UPDATE: There are no covid restrictions for our event due to German Datenschutzrechtlichen Gründen. Please stay safe and use your own discretion.

YEOJA Mag is hosting our first 2 day festival on the 14th and 15th of May! This event is FREE.

This 2-days festival features a market (with food and stalls), creative workshops, film screenings, panel discussions, music performances, and a party with live music and DJs.

The Celestial Festival pays respect to the Lunar-Solar Calendar utilised by many Asian Diasporic communities. The Lunar Calendar is a means of anchoring diasporic communities to their cultures through the moon and celestial bodies – preserving deep connections that withstand displacement and pressure to “assimilate” in Germany – a guiding tool for those disconnected.

During Asia-Pacific Heritage month’s full-moon, we centre this festival around voices and talent from our communities by providing a platform for up-and-coming talents; celebrating us through music, sound, taste and visuals. We offer the Celestial Festival as a connecting and anchoring force in Berlin for our community, and an entry point for pan-Asian or pan-BIPOC solidarity, empowerment and commonness.

Ultimately, we are expanding the meaning of “Asian” from just the East to also include South, Central, West Asia and even Africa – creating a representative and accurate view of Asia and the Asian diasporic community.

DAY 1 LINE UP

14:00 - Doors open

14:00-18:00 - Market

14:00-20:00 Food Stall: Soy Division

14:30-15:30 - Performance by Soy Division & Pisitakun

15:30-17:00 - Panel on Asian* Creative Activism and Collectives in Europe

16:00-19:00 - DJ Kakao Katzê

17:00-19:00 - Xinan's screenprinting Workshop

19:00-21:00 - Film Screenings: "Sonic Statements" 4 Shorts

DAY 2 LINE UP

14:00 - Doors open

14:00-18:00 - Market

14:00-20:00 Food Stall: Mamakan

15:00-18:00 - DJ Speedy Boarding

15:00-16:30 - Panel on Asian Music Industry and Labels and Trends

17:00-18:30 - Vicky's Eternal Moon Clay Workshop

19:00-21:00 - Film Screenings: "Indochina: Traces of a Mother"

21:00-22:00 - Kei Watanabe live set

22:00-23:00 - Jessika Khazrik live set

23:00-5:00AM - PARTY feat. Pooja B, BB Deng, Coco Cobra & Toshiki Shimada (SET TIMES TBA)

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This is a free event. First come first serve at the door. Please note that we will not tolerate any form of discrimination, racism, anti-semitism, islamophobia, classism, queer phobia, transphobia, fatphobia, etc. at our event.

Celestial Festival has been made possible with funding from Music Board Berlin