WHORIENTAL 2024: A Celebration of QT*BIPOC & Music!
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.
Our lineup features phenomenal artists who will electrify the stage with their unique sounds and stories.
SATURDAY:
✨ DJ Öz ✨ InterFem Collective ✨ As Per Casper ✨ Lux Venérea ✨ NAS TEA ✨ Nelson Cerqueira ✨ Voguing Workshop with Essi ✨ Bellydance Workshop with Rachid Alexander ✨ Faravaz Farvardin ✨ mandhla. ✨ The Whoriental Kiki Ball ✨ The Whoriental Spicy Showcase with Dunja von K, Chiqui Love, Aurah Jendafaaq, Maria Asskaf ✨ Prince Emrah ✨ Haus of Audacity ✨ Amowia ✨ Esengo ✨ DJ Workshop with NAS TEA ✨ Flirting Workshop with L’aDios & Papi Pistola ✨ DJ AMR ✨ Anta.Can ✨ Alias Shay and many more!
