working with f(r)iction | towards decolonial, intersectionality feminist and speculative practices

In this open workshop, choreographer Sonya Lindfors (ONE DROP) invites you to talk about fictions and frictions – about speculative practices and about why intersectionality is so f***ing hard. About the ghosts haunting theatre stages and the power of the stage as a miracle making machine! In this 4 hour workshop-session participants will be invited to approach the topic at hand, fictions and frictions, by discussing, listening, writing and lightly moving. Participants are invited to engage in a way that is suitable for them. This session is open to all interested in the topic.

Sonya Lindfors: “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. This workshop is an invitation to gather around the urgent and share tools and strategies to navigate in dark times. I will structure this session with talk, provocations, questions, and collective dreaming exercises, with the aim to co-create a space with participants.”

This workshop will be held on zoom.
The workshop needs registration but is free of charge.
The working language will be English but in smaller groups you can use any language that you have in common.
This workshop consist of more lecture like parts, small group discussions, individual work
We will take several shorter breaks as well as a 30 min lunch break.
To create a safer and more engaging environment, we kindly ask everyone to keep their cameras on during the Zoom session 🙂. Please let us know if this isn’t possible.
Please note that this session is antiracist and feminist. Before attending please read the ethical guidelines. Please note that these guidelines will underpin the workshop session: urbanapa.fi/ethical-guidelines

Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and artistic director who also works with facilitating, community organising and education. Lindfors’ recent works One Drop (2023), common moves (2023), We Should All Be Dreaming, camouflage (2021), Soft Variations Online (2020) centralise 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.

More information about Sonya Lindfors: here.