Workshop
Poetic Interventions: The Queering

conducted by Sailesh Naidu

Sun, 16.02.2020
1:00 PM - 18:00 Library MMB

Poetic Interventions: The Queering is a poetry workshop hosted by Berlin based artist and poet Sailesh Naidu. The Queering is open to queer / trans / non-binary / gender non-conforming participants and through a day long workshop asks them to imagine what a queer future will look like. Through facilitated group activities and individual coaching, participants will write, craft, and eventually perform their own poems. With permission from the participants a consensual photograph will be taken and an audio recording of them poem will be made to presented as part of an exhibition in Berlin, Germany. 
This project is supported by the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe, hosted by the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai.
  
About Sailesh Naidu: Sailesh is a gender non-conforming poet and artist based in Berlin, Germany. Born in the United States with roots in India, Sailesh’s work delves into the ideas of gender, sexuality, migration, and the body. A former German Chancellor’s Fellow they have worked in the field of migration, education, gender for over a decade with their projects winning the acclaim of the New York Times and PBS New Hour. Sailesh is currently working on their first poetry book Territory.

If you are interested in participating please email poeticinterventions@gmail.com