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Winterbreak – till 2022!

February 2, 2022December 17, 2021 by administrax

Dear Communities, friends, supporters and everybody interested

Another year is coming to an end and we would like to say goodbye and disappear into our winter break until January 10th, 2022. Also this year, the Covid-19 pandemic has kept us busy and impacted our work.

At the same time, there were also staff changes in xart splittas Team. Sadly, our project manager Iris Rajanayagam has left us after 6 great years together. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Iris for her many years of formative commitment, in which she filled xart splitta with life and created this space for which we are so grateful today. We wish her all the best for her new position.

Picture "The Living Archives - the learning diaspora space: The online platform for documenting, archiving and sharing knowledge from and for BIPoC communities. Writings "Launch 2.0", "I Know What I Know!", "What happened last year", "Panel & Performances", "Digital via Zoom and Instagram", 17.12.2021, from 4pm, please register via contact@xartsplitta.net, all in red, beige colour scheme.

The Living Archives is an online platform for documenting, archiving and passing on knowledge from and for BIPoC communities.

On November 19th, 2021 we celebrated our first anniversary and on December 17th, 2021 we presented the further developments of the platform with our second launch!

With all warmth, we would like to thank the participants of our two expert workshops for your feedback, time, perspectives and expertise: Iman Attia, Ginnie Bekoe, Fatima El-Tayeb, Hannah Ishmael, Isidora Randjelović, Ismahan Wayah, Jihad Yagoubi, and Iris Rajanayagam in her role as co-founder.

Special thanks here to Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, who has been part of the process since its inception in the frame of the event Passing it on and has actively supported us over the last two years. We are looking forward to filling the project with life in the coming year. Much of the content is already available, some of it in Safer Spaces.

The Living Archives has till now been funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, bpb). Many thanks for their support and here especially to Peggy Piesche, for her guidance and impluse.

Our main project this year was #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken (thinking communities in solidarity) and we are happy to present you some of our highlights.

Here our final event In.Solidarity has gone into the second round!

In.Solidarity – Retrospectives, Insights and Outlooks on Community Cooperation (In.Solidarity – Rückblicke, Einblicke und Ausblicke auf Community-Zusammenarbeit) took place last year in cooperation with the neuen deutschen organisationen (ndo).
This year we were able to cooperate with ComE In of the Migrationsrat Berlin (MRB) and jointly create In.Solidarity II – In Covid, Crisis & Care. Many thanks to the Migrationsrat for this successful cooperation!

After a one-year break due to Corona, we were able to continue our event series Dissolving Territories| cultural geographies of a new eelam with a third season this year.

The third season of “DISSOLVING TERRITORIES” was dedicated to the aspect of solidarity between different oppressed and stateless people: therefore we brought together Eelam-Tamil and Kurdish perspectives and explicitly discussed intersections in relation to experiences in (German) exile.
You can find the documentation here.

A DGS (“German Sign Language”) I and a DGS II course with Diana Spieß and the Lebendige Gebärden team also took place. Provided we receive funding, we hope to be able to offer this course again in 2022.

We are also delighted to present the second part of The Legion of Community Superpowers. Illustrated by Elliot Blue, our Dragos set out to share their wisdom and advice with us! Thanks to Elliot Blue for the wonderful collaboration!

Buntes Foto von Büchern, die im Lesekreis besprochen werden, von Stiften, Bilder und anderen Materialen — © Rena Onat and Saida-Mahalia Saad

Another highlight this year was the Queer of Colour Critique reading and discussion group, facilitated by Rena Onat and Saida-Mahalia Saad. The joint closing session was especially great, where we were able to welcome Dr. Chandra Frank and Gayatri Gopinath as well as Kathy-Ann Tan as moderator!
Many thanks to the facilitators, moderator, our guests and also to the participants!

We are looking forward to continuing our projects and starting new ones in the coming year, but above all to the dialogue with you, your ideas and your perspectives.
With this, we would like to say goodbye with a warm thank you. Thank you for your support, your feedback, the small and big ones that you have shared with us again this year. We wish you relaxing days off and time to rest and breathe deeply. We look forward to a new year with you and wish you all much strength and all the best for the turn of the year and for 2022.

