We Were There is back with another workshop using play and making to insert us into the story of who we are and where we come from as a people. This time we’ll be using stories, fictions and alternate histories to reclaim our lost histories. 

✨WE WERE THERE
+ 16:45-19:00, 19. April
+ Entrance of Konstmuseet
+ English (Stöd på svenska vid behov)
+ The workshop is free [ you do not have to pay admission to the museum to participate]
+ ☝No talent necessary. We’re here to find ways to play together, no-one gets to tell us what’s right or wrong, good or “bad” 

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~~ THE SERIES ~~
We queer and trans people come from a long line of ⚡️boundary-crossers, norm-breakers and resisters⚡. But our heritage is constantly being ✏️written and rewritten✏️. What survives has been filtered by all of the oppressive -isms which continue to plague our society today. 

Where we come from, how we got here and who came before us are key questions in figuring out who we are, and who we are not, right now in the present day. That’s why heritage matters.

~~ THIS WORKSHOP ~~
In this workshop at Konstmuseet, we’re going to be taking matters into our own hands, challenging official timelines with our own stories. Using a variety of playful writing and collective storytelling methods to create an alternate history. 

After the workshop our tales will be made publicly available through a audioguide, to give Gothenburgers the taste of a queer past they missed and the queer future they need.

Sign up for the workshop via the sign up form here.
Workshop participants will need to pay for entry to the museum. Status Queer can offer economic support for their priority groups – read more about here.

This workshop will be held in predominantly English, but we will support Swedish speakers and you are very welcome to participate in Swedish!

We Were There is a collaboration between Status Queer and Gothenburg’s museums including Göteborgs Stadsmuseum and Göteborgs Konstmuseum.

Not Your Habibi and Status Queer are collaborating to bring you an experimental and interactive exhibition ❤️‍?CUM2GETHER❤️‍?

With Not Your Habibi bringing you Digital delights, saucy aesthetics and delicious dreamy vibes  and Status Queer getting you to play with ridiculous tools, floor sized paper and cunty club kids. This exhibition is the queer intervention we all need right now! So strap on your alter ego and come enjoy the Sweetest sensations to welcome back the steaming hot spring ♨️?️

?Kolgruvan – Kolgruvegatan 12
?4.March 21:00-23:00

We’ve also teamed up with @thisisthequeerspace for the naughtiest of afterparties ***SJUKT x NOT YOUR HABIBI: Alter Ego*** Get your tickets NOW BBY!

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NOT YOUR HABIBI
As queer persons from the SWANA region (Middle East, South West Asia, and North African region), we are a minority within a minority in Sweden. We are often finding it hard to find the right space for gatherings where we can feel comfortable cherishing and celebrating our culture, heritage, and LGBTQIA+ identities. For that reason, we believe there is a need for a space that will cater to folks from the SWANA region and of course their allies.

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STATUS QUEER
Status Queer is artist duo Kolbrún Inga Söring and Sam Message. Their colour-saturated playful work uses spatial and relational interventions to build an inclusive, caring and diverse LGBTQ+ community.

We’re back! Club kids, bare nips and bouncing tits. For our extra special sweaty return we’ve teamed up with the fucking fantastically fabulous NOT YOUR HABIBI @notyourhabibi.se.

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE 

This SJUKT x NOT YOUR HABIBI collab is also bringing you an exhibition by Not Your Habibi and @wearestatusqueer. Keep your eyes peeled for more information coming soon <3 

Not Your Habibi is a SWANA queer safe space founded with the main focus of celebrating the duality of our queer identities and cultural backgrounds. We have collectively experienced the lack of representation in queer spaces in Sweden and the underwhelming opportunities presented to queer margnalized artists. Our vision is to create a safe space as well as housing and honouring all creative expressions by queer artists from the SWANA region.

This event features only queer SWANA talent.

