woman.lab

Using movement, colour, collages, poetic texts and projected images, people who define themselves or are socially read as migrant women will take over SAVVY’s space to experiment. A starting point for the workshop is the reflection on jobs, class belonging and other aspects such as age, health status, migratory status, racialisation, etc. in their gender condition. We will unfold fragments of texts such as those of philosopher and activist Silvia Federici, among others. The workshop will be guided by visual artist, producer, curator and referent of political education Yili Rojas and Lorena Valdenegro, actress, theatre director, producer and dancer – both migrants living in Berlin.

DAS FREIE WERKSTATT PRINZIP (Yili Rojas and Lorena Valdenegro) has been organising interdisciplinary art workshops with children & young people since 2019. It aims to give more young people in Berlin access to spaces for artistic expression and to learn about art as a tool for self-empowerment and encounters. At the same time, the project aims to encourage participants to reflect on the topics of inclusion and diversity through their own actions.

Lorena Valdenegro  is a director, dancer, actress in the field of physical theatre, and a theatre pedagogue. After graduating from the Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, she continued her training as a dancer at the Academia de Danza Fantasía in Valdivia and at DANCEWORKS in Berlin. She completed a master's degree in theatre education (Theaterpädagogik) at the Volkshochschule Otto Suhr in Neukölln. In 2016, she founded the AQUItheater Berlin, a laboratory for research through the body and biography.

Yili Rojas  is a visual artist, cultural producer, curator and political educator with a focus on the empowerment of migrant women. She works at the crossroads between art, community and politics, conceiving and coordinating projects of empowerment through graphics such as Frauen machen Druck in Berlin and Matriz in northeastern Brazil. With a background in visual arts she has a master in Visual Poetics at the University of São Paulo and another one in Art in Context at the UdK in Berlin, but she considers that her main school has been the social movements mainly in Brazil and her contact with migrant communities in Berlin. She currently coordinates the continuing education program frauen.grafik.politik.