Upcoming

• Thursday, February 5th, 20:00-23:00
• Hosted in person at migas listening bar in Wedding, Berlin

Will be playing some beautiful records with one of my favorite people at this beautiful space with incredible sound, yummy olives and delicious wine.

For a small taste of the types of things I might play (but who knows?), here’s the set I played there around this time last year:

• Friday, February 13th, 14:00-17:00
• Free, limited spaces
• Hosted by Neo Seefried at Village Berlin, Kurfürstenstraße 31/32, 10785 Berlin

Radical Empathy

Queer lives are shaped by contradictions – between belonging and exclusion, visibility and erasure, intimacy and alienation. Instead of suppressing them, this series invites us to hold, quarrel with, and even find joy in their friction.

Calling in Care When Harm Happens

In this session, we’ll explore some of the ways that our bodies react in moments of rupture, as well as strategies for how we can activate our values to guide our responses when the going gets tough . We’ll learn a simple care protocol that can be applied when painful moments arise in our relationships — whether we are the one experiencing harm, perpetuating it, or witnessing it (or, as so often happens, some combination of the three).

Full info on the Village Berlin website.

• February 20th, my set is 16:00-17:30
• Refuge Worldwide studio, Niemetzstr. 1
• FREE - fundraiser event

From RefugeWorldwide.com:

“On February 20th and 21st, we will be hosting Dig Deep, a charity record fair and two-day hangout together with Resident Advisor. Alongside the pop-up record fair join us for DJ sets from our stations residents, highlighting some of the donor labels and records available, as well as RA UNLOCKED: Labels—a series of talks offering a behind-the-scenes look into working in the music industry. The programme will feature discussions and radio broadcasts focusing on how to start your own independent label and working in the industry.

Confirmed label donors include OYE Records, BBE, Field Records, !K7, Four Tet, Juno Records, Melodies International, Kynant Records, Clone Records, Rubadub and over 150 more that will be announced in the coming weeks.

We’ve partnered with the Analogue Foundation and Audio-Technica, with Audio-Technica providing the listening stations. All proceeds will go to War Child, a charity supporting children impacted by conflict and displacement.

Entry to Dig Deep Berlin is free, with talks starting at 13:30 on the Saturday (21st), and the record fair open from 11:00 to 20:00 on both days.

Previous editions of Dig Deep have taken place in cities such as London, Leeds and Amsterdam, and the initiative has raised over £35,000 for War Child. We're partnering with DHL for the donation process, with the firm offering free shipping. If you'd like to donate, you can do so here.”

• Sunday, February 15th, 15:00-18:00
• Hosted in person in Neukölln, with option to join digitally if needed for access.
• Sliding scale with some free spots available

Burnout and collective organizing too often go hand-in-hand. What practices can we call into our collective work to help us distribute labor and care based on the variable and varying needs and capacities within our group, and stay connected to our intention and ethics even when times get tough?

In this conversation-based interactive workshop, we will explore together tools, strategies and frameworks for working together more sustainably, ongoingly. In this context, sustainable can be taken to mean embodied, strategic, grounded-in-lineage, collapse-aware, compassionate and planning for the long fight.

We will see what emerges in conversation based on lived experiences in the room, and Sarj will also share a collection of better practices from their own experience working in and with collectives through their Collective Compass facilitation work. The conversation will be facilitated in English, and we can explore whisper translation options once we see the needs and offers available in the room.

Please come covid-negative-tested, and please do not join if you are sick.

• Monday, March 2nd, 19:30
• online via Zoom, one hour
• No one turned away for lack of funds. Contact me if you need a free spot.

• Sunday, March 1st, 18:30-19:20
• online via Zoom, one hour
• Donation-based

• Sunday, March 15th, 12:30-18:30
• in person at arts of the working class offices, Neukölln, Berlin
• In the spirit of reciprocity, participation is on a donation basis. Registration required.

A gathering of socially engaged cultural workers and allies to practice a care protocol that maps needs and resources, fostering mutual aid. The space encourages awareness, generosity and exchange, connecting people across adjacent struggles to share skills, knowledge and support while collectively sustaining justice-oriented work.

• Saturday, March 28th, 10:00-17:00
• in person at Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
• In the spirit of reciprocity, participation is on a donation basis. Registration required.

A gathering of socially engaged cultural workers and allies to practice a care protocol that maps needs and resources, fostering mutual aid. The space encourages awareness, generosity and exchange, connecting people across adjacent struggles to share skills, knowledge and support while collectively sustaining justice-oriented work.