To celebrate the release of The Piano Music of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, we’re hosting a series of Book Launch Gatherings in Seoul, Tokyo, Berlin, and Chicago, together with local venues. We’ll listen to the piano pieces featured in the book and look back on Emahoy’s life as a musician, a nun, and a person. The gatherings are organized by Ningen Paper Press in collaboration with the Emahoy Music Foundation, featuring archival materials from the Foundation’s collection. Check the schedule for each venue and join us at a location near you!

The Piano Music of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru 발매를 기념해 서울, 도쿄, 베를린, 시카고 네 도시의 공간들과 함께 Book Launch Gathering을 엽니다. 에마호이 체게 마리암 게브루의 음악을 새로운 청중들에게 소개하고, 그녀가 남긴 작품과 삶의 기록을 더 많은 사람과 나누고자 합니다. 이번 자리를 통해 악보에 수록된 작품을 함께 듣고, 음악가이자 한 수도자였던 에마호이의 삶 속 다양한 순간들을 가까이서 들여다볼 수 있습니다. 행사는 닌겐페이퍼프레스에서 주최/주관하며, 에마호이 재단에서 보유한 아카이브를 바탕으로 이뤄집니다. 각 장소의 일정과 시간을 확인하고 가까운 도시에서 함께해 주세요!

The Piano Music of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebruの発売を記念して、ソウル・東京・ベルリン・シカゴでBook Launch Gatheringを開催します。各会場ではエマホイ・ツェゲ＝マリアム・ゲブルーが遺した作品を聴きながらその生涯の記録に触れることができます。本イベントはNingen Paper Pressが主催・運営し、Emahoy Music Foundationが所蔵するアーカイブ資料をもとに開催されます。各会場の日程と時間をご確認のうえ、お近くの都市でぜひご参加ください！

10.24 – 10.25 | SEOUL, @reception.seoul
Opening: 24 Oct 7–10 PM, 25 Oct 8AM–6PM
서울시 종로구 자하문로 70, 03042

10.31 – 11.1 | TOKYO, @popotame_shop
2–7PM
成田東5-35-7 白い家A, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan 1660015

11.14 – 11.15 | BERLIN, @mottobooks
12–10PM
Live Radio show hosted by Liam Segal from 5pm
Skalitzer Str. 68, im Hinterhof, Berlin, Germany 10997

11.21 – 11.22 | CHICAGO, @kiosk.chi
21 Nov 6–10PM, 22 Nov 11AM–3PM
3054 N. Sheffield Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60657

The Piano Music of Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru
Emahoy Music Foundation, Ganghyeon Paeg, Seungyeop Kim
Ningen Paper Press

An expanded edition of the original 2018 publication, this book brings together 16 pieces from Éthiopiques Series 21 with archival material from the Emahoy Music Foundation, including photographs, drawings and handwritten letters. Editorial notes trace the life and work of the nun, who died at age 99.

Softcover, 128 pages, 29 × 29 cm, 630 g

NO BENI NO CRY

Beni Bischof @ Motto Berlin

01.11.2026 – (…)

Curated by Erik Steinbrecher and Alexis Z.

objet trouvé #2
Jonas Mekas, Julien Langendorff
L’image manquante

Automne – Hiver 2026/2027
Fall – Winter 2026/2027

P. 2-19: Jonas Mekas
P. 20-38: Julien Langendorff

Publication Director and Artistic Director: Guillaume Mariès
Graphic design and layout: Guillaume Mariès & Emilie Châtelas
Original graphic design: Melarise Creative Studio
Printing and hand-binding: Les Intranquilles (Charlotte Auricombe & Pierre Campistron)

Limited edition of 200 copies
French, English
Softcover, 26.3 × 37.6 cm, 160 g
€30.00

WORN
Bruno Podrug

Second edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered.
Concept, text and images by Bruno Podrug.
This second edition includes revised sequencing and updated image selections.

