Dara Tûyê – درخت توت – Der Maulbeerbaum. Feministische Stimmen über Krieg und Gärten
In the organizer's words:
The open-air exhibition by Flamingo e.V. in BERLIN GLOBAL focuses on women acting in solidarity across borders. Their collaboration creates space for new hope to emerge from experiences of violence and loss.
The starting point is the medicinal herb garden Hevrîn Xelef in Berlin-Neukölln, which is closely linked to the women's village of Jinwar in north-east Syria and the Women for Justice association. Here it becomes clear what gardens can be: Places of remembrance, healing and community, mutual empowerment and self-efficacy. Gardens are also places of resistance against oppression and violence.
In the middle of the open space in BERLIN GLOBAL stands the Black Mulberry Tree, designed by Ela Pour. It combines fragility and strength, sadness and hope. The voices and experiences of the project participants are musically framed by Yalda Yazdani. They share memories, feelings and knowledge about plants. The expansive tree sculpture is complemented by photographs by Philip Leutert from the Hevrîn Xelef garden and Anuscheh Amir-Khalili from Jinwar.
The title means "The Mulberry Tree" in Kurmanci and Farsi.
Open spaces partner
A project by Flamingo e.V.
Together with:
Anuscheh Amir-Khalili | Curator
Ela Pour, Jasmin, Leyla Ferman, Lisa Dobkowitz, Nassim Tajbakhsh, Najlaa Matto, Nesrin, Shirin, Steph K'mour Wintz, Xatun, Xezal Ismail | Interview partners
Ela Pour, with the support of Chris Jaritz and Anja Koch Kenk | artistic design Black Mulberry Tree
Yalda Yazdani | sound design
Philip Leutert | Photography
May Franzen | Graphics
In collaboration with the Stadtmuseum Berlin with the support of anstiftung
Participants
Anuscheh Amir-Khalili is an activist, anthropologist and curator of Freifläche. She was born in Iran to a German mother and an Iranian father. In 2015, she founded the Flamingo association, a network for refugee women* and children. Flamingo has been running the transcultural community garden Hevrîn Xelef in Berlin-Neukölln since 2019. In 2022, she received the Citizen Award from the Global Citizen organization for her work. She has been a research associate at anstiftung since 2022 and is the contact person for post-migrant communities, especially in the field of community gardens.
Ela Pour was born in Tehran in 1975. She spent her early years in England before returning to Iran. In 1989, the war brought her to Germany, where she continued her passion for art and music from an early age and made them central forms of expression in her life. She studied costume and stage design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, where she graduated with a diploma. Her works as an artist and tattooist move between memory and the present. In them, personal experiences are condensed into poetic images that make both vulnerability and resilience visible.
Philip Leutert (born 1982) studied photography at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin and at the ZHdK in Zurich. He has been working as a freelance photographer since 2013. His focus is on portraits and abstract-artistic photography.
Dr. Yalda Yazdani is an Iranian ethnomusicologist, filmmaker and curator based in Berlin. She completed her PhD in musicology at the University of Siegen in 2025. From 2017 to 2025, she curated music festivals and cultural projects such as Female Voice of Iran, Female Voice of Afghanistan, Female Voice of Kurdistan, Qashqai Female Voices, Ukrainian Female Voices and Female Voices United. Their work focuses on making female voices internationally visible, especially from the Middle East.
Partner
Flamingo e.V. - An open space by Flamingo e.V.
Flamingo is a grassroots movement from Berlin - a community-driven initiative that emerges from below and is not controlled by institutions. In addition to asylum and residence advice for refugee women*, the association offers its infrastructure to other activists and networks. In 2019, the community garden Hevrîn Xelef was created: a place for communal gardening, commemoration and self-organization on the converted New Cemetery St. Jacobi.
- 9 € / 0 €. Please book your ticket in advance online or at the ticket office in the foyer.
- BERLIN GLOBAL, 1st floor - Room "Berlin Pictures"
- from 12 years
- German, English
- Wheelchair accessible
- Opening hours: Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun: 10:30 - 18:30, Wed: 10:30 - o'clock, Tue: closed
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