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Judith von Plato attended the rap workshop during the Easter vacations as part of the “sister*hood” project and wrote about SISTERQUEENS – especially about how important it is for the participants to have shared experiences. The article "Wut und Mut und ein Mikrofon" was published in Die Zeit, No. 21 2025. If you have a Zeit subscription, you can read the article here.

The documentary "Sisterqueens" (Clara Stella Hüneke, 2024) comes to Berliner Ratschlag für Demokratie. After the screening, Gonca Monypenny, education speaker at „Die Freiheit, die ich meine” von Gesicht Zeigen!, and Alma (Peira) will discuss questions about emotional education and art as an outlet for political emancipation. More information on Facebook.

Easter holiday workshop Our “Sister*hood” project is entering its second year. During the Easter vacations, we are offering rap workshops for girls* and young women*. Together with rappers Haszcara and Alice Dee, participants will learn how to write lyrics and rap.  

Kick-off workshop at the EL ELE Festival (from 14 years)
April 5, 4:30 p.m.  

Easter vacation workshop (from 10 years)
April 22-26, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

All workshops take place in the Houseclub of HAU Hebbel am Ufer

The 5th episode of “Grauzone Pott” has been released. The podcast sheds light on the previously unnoticed history of migrant resistance and neo-Nazi violence in the Ruhr region in the 1980s and 1990s. A second season is being planned.

Listen to the episodes wherever there are podcasts, or at grauzone-pott.de

The documentary “Sisterqueens” has been released in cinemas. On March 9, we were guests at a special screening at Babylon Kreuzberg for a Q&A and subsequent discussion about the cultural cuts in Berlin. You can find the latest cinema dates on the film's Instagram channel @sisterqueens_film

The SISTERQUEENS crowdfunding campaign is over. With the help of so many kind people, we were able to raise more than €8,000. We would like to say a huge thank you for this. Thanks to your support, we can continue to offer workshops this year. However, for everything we have planned for our 2-year program (with camps, concerts and videos) and for the continued existence of SISTERQUEENS, there is still a lot missing. We are still dependent on donations and are looking for new funding opportunities. You can find information on financial support at kollaboev.de. You will find out what happens next in the next few weeks.

Chris Herzog will be on stage in the performance “Trouble” (director: Katrin Hylla). Five performers aged between 10 and 43 are looking for ways to deal with the gloomy scenarios we encounter every day on all channels. Can cotton candy, magic tricks or poems by Kae Tempest help? How can we react to all the trouble together? And how can we be strong without hardening ourselves?  

After the revival in Bremen, “Trouble” goes on tour!

Dates:  

31.01. 7 pm & 01.02.2025 4 pm, Schwankhalle Bremen

07.02. 7 pm & 08.02.2025 4 pm, TNT Marburg 

28.03. & 29.03.2025, Ballhaus Ost Berlin 

Grauzone Pott is here! From today, you can listen to the first episode “Eine Verkettung von Einzelfällen” wherever podcasts are available or directly on grauzone-pott.de. A racist arson attack, decades of silence and a memorial initiative fighting to come to terms with the past: in episode 1, we travel to Duisburg in 1984 and shed light on an arson attack that claimed the lives of seven members of a Turkish family. Dismissed by the authorities as an isolated incident, a search of archives reveals that the arson attack was part of a pattern of racist violence.

Chris Herzog and Alexander Bauer take us on a journey through Duisburg, Bochum and Gelsenkirchen. Grauzone Pott tells the silenced story of migrant resistance and escalating neo-Nazi violence in the Ruhr region in the 1980s and 1990s. Using archive material and talking to contemporary witnesses, the two filmmakers shed light on the deep social tensions and struggles for recognition in a time of struggle for survival. The 5-part series starts on January 9, 2025 and is available everywhere there are podcasts.

The crowdfunding for SISTERQUEENS has started and we need your support. Unfortunately, our funding has expired. Help us to keep SISTERQUEENS alive. Together with you, we can continue to organize workshops, concerts, festivals and camps in Berlin and beyond in the coming years. Always with a focus on empowerment, artistic expression and sister*hood. Support our campaign, like our posts, share our appeal, tell your friends about us. For feminism in rap and empowerment for girls*.

We celebrate Sisterhood at the Houseclub. A day of art, music, creative activities, food and alcohol-free cocktails for all girls* and young women*: With exhibition, Polaroid photo station, karaoke, screen printing stickers & bracelets to make yourself, music by DJ Ezgi Ivy, hip-hop dance workout, waffles and non-alcoholic cocktails. All free of charge!

You can find more information on Instagram: sisterhood_mehringplatz

The project is based on a cooperation with HAU to connect (Theater Hebbel am Ufer) and outreach (street social work). Funded by the Social Cohesion Neighborhood Management on Mehringplatz.

As part of the “Polyrama@school” project, Polyrama - Museum for Life Stories is organizing a project week from 25-29 November together with year 10 pupils at Peter Ustinov School. SISTERQUEENS is taking part and we are organizing a workshop for girls* together with Mc Josh!

Chris Herzog and Ceren Türkmen speak at the Landscapes of Memories festival in the Schwankhalle about the project Ein Anderes Duisburg. Remembering migration - creating anti-racist cities”. The festival takes up the memory work done by victims, their survivors and marginalized communities when they have to fight for a public remembrance of their history.

