TRANSLOCAL ALLIANCES

Hosted by Brunnenpassage

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Translocal Alliances
08.11.2025 Brunnenpassage
10 am–12 pm Community Brunch 
12 pm–3 pm Workshop by Sonya Lindfors

The second day of the Translocal Alliances focuses on building collective strategies. We start will a Community Brunch centering those voices and experiences that are often marginalized. Affected artists, activists, and cultural workers are invited into an atmosphere for nourishment, exchange, and informal networking. The brunch will be followed by a hands-on workshop with Sonya Lindfors (UrbanApa, Helsinki), exploring artistic-activist strategies, collective practices of resistance, and tools for imagining institutional transformation.

Workshop by Sonya Lindfors
Hope in the Dark: working with decolonial speculative practices.

“Dire times call for soft measures! For the past years I have been busy with decolonial speculative practices and their potentiality to revitalise, restore and subvert. Or to imagine possible and impossible futures. Taking its name from Rebecca Solnit’s book Hope in the Dark, this lab is an invitation to gather around the urgent and share tools and strategies to navigate in dark times. I will structure this lab with provocations, questions, and collective dreaming practices, with the aim to co-create a space with participants. It is open to artists, thinkers and activists who are happy to work with movement.” Sonya Lindfors

Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and artistic director who also works with facilitating, community organizing and education. Lindfors’ recent works One Drop (2023), common moves (2023), We Should All Be Dreaming, camouflage (2021), Soft Variations Online (2020) centralize questions around Blackness and Black body politics, representation and power structures, speculative futurities and decolonial dreaming practices.

On a larger scale Lindfors’ time is divided between her own artistic work, educational work and working as the artistic director of UrbanApa. In all her positions she pursues creating and facilitating anti-racist and feminist platforms, where a festival, a performance, a publication or a workshop can operate as the site of empowerment and radical collective dreaming.

Translocal Alliances, is a two-day gathering of D—Arts in cooperation with Brunnenpassage, Tanzquartier Wien, Trans Europe Halles in the frame the Cultural Transformation Movement project.

Free admission. Registration: office@d-arts.at