DROP THE BOMB

tomorrow started a night of entertainment
in the BangBang Cub Hackescher Markt.
come on, because it´s a great pleasure.
door is open 10pm. 4 euros befor 11 pm
6 euros after...

among others you can see and hear gene,
a kooky vocalist with a great voice.

PLATOON presents Trolleybooks

following the wave of new recruits we had after the opening day, we are really glad to invite you to another recruitment.session here at PLATOON.


for the occasion we´ll have a slideshow evening organized and presented by Gigi Giannuzzi, publisher and director of Trolleybooks, an independent publishing house specialized in social documentary and photo-journalism, who will present some of his latest publications here at PLATOON.


Trolleybooks has been often described as guerrilla style reportage bordering with contemporary art. a description really fitting PLATOON´s tradition of culturally involved events.


it´ll be a special evening presenting the latest Trolley slideshows of new and forthcoming books, featuring:


‘A Million Shillings - Escape from Somalia’ by Alixandra Fazzina

and ‘Delta Nigeria - the Rape of Paradise’ by George Osodi.


with a book signing and exhibition of photographs from 'Shelter' by Lucky Michaels.



here some more info about Trolleybooks





Wednesday 30th July 2008
start around 7:30 - 9pm
(slideshows start as soon as it gets dark!)
admission free -
please send us a confirmation email to be on the guestlist! - marcello@platoon.org

HELD

another contemporary dance performance definitely worth seeing…choreographer and performer Morgan Belenguer, (RIDDLE) invites you to his and Melanie Lane´s latest work: HELD

HELD is a documentation made of faded memories: wandering in the corners of rooms, through silent walls and on worn-out carpets. looking for traces and leads belonging to whom left them behind.

the story of these memories will be told through the observation of an environment rather then through persons. It will feel like a room awakening… a landscape of sound, video and random materials being built and taken apart again, a continuously changing architecture made of space and ambiance in which the performance turns in circle.

Premiere: July 31st, 20.30Uhr Further Perfromances: 1st-3rd August, 20.30Uhr. Dock 11, Kastanianallee 79.

Pecha Kucha Vol.10

nonsense, of course not 10 years Pecha Kucha. but the 10th Pecha Kucha evening in Berlin!

as always,12-14 eminent speakers present their ideas and their work while scrupulously abiding by the Pecha Kucha format: 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. a presentation lasts 6 minutes 40 seconds – enough time to explain one’s personal work approach while getting the basic message across and keeping the audience on its toes.

Anke Hoffmann will be supporting the event as guest curator:

"Anke Hoffmann, producing culture between content and form, from Berlin with learning years in London and Karlsruhe, stations at transmediale, ZKM, art+com and among other things work as a free curator at RealismusStudio, NBGK."

# Vera Tollmann (Author and curator / What you should know (the future)
# Maria Mohr (Filmmaker/ Holy in 3 steps)
# Anja Schwanhäuser (Ethnologist / Horse Art – Activist of No Hoof - No Groove!)
# Wedding (magazine)
# Tom Solo (Photographer / Around the world on a private plane)
# Stefan Liske (berlin.unlike / Cityguide for the mobile generation)
# Lemke Kraan (Biologist / Anti-Panda Campaign)
# Cardoso (Pecha Kucha Porto Alegre, via Skype)


Pecha Kucha Berlin Vol.10 - come celebrate!
29. Juli 2008
Brunnenstraße 64 / Close to U-Bahnhof Bernauer Straße or Voltastraße
Start 20:20 h / Doors open 19:30 / Entry: EUR 5,-

linked via PechaKucha

THE RECRUITMENT OFFICE IS OPEN

last saturday it happened. we finally
started our recruitment office.
all you creative people can now recruit
in the PLATOON office, get into special task force and be member of PLATOON´s international creative
network. members can now also get a selection of clothes from the PLATOON.uniform collection.







































our recruiting officer marcello had some interested people wanting to recruit.





















sadly the weather for the party was
not the best...at times we showered under the summer rain.... it was not really inviting, but anyway we had a fantastic show and lots of fun.

PLATOON.recruitment office - opening event

a big hello to all of you out there, once again there is a reason to party!

for too long we didnt let you know much about us....but now the time has come.

as one or the other have already noticed, we are now based in the alten schönhauserstrasse 3 and we enhanced PLATOON with 2 more containers

and this is new: our Recruitment Office

we are often asked what we exactly do, where our interests lay and how our jobs look like. what is this PLATOON.network - comprised of people from the most diverse creative backgrounds - all about? and why are we so often in Korea?

on saturday, july 19th you’ll have the chance to learn much more about PLATOON, about our international projects, what this Recruitment Office actually is, what we are up to in Berlin and what it is that really engages us.

many of you are already members of the PLATOON.association (e.V) and know us from the past. now you´ve got the possibility to actively participate to our network and to collaborate with us on the development of an even wider international network.

please dont forget to bring your PLATOON.dogTags, they will be regarded as entry tokens for the day´s event and will help us, when needed, to make some quick updates. but we wont reveal more then that now.;-)

expect delicious drinks, prepared by the jette-bar-crew, daniel at the grill and a line up of interesting live-acts and dj´s.

the event starts at 12am, with open-end as usual...and if you could send us a little guestlist-mail it would be great for our scheduling.

the whole PLATOON.crew welcomes you... till then...
stay straight....

so long P.

PLATOON.seoul photo shooting

photo time! last saturday PLATOON.seoul took photos for the new recruitment office section. the studio is run by one of jiwon's friends, a nice basement studio with funky music and beamer projections in the background. here some pics of the shooting... running gag for the day was twisting your fingers to the mighty "west berlin" sign... well, for ohyun, a native "west berliner", who would die for his hood of course it was serious business ^^

the"back to berlin" launching party at platoon.

last thursday we had a small book launching party at the PLATOON/KUNSTHALLE.seoul site.






























dong mi was in berlin last winter to research for her berlin book - PLATOON helped her out as much as possible: PLATOON supported dong-mi and photographer jeong-tae in finding a place to stay and platoonie judith guided her around all over berlin to gather information for writing the book which, by the way, became a really nice colorful and diverse personal travelogue about berlin!

















































also bling and dazed&confused CEO (^^) sehoon is a proud sponsor and publisher of "다시 베를린 [back to/again berlin]"/
















author dongmi& photographer jeongtae.



























she decorated the site with light balls hanging on wire with all kinds of pictures from berlin, very nice and looks more berlinish~~^^*













the book was on sale and most books she brought that night were gone.
every single one of 'em liked the book. so do l hehehe^^* you can tell ...

















our PLATOONIE udo lee started the party with berlin style minimal house beats and blew the summer heat into the air and dj bada from cologne took over ^^* - together they rocked the party ....!!!
























the party was successful as usual,over 300people.... ^^ so long buddies, till next time...danke!


want to have one?^^*.