Queer Culture in Exile: сultural festival by Quarteera

In the organizer's words:

EN: "Queer Culture in Exile" is a сultural festival by Quarteera for queer artists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia who have had to flee due to war, repression and persecution.

In their works they demonstrate the variety of queer refugees' life paths and cultures in order to be heard, understood and accepted in their new countries.

17 new cultural projects such as theater, dance performance, music, photo exhibitions, animation, book and film presentation will be shown.

At the festival it will be possible to meet most of the authors in person.
The event will be held in Russian and English.

17:00 to 22:00 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Part 1
17:00 - 18:00

● True stories based jewelry project "Nameless" / international jewelry artist collective DVIZH
● Photo project "Dreamers" / Sergei Stroitelev
● Book presentation "The House by the Cemetery" / Aleksei Sergeev
● Literary activist project "Queer Migration Zine"
● Poetic autofiction audio essay "Borderlands"

Break with welcome mulled wine

Part 2
18:30 - 20:00

● Festival grand opening
● Documentary short film "The Price of Freedom"
● Animated interviews with queer people in exile "Moving Together"
● Feature film trailer "My husband speaks German" / Maksim Pecherskii
● Musical film teaser "I Have to Run" / Oleg Khristoliubskii
● Documentary animation "Then and Now"
● Music video presentation "Tunnel" / Danagrave Love
● Documentary animation trailer "My Grandfather Was a Ladybug" / Maksim Avdeev
Dramatic reading of the book "I Dance" / Vika Biran, Kiryl Masheka

Networking break

Part 3
20:30 - 22:00

● Dance performance "Take care or Love in the Time of Disaster"
● Verbatim performance "One-Two-Queer-Break" / Masha Sapizhak
● Drag performance "Will You Marry Me?" / Igor Shugaleev
● Art-rok band "Camel Knights" / Nastya Anisimova and the band Vyrd

22:00 pm DANCING AS NETWORKING

Organizer: Quarteera e.V.

The event is supported by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the framework of the Civil Society Cooperation program.

Admission: donation-based.