Interview
Looking back on 20 years of JAW
It's a Family Reunion!
Event
Forecast Festival 2026
Refuge Worldwide partners for four days of performances and creative exchanges on July 16–19.
By Staff
This July, Radialsystem (Holzmarktstraße 33) becomes a temporary laboratory for unfinished ideas and bold questions, and we're happy to be involved as media partners for the 10th anniversary of Forecast Festival, running from July 16 till 19, 2026.
Forecast is a transdisciplinary mentorship programme that pairs emerging artists with established practitioners across fields, music, performance, visual art, design, film and beyond. The festival is where that process goes public.
Almagul Menlibayevan, Mother Water Gulbibi Balkhash, 2024
This year's format is new. Rather than splitting the programme across the year, everything converges into one four-day event and "unfinished" work is deliberately part of the deal. Think of it less as a showcase, more as an open rehearsal for the future.
The six mentors bringing their practice to Radialsystem are a genuinely eclectic bunch: Lucy McRae (sci-fi body architecture), Tom Cassani (performance and illusion), Almagul Menlibayeva (multimedia and Central Asian storytelling), Heinali (Ukrainian electronic composition), Keren Cytter (film and art), and Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa (writing and stand-up comedy). Each brings three nominees, and the public gets to watch the sparks fly.
Beyond the main programme, LINA network fellows lead workshops and exploratory walks, and Forecast alumni drop in to reflect on a decade of the programme. After the festival, one mentee per mentor is selected, with premieres at venues such as Berlinische Galerie and CTM.
Sunday is given over entirely to workshops, highlights include an intergenerational storytelling and sound workshop exploring memory across generations, a movement and voice session, and explorations of body autonomy and ecological imagination, all led by LINA fellows and artists connected to the programme.
Forecast is run by Berlin-based non-profit Skills e.V. and sits within a broader ecosystem of long-term research programmes, including Forecast Condensed, Driving the Human (2020–2023) and Housing the Human
Tickets are available here: festival pass €30 (concession €25), day pass €15 (€12), workshops €5. Find the full program here.
Cover picture by Camille Blake.
