enterspaces collaborates with the newly founded Salon Ebony, a Black theater network promoting various safer space projects and expert exchanges in the German-speaking region. We invite you to join a public talk featuring authors Ntando Cele, Julienne De Muirier, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Lamin Leroy Gibba, and Fatima Moumouni. Together, they will share experiences about writing from a Black perspective, exploring different writing processes, and discussing the reception of new theater texts.
Prior to the talk, the four authors had the opportunity to connect over a shared meal, exchanging thoughts on these and other topics. For cultural workers, such exchanges can be empowering, fostering resilience against challenges and structural marginalization in the German-speaking cultural landscape. The dialogue enables the sharing of strategies, experiences, techniques, and knowledge that enrich both individual and collective artistic practices.
In addition, we warmly invite BIPoC individuals in Zurich and its surroundings to participate in our workshop, “Play Development: How Do I Begin My Own Theater Text?”
Together, we’ll explore questions like: What is a theater text? What forms can it take? Who has a story to tell? What is the right form for your theatrical vision? Where do you start? What does decolonial writing look like? Who is your audience?
Lamin Leroy Gibba (author, actor, and producer) and Miriam Ibrahim (dramaturg, director, and curator) look forward to your registrations and will guide you through this workshop.
WRITING WORKSHOP FOR BIPoC*
18.1. | 15:00 – 19:00
Play Development: How Do I Begin My Own Theater Text?
With L. L. Gibba and M. Ibrahim
Register by: 15.1. via email at enterspaces [at] schauspielhaus.ch
PUBLIC TALK
19.1. | 19:00 – 21:00
With authors N. Cele, J. De Murier, S. D. Otoo, L. L. Gibba, and F. Moumouni
Public Networking Apéro in the Pfauen Foyer
19.1. | 21:00 – 23:00
*BIPoC: Refers to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and is a self-identification used by individuals who experience racism.
