QTBPOC Solidarity Festival
INFORMATION
16 May 2026
The Hang-Out 070
14:30 – 23:00
With this festival, we want to create space for QTBPOC to come together around a shared question:
what does solidarity look like in practice?
While many of our communities face connected systems of oppression, we often experience our struggles in isolation. This day is an opportunity to meet, exchange experiences, recognise the solidarities that already exist, and imagine how we can continue building them together.
Throughout the day we will share food, host workshops and conversations, gather around a screening and discussion, and close the evening with a ritual and a party. de Opstand Anarchist Bookshop and library will also be open during the festival.
Our goal is simple but important:
to connect, learn from each other, and strengthen the networks of care, creativity, and resistance that already exist within and across our communities.
TIME TABLE
14:00
Walk-in with snacks
14:30
Opening
18:30
20:00
20:30
Black Trans Art and Joy Fund
Screening: Black Trans Art and Joy Fund
Six Video Portraits Featuring A Variety Of Black Trans Experiences
The Black Trans Art and Joy Fund focuses on the radical idea of supporting people because they are, not just because they are in need. Between 2020 and 2022, the fund redistributed over €10.000 to Black trans people through crowdfunding initiatives, and connecting networks. The fund also offered practical support to provide the community with space to create, share their art and legacy. It focused on shifting public narratives of Black trans life from experiences of trauma to experiences of joy.
In collaboration with the queer collective KLAUW, the Black Trans Art and Joy Fund created a series of six video portraits featuring a variety of Black trans experiences.
About The Black Trans Art & Joy Fund
The Black Trans Art & Joy Fund is a private initiative by Naïmah Janse, Sharona Lautoe and Xiomara Virdó that centers community care for Black Trans people (black trans women, black trans men and black trans non binary people).
We do this by organizing crowdfunding initiatives, as well as sharing & connecting networks, and offering practical support to provide the community with space to create, share their art and legacy, and above all: experience joy.
Our team is based in the Netherlands and a combination of black trans and black and white cis people who are focused on tangible change for the black trans community worldwide.
Raoni Muzho Saleh
Practicing solidarity through an embodied voice
Max Participants: 20
What’s the relationship between our voices and freeing ourselves from the grip of oppressive systems? How can we practice solidarity through a free and embodied expression of our voice?
In this workshop we will be working with these questions through collective experimentation of freeing the voice. In this experiment, the voice’s capacity to affect and be affected is central! We will PLAY with how different expressions of our voice may embolden how we can show up for one another. These somatic exercises are aimed at situating embodied work at the heart of collective anti-colonial struggle.
About Raoni Muzho Saleh
Raoni/Muzho Saleh is a Hazara Afghan artist using performance, installation and the sound of mourning moaning to twist and reshape narratives of (cultural) becoming. His work’s focus is to play with fugitivity, by not stiffening into a graspable form.
Engaging the entanglement of body, spirit, politics and love within art through the use of materials such as movement, voice, text and textile, his works are temporary immersions – for both performers and the public- into otherworldly thinking, feeling and relating.
Kai Hazelwood
CareFULL
Max Participants: 20
[Originally created by Crip Crap Community]
The framework of Disability Justice was created by working class Black, brown and queer disabled folks. It requires cross movement solidarity, it is a practice of including all of ourselves and each other because ” we do not live single issue lives” – Audre Lorde. To care for each other, we need disability justice, not as an intellectual framework, but as an embodied practice we live together.
In CareFULL we’ll begin to work towards co-struggling without leaving each other behind. This is an experiential workshop utilizing slow embodied practice and play, silent reflection, and discussion.
Designed for organizers, activists, and artists – created for people – who do not center access and Disability Justice yet, but are ready to experience why it belongs in all movement work and also for those of us whose bodies and minds require Disability Justice every day. No preparation needed, you’re ready just as you are. <3
About Kai
Kai Hazelwood is a multi-award-winning transdisciplinary Disabled, Black, and queer artist, artistic researcher, and embodied healing practitioner. Kai’s work, regardless of genre, is always reflective of the intersecting communities that have made her and continue to hold her up, down, and together.
Kai supports individuals and groups in her embodied healing practice Homebody Living which combines EMDR and Somatic Therapy. Her body based artistic practice Good Trouble Makers is a collaborative arts project celebrating queer identities and centering d/Disabled and chronically ill QTBIPOC. She also co-founded Practice Progress, a consultancy addressing structural, professional, and interpersonal white supremacy through body based learning. Kai is also the co-founder of Crip Crap Community Utrecht NL, a community by and for crips/spoonies/disabled and chronically ill folks for support and fun! She is working on her first book Shedding: A Playbook.
Community Craft Circle (CCC)
Dinner
Menu:
1. Panipuri
2. Sweet Potato Tikki
3. Chole (chickpeas) Masala Rice Bowls with Raita (yogurt) and Salad
The community craft circle is a group/space primarily for tool building and exists out of a need for neurodivergent spaces and ways of being. We come together as CCC, keeping in mind non-transactional ways of making, gathering, and fundraising outside institutional and capital-generating spaces.
At the festival, CCC cooks for Pinky, a 19-year-old national level Rugby player currently based in Delhi, India. We will be redirecting ccc’s participation fee towards the funding of her film; featuring her journey from working as a garbage picker to becoming a Rugby player told by her through an embroidered book and a rap song.
Along with some South Asian street snacks and dinner, we are also hoping to bring to the table some resources documenting the Indian State’s complicity in the genocide in Palestine, and share interconnected urgencies also between Congo and Sudan.
Dizzi Geetha
RITUAL
Near the end of the day, Dizzi Geetha will be sharing a liveset experienced as a shared ritual.Through this liveset, the space becomes one collective energy, built on respect, openness and presence.
The music will guide your body and soul on a natural journey.
Dancing becomes a way to communicate, release and unite.
This ritual flows from stillness into a full embodied connection.
A moment to be present, together as one.
About Dizzi Geetha:
Dizzi Geetha is a non-binary trans artist from Sri Lanka, based in The Netherlands. Dizzi is a creator, producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, theatre maker, live artist and ceremonial facilitator.
His/Their work is largely shaped by his/their love for nature and our planet as well as his/their history of displacement and finding roots through sonic soundscapes. It gives his/their creations in music and theatre a truly unique and organic element that shapes experiences of the onlooker and listener, rather than just being consumed.
PARTY
DJ Jaci Tahir Palm
Jaci Tahir Palm(he/him)—aka AwA is an artist and DJ from Curacao. While mainly playing within genres of jungle/drum&bass and footwork, he also experiments with sounds from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora such as bubbeling, soca, and bouyon.