Moving Poets

What's a flop house? And what does the famously provocative 1928 'ThreePenny Opera' got to do with it?  Why is the timing of this world premiere cabaret significant now? Why does the work of the critically acclaimed artistic trio Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya and Bertolt Brecht, who impacted music and theatre from Berlin to Broadway - and stood up to the fascist movements of their time, still resonates today? Be the first to see the in-progress costumes created in the McColl Center on-site print lab. Meet the artists behind the Moving Poets and McColl Center collaboration. See sneak peak performances of the multi media production featuring dancers, actors, singers and live music. be curious. be there. FlopHAUS Cabaret: Behind the scenes tease Friday, May 8, 6-8pm at the McColl Center Free event; register through McColl Center

Performance dates for FlopHAUS Cabaret - June 17 - 20!  FlopHAUS CABARET is inspired by the famously provocative 'ThreePenny Opera' and the legendary Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya and Bertholt Brecht.  For this edgy, cabaret style social satire we will transform the McColl Center into a cabaret club theater and take you on a thrilling time travel from the 1920s until today. Defiantly sharp as Mack the Knife's blade, the dark comedy includes nineteen original and contemporary adaptations of Weill's music such as 'Pimp Ballad ’, 'Moon of Alabama', ' Je ne t'aime pas', and ‘Pirate Jenny’. In the tradition of the witty yet politically dissonant 'ThreePenny Opera', FlopHAUS Cabaret not only entertains, but cunningly challenges hypocrisy, corruption and moral ambiguity in society - with a sharp sense of humor and a wink and nod “Happy End”. Expressed through theater, dance, jazz and opera, this multi-media music production is performed by over 35 national, regional and Charlotte-based actors, dancers, musicians, and singers.  FlopHAUS Cabaret is a Moving Poets and McColl Center collaboration. Where: McColl Center 721 N Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC When: June 17 -20, Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm  Tickets: McColl Center website and at the door. Intended for mature audiences.

[Deutsch/German im 1. Kommentar) howdy howdy friends in berlin ✊🏽 remember our pinned posts from earlier this year (see our timeline) 🔥📚 👉🏼 the burning books and program booklets in front of Moving Poets Novilla in schöneweide. a place we are connected to, work with, gather in, and where we are also doing our current two-year residency situation. so for us, this was not some distant headline. it happened right in front of a space we care about. 👉🏼this wednesday we want to turn concern into gathering.together with Music Pool Berlin and Moving Poets, we invite you for an evening of talks, exchange, listening, and thinking together about what the rightward shift means for music scenes, art spaces, friendships, neighborhoods, and alliances. 👉🏼starting off with a panel conversation, moderated by @ago.12.ago from @musicpoolberlin with the artists @ravenative and @frau_malonda , Simon Knop Jacobsen of @impulsbrandenburg , and @adamjcooke of @refugeworldwide . 👐🏽 continuing with a participatory mapping / collective cartography session facilitated by @soydivisionberlin . bringing together experiences, examples, concerns, and ideas. pens, paper, thoughts, confusion, contradictions all welcome. 🫶🏼 and later, space to connect, chat over a drink, and hang with a DJ set by @pisitakun . Shifts to the Right Questions of Alliances and What to Do in Music Scenes Wednesday, 29 April 2026

Diese Woche am Samstag | This week on Saturday #nachbarschaft #flohmarkt #nachbarschaftsflohmarkt #movingpoetsnovilla #movingpoetsberlin #schoeneweide #niederschoeneweide

✊ Shifts to the Right – Questions of Alliances and What to Do in Music Scenes FREE 🎟 in bio. How can music scenes respond to right-wing shifts, cultural spaces under pressure, and fractured communities? This evening opens up a conversation on solidarity, antifascist practices, and how alliances can be built across scenes and communities. 🗓 29 April 2026 🕡 Doors 6:30 PM | Start 7 PM 📍Hasselwerder Villa (Novilla) Hasselwerderstr. 22 12439 Berlin 🎟 Free entry With guests Ariel Orah @ravenative Malonda @frau_malonda Simon Knop Jacobsen @impulsbrandenburg Adam J Cooke @refugeworldwide 🎶 DJ set by Pisitakun @pisitakun More to be announced Together with @movingpoets and @soydivision.berlin we’ll create space for dialogue, shared experiences, and collective thinking on what music can hold in this moment. 🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union and @musicboardberlin !

