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From film screenings and live musical performances to workshops, talks and exhibitions, we will curate a year-round cultural program devoted to the cultivation of arts, crops and inner gardens. To stay up to date on new additions to the calendar, sign up for our newsletter here.
Open Haus: Yves Klein Monotone Silence Symphony
14:00 - 20:00
A single chord erupts into the room and is sustained by an orchestra for 20 minutes. As suddenly as it began, the sound ends, and is immediately mirrored by an equally oceanic 20 minutes of silence. This is the Monotone Silence Symphony, conceived and first performed by Yves Klein over sixty years ago. Known for his fields of undiluted color, Klein was searching for a musical counterpoint to his visual ideas. With the symphony, Klein shifted from monochrome to monochord, creating a rhapsody in D major that carries the same overwhelming richness in austerity as his paintings. If his paintings were to be, as he claimed, the ashes of his art, the visible aspect of the invisible, then sound was to be the ashes of his true art: silence, which Klein understood as “audible presence.”
Klein’s symphony is scored for 20 singers, 10 violins, 10 cellos, 3 double basses, 3 trumpets, 3 flutes and 3 oboes. The simple, continuous sound harbors a surprising amount of movement, as each player takes a breath and reenters the unison. The result, for the listener, is the feeling of being submerged in the big blue, a very large swell saturated with ripples and subtle pockets that is then simply gone. One vocalist remarked, “The reality is it’s a kind of bizarre, primordial universe chorus. It’s not like any note you’ve ever heard.”
Monotone Silence Symphony is presented in a series of intervals across the course of an afternoon punctuated by sound. This recording — conducted by Matej Sloboda and performed by the EnsembleSpectrum in 2021 during their 9-hour marathon performance at Nova Cvernovka in Bratislava, Slovakia — has been adapted for the 360-degree spatial sound system of the Reethaus inner chamber. For the first time, Klein’s preeminent musical gesture will envelop listeners from every direction.
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Walid Ben Selim Live
18:00 - 22:30
Here and now, between the debris of things and nothingness, we live in the suburbs of eternity.
—Mahmoud Darwish
This November 1, Reethaus welcomes Walid Ben Selim for a special performance of Here and Now, a journey through twelve centuries of Sufi poetry, accompanied by Gloria Huyghe on the harp. Moving across Persia, Northern Africa and Andalusia, Ben Selim presents a selection of poems by the great mystic poets of Islam, variations on the theme of la ilaha illa’l-‘ishq — there is no deity save love.
Ben Selim brings a wide musical experience to the Sufi devotional literature. Trained in classical Arab music, he played a key part in the early Nayda scene in Casablanca before taking a detour through metal. Today, Ben Selim has found a creative path to follow in the Sufi yearning for transcendance. In Here and Now, he gnostically animates the words of Mansur Al-Hallaj, Abu Madyan Telemsani, Abu Nuwas and Ibn Zaydoun.
Alongside the Medieval Sufi poets, Ben Selim sings the verses of Mahmoud Darwish, who for Ben Selim is “the most powerful poet of the last century.” Growing up in Israel as a legal alien after his family home was razed during the Nakba of 1948, Darwish saw poetry as spiritual medicine. A child of exile and a critic of the occupation of Palestine, Darwish was also a peacemaker who described Hebrew as a “language of love.” Ben Selim voices the tradition of these poets both ecstatic and mournful, intoning their songs as prayers for love.
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Anri Sala Ravel Ravel Revisited Redux
18:00 - 22:00
In an anechoic chamber, the possibility of an echo is eliminated, taking with it the possibility of perceiving space through sound. The construction of the Reethaus inner room approaches this effect, and within this particular kind of void, Anri Sala installs a new and bespoke reimagining of Ravel Ravel. The work, in evolution since first being presented at the Venice Biennale in 2013, introduces a series of intervals into a seminal concerto such that pianos come in and out of sync, producing in the mind of the listener the illusion of an echo. With the echo, space itself seems to filter back into the room. Thus, altering not a single note of Maurice Ravel’s work but all the spaces between the notes, Sala momentarily nudges us free of the grip of both chronos and topos.
Ravel Ravel has its origins in Sala’s research into the left hand repertory for piano that developed as limbs were lost during the First World War. Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, the paradigmatic composition in this tradition, was commissioned from Maurice Ravel by the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein after his right arm was amputated in a field hospital after the Battle of Galicia.
Part of the “Transmissions” series curated by Soundwalk Collective, in Ravel Ravel Revisited Redux, the 360-degree sound space of Reethaus has been exploited by Sala to impress the work with spatial displacements corresponding to the temporal ones. This version weaves together previous iterations of this deeply layered work, featuring the original performances of pianists Louis Lortie, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and the National Orchestra of France in a 16-channel spatial sound installation accompanied by the performance of Bertrand Chamayou on a Steinway & Sons Spirio both engineered by Olivier Goinard.
Following the playing of the work and an intermission, Anri Sala will be in conversation with Stephan Crasneanscki of Soundwalk Collective, after which Ravel Ravel Revisited Redux will be played again.
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Anri Sala Ravel Ravel Revisited Redux
18:00 - 22:00
In an anechoic chamber, the possibility of an echo is eliminated, taking with it the possibility of perceiving space through sound. The construction of the Reethaus inner room approaches this effect, and within this particular kind of void, Anri Sala installs a new and bespoke reimagining of Ravel Ravel. The work, in evolution since first being presented at the Venice Biennale in 2013, introduces a series of intervals into a seminal concerto such that pianos come in and out of sync, producing in the mind of the listener the illusion of an echo. With the echo, space itself seems to filter back into the room. Thus, altering not a single note of Maurice Ravel’s work but all the spaces between the notes, Sala momentarily nudges us free of the grip of both chronos and topos.
Ravel Ravel has its origins in Sala’s research into the left hand repertory for piano that developed as limbs were lost during the First World War. Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, the paradigmatic composition in this tradition, was commissioned from Maurice Ravel by the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein after his right arm was amputated in a field hospital after the Battle of Galicia.
Part of the “Transmissions” series curated by Soundwalk Collective, in Ravel Ravel Revisited Redux, the 360-degree sound space of Reethaus has been exploited by Sala to impress the work with spatial displacements corresponding to the temporal ones. This version weaves together previous iterations of this deeply layered work, featuring the original performances of pianists Louis Lortie, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and the National Orchestra of France in a 16-channel spatial sound installation accompanied by the performance of Bertrand Chamayou on a Steinway & Sons Spirio both engineered by Olivier Goinard.
Following the playing of the work and an intermission, Anri Sala will be in conversation with Stephan Crasneanscki of Soundwalk Collective, after which Ravel Ravel Revisited Redux will be played again.
