Sophia Kennedy Monarch Berlin 2017

On August 29. 2021, we bring the hybrid sounds of Anatolia to Festsaal Kreuzberg with İç İçe!

İç İçe, which means “intertwined” or “interwoven” in Turkish, is a festival for new Anatolian music. The cross-genre music and the cultural program shows that sounds and words echo loudly across borders and thus contribute to the cultural growth together of different spaces and biographies.

The Anatolian region has always been considered a melting pot for diverse cultural currents and musical traditions. Since the 1960s at the latest, these have been unfolding anew in our immediate neighborhood and influencing our everyday life and nightlife, from the underground to pop culture.

We understand how artists reinterpret cultural fragments of their origins in a personal way and thus make themselves heard in the societies that are home to them as a core element of this cultural format. Based on this, İç İçe stands for hybrid identities, the acceptance of multiple affiliations, and for living and celebrating our post-migrant society.