Program

During the guided city walk we will discover traces of colonialism in Hanover and the stories of BIPoC and migrants, which are almost not depicted in the city’s public image. After a short input on Friday we will work on possibilities to make marginalized perspectives more visible in the townscape and on ways to point out problems of the colonial power. The results will be put into practice on Saturday. The open events can be visited independently of one another.

With Viet Hoang / decolonize Hannover

This workshop is open to all.

This event will take place via zoom. The link will be sent after registration.

This workshop is offering you the opportunity to tell your own (hi)story. You decide which parts are important and worth being heard. We will explore writing as a creative outlet via writing exercises and producing our own texts. This is an invitation to search and discover your own biography, family (hi-)stories, love stories and memories.

With Deborah Fallis
This workshop is open to BIPoC and (post-)migrants.

This event will take place via zoom. The link will be sent after registration.

We will explore Rap as a creative outlet for our thoughts, emotions, wishes and daily experiences. Together we will search for the origins of Rap and Hip-Hop and find out to what extend Rap can be empowering. We will be writing our own lyrics and learn how to rap them to a beat. Voluntarily, appreciative and in a safe space. Let’s have fun together.

With Modou Diedhiou
This workshop is open to BIPoC and (post-)migrants.

This event will take place via zoom. The link will be sent after registration.

When we fight, we win.

We raise our fists together to express our anger, give it direction, to move not just our mind but also our bodies for a couple of minutes. With or without workout clothes, no prior experience needed.

With trainers from the Sonkei-Dojo.

This event will take place via zoom. The link will be sent after registration.

Four self-organized libraries from Hannover will become one temporary festival library and present parts of their collections. The organizers will talk about the origins of the libraries, about their importance and meaning for them and the emancipatory value of the collections and locations. A discussion about self-organization, education, liberation, exile, racism, knowledge, imagination, dignity, self-determination and whatever else may come out.

On Saturday and Sunday people involved in the libraries will give short readings from books which are especially important to them.

With Kargah-Library (Kargah-Bibliothek), Jewish Library (Jüdische Bibliothek), Iranian Library and documentation center (Iranische Bibliothek), Afrocentric Library (Afrozentrische Bibliothek)

Moderator: Leyla Ercan

This event will be streamed online and will be available until 29th May 2021.

We will discuss the double role of filmmakers as both desired and desiring subjects and the potential for social change if we change the look of and on desire. Both films use comedy as a method of examining desire, stereotypes and relationship patterns. The films were shot 15 years apart from each other, so they show different approaches of two generations handling racialised cliches of Asian gay men.

My German Boyfriend
(Wayne Yung, 2004, 19 min)

A gay Chinese-Canadian is searching for his ideal lover. A comedy about alleged cultural identities, a diary about migrant isolation and a love letter.

Beer! Beer!
(Popo Fan, 2019, 17 min)

„Beer! Beer!“is an anti romantic comedy, which takes place one early morning after a wild party in Berlin. While Tao, Chinese, and Sebastian, German, are becoming closer and closer, a mattress suddenly changes everything…

Discussion with Wayne Yung und Popo Fan

Moderator: Kimiko Suda / korientation e.V.

Discussion in English spoken language.

Films in German and English.

This event will be streamed online and will be available until 29th May 2021.

Pink people wanna know
if other pink people like hip-hop
how can it still be hip-hop?
That’s like asking,
if Black people like Dirty Harry
is he still Clint Eastwood? (Greg Tate)

Gangstas, pimps and hoes: The US-rap scene represents images of exaggerated masculinity. By establishing a pink, plushy fashion trend in the early 2000s, Black artists like Cam’ron or Kanye West proved that not even Barbies favorite color could damage the image of heterosexual masculinity. In this performance, Joana Tischkau visualizes the fragility of social constructs like race and gender: To what extend are bodies of the “other” being used to confirm structural hegemony of white cis-masculinity?

Conception/Choreography: Joana Tischkau

Performance: Rudi Äneas Natterer

Dramatization/Artistic cooperation: Nuray Demir, Elisabeth Hampe

Sound design: Frieder Blume
Stage manager: Inga Danysz

Light engineer: Juri Rendler

Costume design: Nadine Bakota

Production: Lisa Gehring

Moderator of discussion: Joy Kristin Kalu

This event will be streamed online and will be available from 22.5. 16:00 until 24.5. 24:00.

Knowledge, experiences and (hi)stories of marginalized people and groups are often devalued by society, dismissed as too subjective and seem invisible. For what reasons? By which mechanisms and what are the consequences?

Knowing, telling and spreading one’s own (hi)story of resistance is an important part of every emancipatory movement and can contribute to changing societal narratives.

What tools can be used to actively work on accumulating and widening knowledge bases, to correct, diversify and decolonize them? How we change discourses by making oppressed, invisible and unheard knowledge become visible? What role do science, arts and activism play?

With Nikita Dhawan, Joy Kristin Kalu, Aurora Rodonò
Moderator: Mahret Ifeoma Kupka

This discussion will be held in German spoken language and will be translated into English spoken language and German sign language.

This event will be a livestream and will be available until 29th May 2021. Audience can ask questions via chat.

The String Archestra is a classical string orchestra whose main concern is to perform works by BIPocC composers. The orchestra was founded in Berlin in 2016 and currently consists of 14 musicians. At the CLINCH Festival, the String Archestra will present works by the Venezuelan composers Teresa Carreño (1853–1917) and Aldemaro Romero (1928–2007) as well as chamber music by the Afro-Americans Florence Price (1887–1953) and Anthony R. Green (* 1988). The concert is framed by an introduction and a follow-up discussion.

Violin: Sarah Martin (conducting), Neneh Sowe, Elizabeth Huehuentro, Karin Zöllner, Rosina Black, Daniele Daude Bratsche: Haley Palten, Adu Matory
Cello: Tsepo Pooe, Nadia Kabalan

This event will be streamed online and will be available until 29th May 2021.

Ogutu Muraya is a writer, theater maker and spoken word artist. Since he moved from Nairobi to Amsterdam in 2014, he has been using diary writing as an opportunity to locate himself in this foreign environment. His life in the Netherlands is reflected in his records as an amalgam of paradoxical experiences: “beautiful, complex and painful”. Over the years, a personal archive has grown that documents the challenges of his personal diaspora experience. A reading from Muraya’s memoir.

By Ogutu Muraya
With Quinsy Gario

After having experienced ON THIN ICE, written by Ogutu Muraya and performed by Quinsy Gario, the two artists meet with Martine Dennewald, former Artistic Director of Festival Theaterformen in Hannover/Braunschweig. While being in Hannover, Nairobi and Montreal they meet in the digital world and talk about Muraya’s work on diasporic experience in ON THIN ICE. The audience is invited to ask questions at the end of the talk.

This reading will be in English spoken language.

This event will be a livestream and will be available until 29th May 2021.
The artist talk will take place via Zoom at 22:30, 22.05. No registration necessary.