📻🌇 ASSOY Radio Feierabend Today we gonna listen to our friends @raja_kirik latest album with introduction words from their 1/2 @moongsoul 👻 17:00–18:00 CEST 📀 Anachronism feat Raja Kirik 🦷 @raja_kirik @moongsoul @yennuariendra 🫁 - Sengkala ✊🏽 “Sengkala” moves through history not as a fixed past but as something still vibrating in the present. Departing from the aftermath of the Java War and the Cultivation System, the album traces how power shifted from weapons into economic and systemic control shaping land, bodies, and perception. Through broken gamelan tones, electronic echoes, and field recordings, Raja Kirik weaves a sonic language where memory, resistance, and ritual continue to live. What once appeared as colonization now reappears through capital, technology, and regulation. Yet within this cycle, sound becomes a space to remember, to resist, and to reclaim relations between humans, land, and time. 18:00–19:00 CEST 🌶️ Meramu an instant archive mix from the sōydivision sound and zine library featuring releases from friends and family across the constellation Listen live via 📡 soydivision.berlin/assoy-radio AS_SOY on air transmissions live from &lainlainlab at movingpoets novilla supported by berlin senat basisförderung part of the 2 year curatorial proposition trustpiction #assoyradio #assoyanachronism #assoymeramu

📻🌞 ASSOY Radio Siesta Today 11:00–12:00 CEST 🎧 Soy&Synth Archive feat Matthias Koole GEGA @matthiaskoole @v1v1s3kt1on_0 recorded at Morphine Raum @morphine_records_raum 12:00–13:00 CEST 🌶️ Meramu an instant archive mix from the sōydivision sound and zine library featuring releases from friends and family across the constellation Listen live via 📡 soydivision.berlin/assoy-radio AS_SOY on air transmissions live from &lainlainlab at @movingpoets novilla supported by berlin senat basisförderung part of the 2 year curatorial proposition trustpiction #assoyradio #assoymeramu #soyandsynth

📻🌶️ ASSOY Radio KW 14.2026 New week transmissions from the sōydivision constellation Monday 30.03 Sarapan 09:00–10:00 CET 🌶️ Meramu w Ariel Orah inspired by Aryati Musical 10:00–11:00 CET 📀 Retrospeculative feat Leftover Klangwerk Wednesday 01.04 11:00–12:00 CET 🎧 Soy&Synth Archive feat Matthias Koole GEGA recorded at Morphine Raum 🫁 @matthiaskoole @v1v1s3kt1on_0 👀 12:00–13:00 CET 🌶️ Meramu Friday 03.04 Feierabend 17:00–18:00 CET 📀 Anachronism feat Raja Kirik The Phantasmagoria of Jahtilan 🫵🏽 @raja_kirik 👀 18:00–19:00 CET 🌶️ Meramu inspired by AKKULTURASA Listen live via 📡 soydivision.berlin/assoy-radio AS_SOY on air transmissions live from &lainlainlab at movingpoets novilla supported by berlin senat basisförderung part of the 2 year curatorial proposition trustpiction #assoyradio #assoymeramu #assoyretrospeculative #assoyanachronism #assoysarapan

