Oderberg Springs Festival - Das Fest der Oderberger Quellen
Dance - Art - Music - Environmental info - Flashmob - Talks
Part of the Global Water Dances 2025:
a worldwide participatory movement for our waters & clean drinking water
14. - 15. June 2025
In the rush of everyday life, we often forget the fundamental importance of water for our lives and for our entire economy and ecology. Water is connected to everything and everyone. The Oderberg Springs Festival is a reminder of the importance of water for our city and our lives. This year, we dance for our unique springs, which flow in large numbers under and through our town and then on into the Oder.
Let's get moving for the most valuable resource,
that we have: Water!
June 14:
3 p.m. OPENING in Museum-park with live music, drinks, food, information stands and activities for the whole family
3:30 p.m. Painting-performance and participatory painting action from Noriko Mazda Kura
4:30 p.m. OderTalks: wet "Oder" dry? - hydrological future scenarios and fear phantasms for the Oderberg region. On the Riesa (ship in Museum-park), moderated by Heiko Michels with experts from Eberswalde University of Applied Sciences, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, local politicians and participating artists
4:30 pm “River God Viadrus and the Nymphs” interactive children's play by Theater OKNO
5:45 pm Percussion workshop + flash mob
6:30 pm Premiere Quellen des Lebens (SOURCES OF LIFE): A multidisciplinary performance staged as a city tour with interventions at the individual springs
June 15:
2 pm QUELLEN DES LEBENS, second performance, start in front of the former Oderberg town hall on the market square, end at KuNaKu
4 pm 2nd part of the festival at KuNaKu with a view over the Oderbruch, with snacks and drinks
4:30 pm OderTalk: Art "Oder" Action? - how does knowledge become liquid? atKuNaKu, moderated by Heiko Michels
5:30 pm Tour of the KuNaKu site - the KuNaKu history and the sustainable requirements for dealing with water. WithKuNaKu co-director Manuel Hülsmann
Conclusion
→ https://globalwaterdances.org/
The festival starts on June 14 at 3 p.m. in the museum park with a collective painting event led by Japanese artist Noriko Mazda Kura. The resulting cloth painting will later become an installation as part of the main performance. At 16:30, the children's play “River God Viadrus and the Nymphs” by the German-Polish Theater Okno will follow, while at the same time the talk “Wet OR Dry” on the Riesa will discuss the opportunities and fears of hydrological landscape redesign in the region around Oderberg - with a lawyer from the Federal Environment Agency, a lecturer from the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, a landscape architect, a local forester and the mayor of Oderberg, among others.
At 6:30 p.m., the main performance “Sources of Life” starts with a drumming orchestra and a flash mob. The choreographed procession leads from the museum to individual springs under buildings, in private gardens and in natural spaces. At these stations, dancers, musicians and performers will present short performances that they have developed directly for the respective location during a residence in Oderberg. Director Erber: "The piece creates sensitivity and closeness to the water. We use performative means to draw attention to the senses: What do we hear? What do we smell and feel? The world of nature, of which we are actually a part, is always there, but it is silent. We want to use art to readjust our channels in order to understand it and to be able to act in its and our interests." The 1.5-hour performative walk leads from the urban space into nature.
On Sunday, June 15, a second performance of “Sources of Life” will take place, starting at 2 p.m. in front of Oderberg Town Hall on the market square. Today, the procession ends at the KuNaKu with the second part of the festival. At 16:30, the talk "Art OR action? - How does knowledge become fluid?". As on the previous day, Heiko Michels (curator of the Rathaus-Spiele Oderberg) will review the performance in conversation with the audience and then ask more generally whether and by what means art can transform our knowledge into action. The Oderberg Springs Festival is not a one-off event: on the initiative of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute New York, choreographers, dancers and activists will come together at 200 locations on six continents this weekend to raise awareness of water issues and celebrate water through movement by combining dance, discourse and action. Oderberg was selected as a location with “Sources of Life” and supported by “Dancers without Borders”.
There will be further information stands and contributions as part of the festival, the full program can be found at www.kunaku.org/quellenfest. In addition to water, juices, wine and food will of course also be on offer.
14.6. from 3 pm Binnenschifffahrtsmuseum, Hermann-Seidel-Straße 44, Oderberg. The performative walk along the springs starts from there at 6:30 pm. (admission free)
15.6. at 2 pm Altes Rathaus, Berliner Straße 89, Oderberg the performative walk starts, leads to KuNaKu, Fliederweg 1, Oderberg - from 4 pm event there. (admission free)
Artist Noriko Mazda Kurat performs at the main piece “Sources of Life” and leads an interactive painting workshop on June 14 in the Museum Park.
