Safe Space and Empowerment
For people with experiences of racism
WORKSHOP WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF »REMEMBERING MEANS FIGHTING - FIGHTING TO CHANGE«.
Rotes Haus
We talk about racism all the time in our everyday lives and worse - we experience it all the time. Today we want to meet in a safe space (that means a space where all people negatively affected by racism meet and we promise ourselves that no information will get »outside«) and exchange experiences. But above all, we want to strengthen each other, give each other strategies, become aware of who we are, how strong and creative we are. As a theatre teacher of colour, I only offer guidance, I see myself first and foremost as a learner and look forward to a lively exchange.
Please bring an object (this can be anything - an accessory, a book, a cake or tea) that is particularly important to you in relation to your identity!
Please bring an object (this can be anything - an accessory, a book, a cake or tea) that is particularly important to you in relation to your identity!
26 - 28 May 2023
REMEMBERING MEANS FIGHTING -
FIGHT TO CHANGE!
MIGRANT STRUGGLES, THEN AND NOW - A NETWORKING MEETING
Survivors and relatives of victims of right-wing violence are committed to and fighting for a different, above all dignified politics of remembrance, also in NRW. They demand clarification, justice and consequences. They are supported by initiatives and alliances. In recent years, several survivors and relatives of victims of right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic violence as well as initiatives from Berlin, Dortmund, Duisburg, Halle, Kassel, Cologne, Mölln, Munich and Solingen, among others, have joined forces nationwide to support each other in solidarity and to jointly give more expression to their demands. Why, no end? What are the demands of survivors and relatives of right-wing violence? At Whitsun, workshops, open panels and the guest performance GASTFRAU as well as the performance THE GAP 2.0 will create safe and open spaces to strengthen networking and exchange in solidarity in NRW. But the weekend, together with the association Streikkultur, also creates visibility and connections to past migrant struggles in Germany. We cannot look at Hanau and Halle without a reference to the racist murders and attacks of the NSU. The NSU complex not without the racist attacks and pogroms after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification and this time not without the treatment and life of the so-called »guest workers«!
These events have to be seen in context in order to realise a dignified and profound remembrance for migrant struggles. Remembering means fighting! Fighting to change.
These events have to be seen in context in order to realise a dignified and profound remembrance for migrant struggles. Remembering means fighting! Fighting to change.
COOPERATION PARTNERS
In cooperation with the nationwide initiative KEIN SCHLUSSSTRICH! and within the framework of the project »Solidaritäts-Netzwerk der Betroffenen«, funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education as part of the programme »Antirassistische/rassismuskritische politische Bildung stärken!«.