Queer Gardening – Eine andere Welt ist pflanzbar!

In the organizer's words:

Queer Gardening
Queerfeminist ecologies in North America
D 2022, 80 minutes, HD Stereo, English with German subtitles

Cinematography, direction, editing and sound: Ella von der Haide
Camera: Britta Schneider, Luzie Puell, Robbie Wilhelm
Music: Roqué Marcelo, Johnny Doubek, Hella
Production: Another world is plantable!

The use of and access to land has always been highly conflictual and contested. Characterized by appropriation, exploitation, lack of freedom and resistance, it is a highly ambivalent and complex issue. What role can community gardens and collective gardening play - as a field of experimentation and a place to reappropriate identity and knowledge for social participation, as a queer practice, in the fight for gender equality and against climate change?

Ella von der Haide, herself an activist and queer, has accompanied garden projects in the USA and Canada with her camera for several years. Her film "Queer Gardening" is the first documentary about queer gardening and queerfeminist ecologies. It takes us to an urban community garden in New York City, to the forest garden of a queer land collective in Tennessee, to an artistic project for the care of indigenous apple trees in British Columbia and to a vegetable garden in Oakland.

Following the film screening, we want to talk about how struggles for gender and climate justice can be brought together and how collective gardening can contribute to this.

The event is part of the W3_Project VerCAREte Verhältnisse and takes place in cooperation with Lichtmess and Zusammen Leben und Arbeiten e. V..