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Open Haus: Soundwalk Collective Frequency Following Response
14:00 - 20:00
Two separate sound tones are directed into human ears, one into the left and one into the right. The difference in frequency between the two tones generates a third frequency that cannot be heard by the human ear; rather, it vibrates within the brain. In response, brainwaves of the same order are generated, leading the brain to establish a corresponding mental state.
At this Open Haus, Soundwalk Collective offers possibilities for just such entrainment with a curated selection of binaural sound frequencies. Each frequency has been individually spatialized such that the sound travels in accordance with its wavelength to produce an immersive experience for body, mind and soul. Throughout the day, guests will encounter 12 binaural beats.
The frequencies were created by Soundwalk Collective as a result of their extended research into the relationship between sound and brain behavior. Some are said to correspond to states of profound meditation or euphoria; others are associated with the Earth, the Sun, or with particular regions of the body. In this collective listening practice visitors are invited to explore and question these propositions.
The work is rooted in a method scientifically described as the Frequency Following Response, first studied in 1839 by the Prussian physicist, meteorologist and experimenter Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and later advanced by Dr. Gerald Oster of the Mt. Sinai Medical Centre after laying dormant for 134 years. Further research by Robert Monroe at the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences has shown that the entrainment response does not occur exclusively in the area of the brain responsible for hearing or even just in one hemisphere at a time, but rather that the entire brain resonates in unison. Indeed, the waveforms of both hemispheres exhibit identical amplitude, phase and coherence once signaled by the frequency.
Frequency Following Response is presented in collaboration with AlphaTheta. A leader in sound technology since 1994, AlphaTheta is named for the brainwaves emitted in the state of flow.
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SILT
13:00 - 19:00
In 2012, a lake appeared suddenly outside of Likančiai, Lithuania. The body of water is fallout from a Soviet-era drainage project that sought to make land more suitable for agriculture. With the disrepair of the artificial system, water has started to accumulate and begun to emerge unexpectedly, creating accidental landscapes.
Reethaus presents a portrait of the surge. In SILT, a site-specific audiovisual installation by Ona Julija Lukas Steponaitytė, Iida Jonsson, and Ssi Saarinen, the landscape is explored by perspectives proper to the study and depiction of emergencies: first-person wandering documentation, forensic diving, and helicopter flyover.
Meandering around, across and beneath the surface of this alien upwelling, the artists insistently document the formal qualities of the new lake with an eerie, banausic faithfulness. The polyphonic soundtrack by Alexander Iezzi — like the landscape, never settling into any particular rhythm or harmony — lends reality to this latter-day natural feature. Audiences are pressed into a meditation on the restlessness of landscapes under contemporary conditions, asked to contemplate failed attempts to reform territory in accordance with human will.
This Berlin Art Week show of SILT will be the first time that Reethaus presents a video channel in its shrine to the sonic arts. The composition by Iezzi has been spatialized by MONOM for the Reethaus.
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SILT
13:00 - 19:00
In 2012, a lake appeared suddenly outside of Likančiai, Lithuania. The body of water is fallout from a Soviet-era drainage project that sought to make land more suitable for agriculture. With the disrepair of the artificial system, water has started to accumulate and begun to emerge unexpectedly, creating accidental landscapes.
Reethaus presents a portrait of the surge. In SILT, a site-specific audiovisual installation by Ona Julija Lukas Steponaitytė, Iida Jonsson, and Ssi Saarinen, the landscape is explored by perspectives proper to the study and depiction of emergencies: first-person wandering documentation, forensic diving, and helicopter flyover.
Meandering around, across and beneath the surface of this alien upwelling, the artists insistently document the formal qualities of the new lake with an eerie, banausic faithfulness. The polyphonic soundtrack by Alexander Iezzi — like the landscape, never settling into any particular rhythm or harmony — lends reality to this latter-day natural feature. Audiences are pressed into a meditation on the restlessness of landscapes under contemporary conditions, asked to contemplate failed attempts to reform territory in accordance with human will.
This Berlin Art Week show of SILT will be the first time that Reethaus presents a video channel in its shrine to the sonic arts. The composition by Iezzi has been spatialized by MONOM for the Reethaus.
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SILT
18:00 - 22:00
In 2012, a lake appeared suddenly outside of Likančiai, Lithuania. The body of water is fallout from a Soviet-era drainage project that sought to make land more suitable for agriculture. With the disrepair of the artificial system, water has started to accumulate and begun to emerge unexpectedly, creating accidental landscapes.
Reethaus presents a portrait of the surge. In SILT, a site-specific audiovisual installation by Ona Julija Lukas Steponaitytė, Iida Jonsson, and Ssi Saarinen, the landscape is explored by perspectives proper to the study and depiction of emergencies: first-person wandering documentation, forensic diving, and helicopter flyover.
Meandering around, across and beneath the surface of this alien upwelling, the artists insistently document the formal qualities of the new lake with an eerie, banausic faithfulness. The polyphonic soundtrack by Alexander Iezzi — like the landscape, never settling into any particular rhythm or harmony — lends reality to this latter-day natural feature. Audiences are pressed into a meditation on the restlessness of landscapes under contemporary conditions, asked to contemplate failed attempts to reform territory in accordance with human will.
This Berlin Art Week show of SILT will be the first time that Reethaus presents a video channel in its shrine to the sonic arts. The composition by Iezzi has been spatialized by MONOM for the Reethaus.
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Open Haus: Joakim Bouaziz Second Nature
14:00 - 20:00
Bombina Bombina. Pipa Aspera. Discoglossus Galganoi.
If these sound to you like the names of niche electronic artists, well, you’re right — they are three of the dozens of frog species that Joakim Bouaziz has enlisted in his sonic garden of Eden. Alongside monkeys, quetzal birds and bears, Bouaziz samples earthquakes, thunderstorms and meteor showers in his masterwork Second Nature. But we are never overwhelmed by sound. Instead, as in a perfectly developed ecosystem, each natural phenomenon finds its place in space, making good on Emanuele Coccia’s dream of the primordial garden in which we encounter “the spectacle of each of its inhabitants drawing pleasure from each one of the other living beings.”
With Second Nature, Bouaziz musically renders his understanding of the sensual philosophies of Coccia and Philippe Descola that urge us to weave our culture back into nature. After compiling diverse bioacoustic recordings from the past five decades, Bouaziz passed these collections through a meticulous process of classification that privileges the ambiguous — is that a synthesizer or a frog? The result is a composition of totemic aural stimuli that lead us back to our original animist consciousness.
Reethaus is pleased to present this sonic atlas of natural wonders on August 25 as part of our “Spatial Futures” series. During this Open Haus Listening Experience, visitors will have the opportunity to position themselves within a sound space specifically composed in 4D, joining their own bodies to an ecology of earthly delights.
