More than 80 Asian artists will participate in this festival and eagerly await engaging with one another: From September 15 to October 8, 2023, at our main venue, the moving poets NOVILLAmoving poets NOVILLA Cultural Center (Hasselwerderstr. 22, directly on the banks of the Spree River), an art exhibition of paintings, graphics, sculptures and installations will form the basis for cross-genre performances, workshops, readings, film screenings, panels, performances and concerts. The program of these three weeks has been designed collaboratively by our curators and their friends - concepts, ideas and suggestions come from the Asian Berliners and their friends themselves. The BERLIN ASIA ARTS FESTIVAL offers a stage for the Asian artists and arts of Berlin and all those interested in them - without pigeonholes and blinders, in direct encounters and discoveries with a workshop and dialogue character.  The BERLIN ASIA ARTS Festival focuses on the interconnections and discourses of the local Asian and Asian-related cultural scenes of the artists and arts of the Far East, who are influential in our city but often exoticized: here they themselves have their say. While the younger ones in particular have increasingly joined forces in artistic initiatives in recent years, networked with each other and become more and more visible, our festival aims to bring these artists and the broad Berlin public together. Direct cooperation between all artists and open dialogues with active audience participation are the basic principles of the festival. Mutual respect and recognition of different identities and positions, equality and solidarity are the basis of our festival.