CANCELED: Empowerment for BIPoC: Spoken Word Workshop
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CANCELED: Empowerment for BIPoC: Spoken Word Workshop
On the tracks of resistance against racism
Whether it was the economy, education, culture or language: colonial rule was characterised by the violent restructuring of virtually all areas of life. But resistance to it is as old as European expansion itself. The project "On the trail of resistance against racism" focusses on stories of anti-colonial resistance in Cameroon and conveys the diversity of strategies and struggles against anti-black racism.
During the two-day empowerment workshop, participants will reflect on their own role models and develop new strategies of resistance against persistent colonial and racist world views and practices. Using creative writing and performance exercises, they will develop their own spoken word.
The event will take place on 1 December and 8 December from 14:30 to 18:30.The workshops are in German.
BIPoC is an acronym for Black People, Indigenous People and People of Colour. These are political self-designations of people who are racialised in white-dominated contexts, i.e. who experience racist discrimination.
The terms do not refer to biological conditions, but to social constructions. In other words, they stand for the creation of (non-)belonging and privileges and designate specific and complex (exclusionary) experiences in society.
Find out more here. With the BIPoC event, we want to offer a place of exchange and a safer space.
Djoko Hilaire
Djoko is a rapper and educational counsellor and has been campaigning against inequality and bad governance in his home country of Cameroon with his music since 2008. He has been organising various projects in the field of democracy education since 2014 and opened the Anlu Library of African and Afro-diasporic literature in Douala in 2021. He is a founding member of the organisation Initiative Perspektivwechsel e.V., develops educational materials such as the comic "Resistance" and offers empowerment workshops for the black community.
Peter Nfon
Peter is a trained secondary school teacher. He has been working for the Initiative Perspektivwechsel e.V. since 2019 and has been the project coordinator since January 2023. Peter has also worked as a consultant for organisations such as STUBE Sachsen, aha - anders handeln e.V. and ENS - Entwicklungspolitisches Netzwerk Sachsen e.V. During this time, he dealt with post-colonialism, anti-black racism, climate justice, waste colonialism and other forms of colonial continuities. As part of the community, Peter also offers training workshops on the empowerment of Black people and PoCs in relation to anti-Black racism.
