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The panel will take place in the event space, 1st floor + livestream will be embedded on this event page. Limited seats, with registration at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

19:00 Online Networks for Artists from Syria: A conversation with Humam Alsalim and Khaled Barakeh, moderated by Erden Kosova

20:15 Healing through the Screen: A conversation with Amina Maher and screening of her film, ''Letter to my Mother'' (2019, 19 min), moderated by Şirin Fulya Erensoy

The first of the two panels will focus on the structures of solidarity built by artists in exile.

The panelists will talk about the practical challenges of exhibiting art and joining local networks in a newly arrived country and share their own experience in establishing collective platforms.

The second panel will host LGBTQI+ artists living in Berlin, who have previously experienced the oppression and censorship of authoritarian regimes targeting non-normative genders and sexualities. The artists will share with the audience how they use artistic expression to move beyond normative discourses and how creativity can serve as a form of survival providing hope for real and lasting change.

This event is organized with the collaboration of the Chromatic Wednesdays event series funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.