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Farmers Market Nr.3
16:00 - 21:00
Friends of a Farmer & Magnolia present a mid-week Farmer’s Market as part of an inaugural Summer Series hosted in Largo Agostinho da Silva.
From 4pm until sunset, we invite you to join us in the Largo above Praca das Flores to enjoy a selection of organic flowers and summer vegetables by Herdade do Meco and oysters and wine by @calma_lisboa.
For the third iteration of this Summer Series, the market will also showcase artisanal cheeses by @ortodoxo.queijo, fermented kimchis by @fermen.table, breads by @bike_bakery_lisboa and sweet treats by @juliana__penteado. An opportunity to support local, high-quality, small-batch producers who create with passion and integrity.
Come thirsty, cash in hand and with a basket to take home all your produce!
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Open Haus: Mileece Selected Algorithmic and Biogenerative Works, 1999 – 2024
14:00 - 20:00
Reethaus welcomes listeners to 360-degree spatial sound immersion by Mileece, the pioneering sonic artist and biophilic technologist. Playing with machines and physics to transform the bio-electrical information of humans and plants into sound, Mileece creates sonic experiences that prompt reflection on the invisible powers in which we are immersed. The composition presented in this Listening Experience combines new recordings and her archive of selected algorithmic and biogenerative works from 1999 to today, moving through her sound design journey.
This includes new iterations of previous pieces, recordings from various biomes around the world, as well as the groundbreaking album called “Formations” from 2004, based on natural phenomena such as light’s changing patterns.
Mileece creates installations that transform the bio-emissions of people and plants into harmonic, spatial, generative elements of symbiotic composition, delightfully reminding us of our intrinsic, irrevocable biophilia. These latter sounds emerge across species boundaries through a hand-built technology called PiP (Plant Interface for People), a custom “electrobotanigraph” and software system that Mileece created in 2005 during her residency at the innovation lab of the London School of Economics. PiP senses and digitizes the subtle voltages emitted by plants such that they can directly animate an array of synthesizers programmed in SuperCollider.
Mileece’s process evolves the earliest plant biodata experiments carried out in the sixties, departing from basic frequency modulation into the full-throated, textured expression afforded by plants. The gesture is Mileece’s contribution to what technology could be—something that amplifies nature and leads us back to a wilder earth.
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Flower Workshop
11:00 - 13:00
Join us on the farm for our floriculture workshop dedicated to the art of organic flower cultivation. We’ll learn from our resident flower farmers about their organic process in Meco, from the selection of cultivars, to seeding and harvesting, to crafting the perfect bouquet. Afterwards, explore the flower fields, handpicking your favorite blooms to create and take home your own bespoke bouquet.
The cost for this workshop – including your large bouquet of flowers, the program, and a complementary selection of fresh bites and refreshments – is €35 per person. We recommend bringing your own large vase to keep your bouquet fresh. We have limited space available so please reserve soon. We hope you can join us!
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Farmers Market Nr.2
16:00 - 21:00
Friends of a Farmer & Magnolia present a mid-week Farmer’s Market as part of an inaugural Summer Series hosted in Largo Agostinho da Silva.
From 4pm until sunset, we invite you to join us in the Largo above Praca das Flores to enjoy a selection of organic flowers and summer vegetables by Herdade do Meco and oysters and wine by @calma_lisboa.
For the second iteration of this Summer Series, the market will also showcase artisanal cheeses by @ortodoxo.queijo, fermented kimchis by @fermen.table, breads by @bike_bakery_lisboa and sweet treats by @juliana__penteado. An opportunity to support local, high-quality, small-batch producers who create with passion and integrity.
Come thirsty, cash in hand and with a basket to take home all your produce!
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Jon Hopkins: Ritual
19:30 - 22:00
Almost certainly before we spoke in words, we hummed and drummed. It is the memory of this bodily necessity that is recovered with RITUAL, the new album from Jon Hopkins — a summons, a cure, a machine “for opening portals within your inner world, for unlocking things that are hidden and buried,” to use his terms. With RITUAL, Hopkins makes the Reethaus into an altar, returning us to the ancient thud of feet on the ground, to memories of a possible future, to the flickering light on the cave wall.
RITUAL is a soundscape structured as a ceremonial epic, tracing an arc over 41 minutes that takes us from a preverbal state, pregnant with possibility, into life, death, and life thereafter. Making use of powers of repetition and variation honed over his 22-year career, Hopkins induces hypnosis, creating a collective listening experience that offers more than pleasure: the opportunity to find something lost in a place you didn’t know existed. The canvas is open; it is up to the listeners to breathe, bathe in resonance, and make this dream machine their own.
Following its preview at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and before its release in August, Reethaus is pleased to present RITUAL for the first time outside of the British Isles, an early chance to engage with this modern rite through the 360-degree spatial audio programmed in partnership with MONOM. After the listening experience, Jon Hopkins will sit in conversation with Heiko Hoffmann to discuss his creative process.
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Open Haus: Maya Shenfeld Under the Sun
14:00 - 19:00
Harnessing the rhythmic noises of the machine age, oboes, analog voices and a chorus of synthesizers, Maya Shenfeld invites industrial hypnosis with her new sonic artwork.
Under the Sun is composed largely from field recordings made in the sweltering heat of the Vila Viçosa marble quarry in Portugal, an open scar digging 150 meters into the Earth. The title of the work is a wry reference to the famous declaration in the book of Ecclesiastes that there is nothing truly new under our star. Shenfeld draws our attention to how extraction is sculpting the planet, asking whether our moment in history may be an exception to the rabbinical observation, attuning us to the latent possibilities that lie within every scratch and hum.
In Shenfeld’s hands, the accidental noises of physical labor become percussive. The experience of sound draws us unequivocally towards the material, with long reverberations off the marble walls of the pit. Hammer, drill and diamond cutter enter the symphony. Gusts of wind from the organ at St. Matthew’s Church and the Ritter Youth Choir, conducted by Ann-Kristin Mayr, evoke spirit returning to the rattling machine.
Reethaus presents this wordless meditation on the environment — both the environments we build and the environments we take apart in order to make our own, along with all the varied dissonance and harmony we create in that process — in a unique adaptation that calibrates Under the Sun to its 360-degree sound system.
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Farmers Market Nr.1
16:00 - 21:00
Friends of a Farmer & Magnolia present a mid-week Farmer’s Market as part of an inaugural Summer Series hosted in Largo Agostinho da Silva.
From 4pm until sunset, we invite you to join us in the Largo above Praca das Flores to enjoy a selection of organic flowers and summer vegetables by Herdade do Meco and oysters and wine by @calma_lisboa.
