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Dara Tûyê – درخت توت – Der Maulbeerbaum. Feministische Stimmen über Krieg und Gärten
In the organizer's words:
The open-air exhibition by Flamingo e.V. at BERLIN GLOBAL focuses on women acting in solidarity across borders. Their collaboration creates space for new hope to emerge from experiences of violence and loss.
The starting point is the Hevrîn Xelef medicinal herb garden in Berlin-Neukölln, which has close ties to the women’s village of Jinwar in northeastern Syria and to the organization Women for Justice. Here, it becomes clear just what gardens can be: places of remembrance, healing, and community; of mutual support and self-empowerment. Furthermore, gardens are places of resistance against oppression and violence.
In the center of the open space at BERLIN GLOBAL stands the black mulberry tree, based on an artistic design by Ela Pour. It unites fragility and strength, grief and hope. The voices and experiences of the project participants are set to music by Yalda Yazdani. They share memories, feelings, and knowledge about plants. The expansive tree sculpture is complemented by photographs by Philip Leutert from the Hevrîn Xelef Garden and by Anuscheh Amir-Khalili from Jinwar.
The title means “The Mulberry Tree” in Kurmanci and Farsi.
Freiflächen Partner
A project by Flamingo e.V.
In collaboration with:
Anuscheh Amir-Khalili | Curator
Ela Pour, Jasmin, Leyla Ferman, Lisa Dobkowitz, Nassim Tajbakhsh, Najlaa Matto, Nesrin, Shirin, Steph K’mour Wintz, Xatun, Xezal Ismail | Interview Participants
Ela Pour, with support from Chris Jaritz and Anja Koch Kenk | Artistic Design: Black Mulberry Tree
Yalda Yazdani | Sound design
Philip Leutert | Photographs
May Franzen | Graphics
In collaboration with the Stadtmuseum Berlin, with support from the anstiftung
Participants
Anuscheh Amir-Khalili is an activist, anthropologist, and curator at Freifläche. Born in Iran to a German mother and an Iranian father, she founded the Flamingo association in 2015, a network for refugee women* and children. Since 2019, Flamingo has been managing the transcultural community garden Hevrîn Xelef in Berlin-Neukölln. For her work, she received the 2022 Citizen Award from the organization Global Citizen. Since 2022, she has been a research associate at the anstiftung and the point of contact for post-migrant communities, particularly in the area of community gardens.
Ela Pour was born in Tehran in 1975. She spent her early years in England before returning to Iran. In 1989, the war drove her to Germany, where she continued her passion for art and music from an early age and made them central forms of expression in her life. She studied costume and set design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art, where she earned her diploma. Her work as an artist and tattoo artist navigates the space between memory and the present. In her work, personal experiences coalesce into poetic images that reveal both vulnerability and resilience.
Philip Leutert (b. 1982) studied photography at the Ostkreuz School in Berlin and at the ZHdK in Zurich. He has been working as a freelance photographer since 2013. His focus is on portraits and abstract artistic photography.
Dr. Yalda Yazdani is an Iranian ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, and curator living in Berlin. In 2025, she completed her doctorate in musicology at the University of Siegen. From 2017 to 2025, she curated music festivals and cultural projects such as Female Voice of Iran, Female Voice of Afghanistan, Female Voice of Kurdistan, Qashqai Female Voices, Ukrainian Female Voices, and Female Voices United. Her work focuses on raising the international profile of women’s voices, particularly those from the Middle East.
Partner
Flamingo e.V. - A Space by Flamingo e.V.
Flamingo is a grassroots movement based in Berlin—a community-driven initiative that emerges from the bottom up and is not controlled by institutions. In addition to providing advice on asylum and residency law for refugee women*, the association offers its infrastructure to other activists and networks. In 2019, the Hevrîn Xelef community garden was established: a place for communal gardening, remembrance, and self-organization on the repurposed St. Jacobi New Cemetery.
- Regular price: 9 EUR. Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer.
- BERLIN GLOBAL, 1st floor – “Berlin-Bilder” room
- Ages 12 and up
- German, English
- Wheelchair accessible
- Hours: Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun: 10:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m., Wed: 10:30 a.m. – , Tue: closed
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