Hajusom Rap Squad offers young refugees and migrants a creative platform. Through hip-hop music, they can find their voices and address social challenges. The project includes various LABs and workshops and promotes artistic self-development and intercultural exchange, while at the same time serving as a response to current social problems. Under the guidance of the team, the participants will write their own lyrics, produce beats and present their music. The aim is to create a space in which young people can develop their talents and inspire each other. The project aims to create long-term spaces and infrastructures in which young up-and-coming musicians from different backgrounds can come together and exchange ideas.

The offer is aimed at  people with migration or refugee experience between the ages of 18 and 25. Participation is free of charge 

Shouts From the Block - A Hip-Hop Music Video Workshop

Create/Explore!

Reclaim the Stage: A creative workshop series as part of

Hip-hop or what? Write your own lyrics!

The performance collective JAJAJA will show you how to make a live audio walk with beats & skills

After a short warm-up in the Feldstraßenbunker, we will wander through the city together for at least 2 hours with radio headphones and microphones. 

You decide the route!

We check:
What is private, what is public - and what is in between?

Where are the boundaries - and when is it worth crossing them?
We talk to people on the street,
think and talk rhythmically together
and develop cool ideas for your city.

At the end, we record the highlights from the walk in short video & audio clips in the Hajusom studio.

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker 2nd floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

The offer is aimed at young people with migration or refugee experience. Participant SPOTS are LIMITED!!!

Who is JAJAJA? The Hamburg performance collective JAJAJA combines various art forms such as theater, performance, installation, visual & sound art, using unconventional spaces and technologies to create immersive experiences and resonance spaces. In doing so, they invent new performance formats and philosophical game ideas for interaction and dialog with the audience. JAJAJA website

You want to write a hip-hop lyric? You want to write lyrics because you have something to say, because something is bothering you, because you have things inside you that you want to tell the world, but you don't know how or whether you can do it? You can!

You can write a good hip-hop text, a poem, a prose text that has rhythm, that works when performed. Because that's the kind of text we're talking about here. Rhythmic texts.

But if you then realize that this is not your kind of text at all, that you tell a different story, slower, more flowing, then that's OK too, because this workshop is an experiment, a work with you. It's about you, your language, your sound and your themes.

In the course of this workshop, we'll look at hip-hop and other rhythmic lyrics, see how and why they work for us or not. We'll write our own lyrics, try out different forms, discuss it all and get better at it. You get better.

This is all a journey, an experiment. If you have the confidence and can withstand criticism, are prepared to deal with other texts, are keen to write, then it works. I'm not a teacher, we're not a school, we want to have fun, but still do something good, learn something, get ahead.

It's not about how others write and speak, but how you write and speak. We complement each other and learn from each other because we are different and can do different things. Different origins, different imprints, bring different forms of language and expression to the course and weave them into something new and interesting.

At the end, you know what you want, what you can already do, maybe you'll present your favorite text that you like yourself in a slightly larger group (in a final presentation?) If you want. Otherwise not. Otherwise you might be writing lyrics for Kendrick Lamar or Missy Elliot next year. They'll pay you a million for it. For sure!

You don't need much more than a pen and a piece of paper. But you can also bring your laptop or whatever you want to write on.

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker 2nd floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

The offer is aimed at people with migration or refugee experience between the ages of 18 and 25. Participation is free of charge.

Katrin Seddig is the author of six novels (all published by Rowohlt Berlin), a whole host of stories and essays in anthologies, magazines, radio and has been a columnist for taz for many years. She has received the Hamburg Literature Prize three times, the Hubert Fichte Prize for her complete works and the Hermann Hesse Scholarship. For many years she was a member of the reading stage "Liebe für alle!" Im Grünen Jäger and is now a regular on stage at the Nachtasyl with "Wir sind spät, aber es ist noch heute". As a writing coach, she is currently supervising the "Schulhausroman" project for the sixth time, in which she is writing a novel with pupils from a district school. She is also a seminar leader at "Autorendock", where she teaches adults how to write a short story or a good dialog.

Every one of your idols started out small. With us, you can take your first steps towards beatmaking/rapping/singing, and I'll show you how easy it is to create a song yourself, find flows and melodies to record your first own track.

It doesn't matter how much experience you have, in the end all that matters is that you want to make your own music, the rest will come naturally.