For the first iteration of this Summer Series, the market will also showcase artisanal cheeses by @ortodoxo.queijo, fermented kimchis by @fermen.table, breads by @bike_bakery_lisboa and sweet treats by @juliana__penteado. An opportunity to support local, high-quality, small-batch producers who create with passion and integrity.
Come thirsty, cash in hand and with a basket to take home all your produce!
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Música del Pueblo: One Two Trip Collective
20:00 - 00:00
Joining us on Saturday is the musical trio One Two Trip Collective, bringing together afrofunk rhythms and modern music technologies such as synthesizers and electronic percussions. This spirited, jazzy ensemble brings the funk while keeping its finesse and harmony. One Two Trip Collective consists of Alan Olivares on saxophone and vocals, Daniel Norambuena on bass and Kato Páez on drums and percussion.
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Rooftop Sunset Session: Hannibal Clem
18:00 - 00:00
Playing at sunset on the Treehouse rooftop this Sunday is Hannibal Clem, an Italian musician, electronic music producer and DJ currently based in Tulum. From the early 90s, he started manipulating the Akai sampler and recomposing all the audio sounds with Atari 130XE, later becoming a sound engineer. He started making music with friends working as Djs and musicians in the London underground scene, recording exclusive promo vinyls for several independent labels to be played in the clubs. More recently, he relocated to Tulum, where he can live surrounded by nature and work on new projects to come out later this year.
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Open Haus: Behind Her Name Chestnuts Fall Forever
13:00 - 21:00
For this Open Haus, Reethaus presents “Behind Her Name Chestnuts Fall Forever” by the Danish sound artist and producer Sofie Birch, known for her lush ambient releases and live shows, such as her much-lauded 2022 performance with Polish singer Antonina Nowacka at the Pinault Collection for the Philippe Parreno exhibition.
Staged publicly for the first time, “Behind Her Name Chestnuts Fall Forever” was inspired by the soundscapes of electronic pioneers Franco Battiato, Raul Lovisoni and Francesco Messina, central figures within the 20th-century Italian avant-garde. It is music for dreamers, for those who pay close attention to the details in their nighttime reveries, for whom every small moment is full of meaning.
Built upon a series of improvisations from the same morning, the piece is arranged and played without tempo and grid. Birch set a close mic on a piano with a stereo setup of two Røde NT5, and in the same room set up an old B&O ribbon microphone, allowing a very dusty and noisy mono sound to weave in and out of the composition, and recording the synths and vocals later in her Copenhagen studio.
“I’m very fascinated by playing arpeggio-like synth figures without a grid,” said Birch. “When working with minimal compositions, I think it leaves room for other very small things to stand out, such as repetitive figures that slightly move in tempo and intensity, constantly aware of themselves and their context. …the listener either unconsciously or very carefully recognizes small changes. It feels alive. It feels present and personal.”
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Build a Scarecrow Workshop
11:00 - 13:00
During springtime, our farm beds are filled with alluring young crops and seedlings, which are perfect snacks for birds and wild pigs. In the age-old tradition, we protect our crops with scarecrows. Join us for a workshop as we use our imaginations to construct and erect these life-size guardians throughout our fields. In groups of four, we’ll guide you through the process, providing you with the core materials required. We encourage you to bring old hats, buttons and other accessories to add a personal touch to your scarecrow; we will also forage together for objects from the land.
The workshop will be held on Saturday, May 25, from 11 am to 1 pm, costs €30 and includes a selection of fresh bites and refreshments. Space for the workshop is very limited, so secure your place now via this link. All ages welcome. Kids to be accompanied by a guardian.
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Música del Pueblo: M.Ro, Lemurian
20:00 - 00:00
We welcome our in-house resident M.Ro for another week of his eclectic mixture of deep house and slow-mo gems in our Jungle Garden. Expect an enigmatic and uplifting mixture of organic sounds.
Born in Peru, Lemurian is the curator and founder behind the record label Cosmic Awakenings, which has been releasing quality electronic world music since 2016. As an A&R with strong passion for dance music, he is also an experienced DJ and a local hero in Tulum. Touring worldwide for many years, he cooks up a melting pot of sounds, taking you on a journey of melodies and tribal rites that invite you to celebrate life.
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Open Haus: Human Nature Machine
12:00 - 20:00
Composed by the sound artist William Russell, founder of the pioneering spatial sound collective and Reethaus curatorial partner Monom, “Human Nature Machine” is an embodied listening experience that explores our relationship with the organic and inorganic world around us.
Through the improvised and spatialized interplay of piano and voice with synthetic sounds that evoke the sonic dynamics of natural phenomena and weather patterns, the listening experience brings to life the sounds of endangered and extinct species and biomes. Functioning as a conversation between the space and the sonic phenomena that occur within it, the work places the listener in an augmented sonic reality, a space for reflection on human nature, our place in the world and our collective future.
Adapted for the 360-degree spatial sound system embedded into the inner room of the Reethaus, the listening experience kicks off our “Spatial Futures” series, curated by Monom.
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Jim Jarmusch: Only Lovers Left Alive Original Score
19:30 - 22:30
The iconic director and pioneer of American independent cinema presents an arrangement of the score to his 2013 classic, “Only Lovers Left Alive,” on the 360-degree sound system of the Reethaus. Jarmusch composed and recorded the score with his “marginal rock band,” SQÛRL, and the Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem.
Part of the “Transmissions” series curated by Soundwalk Collective, the 45-minute listening experience takes place in the inner room of the Reethaus, an intimate space where audience and artist are in close communion, and will be followed by a conversation between Jarmusch and Stephan Crasneanscki of Soundwalk Collective. Doors open at 6:00 pm and drinks and food will be available for purchase at our bar.
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Open House: Luciano Lozz
20:00 - 00:00
Luciano Lozz is an artist from Buenos Aires who expresses himself through live DJ sets, mixing synthesizers and electronic drum machines to create a groove of sequences and hypnotic rhythms. The diversity of his style allows him to move from organic to downtempo to techno, interwoven with edgy melodies and deep sounds. Luciano has shared stages with the likes of Acid Pauli, John Digweed, Oceanvs Orientalis, Nick Warren, Jan Blomqvist, Geju, Adriatique and Stephan Bodzin
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Open Haus: The Gyuto Monks Tibetan Tantric Choir
14:00 - 22:00
“They will rattle your bones”, Mickey Hart said about the Gyuto Monks Tibetan Tantric Choir. No small praise coming from the drummer of the Grateful Dead. To launch our 2024 program at the Reethaus, Soundwalk Collective presents Hart’s 1986 recording of the choir, part of the Gyuto Order originating in Tibet in the 15th century.
Their chanting was never heard outside the context of their temples until after the Chinese annexation of Tibet in 1959, when the order fled to India. At that point, their prayers became political, expressive of the Tibetan resistance, and a spiritual rallying cry for repressed peoples. “Close your eyes, leave behind your prejudices,” Hart said, “After an hour of their sound, you’ll be different, cleaner, lighter.”
