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To endings and new beginnings, to letting it flow 🌊

after giving it a lot of thought we decided to close the chapter of WE DEY! Our lease ended and with the co- founders @amoakoboafo and @jayeyeye off to greener pastures and adventures, @decolonial_joy re-turning to Ayurvedic knowledge and QTI/BIPoC wellbeing we see this ending as a way to make space for new beginnings and projects! We are working on a publication that will bring together and highlight all the beautiful and powerful events, exhibitions, healing spaces and art workshops that took place since WE DEY’s birth in 2013. So there is still something to watch out for in this space 💜 We thank all of you who supported us all these years, who came to the events, who redistributed funds, who facilitated, exhibited, who danced, celebrated and held this precious space with us. We thank our xspace collective @nic_ink @fodzilla183 and our co-collaborators, official and inofficial collective members @shulames @fariscucu #estherabionaojo @bel.kamkaze @pedraxcosta @thesenses_vienna and all of you grew community with us for almost 10years! xoxo #bipocartspacevienna #qtibipoc #qtibipoccentered #bipoccentered #bipocartists #newbeginnings #bipoccommunityvienna

We would love to ask you to leave your thoughts, memories and messages here with us!! https://forms.gle/SSRDXd1CU6544zgs8

WE DEY couldn`t have been without all of you!! We are working now on a publication to archive all the beautiful events, exhibitions, meetings, selfcare days, yoga sessions, pilates, dance and movement events and sooo many other amazing happenings!! We would love for you to be part of this archive.

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WE DEY happy to host Gendai Reiki Berlin for a Reiki MEETING on the 24 March 2020 from 17:00-20:30 for and by Black/Indigenous/People of Color Women/Non-Binary/Trans/Inter/Femmes with Ikue Maekawa!

The idea of the meeting is to give people knowledge about Reiki- a Japanese healing technique for stress reduction and relaxation.

This meeting is for BIPoCs of all levels, who are already trained in Reiki and for those who want to know more about it!

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This is a Reiki meeting not a workshop or training for max 12 people plz register via fb or we.dey.in (at) gmail.com!

Ikue will tell us about the healing benefits of Reiki and open a space for Reiki practitioners to get to know each other.

We will start with light body movement and Ikue will offer you Reiju to cultivate a Reiki pipe for Reiki practitioners and to open a Reiki pipe temporary for non practitioner. We will initiate a Reiki Circle/Reiki Marathon a group Reiki hand healing practice which provides Reiki all participators at the same time.

You will see and feel how Reiki energy supports making your life lively and vibrant.

♥ No one turned away for lack of funds ♥
We suggest a donation of 15 Euro for the meeting

♥ There is a limited amount of 1:1 Reiki healing sessions on monday 23rd & tuesday 24th before the meeting, to find out more send us an email to we.dey.in(at)gmail.com ♥
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ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:

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Ikue Maekawa (she/her) is a Japanese Gendai Reiki Teacher based in Berlin, has a mother from Shinto (Japanese specific religion) priest family, came from the same area with Mikao Usui was born. And still her family is living in that sacred rich-nature area. Through 2 years world wild-travel as a seeker she met Reiki, the most effective and simple method to get back the connection with universe. After her first Reiki study with Western teacher, in 2011 miraculously she met Hiroshi Doi, Gendai Reiki founder and be certified as Master in Denmark. In 2015 she took a part of Gendai Reiki International Gathering in Spain as an interpreter for Hiroshi Doi and still now following and studying his teachings actively to share Reiki traditional doctrine in the West. Her activity supports you to discover and become a creator of your own life!

♥ To our invitation policy:
This events is specifically for Black/Brown/Indigenous/of Color Women/Non-Binary/Trans/Inter/Femmes! Please don’t assume anyone’s gender identity or pronouns – ask everyone for their preferred pronouns.
We aim to create a space of support for and by queer women/non-binary/trans/inter/femmes. Cis Men (means men who were assigned male at birth and identify with it) and white people are not invited to this session.

♥ X SPACE is accessible via a ramp. The ramp is 76 cm wide and the slope is 9 %. For more information please contact us!
The closest wheelchair accessible toilet is @ Café Oben, Urban-Loritz-Platz. It’s a five minutes distance.

Image by Gendai Reiki Berlin

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As you might know, the contract for x SPACE was extended for three more years in the very last moment! To keep x SPACE going we need your support!

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Taking the time to reflect on everything that has been formed in the last two years, we are planning to come back with new and adjusted offerings after a short break, in winter 2019/2020. Because organising x space has brought us a lot of joy, but also brought us close to burning out – we want to shift our focus towards individual and collective self-preservation and wellbeing.

