Gemeinsam, resilient: Allianzen in selbstbestimmter Kultur- und Communityarbeit

Korientation (Sun-ju Choi), BAFNET (Hyun Wanner), Schwarze Filmschaffende e.V. (Benita Bailey), Berlin Museum Projektleitung Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus (Ibou Coulibaly Diop), Tarek Massalme (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)

This conversation explores how political and cultural work can be organised beyond large institutions, and what forms of self-protection, solidarity and collective practice are possible.

How can we protect our structures and our work with our communities at a time of scarce resources, restructuring of funding programmes, and increasingly mainstreamed and openly expressed racism? How can established structures in the district, and the spaces that are so important to communities, be secured for the long term? And what responsibility does politics have to protect, recognise and sustainably support these structures?

Sun-Ju Choi is a screenwriter, dramaturg, and diversity consultant with expertise in racism, gender, sexism, and classism, as well as co-director of the Asian Film Festival Berlin.

Hyun Wanner ist Schauspieler, ehemaliger Gastronom und zertifizierter Ansprechpartner für Film und Kultur. Er studierte an der Ernst-Busch-Akademie für Darstellende Kunst in Berlin und ist Vorstandsmitglied des Berlin Asian Film Network, wo er sich für eine stärkere Sichtbarkeit asiatisch-deutscher Perspektiven in der deutschen Film- und Kulturlandschaft einsetzt.

Benita Sarah Bailey is an actress and producer (Jabeza Films) and currently serves as chairwoman of Schwarze Filmschaffende e.V.

Ibou Coulibaly Diop is a literary scholar, curator, and lecturer. He is a jury member of Resonanzen – Schwarzes Literaturfestival and publishes on transcultural literature and the significance of African literature. On behalf of the Berlin Senate, he is developing a concept for remembering colonialism, and he works for the Berlin Museum at its Decolonization Competence Center.

Tarek Massalme is an architect, energy consultant and managing director of an architecture practice he co-founded, as well as a member of the Berlin-Mitte district council for BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, where he focuses on urban development, housing, renewable energy and the preservation of cultural spaces.