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THE EVENT
?TBA: Released on the night
?Tickets AVAILABLE NOW
?4.March @ 23:00-late
❗️Economic support for priority groups available [read below]

?DJs?
23-12: Mavi
12-02: Rasuul
02-04: Noise Diva

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THE DETAILS
Calling all disgusting demons, cyber-pussies and naughty nibbling nuns. EMERGENCY ON THE DANCEFLOOR. So this one goes out to all you heavenly hoes, alien asseaters and sweaty superheros too.

There’s Queer/transphobic wankery afoot and we need to shake it, spin it and dip it the fuck out.

It’s time to take back the night and wrap ourselves in another evening of sweet, spicy and saucy queer love. 

**For us by us bby**
This is a queer / trans party. Well behaved straights allowed.

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THEME: ??‍♂️ALTER EGOS??
Are you a voluptuous villain?
Do chains and whips excite you?
R u gunna come as a mouse? [duh]
Super queero? Domestic goddess? Karl Marx (but even sexier? ??ahh)
Whatever your alter ego is we wanna see you in your full glory[-?]

Fabulous looks get goodies on the door xoxoxo

Dressing up NOT REQUIRED! Just showered with love, power and attention 

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PRIORITY GROUPS
⚡ If you cannot afford a ticket and belong to one of @wearestatusqueer ‘s priority groups then message them and they’ll make sure you can come.
⚡ You belong to one of our priority groups if you LGBTQ+ *and* racialised, living with a disability, newly arrived, working class/economically precarious or a binary/non-binary trans person. 

Are you ready to call in the ?new year? with a dose of your favourite ✨queer club kid✨ comrades? SJUKT is here for all your saucy filthy lil needs my loves?.

GET. YOUR. ?️TICKETS?️. NOW. 
? Location announced on the day of the party

Its ?️ raining queer in GBG right now baby but lets not forget the biggest night of the year ?NEW YEAR’S EVE?. I don’t know what to tell you darlings. It’ll be fabulous??. And in this economy?? In this political climate?? What we need is a big blow out with our queer and trans comrades to shake it all fucking loose in a space FOR US BY US?. 

For a little added glitz and filth we’ll be bringing a little taste of CULT madness ? to welcome in the new year.

?LINE UP?

? TBA

? Dress us to impress us my loves?. Extra effort for this special occasions plz – looks get goodies as usual ?

THEME: ✨FANTASY✨

You all know we need to a break from this bullshit ? of bad-ism’s we’re all living through – so lets escape into our fantasies ?

? What’s your fantasy?

⚗️ Witches, wizards and magical gremlins?
? Sexy space aliens come to service your every desire?
? Pussinator 5000 from the planet Glamtron?
? Jesus but he’s a lil gay and wants to get whipped?
? Half human half horsey?
? The ultimate crystal-queer-first-time-sign-guesser? (oh wait but what’s your moon sign? OMG makes total sense)
? We’re all just cats? Nothing weird, just pussy-licking good.

⚡ If you cannot afford a ticket and belong to one of @wearestatusqueer ‘s priority groups then message them and they’ll make sure you can come.

⚡ You belong to one of our priority groups if you LGBTQ+ *and* racialised, living with a disability, newly arrived, working class/economically precarious or a binary/non-binary trans person.

The ? biggest birthday ? of the year ? is nearly upon us so GET. YOUR. ?️TICKETS?️. NOW. 

?Venue location released on the 26th?

SAQMI X QRAB X Status Queer. From pulsating punk? to pussy pussy pussy?, orchestra? to singer song-writer?, performance? to after-party??, we’re teaming up to bring you an evening you won’t forget?. Bubbles?, nibbles? and… dance-ibbles?? So come on friends of SAQMI & QRAB it’s time to raise (a number of) glasses? to our big 5 year bonanza. 

?LINE UP?
? Christina Kjellsson
? Jon Ely Xiuming
? Queerorkestern
? Eva Warberg
? Vicious Irene
? Silas Lilo
? Divursula 

All to be hosted by Status Queer’s very own ? @sammessage – AKA Köttungen ?

