FLINTA* KULTURSALON #3

What forms of feminist solidarity emerge when artists and the audience create something together? How can artistic forms of expression such as spoken word and music help destigmatize mental illness, address medical neglect, and make healing tangible as a communal experience?

With Roxana Safarabadi, Sue Koppel, Edith Steyer, and Jasmin Namondo. Moderated by Tracey Gudwin.

Languages: German and English

Admission: free

FLINTA* KULTUR SALON is a project by FLINTA* Literatur, Berlin’s platform for female artists with backgrounds in migration and exile, in collaboration with Lettrétage, supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

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Contact: kontakt@flintaliteratur.de

Sue Koppel is a German-Ecuadorian actress and artist who works at the intersection of performance and education. She began her collaboration with schools and communities in Ecuador and later specialized in physical mime. Since moving to Germany in 2017, she has completed training as a theater educator and has taught Spanish through theater at the adult education center, aesthetic education in kindergartens, and physical theater with improvisation groups in Cologne. She has given lectures and taught in France, the Czech Republic, and Germany. In Berlin, the free jazz scene inspired her research into improvisation in physical mime and dramaturgy. She currently teaches at the Exploratorium Berlin.

Edith Steyer is a free-improvising, experimental clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer whose roots lie in jazz and classical music. As a former student of social anthropology, she is also interested in ethnic music. She dedicates herself to exploring her instruments and prepares them using musical tools and elements from everyday life. She also experiments by combining her prepared instruments with electronic devices and feedback. In addition to working on a solo project, her main interest lies in collaborating with other artists to create intelligently interwoven networks of interaction and noise-rich soundscapes.

Jasmin Namondo works at the intersection of language, art, and collective action. She is a poet, artist, curator, and community organizer.

Roxana Safarabadi writes prose and poetry. She studied acting in Hamburg and has since worked as a freelancer in theater, film, and television—including at the National Theater Weimar, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Theater Bonn, and Kampnagel. In addition to her acting career, she is a co-founder of REMISE—an interdisciplinary lab for art and research in Hamburg—and was a member of the editorial board of DRAMA—Magazine for Scenic Literature. She lives in Berlin.