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SUMMARY:Performance |  Our Queer future is a past tense – أجسَادٌ مِن عَلَق
DESCRIPTION:To those Exiled from Earth\, so they chose the sky إلى من كانت منفاھم الأرض، فاختاروا السماء  \n(’أجسَادٌ مِن عَلَق) Our Queer future is a past tense’ is an installation performance in a form of a promenade\, based on a post migration perspective on Queerness in relation to Arab* Identity(s). As a term\, Queerness does not exist in Arabic. However\, it does and did exist as a practice\, one that goes back further than the global queerness; that Western hegemony imposed on the globe. The language of queerness becomes hegemonic through erasing identities that existed before it and subsuming/substituting vast and complex communities\, histories\, and languages across the globe with a monolithic\, generalizing Western model of understanding and approaching sexual and gender diversity. Ahmad Baba will take the audience through a journey between different temporal and spatial dimensions of "queer" existence. : an invisible past\, incorporating linguistic\, social\, cultural\, and religious elements on erotic\, sexual and "non-normative" discourses from classical Arab* manuscripts. Into a distorted present that challenge the hegemony of Western narratives about Arabo-Islamic sexual and gender identities\, Towards imagining a utopic future that holds more questions than offer answers. “Ilk علق” is an attempt to engage with these questions! It is an investigation into how queerness has become a form of colonialism\, erasing and homogenizing many identities and ways of being that do not necessarily fit under it as an umbrella term\, but are nonetheless drawn to it due to the lack of taxonomies and terms that signify and encompass collective queer existences in their own contexts. \nDirected and performed: Ahmad Baba\nAssistant Director: Mansur Ajang\nCinematography: Mansur Ajang\nDesign and Editing: Ahmad Baba\nThanks to Joey Bania\, Fadi Saleh and Roman Valenta. \nThis performance was made possible\, with the support of AFAC (Arab Fund for Arts and Culture)\nآفاق الصندوق العربي للثقافة والفنون \nDoors open: 19:00 h. \nEvent start: 19:30 h. \nTicket: Donate as much as you like via Eventbrite. \nLanguage: English\, Arabic \nOyoun is constantly working to make access to all events as barrier-free as possible. To receive individual information on accessibility\, please send us an email (access(at)oyoun.de). We will get back to you as soon as possible. \nBiography \nAhmad Baba  \nAhmad Baba is an Lebanese multidisciplinary performance artist\, body politics researcher\, and dance therapist\, who is based in Berlin. Employing a critical approach to art practices\, he meticulously constructs performances that are multilayered\, utilizing the body as an archive to connect the past and reimagine the question of future\, reshaping virtual realities through the incorporation of multimedia\, dance\, and interactive elements. Baba’s work is firmly grounded in his interest in non-western manuscripts\, which serves as a foundation for inquiries into power structures\, taxonomies of identities\, and relational methodologies. His performances are exquisitely personalized\, reflecting his unique experiences and worldview\, and seek to disrupt conventional pedagogies around performance and body work that perpetuate hegemonic ideologies. Beyond his prodigious work as a performance artist\, Baba holds an MA in Dance Movement Therapy\, where his focus lies in the use of accessible body psychotherapy as critical tools for both individual and collective transformation on mental and emotional levels. Placing a particular emphasis on migrant racialized sexual and gender minorities that struggle with accessing inclusive and anti-oppressive therapies in Germany. \nInstagram\nFacebook\nWebsite\nVimeo \n \nIm Oyoun ist kein Platz für Sexismus\, Queerfeindlichkeit\, Transfeindlichkeit\, jegliche Form von Rassismus oder Diskriminierung wie anti-Schwarzem\, antimuslimischem Rassismus oder Antisemitismus. Dasselbe gilt für jede Art von gewalttätigem\, aggressivem oder übergriffigem Verhalten. Oyoun bietet einen sicheren Raum für alle\, ein offenes Forum für den Dialog und einen Ort\, an dem wir uns gegenseitig unterstützen und füreinander einstehen. Wenn dich jemand oder etwas während einer Veranstaltung stört\, wende dich bitte an ein Mitglied unseres Personals\, das dafür da ist\, dir zu helfen! Wenn du uns nach einer Veranstaltung eine Erfahrung mitteilen möchtest\, schreibe uns bitte eine E-Mail oder sende uns eine anonyme Nachricht über unsere Website.