??And for those of you who just need a moment to soak up some queer history – we’ll be screening SAQMI’s Queer Moving History films throughout ✒️?

After this jam backed evening of queer delights ? we’ll be diving straight into the ?✌? AFTERPARTY. Check out @thisisthequeerspace for the biggest the baddest and the naughtiest ?party in GBGay(+): @thisisthequeerspace ‘s SJUKT.

***Tickets to the birthday party grant free entry to the afterparty***

?️GET TICKETS HERE?️

It’s ☂️ dress to impress ☂️ – from slutty ? to conceptual ? to con-slut-cept ?️ and everything in between and far beyond we expect to see you dressed to the nines.

THEME: ✨STARS✨
? Movie Stars
? Pop Stars
? Historical
? Collapsing red dwarfs and imminent supernovas are all valid and as are you my anti-royalist QT+ royalty

⚡ If you cannot afford a ticket and belong to one of @wearestatusqueer ‘s priority groups then message them and they’ll make sure you can come.

⚡ You belong to one of our priority groups if you LGBTQ+ *and* racialised, living with a disability, newly arrived, working class/economically precarious or a binary/non-binary trans person. 

SJUKT is back baby ? and this time its all about the ✨ STARS ✨ darling.

GET. YOUR. ?️TICKETS?️. NOW. 

This edition is a liiiiiittle special?. On top of our usual ? gloriously pulsating queer paradise ?, this time we’re teaming up with @saqmi_ & QRAB ? for their 5 year ? birthday bash??. Hosted by @wearestatusqueer, this event is going to be everything from drag? to orchestra?, queer history? to tasty nibbles? and from punk? to singer-songwriter?. Check out the full line-up on @wearestatusqueer ‘s insta.

Find the Facebook event here: https://fb.me/e/2WGN81Ctr

?️ Tickets to SJUKT: ✨Stars✨ give you ***free entry*** to the main event – which will also be taking place at SJUKT’s queer castle?.

?LINE UP?
? TBA

You all know the drill by now, its ☂️ dress to impress ☂️ – from slutty ? to conceptual ? to con-slut-cept ?️ and everything in between and far beyond we want to see everything you’ve got my darlings so let it all hang out.

THEME: ✨STARS✨

? Movie Stars
? Pop Stars
? Historical
? Collapsing red dwarfs and imminent supernovas are all valid and as are you my anti-royalist QT+ royalty

⚡ If you cannot afford a ticket and belong to one of @wearestatusqueer ‘s priority groups then message them and they’ll make sure you can come.

⚡ You belong to one of our priority groups if you LGBTQ+ *and* racialised, living with a disability, newly arrived, working class/economically precarious or a binary/non-binary trans person.

Hi! Did you miss us? We are here, waiting in the woods, all covered in moss.?

?WELCOME TO GRÖNGLÖD, an art project weaving together 7 different mediums: music, dance, film, photography, installation, illustration and painting.

Be careful not to miss this GLOWING evening debuting GRÖNGLÖD in all its forms.

?In order to protect vulnerable attendees, please wear a mask to the event.?

SIGN UP? https://forms.gle/6DwB3QmnLYA4JSZbA to secure your spot – and yes, of course it’s free <3

You can find the Facebook event HERE

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GRÖNGLÖD
17:e November
The space is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible toilet. For more info on accessibility drop us a message!
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PROGRAM:

16:00-17:30 SKOGSUPPRORET WORKSHOP (workshop held in Swedish)

Under workshopen kommer Lan Pham & Hanna Tebrand, aktivister från Skogsupproret, berätta hur Skogsupprorets arbete med att skydda de sista skogarna görs i solidaritet med långvariga samiska kamper genom folklig kraft. De kommer att försöka öka förståelse för vad det innebär att delta i civil olydnad, som metod för samhällsförändring.

