Politics of Memories and Archives – the spaces in between – Workshops

Politics of Memories and Archives – the spaces in between
20.10.2022
Politics of Memories and Archives – the spaces in between – Workshops
21.10.2022
Politics of Memories and Archives – the spaces in between
20.10.2022
Politics of Memories and Archives – the spaces in between – Workshops
21.10.2022

Workshop 1- Expect_BIPOC_ism

für BIPoCs mit Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi

Teil 1 findet am 16.11 von 14h – 16h und Teil 2 am 17.11 von 10.30h – 12.30h im Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße statt.

German spoken language

Ein Workshop an zwei Tagen, der sich an die BIPOC-Community (Black Indigenous People of Colour) richtet. An die Menschen, die Lust haben, auf der Basis von Archiven, diskriminierende Strukturen und Wissen zu ent_lernen, um sich und Andere zu dekolonialisieren und empowern zu können.


Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi ist Präsident*in von AFROTAK TV cyberNomads, dem Schwarzen Deutschen Kultur-, Medien-, und Bildungsarchiv und wurde mehrfach national und international als Medien- und Kulturaktivist*in ausgezeichnet.
Seit 2002 konzipiert sie kulturelle Bildungs- und Wissenstransfer-Plattformen in Kooperation mit Institutionen wie Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Goethe Institut, Heinrich Boell Stiftung und Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Der May Ayim Award wurde 2004 als deutsches UNESCO Projekt zur Erinnerung an den Versklavungshandel und seine Abschaffung ausgelobt. Weitere Auszeichnungen kamen u.a. von der UN 2016 und 2020 von CIM für ein Projekt in Nigeria. Seit 2012 kuratiert sie die Black Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art & Decolonial Discourse, die seit 2016 offizielles Projekt der UN-Dekade for People of African Descent ist. Mit African Union African Diaspora Sixth Region 2009, The African Network Germany 2012 und DaMIGRA 2015 hat sie drei Bundesverbände begründet.
Aktuell engagiert sie sich ehrenamtlich als Sprecher*in des Rates für Diversity und soziale Inklusion von Berlin Global Village, dem Berliner Eine Welt Zentrum in Neukölln und im Vorstand des Berliner Entwicklungspolitischen Ratschlag.


Workshop 2 – Righting History – How Historical Amnesia and Omission Fuels the New Rise of Normalized -Isms

for white allys with Red Haircrow

Part I takes places November 16th, 2pm – 4pm and part II November 17th 10.30am – 12.30pm at Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße.

English spoken language

The minimization or exclusion of the contributions, achievements and presence of women, non-Europeans and non-hetereonormative people in history is common and also needs correction, but those omissions are more obvious. However, the Eurocentrism in Western education systems and media also has another name most don’t associate with it and few “white people” recognize as such: white supremacist ideology. What are some of its forms, methods and tactics, and what can we do to right the wrongs written into the history of western society contributing to the current rise of hate, intolerance and ignorance.


Red Haircrow is an award-winning writer, educator, psychologist and filmmaker of Native (Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee) and African American heritage, who holds a Master’s in Native American/Indigenous Studies and a BSc in Psychology. Their interests and research focuses include Indigenous game development, GLBTIIQ2S needs and suicide prevention, and inter-generational historic trauma of marginalized and minoritized groups and peoples. Red Haircrow and Flying with Red Haircrow


Workshop 3 – Archive Restitution: When We Mind Our Bizness

for BIack people only with Dr. Njoki Ngumi from Talking Objects Lab

This workshop will take place online, if you want to join on sight pls. contact us.

English spoken language

What we do with all the grief around trapped objects, the visitations of white supremacy even in conversations about return, the dissonances between the Continent and the Diaspora, and what the future can hold for us when we Mind Our Bizzness. 


Dr. Njoki Ngumi is a writer and feminist thinker who has held positions in private and public health care sectors in Kenya. She is a founding member of the Nest Collective, a Kenyan multidisciplinary gathering of artists, builders and makers, where she has expanded her practice into film, research design, and organisational, collaborative strategy.
Njoki’s cross sectoral work and organising was also core to the Nest Collectives’s founding and set-up of 2 now independent entities: HEVA, Africa’s first cultural and creative economy catalyst facility, in 2013; and Strictly Silk, a festival, club and multimedia entity dedicated to happiness, enjoyment, care and community with and among people marginalised by gender in 2018. Njoki is currently in post-production with the Nest’s latest film work, The Feminine and The Foreign.

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