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Teju Adisa-Farrar is a writer/poet/performance artist and urban geographer. Her interdisciplinary work is produced from the research she does on geographies of Blackness, queering Blackness, transnational activism, city culture initiated and experienced by people of African descent and other post-colonial communities. Teju integrates socio-historical writing, poetry, movement, community collaboration and subjectivity to explore the realities of Blackness and post-capitalist futures in Euro-North American urban contexts.

She will offer two workshops in the X Space. And do a performance plus Q+A at the Closing Reception on thursday night.

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Workshop 1 [July 10th, 4pm]: [Black] Womyn on Happiness and Hedonism
Open to persons who identify as womyn of African descent and/or as Black womyn

While there are often discussions of Black/African womyn being strong and resilient and/or sexual beings for consumption, we do not often talk about what brings us joy, what makes us happy, and how we find pleasure in the places that we inhabit. How do we understand and express our many layered selves through reflecting on happiness and hedonism in all the geographies we are apart of?

Workshop 2 [July 11th, 4pm] : Transnational Diaspora Affirmations
Open to persons of who identify as being part of a postcolonial diaspora and/or persons of color.

“Transnational Diaspora Affirmations” is a project that asks artists and activists from the diaspora for affirmations they have for their comrades in other parts of the world. It is a way to say we see you, while at the same time decentralize American-centrism and Eurocentrism to create a transnational diasporic perspective of mutual resistance and transnational solidarity in the diaspora

Closing Reception [12 July, 6pm] TBD
Open to everyone
Reading and Presentation from Teju Adisa-Farrar about her work and her future projects. Afterward her performance we can have a discussion and do Q&A.
Finally we can have some drinks and listen to music and relax!

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The Deadline is moving closer!! 1 week left to send in your submissions! We are looking forward to hear from you!

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Project Dates:

The duration of the projects can range from an evening session, a day, up to 2 weeks in 2018.

What we have to offer:

As a non-profit self-organised art space we offer our venue free of charge, we will support with online and printed publicity and logistical/technical support. We are happy to connect you to other BPoC Artists based in Vienna and to educational programmes that work in local schools. We will provide administrative and curatorial support. If you apply from outside of Vienna we can also offer a guest room in a queer housing project.

We are currently applying for travel costs & production costs, but we cannot promise any financial support yet. Feel free to contact us for more information.

Your application should include the following in one PDF file (in English or German):

  • Artist’s statement describing your practice and areas of interest (up to 250 words)
  • A minimum of 10 images of recent projects, with captions and a short description if necessary.
  • CV/Resume
  • A project description including
    * a list of required equipment & technical support
    * preferred dates and links to relevant media (e.g. articles about your work, exhibitions)
    * Project goals & target groups (who is the project directed towards, is there an invitation policy, will the programme be open only to a specific group or public and why?)
  • A cover sheet with name, contact address, e-mail and telephone numbers, website details if available.

Send your application to we.dey.in@gmail.com

DEADLINE: 14th of February 2018, 12pm.

more infos HERE

 

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Saturday 6.1.: 5pm-10pm

Poetry book release “General Theory of Failure” by Hamilton Borges Walê from The React or Die Campaign, Bahia/Brazil. The book is in Portuguese and a limited amount will be available for sale. The event is intended for fundraising for the school for children and for the next book.

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With Marissa Lobo, Juliana dos Santos and Pêdra Costa
Please come and support. The talk will be in English.

Against the genocide of black people, no step back!
The React or Die Campaign
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Lançamento do livro Teoria Geral do Fracasso de Hamilton Borges Walê

Teoria Geral do Fracasso, primeiro livro de poesia “maloqueira” de Hamilton Borges Walê, articulador da Campanha Reaja ou Será Morta, Reaja ou Será Morto.

Hamilton Borges Walê nasceu em 1967, na cidade de Salvador, e passou a infância e adolescência no Curuzu, na Liberdade, o bairro mais negro do país. Treina boxe, joga capoeira, é do Candomblé, foi ator de teatro, cinema, professor de projeto popular, articulador cultural, oficineiro, porteiro, vendedor de pastel, amendoim e pipoca.

Trabalhou no projeto Meninos e Meninas de Rua de São Bernardo do Campo, militou por alguns anos no Movimento Negro Unificado (MNU) e fundou, nos anos 80, o grupo de intervenção poética “Os Maloqueiros”, responsáveis por recitar em becos, cadeias, quebradas e invadir eventos da elite branca baiana.

Fundou o Projeto Intramuros, na Penitenciaria Lemos de Brito, é articulador da Reaja ou Será Morto/a, que ergueu o movimento nacional de combate ao genocídio do povo negro, coordenou as Marchas Contra o Genocídio do Povo Negro, e coordena uma Escola Panafricanista em Salvador. É também membro da 4° internacional Garveista, Panafricanista, nacionalista preto, quilombista.

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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!

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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

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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!

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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.—

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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.