Journaling Café: Piercing Beauty

When: September 12th, 5–7 PM Where: Niemetzstraße 1, 12055 Berlin Facilitators: Teresa Machado & Foundling Language: English A communal café that invites you to experiment with journalling as a form of political care where the notebook is a physical home for our most fleeting thoughts, the ink a marker of (im)permanence. Through live music, guided prompts and open writing time, we’ll use this moment to reflect on what we’re experiencing and questioning on a given topic without hierarchy of thought, and let the ink spill among other curious strangers. For this opening workshop we interrogate beauty: in which ways are beauty standards violent, how they touch us, how we contribute to perpetuating them as a social construct and how we come together to subvert them. We’ll journal, draw, and hopefully peel layers off ourselves. No experience needed. Come through!