Doreen Kutzke is a multidisciplinary musician, composer, and actress based in Berlin. From her early childhood growing up in the dark forests of the Harz Mountains in the GDR, she has been singing and yodeling, as well as composing for a wide variety of musical projects that center around the voice. She founded Jodelschule Kreuzberg (Kreuzberg Yodeling School) in Berlin, and travels worldwide teaching, as well as studying, yodeling and advanced vocal techniques, with a focus on the breaking of the voice in traditional music.

 

 

Kidlat Tahimik (“quiet lightning” in Tagalog) is a film maker, writer, actor, and artist who is widely considered to be the “father of Philippine independent cinema.” Comparable to little, Kidlat’s films move about on weightless imagination, at once playful, resourceful, critical, and humorous. “Largely created outside conventional paths of production…” it states on www.kidlattahimik.de, “[t]he films of Philippine director Kidlat Tahimik constitute a fantastically exceptional oeuvre within post-colonial ‘Third Cinema’.”

 

 

Los Arboles “Rocketship” Park was originally named “Los Arboles” (“The Trees”) by local schoolchildren in 1956. Its informal name, Rocketship Park, was inspired by its iconic metal rocket ship slide, alongside which sits a moon buggy and orbiter. Citing safety concerns, the city removed the rocket ship in 1992. However, the community’s passionate response brought the ship back, repaired and refurbished. After its reinstallation it was immediately designated an historic landmark, and its informal name would become part of its formal one.