İç İçe – Festival für neue anatolische Musik

İÇ İÇE, which means “intertwined” or “interwoven” in Turkish, is the first and only diverse festival for new Anatolian music in Germany.

The Anatolian region has always been a melting pot for a wide variety of cultural movements and musical traditions. Since the 1960s at the latest, these have been unfolding in our immediate neighborhood and influencing our everyday life and nightlife, from the underground to pop culture. How artists reinterpret cultural fragments of their identities in a personal way and thus create space and a voice for themselves in the societies in which they are based is the core element of the multilingual and multi-voiced festival.

Our team consists mostly of queer and migrant people who want to celebrate, strengthen and further network our communities with the help of music and art. Since 2021, we have been inviting people to Körnerpark Neukölln with BİZ BİZE on the day before the festival. With this intervention in public space, we celebrate art and culture that is free from the expectations of the dominant society.

İÇ İÇE is more than just a cultural event for us: It is a place of meeting and respectful exchange with one another through various formats and collaborations - in several cities. İÇ İÇE also performs outside of Berlin to reach people all over Germany, such as in Hamburg or Munich.