The Queerdos Kollektiv is a performance art | spoken word-theatre collective founded in 2018 in the queer scene of Berlin.

The resident Queerdos are Andrei Raicu, Cat Jugravu, Jenny Browne, Micayla Smith, Trace Polly Müller and Simona Klaniute.

Since its creation in 2018 as a monthly event of curated spoken-word poetry and music in Kreuzberg, the project has generated much radical poetic discourse and dialogue through theorising and exorcising the underbelly of the LGBTQIA+ community.

GOALS

Queerdos’ goals are also its methods:

• transforming queer trauma through poetic and performative devices in queer drama

• reclaiming the autonomy over our misrepresented/underrepresented queer selves in performative spaces, especially of but not limited to persons of trans* and gender-non-conforming experience.

• researching soft methodologies of vocational training for non-heterosexual/non-cis-gendered bodies and identities, hoping to bring upon the beastification of canonised theatre.

• ushering in the queering era by embracing aesthetics and methods perceived as disorderly in institutional and socio-cultural contexts.

MILESTONES

Since 2018, we have :

• showcased over 60 Berlin-based performers,

• trained in performing/acting/writing over 30 LGBTQIA+ talents both abroad and in Germany

• ran over 30 events

• worked in 5 different countries.

  MISSION

DIVERSITY - fair stage representation for the entire spectrum of LGBTQIA+
INCLUSION - generating creative spaces for other marginal positions to be heard
AWARENESS - providing institutional structures with valuable information on Queer and Trans* awarness topics through workshops and seminars
BUILDING STRENGTH - empowering queer life faced with oppressive circumstances, through applied performative arts
Support - developing a network for migrant LGBTQIA+ stage artists
Methodological Research - continuously exploring with|through our community new performativities
Transformation - engaging in critical thinking through theatre, poetry and social activism