A culture of remembrance that is critical of racism and the history of migration in Duisburg are at the heart of “Ein Anderes Duisburg”. The project includes a civil society advisory board, city talks, the establishment of the Tarek-Turhan-Galerie, the expansion of the Duisburg city archive and the web documentation of the same name

The first screening dates for the documentary Sisterqueens by Clara Stella Hüneke have been set.

The film opens the new Berlin film and media festival @dokumentale.ber and will be shown on two more evenings after the opening.
10.10., 19:30 Colosseum Filmtheater
12.10., 18:30 Festival Center
13.10., 20:30 City Kino Wedding

You can also see the movie at @filmfest_frauenwelten
26.10., 14:00 Kulturbrauerei
27.10., 14:15 Kulturbrauerei

At both festivals, the team will be there for a Q&A after the screening.

The sister*hood project brings girls* and young women* together around Mehringplatz. Together we have organized various artistic workshops, film evenings and excursions. In December there will be a final event with an exhibition and various creative activities. Follow @sisterhood_mehringplatz for more information.

We will talk about the SISTERQUEENS project at the “Community Music” symposium of the Landesmusikakademie Berlin at the FEZ-Berlin. The event is for anyone interested in music and socio-educational work in a variety of contexts. In lectures, workshops and networking events, there will be the opportunity to get to know central voices of community music, to gain insights into the work of community music, and to exchange ideas and network with like-minded people. Here you can find the program.

Our “Right of Nature” project has been shortlisted for the European Climate Fund's public vote: you can vote for us at eon.stiftung.com until September 30.
 

In 2025, together with Ceren Türkmen, we are planning an international festival on the topic of the rights of nature. In workshops, panels, performances and exhibitions, we want to develop new perspectives and options for action to shape a sustainable and just future that respects and strengthens the rights of nature.

The SISTERQUEENS Hip Hop Camp is over. We look back on a great crew, sister*hood, chilling by the lake, campfire, movie night, DIY and of course the rap and dance workshops with Leila Ey, ALICE DEE, Ezgi Sahin, Haszcara and MoneyMamiMusic. Take a look at our Instagram Channel, we have collected some nice impressions for you.

The SISTERQUEENS were in Dresden at the weekend and gave a peer-to-peer workshop for girls* from the SISTERS* project. It was a motivating and empowering experience for everyone.

SISTERS* has been creating empowerment spaces for girls* and young women* of color in rural Saxony for 5 years. This year, the funding was cut, which is fatal for the practice. We stand in solidarity with SISTERS* and demand more investment in such important programs right now. you can also support SISTERS* directly with a donation.

For over four years, filmmaker Clara Stelle Hüneke and her team followed three girls from our rap project "SISTERQUEENS". Last Saturday we had the pleasure of attending the screening for Family & Friends at the City-Kino Wedding. Many emotions, touched by Sisterhood, the paths you take, your actions and words and the many shared memories. The documentary will celebrate its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival on June 29 and July 1. Tickets are now available! A big Toi Toi Toi to the film team. We will keep you up to date.

Now the premiere of this cursed play could take place after all: "Das Kitzelmonster". A complete success. We are delighted with the good reviews from the press. You can read them here: Das Kitzelmonster

On June 18, the premiere of Das Kitzelmonster by Barbi Marković will take place at the Theater am Werk in Vienna.

“Das Kitzelmonster” always appears where people are in need - not to help, but to tickle. A play about everyday fears.

You can order tickets here: Advance booking

Further performances: June 20/21/22/25/26

We had our first rehearsal for “Das Kitzelmonster”.

“Das Kitzelmonster” by Barbi Marković is a production by Peira in cooperation with Theater am Werk in Vienna. The premiere of the play will take place on 18.06.23.

“Das Kitzelmonster” always appears where people are in need – not to help, but to tickle. A play about our daily fears.

This year will be intense and summery. SISTERQUEENS is organizing a hip-hop camp for girls* and young women* in summer. Registration for girls* aged 9 and over and young women* is open until 26.05.2024. Click here to go directly to the registration form.
For more information click here: SISTERQUEENS Hip Hop Camp

This year will be intense and summery. SISTERQUEENS is organizing a hip-hop camp for girls* and young women* in Brandenburg. Save the Date 29.07 – 02.08. and 05.08. – 09.08.

For more information and how to register, write an email to lisa@peira.space.

As 2023 is coming to an end, we reminisce about our Glocal Class "Tender Absence 2023," which took place last February. For one week, we explored possibilities of remote work with 11 international artists. We took the time to create this trailer. You can watch the entire video here.

We are offering a position on a freelance basis. For the project 'Sisterhood', we are looking for a person who enjoys and has experience in organizing and conceptualizing, as well as in artistic-educational work with girls*. The application deadline is until December 11 | 10:00 AM.

More information can be found here.

Faseeha, Frida, Rachel from SISTERQUEENS know what moves them. Hanging out together, grilling in the garden, being there for each other. Together with Haszcara, they have written a new song and also shot a music video with Insa Langhorst. The whole video and the song are now available on YouTube.

The team from M*Power was on site at our festival 'SISTER*QUEENS & Friends' and filmed a mini-documentary about the open-air event. You can watch the full video on YouTube.

The web documentary 'A Different Duisburg. Remembering Migration – Creating Anti-Racist Cities.' is online. You can watch the first two episodes here. Information and updates can be found on the Instagram channel @ein.anderes.duisburg

Since 2022, we have been supporting Ceren Türkmen and the Zentrum für Erinnerungskultur in the development of a web documentary that illuminates the city history of Duisburg from a migrant perspective in 7 different episodes.