Program.
SHOWS
SHOWS
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
Location: Theater im Delphi
14.11
BECOMING HOME
Artists: Jade Lee, Lawunda Richardson, Michiel Tange van Leeuwen, Sabina Moe, Seliquere, Cajsa Godee, Harpy Fatale, Oskar Mauricio
The Ensemble Show
Becoming Home is an immersive ensemble piece premiering at the Queer Performance Festival. From gender-bending drag to contemporary dance, this bold piece brings together performers from across disciplines and communities to explore the rebellious act of making a queer home. They weave movement, voices and personal stories to create an intimate yet spectacular experience.
Becoming Home releases the trailblazing potential of queer performance where perspectives and practices will fuse, transforming struggle into beauty and creating a stage home that is collective, resilient, defiant and joyfully queer.
Time: 19:00 - 21:30
Location: Theater im Delphi
15.11
HOMECOMING
A stellar lineup. Countless stories. One queer home.
Experience Berlin’s queer performance stars and collectives as they light up the stage with drag, ballet, voguing, live music, performance art and so much more. An unforgettable celebration full of boundary-breaking performance, defiant storytelling and pure queer brilliance. Stories of displacement, chosen family, gentrification, joy, survival, and resistance thread together in a moving tapestry that celebrates the breadth of queer experience and engages head-on with the social and political realities our community faces
Artists: Aurah Jendafaaq, Buba Sababa, Dianna Jacksan, Dornika, Eddy Entropy, Jota Kayodê Ramos, Lilly Mortis, Lucio Vidal, Magic Dyke*, Robyn Robin, Slut Riot
The Grand Showcase
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Location: Tipsy Bear
12.11
Community Opening
Screening, Performance, Get-Together
Artists: Lolita Va Voom, Terry Ellmer, Darwin Stapel, Mariybu, Aurah Jendafaaq
Join us for the Community Opening at Tipsy Bear: A night of film, conversation and performance celebrating queer joy and resistance.
The evening opens with a short documentary by Terry Ellmer about Choke Hole, the legendary drag wrestling collective from New Orleans that turns queer resistance into art. Through wigs, chaos, and camp storylines, they transform rage and fear into laughter, strength, and solidarity.
After the screening, Terry Ellmer hosts a short talk with Darwin Stapel, Mariybu, and Aurah Jendafaaq - queer artists reflecting on creativity, community, and joy as acts of resistance, and on how art can become a place to belong, a home we build together.
The night closes with a performance and D.R.A.G. intro by Lolita Va Voom.
A joyful, high-energy evening to kick off the festival together!
Free entry, no registration necessary, just come by.
Time: 13:00 - 18:00
Location: AWO Begegnungszentrum
13.11
Drag Workshop
DRAG YOU HOME
Artists: Buba Sababa (KÖNIG / Gender Bender Academy)
Explore drag as a place to belong, a Queer Home built from glitter, sweat, and imagination. Be a king, queen, creature or thing - anything that drags you home to your truest self. A starter workshop to give a taste of the queer art drag, including makeup, character development, movement, and gender conversation.
Free of charge, register via this form
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Location: Karada House
14.11
LOCKER TALK
A Somatic Workshop for Processing Trans Embodiment in Public Space
Artists: Eddy Entropy & Fleshpiece
Our work revolves around how we continue to create a home in our own skin, and how we are cultivating a caring connection with each other, across differently embodied trans experiences.
Why LOCKER TALK? The locker room has historically been a place of transactional exclusivity where cis-men conduct business in secret to preserve power and control. We would like you to join us as we infiltrate this metaphorical space to host a “locker talk”. What can we envision in queering this architecture together? What have we embodied in the past and present in these spaces like pools, gyms, saunas, and beaches - spaces where trans bodies often come into scrutiny? What will be our future in these spaces? Our nudity can be freedom and allow us to access our own power and vulnerability. Let’s explore this together.
At LOCKER TALK, we invite trans, enby, questioning folks - and their friends, lovers, and allies - to join us in this work. We will process the unique struggles and joys that we as trans folks face in maintaining safety, dignity, ownership, and ecstasy in our bodies through public spaces. When we process this with our bodies and unpack these experiences, we begin to see how our bodies bridging access and autonomy for all bodies.
We will facilitate this in two phases:
Phase One: Bodytalk!
Let’s stretch and get sweaty together - taking time to get active in the flesh and get comfortable in our skin. Bring some comfy layers, get ready to move, breathe, and unleash our layers! Think of it like an open gym sesh, but centered on access and empathy for trans* and enby identity.
Phase Two: Locker Talk!
We invite our trans/enby/questioning folks in the room to refresh and undress - stripping to whatever level of non-sexual nudity is comfortable. We will guide a round conversation on our collective experiences as trans bodies in public space - sharing our reflections, questions, stories and radical vulnerabilities around our bodies in nudity-prone public spaces like gyms, pools, parks, saunas, and FKK areas.
Free or charge, register via this form
Time: 18:30 - 19:00
Location: Theater im Delphi
15.11
DOSE OF PLEASURE: Hunty’s We’re Home!
Workshop
Artists: Bibingka
This 20 minute activation is a love letter to what it means to be unapologetically queer. Together through a series of movement exercises, somatic games, karaoke and group activities embodying iconic pop divas facilitated with Bibingka, we will transform Delphi Theatre into our own little cozy living room and celebrate the beauty in our togetherness.
This workshop takes place right before the show "Homecoming". Included for free for Saturday night ticket holders. No sign-up needed. Simply join in.
Time: TBA
Location: Berliner Ringtheater
16.11
HOUSE OF FAGGOTURGY
Workshop on Queer Dramaturgy
Artists: Hadrien Daigneault-Roy & Sascha Cowan (Erratum)
Queer homes exist within four walls, but not only there. They also emerge in utopian, spontaneous, and temporary spaces: cruising spots, ballroom houses, darkrooms, protests. How can we bring these utopian spaces back to life on stage? How can we convey the feeling of liberation that flows through us when we inhabit them?
Inspired by the universe of Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (1977), Erratum presents a workshop on the dramaturgy of livable queer spaces. Practical and insightful, the workshop focuses on the reflection, design, and creation of queer performance spaces that evoke our homes, regardless of their form. Participants will be invited to design and inhabit their own ‘’Houses’’, exploring the creation of trans-temporal, transformative, and radically queer livable spaces through a collective, hands-on exercise.
Free of charge, register via this form