URL:https://oyoun.de/event/queer-future-is-a-past-tense/
LOCATION:Oyoun\, Lucy-Lameck-Staße 32\, Berlin\, 12049\, Deutschland
CATEGORIES:Bewegungen / Movements,Exhibition,Performance
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SUMMARY:(DE)CODING TRAJECTORIES
DESCRIPTION:(DE)CODING TRAJECTORIES - The body was always a centre of an ongoing investigation\n  \n(De)Coding Trajectories will be a performance research process taking place in Prague. Artists Ahmad BaBa and Gugulethu Duma invite practitioners concerned with decoding and recoding embodied memory to enter into an exchange where the body is a centre of the ongoing investigation.For this residency\, the artists are looking to collaborate with practitioners concerned with Subaltern states of being and the development of liberatory praxis in the community.  \n(De)coding Trajectories takes place as part of the Embodied Temporalities project by Oyoun Berlin in partnership with Dafa Puppet Theatre.  \nWithin the framework of Embodied Temporalities – Tracing the memories our bodies hold\, cultural practitioners explore identities\, belonging and embodied memories from diasporic\, decolonial and queer perspectives. What memories are stored in our bodies? What can our bodies tell us about ourselves\, our past and our future? \nIn Embodied Temporalities - Tracing the memories our bodies hold\, the central artistic work of this Perform Europe project\, cultural practitioners explore identities\, belonging and embodied memories from diasporic\, decolonial and queer perspectives. Embodied Temporalities is research\, archiving\, exhibition and performance project under the artistic direction of Madhumita Nandi with artists Ahmad BaBa and Gugulethu 'Dumama' Duma. \n  \nWe invite you to join the exhibition after the residency! \n  \nWhen? 22.04.2022\nTime? 19:00 – 21:00\nWhere? Studio Alta (Prague) \nThis international collaboration is made possible by Perform Europe. Perform Europe is an EU-funded project aiming to rethink how performing arts works are presented across borders in a more inclusive\, sustainable and balanced way by testing new touring and distribution practices and providing policy recommendations for a future EU support scheme. This 18-month journey includes a research phase\, launching a digital platform\, testing a support scheme\, and designing policy recommendations. \nPerform Europe is funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and co-managed by a Consortium of 5 organisations: \nIETM – International network for contemporary performing arts\nthe European Festivals Association (EFA)\, Circostrada\nEDN – European Dancehouse Network\, and IDEA Consult.
URL:https://oyoun.de/event/decoding-trajectories/
LOCATION:Studio Alta (Prague)\, Západní křídlo Invalidovny\, Sokolovská 136/24\, Karlín\,\, Prague\, 186 00\,\, Tschechische Republik
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SUMMARY:QueeЯevolutions (screening + discussion) in Birmingham
DESCRIPTION:During the LGBT History Month UK\, Berlin based Lebanese multidisciplinary performer and social artist Ahmad BaBa will present a plethora of his bodies of work in collaboration with SHOUT Festival and Midlands Arts Centre. His work focuses on claiming more visibility for underrepresented communities such as the LGBT+ refugee community in Berlin\, and creating dance/storytelling projects. \nQueeЯevolutions is a short film by Ahmad BaBa that rethinks queerness as a colonising tool\, shaped by its Western\, mainstream vision. Ahmad investigates often misinterpreted queer identities from the SWANA region (South-West Asia and North Africa)\, disrupting the notion of singular and one-dimensional queerness. It´s about questions like: When do we get a chance to investigate and express our queerness in our own way? How can we develop a language to speak about our complex identities? Why do we identify with a supposed „Pride“ that we haven’t achieved ourselves? These and other questions were raised by the participating artists\, who each seek in different ways within their practices to revolt against the normalising process of a one-dimensional „queerness“\, looking for ways to express\, explore\, and share unheard voices and unknown histories\, and who come together in struggle. \nThe project took place as a series of collective workshops „for us by us“ with a wide range of artists presenting themselves on their own terms. Able to represent themselves outside the white gaze\, the artists approached the experimental space of the project as a laboratory for sharing and reflecting on