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker 2nd floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

The offer is aimed at young people with migration or refugee experience. Participation is free of charge.

Oskar Severin Mateo Minich was born on 23.05.2002 in Richterswil, Switzerland. He has been performing with his parents as JAJAJA in various performance formats since 2011. In 2016 he was part of Jérôme Bel's Gala and in 2017 he had a leading role in Rimini Protokoll's Do's and Don'ts Since 2017 he has been writing, performing and producing his own music, has founded several collectives and organizes parties, for example at Kampnagel and JupiterHH. His dream is to create spaces and infrastructures where musicians from all cultures can come together to exchange ideas and forge new paths together.

This is not a screenwriting workshop. It's for people who have ideas and want to explore or develop them in a visual way. You don't need a full concept or script, just something you're curious about or want to work on. In this session, we focus on how to see your story before shaping it. Through simple exercises, we'll work on how to break down your idea, imagine scenes, and draw or describe what parts of the story might look like. The goal is to make your idea more concrete, not polished, but more real and open to possibilities. The feedback we share is based on what we do in the workshop. Everyone is open to developing something during the session individually and then we open it up and discuss it together.

The session will last up to 3 hours, with small breaks every hour or so. During this time, we'll do a mix of short exercises, drawing or visualizing scenes, and group discussions. We'll also watch selected scenes from films that use strong visual storytelling to open up new ways of thinking about narrative.

We'll look at some scenes from Style Wars (1983), a documentary rooted in early hip-hop culture in New York. The film focuses on young graffiti artists using the city's trains as a space to be seen and heard. Also we will watch and talk about some visual sequences from Black Is King (2020) by Beyoncé. While more symbolic, it draws heavily from Afro-hip-hop aesthetics, combining music, dance, and layered images to explore identity, diaspora, and transformation. Depending on time and the group, I may also share a short scene from Waves (2019), a contemporary film that isn't directly about hip-hop but is deeply influenced by its sound and rhythm. The film's use of music by Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, and others shapes how emotion and story unfold.

The session is held in English and is open to everyone, especially those who don't come from an artistic, film, or writing background. You don't need any technical training, just the interest to try.

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker 2nd floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

The workshop is open to everyone interested in film. Young people with a migration background are especially welcome.

Razi Uddin (they/them) is a filmmaker and visual artist originally from Karachi, Pakistan, based in Hamburg, Germany. They work with themes of migration, identity, personal stories, and how these connect to the larger diaspora of the South Asian subcontinent. Razi has shown work and led storytelling workshops in Leipzig and Berlin. This year, they are working with the KurzFilmFestival Hamburg with the support of the INTRO Hamburg program and are also collaborating with the Queer Film Festival Hamburg. As part of the 41st Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Razi is presenting a curated short film program titled After the Border, What Remains?: Stories from Pakistan, featured in the festival's VOICES section. They are currently developing their first feature-length documentary film and a hand-drawn short animation.

In the world of music, there have long been barriers that keep certain voices from being heard, especially in genres like hip-hop. It's time to create space for new voices - voices that allow for difference, authenticity and bold self-expression to create interculture.

Reclaim the Stage is a workshop series for young people that gives them the opportunity to take the stage with confidence and creativity.

We are facilitators from different artistic fields who bring new perspectives to the table. Our goal is to push the boundaries of the music genre by incorporating approaches that go beyond the expected and explore ways to redefine self-expression.

Whether you are a beginner or already expressing yourself creatively, Reclaim the Stage offers you the space to develop your skills, explore your identity, through performance, music, dance, visual representation and connect with others in a safe, inclusive environment.

Participants can take part in individual workshops or attend the entire series. Whether you attend one or all, each session offers an intense and empowering experience.

Let's create a new kind of music scene - one where every body and every voice is celebrated, interculture is created. Join our ranks and claim your place in the spotlight.

The offer is aimed at people with migration or refugee experience between the ages of 18 and 25. Participation is free of charge.

In this dynamic workshop, we will explore with participants how we can express ideas and feelings through the body under the rhythmic influence of hip-hop music. Using performance and theater exercises, we will challenge gender stereotypes, sexualized, clichéd gestures and instead focus on how our bodies can communicate fluidity and individuality.

