How could we talk about queerness with youth? Take part in a creative workshop and shape the way in which diversity and equality are taught in the German classroom!
You will workshop original artwork with artist and educator Whitney Harris to explore artistic responses (visual and performative arts) to questions like:
- What does resistance mean to you and your community and how does queerness play into it?
- How can we address issues of gender non-conformity, phobias, racism and misogyny by artistic means?
- What does it mean to align yourself in solidarity with the struggles of others, especially those you may not have much in common with?
PRESENT DAY STORIES OF DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY
As we look back at the last 50 years, we want to know how and in what ways younger generations that have no personal memory of major events, from gay rights- to feminist movements, relate to the 1969 watershed moments. We are particularly keen on hearing from students who tell present-day stories of queer resistance and activism through art.
Though we are just beginning to amplify the voices of marginalized and poorly represented people who influenced each other across the Atlantic in the past decades, we have yet to find the language with which to discuss diversity and equality in schools. Thus, following the workshop, educational experts will engage with your artwork to design instructional materials to teach queerness to American students of German in the public educational system.
Background: This year marks the 50eth anniversary of the riots at the Stonewall Inn in NYC. The violence against queer people- among them many queers of color, drag queens, trans-persons and sex workers highlights a turning point in the struggle for social justice and equality in the US and beyond.
Eligibility
-Art students (high school and college) in the greater New York City area
-German language skills not required
Selected workshop participants will be awarded a stipend for a German course at the Goethe- Institut NY (worth appr. $760)
Lunch and refreshments served.
If interested in participating, send an email to: teacherservice-newyork@goethe.de with your name, email address and school information.
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This event is part of the Goethe-Institut New York’s
Queer as German Folk series, with which we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in 2019 as a milestone in the fight for gender diversity and equality.
Queer as German Folk is a Goethe-Institut North America project in cooperation with Schwules Museum in Berlin and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education.
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