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 Project & Artistic Director of AfroPolitan Berlin, Artistic Director of the production company Goblin Baby Co., and regularly forms part of selections committees and juries, such as the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis or the IKARUS Nomination Jury (Children & Youth Theatre Award). Tessa has also been working everything artistically to 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. Tessa writes, curates, stages, performs, mediates, organises, researches, invents, moderates, teaches, accompanies, moves and does whatever else comes up.
As an author, Tessa has contributed to Realitäten. 30 queere Stimmen (etece buch), Schwarz wird großgeschrieben (&Töchter), Sisters & Souls 2 (orlanda), Was uns empowert (unrast), Racialised Faces in white Creative Spaces (edition assemblage); as a poet and playwright to Parabolis Virtualis 3 (Querverlag), Hear Me Now - Audition Monologues for Actors of Colour (Bloomsbury) as well as having written theatre plays. Topics that Tessa particularly engages with right now are sustainable cultural change, equal opportunities, participation, empowerment, intersectionality, power- and discrimination-criticism, queerness / LGBTQIA* Living Realities, Black identities & communities & (performing) arts, neurodiversity & autism, anti-sanism/-neurodiscrimination, trauma-transformation, personal power & potential as well as authenticity - all from both expertise as well as own lived experience. {all pronouns or none} |
Activities
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Selection of further references
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re:publica 2022: Afrofuturism (Moderation / Speaker)
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis (Curation & Speaker)
QueerMediaSociety, Filmfest München (Moderation, English)
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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Kultur- & Kreativwirtschaft Kongress (Day Moderation)
D/Arts (Presentation & Panellist)
Book-Launch Sisters & Souls 2. (Spoken Word Performance)
Filmfest Dresden (Moderation, English)
(H)Our Realities: True Colours of Neurodiversity - (Moderation, German, Podcast)
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© Tessa Hart / Theresa Hartig 2008-2023
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