QueerBerg Collective presents: WHORIENTAL FESTIVAL

WHORIENTAL 2024: A Celebration of QT*BIPOC & Music!

Join us at WHORIENTAL 2024, where we create a deliberate provocation and a safer space for the incredible talents of queer and trans BIPOC communities. Pop music owes so much to these voices, and it’s time to give them the spotlight they deserve!

Do you remember the first time you realized mainstream culture has stolen from your communities? Well, we don’t. But we see it every-effing-where! Our music, aesthetics, language, food, and gestures pop up everywhere in pop music, on the streets, and on the runways. From techno to twerking, from HipHop to “Habibi”: Black and Brown folks basically invented the wheel wh1te kids are driving the world with.

Three years ago, we decided to take back what is ours and re-open the space for QT*BIPOC’s and s3x workers, giving credit to those made invisible. We cherish body diversity and shift the spotlight on refugees from SWANA countries, dancers, h00kers, and gender benders outside respectability politics.

Since 2022, VVh0riental has unfolded into a radiant festival by and for QT*BIPOC refugees, focusing on beauty and extravagance while centering community building and sharing resources in a hostile political climate. It remains one of the very few spaces in Germany where Black and Brown refugees are given the stage and comfort to be themselves beyond hyper-academic exclusionary discourses.

Expect: ✨ Workshops ✨Voguing ✨ Performances ✨ Kiki Ball ✨ Concerts ✨ Gazino ✨ Panels ✨ Drag Shows ✨ Parties

Text: @Whoriental Festival
Artwork: @ Scherwin Hosseini & Marc Kemper