Guided tour through the current exhibition Weathering by Beverly Buchanan. In German language. Admission to the exhibition is included in the ticket.

As part of Family Sunday at Haus am Waldsee, we will walk through the exhibition Beverly Buchanan. Weathering together and explore the colourful drawings and wooden sculptures by artist Beverly Buchanan. Her small huts tell the story of how people use their strength and imagination to shape their homes and lives, and at the same time, the obstacles they encounter in doing so. Inspired by her work, you will then design your own huts. Who lives in your little house?

Max. 20 people. Ages 4 and up, accompanied by parents.
*Free ticket for children under 18. The ticket includes admission to the exhibition.
In German.
Facilitated by: Luise Bichler

Note on accessibility

Dear visitors,
Haus am Waldsee has limited accessibility. If you have any questions about accessibility on Family Sunday, please email us at: vermittlung@hausamwaldsee.de. We will do our best to find solutions for your visit!

Guided tour through the current exhibition Weathering by Beverly Buchanan. In German language. Admission included in the exhibition ticket.

Zehlendorf is considered by many to be a green, quiet district – but traces of Germany’s colonial past can also be found here. On our decolonial tour, we want to make this history visible and ask ourselves:

What colonial interconnections still shape the district today?

How is colonial heritage manifested in public spaces – in street names, monuments or places of remembrance?

And how can we work together to create a decolonial culture of remembrance?

Together, we will explore various locations in Zehlendorf, hear stories of resistance and colonial violence, and discuss perspectives on a more equitable narrative of history. The tour invites participants to think, ask questions and learn together.

Decolonial city tours in Berlin impart knowledge about German colonial history and show how its legacy continues to shape our society and city today. The tours invite participants to reveal colonial continuities in urban spaces – individually, in teams or in organisations – and offer personal, flexible and impressive learning experiences. More information here: https://www.dekolonialestadtfuehrung.de/en

Meeting point: at the entrance to Haus am Waldsee

The tour takes place in the vicinity of Haus am Waldsee.

The tour will take place even if it rains, so please bring an umbrella and rainproof clothing.

Language: German

Duration: ca. 90 minutes

Tour: Justice Mvemba

Ticket price: €15, €12 reduced

Tickets can be booked via our ticket website or at the box office on the day of the event.

Maximum number of participants: 20 people. Ages 12 and up.

Alongside the exhibition Beverly Buchanan. Weathering with Ima-Abasi Okon, this special reading features Jamaica Kincaid revisiting one of her earliest texts, My Mother — a formative piece in which she began to shape the voice and rhythm that would later define her writing. “It was one of those pieces,” she recalls, “in which I was developing something that would later become a style of mine. In a way, it was like teaching myself to walk.”

In this reading and conversation, Kincaid reflects on the intimate and complex relationship between writing, motherhood, and gardening — a connection first cultivated through her mother, whose garden became both a source of wonder and a site of instruction. Over the years, this relationship grew into a central metaphor in Kincaid’s work, where gardens appear as spaces of beauty and care, but also of domination and erasure — microcosms of colonial history.

Kincaid will speak about the generative and destructive qualities of gardening, the act of cultivation as an expression of both love and control, and the ways in which tending to the land can become an act of resistance and reparation.

Jamaica Kincaid is currently in Berlin as part of her fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.

Tickets include admission to the exhibition.

Jamaica Kincaid is a writer and Professor Emerita of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She holds honorary degrees from Amherst College, Tufts University, Middlebury College, and the University of the West Indies, among others. Celebrated for her evocative reflections on family, memory, gender, colonialism, her native Antigua, and gardening, Kincaid is the author of numerous award-winning and widely translated essays, short stories, and novels, including At the Bottom of the River (1983), Annie John (1985), Lucy (1990), A Small Place (1988), The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), My Brother (1997), Mr. Potter (2002), Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005), See Now Then (2013), and most recently An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (with Kara Walker, 2024). Her “Talk of the Town” columns for The New Yorker appeared in Talk Stories (2001). She is the winner of the 2022 Paris Review Hadada Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the 2017 Dan David Prize, a 2014 American Book Award, and the 2000 Prix Femina Étranger, among many other honors. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.