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Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work) FLINTA* Literature Night, Christmas Edition

Freitag, 20. Dezember 2024

20:00 UHR

(c) privat

Veranstaltungsort

Lettrétage e.V. im ACUD Studio

Veteranenstraße 21
10119 Berlin
Tel.: 030 692 45 38
info(at)lettretage.de
http://lettretage.de/

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The second edition of Girl, show my that body (of work) will present a Christmas special literature evening of 6 FLINTA* authors, artists and performers of migration background. The event comprises literary readings and performative poetry .

Berlin is a place of arrival and refuge for many immigrant authors - including women (cis and trans) and nonbinary people. Issues like identity and migration, the search for meaning, love and friendship, reintegration, sexual freedom, reproductive rights, and domestic violence concern many of them. Topics of gender equality and the reinvention of parental roles, as well as dealing with transgenerational trauma are added to this. Reflecting on these issues through the lens of their biographies unites the authors while highlighting differences in their artistic approaches and individual aesthetics.
In Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work), literature is an intimate room for reflection and an instrument of political-social activism, an artistic medium, and an attempt to communicate across heteronormative barriers. Above all, literature is a space for encounters beyond pigeonholing and mechanisms of exclusion. It provokes conversations about inclusion, diversity, and belonging in an open society, enabling people to dialogue respectfully.
The event is curated by the Romanian author and journalist Ioana Cristina Casapu, who has been intensively researching and working with migrant womxn in Germany for ten years. Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work) aims to give established authors and previously undiscovered literary talents with migration experience from Berlin's FLINTA* communities a public stage together. A further goal is to offer concrete workshops linking authors and the general public, including refugees, feminist activists, survivors of sexual violence, and the organizations in Berlin that support them, as well as other writers, policy-makers, and publishers- in the conviction that literature is a means to life for artists and visitors alike.

Suggested dress code (not mandatory): because this event is on the 20st, we would love to see interpretations of the 20s (any twenties from the history of the world, non-limited to Weimar)

Ruth Barber was born and grew up in a small dull town called Northampton in England. At the first opportunity she left for London where she studied and qualified as a criminal lawyer. She writes horror fiction and psychological thrillers to process the trauma of her day job. Her work examines moral dissonance within individuals and society, and our fear and revulsion at our own darkest impulses, bound together with a liberal dollop of black humour. She lived for five years in Berlin where many of her stories are set and also spent a number of years as a lawyer in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena. Her short story “Unfinished Business” was published in the anthology “Uncertainties VI” by Swan River Press in July 2023.

Ioana-Cristina Casapu is a Romanian-born author of novels, essays, and poetry, as well as publications in over 30 anthologies and magazines in English, German, and Romanian. Communications director with 15 years of experience in cultural diplomacy and event design in Romania, Austria, Germany, and the USA. Through their ongoing writing and projects, they aim to honour the efforts of womxn who have fled traumatising circumstances to lead safer lives, find their own space in the world, and create a community that – in the words of Emily Dickinson – illuminates their experiences rather than seals them off. In 2024, they founded Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work), a series of literary and performance events hosted by Lettrétage, to promote the works of womxn writers and artists with a migration background in Berlin. This initiative seeks to bridge communication and experience, encouraging not only the consumption of experiences but also active participation, reflection, and action. Featured in DAZED, ELLE Romania, Thought Catalog, Berlin Art Parasites. They live and work in Berlin.

Fionnuala Kavanagh is a British author who specialises in social issues. She is working on a book about why her brother was radicalised by far-right ideology. Her other projects include a series of interviews about intimacy and a novel about an integration course. She has also published journalistic pieces on sex work, unemployment and identity in The Berliner and Lola Magazine. She has received funding for her writing projects from The Guerter Stifftung, the Berlin Senate, the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, the EU’s iPortunas mobility scheme, and the Arvon Foundation. Fionnuala likes to experiment with new ways of communicating her social commentary to new audiences. Discover extracts from her novel on bright green posters in Berlin.

Shlomit Lasky has been a relationship columnist for ‘Laisha,’ Israel’s leading women’s magazine since 2006. Originally from Tel Aviv, Berlin has been her home since 2010. Alongside writing, she guides tours in Berlin and works for German public news broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) as a voice over artist. Currently, Shlomit has an original series in development with UFA. She has received grants from the Israeli Film Fund and from the German National Film Fund (FFA) to develop original screenplays which were later optioned. Her short play, ‘The Imaginary Ex’, was selected for Zavta’s Short plays Festival (2011). She was awarded a grant from the Zurückgeben Foundation (Berlin, 2020) to develop her debut novel. Shlomit has an acting diploma from Beit-Zvi Academy of Performing Arts (Israel) and holds a masters in screenwriting from the University of the Arts, London (LCC).

Cemre Nur Öztürk
Originally from Istanbul, Cemre Nur Öztürk has lived in Berlin for 9 years. She writes poetry, prose and short stories. She organizes monthly creative writing workshops for women to encourage their creativity. She co-created two zine workshops in which participants explored the theme of dreaming and the connections between the heritage of witchcraft and modern feminism. As a result of these workshops, she co-edited the zines Dreaming Awake (2023) and Be The Witch They Cannot Burn (2024). She contributed to Dreaming Awake with her poem Hell is You, Uncle. Together with five FLINTA* migrant women from her writing community, she wrote Station to Station (2024), a collection of short stories in which Berlin subway lines were used as connecting elements in the stories. "Station to Station" was awarded the Thalia Storyteller 2024, Top Local Berlin Stories.

We would like to point out that the lift in the building is unfortunately not working at the moment. For this reason, access is currently restricted. We would like to apologise for this.

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