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Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992

Film Screening and Conversation|Film Screening and Q&A with Precious Chika Musa and Porsha Olayiwola

  • Just Book-ish, Dorchester, MA

  • German and English with English subtitles, Conversation in English
  • admission free
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Audre Lorde- Die Berliner Jahre ©Salzgeber

Audre Lorde - Die Berliner Jahre ©Salzgeber

Q&A with Precious Chika Musa following the Screening

Audre Lorde, the highly influential, award-winning African-American lesbian poet and writer died in 1992. In the 1980s Dagmar Schultz, who at the time was lecturing at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Berlin’s Freie Universität, invited Lorde to Berlin as a visiting professor. This move was to have an enduring influence, for Lorde soon became co-founder and mentor of the Afro-German movement.
In her documentary portrait, Dagmar Schultz distils hitherto unpublished and often very personal material of Lorde that portrays her among her Berlin women friends, fellow-travellers and students, many of whom she encouraged to begin writing. These women were later to become poets and academics; they were the ones to create the first German-language works about Afro-German history and racism.
Director: Dagmar Schultz
Germany 2012
Documentary, 84 min.
 

  • Precious Chika Musa

    Precious Chika Musa is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, a poet, educator, and artist whose creative work navigates grief, Home, Time, and memory. Chika’s poetry and prose appear in Seventh Wave, Tupelo Quarterly, The Journal of the American Medical Association, West Trestle Review, Black Perspectives, and elsewhere. Musa earned her MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. While making home in St. Louis, Precious curated her debut exhibit, Listen, Look: A Reconciliatory Journey Through Black Grief and Joy, which showcased the visual art, dance, poetry, and vocals of seven artists unpacking grief and joy in Black life. She currently works as a Museum Teacher at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where she educates (and learns from!) the public about the treasures and stories of Mrs. Gardner’s collection. Presh likes long bike rides and imagining the future. 

  • Porsha Olayiwola

    Porsha Olayiwola is a native of Chicago who writes, lives and loves in Boston. Olayiwola is a writer, performer, educator and curator who uses afro-futurism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black, woman, and queer diasporas. She is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the founder of the Roxbury Poetry Festival.