Over the course of the last two years we facilitated and hosted over 50 events that centered Queer/Trans/Inter/Non-Binary/Femmes Black/Indigenous/People of Color!

We received a small percentage of the public funding that we applied for and it was spend entirely to keep the space running, to pay travel expenses, production costs and small fees for artists & guests who took part in the events, exhibitions, residencies.

Future x SPACE/WE DEY: 

We are so grateful for all the amazing events that happened in the last 2 years, for all of you who shared your love and knowledge with us! We decided to continue x space but we will shift from public events towards smaller and more intimate sessions.

After the break x SPACE will continue to host monthly Trans*screenings and weekly Pilates Classes by Shayma and much more. 

WE DEY will continue to focus it`s work on BIPoC queer/trans/inter/non-binary/women/femmes in the form of WE DEY x SPACE – shared studio spaces, events, barber pop-ups, and collaborations such as the WE DEY healing in residency.

WE DEY x SPACE will deepen the focus on individual and collective healing for BIPoCs and in order to do so we are in need of your financial support to be able to organise, host and invite local and international QTI/BIPoC healers, body practitioners and teachers!

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How to support WE DEY x SPACE:

  • HELP US PAY OUT RENT- support us financially via monthly peer support. contact us via we.dey.in@gmail.com for more information and our bank details. 

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT IT HERE

 Thank you!

@we_dey

 

 

 

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After a short break we are finally sharing pictures from our WE DEY eXit party on the 30th of April  ❤

 

Thanks to everyone who came through! it was so great to see all of our events and all the people who were part of our journey over the last 2 years spread all around the walls of X space! an evening full of hugs, words of care, gratitude and love 🙌🏾 thanks to everybody who co-organised, participated in the exhibitions and events that happened at #wedeyxspace thanks to everyone who helped us through out this beautiful journey-

WE SEE YOU
thanks to XANA who came all the way from London and Vienna based Mzamo of Bicha Boo Collective for playing the tunes that moved our bodies all night ❤
#bpocartspacevienna #collectivehealing #followyourdreams #qtpoc #qpoc #cutiebpoclove #letgoandgrow

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we dey moveArrival: 18:30
Doors close: 19.00 (sharp!)
End: 22:00

We invite Black/Indigenous/People of Color who self-define as Women/Trans/Non-Binary/Inter/Femmes to come together for a healing dance experience ♥

We want to create a collective & safe(r) dance space without small talk – actually no verbal interactions all together 🙂

A place you can come to, on your own or with other BIPoCs ♥
dress up or dress down- wear something comfortable to shake your bodies for three hours!

Let go of our tensions, let’s just move our bodies!

Please register via: we.dey.in(at)gmail.com !! There is only limited space!

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Guidelines:
* we want to create an inclusive dance experience that welcomes you with everything you embody!
* lets create a non – judgmental space: move the way your body tells you! Everybody focuses on themselves and their bodies!
* sober party- no alcohol no drugs!
* no shoes, no talk, no pics/videos ♥

Invitation policy:
Black/Indigenous/People of Color that self-define as Women/Trans/Non-Binary/Inter/Femmes ♥!

Entry:
Donations are welcome- all of the donations will go towards paying the djs and the drinks/snacks ♥

Line up:

XANA (UK)

Mzamo Jama of BICHA BOO COLLECTIVE (VIE/BER)

organised by Nimmersatt Su and Ade Kazeem
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Accessibility Infos:

X SPACE is accessible via a ramp. The ramp is 76 cm wide and the slope is 9 %. For more information please contact us!
The closest wheelchair accessible toilet is @ Café Oben, Urban-Loritz-Platz. It’s a five minutes distance.

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Most of you know already that by the end of April 2019 the lease for WE DEY x space at Kandlgasse 24 will expire. It is hard for us to see WE DEY x SPACE (in this form) coming to an end, but it’s a great opportunity to look back at all the amazing events that happened in WE DEY x SPACE since its opening in May 2017! Lets come together for this last month- we have a great program ♥

BPOC * DANCE * HEALING * MOVEMENT * TOGETHERNESS *
* Body. Love. Movement! BIPoC Dance Workshop by Mzamo Nondlwana: 20th of April 13.30-17.00
https://www.facebook.com/events/2205107029806572/
SIGN UP PLZ via we.dey.in(at)gmail.com

* BPOC WE DEY move event: 27th of April 19.00-22.00
https://www.facebook.com/events/406484626849379/
SIGN UP PLZ via we.dey.in(at)gmail.com

PARTY * CELEBRATION * OPEN TO ALL
* WE DEY eXit SPACE PARTY: 30th of April 18.00-?
https://www.facebook.com/events/406860873450481/

Our closing party with live performances by XANA (UK) and many more – we will celebrate all that has been in the last 2 years and look forward to everything that will come up next!

