Heimat(en) sichtbar machen: Auftakt zu einer pluralen Erkundung

The opening event of Heimat(en) schaffa invites you to a polyphonic, interactive examination of the term "Heimat". Feelings, narratives and political demands will be made visible in an open dialog with representatives from culture, politics and civil society.

The joint exchange is promoted by a dialog-oriented design of the space, there are moderated discussion rounds with QR codes for audience participation as well as artistic impulses.

The project "Heimat(en) schaffa: Invisible Feelings - Visible Realities" explores the multi-layered concept of Heimat(en) in a pluralistic, post-migrant urban society through a series of participatory workshops with various communities from Stuttgart. The focus is on artistic and social encounters in which experiences, perspectives and contradictions surrounding home are negotiated interactively. Using a variety of methods - from forum theater, Betzavta and biography work to artistic text and language experiments - the workshops create spaces for exchange, self-reflection and collective negotiation. Each event brings together at least two community projects that contribute their perspectives on home(s): emotional, social, political. "Heimat(en) schaffa" understands home not as a static place, but as a negotiable experience.

The heimaten network is an initiative of Haus der Kulturen der Welt within the framework of heimaten, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.
Cooperation partners and sponsors: WERTansich(t) organizes the Heimaten Festival in cooperation with StadtPalais Stuttgart, Black Community Foundation Stuttgart e.V., Deutsch-Kurdisches Forum e.V., Koordinierungsstelle Erinnerungskultur der Stadt Stuttgart.
The project is conceived by HKW and the co-curators Ibou Diop and Max Czollek and is supported by a network of civil society initiatives and cultural institutions in the sixteen German federal states as well as in Austria and Switzerland. Vatan Ukaj, Avra Emin and Faisal Osman make up the curation team for Stuttgart.