FREISPRUCH – Ein Ermächtigungsprojekt

In the organizer's words:

We, the collective "Entgegen der Vereinzelung", invite you to a safer space. Into a living room, a moving installation, a meeting space.

Freispruch is an empowerment project by FLINTA* people who are trying to come to terms with what it means to grow up in an assault-affirming, even rape-culture.

In the summer of 2023, a joint process of storytelling, de-romanticizing and distorting began. A process to find a new language in which people can talk about sexual and sexualized violence, very concretely and personally: as a social abuse of power, as a male thing, as a female thing, as a non-binary person thing, as a personal thing, as a structure of a system. A process to create our own words for what happens to and around us. We have tried to open up spaces for discourse that have never existed before (for us), in which a conversation can arise, far removed from discussing a victim role. A self-empowered conversation. Together, we create an environment that denies any form of victim-blaming, that creates community and speaks of the supra-individual pillars of sexual violence through polyphony.

Now it's fall, 2024, and we're opening the space again. This time in Unterhaching and Berlin. Using artistic means, we fight our way free, between describing and rewriting, naming and reinventing. We find each other, we are in our healing era, we are a we that supports each other. The project counteracts the mechanisms of isolation that affect those affected and that are used by a society that protects perpetrators. We invite you to join our "we". The world belongs to the brave. We are taking it back.

PERFORMANCES SCHLOSSALLEE

31.10. / 6 p.m. / by invitation or request (joint active work in Safer Space), if interested send an email to: entgegen_der_vereinzelung@web.de

02.11. / 7 pm - Open End (min. 3 hours)
Target price: 15€

PRESENTATIONS BERLIN "Le Lampenfieber Festival"

09.11. / 7 pm - Open End / More info: theaterimnu.de/le-lampenfieber-theater

INFO ABOUT THE EVENING:

Admission is fluid from 7 - 7:30 pm: to welcome you, we will start with individual admission talks. Please come during this time. Then we invite you to participate in our shared space. The evening is as long as you like, you can stay as long as you like and leave when you like. There is a quiet room where you can retreat at any time.

ATTENTION: There are limited places (max. 25)

Content warning: The topics of sexual and sexualized violence, physical and psychological violence are sometimes named very explicitly.

This project is funded by the Bavarian Performing Arts Association and the Munich Rainbow Foundation.