Eastern Daze #9: Easterndaze x Berlin festival with Natalie Gravenor and Andras G Varga

Beyond folklore clichés and Cold War discourse, below the radar of the taste-making music press, DIY, alternative, independent music scenes are thriving in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2010, Easterndaze has explored and mapped local DIY scenes operating in a digital realm, introducing the creative personalities and collectives behind them to provide context. The concert & film screening series Easterndaze × Berlin: DIY Music Topographies follows up on the first edition in 2016, by presenting music collectives from Eastern Europe, pairing each of them with groups from Berlin’s diverse DIY scenes in the name of collective spirit and communal effort. It takes place between 28 November and 1 December at several important Berlin arts and music venues. The festival exemplifes a decentralized curatorial model—the lineup of individual each event is curated by the collectives themselves. We talk to Natalie Gravenor and Andras G Varga, who curated one of the nights of the festival.

RSVP for the event and find out more about each night here: https://www.facebook.com/events/351014582310611/