Workshops

We’re looking forward to welcoming you at this year's off_pride, as there’s another variety of workshops.

The following list is not complete and will be extended in the next days and weeks. So visit regularly for up to date information.

Most of the workshops will be held in German and/or English. The language will be indicated next to every workshops listing. It’s always possible to get a translator if needed, as there will be loads of people here speaking French, Italien, English …

Just let us know.

Before the festival:

• E-mail to offpride@offpride.ch

During the festival:

• Swing by the infocafé

Basically, there’s no registration at offpride as we’re open for everyone, including those participating spontaneously.

But there are some workshop which do have limited capacity. So to insure that you are able to participate in your favourite one, fill out the form. All visitors can sign up for 2 workshops in advance.

It will also be possible to sign up at offpride on-site if the workshops are not fully booked.

For all other workshops without limits, there’s no need to sign up in advance.

→ Registration for workshops

Open Space is an open space -indoor our outdoor- for spontaneous discussions, workshop-ideas and performances. All visitors can be part of it and can decide upon the subject, the space and place. You can announce your own workshop right at the infocafé, at the entrance of the Jazzhouse.

Language: any
Number of participants: no limit
Day: Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10h - 22h
Place: any

Loving who you want, how you want, and as many people as you want, isn't always easy. a workshop on how to love freely while still maintaining your personal integrity, respecting your partners, and communicating from a place of consent.

Dafu
Language: Deutsch/English
Day: Samstag
Time: 14h - 16h
Place: Jazzhaus 2

What is Consent and why is it important? How to communicate consent in sexual/non-sexual relations. Verbal and Non-verbal consent. Boundary awareness. Checking in. Making consent sexy.

Dafu
Language: Deutsch/English
Day: Freitag
Time: 14h - 16h
Place: Jazzhaus 2

A discussion about an anti-patriarchal self reflection group for male socialised people that formed in Vienna. Male experiences of the patriarchy. Healing and support. Discussion about the forming of a Menz group.

Dafu
Language: Deutsch/English
Day: Sonntag
Time: 14h - 16h
Place: Jazzhaus 1

Discussion/talk

Trans* ways of life and perspectives can’t be described beyond psychological definitions (like “gender identity”). Sometimes these concepts are helpful for discussing gender, identity, sex, change. But they offer little room for Trans* between or beyond the bi-gender-norm. After a short (!) introduction to history and present discussions about psychological trans* concepts, there’s room for discussions about acquisition and boundaries, about expectations, wishes, demands on psychological debate with trans*, to change concepts of treatment and expertise and about ideas and activities to de-pathologize…

Jannik Franzen, Berlin
Language: Deutsch
Day: Saturday
Time: 16h - 18h
Place: Jazzhaus 2

This workshop will try to see Burlesque as a form of striptease. Visibility and invisibility, enclose and disclose in its complexity.

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Kai Stoeger, Berlin
Language: Deutsch/English
Time:
Friday: 14-20h, HAZ 1
Saturday: 14-18h, Galerie

Japanese rope bondage:

• Basics in anatomy of bondage
• Materials
• 101 on knots
• Aesthetics, empathy, physicalness, communications, erotica
• First steps in bondage

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falbala, Berlin
Language: Deutsch/English/Français/Italiano
Number of participants: max 20
Time: Saturday 16h-18/19h & Sunday 13h-15/16h
Place: Tanzdach

Uta Schirmer hat für ihre Doktorarbeit Drag Kings in Berlin und Köln interviewt und sich damit beschäftigt, wie durch Drag Kinging (nicht nur als Bühnen-, sondern auch als Alltagspraxis) andere, nicht strikt zweigeschlechtliche Wirklichkeiten entstehen können. Dabei wird deutlich, wie in subkulturellen Praxen Geschlecht anders gestaltet und erfahren werden kann.

For her PHD disertation, Uta Schirmer examined Drag Kinging (not only as theater but as everyday practice) for how it designs and allows different, non strict two gender realities. How within subcultural practices, gender may be experienced and designed differently.

Uta Schirmer, Frankfurt a.M.

Sprache: Deutsch
Tag: Samstag
Zeit: 14h - 16h
Ort: Jazzhaus 1

Plötzlich interessieren sich auch Konservative für die Probleme von Homosexuellen – nämlich wenn diese Opfer von Gewalt werden, die von „Fremden“ ausgeht. Diese werden von ihnen einer „rückständigen“ und „andersartigen“ Kultur zugeordnet, von der sie sich selbst abheben möchten. Selbst Linken gilt „der Westen“ als Quelle sexueller Emanzipation schlechthin und „der Islam“ wiederum als monokausal verantwortlich für sexualrepressive Zustände und die Verfolgung von „Schwulen“ im Nahen Osten. Der Referent dekonstruiert diesen kulturalistischen Mythos. Er umreißt eine Geschichte der Heteronormalisierung der muslimischen Länder als einen von Europa inspirierten Modernisierungsprozess, der in der Übernahme von psychiatrischen Kategorien, sexuellen Identitäten und nationalistischen Praktiken bestand. Auch wird thematisiert, wie das Konstrukt der „islamischen Homophobie“ als politisches Instrument Verwendung findet.

Georg Klauda, Berlin
Anzahl Teilnehmende: unbegrenzt
Sprache: Deutsch
Tag: Samstag
Zeit: 16h - 18h
Ort: Jazzhaus 1

Queeropedia is a project of a queer encyclopaedia. Make queer vocabulary visible. Queeropedia has many faces, as a homepage, paperback “queeropedia (print)”, fabrics (T-shirts, bags), exhibitions, performances etc., At this workshop, the participants will make a Queeropedia in real-time, a creative, participative workshop.

