Dear all,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March has been another busy month for the Queer Zentrum Mannheim (QZM) and its development. This newsletter contains a report of what we\u2019ve been working on, both regarding the space itself and our upcoming and previous events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Property<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As of June, the QZM will move into its first home. This interim QZM will be set up in G7 in the Mannheim Quadrat, where we will have access to two floors of approx. 400m2<\/sup> in G7. This space can be used for smaller events and for group meetings (pandemic permitting, of course). We want to work with you to decide how we can best use this space in a fourth workshop at the end of May. An invitation to this workshop will follow shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After searching far and wide for an appropriate existing property, we have decided that the QZM will, in the long term, be housed in a completely new building. Not only will this new building meet all of our requirements (from size to accessibility), it will also offer us the opportunity to accommodate many other important elements into the QZM, such as a queer kindergarten, or queer housing facilities for older people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are now working to find a suitable plot of land so that we can begin to plan the specifics of this new building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Events<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n March was, once again, a month of exciting events. We hosted the QZM Ideas Exchange on the subject of queer aging; our first \u2018On the sofa with\u2026\u2019 with the Frieda women\u2019s network, in which we discussed the women\u2019s liberation movement in the 70s and 80s; and our third \u2018Technology 101\u2019 course, in which we learned how to migrate from Whatsapp to Signal. Here, we also learned how to use this new messaging app, which we plan to use for future communication in the QZM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And April promises to be just as interesting\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the 16.04.21 at 7pm<\/strong>, the Generational Dialogues <\/strong>will take place for the third time. This time, our guest will be Antje Ippensen, a representative of Generation X with an exciting life story. Antje is, amongst other things, an author with many talents. She will talk about her multifaceted life and about how she founded the studio \u2018Redensart\u2019 (\u2018Figure of speech\u2019) in Mannheim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have also planned a themed week with a variety of exciting events around the Rainbow Family Day (also known as International Family Equality day (IFED)):<\/p>\n\n\n\n A detailed programme of the Rainbow Families themed week with more detailed information, times, and access links will be published shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In summary, here is a list of our upcoming events, to which you are all warmly invited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n