In The Room March 2026 Theme: Emergency / Notfall
For one day each year, about 30 people - who have never been together in one room - gather in a living room and share things they have made.
From 14:30 til 21:00 we saw films, heard excerpts from books, listened to poems, songs, tracks, ideas: creations made by people who were in the room. We don’t all know each other. New people come every time. We wrote, created and brought works on this year’s theme of emergency.
Works touched upon death up close and afar, what emergency is and isn’t, prepping for the apocalypse, dreaming up left-wing strong women, the expulsion of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenian people, missing children, loss of love, needing the toilet, change within after an emergency, mysterious arch constructions, the dark and light in our lives as well as instrumental and sound tracks.
Running order, 7 March 2026
Cam, film: What’s love
Ben, book excerpt: Torsten’s worms
Dia & Oi, poem: Untitled emergency
Jack, poem: Two haikus and a poem
Cam, film: Honky Tonk
Sarah, song: Preston
Maurice, essay: Maggie
Madga, zither: Untitled ja
Beatrix, tracks: Field recordings radio
Adri, song: Blaue Sonne
Henrik, song: Flügel aus Schatten
Silvia, documentary: Hayastan
June May July, song: Macuncular
Samba, song: Aident des enfants
Oliver, talk: Emergency construction
I keep seeing the mechanism of an emergency at work in the world. We move from a “normal” situation where a certain set of complex rules apply. Then you need to sense and feel that those rules don’t apply anymore because an acute and serious situation is happening. In English, it emerges. Entirely opposite rules to those you usually live by might govern in an emergency. Time and action passes. Without fully understanding how, you’re back in the world of normal rules. The emergency is over. Anyway, this is our theme this year.
In The Room March 2025 Theme: Body /Bodies/ Körper
In The Room - 8 March 2025 - Theme: Body / Bodies
We consume culture - films, music, theatre, comedy, writing - made by strangers who we’ll most likely never meet or truly know every single day. At this event, we only hear creations by people who are In The Room. People start showing up at 13:00, chat in the kitchen, eat soup. When it’s time, we shepherd everyone into the living room, scribble the name of their poem, film or reading down on a door-sized running order and make our way together for the next 5 or 6 hours.
Bedsheets block the living room window so the projector is visible. Find a gap to sit and your mind is led into a different world again and again by each interpretation of the event’s theme. This year it’s Body / Bodies.
Running order: 8 March 2025
Sarah & Adri
Brass
Madga
2041
Maurice
Unbroken
Howard
Trevor
Ben
Proprioception
Constanze
In Cool Air
Chris
Bogna & Aurelie
Winter 22
Howard
Trust
Shaun, Johanna, Tobias
Buraco
Cam
One Night Stands
Ashley
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Sarah
Carla
Body of Work
Don’t Go Back to Bed
Sarah
In The Room March 2024 Theme: Berlin
In The Room 2024 Theme: Berlin
For one day only, we turn off Spotify, Netflix and the radio where you can access strangers’ cultural creations. Instead, we gather and consume writing, poetry, films and songs only by people who are In The Room.
Over 5 or 6 hours we move from one creation to the next on the theme of Berlin.
Running order 16 March 2024
How it Goes
Sarah
What’s Love
Cam
Gedanken
Constanze
A Cowardly Cup of Tea
Ben
Stuart Dee
Ben
Heute
Emilia
Spazieren
Adri
Untitled
Ingo
Eurotrash
Carl
Børlin
Maurice
Berlin I love You
Ildiko
Ungapable
Ashley
Love
Cam
In The Room Jan 2023 Theme: Death
In The Room 2023 Theme: Death
The people around us are making things. I want to hear them, rather than just listening to strangers’ music and watching their films. That’s what In The Room is all about: for one day, we hear things made by people who are In The Room.
Until now, we’ve gathered and heard anything someone wants to bring. But by chance, Ben and I both had death relates pieces we’d made. So In The Room has its first theme. Death.
Running order: 28 January 2023
I didn’t know it was you
Sarah
Untitled
Constanze
Untitled
Maurice
Song
Carl
Young Men on Fire
Howard
3 poems
Bene
Lorenz
The End of Certainty
Ashley
For Louise
Bea
Ben
In The Room Jan 2020
Famous people are making stuff; that we know. But it turns out the people you know actually create enough culture to fill a whole day’s worth of music, readings and stuff to enjoy.
In The Room is getting anyone who wants to to come to your living room and listen to stuff made by people who are In The Room.
Running order: 25 January 2020
Ends Like a Knife (excerpt)
Maurice
50/50 Future
Sarah
Du hast dich gewehrt gegen die Liebe
Christoph
Loud Flowers
Jakub
Between the Line
Carl
Daria
Bogna
Stuart Dee (excerpt)
Ben
Nothing
Lin
