Ordinary Wednesday | Deniz Everling, miszo & Melissa Kolukisagil 

For August's Ordinary Wednesday episode, Deniz and Michelle invited Melissa Kolukisagil, organizer of İç İçe, a festival for new Anatolian music. They will talk about the relevance of the festival for German's music scene and about Melissa's current projects. One of them is "Diversitygerechtes Ausgehen in Berlin“ (DAB), a cooperation project of EINE WELT DER VIELFALT and Clubcommission e.V. The project DAB advocates for respectful and inclusive atmospheres in Berlin’s event venues. The aim is to reduce discrimination and support individuals and groups affected by it.

Melissa Kolukisagil is an organizer, political scientist and project manager based in Berlin. She has been active in the Berlin club and music scene for several years. In 2019 she was selected for the mentoring program for women, trans and non-binary people in the music industry initiated by Berlin Music Commission’s musicBwomen. Since then she has been working on İç İçe, a festival for new Anatolian music, which took place for the second time in 2022. Since August 2020, she has been leading the project "Diversitygerechtes Ausgehen in Berlin“ (DAB), a cooperation project of EINE WELT DER VIELFALT and Clubcommission e.V. The project DAB advocates for respectful and inclusive atmospheres in Berlin’s event venues. The aim is to reduce discrimination and support individuals and groups affected by it.