Dec 14 2024 to Dec 15 2024 2 p.m.

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Where

The Lalit Ashok Bangalore

Kumarakrupa Rd, opposite Golf Club, High Grounds, Seshadripuram 560001

Event Description

Meet the Queer Caravan artists Hameeda, Poongodi, Kadir, Zakariya, Douce, and Jamal at the Bangalore Literature Festival on December 14 and 15, 2024.

Love in all Colours, featuring Kadir Özdemir
December 14, 2 p.m.
The Valley

Here Come the Poets: Readings
with Jamal Ouazzani & Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç
December 15, 4.15 p.m.
Red Couch

The Queer Caravan: Stories from India, France and Germany
December 15, 6.30 p.m.
Red Couch

About Queer Caravan
The Queer Caravan is a collaborative residency program led by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, the French Institute in India, and The Queer Muslim Project, with support from the German-French Cultural Fund. This unique initiative brings together queer storytellers and artists from France, Germany, and India to amplify underrepresented LGBTQIA+ voices and foster cross-cultural dialogue.

Artists
Hameeda Syed (India): a Shia Kashmiri journalist exploring gender, identity, and power through impactful storytelling.

Poongodi Mathiarasu (India): an artist and educator documenting the lives of trans folk artists in rural Tamil Nadu.

Kadir Özdemir (Germany): an author, theatre maker, and educator working on migration, participation, and empowerment.

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç (Germany): a poet and political scientist merging art, memory, and queer desire.

Douce Dibondo (France): a poet and performer exploring Blackness, queerness, feminism, and decoloniality.

Jamal Ouazzani (France): a French-Moroccan "artivist" and writer focusing on feminism, love, and Arab-Muslim representation.

About Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)
Founded in 2012, as a non-profit trust, the Bangalore Literature Festival is India’s largest independent and community-funded literary conclave and has had twelve very successful editions to date with over 1500 authors and speakers from India and abroad participating through the years.

The founders conceptualised the Festival with the guiding principle of making it a flagship annual literature festival rooted in Bangalore and with global aspirations and to create a compelling space for engaging and thought provoking discussions on literature and life.

Entry free, but do register.