With best wishes, your xart splitta team
Juli, Therese, Olga and Savira

cover picture: © “Sleepy Head” by son_gismo is licensed under CC BY 2.0

In.Solidarity II – In Covid, Crisis & Care: Healing Circle

November 30, 2021October 30, 2021 by administrax

for BIPoC with Griselda Enciso // 11am-2pm

This workshop will take place online and German and English spoken language is possible – Let’s help each other out!

Workshop on healing old wounds and returning to primal trust: The Pandemic as an Opportunity for Self-Discovery

Coming together as a group, meditating together, exercises for healing old wounds, common spaces for reflection: What are my fears? What are my tools for dealing with them? These fears will be recycled together and released as energy for self-determination in love, gratitude and humility. We will also refer here to our role in our communities and create a common calm, healing and grateful place.

Photo of Griselda, in front of a white background, smiling at the camera in the portrait cut-out.

My name is Griselda Enciso and I am Afroperuvian.
After a long search through different cultures and courses of study, I finally faced my calling as a healer / curandera (medicine woman) in my voluntary exile in Berlin. This “yes” is synonymous with an unconditional acceptance of the gifts of my ancestors. I work with great joy inspired by my spiritual guardians using homeopathy, techniques from systemic constellations and Afroperuvian dances.

In.Solidarity II – In Covid, Crisis & Care: Möglichkeiten des Allyship

October 30, 2021 by administrax

für weiße Menschen mit Tuğba Tanyılmaz und Anifa Heinrich // 10-15 Uhr

This workshop will take place online and in german spoken language.

Sei es im Team, in der Hochschule, im Seminar, auf der Arbeit, in der pädagogischen Praxis oder im privaten Bereich – Rassismus ist überall präsent und oft doch unerkannt. Guter Wille allein reicht oft nicht aus, um diskriminierende Äußerungen oder Handlungen zu vermeiden. Um Rassismus und Diskriminierungen zu erkennen und das eigene Verhalten zu ändern bzw. Strukturen zu beeinflussen, müssen weiße Menschen ihre eigene Position reflektieren können und lernen unterstützend reagieren und agieren zu können.

In diesem Workshop bieten wir weißen Menschen einen Ort für einen (fachlichen) Austausch der pädagogischen Praxis und Reflexion der eigenen Person, sowie der strukturellen und institutionellen Ebenen von Rassismus. In dem Workshop konzentrieren wir uns auf die Einführung zu dem Thema, sowie auf eine persönliche Auseinandersetzung.

Die Schulungen soll sich vor allem an weiße Menschen richten, die sich bereits mit Themen von Diskriminierung, Anti-Rassismus / Critical Whiteness und Allyship beschäftigt haben. In dem Workshop können die Teilnehmenden gezielte Kenntnisse rund um Thema »Diskriminierung, Rassismus und Allyship« weiter sammeln und ausbauen. Die gesellschaftliche Realität wird hierbei als Einführung gegeben und schließlich der Zusammenhang zwischen ihren bereits existierenden Lehrmethoden bzw. Lehrinhalten und den fehlenden Inhalten hergestellt. Aufbau und fachliche Konkretisierungen orientieren sich an den Teilnehmer_innen.

Foto von Tuĝba, auf einem Sofa, weiße Wand im Hintergrund. Mit einseitigem Grinsen.

Tuĝba Tanyılmaz ist aktuell die Geschäftsführerin vom Migrationsrat Berlin e.V. und die Projektleitung der Initiative intersektionale Pädagogik (i-PÄD).
Tuğba Tanyılmaz ist seit 20 Jahren in der sozialen Arbeit tätig und ist Erzieherin und Sozialarbeiterin. Als diese betreute und leitete sie zahlreiche machtkritische Projekte, die stets einen Antidiskriminierungsansatz hatten und vor allem mit dem Empowermentansatz durchgeführt wurden. Ihre Schwerpunkte sind Intersektionalität, machtkritische Erziehung, rassismuskritische Bildung und Erziehung, Klassismus, Adultismus, LSBTIQ Diskriminierung, Empowerment, Krisenintervention und Konfliktmanagement.
Als selbständige Bildungsreferentin und Mediatorin bietet sie interaktive Vorträge, Workshops, Prozessbegleitungen, Organisationsentwicklung und Lehrveranstaltungen an.