“Suarasa” returns today on AS_SŌY Radio 🌶️ 17:00 CET via https://soydivision.berlin/assoy-radio/ 📻 Rooted in three Indonesian words, sua meaning to meet, suara meaning voice or sound, and rasa meaning taste, feeling, and essence, the show moves between kitchen, conversation, and sonic curation, where small gestures like cooking, listening, remembering, and improvising unfold and food, sound, and storytelling intertwine as shared languages. Today’s revival edition taps into a last lost archive that never been aired, featuring Herlambang Bayu Aji a.k.a Wayang Rajakaya 👉🏼 @herlambang_bayu_aji 🤟🏾 On the menu by @_ravenative_ 👇🏾 👉🌶️ Sambal Dabutabal, a special collaboration with Morphine Records chef Rabih Beaini, blending Manado dabu dabu with mutabal, a smoky Lebanese eggplant dip 👅 @morphine_records_raum @rabih__beaini 💄 👉🍚🌿 Nasi liwet petai 👉🍗🔥 Ayam bakar “rantau”, grilled chicken marinated with Indonesian kecap manis and Turkish biber salçası Full recipes will be uploaded within the episode archive on our website. AS_SOY on air transmissions live from &lainlainlab at @movingpoets Novilla, supported by Berlin Senat Basisförderung, part of the 2 year curatorial proposition TRUSTPICTION 🫀👀 #assoyradio #assoyssuarrasa #assoyfeireabend

📻🌞 ASSOY Radio Siesta Today 11:00–12:00 CET 🎧 #soyandsynth Archive feat Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro & Rusnam recorded at Refuge Worldwide 🌶️ @rusnam.music @nze_bikoro @rusnam.music @refugeworldwide 💕 12:00–13:00 CET 🌶️ Meramu an instant archive mix from the sōydivision sound and zine library featuring releases from friends and family across the constellation Listen live via 📡 soydivision.berlin/assoy-radio AS_SOY on air transmissions live from &lainlainlab at movingpoets novilla supported by berlin senat basisförderung part of the 2 year curatorial proposition trustpiction #assoyradio #assoysiesta #assoymeramu

📻🌶️ ASSOY Radio KW 13.2026 New week transmissions from the sōydivision constellation Monday 23.03 Sarapan 09:00–10:00 CET 🌶️ Meramu w Ariel Orah 10:00–11:00 CET 📀 Retrospeculative feat Empathy Supper Wednesday 25.03 Siesta 11:00–12:00 CET 🎧 Soy&Synth Archive feat Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro & Rusnam recorded at Refuge Worldwide // @nze_bikoro @rusnam.music @refugeworldwide 🌶️ 12:00–13:00 CET 🌶️ Meramu Friday 27.03 Feierabend 17:00–18:00 CET 📡 Ssuarrasa Revival 18:00–19:00 CET 🌶️ Meramu Listen live via 📡 soydivision.berlin/assoy-radio AS_SOY on air transmissions live from &lainlainlab at @movingpoets novilla supported by berlin senat basisförderung part of the 2 year curatorial proposition 👉🏼 trustpiction 🌶️ #assoyradio #assoysarapan #assoysiesta #assoyfeierabend #assoyretrospeculative assoymeramu assoyssuarrasa

Double drop on next ANACHRONISM 📻 TODAY🌶️🌶️ 🎧 On air — 16.03.2026 at 10:00 CET via soydivision.berlin/assoy-radio For Episode #03 & #04, we dive into two recent releases from our friends and comrades at @save_as_entertainment 🍲🍜 a label and artistic platform based here in Berlin, with their studio just across the corridor here at @movingpoets Novilla. This double edition listens through two very different sonic propositions that nonetheless orbit similar questions: survival, belief, and the strange emotional economies of contemporary life. 👉🏼 @too_shy_to_live – Don’t Be Shy A fragmented, hyper-mediated sonic landscape built from online samples and algorithmic listening habits. The album traces the emotional loop of our digital lives 💿 parasocial comfort, anxiety, aspiration, and the endless repetition of sounds that promise reassurance in a productivity-driven world. 👉🏼 @pisitakun – สมเด็จ [Somdej] Named after the sacred Thai amulet believed to protect its wearer, Somdej unfolds like a sonic talisman. Drawing on layered cultural meanings — from spiritual protection to power structures within society — the album moves between myth, belief, and survival. Both records were released via Save As Entertainment, a Berlin-based collective navigating hybrid cultural spaces and new forms of artistic survival. Today’s #assoyanachronism episode listens to both albums from beginning to end, letting their narratives unfold in full. Part of the ongoing ANACHRONISM series on AS_SŌY Radio 🫦 where we listen to albums as complete works, beyond the logic of playlists and fragments. 🌶📻