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Desire Machines: a night of Queer sci-fi

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Desire Machines: a night of Queer sci-fi

Nahaufnahme eines Puppenkopfes mit Make-up und langen Wimpern. Verzerrte Lichteffekte und Kuegelchenkette ueberlagern das Bild.

– Nahaufnahme eines Puppenkopfes mit Make-up und langen Wimpern. Verzerrte Lichteffekte und Kuegelchenkette ueberlagern das Bild.

© Óscar Barbosa

»Seven Songs of Yearning for a New World, Sung by a Starship« is a sci-fi musical and the first stage collaboration between ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS and Ruby Louise Rose. This Queer Futurist work combines original songs with poetic text to tell the story of Queer refugees carried through space on a starship powered by desire. Music and songs are composed by Ruby Louise Rose to text and lyrics created by ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS and woven together into a 45-minute event performed live by Aslan, Chris, and Ruby with modulated voice, bass guitar and electronics. For the first Berlin showing, we invite friends old and new from the city and beyond to bring you an eclectic assortment of Queer sci-fi goodies, including short films, readings, music and more with Óscar Barbosa, Lor Burns, elliott cennetoglu, CoCo & Alice Thibes, ethan allison folk, Jean P’ark, and Anna T. The Otherland Bookstore will be selling a selection of Queer sci-fi at the event. To close Ruby Louise Rose will play a sci-fi themed DJ set. Join us for an evening of speculative wonder!

ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS have presented Queer speculative fictions at Ballhaus Ost since 2015. They return with co-conspirator Ruby Louise Rose for their first musical collaboration. Old and new friends from Berlin and beyond join them for a night of Queer sci-fi.

Seven Songs of Yearning ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS & Ruby Louise Rose Short film Óscar Barbosa »Dreamers of the Wild Beyond« (AT), short film, looped installation Lor Burns »Soti Sotla« (AT), recorded reading / short film elliott cennetoglu »Na Czerwonym Globie«, short film CoCo & Alice Thibes »cauldron«, live reading ethan allison folk Untitled queer sci-fi song Jean P’ark »Δiotima; or, Δeir*land: A fragmented stori of arkivs, kolektivism, imaginaʃon, & multituds« recorded extract reading / short film Anna T.

Seven Songs of Yearning is a production by ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS & Ruby Louise Rose in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost, Theater neben dem Turm, and Kaivos-festivaali. Funded by the Finnish Arts and Culture Agency and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

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