their experiences and ideas and as an occasion to develop collaborations with other QBIPOC individuals. \n \nQueeЯevolutions from Ahmad BaBa on Vimeo. \n→ The event is free of charge\, but registration is required. \nAbout Ahmad BaBa \nAhmad BaBa is a Lebanese visual and performance artist based in Berlin. His work is rooted in critical interdisciplinarity and anti-oppressive practices. With a performing arts background and currently working towards his MA in Dance and Movement Therapy\, Ahmad focuses on developing embodied arts and therapeutic processes. As conventional pedagogies around body work reproduce systemic oppression in institutions\, he works against viewing the effect of oppression as political mediums and complexities that fall outside of the “norm”. Ahmad's practice works to centralise lived experiences as the core element for collective transformations through approaches based on a " by us\, for us” framework\, the rewriting of bodies' stories through dance\, and redefining trauma-related oppression(s). Some of his previous projects and workshops include “Manuscripts of Foreign Body(s)”\, “Deconstructing Aesthetics of Embodiment” and “ QueeЯevolutions”. His visual performances approach identity from a critical and collective archivist perspective that revolve around understanding Queerness in relation to the multilayered Arab*Muslim identity(s). This has shown through in his work “ Ilk علق“\, which is an investigation into how queerness has become a form of colonialism\, erasing and homogenising many identities and ways of being that don’t necessarily fit under "Queer" as an umbrella term." \nInstagram // Facebook \nAbout Mansur Ajang \nMansur Ajang\, Ahmad's assistant director\, is a performer\, director and coach working with marginalised communities in Berlin. One focus of his work is theatre productions with long-term unemployed people that unleash the potential of people in social and economic circumstances through artistic creativity. He was trained at the Elisabethbühne of the Schauspielhaus in Salzburg. First engagements followed at the Theatre of the Young World in Leipzig\, Staatstheater Darmstadt and Ballhaus Ost Berlin. He is a member of the ensemble of the Magdeburg Theatre since 2022. Ilk is his second production with the performance artist Ahmad BaBa. \nFacebook \nAbout the residency \nAhmad BaBa is setting a ground for investigating identities on the level of bodies. The 10-day residency\, as part of SHOUT festival’s programme for LGBT History Month in collaboration with Midlands Arts Centre\, will combine the dual disciplines that Ahmad is engaged in: performing arts and dance therapy. His work focuses on claiming more visibility for underrepresented communities such as the LGBT+ refugee community in Berlin\, and creating dance/storytelling projects. \nAhmad BaBa’s residency with SHOUT Festival & Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is part of the the ongoing research\, exhibition and performance project "Embodied Temporalities - tracing the memories our bodies hold" by Oyoun cultural centre (Berlin\, GER). \nWhat memories do our bodies hold? What can our bodies tell us about ourselves\, pasts\, and futures? Through Embodied Temporalities – Tracing the memories our bodies hold\, cultural practitioners explore identities\, belonging and embodied memories through diasporic\, decolonial and queer perspectives. It offers a community-centred approach for participants finding expression of experiences through movement while paving the way for collective healing. Embodied Temporalities is a research\, archiving\, exhibition and performance project under the artistic direction of Madhumita Nandi. \nArtistic-Director: Madhumita Nandi // Instagram \nThe touring of Embodied Temporalities is realised in partnership with SHOUT Festival\, Liv’in Festival\, Play Perform Learn Grow and Live Green. \n\nThis international collaboration is made possible by Perform Europe. Perform Europe is an EU-funded project aiming to rethink how performing arts works are presented across borders in a more inclusive\, sustainable and balanced way by testing new touring and distribution practices and providing policy recommendations for a future EU support scheme. This 18-month journey includes a research phase\, launching a digital platform\, testing a support scheme\, and designing policy recommendations. \n\nPerform Europe is funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and co-managed by a Consortium of 5 organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts\, the European Festivals Association (EFA)\, Circostrada\, EDN – European Dancehouse Network\, and IDEA Consult. \nMAC Birmingham: Website // Instagram \nSHOUT/Birmingham LGBT: Website // Instagram \n\nPerform Europe: Facebook // Instagram \n 