Foto von Anfia, vor einer weißen Wand, lächelt in die Kamera.

Anifa Heinrich, nonbinary queer Black, studiert, arbeitet und lebt inzwischen in Berlin. Neben der Schwerpunktsetzung auf Diskriminierungen auf bildungspolitischer Ebene im Studium der Sozialen Arbeit, ist Anifa seit Ende 2020 beim MRB in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit tätig. Seit Anfang 2021 ist Anifa Teammitglied bei i-PÄD und bietet hier Vorträge, Workshops, Beratungen sowie Prozessbegleitungen an.

In.Solidarity II – In Covid, Crisis & Care: Allyship & Awareness

October 30, 2021October 30, 2021 by administrax

for BIPoC with Can Tunç and Juliana Kolberg // 10am-3pm

This workshop will take place online and German and English spoken language is possible – Let’s help each other out!

Crises are (traumatic) challenges. The more we experience, the more likely we are to remain in a state of survival and, because that’s what we need, keep a focus on ourselves. Community, on the other hand, sees itself as networking with each other, for some as (surrogate) family, for others as safe space, but either way as a shared space. How can this be brought together?

In this workshop we want to discuss the balance with ourselves and the awareness and allyship for and in our communities. Can self-care also be in the form of solidarity? How do we protect ourselves and at the same time our siblings, friends, fellow activists? Where do we need more solidarities? And how can we deal with our privileges and deprivileges?

Black and white photo of Can Tunç smiling into the camera with glasses in a portrait cut-out.

Can Tunç has been working as part of the ComE In project team since January 2020 and is active in the area of intersectional inclusion via GLADT e.V.. In this project area, Can coordinates processes with white LGBTIQ* institutions in order to achieve more inclusivity in their structures. From the position of a Kurdish queer of colour, Can is interested in perspectives of queer of colour critique and works on the topics of awareness, critical whiteness and postcolonial critique of racism and power.

Juliana, smiling at the camera with plants in the background. In portrait detail.

Juliana Kolberg (no pronoun) has been working in the ComE In project since the beginning of 2020 and is here responsible for the area of empowerment. Juliana is also project manager of xart splitta. Juliana’s main topics are empowerment, queerness, intersectionality as well as discrimination-critical language, especially from the perspectives of queer Black diasporic movements. For more than 10 years, Juliana has been making racism-critical, intersectional awareness concepts for, with and in different contexts, as well as being an activist with and in, primarily, queer BIPoC communities.

In.Solidarity II – In Covid, Crisis & Care: Empowerment Crisismanagement & (Self-) Care

October 30, 2021October 30, 2021 by administrax

for BIPoC with Dee // 10am-3pm

This workshop will take place in presence and in English spoken language.

This workshop is an invitation to create your own self-care toolbox for challenging times.

All of us have life experience, self-knowledge and resources available to us – usually more than we think! How can we harness these resources to soothe, regulate and empower? To carry us through hard times? And how do we care for ourselves in situations that we can’t change or solve at this moment?

In this workshop we will identify situations that trigger us, learn to recognize when we are in survival mode, explore the individual and shared resources we have, and compile this knowledge into a tool to use when things are tough.

You will leave the workshop with a physical toolbox full of ideas and resources to care for yourself. It’s gonna be fun and we’re going to get creative!

Dee (she/her) is a certified life coach, kink coach and death doula with a range of classic, creative and unconventional tools under her belt to support you on your path.

Picture of Dee, in a yellow dress, smiling in a park on a green-yellow striped blanket with a sign "IG-Handle: pop.up.friend. Having a hard time? Come talk to me *smile*. Donations appreciated for helpful answers *heart*"

Her approach is one of balance, of finding ways to navigate this material world in a way that meets your needs while remaining true to yourself – of being human in a world in flux.

Her experience is informed not only by her formal qualifications, but most importantly by her upbringing in the tropics, her eagerness to try anything once and her own ongoing process of growth and change, the lessons of which she is here to share.

Contact her at popupfriend@writeme.com or @pop.up.friend on Instagram