THIRD Fellow Bita Bell presents an act against forgetting and an exercise in imagining* as part of the Annual Forum DAS Graduate School, hosted by Tugela85.
Saturday June 29th
10:30 – 16:00
Entrance: Free of charge
Attend the whole day (including lunch), or check the timetable below for individual events.
A dance manifesto of hope and fury
Movement Workshop by Bita Bell
10:30 – 12:00
In this workshop, we explore activating our senses for solidarity through movement, voice, and their sensibilities. We engage our bodies as both personal and collective archives containing multitudes. We create a dance manifesto of hope and fury, with “radical softness as a boundless form of resistance”*. How do we move forward together? How do we carry each other and let ourselves be carried?
This workshop is open to all levels and backgrounds. Please bring a pair of headphones/earphones.
* Be Oakley, GenderFail
Conversations Over Food
Lunch by Kitchen Team Tugela85
12:00 – 14:00
To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall
Book presentation by Katayoun Barzegar and Niloufar Nematollahi Panel discussion moderated by Bita Bell
14:00 am – 16:00 pm
To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall is a collection of translated essays by feminists in Iran that attempts to imagine beyond walls of oppression by navigating the intersections of writing and the everyday becomings of a feminist revolution. The book includes writings of Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi, the journalists who were arrested in September 2022 after covering the news of Jina Amini’s murder. Niloofar and Elaheh are still in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison today. This publication was created for the occasion of Jina Amini’s first death anniversary, one year after the beginning of the Jina Uprising in 2022.
To the Other Side of the Concrete Wall was seed-funded by BAK and published by Jina Collective; a Netherlands-based feminist, leftist, anti-capitalist, anti-sexist, and pro-LQBTQ+ activist group that was formed during the Jina Uprising.