URL:https://oyoun.de/event/queerrevolutions-screening-discussion-in-birmingham/
LOCATION:MAC – HEXAGON THEATRE\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, Birmingham\, 12049\, Großbritannien (Vereinigtes Königreich)
CATEGORIES:Bewegungen / Movements,Embodied Arts Festival,Performance,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Deconstructing the Aesthetics of Embodiment (workshops) in Birmingham
DESCRIPTION:During the LGBT History Month UK\, Berlin based Lebanese multidisciplinary performer and social artist Ahmad BaBa will present a plethora of his bodies of work in collaboration with SHOUT Festival and Midlands Arts Centre. His work focuses on claiming more visibility for underrepresented communities such as the LGBT+ refugee community in Berlin\, and creating dance/storytelling projects. \nOur embodiment experiences differ due to gender\, race\, class\, ability and sexual orientation. Somatics and body oriented therapies/practices\, want to see all bodies as one object. However\, oppression(s) experienced by QTBIPOC\, Queer and Trans bodies of colour shape who they are. We must emphasise more on understanding oppression(s) as a form of traumas that live in the bodies\, and build toward anti-oppressive critical practices that centre lived experiences as a core witness of being in the world. Therefore\, aiming for transformation processes\, through allowing our bodies to speak for themselves\, and have spaces that aren’t titled ONLY as “safe” but to achieve safety through a collective consciousness that arises from our experiences that are often perceived as foreign. \nIn this workshops\, we will process\, using dance and movement interventions\, how we can deconstruct the ONE standardised way of having a body and being present in it\, and allowing those bodies to go beyond and bring forward the stories they hold within. The workshops will last 3 hours; including an opening circle\, several interventions and a closure/reflection round ending the session. You don't need to have dance experience. \n \nManuscript of AHMAD from Michalina on Vimeo. \n→ The event is free of charge\, but registration is required. \nAbout Ahmad BaBa \nAhmad BaBa is a Lebanese visual and performance artist based in Berlin. His work is rooted in critical interdisciplinarity and anti-oppressive practices. With a performing arts background and currently working towards his MA in Dance and Movement Therapy\, Ahmad focuses on developing embodied arts and therapeutic processes. As conventional pedagogies around body work reproduce systemic oppression in institutions\, he works against viewing the effect of oppression as political mediums and complexities that fall outside of the “norm”. Ahmad's practice works to centralise lived experiences as the core element for collective transformations through approaches based on a " by us\, for us” framework\, the rewriting of bodies' stories through dance\, and redefining trauma-related oppression(s). Some of his previous projects and workshops include “Manuscripts of Foreign Body(s)”\, “Deconstructing Aesthetics of Embodiment” and “ QueeЯevolutions”. His visual performances approach identity from a critical and collective archivist perspective that revolve around understanding Queerness in relation to the multilayered Arab*Muslim identity(s). This has shown through in his work “ Ilk علق“\, which is an investigation into how queerness has become a form of colonialism\, erasing and homogenising many identities and ways of being that don’t necessarily fit under "Queer" as an umbrella term." \nInstagram // Facebook \nAbout Assistant Director Mansur Ajang \nMansur Ajang\, Ahmad's assistant director\, is a performer\, director and coach working with marginalised communities in Berlin. One focus of his work is theatre productions with long-term unemployed people that unleash the potential of people in social and economic circumstances through artistic creativity. He was trained at the Elisabethbühne of the Schauspielhaus in Salzburg. First engagements followed at the Theatre of the Young World in Leipzig\, Staatstheater Darmstadt and Ballhaus Ost Berlin. He is a member of the ensemble of the Magdeburg Theatre since 2022. Ilk is his second production with the performance artist Ahmad Baba. \nFacebook \nAbout the residency \nAhmad BaBa is setting a ground for