Designathon

a library with Black feminist books, reading performance and shared reading
Center for BIPOC*/Non-white Archives Library and Community

«non-white inner-culture and perspectives, multiple actors* participation, broadening of perspectives and inclusion in the sense of intersectionality. »

“Our archive is a unique historical archive of conversations, activities, and literature from BIPOC*/Non-whiteperspectives. It documents the history of BIPOC*/Non-White struggles and emancipation movements and individuals in Switzerland as well as in other parts of the world. The library consist of unique book collections, archives and artifacts that are the legacy of BIPOC*/Non-white voices.

“Reading Black feminist texts in the room and talking about them with non-BIPOC. This is the moment when the movement of listening and thinking begins to start a conversation. The conversation that leads people to understand the life of struggles in terms of intersectionality.”

It is a work/practice of experi_theater and it is a center and platform where diverse/multiple actors from BIPOC* communities and non-BIPOC communities and Communities of Color can come together, share, learn, understand their perspectives, and create a safer space and process where they can select/collect and gather concrete knowledges to compile and explore and mobilize the broader population through collective non-white artistic practice.

Roland
06.-07.10.2023, 8:30-9:30pm
Sun, 08.10.2023, 3:30-4:30pm
13.-14.10.2023, 8:30-9:30pm
Sun, 15.10.2023, 3:30-4:30pm