In 1985, the Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir came to the attention of the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, who brought them to his California studio to record the incredible multiphonics of their sacred rituals. The monks gave Hart permission to overdub their voices, achieving the huge sound of the 100-voice choir as one might hear at their mountain monastery – with each monk’s voice singing a complete, extraordinary chord.
Heard on January 21 over the 360-degree spatial sound system of the Reethaus, the tantric choir produces a rhythmic chewing sound at the lowest range of the human voice, interspersed with sounds from bells, drums, cymbals and horns. Melody is not the point here—nor even musicality—but rather the body’s physical response to the grating repetitions, and the spiritual strength that follows from becoming one with their movements.
“The chanting heard on this recording is prayer, not performance,” the original record sleeve reads. ”Whenever this recording is played its prayers are effectively said anew — though their power depends less upon mechanistic reproduction than on the degree of attention and compassion with which you, the listener, join in the experience.”
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Crystal Winds Live
18:00 - 22:00
As part of our exploration into traditional and sacred musical forms, the Reethaus welcomes Crystal Winds, a duo playing Carnatic music, one of two Indian classical music genres that evolved from ancient Hindu texts and traditions, particularly the Samaveda. The duo consists of Loup Barrow, one of the few musicians to play the Cristal Baschet, a chromatically tuned instrument invented in 1953, and a young virtuoso named Flute J. A. Jayant on the bansuri flute, an instrument dating back to the vedic period. The glass rods of the Cristal Baschet are played with the fingertips to produce acoustic waves that comix with the sounds of the bansuri flute as the duo follows the strict rules of Carnatic music, including the rhythmic tala system.
The performance takes place in the inner room of the Reethaus, an intimate space where audience and artist are in close communion. Light food and drinks will be served over the course of the evening, and the performance will be followed by a moderated conversation with the artists, as well as the curators of the performance, Alexandra de Cadaval and Alain Weber, the world music advisor to the Philharmonie de Paris. Together, Cadaval and Weber direct and curate the Sacred Spirit Festival of Jodhpur and Nagaur, the Fez World Sacred Music Festival and Les Orientales d’Anjou Festival in Saint-Florent le Vieil and Angers.
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Lyra Pramuk Live
18:00 - 22:00
As part of Soundwalk Collective’s “Transmissions” series, Lyra Pramuk performs a site-specific arrangement of her “futuristic folk music,” fusing classical vocalism, pop sensibilities, performance practices and contemporary club culture that integrates the intimacies of the club, the emotional multitude of trans experiences and the forbidding possibilities of social and physical technologies.
The performance takes place in the inner room of the Reethaus, an intimate space where audience and artist are in close communion. Light food and drinks will be served over the course of the evening and the listening session will be followed by a panel discussion with Lyra Pramuk.
About Transmissions
Soundwalk Collective invites key influences and frequent collaborators featured across their extended body of work to participate in a series that samples from the past 60 years of sonic arts. Reflecting a personal view on collaboration as an essential aspect of the creative process, the series presents a broad summary of the sonic landscapes that they have developed over the past two decades. Seminal masterworks and newer pieces blend into a cohesive yet varied ensemble that spans musique concrète, performance art, contemporary and mystical music. All of these genres have in common a meditative dimension, a transitional nature that has been at the core of Soundwalk Collective’s work.
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Jana Winderen Live
19:00 - 23:00
As part of Soundwalk Collective’s “Transmissions” series, Norwegian sound artist Jana Winderen performs a 16-channel sound composition using field recordings of fish, crustacea and mammals, part of her longtime project revealing underwater audio topographies and our interaction with them. After the performance, Winderen will join a panel discussion that will also explore environmental issues facing the local riverside ecosystem.
The performance takes place in the inner room of the Reethaus, an intimate space where audience and artist are in close communion. Light food and drinks will be served over the course of the evening.
About Transmissions
Soundwalk Collective invites key influences and frequent collaborators featured across their extended body of work to participate in a series that samples from the past 60 years of sonic arts. Reflecting a personal view on collaboration as an essential aspect of the creative process, the series presents a broad summary of the sonic landscapes that they have developed over the past two decades. Seminal masterworks and newer pieces blend into a cohesive yet varied ensemble that spans musique concrète, performance art, contemporary and mystical music. All of these genres have in common a meditative dimension, a transitional nature that has been at the core of Soundwalk Collective’s work.
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La Monte Young: 12-Hour Sound Installation
12:00 - 23:59
Presented by Soundwalk Collective, the Reethaus hosts a rare staging of an early composition by La Monte Young, one of the first American minimalist composers, a drone music pioneer and a central figure in Fluxus and postwar avant-garde music. The 24-hour sound installation takes place during the entire duration of Young’s 88th birthday and will include the full-length rendition of “The Well-Tuned Piano in the Magenta Lights: 87 V 10 6:43:00 PM — 87 V 11 1:07:45 AM NYC,” a solo improvised work that he performed live in public over 65 times between 1974 and 1987 in the Marian Zazeela light environment.
Conceived in 1964, this work continued absorbing, evolving and expanding for over two decades until it flourished to its full structure in the 1980s. Each performance was improvised by memory over an interwoven architectural form, which often inspired new material while performing. During the second decade, the scale of the work had expanded exponentially with a wealth of musical materials built from the organic confluence of both Western and Hindustani classical traditions.
The keyboard of Young’s Bösendorfer was sometimes stained with blood from his wounded fingers after a long performance. The 45-minute recorded version (1964) gradually developed into a continuous 6-hour 25-minute virtuoso live performance in 1987. “The Well-Tuned Piano” is certainly the epitome of a justly tuned piano in the modern context that transcends the character and limitations of the instrument. While deeply rooted in the ancient traditions of aural primacy, tonal structure and modality, “The Well-Tuned Piano” delineated an unprecedented sustained harmonic resonance and a complex sonic epic that we had never before experienced.
About Transmissions
Soundwalk Collective invites key influences and frequent collaborators featured across their extended body of work to participate in a series that samples from the past 60 years of sonic arts. Reflecting a personal view on collaboration as an essential aspect of the creative process, the series presents a broad summary of the sonic landscapes that they have developed over the past two decades. Seminal masterworks and newer pieces blend into a cohesive yet varied ensemble that spans musique concrète, performance art, contemporary and mystical music. All of these genres have in common a meditative dimension, a transitional nature that has been at the core of Soundwalk Collective’s work.
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Pan Daijing
18:00 - 22:00
Known for her raw storytelling approach melding performance art, music, dance and film, composer and artist Pan Daijing’s multi-sensorial approach to music comes alive on the 360-degree spatial sound system in the Reethaus as part of Soundwalk Collective’s “Transmissions” series.
