Join Demi Anter and her favorite Berlin poets for a night of performances to celebrate the release of her new poetry collection in the city that inspired it: Berlin. Performances to take place in the gallery room at Das Gift, with an after party in the bar. Space is limited so RSVP now. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Guest performers include: Demi Anter, Ceri Savage, and host Arielle Cottingham. Music by Moves Johnson.

Demi Anter

Demi is an Austrian-American writer and performer. Her work has appeared in Magma, Banshee, Figure 1, and The Times UK, as well as on BBC Radio London. She has been a featured performer at Glastonbury Festival, Electric Picnic, the Scottish Storytelling Centre, and Poetry Ireland. After five years in Berlin, she now lives in London where she is completing an MFA at Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance. To find out more (including complete tour dates), visit www.demianter.com.

Small Machine

Berlin is a place where brazen ghosts wave to the living, where rock ’n’ roll suicides collide with family myths. Small Machine is an intimate portrayal of young womanhood and coming of age in an unforgiving city, the capital known as much for raucous hedonism as it is for Kaffee-und-Kuchen. Falling in love (and out) in Schillerkiez, clandestine encounters in smoke-filled Kneipen, nighttime dances by the Spree, winter depressions weathered, summer lakes plundered— no cobble is left unturned in Anter’s soaring debut.

Arielle Cottingham

Texas-born Afro-Latinx poet, editor, performance artist, and educator Arielle Cottingham has toured four continents in five years, giving performances and teaching workshops across Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia. Their work explores the fluidity of intersectional identities and has appeared in multiple literary journals both in print and online. Notable performance spaces have included 48H Neukölln, the Alley Theatre, the Museum of Old & New Art, and the Sydney Opera House, where they won the title of Australian National Poetry Slam Champion in 2016. Their work has been published in Stellium Literary Journal, BOOTH, Pressure Gauge Press, About Place Journal, and they are the author of chapbooks Black & Ropy (Pitt Street Poetry, 2017) and Machete Moon (forthcoming from Sundress Publications, 2022). They are currently pining for falafel at their desk in Berlin.

Ceri Savage

Ceri Savage is a British, Berlin-based writer with a BA in English Literature from the University of Exeter. Her writing is published in The FU Review, The Honest Ulsterman, and ASP Literary Journal. Ceri is the founder of Savage Edits, an editing business that provides self-publishing services to indie authors. Follow Ceri @cerisavagewrite.

Moves Johnson

Moves Johnson fronts the eclectic group of troubadours known as "The Boxhoppers". With his ragtag band of junkyard jongleurs, he travels the world performing in bars, living rooms and open fields. Best known for his eccentric stage performance and witty, storytelling lyrics, Moves Johnson offers an engaging, emotional and unforgettable experience for all.