Printed in Berlin, 2026
English
Softcover, 52 pages, 150 g
€15.00

This Saturday at Motto: RESONANCES OF THE VOICES BEFORE US— Electric Modernism & Material Sound in Post-Independence Ghana. Curated and hosted by @blamekuuks a Ghanaian born curator and designer.

Positioned at the intersection of post-independence cultural sovereignty, analog experimentation, and ancestral memory, this broadcast traces the electric transformation of West African popular sound across the 1970s. As acoustic palm-wine roots and big-band brass gave way to organ-led, psychedelic studio experimentation, musicians across Accra and Kumasi developed a distinct form of electric modernism.

Approaching rare vinyl pressings, independent label archives (Essiebons, Gapophone, Bokoor), and physical ephemera as living historical artifacts, the three-hour session combines continuous playback with live curatorial commentary.

Listen in person from the Motto courtyard in Kreuzberg or tune in online via the live stream.

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 Date: Saturday, 10.10.2026

 Time: 17:00 CET

 Location: Motto Berlin — Skalitzer Str. 68 (Im Hinterhof), 10997 Berlin

 Curator & Host: @blamekuuks

 Broadcast: Streaming live via mottobooks.com

 Format: Live Vinyl Playback, Field Ephemera & Audio Commentary

 Entry: Free / Open access

read me your poetry, I might weep

#2 Ukrainian version

Hosted by Mykyta Licemir

Thu. Oct. 8, from 7pm

Motto Xberg
Skalitzer Str. 68

@mykyta_licemir

Words by Nancy Li

1. The Daughter of the Easter Egg by Zora Mann

A sexy and sexless read. Conveniently designed for bratty souls counting french fries for living and authentic baby girls who finally made it to Japan and squirted. It is all quite fanatic until you develop a secret lunacy around the god’s stye. Fashion! Friends! It hurts faster than it ever heals. Cultivate a thicker skin while trying to destroy the fat underneath. Change the name so the glam falls off her skin then she can finally live off the scars well curated by the industry. Exhibit A: – there is something of a more severe significance on earth today than holding a broken conversation with Karl and his diet…

2. Jean-Michel Wicker – e industrial

Through the egg yolk yellow pages and the blankness left intentionally for mind-fucking or else, I produced more thoughts than usual, about repetition and art, about heroine and micky mouse, about Berlin underground and anti-social talkativeness. The root has been set and branches of queer thinking will grow. Now time to eat an egg and ghost some notes about “e”s and industrial desire.

3. Pencil Cotton Dust by Letizia Werth

Distorted women, featureless figures, invisible shadow – to call it a Hitchcock film on canvas is no exaggeration, pickled with typical suspense and sponsored by countless atypical minds. Pencils collect dust on purpose so that a rose is a rose is a rose can emerge and be swept away. A drawing book rarely touches me but this one, exceptionally disturbing and fatally poetic, has taken me on a tour to the psychiatric clinic Hopital de Salpetriere in the nineteen somethings by non-demand, so I meet horror trapped in “female body”.

4. Mr. Peanut Drawings by Vincent Trasov

Peanut as prey, peanut as poet, peanut as politician, peanut as pope, peanut as Picasso, peanut as playboy, peanut as press… After all, maybe a perfect candidate for mayor! In the campaign, P.E.A.N.U.T stands for Performance, Elegance, Art, Nonsense, Uniqueness and Talent – all is rising with intensity and scale, yet the intention of which is questionably lacking.

Swimming through the nutty drawings of Vincent Trasov, the reality is loose at hand; while the better, healthier illusion slowly takes over our personal and collective myth. Enjoy a peanut and scan this , the urgent need of intensive care a peanut, another moral being.

Available at Motto Berlin and online

read me your poetry, I might weep

Thursday Oct. 1
From 7pm

Secret guests (and open stage)

Motto Kreuzberg
Skalitzerstr. 68
10997 Berlin

U1 Schlesi

Every Thursday from now on

More info or ideas and submissions:
berlinevents (at) mottodistribution.com