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Tessa Hart

MFA
Director
AfroPolitan Berlin
Country or state 
Germany
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City 
Berlin
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Languages 
German,
English,
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Volunteer
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Personal Details

Current position (3)

Director

AfroPolitan Berlin

Producing Artistic Director

Goblin Baby Co.

Selection Committee

Max Ophüls Preis film festival

Degrees (5)
MFA Acting International
East 15 Acting School / University of Essex
2009 to 2011
Theatre Studies, Film Studies
Free University of Berlin
2006 to 2009
Tamasha Playwright
Tamasha Theatre Company
2015 to 2016
Criterion New Writing
New Criterion Theatre
2016 to 2017
PhD Candidate (part-time)
Free University of Berlin
2020

Bio

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Introduction

​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}

Focus & Activities

- 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

References (selection)

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

Presentations

Presentations (2)
Radical D/Construction - Making Art – and so much more than that

Tessa Hart presents insights into their work and career as part of the Radical D/Construction conference with artistic workshops, working sessions, presentations and theoretical inputs on the topic of critical diversity in the arts for the launch of the Vienna D/Arts - Project Office for Diversity and Urban Dialogue, in collaboration with Radio Vita, Kulturhaus Brotfabrik and Brunnenpassage in 2021.

https://youtu.be/hxLMUPs2AOU

(H)Our Realities Podcast: True Colours of Neurodiversity

This episode of (H)Our Realities centers on the experiences of neurodivergent BIWOC & TIN BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & Women of Colour, Tans*, Inter, Non-Binary People of Colour). As our neurodiversity is made particularly invisible, we are claiming and creating spaces for exchange, discoveries, community and appreciation, carried out by neurodivergent siblings!

Tessa is a Culture & Change Maker in performing arts, film & socio-cultural fields as well as director of AfroPolitan Berlin, which launched Black Spectrum in 2021, an initiative for exchange, networking and empowerment of Black and African-/Diasporic neurodivergent people.

https://refugeworldwide.com/radio/h-our-realities-24th-may-2022

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Books & Articles (6)

Schwarz wird großgeschrieben
& Töchter,
2021
Sisters and Souls 2
Orlanda,
2021
Hear Me Now - Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour
Bloomsbury,
2018
Autismus. Räume. Schaffen
Umzingelt von Käsekuchen
Mir fehlen die Worte

Expertise (18)

Entertainment & Art
Social & Political
Health & Well-being
Neurodiversity Cultural Change Empowerment intersectionality Inclusion anti discrimination Queer Activism LGBT Autism anti-Black racism black communities Black Arts Movement creativity and trauma Personal Power Authenticity
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