bpb-METRO-series:

Black Diaspora + Berlin Decolonial Narratives

November 20, 2014, 13-22.30 hrs at Grner Salon, Volksbhne, Berlin

Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

D-10178 Berlin

- simultaneous translation German-English

13.00 to 16.00 hrs: Reading Deutsch sein und Schwarz dazu

(Being German and also Black) by Theodor Michael

Film screening Audre Lorde. The Berlin Years 1984-1992

(d: Dagmar Schultz), Q+A with co-author Ika Hgel-Marshall

16.00 to 22.30 hrs: Keynote, Performances and Discussion

Afterwards: Party with DJ Lotic

All day: Exhibition by Yoel Daz Vzquez, Screening BE.BoP, Screening

Patricia Kaersenhout

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Program

12.45 Introduction:

Alanna Lockward and Julia Roth

13.00 to 14.15: Reading:

Theodor Michael Deutsch sein und Schwarz dazu. Erinnerungen eines Afrodeutschen

(Being German and also Black. Memories of an Afro-German)

Moderation: Sarah Bergh

14.30 to 16.15: Film Screening:

Audre Lorde. The Berlin Years 1984-1992 by Dagmar Schulz (79 min.)

Q&A with Ika Hgel-Marshall

(psychological advisor for intercultural issues, graphic artist, lecturer and author, co-author and

cinematographer of the film Audre Lorde. The Berlin Years)

Moderation: Julia Roth

- 16.15 to 16.45: Break -

16.45 to 18.15: Panel 1: Black Diaspora Arts and Activism in Berlin

Introduction: Thomas Krger

(President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb)

- Bonaventure Ndikung

(Curator, Director of Savvy Contemporary Art Space Berlin)

- Christel G. E. Gbaguidi

(Actor, theater pedagogue, founder of the initiative ART VAGABONDS, Berlin)

- Jamie Schearer

(Activist, Board Member of Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland e.V. / Initiative Black People

in Germany)

- Mekonnen Mesghena

(Department Head Migration & Diversity, Heinrich-Bll-Stiftung)

Moderation: Alanna Lockward and Julia Roth

- 18.15 to 18.45: Break -

18.45 to 22:30 Keynote and Panel 2: Black Europe Art and Education

18.45: Keynote: Black Europe Body Politics and Decolonial Aesthesis

Alanna Lockward

(Author, Journalist, BE.BOP Curator @ Ballhaus Naunynstrae)

19:15 to 21:00 Panel 2: Black Europe Art & Education

-Augustus Casely-Hayford

(Curator, art historian, former Director of inIVA, BBC presenter, Research Associate at the University

of Londons School of Oriental and African Studies)

- Artwell Cain

(Researcher and educator, former director of the NiNsee Institute National Institute for Dutch

Slavery and Legacy)

-Jean-Ulrick Dsert

(Artist, teacher and advisor @ Transart Institute Low-Residency MFA & PhD, Berlin)

-Teresa Mara Daz Nerio

(Artist and researcher, Amsterdam)

-Yoel Daz Vzquez

(Artist and activist, Berlin)

-Jeannette Ehlers

(Artist and curator, Copenhagen)

Moderation: Julia Roth

- 21:00 to 21:15 Break -

21:15 to 22:30 Peformances:

-21:00-21:30 Quinsy Gario. A Village Called Gario.

-21:40-22.10 Patricia Kaersenhout. Stitches of Power. Stitches of Sorrow.

-22:10-22.30 Q&A with performance artists Quinsy Gario, Patricia Kaersenhout,

Moderation: Artwell Cain

Afterwards: Party with DJ Lotic

All day: Exhibition by Yoel Daz Vzquez, Screening BE.BoP, Screening

Patricia Kaersenhout. Introduction: Elena Quintarelli