Carl Sagan: “We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It’s been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

From the book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. The photo was taken by Voyager 1 in 1990

Saturday

3 / March

Sunday

4 / March

Monday

5 / March

Ongoing: open studio’s of HomeBase BUILD II Residence artists

12 12:30

Toast & HB Curators reflection

Anat / Adrian Reflection on HB BUILD II residency artists work

(Salon – 30min)

  12:30

Live brewing of Ignatz Bier

(studio #1 – hole day event)   13 13:00

Residency tour

hosted by HB Team and artists

(Salon – 30min)

  13:00

Residency tour

hosted by HB Team and artists

(Salon – 30min) 13:00

Ceremony Shiri

(Salon – 60min) 14 13:30

Soup & Stories

gathering and art talk, hosted by residence artists Michal Rivlin & Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy

(Salon – 60min) 13:30

Soup & Stories 

gathering and art talk, hosted by residence artists Felipe Arurda & Brian Fernandes-Holloran

(Salon – 60min) 14:00

gathering with soup

& HomeBase presentation

Talk about HomeBase, the building, present and the future by the artistic director and founder of the HomeBase Project – Anat Litwin

(Salon – 30min)

  15 15:00

HomeBase info session

Artistic director and founder of the HomeBase Project – Anat Litwin, sharing info about the future plans in Berlin, NYC and Jerusalem

(Think Tank – 30min) 15:00

Pankow Panel & Thulestrasse 54 Ignatz Bier

Exploring the history of the Pankow neighbourhood, with guest speaker Mayor Matthias and Brewery historians and experts, and associate-director Heather Mckee

(Salon – 60min) 15:00

Re-staging of the historical Engelhardt photo

Celebration of the history of the site, with re-staging the photo that is taken 105 years ago

(Garden)

15:30

Toast with Ignatz Bier  16 16:30

Curators Talk

‘the art of everyday living’

Berlin Based guest curators with HB Artistic Director Anat Litwin and co-curator Adrian Brun (Salon – 90min)

  16:30

Artist interview 

Residence artist Felipe Arruda interviewed (studio #21- 30min) 16:00

Workshop Urban agriculture and eco systems

Green House and Compost by team member Mauricio Lizarzo

(Green House – 30min) 17   17:00

Open discussion ‘Berlin migration’

hosted collaborators and team member Bas Kools

(Salon – 60min)

  17:30

Billie Pistol 27

music performance by Alejandro Vaquero & Heather McKee

(Salon – 60min) 18 18:30

Billie Pistol 27

music performance by Alejandro Vaquero & Heather McKee

(Salon – 60min) 18:30

Billie Pistol 27

music performance by Alejandro Vaquero & Heather McKee

(Salon – 60min)

  18:30 end festival 19       20 20:00

Berlin Sling

Urban Pop-Psychedelic Soul from Berlin

(Salon – 30min)

  20:00

Live music

(Salon – 60min)  

  21 21:00

HomeBase Party

with Patrice Leiris    

Ignatz Bier is a artisan craft pilsner, brewed by HomeBase artists, beer lovers, neighbours and social entrepreneurs at the old Engelhardt Brewery located at Thulestrasse 54, Berlin, now home to HomeBase LAB. Our beer was named after Herr Ignatz Nacher, the first landlord of teh building – a German-Jewish merchant, beer maker, director and main shareholder of the Engelhardt brewery. Nacher transformed Engelhardt brewery into one of the most successful breweries in Germany before it was taken over in the 1930’s by the Third Reich, in what became one of the biggest cases of Nazi expropriation.

The building of the HB LAB located at Thulestrasse 54, Pankow survived two world wars and went through dramatic sociopolitical shifts. Built in 1890, it housed the Engelhardt brewery from 1905 -1949, directed by Mr. Ignatz Nacher . In the 1930’s it was taken over by the Third Reich and after WWII it became a communist brewery, a youth hostel of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth) and remained deserted for nearly 20 year after the fall of the berlin wall. In the summer of 2010 HomeBase Project arrived from NYC and brought a new life to this place, with the vision of creating the old brewery into a year-round research and residency center devoted to questions of home, and the role of art & social change.

The last day of the HB BUILD festival, March 5th 2012, marks exactly 105 years since the historic photo. The day will include the re-staging of the Engelhardt photograph dated March 5th 1907 in which Ignatz Nacher along with the brewery workers are proudly standing in front of the building, celebrating the launch of Englehart Pilsner brewed on site. Participants in the March 5th 2012 will gather to reflect on the past while creating together a new future for the site – the building of a permanent home for the HomeBase project. The photograph will include artists, neighbors, beer lovers, the Mayor of Pankow, local schools and the public.

Monday March 5th at 14:00 – 15:00

Please RSVP for photo and choose your lucky number at festival@homebaseproject.org

About Ignatz Nacher (1862 – 1939), a German-Jew began work at the brewery in 1901 and rose from a low-level worker to become its general director and majority shareholder. He invented the pasteurization of beer and under his management, the company became Germany’s second largest beer brewing conglomerate with several factories throughout the country and a beer garden. He was also known for his philanthropic work and built orphanages and old age homes. In 1934, his property was seized by the Nazi Regime and the profitable brewery was used to fund the war machine. Nacher tried to resist the takeover of the company, but he was arrested and ultimately deported to Switzerland where shortly after he died in poverty. The logo of the Engelhardt (which means angel heart) Brewery was changed from an angel with black hair to blond – signifying the aryanization of the brand.
www.ignatzbier.com