Persson, Wien
Language: Deutsch/English spoken
Number of participants: max 15
Day: Friday
Time: 16h - 19h
Place: Jazzhaus 1

Historical and contemporary biological sex theory.

Takes place already on Thursday evening!

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Heinz-Jürgen Voß
Number of participants: max 40
Language: German
Day: Thursday evening
Time: 20h - 22h
Place: Tonstudio

Die Entwicklung von FrauenLesbenTrans*Räumen: Ein- und Ausschlüsse auf der Grundlage von Identität

Auf manchen Flyern stehen Texte wie: „Party for women - gay & trans welcome“; „Alle Gender willkommen“; „All gender is Dreck“; „Workshop beschränkt auf als Mädchen sozialisierte Lesben“ u.s.w.

Was für Diskussionen stecken hinter diesen Ein- und Ausschlüssen unterschiedlicher Identitätsgruppen? Warum sind Frauen-Lesben-Räume entstanden und was sind heutzutage die Kontroversen bezüglich dieser Räume in Bezug auf Transfrauen, Transmänner bzw. Trans*? Wann sind Ausschlüsse berechtigt? Welche sind transfeindlich?

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Anna und Jacky, München
Sprache: Deutsch
Tag: Samstag
Zeit: 18h - 20h
Ort: Jazzhaus 2

fantasmen_parcruise eine abenteuerliche, feuchtfröhliche, queere nanoreise durch die tiefen sowie untiefen der menschlichen körperlichkeit bzw. kommunikation, als einen absurden ausdruck der normalität. zwischen macht und ohnmacht der täglichen medienflut - jenseits genormter verhaltensregeln, entwickeln wir eine subversive, anstelle einer suggestiven wahrnehmung des eigenen körpers und dessen vielfältigen ausdrucksmöglichkeiten.

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Wer:
Number of participants: no limit
Language: deutsch/en francais/english
Day: Saturday
Time: 20h - 23h, Entry till 22h
Place: Tanzdach

Two LBBTQ activists from Ankara and Istanbul will inform about their movement in Turkey. The focus will be on how it was formed, what their activities are about, how are they organized. After the presentation, there’s time for questions and discussions.

Two LGBTQ-Aktivists from Ankara and Istanbul
Language: English
Day: Saturday
Time: 12h - 14h
Place: Jazzhaus 1

Self-Reading und Diskussions - Workshop mit dem Text: Woltersdorff, Volker: „Doppelt pervers? Über schwule, lesbische und trans-queere SM-Sozialität“ in: Andreas Hill u.a. (Hg.): Lust-voller Schmerz: Sadomasochistische Perspektiven, Gießen: Psychosozial 2008, S. 113-126.

falbala, Berlin
Language: German
Day: Saturday
Time: 12h - 14h
Place: Jazzhaus 2

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An introductory workshop, about figuring out what you want as well as how to ask for it and even a bit about how to do it. We will cover a bit about safety as well as how to play well with others. Knowing what to ask for. How to talk about it.

Yisha, Artist, Berlin
tufania, München
Language: English, Deutsch
Day: Saturday
Time: 18h - 20h
Place: Jazzhaus 1

Power dynamics.
What are they and how to do it. You will have a chance to explore these aspects of bdsm. In a participatory practical workshop.

Yisha, Artist, Berlin
tufania, München
Language: English, Deutsch
Day: Sunday
Time: 16h - 18h
Place: Jazzhaus 1

Lindy Hop is a style of dance, started in the 1930’s in ballrooms of New York, along with big band music. The Lindy Hop fever soon ran through all classes and colours of society. Today, this dance is coming back. Lindy Hop is danced in couples, based on steps not really following a pattern, but instead on what dancers improvised. It’s funny and flirty, similar to Rock’n’Roll, but lower, more down to the floor.

The crash course will take place right before the party, so you’ll be able to try your new steps when the party starts, with the proper music, of course.

Bice, Tanzschule Downtownswing Zürich
Language: Deutsch/English/Français
Day: Friday
Time: 18h30 - 20h
Place: Vorraum Tonstudio

Linedance means dancincg in groups in rows or lines, as the name says. Justin Time from Berlin Rodeo will get us started with some choreographies, easy to learn for everyone. It’s all about fun and chaos makes life great. Cowboys, Cowgirls, Cowtrans*, Cowkings –Cow*s of any kind are all invited to join in on dancing Country and Western. Marlboro Man goes gay!

Justin Time, Queer Rodeo Berlin
Language: German/Englisch
Day: Saturday
Time: 18h30 - 20h
Place: Vorraum Tonstudio

Heather Love wrote a book about feeling backward, about feelings of bitterness, selfhatred, passivity, dispair, shame, backdrawing, Nostalgy, Sorrow, Solitude. Heather doesn’t want to get rid of these feelings, at the same time not knowing what those feelings are good for. But she knows that a lot of people know those feelings and that it’s hard to talk about them. Vocabulary is limited, because feelings are indivdualized and doublicated: I’m ashamed for my shame = shame2

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Bettina
Language: german/english
Day: Friday
Time: 18h - 20h
Place: Jazzhaus 2

This workshop is about the following:

Overview of today’s situation:

• Colonial heritage
• Regions with and without movements
• What does amnesty do today?
• International solidarity
• Asylum and migration (within the EU, within Switzerland) and assistance to refugees.

This workshop is for people internationally connected and for those interested in those topics.

Hannes, Tobias, Jonathan from Queer Amnesty
Language: german/english/spanish
Day: Friday
Time: 14h - 16h
Place: Jazzhaus 1