PRELIMINARY PROGRAM – work in progress!
The following program is not complete – it’s just a small preview of what’s to come. We are currently working on many more exciting events, which we will gradually upload here. Exact location and time will also be announced soon.
„-open call-„
Events with this designation are intended to create spaces for exchange at eye level. There will be a thematically appropriate input, after which everyone is invited to join in the discussion. If people have already dealt with the topic and want to share their experiences, or if people are interested in learning from others, please come to open-call events and share your knowledge and questions.
Workshop: Herbal support through repression
This workshop is for anyone experiencing repression due to their work for liberation, as well as those involved in anti-repression and solidarity efforts. It explores how state and systematic repression impact the nervous system, body, and overall health, and how herbal medicine can offer support in both the short and long term. From calming acute anxiety to rebuilding after burnout, trauma, or imprisonment, herbs have a vital role to play in sustaining resistance. The session shares practical examples of herbal solidarity from supporting people post-arrest and in court, to navigating incarceration and healing after release. Grounded in lived experience and collective care, this workshop aims to nourish movements as much as bodies. With Nicole Rose from Solidarity Apothecary.
Followed by a herbal walk:
We would like to discuss herbal medicine together in order to acquire the means for a more self-determined life. In the second part, we invite all those who are active and organised in herbal medicine or health projects to a network meeting.
Panel: Pride!
Prides have become one of the most visible moments of queer resistance internationally. No matter where we are, we find queers taking to the streets together to fight for recognition, rights or social change. But in many places, prides are confronted with repression and attacks. By the state, the police, liberal structures and the right. The panel will ask questions about experiences and strategies to people from Budapest, Zagreb and other places, in the hope of learning from and supporting each other.
Lecture: ABC Belarus
A 2 hour presentation on the history of current Belarusian dictatorship, anarchist struggle against it, the current political situation in Belarus, and ABC Belarus‘ analysis of the possible futures. We will cover the factors that helped Lukashenko to establish power, the current actors in the region, the repressive tactics of the Belarusian government, the state of Belarusian anarchism, what’s happening right now politically and what outcomes it can lead to.
Reading & discussion: Parenthood and repression
-open call-
In this event, we would like to invite you to discuss the topics of repression and children. People who have children themselves, take responsibility for children or live with them often find themselves in a dilemma. In order to protect children, the risks of political activism must be carefully assessed. Former Basque prisoner Nekane Txapartegi will present her children’s book „Wie viel mal schlafen“ [„How many times to sleep“], which she wrote with her daughter. In it, they address the relationship between mother and daughter beyond the prison walls. Afterwards, the space will be opened up for a joint discussion at eye level. Here we want to exchange strategies and learn from the experiences of others.
Film Screening & Discussion: An Island and One Night
France · 2021-23 · 100′ · directed by Pirates of the Lentillères
Around the fire, travellers and pirates recount their memories, their dreams, their battles. From one language to another, from story to story, we hear the roar of the storm and the rustle of the leaves, the menacing sirens and the wild dances, the clash of the swords and the song of the birds. Until dawn, a thousand and one paths take shape on this imaginary yet real island. An Island and One Night is a fictional film made collectively over the past two years by the residents and users of the Quartier Libre des Lentillères, a self-organized area extending on the last remaining market garden land in the city of Dijon.
Panel: Abortion rights and bodily self-determination
Addressing the issue of abortion under repressive political and social conditions is of fundamental importance. Productive rights are often the site of negotiation of regressive social tendencies, according to which the childbearing body is to be controlled. Due to growing pressure and restrictive laws, access to safe abortion is increasingly restricted worldwide. A development that curtails medical care and bodily self-determination. We want to talk to activists from Poland, Hungary and Chile who are building autonomous structures and support networks for safe access to abortion and reproductive rights in places with massively repressive reproductive policies.
Film Screening & Discussion: KENYA
Mexico · 2022 · 88′ · Spanish with English Subtitles · directed and produced by Gisela Delgadillo
After witnessing the murder of her friend, Kenya, a trans woman sex worker in Mexico City, embarks on a path of struggle and search for justice that leads her face to fear and pain of seeing herself reflected in that tragic ending.