investigating identities on the level of bodies. The 10-day residency\, as part of SHOUT festival’s programme for LGBT History Month in collaboration with Midlands Arts Centre\, will combine the dual disciplines that Ahmad is engaged in: performing arts and dance therapy. His work focuses on claiming more visibility for underrepresented communities such as the LGBT+ refugee community in Berlin\, and creating dance/storytelling projects. \nAhmad Baba’s residency with SHOUT Festival & Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is part of the curatorial production Embodied Temporalities by Oyoun cultural centre in Berlin\, Germany. \nWhat memories do our bodies hold? What can our bodies tell us about ourselves\, pasts\, and futures? Through Embodied Temporalities – Tracing the memories our bodies hold\, cultural practitioners explore identities\, belonging and embodied memories through diasporic\, decolonial and queer perspectives. It offers a community-centred approach for participants finding expression of experiences through movement while paving the way for collective healing. Embodied Temporalities is a research\, archiving\, exhibition and performance project under the artistic direction of Madhumita Nandi. \nArtistic-Director: Madhumita Nandi // Instagram \nThe touring of Embodied Temporalities is realised in partnership with SHOUT Festival\, Liv’in Festival\, Play Perform Learn Grow and Live Green. \n\nThis international collaboration is made possible by Perform Europe. Perform Europe is an EU-funded project aiming to rethink how performing arts works are presented across borders in a more inclusive\, sustainable and balanced way by testing new touring and distribution practices and providing policy recommendations for a future EU support scheme. This 18-month journey includes a research phase\, launching a digital platform\, testing a support scheme\, and designing policy recommendations. \n\nPerform Europe is funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and co-managed by a Consortium of 5 organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts\, the European Festivals Association (EFA)\, Circostrada\, EDN – European Dancehouse Network\, and IDEA Consult. \n  \nMAC Birmingham: Website // Instagram \nSHOUT/Birmingham LGBT: Website // Instagram \n 
URL:https://oyoun.de/event/deconstructing-the-aesthetics/
LOCATION:MAC – HEXAGON THEATRE\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, Birmingham\, 12049\, Großbritannien (Vereinigtes Königreich)
CATEGORIES:Bewegungen / Movements,Embodied Arts Festival,Performance,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Manuscripts of Foreign Body(s) (screening + discussion) in Birmingham
DESCRIPTION:During the LGBT History Month UK\, Berlin based Lebanese multidisciplinary performer and social artist Ahmad BaBa will present a plethora of his bodies of work in collaboration with SHOUT Festival and Midlands Arts Centre. His work focuses on claiming more visibility for underrepresented communities such as the LGBT+ refugee community in Berlin\, and creating dance/storytelling projects. \nManuscripts of Foreign Body(s) is a documentation film of performance workshops by Ahmad BaBa and Michalina Mrozek that focuses on TLGBQIA+ bodies of colour. The bodies here are seen in their continuous duality; both as a sites of oppression and resilience. This collective workshop invited artists from different disciplines to come together and create a safe(r) space(s)\, for investigating bodies on different levels\, and bring forward narratives that speak to their own personal stories. \nAhmad BaBa collaborates with Michalina Mrozek\, a filmmaker and film educator who has been working as an independent filmmaker in Berlin since the beginning of 2013. She has many years of experience in educational work with youth and young adults as a project manager and filmmaker. For the past four years\, she has increasingly realised projects with LGBTQ+ communities that aim for more visibility and tolerance. \nAhmad is accompanied in Birmingham by his assistant director Mansur Ajang. \n \nManuscripts of Foreign Body(s) Trailer 2021 from Ahmad BaBa on Vimeo. \n→ The event is free of charge\, but registration is required. \nAbout Ahmad BaBa \nAhmad BaBa is a Lebanese visual and performance artist based in Berlin. His work is rooted in critical interdisciplinarity and anti-oppressive practices. With a performing arts background and currently working towards his MA in Dance and Movement Therapy\, Ahmad focuses on developing embodied arts and therapeutic processes. As