JONG WHA PARK -PIANIST-

last week we all went to the french cathedral to listen to the berlin international classical music festival and especially to watch the extraordinary performance of JONG WHA PARK, a good friend of PLATOON, whom we met in seoul:.

he played in the master series, executing works of schumann, bach and chopin.
it was great! only set back was the bad acoustics in the room -there was a sort of echo that was distracting the artist, first of all, but also the audience. It´s kind of strange that no one thought about it beforehand.















nonetheless the pianist was brilliant. a wonderful piano-concert.; the listeners applauded enthusiastically and JONG gave us 4 extras.

Trolleybooks at PLATOON

Trolleybooks at PLATOON has been an amazing event! we are very glad to have met Gigi and Hannah, they are two very special persons and we really enjoyed exchanging views with them... and i guess the same goes for them...in fact Gigi is now, as he likes to say, PLATOON member number 1! and i can assure you that we also switched completely in a TROLLEY-Mood these days.

a special thanks goes also to all of you who came....we knew that it wasnt going to be pleasant, but life is not pleasant sometimes, and that reminds us that we can actually do something about it....each of us in our own way.
we sincerely hope something moved inside you... at some point i was literally shaking.

Lucky Michaels – photographer of Shelter - also delivered his message extraordinarly. we still have his exhibition in our recruitment office..in fact you are very welcome to come and have a closer look this week, before we send them back to London.


the day after the event, Gigi&Hannah left for Dubrovnik with their Trolley-van...this man is on a serious mission, and it´s a very noble one, the one against any form of injustice! Big up for you Trolley warriors, we at PLATOON are completely on your side and hope to see you again sometimes soon.

watch ! opening of the PLATOON.recruitment office

...many thanx to all of you for celebrating with us
last week! here our video capturing the day

special thanks goes to the artist

skinnerbox

stefan schütz

gnomjogson

soni riot

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.



...and here the latest video, with music composed by Chris Clark- warprecords



a construction of space
enclosed within
a history
deconstructed
rebuilt, suspended
to capture and re-live
a past that remains held

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.