17:17-18:30 TRANSDANCE WORKSHOP – Eli Edbom(they/he/dem/han) – (workshop held in Swedish and English)

In this workshop you’ll be invited to move, share and dance. Eli will be presenting core aspects of their artistic and pedagogical practise for you to take part of, in line with their project TransDance – dance for and by trans* people. Some parts of the workshop will be taken from the dance classes done within TransDance, other parts will be taken from the GRÖNGLÖD concept.

19:00 BIRTHDAY PARTY for @saqmi_ + GRÖNGLÖD Vernissage

19:30 GRÖNGLÖD SCREENING + ARTIST PANEL – facilitated by Status Queer’s Sam Message(they/den)

20:22 Eli Edbom – GRÖNGLÖD LIVE PERFORMANCE

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ARTISTS OF GRÖNGLÖD:

Mo Wiklund (they/hen) – music, artistic director, coordination, editor
Eli Edbom (they/he/dem/han) – choreographer, dancer
Amanda Almgren (she/hon) & Embla Berndtsson Tordal (she/hon) – videographers, directors, editors
Lex Eliot Rose (they/hen/den) – art photography, documentation, director
Mio Mikkelsen  (he/they/han/hen) – illustrator
Aija Sillén (she/hon) – sound installation

Mastring: Siri Landgren
direction consultant: Jas Lin(they/them/ta), @allthatjasss

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Amanda Almgren and Embla Berndtsson Tordal are the two cinematographers of GRÖNGLÖD. They are a filmmaking duo, and have worked on several different projects together with reappearing themes of queer stories, environmental and social issues. Amanda and Embla have both studied film production and are currently studying documentary filmmaking together, with an interest in exploring the different genres and forms of film.

Lex Eliot Rose is a nonbinary artist and photographer. Intrigued by the borderland between photography and performance, they examine relations between body, spaces, and power. Lex’s artwork has been exhibited in Australia, Italy, South Korea, USA, as well as in Sweden. They have a Bachelor’s degree in Rhetorics, and by summer 2023 hopefully also a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art Photography. In GRÖNGLÖD, Lex has been photographing.

Eli Edbom is a non-binary, transmasculine and otherwise queer dance artist, choreographer and pedagogue from Stockholm. Using their main genre ballet as a starting point rather than shying away from it, he actively and critically works with its aesthetics to explore themes of identity, memories and transformation. Focusing on storytelling – they use character work and embodiment to find identity and ‘the genuine’, and to (gender)queer the ballet.

Mio Mikkelsen is a Swedish/Danish illustrator and comic artist currently studying at Serieskolan in Malmö. They mainly work within sci fi and fantasy, creating fantastical creatures and colourful characters, as means to explore new worlds as well as processing our current one. Within Grönglöd, he’s made illustrations for the poster and for the exhibition at the release event.

Aija Sillén (born 2001) is a composer and improviser with a great interest in electronics. She is currently studying composition at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg. Her latest works try to bridge gaps between composition, sound art and improvisation, where generative and aleatoric elements are guiding forces both in composition and performance. In most cases, these works connect to themes of communication, social hierarchies and community.

Mo Wiklund(they/them) is a trans/queer artist, composer, activist, cellist, vocalist and producer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Contemporary/experimental electronic music, free jazz improvisation(often at BRÖTZ @brotz_jazzklubb) and abstract painting and sculpture are the defining parts of their artistic expression, some living on their Instagram(@0m0.o0).
On their YouTube-channel you can currently watch the video “Okänt Namn/Name Unknown(2020)” magically honouring Trans Day Of Remembrance.

GRÖNGLÖD is supported by; ABF; Kultur Ungdom; This Is The Queer Space; The Swedish Archive for Queer Moving Images; Region Västra Götaland; Göteborg Stad; Gothenburg Studios Development; Redrental Maan

⏰ Time for our next lil break from this bullshit ? queerphobic transphobic ? world with our latest workshop Rebel Drawing hosted at Frilagret ?.