conventional pedagogies around body work reproduce systemic oppression in institutions\, he works against viewing the effect of oppression as political mediums and complexities that fall outside of the “norm”. Ahmad's practice works to centralise lived experiences as the core element for collective transformations through approaches based on a " by us\, for us” framework\, the rewriting of bodies' stories through dance\, and redefining trauma-related oppression(s). Some of his previous projects and workshops include “Manuscripts of Foreign Body(s)”\, “Deconstructing Aesthetics of Embodiment” and “ QueeЯevolutions”. His visual performances approach identity from a critical and collective archivist perspective that revolve around understanding Queerness in relation to the multilayered Arab*Muslim identity(s). This has shown through in his work “ Ilk علق“\, which is an investigation into how queerness has become a form of colonialism\, erasing and homogenising many identities and ways of being that don’t necessarily fit under "Queer" as an umbrella term." \nInstagram // Facebook \nAbout Mansur Ajang \nMansur Ajang is a performer\, director and coach working with marginalised communities in Berlin. One focus of his work is theatre productions with long-term unemployed people that unleash the potential of people in social and economic circumstances through artistic creativity. He was trained at the Elisabethbühne of the Schauspielhaus in Salzburg. First engagements followed at the Theatre of the Young World in Leipzig\, Staatstheater Darmstadt and Ballhaus Ost Berlin. He is a member of the ensemble of the Magdeburg Theatre since 2022. Ilk is his second production with the performance artist Ahmad BaBa. \nAssistant Director: Mansur Ajang // Facebook \nAbout the residency \nAhmad BaBa’s residency with SHOUT Festival & Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) is part of the the ongoing research\, exhibition and performance project "Embodied Temporalities - tracing the memories our bodies hold" by Oyoun. \nWhat memories do our bodies hold? What can our bodies tell us about ourselves\, pasts\, and futures? Through Embodied Temporalities – Tracing the memories our bodies hold\, cultural practitioners explore identities\, belonging and embodied memories through diasporic\, decolonial and queer perspectives. It offers a community-centred approach for participants finding expression of experiences through movement while paving the way for collective healing. Embodied Temporalities is a research\, archiving\, exhibition and performance project under the artistic direction of Madhumita Nandi. \nArtistic-Director: Madhumita Nandi // Instagram \nThe touring of Embodied Temporalities is realised in partnership with SHOUT Festival\, Liv’in Festival\, Play Perform Learn Grow and Live Green. \n\nThis international collaboration is made possible by Perform Europe. Perform Europe is an EU-funded project aiming to rethink how performing arts works are presented across borders in a more inclusive\, sustainable and balanced way by testing new touring and distribution practices and providing policy recommendations for a future EU support scheme. This 18-month journey includes a research phase\, launching a digital platform\, testing a support scheme\, and designing policy recommendations. \n\nPerform Europe is funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and co-managed by a Consortium of 5 organisations: IETM – International network for contemporary performing arts\, the European Festivals Association (EFA)\, Circostrada\, EDN – European Dancehouse Network\, and IDEA Consult. \nMAC Birmingham: Website // Instagram \nSHOUT/Birmingham LGBT: Website // Instagram \n 
URL:https://oyoun.de/event/manuscripts-of-foreign-bodys-in-birmingham/
LOCATION:MAC – HEXAGON THEATRE\, Cannon Hill Park\, Birmingham\, Birmingham\, 12049\, Großbritannien (Vereinigtes Königreich)
