EmpowE/AR Festival

Empower is an afro-futurist and queer-feminist festival featuring some of the most important music, audiovisual and visual art being made by queers and people of colour today.
After the success of the first edition, EmpowAIR, which took place in the international arts and event space GlogauAIR in August 11th 2018, a second expanded edition of the festival will take place on 22nd and 23rd November 2019.
The new larger-capacity venue is Flutgraben e.V., a historic and picturesque multi-functional art and community space in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Empower/AR will take form of a two-day music and visual art festival, including Virtual and Augmented Reality at Flutgraben e.V. in Berlin Kreuzberg, with the programme of live artists, Yoruba drum ritual and DJs accompanied by a symposium featuring spoken word, performance art and an immersive light show.
Working together with other queer-futuristic and intersectional feminist platforms in Berlin and abroad such as Gira Festival de Resistência, Digi-Gxl, DICE Conference + Festival, aequa, Uferlos Studios, Arrudas & more, we seek alliances between marginalised groups - between various gender, racial and sexual identities.
We are kindly funded by Musicboard Berlin to cover the structural needs, however we still need your support to remunerate the extended group of volunteers working hard on the festival's accessibility, promotion and production altogether so we kindly ask for your donation under https://www.betterplace.me/empower-fest
(Lineup coming soon)