Participants will work in small groups and choose a music video by well-known female hip-hop artists as a starting point. From this, we develop a series of exercises that interpret the song (its energy) through body language - through gestures, facial expressions, hand movements or full-body performances. This exploration will be done both individually and in groups.

At the end of the workshop, each group will present the results of their creative process in a fun and supportive "battle" format where everyone has the opportunity to showcase their unique expression.

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker 2nd floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

Laura Stefanidis is a Greek-German physical theater performer. She is inspired by dance, theater, clowning, puppetry, Shaolin Kung Fu and circus. She is currently active as a director, actress, performer and workshop leader in Germany, Greece, Spain and Switzerland.

She studied physical theater in Paris at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq and in Berlin at the LISPA (today: Arthaus Berlin). After graduating, a year of clown training under the direction of Gözde Atalay and the Flöz Family Summer Academy deepened her acting skills. As an actress, she is involved in various collaborations throughout Europe and co-founded the circus theater company Taxivi Kompagnie, which has been touring various street art festivals since 2021 (e.g. Brückensationen Rheinfelden, Zürcher Theaterspektakel). Since 2021, she has been working with Michelle Madsen on the physical comedy piece Desperately Seeking Circe, which will be produced in 2024.

As a dancer, Laura has been taking part in various dance performances on stages (e.g. Kampnagel) and in public spaces since 2015. She has collaborated with choreographers such as Patricia Carolin May, Maya M. Carroll, Christina Souglioutzi and Athanasia Kanellopoulou. In May 2023, she staged the physical theater piece OMBRA with the collective Anigma and the Klabauter Theater. In November 2023, Laura celebrated the premiere of her solo piece Passacaglia, in collaboration with choreographer Athanasia Kanellopoulou, at the Hamburger Sprechwerk. In autumn 2024, she staged Gone Fishing, in collaboration with the Klabauter Theater in Hamburg, and in winter she will premiere the dance theater show DIE ANDEREN, with the dancer Ingjerd Solheim, in Lübeck.

www.laurastefanidis.com
@laura_oliveolive

In this energetic dance workshop, everyone, regardless of gender or background, is invited to shape their bodies and movements with confidence. Over the course of three hours, we will dive deep into the basics of hip-hop and house dance and use these dance styles to promote body positivity, self-confidence and freedom of expression.

The aim is to dance without fear or prejudice, celebrate your own body rhythm and learn to take up space both on the dance floor and beyond. Together we will explore the basics of hip-hop and house dance and use them to dance choreographies that will help you express yourself confidently and uncompromisingly before we move on to freestyle - free from  societal expectations, in intercultural interaction.

Please bring comfortable clothes and dance shoes. We will take breaks as needed to refuel with water and snacks. A formal lunch will not be provided, so please plan accordingly.

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker 2nd floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

@missesjaycee

JC (she/her) discovered her love for hip-hop and RnB music at an early age, which led her to hip-hop dance as a teenager. Over the years, she explored different dance styles and eventually fell in love with house dance. Alongside her passion for dance, she studied business and has worked for several years as a financial manager, production manager, event manager, curator and choreographer. She is also a member of the collective Educate to Recreate, which offers a sustainable knowledge transfer program for Hamburg dancers in the styles house, voguing, afro etc.. The aim is to promote the artistic quality of an independent Hamburg dance scene that engages with dancers from the Black Dance Culture.

We look at the history of hip-hop and the creation of music videos, examining special features and motifs. The aim is to shoot your own music videos, either individually or in groups. We introduce different filmic approaches, provide materials and offer assistance. We also give an introduction to camera and editing.

The workshop is practice-oriented and open to all approaches and ideas, in the spirit of intercultural openness.

We look forward to the group and the exchange!

- Task for the participants - in preparation for the workshop - to select and present a music video related to hip-hop.

- Getting to know each other, short introduction to hip-hop history, discussing the aims of the workshop, deciding whether to work in groups or individually (laptops), analyzing recurring motifs

- Watching homework, introduction to video techniques (no-budget video, examples)

- First exercise: creating a short scene for a selected sequence (equipment: video camera, cell phone, camera, light kit, green screen).

