Open Call-

𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝒻𝓉

ponto & Hopscotch invite local and international artists — whether based in Berlin or elsewhere — of all backgrounds to contribute a piece of writing to our reading and fundraising session 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝒻𝓉. From the open call, 30 texts will be selected and printed individually as part of a collective fundraising edition. These printed pieces will be then shared in voice and gifted during the event to those supporting the fundraiser — with all proceeds donated to Gaza.
On the 18th of December (venue tba), up to 12 texts will be invited to be read aloud, chosen based on their length and resonance with the program. The theme and form are open — your text may be autobiographical, poetic, political, speculative, diaristic, theoretical, performative, or otherwise.When applying, please think of your contribution as a gift of words — an ode, spell, or exclamation of hope, despair, critique, memory, and/or love.

Submission format (important & mandatory for printing):
- prose, poetry, experimental, and/or visual texts are welcome
- maximum two A4 pages (to be printed in b&w, may contain images)
- font (your choice), size 11, spacing 1.2
- email subject: “OpenCall_Words to gift_yourname_title”
- please mention in your email where you are currently based and whether you would be available to join the Berlin reading session, if selected
- send to: hello@pontopontoponto.com

Deadline: 23rd November

17th July -

TTTP-Part III

w/ Cru Encarnação, Dylan kerr, Federica Nicastro (fen), Zoé Couppé

This third session of Traversing, Trans Trasmission — Pleasure, attends to voice and pleasure through the cords that make-up for the personal and digital architectures of sound(ing). From meditations on ASMR’s tingling sensations, a bull fighter’s magic tricks and a bull’s challenging eyes, to the whispers of a ghostly breath and the tears that are not only tears but also gifts of past, future and present lives

22nd of August -

TTTP-Part II

w/ Adrienne Herr, Brandon LaBelle, Dalia Maini aka DMT, Rex Collins, S McEvoy

A session focused on the crossing of sound and voice — where noise meets poetry, theatrics shift meaning, karaoke leaks theory, and lipsync arouses. This afternoon of readings and performances encompassed ice-breakers, short stories, and agitated leaves to *cunty*, sonic, "scalar and undetermined" fantasies of sound.

16th of July -

TTTP-Part I

w/ Elif Cadoux, Klara Debeljak, Kristina Stallvik, Orestis Giannoulis, Sarah Messerschmidt, Sylee Gore

While turning to sound, readings and performance this first session embraces the uncontainable, the unmeasurable, and the reverberant — embracing these qualities as infectiously generative foundations of resilient future(s). The program opens pathways into somatic and sonic dimensions, while procuring their interplay with architecture — both structural, digital, and emotional.