ONGOING
* BIPOC Mental Health Circle with Wir sind auch Wien
* Weekly BIPoC Queer Barber Pop Up with Nimmersatt Su
* Pilates Class by Betül Seyma Küpeli
* Bi-weekly BPoC Yin Yoga with Gigi Mayala

Hope to see you all ♥

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“Recording Our Histories” by Rudy Loewe
31th of January – 6th of February 2019

We are excited to welcome Rudy Loewe for a one weeks art residency & solo exhibition at WE DEY x SPACE.

During their residency Rudy Loewe would like to invite BPoC to be interviewed as part of their exhibition at WE DEY. The focus of the interviews is to document BPoC experiences of an Austrian context. These collected narratives will then be used to build up the exhibition space, over the course of the week. Pieces of the recorded interviews will feature in the exhibition space as part of an audio installation, as well as visual responses being created by Rudy to go alongside this. This is part of a larger body of work that Rudy is creating, questioning in what ways we document, collect and preserve our histories; and how we can take autonomy over this.

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Interview Session: Call for BIPoC interview partners!
31th of January
more infos here:
https://bit.ly/2SIZFlp

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OPEN STUDIO: open to everyone!
(the artist will be present)
1.2. 3-6pm
2.2 3-6pm
3.2. 3-6pm
4.2. 3-4pm
5.2. 3-6pm

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FINISSAGE: open to everyone!
6th of February 6pm -10pm
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Accessibility Infos:

X SPACE is accessible via a ramp. The ramp is 76 cm wide and the slope is 9 %. For more information please contact us!
The closest wheelchair accessible toilet is @ Café Oben, Urban-Loritz-Platz. It’s a five minutes distance.

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about WE DEY x space

WE DEY x space is dedicated to amplify the art and culture production for and by Queer/Trans*/Inter/Black People/People of Color

WE DEY x space aims to center marginalised voices, perspectives, knowledges and experiences from different diasporas

WE DEY x space will host exhibitions, workshops, kitchen table talks and film screenings around the topics of decolonial art production, community, self-care, empowerment.

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WE DEY: Annual Program 2018/19

In the beginning of 2018 WE DEY X SPACE announced its first Open Call for projects. We invited Black artists and artists of Color to apply with proposals for exhibitions, events, workshops, kitchen table talks and film screenings around the topics of decolonial art and knowledge production, community, self-care and empowerment.

We were overwhelmed by the amount and quality of proposals we received from all over the world, projects that center Queer/Trans*/Inter/Black People/People of Color and focus on utopian notions of community, belonging, healing and body politics. We thank all the artists & collectives who put so much time and thought into their proposals! Thank you all for affirming our vision on how important it is to self-organise and to continue creating a space for art and knowledge production by Queer/Trans*/Inter/Black People/People of Color.

We are looking forward to what is coming up until May 2019 (when the lease for WE DEY x space will expire): exhibitions by Nicole Suzuki, WE DEY kültür gemma! fellow Lydia Nsiah, NueNua AKA Ama Josephine Budge, Rudy Loewe, HAIR (Esther Ojo & Terisha Harris), Pêdra Costa& Jota Mombaça and @decolonial_killjoy, workshops and empowerment sessions by Noah Sow, Maisha Auma, Paola Bacchetta and Fatima El-Tayeb, filmscreenings curated by Nine Yamamoto, healing circle by Liaam Iman and of course our ongoing projects. Keep yourself posted on our website: WE-DEY.IN and on Facebook & Instagram.

We would like to thank the WE DEY collective for all their unrelentless effort, time, energy, love and care! Thanks to Jaqueline Ejiji, Esther Abiona Ojo, Janine Jembere, Nicole Suzuki, Amoako Boafo, and all of you who supported us within the past year and who continue to do so in the years to come! Despite the fact that we did receive hardly any public funding we managed to continue the fight for self-determined spaces for BPoC’s in Vienna because of all of you!

xoxo,

Sunanda Mesquita & Sushila Mesquita for WE DEY

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What you can do to support WE DEY:
* Financial support to pay our rent and bills, production costs for exhibitions, transport costs for artists & artist residencies, our publications,…

* Help us find a new space! As our lease will expire in May 2019, we are looking for new affordable spaces to continue our project

* Donate material to our Archive! Our longterm vision is to create an WE DEY Archive containing herstories of BPoC resistance in Vienna through community engagement and decolonial queer feminist approaches to archiving.