The listening experience takes place in the inner room of the Reethaus, an intimate space where audience and artist are in close communion. Light food and drinks will be served over the course of the evening, and the listening session will be followed by a conversation with Pan Daijing.
About Transmissions
Soundwalk Collective invites key influences and frequent collaborators featured across their extended body of work to participate in a series that samples from the past 60 years of sonic arts. Reflecting a personal view on collaboration as an essential aspect of the creative process, the series presents a broad summary of the sonic landscapes that they have developed over the past two decades. Seminal masterworks and newer pieces blend into a cohesive yet varied ensemble that spans musique concrète, performance art, contemporary and mystical music. All of these genres have in common a meditative dimension, a transitional nature that has been at the core of Soundwalk Collective’s work.
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Soundwalk Collective: All the Beauty & the Bloodshed Live Score
18:00 - 22:00
To kick off their “Transmissions” series at the Reethaus, Soundwalk Collective performs their score to Laura Poitras’ Oscar-nominated documentary film “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” a biographical documentary about the internationally renowned photographer, artist and activist Nan Goldin, for the first time in a live environment.
The performance takes place in the inner room of the Reethaus, an intimate space where audience and artist are in close communion. Light food and drinks will be served over the course of the evening and the performance will be followed by a panel discussion.
Composed in collaboration with Zacharias Falkenberg and Johannes Malfatti, Soundwalk Collective’s composition draws connections with the life and work of German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, who was removed from society through confinement in institutions. In his last poems, written as fragments while he was plagued by mental illness, Hölderlin renders nature, in all its fragility and ephemerality. Similar themes merge in Laura’s portrait of Goldin, whose life was profoundly marked by her sister’s depression and suicide, and serve as an inspiration for the composition of the choral songs and cantus within the soundtrack.
Through the repetition of words and layering of voices, the lyric scansion operates like a language possessed, echoing various styles from sacred music to modern minimalist techniques. Following this same pattern, the scored music produces a trance that oscillates between grace and madness. The music is characterized by quivering voices and swells, de-tuning and lingering, shifting around the surreal and interwoven with excerpts of Goldin’s direct narration. As in light going through a prism: music may have a slightly different meaning for each listener, thus creating a spectrum of musical experience, similar to a rainbow of light.
Vocals will be performed live by members of the Berlin choir A Song for You, some of whom sang on the original score.
About Transmissions
Soundwalk Collective invites key influences and frequent collaborators featured across their extended body of work to participate in a series that samples from the past 60 years of sonic arts. Reflecting a personal view on collaboration as an essential aspect of the creative process, the series presents a broad summary of the sonic landscapes that they have developed over the past two decades. Seminal masterworks and newer pieces blend into a cohesive yet varied ensemble that spans musique concrète, performance art, contemporary and mystical music. All of these genres have in common a meditative dimension, a transitional nature that has been at the core of Soundwalk Collective’s work.
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Flower Workshop
11:00 - 14:00
Join us on the farm on September 16 for our floriculture workshop dedicated to the art of organic flower cultivation. We’ll learn from our resident flower farmer, Andy, about his organic process in Meco, from the selection of cultivars, to seeding and harvesting, to crafting the perfect bouquet. Afterwards, explore the greenhouse and flower fields, handpicking your favorite blooms to create and take home your own bespoke bouquet. The cost for this workshop – including your bouquet, the program, and a complementary selection of fresh bites and refreshments – is €25 per person. We recommend bringing your own large vase to keep your bouquet fresh. We have limited space available so please reserve soon. We hope you can join us!
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Kelsey Lu: The Lucid, A Dream Portal to Awakening
18:00 - 22:00
Singer-songwriter, composer, cellist, performance artist and producer Kelsey Lu invites us into their liminal dream world for our first-ever performance at the Reethaus. Appearing live with cello and voice, Lu will reinterpret the score for their installation piece “The Lucid: A Dream Portal to Awakening” in an intimate exploration of the sonic frequencies of their subconscious during sleep.
Celebrated for their integration of classical, electronic and organic sounds amidst her soaring and soulful vocals, Lu’s music is constantly evolving in response to the world around her. Lu will curate an evening-long experience in the inner room of the Reethaus, an intimate space where audience and artist are in close communion. Light food and drinks will be served over the course of the program, and the performance will be followed by a panel discussion between series curator MJ Harper and Kelsey Lu, moderated by Kandis Williams.
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Flower Workshop
11:00 - 14:00
oin us on the farm for our floriculture workshop dedicated to the art of organic flower cultivation. We’ll learn from our resident flower farmers, Andy and Cat, about their organic process in Meco, from the selection of cultivars, to seeding and harvesting, to crafting the perfect bouquet. Afterwards, explore the greenhouse and flower fields, handpicking your favorite blooms to create and take home your own bespoke bouquet.
The cost for this workshop – including your bouquet, the program, and a complementary selection of fresh bites and refreshments – is €25 per person. We recommend bringing your own large vase to keep your bouquet fresh. We have very limited space available so please reserve soon below.
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The Healing Power of Plants
11:00 - 13:00
Delve into the healing powers of each of the more familiar greens, as well as uncover a few herbs you may not have come across before. You’ll return home with a few simple recipes for homemade remedies and an understanding of how herbs may support and guide the body.
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First Harvest: Lunch on the Farm
12:00
To celebrate the beginning of the spring harvest, we are pleased to invite you to join us on May 6th for a special harvest feast lunch by SEM and a Farmer’s Market on our farm in Meco.
For the third edition of our annual tradition, we are thrilled to announce a special gastronomic partnership with SEM, a zero-waste restaurant focused on regeneration and responsibility in all that they cook. Renowned for their selection of lesser-known local ingredients and zero-waste principles, SEM is at the forefront of the movement to return to more healthy, sustainable ways of eating. For the event, head-chef and founders George McLeod and Lara Espírito Santo will present a harvest feast to be enjoyed at your leisure in the fields of the farm. As leaders in building a more holistic relationship between agriculture and gastronomy, the duo exemplifies a philosophy shared with Friends of a Farmer towards the meaning of good food.
Alongside lunch with SEM, we’re excited to host our annual Farmer’s Market showcasing fresh produce from the farm and from friends in the region. Adam Lovell, founder of Bomb Vinho and sommelier of SEM, will curate the local, lo-fi wines for the day.
Arrive at midday as lunch will be served from 1pm. Guests are free to join rotating tours around the farm, until sunset.
To join this exciting day on the farm, including lunch, the cost is €55 per person for members, €75 per person for non-members and €15 for kids between the ages of 6 and 12 years. Drinks will be sold separately. Kids under 6 are free of charge.
Limited spots available. We hope that you will join us!
