22th November 2017, 6pm: BPoC Poetry Night

Dear Black and Brown People,
Wir laden Euch herzlich ein! Es wird was Feines geben: Fünf fabelhafte Femmes of Color werden uns einen Abend voller Wortkunst bescheren. Lahya Aukongo, Esi Boison, Enesi M., Sarah Gaad, Njideka aka Nj_Versifier sind ihre Namen. Und sie eint die Liebe zu Texten und den Möglichkeiten, die Präsentation dieser auszuloten.
Kommt, hört, seht, schmeckt (ein Bier/ein Cola/einen Wein/ whateveeer!). Lasst Euch von den Texten und den Performances in Gedanken-, Klang- und Bilderwelten treiben! Und wieder zurück, zum Wien im November 2017. Ein Wien, dass nach den Wahlen ächzt. Und uns stinkt.
Wir werden diesen Abend zu unserer Erinnerung hinzufügen: Einen Abend, der uns im X SPACE zusammenbringt, und an dem wir uns auf das, was die Poetesses mit uns teilen werden, einfach nur einlassen können. Gemeinsam. Weniger einsam.
Wir freuen uns, Euch zu sehen!

24th November 2017, 7pm: MAJOR! Screening for QTBPoC
Dear Cuties!
In Cooperation with Trans* Screening at X Space and the Vienna Black Movie Club we will screen MAJOR! a new documentary film directed by Annalise Ophelian for free!
TQBPOCs (trans and queer black people &people of color): MAJOR! chronicles the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 75 year old Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. Come, and let us learn about this amazing person together!
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Miss Major Circle of Care: Please bring your wallets! There will be a donation box which directly goes to the Community Retirement Fund of Miss Major. More information about the fund: https://www.gofundme.com/MsMajorRetirement

4th December 2017, 6pm: Voids & ID – Final Presentation

Nicole Alecu de Flers (“IS ID ALL”) and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński (“Voids”)
present their artistic projects realized with a working grant from Kültür gemma! 
at WE DEY X SPACE.

Further details coming soon – save the date!

7th December 2017, 5pm: Body. Love. Movement! Queer Dance Class

Mzamo Jama Nondlwana’s bi-weekly dance class in our X SPACE!
This a space for queer/ trans*/inter/non-binary people only!
12 Euros per class is our recommendation for the donation, but of course you can donate less. This class starts at 5 pm sharp.
Write us an email, if you want to attend for sure: we.dey.in@gmail.com. ♥

“This is a workshop class where we use movement to explore different possibilities and challenge our limitation through physicality and imagination. We will explore elements such as the voice, theatricality, movement and emotions as empowering tools. Let us take a moment to meet, to free the body of its own limitation. Let us go through a journey to discover new hidden gems using our bodies. Open all your senses, discover how the smell changes, how your vision elevates your fantasy, how dense the taste of your thoughts is. This is an experiment. There are no mistakes but only ‘what ifs’.” Mzamo Jama Nondlwana

— Dear white friends & interested white people: please note this is a space that centers queer Black people & People of Color! You are welcome to take part in the dance class as long as you understand that we will not accept any form of Anti-Blackness, exotisation of Black and Brown bodies, Fat/femmephobia, trans*/inter*antagonism or any other oppressive behaviour.—

9th December 2017, 6pm: Anti*colonial Fantasies Book Presentation

Program:
19:00 Lecture by Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita, Sophie Utikal
20.00 Artist Talk with participating artists
20:30 Dj B.B collection aka Bicha Boo collective (Pêdra Costa/ Mzamo Jama)
*all evening: book stall by Verlag Zaglossus

About the project:
Anti*Colonial Fantasies / Decolonial Strategies brings together artists from different diasporas, students and lecturers, who engage with a critique of the repercussions of colonialism—including in academia—and the quest for transforming this reality.

Anti*Colonial Fantasies is a student and lecturer initiative that is part of a history of decolonial, postcolonial, antiracist initiatives at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and within Austria. It belongs to a genealogy of artistic works produced by BPoC (Black and People of Color) and migrant artists that seek to transform the contexts and spaces they occupy. These interventions seek to address colonialism and racism from within the centers of hegemonic Eurocentric knowledge.

With contributions by: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Gerardo Montes de Oca, Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Amoako Boafo, Stephanie Misa, Sandra Monterroso, Tatiana Nascimento, Ezgi Erol, Firas Shehadeh, Hansel Sato, Sophie Utikal, Rini Mitra, Mariel Rodríguez, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Cana Bilir-Meier, Pêdra Costa, and Eduardo Triviño Cely.

Accessibility Infos:

The room is accessible via a ramp. The ramp is 76 cm wide and the slope is 9 %. We can send pictures of the ramp if required.
The toilet is not wheelchair accessible but there is a toilet in Café Oben at Urban-Loritz-Platz that can be used. It’s a five minutes distance.