SPEAKER

Melissa Kolukisagil

Founder, Artistic Director

İÇ İÇE Festival

Melissa Kolukisagil is a curator and cultural producer who has been active in the independent music and cultural scene for many years. In 2020, she founded İÇ İÇE, a festival and platform for contemporary Anatolian music and diasporic perspectives, which she continues to direct artistically to this day. In this role, she develops and funds projects in collaboration with various funding institutions and cultural partners. For several years, she also led the project “Diversitygerechtes Ausgehen in Berlin” (Inclusive Nightlife in Berlin) at the Clubcommission, where she developed formats and strategies for a nightlife scene that is more sensitive to issues of discrimination. Since 2026, she has been working as a curatorial developer for live programming and collaborations at the Marinehaus of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, where she is helping to establish a new cultural venue.

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Session

Berlin Is Not One Scene: Building Bridges Across Music Communities

Berlin is often spoken about as one music scene, but in reality it is made up of many different scenes, spaces and communities: club culture, migrant and diasporic communities, experimental music, rap, pop, queer collectives, DIY spaces, independent venues and artist-led initiatives -the list goes on.
This session asks how these different parts of the city’s music ecosystem can be better connected without losing what makes them specific. Where do scenes already support each other? Where do they remain disconnected? And what kinds of bridges, formats or support structures could help Berlin’s music communities become more visible and connected while staying independent?

Fishbowl

🇬🇧 English

SCENE

Cultural Preservation

Speakers:

FAYIM
Aziz Sarr

Moderators:

Melissa Kolukisagil

Music Hall 2+3 – nhow Berlin

Nov 4, 2026,

2.25 PM –

3.15 PM