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Art in Nature
11:00 - 14:00
Join us at the farm for a day of creativity and experimentation. We’ll explore our land by collecting natural objects which we’ll use to make cyanotypes, or sun prints. This describes the cyan blue photographic printing process, invented at the dawn of photography, wherein the treated surface is exposed to sunlight to create an image from the shadow of an object.
We’ll also celebrate Easter with an egg hunt on the farm for the kids. Hosted in collaboration with one of our members, Shirley, founder of Wunderhaus.
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Back to the Farm
11:00 - 14:00
To celebrate our newly planted seedlings, we welcome you to the farm on Saturday March 4, from 11-2pm. You’ll meet the farmers behind our organic vegetable and flower boxes, who will walk you through the gardens and tell you about the crops seeded this year. You’ll also get the chance to plant your own herb seedling into a pot and take it home with you, along with tips on how to nourish and enjoy it. Kids and friends are welcome.
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Garlic Planting Workshop
11:00 - 13:00
The season has flown by! To mark the end of the beginning, we welcome you to the farm for our last gathering of the year on Saturday, November 12, from 11-1pm, when we’ll celebrate by getting our hands dirty, planting garlic that will grow throughout the winter. The u-pick fields will be open for your family and friends to enjoy.
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Día de los Muertos
18:00 - 00:00
Join us as we open our doors for an intimate concert and a Mexican-Caribbean offering rooted in the culinary traditions of Día de los Muertos.
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Ember Riverside Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
This summer we’re joining Berlin food collective Ember for a series of dinners at Flussbad, featuring Ember’s open-fire cuisine served in ever-changing settings. A seasonal multi-course meal brimming with sun-kissed produce will be served on the Spree riverside, where Flussbad’s reed-roofed subterranean performance space, the Reethaus, is nearing completion.
Learn more about Ember’s open-fire culinary offerings at ember-ofc.com.
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Ember Riverside Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
This summer we’re joining Berlin food collective Ember for a series of dinners at Flussbad, featuring Ember’s open-fire cuisine served in ever-changing settings. A seasonal multi-course meal brimming with sun-kissed produce will be served on the Spree riverside, where Flussbad’s reed-roofed subterranean performance space, the Reethaus, is nearing completion.
Learn more about Ember’s open-fire culinary offerings at ember-ofc.com.
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Ember Riverside Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
This summer we’re joining Berlin food collective Ember for a series of dinners at Flussbad, featuring Ember’s open-fire cuisine served in ever-changing settings. A seasonal multi-course meal brimming with sun-kissed produce will be served on the Spree riverside, where Flussbad’s reed-roofed subterranean performance space, the Reethaus, is nearing completion.
Learn more about Ember’s open-fire culinary offerings at ember-ofc.com.
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Ember Riverside Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
This summer we’re joining Berlin food collective Ember for a series of dinners at Flussbad, featuring Ember’s open-fire cuisine served in ever-changing settings. A seasonal multi-course meal brimming with sun-kissed produce will be served on the Spree riverside, where Flussbad’s reed-roofed subterranean performance space, the Reethaus, is nearing completion.
Learn more about Ember’s open-fire culinary offerings at ember-ofc.com.
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Ember Riverside Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
This summer we’re joining Berlin food collective Ember for a series of dinners at Flussbad, featuring Ember’s open-fire cuisine served in ever-changing settings. A seasonal multi-course meal brimming with sun-kissed produce will be served on the Spree riverside, where Flussbad’s reed-roofed subterranean performance space, the Reethaus, is nearing completion.
Learn more about Ember’s open-fire culinary offerings at ember-ofc.com.
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Masa Madre: Sourdough and fermentation workshop
13:00 - 19:00
Join us for a daylong fermentation workshop where you will learn how to make sourdough, kimchi and more with our Executive Chef Gonzalo Cerrato Laguna and Manuel Manchor, a self-taught sourdough master from Mexico City. The workshop will start at 1pm in our open-air kitchen with a foundational session on sourdough by Manuel, including health benefits, myths, cultural significance and the special history of this world-famous bread. We will talk about different preparation techniques, how to manage time well and alternative recipes for experimentation. You will get your hands into the subject, by making the “Mother” recipe and creating your own sourdough bread.
During the resting time of the bread, you will be taught by Gonzalo how to make your own kimchi and the famous Tulum Treehouse guacamole. You are welcome to bring swimsuits and towels if you want to enjoy a dip in the pool while we prepare the fire oven and wait for the bread to be ready to bake! At around 5:30pm it will be time to bake the bread. After 20 minutes in the oven, your bread will be ready to be enjoyed with the handmade guacamole and kimchi on the rooftop at sunset.
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Flower Arrangement Workshop
11:00 - 13:00
Our farm flowers are in full bloom and we want to celebrate with you!
Join us for a day on the farm harvesting and arranging your own bouquet of flowers. We’ll learn about the different varieties, planting and harvesting techniques and best caring conditions for long-lasting, fresh bouquets. Please bring your own vase.
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Ember Riverside Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
This summer we’re joining Berlin food collective Ember for a series of dinners at Flussbad, featuring Ember’s open-fire cuisine served in ever-changing settings. A seasonal multi-course meal brimming with sun-kissed produce will be served on the Spree riverside, where Flussbad’s reed-roofed subterranean performance space, the Reethaus, is nearing completion.
Learn more about Ember’s open-fire culinary offerings at ember-ofc.com.
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Ember Riverside Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
This summer we’re joining Berlin food collective Ember for a series of dinners at Flussbad, featuring Ember’s open-fire cuisine served in ever-changing settings. A seasonal multi-course meal brimming with sun-kissed produce will be served on the Spree riverside, where Flussbad’s reed-roofed subterranean performance space, the Reethaus, is nearing completion.
Learn more about Ember’s open-fire culinary offerings at ember-ofc.com.
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Cordero a la Cruz
18:00
A special gastronomic night hosted by our Executive Chef Gonzalo Cerrato includes an open-fire lamb roast on a metal cross in the Argentine style, “cordero a la cruz,” a community culinary tradition common in South America. Supplied by the family farm of our local production chef Osso, the lamb will be roasted on an open fire with whole-cooked vegetables in the middle of our jungle garden while guests gather around the pool. Beginning at 6pm, this special evening will also include a welcome sangria and plums in wine for dessert.
The cordero roast will be accompanied by live harp, guitar and cajon drum in the jarocho style native to the Mexican state of Veracruz. A folk musical genre mixing Spanish, indigenous and African influences, jarocho has its roots in the early colonization of the Mexican Carribean and is thought to date back as far as the 11th century.
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Morning on the Farm
09:00 - 13:00
We welcome you to the farm on Saturday, July 2 to meet the farmers behind the produce, tour our abundant fields and learn about planting and harvesting techniques. Kids are welcome.
