Event

No Mixed Feelings: Palestine Solidarity is Disability Justice

An Evening of Performances, Conversation, and Party

By Staff

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On August 10 from 7PM - late, we invite you to celebrate the start of Mixed Feelings 2: Still With Mixed Feelings at 90mil in Berlin.

Mixed Feelings 2, following on from our project Mixed Feelings in 2023, will continue to explore accessibility in the arts. Hosted by Saverio Cantoni, Dana Cermane and SchwarzRund on Refuge Worldwide, the project is produced from the experience and practices of disabled artists worldwide.

With six radio broadcasts in German and English spoken language with transcripts, and International Sign Language with subtitles, mixed feelings challenges hearing supremacy and ableism in radio and events.

A launch event at 90mil on August 10 will celebrate the new series and bring mixed feelings audiences together in person.

mixed feelings believes disability justice means justice for all, and calls for solidarity with Palestinian disabled and d/Deaf communities.

Entry fee: Free, donations are encouraged

Where: 90mil, Near S Jannowitzbrücke. (90mil's address is private. Please email neunzigmil@gmail.com for the address, description of how to get there, and/or requests for accompaniment from the train station).

90mil is a temporary arts venue that focuses on providing access to art and culture to a wide community. Donations will be collected for Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children at the door.


PROGRAMME

6.30PM (Lounge): Doors Open. There will be a donation-based vegetarian Mediterranean dinner available.

Workshop:

7PM (Garden*): Imagine Imagine Imagine the Art Workers United.  A Reading/Conversation/Dissemination Session. Facilitated by Dalia Maini and Theresa Zwerschke with Arts of the Working Class in collaboration with Zaina Shreidi with Thawra collective (15 people max., please register for this conversation here). [ACCESS INFO: will have German and English spoken language content, material to read in English written language, and interpretation in German Sign Language; A spacious room +  comfortable sitting solutions + good illumination + Snacks]

Performances:

  • 8PM (Project Room): Crossing to the Realm of Manifestation by Mudar Al-Khufash with live sound by Moraya [ACCESS INFO: will be in spoken English with live English subtitles and a video; Content Warning: references a memorial to children murdered in the Holocaust]

  • 8.30PM (Project Room): SIGNING/SINGING by Daniel Kotowski [ACCESS INFO: the performer uses dance and signs from different sign languages; Content Warning: includes shouting]

  • 9PM (Project Room): A screening of the film "Massaker von Kafr Qasim 1956 - eine taube Person überlebt" and lecture by Meyad Sarsour-Ndaye [ACCESS INFO: Lecture in German Sign language with interpretation into German spoken language, film in Arabic spoken language with subtitles]

  • 9:30PM (Project Room): A screening of the film "Vibrations from Gaza" (2023) by Rehab Nazzal [ACCESS INFO: EN subtitles, in Palestinian Sign Language: لغة الاشارات الفلسطينية, Lughat al-Ishārāt al-Filisṭīniyyah (LIF) 16mins]

  • 10PM (Project Room): hidden towels by Steve Stymest [ACCESS INFO: the performer uses signs from sign language under a towel; Content Warning: references military terrorism]

  • 10.30PM (Project Room): Revisiting Turbulence by Nour Sokhon

  • 11:30PM (Project Room): A hybrid set by Moody Kablawi

  • 00:30PM (Project Room): DJ set by YA Z AN

  • 02:00AM (Project Room): DJ set by DJ SALEM

*weather permitting, events will be moved into the lounge in case of rain

Event orga team: Frances Breden, Saverio Cantoni, Dana Cermane, Refuge Worldwide, and soft power.


ACCESS INFO

90mil is located on the ground floor and all rooms are step-free. There are gender-neutral toilets and step-free toilet with railings, designed for wheelchair users. 

90mil has an outdoor area and multiple indoor rooms. 

There will be information at the door describing the building, programme, and accessibility offers. 

There will be a quiet and dark room for relaxing and resting. Other areas will be loud with dancing.

No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. 

There will be bartenders who use German Sign Language available for ordering.

There will be members of the awareness team who use German Sign Language.

We will have interpreters on hand for the conversation at 7pm who use German Sign Language and spoken German, as well as some spoken English.  We will have a spoken English to spoken German translator for the discussion.

We will have interpreters on hand for open socialising time, staying from 7pm until midnight. One uses International Sign and spoken English. One uses German Sign Language and spoken German. One uses German Sign Language, spoken German, and some spoken English.

There will be a English-German spoken translator for open socialising time until midnight.

We have a variety of sitting options. 

Many performances have visual and audio aspects, and there are subwoofers with strong vibrations to enjoy the music without hearing it. There will be balloons available for feeling vibrations.

We encourage guests to do COVID-19 tests before coming and have some tests available at the door. 

If you have any access requests, please email neunzigmil@gmail.com or call or message 0174-567-9476, for instance for accompaniment from the train; coming early for a tour of the space; and the written materials for the conversation at 7pm.

We offer accompaniment from S Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke next to the Elevator on street level at 7pm and 8pm. Please get in touch at 0174-567-9476 about this.

You can email neunzigmil@gmail.com or call or message 0174-567-9476 any time for further information.


Das Projekt ist Teil der Initiative DRAUSSENSTADT, gefördert vom Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis sowie von der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaflichen Zusammenhalt.