⚡️⚡️ SIGN UP HERE NOW ⚡️⚡️

*** Confirmation emails sent 2 days before the workshop ***

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Here’s what you need to know:

Too many ?cooks? in the kitchen? What a load of tripe?. The more hands the merrier if you ask us?.

Join us in breaking down barriers, building up budding new ?? connections ?? and using Status Queer’s ‘together tools’ to scribble and scrawl our dreams and desires across the floor??️. Our new and improved tools are bizarre, playful and definitely require a lot of chefs in the kitchen to operate?️?. So I hope you’re ready to cook up a ?delicious queer melting pot?.

In this workshop we’re going to be exploring all our ?senses? to dig deeper into our lives as ?queer and trans? people in this city.

No ?️drawing?️ experience, skill or talent necessary – this isn’t like drawing as you know it.
We won’t be getting too ?messy? but we’ll be using ink? so don’t wear anything too precious?, you never know whether you’ll end up with a stain or 2.

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? As always priority groups are first in line to get workshop places. Read more about our priority groups on our website. 

?? The space is wheelchair accessible with an accessible toilet. For any other accessibility information or questions just drop us a message!

We’re back! Come down to stadsmuseet to start your November off with a colourful evening where we play, experiment, invent and reclaim queer stories and objects.

SIGN UP HERE

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THE WORKSHOP
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We queer and trans people come from a long line of ⚡️boundary-crossers, norm-breakers and resisters⚡️ of the oppressive racist, classist, ableist, queerphobic, sexist and transphobic society around us ✊?✊?✊?. But why are we so hard to see in the official histories we tell? ?

In this workshop at Stadsmuseet, we’re going to be making ??fake historical objects?? to stand in for the missing evidence of norm-breaking lives from history. Together we will play, experiment, get in touch with our ?queer selves? and claim our space in the history that has so actively excluded us.

Our heritage is constantly being ✏️written and rewritten✏️ and not all stories in this heritage are born equal. What survives has been filtered by all of the oppressive -ism’s which continue to ?plague? our society today. This isn’t some abstract dead-thing ?hiding? behind a glass cabinet. Where we come from, how we got here and who came before us are key questions in figuring out who we are, and who we are not, right now in the present day. That’s why ?heritage ?matters.

In this workshop we’ll be getting ?colourful and creative? with ?mouth-watering? clay – those who know, know. No artistic skill required, just a desire to play? and think? together.

We Were There is a workshop series where we ask: ? what would museums look like if our stories were as proudly present as those of normative and powerful people? ?

Workshop predominantly in English but with support in Swedish too!

SIGN UP NOW! Limited places!

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ACCESSIBILITY
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Workshop participants will need to ?PAY FOR ENTRY? TO THE MUSEUM: 60 SEK 

But, as always, we offer ?economic support? for our priority groups:

– Binary & non-binary trans people
– Newly arrived people
– People living with disabilities
– Racialised people
– Working class / economically precarious people

If you need economic support to come then just email us or message us [facebook / instagram] and we’ll sort it out! ✌️✌️

The workshop space is wheelchair accessible and accessible toilets are available on site.

For your next ⛑dose? of deliciously radical drag CULT’s here, CULT’s queer and CULT’s about to get freaky and wierd. From punk to posh to out of this world, these genderbenders are about to bring the urgency to this ?? climate emergency ??

We are charging headfirst into human catastrophe but the capitalist bastards steering this bloody bus have got their eyes glued to their stock account balances?. So we’re here to ever so politely say “erm sorry, excuuuuse me, YEAH YOU! GET YOUR EYES ON THE FUCKING ROAD YOU WANK STAIN.” ?????☠️

Get down to Kungstorget for our 15 minutes of fame during this star-studded evening to scream and shout the capitalist patriarchy down.

?Climate Live wants to know “can they hear us yet?” Oh baby they’ll hear us with this one.?