CATEGORIES:Bewegungen / Movements,Embodied Arts Festival,Performance,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Manuscripts of Foreign Body(s): Foreign intimacies Workshops Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Manuscripts of Foreign Body(s)\, is a critical visual collective workshops-based project\, by Ahmad Baba and Michalina Mrozek\, proposing the approach of\, TLGBQIA+ bodies of color\, as manuscripts of duality; being sites of oppressions as well as sites of resilience. The project will be developed\, through organizing critical collective practices\, in two days intensive workshops\,“ Foreign intimacies Workshops Weekend “ on the 4th and 5th of September 2021 at Oyoun. \nThe workshops are platforms for experimenting and developing a communication mechanism\, from/to TQ BIPOC identifying individuals\, enhancing our own interpersonal relationships\, as well as how we can find a middle line for circulating experiences\, without judgement neither evaluation\, but more of sharing\, reflecting\, relating\, constructive criticism\, and developing something new. \nThe intimate collective workshops will invite QTBIPOC artists from different disciplines to come together and create a safe(r) space(s)\, for investigating bodies on different levels\, and bring forward narratives that speak to their own personal stories. Together we will develop a driving force that lacks in many spaces we exist in\, and see how we could focus on the discourses of resilience through the lens of our struggles\, and not the opposite. The workshops will emphasize on body politics approaches\, empowerment of bodies of color\, oneness and closeness\, and how bodies of color\, as sites of oppressions\, could develop a mechanism of defense without burning out one's mental capacities. \n*The workshops will be in English and translated into German\, Arabic and Polish. \nAnmeldung // Registration \nProgramme Saturday\n11-12:30 Decolonizing Embodiment Workshops (Dance Therapy)\nEverybody is a body\, but not everybody experiences their bodies in the same way. The intersection between race\, gender\, sexuality\, ethnicity construct our bodies and experiences that we didn’t have a choice on. The body(s)\, specifically of Color and Queer\, are at once sites of\, oppression\, resistance\, and resilience. So how can we experience embodiment with each other\, but most importantly with ourselves? And how does collective dancing or movement emphasize our individual experience(s) in our bodies and in relation to other bodies? In these series of workshops\, we will investigate body(s) from a therapeutic approach\, of how we can express what our bodies hold within\, from microaggressions to racism\, from resistance to empowerment\, so we can find our ways back to our body(s) through the movement cycles and the manifestations of our stories that we present through our body(s). \nThe workshops will go for two hours\, including an opening circle\, several interventions and a closure/reflection round ending the session. You don't need to have dance experiences. These workshops are a priority for QTBIPOC individuals\, and everybody else is welcome if they understand the space they are attending and their position in it. Bring your body\, and have comfortable clothes on. \npowered by: Ahmad Baba - interdisciplinary and social artist\, currently a dance movement therapist (M.A) in the making\, investigating intersectionality in arts therapies and gender body politics\, in mental health for marginalized communities. Since 2016\, conceptualizing and developing a pragmatic critical collective workshops and visual projects\, with QTBIPOC groups and artists\, focusing on alternative narratives for identity(s)\, and a different approach to experiences of oppression(s) that communities of color face in a western context. \n13-14:30 Rediscovering Femininity Through A Post-Colonial Lens\nThrough the colonial lens\, femininity has been warped and pathologicised as something foreign\, oppressive and weak to our bodies. We’ve been made to look down\, resent and be afraid of exploring the depths of our expression and the power it holds for us\, and the power it held for our ancestors. Through this workshop\, we will explore the experiences we’ve had with expression through our bodies\, look through the historical beauty and implications of living so unadulteratedly and using the dance form of ‘Vogue Femme’ from Ballroom culture\, which is a celebration of femininity and the allowance to be. This workshop will explore this all with sound\, movement and dance. \npowered by Mandhla - a 24 year old trans-feminine gender non-comforming performance and visual artist born and raised in Zimbabwe\, Africa. As a current resident in Berlin\, she brings a blend of experimental R&B and Soul music intertwined with visual projections and performative dancing. Her art explores the daily trials that Trans*\, enby and femme* immigrant bodies experience with love\, identity\, sex and acceptance. A strong lover of fashion\, the art of vogueing and music\, she promises to bring to you an experience that takes you to a world of beauty and divine epiphanies through fierce queer representation and black femme* power. \nInterview