ProfileTessa 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 Community Organiser & 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 Realitäten. 30 queere Stimmen (etece buch), Schwarz wird großgeschrieben (&Töchter), Sisters & Souls 2 (orlanda), Hear Me Now - Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour (Bloomsbury), 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} |
Activities
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References (selection)
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Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (Curation & Speaker)
Filmfest Dresden (Moderation, English)
QueerMediaSociety, Filmfest München (Moderation, English)
(H)Our Realities: True Colours of Neurodiversity - (Moderation, German, Podcast)
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Kultur- & Kreativwirtschaft Kongress (Day Moderation)
D/Arts (Presentation & Panellist)
Book-Launch Sisters & Souls 2. (Spoken Word Performance)
Branchentreff der freien darstellenden Künste -
"Normalität" - (Moderation, German, Radio) 
Integrationsbeirat Friedrichshains-Kreuzberg @ Kotti e.V. (Moderation, German)
Performing Arts Festival Berlin & Berliner Theatertreffen (Moderation, German)
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