Tessa Hart

​Tessa Hart is a Culture & Change Maker in performing arts, film & socio-cultural fields, who has lived in Berlin, Brussels and London. Currently Tessa is the Director of AfroPolitan Berlin, Artistic Director of the transcultural collective Goblin Baby Co., part of the selection committee of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival, and part of the IKARUS Nomination Jury (Children & Youth Theatre Award). Tessa has also worked artistically and organisationally for numerous performance, film and cultural projects as well as co-founded The Bread & Roses Theatre in London, and serving as its Co-Director for seven years. As an author, Tessa has contributed to Schwarz wird großgeschrieben, Sisters & Souls 2, Hear Me Now - Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour, the online magazine Rosa-Mag, and several theatre plays.

Topics that Tessa particularly engages with right now are sustainable cultural change, equal opportunities, participation, empowerment, intersectionality, power- and discrimination-criticism, queerness, Black identities & communities, neurodiversity, trauma-transformation, personal power & potential as well as authenticity - all from expertise as well as own experience. {all pronouns or none}

- Conception, development and curation/programming of (new) cultural projects as well as conceiving revised, power- & discrimination-critical structures.

- Participation and empowerment of people who have to experience structural discrimination, and who are socially and culturally excluded from equal opportunities

- Artistic practice that explores and develops processes, approaches and results that think beyond the status quo and dissolve the confines of conventional art practice.

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Curation & programming of performance, film & cultural projects

Spoken Word / Readings / Performances

Speaker / Panellist

Keynotes

Moderation / Presentation

Empowerment, participation & resilience workshops

Author / Writer

Kultur- & Kreativpilot*innen, u-institut für unternehmerisches Denken und Handeln e.V.

Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- & Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes

ProQuote Film

International Film Festival Braunschweig

Filmfest Dresden

Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste

JugendKulturService gGmbH

Branchentreff der freien darstellenden Künste

Performing Arts Festival Berlin, LAFT Berlin Landesverband freie darstellende Künste Berlin e.V.

Berliner Theatertreffen

Nationaltheater Mannheim

Alte Feuerwache e.V., Jugendbildungsstätte Kaubstraße​​

Integrationsbeirat Friedrichshains-Kreuzberg, Kotti e.V.

D/Arts - Projektbüro für Diversität & urbanen Dialog​​

(H)Our Realities Podcast, BIWOC* Rising

​SuperPower Autismus Spektrum, Lukulule – Musik und Tanz für Jugend e.V.

afro-Festival Heidelberg, Migration Sphere Heidelberg e.V.

​Black Reels Film Festival, Black Art Action Berlin

​Afrika Medien Zentrum

​Afrika Akademie - Schwarze Volkshochschule

ADAN e.V.- Afrodeutsches Akdemiker Netzwerk

​WOW - Women of the World Festival, Southbank Centre

Beyond the Canon, RADA - Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Writing Beyond Genres & Borders, North London Literary Festival, Middlesex University

BA Drama, BA Creative Writing, Greenwich University

Artistic Directors of the Future, Theatre Royal Stratford East, UK National Theatre

Hear Me Now Workshop, Tamasha Theatre Company​

Les best de l'humour, Hippodrome Casino Cabaret Theatre​

​Instituto Cervantes, Humboldt-Universität