comité queer

COMITÉ QUEER is an activist meeting space for the LGTBIAQ+ community from April to November, 2023. Its goal is to promote meetings, dialogue, activities, political activism. A space for debate, a laboratory of ideas to develop proposals and promote new genealogies open to supporters and promoted by La Escocesa.

program

session 1

Tusday, 25th of April
7 pm - 9 pm

Comité Queer proposes a first meeting session with the vegan migrant kitchen of Empatravas. Come ready to eat delicious food, chat, get to know each other and if it arises...dance.

session 2

Tuesday 20th June
19h - 21h
Espai M - La Escocesa

Meeting led by Frank Trobok.

The summer solstice is approaching. Let's take the opportunity to connect our bodies to this moment of endings, beginnings and continuous turns. Frank Trobok proposes a moment of pause and reflection to activate our hands and to approach the Andean cosmovision that he knows so well. In his project Fauna Queer, Frank builds bridges between the animal world, the celestial spheres and their seasonal cycles. In this workshop we will make and give pompoms, we will synchronise with the cadence of the solstices, in short, we will enjoy being together and flow at a different rhythm, without a doubt.

With previous registration at: agustinortizherrera@gmail.com

session 3

Tuesday 11th July
19h - 21h
Espai M - La Escocesa

Meeting led by Roberte Piqueras.

In 2011, Lady Gaga sang "Y'm as free as my hair, Y am my hair...", making a declaration of intent about the construction of identity through different aesthetic mechanisms, such as hairstyle, make-up, nails, clothes, body language, etc. Things that marked an entire millennial generation linked to club culture, the financial crisis of 2010 and individualism as the maximum exponent of political liberation.

A decade later, Roberte Piqueras wants to offer this space for queer identity construction and experimentation, reflecting on gender stereotypes by creating wigs with recycled materials.

Registration required at: agustinortizherrera@gmail.com

session 4

Tuesday 26th September
19h - 21h
Espai M - La Escocesa

Queer the lens
Meeting led by Valentina Gaia Lops and Frank Trobok.

In this workshop we will delve into the transformative potential of the image. We will be accompanied by the ideas of Félix Guattari and Gill Deleuze on how the image can question and challenge dominant norms and structures, triggering processes of thought, relation and desire. From a queer perspective we will construct new ways of seeing and thinking about the world, breaking with conventional approaches and exploring dissidence in visual narrative.

Registration required at: agustinortizherrera@gmail.com

session 5

Tuesday 24st October
19h - 21h
Espai M - La Escocesa

Brillibrilli
Meeting led by Francesc Serra Vila.

In this workshop we offer you the opportunity, using few materials and all your creativity, to make your own garments and accessories: a hat, a skirt, a mask, a top, a pompom... or even a more sculptural and daring element. Francesc proposes working with reflective materials that, once manipulated and put on, invite us to shine and bring out the most luminous and festive part of us. During the workshop, we will flirt with the language of fashion, and explore the transformative and expressive power of these objects: how they set the body in motion, and interact with the lights and the space around us.

Registration required at: agustinortizherrera@gmail.com

session 6

Tuesday 21st November
19h - 21h
Espai M - La Escocesa

Comité Queer comes to an end and we will celebrate it with a Quedada/Open Mic/Bailoteo. If you feel like celebrating all these days together or have something you would like to do, read some writing, poetry, do a (brief) performance, sing, show a video, whatever, send us your proposal to agustinortizherrera@gmail.com

We will drink, we will eat, we will talk, we will dance together for the last time in 2023. See you!!

Activity organized by Agustín Ortiz Herrera.

* Comité queer is part of REBOST, a line of the program managed autonomously and collectively by the members of La Escocesa, who decide the activities they want to organize in relation to the interests and needs of the group.

If you have any needs or questions regarding the accessibility of this activity visit the section access La Escocesa.