The international and transdisciplinary mentoring programme Forecast is launching its ninth edition in 2024/2025 with the Forecast Forum. As part of workshops, performances and showcases, 18 creative minds from all over the world will present their pioneering projects and ideas at the Radialsystem from 2 to 4 August.
Image above: Forecast Forum, Radialsystem Berlin
From more than 1,100 applications worldwide, the six mentors of the Forecast Edition 2024/25 have each invited three nominees to present their artistic projects to a broad audience at the Forecast Forum at the beginning of August. Over three days, boundaries between disciplines and genres will be challenged, questioned and transcended through performances and innovative artistic strategies in an exchange between mentors and the 18 nominees. At the end of the forum, the mentors will each select a project that they will accompany for 8 months until spring 2025. These six projects will be presented at the Forecast Festival in March 2025 at Radialsystem.
This year’s mentor team consists of the composer and performer Ute Wassermann (Germany), the documentary filmmaker Tomer Heymann (Israel), the visual artist Theo Eshetu (UK), the choreographer Alice Ripoll (Brazil), the photographer Lieko Shiga (Japan) and the designer Fiona Raby (UK).
The programme
Friday, 2. August, from 8 pm
Open Minded Body
Choreography
Mentor: Alice Ripoll (Brazil)
Nominees: Mehdi Dahkan (Morocco), Patience Ebute (Nigeria) and Siraji Koloto (Uganda)
A Place Beyond Fear
documentary film
Mentor: Tomer Heymann (Israel)
Nominees: Anna Homan (Ukraine), Sharon Ryba-Kahn (France/Israel) and Hao Zhou (China)
Saturday, 3. August from 7 pm
Expanding Your Voice
Composition and performance
Mentor: Ute Wassermann (Germany)
Nominees: Shasha Chen (China), Camil Navarro (Chile) and Inés Terra (Argentina/Brazil)
Images Invisible to Our Naked Eye
Photography
Mentor: Lieko Shiga (Japan)
Nominees: Sharbendu De (India), Mei Liu (China) and Philadelphia Makwakwa (South Africa)
Sunday, 4 August, from 6 pm
Paradoxical Imaginings: Ideas and Objects
Design
Mentor: Fiona Raby (UK)
Nominees: Justin Bean (UK), Johanna Seelemann (Germany) and Mali Weil (Italy)
Shapes of the Unknown
Visual Arts
Mentor: Theo Eshetu (UK)
Nominees: Léllé Demertzi (Greece), Trà Nguyễn (Vietnam) and Mudassir Sheikh (Pakistan)
WHEN?
Dates: Friday, 2 August to Sunday, 4 August 2024
WHERE?
Radialsystem
Holzmarktstraße 33
10243 Berlin
COST?
Normal price: 6 EUR
Reduced: 3 EUR
