FLINTA* KULTURSALON #3

The third FLINTA* KULTUR SALON BERLIN places support systems at the heart of society—in the form of chosen families, communities, and networks—and showcases collective social and artistic power through song, essays, and poetry, much of which is developed together with the audience. What forms of feminist interdependence emerge when performers and audiences create together? How can artistic forms such as spoken word and music help destigmatize mental health, address medical neglect, and make healing tangible as a shared community experience?

Featuring Roxana Safarabadi, Sue Koppel, Edith Steyer, and Jasmin Namondo. Moderated by Tracey Gudwin.

Languages: German and English.

Admission: Free

FLINTA* KULTUR SALON is a project by FLINTA* Literatur, Berlin’s platform for migrant and exiled womxn artists, in cooperation with Lettrétage, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, recommended by The Reader Berlin,and presented by tipBerlin and taz.

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Sue Koppel is a German-Ecuadorian actress and creator working at the intersection of performance and education. She began collaborating with schools and communities in Ecuador and later specialized in corporeal mime. Since moving to Germany in 2017, she has earned a degree in theater education and has taught Spanish through theater at the Volkshochschule, aesthetic education in kindergartens, and physical theater with improvisation groups in Cologne. She has performed and taught in France, the Czech Republic, and Germany. In Berlin, the free jazz scene inspired her research on improvisation in Corporeal Mime and dramaturgy. She currently teaches at Exploratorium Berlin.

Edith Steyer is a free-improvising, experimental, and composing clarinet and saxophone player with roots in jazz and classical music. As a former student of social anthropology, she is also interested in ethnic music. She is dedicated to exploring her instruments and prepares them using musical tools and elements from everyday life. She also experiments with and combines her prepared instruments with electronic devices and feedback. In addition to working on a solo project, her primary interest is in creating intricately woven networks of interaction and noisy soundscapes with other artists.

Jasmin Namondo works at the intersection of language, art, and collective practice. She is a poet, artist, curator, and community organizer.

Roxana Safarabadi writes prose and poetry. She studied acting in Hamburg and has since worked as a freelancer in theater, film, and television—including at the Nationaltheater Weimar, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Theater Bonn, and Kampnagel. In addition to her acting work, she is a co-founder of REMISE—an interdisciplinary lab for art and research in Hamburg—and was part of the editorial team of DRAMA—Magazine for Scenic Literature. She lives in Berlin.