Events – DECOLONOIZE

17|08|2024
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DECOLONOIZE presents MINI FESTIVAL with
CONCERTS | POETRY | DECOLONOIZE & FRIENDS JAM

ACUD CLUB Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin

DECOLONOIZE presents MINI FEST
SA 17.8, 16.30H ACUD Club (free entry) ACUD CLUB Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin

Live Music | Film Screening | BIPoC Artist Connect | Open Jam | Marketplace

JOBAZ is a queer Rwandan British creative, writer and activist based in Berlin. She was recently featured poet at the Sawa Creatives multidisciplinary exhibition on decolonising the imagination. She would describe her writing as a peek into the soul; exploring her experiences in life, identity, sensuality and play.”

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QUANG NGUYEN-XUÂN (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist. Through video, text, and performance they are interested in making the tensions between world histories and the self tangible. Drawing from queerness as a mode of creating, imagining, and rejecting, their works aim to illustrate the poetics in moments of insight, remembrance, intimacy, and incoherence.Working solo and collaboratively, and have co-founded the arts & empowerment collective Spicy Ginkgo Collective (@spicyginkgocollective) and Vietnamese poetry project tạt lon poetry (@tat.lon.poetry).

LYHRE surrounded by Her Instruments- Lyhre melds her husky voice, while pounding the keys of the piano, with alternative and classical influences to a dark pop. https://lyhre.bandcamp.com

ZANJEER زنجیر is a hardcore punk band based in Berlin, singing in Urdu, Persian and Punjabi. The band was conceived to amplify the voices of the global south within the European punk landscape, at a time of great migration and strife. https://zanjeer.bandcamp.com

NOTHING WORKS starting in late 2022, NOTHING WORKS is a new force coming from Berlin’s underground subcultures. Their music mixes up 90’s indie/alternative with modern (melodic/post) hardcore, combined with sharp and in-your-face political lyrics, a mix that could roughly be described as “heavy melodic hardcore”
https://nothingworksbln.bandcamp.com/

LIEBE, D-MARK UND TOD – AŞK, MARK VE ÖLÜM. This documentary film is about the independent, and as of yet, unknown music of emigrated Turkish guest workers and their grandchildren in Germany. In a musical and essayistic form, Cem Kaya shares insights into the unique liveliness of this forgotten subculture. The stories of the band Derdiyoklar, Radio Yılmaz, protest rocker Cem Karaca’s German exile, and many more are a testament to the unique liveliness of Turkish music in Germany.

MEET YOUR FUTURE BAND MATE A meeting to gather and connect people who wish to start a new band. Attendants should have previous band experience and all levels of instrument skills. (BIPOC only)

MARKETPLACE

Raras Umaratih @naninunenoisme (they/them/dia), born and raised in Indonesia, is currently based in Berlin as a multimedia artist and organizer. To them, drawing is world-making within an image. Mutated and interconnected bodies – half life, half fiction – and words finding their power by coming to form, is much inspired by the tension in Raras’ experiences between the third world and the belly of the empire.

Patu @patuparia is a Berlin-based comic artist, illustrator, zine maker and one of the founders of Boomzines – a web platform and archive for BIPoC Zines and Self Publishing. Patus’ work focuses on the intersections of the personal and the structural in everyday life from the perspective of queer and racism-critical empowerment.

Nicky Chue (they/them) @seedlinglibrary aka Seedling Library is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker of Jamaican and Indonesian-German descent from Berlin. They create zines and postcards that invite you to dream and learn from nature. Nicky’s work connects visual art, poetry, narrative playlists and an appreciation for bees, while aiming to center and archive fellow Black & PoC perspectives of queer and trans experience.

Leh Hwang @2020notok is a Berlin-based illustrator, designer, and master’s student in Visual Communication at Weißensee Kunsthochschule. Her work, influenced by experiences abroad and a strong foundation in political values, centers on anti-racism, political design, and critical design. As a freelance graphic designer, Leh Hwang uses design as a medium to convey powerful ideas and also offers workshops that explore anti-racism within a creative context.

Irem Kurt @meri_tru is an illustrator and comic artist based in Berlin. She enjoys drawing quirky characters in vibrant settings on any topic that captures her interest. Alongside her personal projects, she creates illustrations for a variety of clients, often exploring sociopolitical issues, feminism, tech and culture. She will present her latest comic project, *Shababz! Jung. Muslimisch. Selbstbestimmt.*, a collaboration with Dr. Lana Sirri, along with some prints featuring lovely humans, will be available at the market.

Christine (She/They) works as a graphic designer and illustrator. In Christine’s illustrations, you shall find a menagerie of fantastical creatures and queer manga heroines, all woven into an artistic reality, which doesn’t take itself too seriously. Is this a form of escapism? Or a way of amplifying feelings and experiences? It is okay to be both as long as it spreads a story to be seen and to make one feel seen. Christine has started a fruitful collaboration with their partner and 3D-designer Emile Cerf (They/them) as they have been working on candle-making whimsical characters. They both bring their illustrations into the realm of the tangible, manifested in prints, ceramic work or sticker sheets.

https://www.instagram.com/janjirakyun, https://www.instagram.com/janjira.zone

Past Events:

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19|04|2024

26|03|2024

22|11|2023
14|11|2023
04|04|2023
12|10|2022
04|10|2022
24|07|2022
02|07|2022
07|06|2022
28|05|2022
01|05|2022
20|11|2021
10|09|2021

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