Kasper Surber from the swiss weekly WOZ caught Schwabinggrad Ballett & Arrivati during our tour – here’s the interview he did with LaToya Manly-Spain and Ted Gaier: http://www.woz.ch/-7869 Photo by Michael Bodenmann
Schwabinggrad Ballett & Arrivati, the incredible afro-punk-jazz-activism-ensemble will be on tour in march 2017. Here are the dates and the venues: März – Scheune / Dresden März – Desi / Nürnberg März – Palace / St. Gallen März – Brecht Festival / Augsburg 6. März – Franz K / Reutlingen 17. März – King Georg … Continued
Kathi Duve made an incredible video of our song BODIES WILL BE BACK feat. LaToya Manly-Spain on vocals. “Bodies will be back” is a dedication to the experiences of the marginalized and exploited people in our societies. In gratitude for the lives of our Arrivati-members who survived the treacherous journey crossing the Mediterranean Sea, in … Continued
Schwabinggrad Ballett & Arrivati say: Don’t fuck up! Here’s a track from the upcoming album “Beyond Welcome!”
Beautiful cover and sleeve art by Ariane Andereggen with a 12 page booklet, to be released next week on Buback Records. Don’t miss the release concerts on sep 9 at about blank / Berlin and on sep 17 at Rote Flora / Hamburg!
In May and June 2016 Schwabinggrad Ballett & Arrivati made a series of interventions in Hamburg under the title BEYOND WELCOME. Here’s a beautiful video documentation by Rabot Rummel to show you what happened. Here’s the vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/181185003
Schwabinggrad Ballett and Arrivati are playing a concert at Impulse Festival in Düsseldorf on June 25 at 10pm. Early september we will publish our album “Beyond Welcome!” on Buback Records, we will play some tunes from that record – so please make your way to the Festivalzentrum at FFT Kammerspiele at Jahnstraße 3 in Düsseldorf. … Continued
Today, friday 3rd of June Schwabinggrad Ballett & Arrivati together with OpenEyesOpenHearts e.V., Superbude, Fux&Ganz-Cantina crew and other activists and artists will go to a refugee-camp in Schnelsen to perform, talk, cook and have a good time together with the inhabitants of the camp. We named the event WOMEN EMPOWER WOMEN because we want to … Continued
Schwabinggrad Ballett & Arrivati invite you to our final BEYOND WELCOME-event on saturday June 4 from 4-7pm. We’d like very much to see you at our URBAN CITIZENSHIP-picnic at the Stadtpark Grillwiese (not the big one but the smaller near the childrens pool / Kleine Festwiese am Kinderbecken). The idea is to come together and … Continued
As a contribution to BEYOND WELCOME Dan Thy Nguyen, artist and director, and Iraklis Panagiotopoulos have produced interviews with four people who give us a narration of how and why they or their family had to migrate and what arriving in Europe and Germany means: Russom, a young man from Eritrea, Sammy, a teacher from … Continued