19:30 Testing, socialising in the courtyard | Last entry: 20:00
20:45 Doors open
21:00 FLARE (Original English version with English subtitles)
21:30 Q&A with the filmmaker Kate Blamire
22:00 Screening ends, possibility to socialise in- or outside
22:30 event ends
Screening of a documentary short film about disability followed by Q&A with the filmmaker.
A Safe Hour Berlin event with COVID precautions:
FFP2 mask mandate (masks will be provided) + PCR-equivalent COVID tests at the door + air filtration. Only come if you don’t have any signs of contagious illness (COVID or otherwise), that aren’t fully explained by a non-contagious health condition that you have.
We would like to make this space accessible to both immuno-compromised people and people with chronic illnesses.
Pay what you want / can afford. Advance registration required-> https://lu.ma/shb-flare
Kate Blamire is a non-binary person from Berlin living with an autoimmune disease.
FLARE is a first-person poetic account of their search for freedom and identity as they navigate in and out of hospitals.
„Flare has been a process of making sense of my experience of chronic illness. In my own personal lockdown before lockdowns became a shared experience, I realized I was becoming invisible.
I felt urged to create a narrative not based on the interpretation of my condition by the medical institution, or by someone else not living it, but as told by myself.
Due to the limitations of my health condition, I had to adapt the process of filming to whatever was possible and at reach.
With this film, I wish to give a voice to the experience of chronic illness, to the power that comes from being slow, to rhythms and the secrets of the sick, resisting victim narratives.
Flare is a film made in alignment with the tides of my illness and capacities, and is testament to the healing strength of joy, community and creativity.“
https://www.kateblamire.co.uk
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