mixed, some people drop in once and others come every week.
The workshops cost nothing and take place in the afternoons and evenings. You do not need to register. Anyone who has been once goes on our list and hears when the next session is.
How it works
There are no exams and no fees. The aim of each series is that everyone finishes a piece of their own and can show it.