We Should All Be Dreaming

“The possible has been tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible,” said Sun Ra, avantgarde jazz musician and an influential figure of Afrofuturism. With We Should All Be Dreaming, choreographer Sonya Lindfors and writer Maryan Abdulkarim will transform Rennelberg Prison’s former workshop into a temporary space of togetherness – and an open space where listening, exchange and dreaming together become practices of quiet resistance. With a three-course menu at a long table, performative dinner speeches will provide the occasion for discussions about a better future. Which utopias become conceivable when we allow ourselves to dream collectively beyond what is apparently possible?  

 

Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and artistic director. She also works in the areas of mediation, community organisation and education, and is a founding member and artistic director of UrbanApa, an interdisciplinary community and anti-hegemonic art community, which provides a platform for new discourse and feminist artistic practices. In all her positions, she aims to create and promote anti-racist and feminist platforms where a festival, performance, publication or workshop can function as places of empowerment and radical collective dreaming. 

Maryan Abdulkarim is a writer, activist and curator. She is concerned with issues such as racism, feminism, belonging and power structures, as well as freedom. She questions the dominant narratives in Finnish society.
Her work is strongly characterised by postcolonial thinking and intersectionality. A central motif of her work is the idea of reimagining the future in the present: Who is allowed to dream? Under what conditions do visions arise? And how can these be made more just?