Climate Live Göteborg is organised by activists from Fridays for Future. Follow for details and the release of their full programme @climateliveswe (https://climatelive.se)

We’re back again with THE queer place to be: our naughty little party, SJUKT.
Serving you up safer spaces away from the prying eyes of cis-hets at pride – here is the saucyness you need to shake it loose during what is supposed to be our week.

Dress to impress for a chance to get your hands on some real goodies??? – info below.

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW

LINEUP:
As always, we’ll serving you local fucking gems ???, bringing you everything from afro-beats to dancehall, middle-eastern to ballroom, hiphop to disco, experimental electronic to reggaeton ? Watch out it’s about to get naughty ???

****Details coming soon…****

23:00 – Late

THEME: MORE

MORE JEWELS

MORE SKIN 

MORE HAIR

MORE BIZARRE

MORE POISONOUS

MORE FIERY

MORE ABSTRACT

MORE MORE

If you think it’s enough it’s not, we need MORE
MORE is MORE that’s why it’s not called less.

As usually, top tier lewks bag themselves ?goodies? on the way in ❤️‍? so dig out yer needle and thread ? and get stitchin babs?

⚡⚡⚡ SJUKT is for everyone in the community, not just those who’ve got money to spend?. So if you belong to one of our 5 LGBTQ+ priority groups ? (see below) and can’t afford a ticket but want to come just send us a message ? and we’ll put you on the list for free. No questions asked, no explanations needed. We trust you <3<3<3

?????? You are one of our priority groups if you are: economically precarious/working class, racialised, living with a disability, an elder or a binary/non-binary trans person.

?The space is wheelchair accessible and has an accessible toilet. For more info on accessibility drop us a message!

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW

Oh my dearest ?meat babies?, we’ve got an absolute treat in store. For this edition of MOTGIFTET we’re bringing the ?​​fabulous Daniel Mariblanca ? all the way from Bergen to give you a session of ❤️‍?healing❤️‍?, contact and personal exploration through dance. Have no fear, no dance experience or talent needed – this is all about using movement to really get in touch with ourselves. ????

But first: What is MOTGIFTET??
Are you sick of cis-het normative bullshit poison being constantly rubbed into the wounds opened up by the violence of living in the ? racist ? ableist ? agist ? queerphobic ? transphobic world around us? ??? ? Then boy-o do we have the cure for you! ?

⛑️⛑️MOTGIFTET⛑️⛑️ (the antidote) is the perfect time to come together, unwind, tool-up and heal – all while we put on a lil ??cultural something-something??‍? to get those good juices ? flowing and dive deeper into our theme of the month. 

** FOR THIS EDITION OF MOTGIFTET **

~~ My Body My Home ~~
Taking the artistic process from ????@71bodies???? as a starting point, this workshop will get us engaging with each other by exploring self boundaries and ?dancing together? through improvisational tasks all while working through physical and mental challenges. We’ll focus on searching for personal and unique dance qualities with every participant. 

Most of all, we’re here to have ?fun, be experimental with the ??body and expand our ?contact with others?.

The workshop is open to all bodies, gender identities, backgrounds and ages. 

The workshop will be held in predominantly English, but we will support Swedish speakers as necessary. 

SIGN UP HERE
Confirmation emails sent 2 days before the workshop

??? As always priority groups are first in line to get workshop places. Read more about our priority groups on our Accessibility page.???

This workshop will be held in predominantly English, but we will support Swedish speakers and you are very welcome to participate in Swedish!

*** Here’s a lil more about the one and only Daniel Mariblanca***
Daniel Mariblanca has 15 years of experience dancing professionally and a degree from l’Institut del Teatre, in Barcelona, Spain. Shortly after beginning as a dancer with the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance/ Carte Blanche, Daniel created his own company 71BODIES; a transgender inclusive dance & performance art company. 

MOTGIFTET #5 is a collaboration between Status Queer, Daniel Mariblanca and Atalante.

Status Queer is a non-profit using art & culture to build a more supportive, inclusive and intersectionally diverse LGBTQ+ community here in Gothenburg.