For queer people with backgrounds as migrants or refugees, everyday life is often a negotiation fought on multiple fronts simultaneously: between identity, status, belonging, and visibility.
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This workshop focuses on this negotiation and adds another question: What does it mean to be an ally? Here, being an ally is not understood as a title or a declaration of goodwill, but as an ongoing practice. Becoming aware of one’s own privilege, recognizing when silence is a choice, hearing demands not through one’s own interpretation but with the voice of the other—these are things one learns. This workshop is precisely the ground for this learning.
The three-hour process, led by Erdem Zaimoğlu, consists of a conceptual introduction, an unmoderated encounter segment open to sharing experiences, and work on handmade banners.
The Turkish- and German-speaking groups will go through part of the process in parallel and another part together. A shared playlist, to which each participant contributes a song, will accompany the work on the banners. These banners will remain on display at Ballhaus Prinzenallee throughout the festival.
The opening workshop is not a program item, but rather a proposed approach for the entire festival: Solidarity can always be organized, under any circumstances.
By:
Erdem Zaimoğlu
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Dates
June 2026
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