Open Call :: Emergent Berlin Festival 2025 - Reclamation

Is this the better world we’ve been looking for? Show up and share your plans to make the world a better place at the Emergent Berlin festival!

Since 2013, Baumhaus Berlin has brought together local initiatives, organizations, and neighbors who are ready to shape a more sustainable future with personal, ecological, aesthetic, cultural, economic and social perspectives (p.e.a.c.e.s.). 🌱 Check out the page where you can submit your idea for a contribution!

## 2025 Theme: RECLAMATION – Reclaiming the Narrative & Our Agency

We believe it’s time to redefine the story—our story. This year, we’re turning Emergent Berlin into a Super Hero Training Camp to equip ourselves with the tools, perspectives, and community support to make real change. More than ever, Berlin needs a sense of unity, shared purpose, and the belief that we can move things forward together.

## What’s Happening?

Friday
📍 Art Opening & Party – Friday night kicks off with creativity and connection at Baumhaus, our festival meeting point. The opening party takes place at Panke Culture Club in the backyard.

Saturday & Sunday
📍 Evengers Onboarding – A chance to step into action and unlock some superhero skills throughout hand chosen workshops and preparing you to save the future. Expand your network of real life Superheroes!
📍 Workshops & Prototyping Sessions – From “Redesigning the world as we would like it to be” using AI & AI, actual and artificial intelligence to an all day clothing upcycling / repair / swap and costume making session, plus plenty of different workshops and hands on activities
📍 Inspiring Lectures & Discussions – Experts and diverse voices across Berlin’s changemaker community will share their opinions on recent and future sustainability perspectives + 2 Poetry Slams (DE & EN)
📍 The Launch of a New Initiative – We’re introducing ourworld.solutions, a platform for collaboration beyond the festival to make sure our collected and gained knowledge can be turned into practical action and an active network. + an initiative to start a local newspaper for our growing network of change makers.

All time
📍Music, Food, Drinks, Art, Networking, Chill Out Area, Open Greeting Zones, Fun

Check out our other Emergent Berlin festivals from 2013 until 2023

## How do you want to participate?

Emergent Berlin is powered by the people who show up and contribute.
We’re inviting workshop leaders, artists, activists, provocateurs, helpers, facilitators and anyone with a vision to join us. Whether you’re from a grassroots initiative, an NGO, a creative space, a business, or simply a concerned citizen— join the conversation, share how you want to reclaim a better future, and spread the word. The setting is open and informal, so you’re warmly invited to join us whether your idea/initiative is still in its early stages or already well-established.

Ways you can contribute: give a short project presentation, offer a workshop, a performance, a poetry reading, be a general helper, an AI guide, photo/video/audio documentation, social media & website, wellness facilitator or maybe even a sewing machine operator for our clothing up-cycling/repair/swap shop/costume making workshop…
If you want to contribute, just click the link below fill out the form below and we’ll get back to you within a week!

🌱 Check out the page where you can submit your idea for a contribution! / offer to help

For more info, participation or press inquiries, reach out to us via info@emergentberlinfest.de

Let’s grow the movement for sustainability, creativity and collective action together!