Dera Luce

🤳🏾 Smiling face offering 📜 You are colonially invited to BLOOD MONEY. In this guided meditation, we will flow with the waters of time and abundance. In this journey, we must not get carried away. Someone reading this has an ancestor, and that ancestor has a message for them. What you seek is seeking you. ⏳April 30 (Witches' Night/Walpurgisnacht) 7 PM at @galerie_im_turm Frankfurter Tor 1, 10243 Berlin 💸 BLOOD MONEY is part of the COSMIC COUNTERREADINGS event series, accompanying the COSMIC GIRLBOSS exhibition. All events are free. __ [Image 1 description: indoor selfie of Dera at the Cosmic Girlboss art exhibition. He is wearing glasses, a white hard hat, a dark blue button-down, and a smile] [Image 2 description: promotional poster for Blood Money. Black background. Tagline at top: "What you seek is seeking you...". "BLOOD MONEY" is written in a drippy font, words stacked, letters colored green and white to resemble the Nigerian flag. A green splatter slashes behind the word "money". "A guided meditation with Dera Luce" is written below in red. Event details at the bottom in white]

I'm a semifinalist for the 2026 Berlin New Stand-Up Award. I'll be performing this Friday, March 27, at @refugioberlin 🌝 Doors are at 19:00, show is at 20:00. Better to get your ticket in advance (🔗 in bio) because they do sell out. Come with your ailments so we cure you with laughter. Unless you have COVID/flu symptoms. Then please stay home. Okay so we're not curing all the ailments, what can I say. Audience members vote for their favorites, and the top-ranked comedians go on to the finals on April 10. Grand prize is €1,500 and glory. Thanks @englishcomedy.berlin for capturing this moment from my first round! #humor #sanguine #choleric #phlegmatic #melancholic

"March 11, 2026 My brother is the strongest person I've ever known. He survived so many hardships that I started to believe he could survive anything, that he was invincible. I worried about him a lot, yes, but when you've seen someone survive unimaginable things, it's not hard to believe that they'll make it through the next one too. I am going through a particularly tough time in my life right now. I feel like that's my life a lot of the time, to the extent that I've just stopped talking about life because I don't want to complain." Read the rest on Dream Logic (see bio)

Blackalicious Summer School Berlin June 12-14th @berlinglobalvillage Register via link in bio 💫 @deraluce (he/him) Dera is a Nigerian-American interdisciplinary storyteller who calls Berlin home. His art/work explores queerness, spirit economics, shifting realities, and other extraordinary experiences that he is still finding the words for. Workshop: Free Will (LOL): A Cheat Code for Navigating Oppressive Systems This workshop explores free will, agency, boundaries, and autonomy against the context of ancestral influence and the personal spiritual guide known in Igbo ontology as chi. Participants will examine how agency emerges under constraint, how choice is shaped by internal energy and relational networks, and how Black communities have exercised free will through both covert and overt resistance. Through a combination of interactive games, lecture, discussion, and grounding practices, participants will explore how choice arises under constraint, consider alignment with their chi, and situate personal agency within social, ethical, and ancestral frameworks.

Blackalicious Summer School is a space for and by Black queer and trans people. A “school” for Black queer and trans: life, love and liberation, rooted in joy, resistance, and radical imagination. We would like to come together to create and share from one another through workshops, conversations and communal play, and hangouts, centering the multitudes of Black queer and trans lives. The space is grounded in collective exchange and invites us to explore themes around creativity, ancestry, magical realism, mysticism, memory, gender expansiveness and world-building, while celebrating the fullness of who we are. The programme will have curated workshops/discussions as well as space for spontaneous exchanges. *Please note that this event is strictly for those who are both Black and either Trans, Inter or Queer. 💫Registration link in bio

Ad Astra Per Aspera 🪐🌌 To the stars through hardships. What's a saying that's gotten you through tough times?

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Feiere mit uns 7 Jahre queere Leidenschaft! | Join us in celebrating 7 years of queer (com–)passion! Program: 💭 A look back & behind the scenes by the Checkpoint team 🤍 Stage program feat. live music, poetry & drag by members of our community 🪩 DJ set Fri Nov 21 19:00–00:00 Checkpoint BLN Hermannstraße 257

🌙✨ COMEDY RETROGRADE: a comedian, a witch & a reality glitch ✨🌙 We’re bringing comedy and tarot under one cosmic roof — or rather, inside @klamotteberlin 💫 Hosted by @azizianaita (comedian, podcaster & witch) and @anshitakoulcomedy (comedian, producer & founder of @overthinkcomedyclub ), this show blends laughter, intuition, and a touch of chaos magic. The night opens with stand-up comedy, featuring some of Berlin’s funniest and most magnetic performers: 🌹 @luizebeca — adorably awkward, heartwarming, and hilarious. 🪞 @deraluce — a storyteller exploring queerness, spirit, and language. 🌕 @sankldive — sharp, surreal, and gloriously unpredictable. Then we’ll turn the lights down and the tarot cards up: three audience members will get their most pressing life questions answered through a mix of jokes and intuition. Looking for love? A job? A cat? A reason to stay in Berlin forever? The cards might just tell you. 🃏 📍 @klamotteberlin 🕰️ Doors 18:30 | Show 19:00 🎟️ Free entry | Suggested donation €5–20 Come for the jokes. Stay for the omens.

Now more than ever WKOAMAY with @deraluce #masculinity #interview #trans #lgbt #dude #bro #reel

Glad to introduce you to our community givers as performers today at @savvycontemporary Adrian Blount; they/them @godxnoirphiles Poetry spoken word performance; Based in Melbourne and Berlin, GodXXX Noirphiles. Single Parent, International theater performer, writer and Founder of QTBIPOC collective, House of Living Colors, GodXXX celebrates black and brown queer and trans art. Dera Luce; he/him @deraluce Poetry spoken word performance; Dera is a Nigerian-American interdisciplinary storyteller who calls Berlin home. His art explores queerness, spirit economics, shifting realities, and other extraordinary experiences that he is still finding the words for.

Word On The Street #22 is live and showcasing a brilliant lineup of acts representing the Global south. Sep 29 at @tipsy_bear_berlin ! Get your tickets from the link in bio, and let's have another fabulous, intentional, and hilarious evening of comedy ! ✨️Your acts ❤️ ✨️ @grannyyetta @jadsalfiti @artfromkristian Hosted by @anshitakoulcomedy and @deraluce #comedy #englishcomedy #berlín #standupcomedy