moderated by Silvia Gegenfurtner and Jul Kolberg
Friday, April 26th 2024, 5.30 pm – 8.30pm
at xart splitta, Hasenheide 73, 10967 Berlin
This event will take place in German Sign Language and German spoken Language.
We have to work together to build community bridges together! There are already many points of contact between various marginalised communities, created by people with these intersectional life realities. A constant exchange here is important, but often not possible due to a lack of access and frustration with each other. This isolates people with intersectional life realities in particular, as they always have to decide which of their communities they want to partake in this moment. In the distance to each other, we lose sight of common goals and ultimately only strengthen right-wing political forces. This is another reason why it is more important than ever to strengthen bridges of solidarity so that we can continue to fight together.
We want to create a space for mutual exchange and shared learning. We want to share knowledge and strategies in order to tackle challenges together. The goal is to build and strengthen cross-community solidarity bridges between Deaf queer people, Deaf (queer) BIPoCs, hearing BIPoCs and hearing queer BIPoCs.
With this in mind, we invite you to our exchange space workshop “Building Bridges Together“. This will take place on Friday, 26 April 2024 at 5.30 pm.
The workshop will be moderated by Silvia Gegenfurtner and Jul Kolberg. Together we will identify common hurdles and challenges and discuss what we need for stronger practical solidarities and how we can come closer together.
Silvia Gegenfurtner is Deaf, white and queer. Silvia lives and works in Berlin and completed recently a degree in “Critical Diversity and Community Studies” (MA). Silvia deals with social power relations such as audism, racism, ableism and queerphobia from different perspectives. Silvia uses this as a basis for organising workshops that are critical of discrimination, for example on audism, hearing privilege or CIS heteronormativity.
Information about registration:
Register by April 20th 2024 at contact@xartsplitta.net via text or video. This space is an invitation to Deaf queer people, Deaf BIPoCs, hearing BIPoCs, hearing queer BIPoCs.
Please do answer the following questions when you register:
- How do you situate/position yourself?
- In what ways have you engaged with the topic so far?
- Do you have needs or require assistance to participate (e.g. childcare or language assistance, etc.)?
Please come to the event tested and stay home if you are symptomatic.
The event takes place within the framework of the LADS funded project #CommunitiesSolidarischDenken.