 

 

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WE DEY x SPACE proudly presents

“Rememory: Ritual Blackness and Beyond” by Khaleb Brooks
14th of June – 30th of June 2018

We are excited to welcome Khaleb Brooks for a two weeks art residency & solo exhibition at WE DEY x SPACE.

Khaleb Brooks is a multi- media artist whose work is founded on research of ancestral knowledge and oral histories. Through painting, sculpture and photography Khaleb explores the role of memory in disrupting ideologies that maintain time as linear and fixed. By reviving ancestral cosmologies, creating assemblages of fragmented identities and engaging with generational trauma he seeks to re- imagine the notions of progress embedded in colonial and capitalist histories. The solo exhibition “Rememory: Ritual Blackness and Beyond” deals with thoughts and concepts of blackness as ritual and spaces of non- being as well as attemps to transcend these spaces.

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VERNISSAGE: “”Rememory: Ritual Blackness and Beyond”
14th of June at 6pm
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EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS/OPEN STUDIO:
(the artist will be present)
Mon-Thurs 11am-4pm
Sat 4-7pm
Sun 1-4pm
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QTIBPoC COMIC WORKSHOP
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Khaleb Brooks will host a comic book workshop where we will discuss character development, storyboarding and the history of Queer and POC comics. ♥ please register with an email to we.dey.in@gmail.com
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FILMSCREENING OPEN FOR ALL
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Screening of short documentary by Intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis, called The Son I Never Had. Afterwards Pidgeon will Skype in and we’ll have a discussion about their experiences, activism, and how art/ media affects their life and struggle for change. This is for everyone. When we discuss LGBTQ lives, we still forget the I for Intersex. I hope this creates greater understanding of that experience for everyone and help us understand what we as artists can do for our community.
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FINISSAGE:
30th of June 4pm -10pm
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Accessibility Infos:

X SPACE is accessible via a ramp. The ramp is 76 cm wide and the slope is 9 %. For more information please contact us!
The closest wheelchair accessible toilet is @ Café Oben, Urban-Loritz-Platz. It’s a five minutes distance.

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about WE DEY x space

WE DEY x space is dedicated to amplify the art and culture production for and by Queer/Trans*/Inter/Black People/People of Color

WE DEY x space aims to center marginalised voices, perspectives, knowledges and experiences from different diasporas

WE DEY x space will host exhibitions, workshops, kitchen table talks and film screenings around the topics of decolonial art production, community, self-care, empowerment.

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Dear all!

we kindly invite Black artists and Artists of Color to apply for a fellowship at WE DEY x SPACE! The fellowship is offered by kültüř gemma! and will start on 1st July 2018, the grant covers 1300€ a month (income tax free) over a period of 6 months. During the fellowship you will get insight in the organisation of WE DEY and support ongoing exhibitions and events. At the end of the fellowship you will present your research/project idea at WE DEY x SPACE.

We invite artists, activists, art theorists, historians – who define themselves as Black people or People of Color – to propose a project that focuses on the artistic and activist herstories through “Tracing Queer/Trans*/Inter/Black People/People of Color resistance in Vienna”.

WE DEY has collected a lot of archive material over the past years – from audio & video
material, to newspapers, books, art works etc. We invite the fellow to re-organise and
expand our archive which is centered around art and knowledge production, activism and community work that made it possible for WE DEY to exist today. We understand archiving as a community building tool and we would like the fellow to invite the wider community to share their stories and document them, host round tables, kitchen table talks or film nights and create new materials.

Project dates and requirements
The 6-months fellowship will start beginning of July 2018 and the presentation of the project should be in December 2018 at WE DEY x SPACE. The fellow has to be based in Vienna.

What we have to offer
In collaboration with kültür gemma! WE DEY will support with online and printed publicity and logistical/technical support. We are happy to connect you to other BPoC Artists based in Vienna. We will offer you access to our WE DEY archive and a working space at WE DEY x SPACE.

How to apply

Your application should include the following in one PDF file (in English or German):
• CV/Artist’s statement describing your practice and areas of interest
(up to 250 words)
• A motivational letter that shortly outlines the applicant’s interest in collaborating with
WE DEY x SPACE and that touches on following questions:

1. Is your artistic practice focused around topics such as archiving, collectivity & commu
nity? Tell us more about it!
2. What interests you in a decolonial queer feminist approach to archiving and the histo
ry of BPoC resistance in Vienna?
3. What are your ideas of expanding and working with the WE DEY archive?
(up to 1200 words)

Deadline is: 7th of June 2018, 12pm.

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Questions concerning kültüř gemma!
Contact person is Galia Baeva
E-mail: baeva@kueltuergemma.at

Questions concerning WE DEY x SPACE
E-mail: we.dey.in@gmail.com