International Creole Lab (ICL) emerged as a possibility in the midst of the poetic and transdisciplinary process of Diego Araúja, namely in the production of new oríkì's, the oral literature of Yoruba and Afro-Brazilian origin. Inspired by an already extinct Creole language spoken at home by his family members and ancestors until the end of the 1930s in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, Araúja’s intention was to invent a new language for his poetry. The language was known as switch-tongue, creolated between Yoruba, Portuguese, and possibly with some interventions from the lexicon of Tupi. When observing the experimental load in the creation of a new language, Araúja opted to transform the old stylistic idea into an autonomous project of a long-term scenic laboratory.

For School of Quilombismo, Araúja will present Seminars on a Possibility, encompassing two sessions entitled Creollage—the work of art and what was possible and The Laboratory—creating a language not born from trauma, to discuss the possibilities of materializing the ICL. Participants are invited into the laboratory as an element of utmost importance for the composition of the scenic-performative and above all, cosmopolitan body.

Location: Each One Teach One (EOTO) eV is a community-based advocacy, education, and empowerment project for and by people of African descent in Berlin. Founded in 2012, the association opened its doors in March 2014 as a neighbourhood library and has been a place of learning and encounter ever since.

 

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