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Ember Riverside Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
This summer we’re joining Berlin food collective Ember for a series of dinners at Flussbad, featuring Ember’s open-fire cuisine served in ever-changing settings. A seasonal multi-course meal brimming with sun-kissed produce will be served on the Spree riverside, where Flussbad’s reed-roofed subterranean performance space, the Reethaus, is nearing completion.
Learn more about Ember’s open-fire culinary offerings at ember-ofc.com.
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Life Drawing Workshop
19:00 - 22:00
Join us at the Treehouse for a life drawing workshop guided by Tulum-based artist @nikitamrtnz. The intimate session will include a welcome drink, atmospheric musical accompaniment and a drawing lesson by Nikita featuring a life model.
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Life Drawing Workshop
19:00 - 22:00
Join us at the Treehouse for a life drawing workshop guided by Tulum-based artist @nikitamrtnz. The intimate session will include a welcome drink, atmospheric musical accompaniment and a drawing lesson by Nikita featuring a life model.
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Herbarium Workshop
09:00 - 13:00
“It always takes me back to childhood, collecting wildflowers and letting them dry between the pages of my favorite books.” – Farmer Sofia
Join us on Saturday, May 21 from 9am to 1pm for an Herbarium Workshop led by Pedro Arsénio, a professor at the Higher Institute of Agronomy at the University of Lisbon with expert knowledge of Mediterranean plant life. We will walk the land together, selecting and collecting plants and flower specimens to press and dry while Pedro explains their origins, genetics, conservation status and more. The workshop will be educational and dynamic, great for children aged six and above!
Exact directions to the farm will be provided upon registering.
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Farmer’s Market
10:00 - 14:00
It’s been a busy season at the farm in Meco as our team there takes shape and helps to bring a beautiful abundance of crops to harvest. We invite you to share in this bounty and meet the farmers behind the crops at our annual Farmers Market at Casa Noble, where we will showcase our first harvest of organic farm-fresh vegetables as well as other artisanal items from small farms and producers in the region.
When arriving at the address, take the narrow downhill side street to your left. Continue for a few steps downward. Access is through the door on your right. There will be a list at the door for entry.
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Primary Paper Issue 5 Launch
19:00 - 21:00
Join us at our Berlin bakery Sofi for wine and focaccia as we launch the latest issue of Primary Paper, which explores the topic of faith through contemporary photography.
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Día de los Muertos
18:00 - 01:00
Join us as we open our doors for an intimate rooftop concert and a Mexican-Caribbean offering rooted in the culinary traditions of Día de los Muertos. Rooted in the pre-Hispanic traditions of Mexico, the Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a day when the portal opens between the living and the dead, allowing the souls of the departed to rejoin their loved ones for a day of ceremony, remembrance and celebration—a vision of an accessible spiritual dimension shared by many cultures across the globe.
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Jason Kriegler Exhibition
Tulum Treehouse welcomes our new exhibiting artist, Merida-based textile painter Jason Kriegler. Drawing influence from traditional textile design, Jason incorporates abstraction to create contemporary works that blur the lines between painting and textile art. His pared-down paper embroidery paintings suggest organic, biological forms but can also be experienced purely as abstracted combinations of shapes, line and texture.
Despite their simplicity, they have a captivating quality that reveals the complexity of hand embroidering onto paper, enlivened by a sense of depth that only seems to grow with continued examination. The exhibition runs for six months.
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Tomato Harvest & Farm Picnic
To mark the tomato harvest, we’re hosting a picnic at the Meco Beach farm, accompanied by live music and discussion. The gathering kicks off a rotating program of community-supported farming, arts and knowledge exchange that aims to restore conscious appreciation for the natural world, creating a model for a regenerative society.
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Farmer’s Workshop
We welcome the community for a day of discovery under the guidance of master farmer Andy Szymanowicz, an expert in biodynamic agriculture and lacto-fermentation. With the help of his team of nature-loving farmers, Andy will guide us through La Granja’s garden plots, sharing recent developments, discoveries and the season’s most promising crops.
Learn how composting, mulching and a high-tech, sustainable approach to water management have returned vital nutrients to the farm, how eating produce from small farms can benefit your mind and body and how you can bring all of these learnings into your own life, home and personal garden plot. Get involved in a project aimed at reactivating abandoned agricultural lands across the island.
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Farmer’s Market
Join us for our first Farmer’s Market at Casa Noble in Lisbon, where we will offer produce and artisanal items from small farms in the region, including the first harvest of our own 82-hectare former herdade on Portugal’s Arrábida Coast that we are transforming into a biodynamic farmstead for year-round living and hospitality. Architects from the herdade project will be on hand at the Farmer’s Market, sharing drawings and plans for what’s to come
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Conversation with a View hosted by Daniel Pinchbeck
From the jungle-facing roof terrace of the Treehouse, we continue our conversation series hosted by acclaimed writer Daniel Pinchbeck on the new regenerative paradigm and the impact of rapid development on the indigenous communities and natural ecosystems of Tulum and other developing destinations.
Daniel has written extensively about ecology, shamanism, psychedelics and indigenous prophecy in his books, which include Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Notes from the Edge Times and most recently, How Soon is Now? The dialogue, in which we will also discuss actionable steps we can take individually and as a community to offset the harmful effects of rapid development, will be followed by a live performance.
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Xinú Opening
A sensorial week of music and scent celebrates our collaboration with Xinú, a Mexico City perfumery founded by Ignacio Cadena, Verónica Peña and influential designer Héctor Esrawe, who has created a site-specific sensorial installation bridging the entrance of Tulum Treehouse to the front garden and the new boutique, Xinú’s fourth site in Mexico.
Drawing inspiration from the aromatic biodiversity of the Americas, Xinú is curating botanicals across Tulum Treehouse, from unique food and drink menus to skincare and bathing products. We will celebrate this collaboration with a night of music from Hernan Suarez and Avi Schneider, followed by our resident Jaime Fiorito.
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Cooking Workshop
Gather in the Treehouse kitchen to uncover Mayan cooking techniques. Learn to grind corn, the heart and soul of Mexican food culture, ith a stone mill and prepare it using techniques going back to pre-Hispanic times.
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Mayan Clay with Emilio Espadas
16:00 - 19:00
Emilio Espadas of Uayma, a member of one of the last Mayan potter families in the Yucatán, shares his process as we continue our discourse on the indigenous craft and artisanal traditions of the Yucatán.
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Uxii in Residence
Tulum Treehouse artist-in-residence Uxii is a self-taught ceramicist living in Mérida. Her ceramic work explores the composition, use and origin of prehispanic Mayan clay vessels. We invite our residents to investigate new cultural dialogues and possibilities for traditional knowledge preservation.
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