Seeding Freedom

Workshop on a collective piece with
Tanja Al Kayyali, Artist - Tatreez Berlin

This workshop by Tatreez Berlin (Tanja Al Kayyali, Fatme, and Souad) invites you to discover the art of traditional Palestinian embroidery - a craft that preserves experiences, memories, and resources. Together, we will create a collective piece rooted in shared stories, heritage, and connection.

Location: Conference Room
Language: English, open to all languages
Capacity: 10 participants
Open to: Everyone
No prior knowledge is required.

Movement workshop with
Elizabeth, Restoration Ecologist, Rewilding Practitioner & Ecosomatic Researcher, Guayaba Collectivo
Camila La Rotta, Biodanza facillitator and feminista social educator, Biodanza Camila

Biodanza and Eco-Somatic Movement are embodied practices that reconnect body, community, and territory through movement, presence, and collective experience. This workshop invites participants to slow down, listen, and explore reciprocity as an alternative to disconnection and extractive ways of relating. Through Biodanza and EcoSomatic practices, we approach the body as territory and territory as a living archive of memory, resilience, and transformation. Participants are invited to question embodied patriarchal patterns, strengthen ecological belonging, and explore ecofeminist pathways grounded in care, relationality, and collective regeneration.

Location: Community Room
Language: English, with translation support in German and Spanish if needed
Capacity: 20 participants
Open to: Everyone
No prior knowledge is required.

Workshop with
MC Josh and Denise, SISTER*QUEENS

Join SISTER*QUEENS for an empowering hip hop workshop celebrating feminist power, creativity, and community. Together we’ll explore rap, rhythm, and expression in a safer space for women, girls, and TINA people (trans, inter, non-binary, agender). No previous experience needed – come as you are, bring your voice, and be part of the cypher.

Komme zu SISTER*QUEENS für einen empowernden Hip-Hop-Workshop, der feministischen Stärke, Kreativität und Gemeinschaft feiert. Gemeinsam erkunden wir Rap, Rhythmus und Ausdruck in einem Safer Space für Frauen, Mädchen und TINA*-Personen (trans, inter, nicht-binär, agender). Keine Vorkenntnisse nötig – komme, wie du bist, bringe deine Stimme mit und werde Teil des Cyphers.

Location: Community Room
Language: German
Open to: Women, girls, and TINA* (trans, inter, non-binary, agender) of all ages
Capacity: 15 participants
No prior knowledge is required.

Table talk with
Özgül Demiralp, Journalist & Co-founder of Reclaim - Ecofeminist Alliance e.V.

"Everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager.”

We long for support, belonging, and shared care, yet under capitalism, interpersonal care is gendered, individualised, and pushed into private households. This participative table talk asks why we desperately need community and the redefinition of social bonds, and why building it can be so difficult. Drawing on working-class, queer, and marginalised experiences, together we will explore concepts such as family abolition, interdependence and inconvenience, and the communising of care. What if community is the basis of collective power and revolution?

Please note: This is a participatory table talk with a guided discussion, open to all levels of knowledge and experiences. You are warmly welcome to contribute, reflect and share -, or simply listen.

Location: Conference Room
Language: English
Open to: Everyone
Capacity: 15
No prior knowledge is required.

Sharing circle with
Reclaim - Ecofeminist Alliance e.V.

Heterosexuality is not just a sexual orientation. It's a system that hierarchises sexes to put some at the service of others. It's a domination system that shapes our desires, relationships, and sense of self. This sharing circle is open to anyone questioning these norms: people who have experienced exclusively heterosexual relationships and are exploring their queerness, as well as queer people seeking to unlearn heteropatriarchal patterns. Together and in a confidential setting, we'll share about our experiences and open space for other ways of loving, living, and being.

Location: Community Room
Language: English
Open to: Queer people or people exploring queerness
Capacity: 24 (there will be two groups of 12 participants each max.)
No prior knowledge is required.

Presentation and guided discussion with
Andrea Volken, Ecofeminist Writer, Researcher & Educator

This session explores how industrial animal agriculture, food ethics, and care work intersect. Through an ecofeminist lens, we’ll look at how systems like dairy production rely on forms of invisibility — what ecofeminists call the “absent referent.” From there, we open a guided discussion: Who carries the responsibility for ethical consumption? How are these expectations shaped by gender, access, and labour? And is there space for imperfection? This is not a prescriptive talk, but an invitation to think together about food, responsibility, and how we learn to see — or not see — harm.

Location: Conference Room
Language: English
Capacity: Unlimited
Open to: Everyone
No prior knowledge is required.

Interactive music performance with
Hêja Netirk, Multidisciplinary Artist - Music For Identity gUG

An interactive Kurdish music performance organized by Music For Identity gUG and led by the renowned multidisciplinary artist Hêja Netirk. The session invites the audience into a shared experience of singing, rhythm, and dance. Through call-and-response songs, collective participation, and traditional dances, the session transforms the audience from listeners into active participants. Open to all ages and musical backgrounds, the performance celebrates community and cultural exchange.

Participants are also welcome to bring their own instruments and join the collective musical experience.

Location: Garden
Language: English
Open to: Everyone
Capacity: Unlimited

Keynote video with
Dr. Manal Shqair, Palestinian Activist & Scholar

Drawing from the Palestinian decolonial praxis of eco-sumud (eco-steadfastness), Dr. Manal Shqair presents a vision of liberation in Palestine from a gendered and environmental perspective. Drawing from the experiences of male and female farmers and shepherds in Palestine, the concept of eco-sumud reflects the traditional knowledge, land-based practices, cultural values and rituals, and social relations Palestinians utilise for anti-colonial resistance. Eco-sumud shows the dynamism and adaptability of agrarian communities to maintain a sustainable relationship with the non-human world in response to ongoing Israeli settler-colonial dispossession, including environmental destruction.

This video keynote will be screened throughout the day in the lobby.

Location: Lobby
Language: English
Open to: Everyone
Capacity: Unlimited

Some prior knowledge is needed.