Workshop: Radio as a practice of resistance
In this workshop, we will delve into the past and present of free radio – from its roots in the anti-nuclear protests of the late 1980s in German-speaking countries to current forms of participatory radio art and political counter-publics. We will shed light on how activists conquered frequencies back then to organize protest and ask what potential for resistance still lies in this medium today. The workshop combines historical insights, audio examples and a practical examination of questions such as: What makes radio a tool of protest? What are the basic principles of free radio that differ from conventional radio? And what role does free radio practice play in the digital age?
Workshop: Graffiti and intervention
We want to break with the gatekeeping mentality and create a counterpart to the patriarchal graffiti world. Feminist alliance and collective action practice is our basis. The aim is to share ideas, learn techniques and approaches and discuss how to deal with repression in solidarity. The workshop is aimed at all visitors, especially Flinta* people (especially beginners). We see graffiti as a fun, joint activity with spray cans (and other tools) for the co-design of public space, visualization and participation in public discourse. We form gangs everywhere!
Storytelling & Q&A: Femme, queer et sans papier
Two members of the Lesvos LGBTIQ+ Refugee Solidarity Network will speak about their experiences and share how the network operates and was founded — offering mutual support, solidarity, and advocacy for queer people on the move. The network emerged as a grassroots response to the injustice and neglect that they, along with many others, witnessed and experienced on Lesvos.
„We will be participating by sharing our personal stories and experiences of crossing borders, shedding light on the violence and challenges we faced along the way. Through storytelling, we aim to highlight the harsh realities of border regimes and the resilience it took to survive. We’ll also speak about how we eventually found safety and built a sense of belonging within a supportive community. After sharing our journey, we will open the space for a Q&A session where everyone is welcome to ask questions, engage in dialogue, and reflect together.“ — Lesvos LGBTIQ+ Refugee Solidarity Network
Filmvorführung & Diskussion: The Unreasonables – AIDS activism in Frankfurt
Germany · 2024 · 53′ · German with englisch Subtitles · directed by Lou Deinhart, Evi Rohde, Zoë Struif
The documentary film delves into the forgotten protests of the vibrant 80s/90s in Frankfurt, when activists rebelled against the repressive AIDS policy in a “Solidarity of the Unreasonables”. The protagonists of AIDS activism look back on this formative time and, complemented by rediscovered film material, a multi-layered, critical portrait of this movement emerges. A queer search by the younger generation for traces of the history of the “Unreasonables”.
Workshop: Art against loneliness
The Create and Cry Club (CCC) is a peer-to-peer initiative that creates accessible spaces for artistic expression, exchange and shared endurance. In low-cost workshops, we address loneliness, mental health and psychological stress in the most preventative and low-threshold way possible. Our offer aims to help promote genuine connections through joint creation. We will be presenting the CCC at the feminist congress in Basel, because: Healing is political. Mental suffering cannot be separated from social power relations, it needs creative spaces for solidarity, resistance and collective care!
Panel: Abolish the Racist, Capitalist, Cis-Hetero Patriarchy – Self-defense as a perspective
Convinced that we need to fight state violence (police, prisons, borders, etc.) and patriarchal violence together, in this panel we will talk about self-defense as a perspective against a violent system. Why are police, surveillance and prisons not a solution for overcoming patriarchal violence? What does self-defense mean and which population groups are granted or denied it? We will explore these and other questions together from an intersectional perspective and call for the decriminalization of (queerfeminist) self-defence and the right to life for all!
Film Screening: This is Ballroom (Salão de Baile)
Brazil · 2024 · 92′ · Portuguese with English Subtitles · directed by Juru and VitãProduced by Luis Alencar and Vladimir Seixas for Couro de Rato
In Rio de Janeiro City and its outskirts, LGBTQ+ youth of color recreates Ballroom culture on their own terms. A portrait of the dramas, the voguing performances, and the art of shade, 50 years after its inception in New York. Rio is burning!
Workshop: Sexism & trans*phobia in the workplace
At work – especially in gastronomy – but actually everywhere, women and genderqueer people encounter devaluation, stupid remarks, ambiguous actions, demonstrations of power and assaults. How do we deal with this? The workshop offers space to listen and develop strategies together. And we want to give our anger a form – within the integrated sticker workshop. Main language: German; translations possible: French, English, Italian.