session powered by Michalina Mrozek\nShe is a filmmaker and film educator who has been working as an independent filmmaker in Berlin since the beginning of 2013. She has many years of experience in educational work with youth and young adults as a project manager and filmmaker. For the past four years\, she has increasingly realised projects with people of LGBTQ+ orientation\, through which she has developed her own and respected style of working with queer people. \n--- \nProgramme Sunday\n11-12:30 Drag personas as Mythological creatures : Be your own Guardian angel\, Monster and Superhero\nStrategy for marginalized bodies to go against the dominant narrative when creating their drag personas. How to envision and conceptualize your drag persona. From finding the right name\, experimentation with makeups and looks\, to composing your performance. Using drag as a way of analyzing the complexities of your identities\, twisting others' projections on you\, reclaiming the parts of you that are degraded by the dominant narrative of the society. Drag begins with acknowledging the foreignness of your body. Then\, amplifying \, twisting and reclaiming it. \npowered by: Isu Mignon Mignonne (異水 謎龍 未姩) (it/it/its) - Isu questions how itself* appears in the world\, and twists it through various kinds of performance. It can be ritualistic\, it can be multi-layered\, it can be cathartic. It resurrects the invisible queer death through green screen. It wears the female figure as an anaglyph 3d illusion. It reclaims the power of instrumentalizing one’s body and praises the sacred hole through the vibration of the snake. \n13-14:30 LABORATORY OF DESIRES\nWe all feel desired or undesired in certain ways. Perceptions of gender presentation\, body shape\, skin color\, hair have an incredible influence on the way were socially perceived\, and by consequence\, desired. For people of color and trans people\, these perceptions frame all your sex experiences and often creates layers of trauma that stop you to allowing yourself to new experiences. Desires are not natural\, they’re learned. There is no such a thing as “preferences”\, desire is thought and desire is a product of the experience. For BDSM practitioners and kinksters in general\, desire can be a very tricky topic. Who’s DOM and WHO’S sub? Are some folks socially perceived as sub and others as DOM? What does being a top and being a bottom mean? What is a power bottom or a submissive top? The same way I believe gender is not a stationary state\, neither are sexual roles. I believe we’re all tied up in several social ropes and can only move in certain ways. THE DESIRE LAB is a workshop shaped as a round of discussion\, where attendants are encouraged to speak up about how we wish we were desired as we see ourselves and study them together. The lab is a small studio made in collaboration with Michelle Gutierrez (@caribe_lunar) where in group we have a space to produce visual imagery\, solo or in group\, about what we wish and we desired. The Lab will provide masks\, accessories\, lights\, toys and also people who may want to volunteer to be in the photos or videos\, or not. Or stay anonymous with masks if they wish. The consent terms and guidelines will be made with the assistance of the sex educator and performer Lina Bembe. \npowered by: LUX VENEREA (aka Naya de Souza) - Comedian\, Speaker\, Chef\, Performer\, Poet\, cangaceira transviada. Left the Sertão of Brazil to be a travesti*. Also left debts in the bank of brazil and believes that sleeping alligators get turned into YTpeople's purses. \nInterview session powered by Michalina Mrozek\nShe is a filmmaker and film educator who has been working as an independent filmmaker in Berlin since the beginning of 2013. She has many years of experience in educational work with youth and young adults as a project manager and filmmaker. For the past four years\, she has increasingly realised projects with LGBTQ+ communities that aim for more visibility and tolerance. \n--- \nAnmeldung // Registration \n--- \nFörderung des Fonds Soziokultur aus dem Programm der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM) „NEUSTART KULTUR“ Gemeinsam. Schaffen. Patenschaften für das WIR der Verschiedenen ist Teil des Bundesprogramms Menschen stärken Menschen und wird gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Familie\, Senioren\, Frauen und Jugend
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LOCATION:Oyoun\, Lucy-Lameck-Staße 32\, Berlin\, 12049\, Deutschland
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