- Presentation of the exercise, discussion, questions, introduction to editing, editing exercise

- Presentation of the finished sequence, questions, feedback, playlist as an incentive for ideas, group finding, presentation of video ideas,  beginning of shooting schedule

- Intermediate status, problems, questions, support with shooting and editing, availability and assistance from Kathi and Thea with implementation. (If group work, complete participation in the shoot)

- Joint conclusion, presentation, feedback

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker 2nd floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

The offer is aimed at people with migration or refugee experience between the ages of 18 and 25. Participation is free of charge.

Thea Seddig was born in Hamburg in 2001 and studies film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. As part of her studies, she has made numerous short films and worked on a number of productions as an assistant director, lighting assistant and sound recordist. Since 2022 Thea has been working at Metropolis Kino, and since 2023 additionally as a translator and production assistant for the underground filmmaker Peter Sempel. In addition to the HfbK screenings, Thea's films have been shown at Westwerk, Nachtasyl and Metropolis Kino. Together with Katharina Stiel, she created a music video for the band Kiesgroup in 2024. This was followed by three music videos for the Joachim Franz Büchner band, which she produced, shot and edited herself. Katharina Stiel and Thea Seddig form the DJ duo Die Freistühle, which has been playing in numerous clubs and bars in Hamburg since 2022. She is also part of the MusikFilmLesebühne "Wir Sind Spät, Aber Es Ist Noch Heute" at the Nachtasyl (Thalia Theater), where she regularly presents new film works.

"For me, filmmaking is first and foremost a great freedom of artistic expression and the chance to make ideas and personalities visible. With music videos, a lot is already laid out in the music, the sound, the flow or even the lyrics, and it's about capturing and expanding these ideas, doing imaginative justice to the concept!

Music is, alongside film, my second great passion, I play guitar, like to experiment with synths and add sound to my films myself. The interplay of image and sound offers endless possibilities, you just have to know what you want and how to implement it. Thanks to my studies and my previous projects, I now have some skills and experience that can help me achieve interesting results even on a small budget.

I'm looking forward to all the projects that are created in this workshop, to the collaboration and all the participants!"

Katharina Stiel was born in Hamburg in 2000. She has been studying film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts since 2021. She regularly shows her cinematic works as part of the MusikFilmLesebühne "Wir Sind Spät, Aber Es Ist Noch Heute". For her, short films are an exploration and an examination of the relationship between what is present and what is absent. Her works are reduced, almost minimalist and more akin to narrative film. The sound makes individual movements appear louder or quieter. She moves into different spaces and works with different techniques in order to exploit the full potential of an idea. In her previous work, she has been responsible for the camera, direction, editing, screenplay and sound design.

The exciting thing about music videos for her is ”that we have to find the images afterwards with an acoustic movement, and in hip-hop also from a text“.

We look at the history of hip-hop and the creation of music videos, examining special features and motifs. The aim is to shoot your own music videos, either individually or in groups. We introduce different filmic approaches, provide materials and offer assistance. We also give an introduction to camera and editing.

The workshop is practice-oriented and open to all approaches and ideas, in the spirit of intercultural openness.

We look forward to the group and the exchange!

- Task for the participants - in preparation for the workshop - to select and present a music video related to hip-hop.

- Getting to know each other, short introduction to hip-hop history, discussing the aims of the workshop, deciding whether to work in groups or individually (laptops), analyzing recurring motifs

- Watching homework, introduction to video techniques (no-budget video, examples)

- First exercise: creating a short scene for a selected sequence (equipment: video camera, cell phone, camera, light kit, green screen).

- Presentation of the exercise, discussion, questions, introduction to editing, editing exercise

- Presentation of the finished sequence, questions, feedback, playlist as an incentive for ideas, group finding, presentation of video ideas,  beginning of shooting schedule

- Intermediate status, problems, questions, support with shooting and editing, availability and assistance from Kathi and Thea with implementation. (If group work, complete participation in the shoot)

- Joint conclusion, presentation, feedback

Hajusom e.V.
Bunker 2nd floor
Feldstraße 66
20359 Hamburg

The offer is aimed at people with migration or refugee experience between the ages of 18 and 25. Participation is free of charge.

Thea Seddig was born in Hamburg in 2001 and studies film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. As part of her studies, she has made numerous short films and worked on a number of productions as an assistant director, lighting assistant and sound recordist. Since 2022 Thea has been working at Metropolis Kino, and since 2023 additionally as a translator and production assistant for the underground filmmaker Peter Sempel. In addition to the HfbK screenings, Thea's films have been shown at Westwerk, Nachtasyl and Metropolis Kino. Together with Katharina Stiel, she created a music video for the band Kiesgroup in 2024. This was followed by three music videos for the Joachim Franz Büchner band, which she produced, shot and edited herself. Katharina Stiel and Thea Seddig form the DJ duo Die Freistühle, which has been playing in numerous clubs and bars in Hamburg since 2022. She is also part of the MusikFilmLesebühne "Wir Sind Spät, Aber Es Ist Noch Heute" at the Nachtasyl (Thalia Theater), where she regularly presents new film works.

"For me, filmmaking is first and foremost a great freedom of artistic expression and the chance to make ideas and personalities visible. With music videos, a lot is already laid out in the music, the sound, the flow or even the lyrics, and it's about capturing and expanding these ideas, doing imaginative justice to the concept!

Music is, alongside film, my second great passion, I play guitar, like to experiment with synths and add sound to my films myself. The interplay of image and sound offers endless possibilities, you just have to know what you want and how to implement it. Thanks to my studies and my previous projects, I now have some skills and experience that can help me achieve interesting results even on a small budget.

I'm looking forward to all the projects that are created in this workshop, to the collaboration and all the participants!"

Katharina Stiel was born in Hamburg in 2000. She has been studying film at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts since 2021. She regularly shows her cinematic works as part of the MusikFilmLesebühne "Wir Sind Spät, Aber Es Ist Noch Heute". For her, short films are an exploration and an examination of the relationship between what is present and what is absent. Her works are reduced, almost minimalist and more akin to narrative film. The sound makes individual movements appear louder or quieter. She moves into different spaces and works with different techniques in order to exploit the full potential of an idea. In her previous work, she has been responsible for the camera, direction, editing, screenplay and sound design.

The exciting thing about music videos for her is ”that we have to find the images afterwards with an acoustic movement, and in hip-hop also from a text“.

We are delighted to introduce you to the new Performance LAB, which opens on March 15 under the direction of Jacqueline Saki Aslan at Hajusom.

In several workshops over the next six months, participants will engage artistically and physically with feminist narratives around the theme of arrival. They will be able to try out techniques from the fields of sound, movement, image and text. A joint artistic intervention will be developed, which will be shown in September. There will be workshops lasting 2-3 hours as well as workshop blocks lasting one or more days.

The project is primarily aimed at women and queer people aged between 18 and 29 and takes place in a gender- and racism-sensitive setting.

We invite interested parties to a meeting on March 15 at Hajusom in Feldstraße to get to know each other and find out more.

Registration & info: info@hajusom.de or saki.aslan@gmail.com

is a freelance artist, mediator and facilitator from Berlin. She studied Performance Studies, Social Work and Education in Berlin, Hamburg and Washington, DC. Saki's work is centered around the unscripted and narratives of the diaspora. This results in performance pieces, lectures and texts. In her workshops she deals with the topics of classism, art, intersectionality, memory culture and migration. The project is realized with the kind support of the Young Migrant Blog.

Hajusom Artist Lab: Inclusive art practice, open to all young people, but especially those with a refugee or migrant background and/or experience of racism. We develop strategies, promote creative formats and network with partners to strengthen social participation and equal opportunities through the independent performing arts, with a focus on the care principle.

Our lab promotes the artistic practice of young people, with a special focus on those with a refugee or migrant background and/or experience of racism. To this end, we offer workshops to highlight their diversity of experiences and forms of expression and generate artistic impulses. An additional focus of our work is to establish connections with actors from the fields of art, politics and education. Through the exchange of ideas, the formation of partnerships and the joint implementation of projects, we promote synergies and support the sustainable development of the sector. Our discussions and artistic contributions are documented in an audio feature that not only records the results, but also enables the publication of the artistic works created during the lab. In this way, we contribute to the creation of a comprehensive artistic expression that reflects the diverse perspectives and voices of our target groups. Our holistic approach supports the exchange of knowledge and the sustainable development of artistic practices in our target group and contributes to strengthening equal opportunities and social participation through art.

The website and the summary of the Hajusiom Artist Labs can be found at https://artistlabs.hajusom.de

In fall 2023, the ensemble’s last performance took place at Kampnagel:
(BROKEN) BRIDGES with Viktor Marek and the Souers Doga from Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso.