〰️Reading AFFECTIVE politics➰
💭Affective politics asks how emotions become policial forces. How intimacy, grief, fear, exhaustion, desire, love and more circulate socially — shaping collective life while reproducing or resisting power.
In a time increasingly organized through polarization, resentment, and algorithmically amplified outrage, emotions are constantly mobilized to produce distance, hostility, and simplified understandings of one another. Affect theory reminds us that feelings are never merely private; they are also historical, material, and collective.
When we refuse emotional hardening as the only response, what other forms of life become possible? Can tenderness, melancholy, vulnerability, dependency, care, and radical softness allow us to imagine another kind of solidarity?
➿This Saturday, we’ll read selected texts/books on affective politics together while sharing snacks and drinks across the spectrum of sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy. Come read, talk, or just be with each other!
🐾16th May · 2–7 pm, dm for address
💘!!!!!!!*From this weekend until (maybe) the end of the month, our space will enter an “affective season.” Upcoming gatherings and launches will explore affective politics, left-wing melancholia, psychiatric peer support and zine practices.
Since a printing workshop led by @bleed.print has been running for a week in our space now, on this upcoming open day, we will transform the reading room to a space to map printing resources, exchange needs around solidarity-based publishing, as part of an ongoing effort to connect people interested in building an activism printing network in Berlin.
We welcome everyone to drop by anytime from 2pm-7pm this Sunday (May 10th), to see book making process, to explore risography, to discuss collaborative print practices for activism.
What is a housing cooperative? How to join or even self-organize a housing cooperatives in Germany?
A housing cooperative, or housing co-op, in German, Wohngenossenschaft, is the type of housing that you do not need to ”buy“ or ”rent“, but collectively owned and managed by a group of people. Carried with histories of solidarity and self-organizing, it is still not known or accessible for many, particularly migrant(ized) communities.
On this Saturday 2nd of May at 14:00-21:00, Liang and Laurene will bring some books to the space, and then do a sharing & discussion on possibilities of self-organized cooperatives in the era of housing crisis.
Reading room opens: 14:00-18:00
Sharing starts at: 18:00-onwards
In the sharing, they will dive into: first, the history of housing cooperatives in the German-speaking regions, its roots on solidarity and communal-living, its potential to help us re-imagine how modes of living could be like outside of the neoliberal market; secondly, they will also unpack some practicals with embodied experiences on how the housing cooperatives work, and what are the current limitations & obstacles in the poly-crisis we live in.
DM for address! The sharing will be in English & Mandarin, with whisper translation if needed.
Liang @fr.qiao is an independent architect in Berlin. Her practice is rooted in collective work and engages with questions of public space, housing rights, with a particular focus on people with migrant backgrounds.
Laurene graduated from UdK Berlin. She stands at edges and and cares about spatial justice.
Mayday is coming! This year we are uniting our powers. We will march together with the GIANT GHOST refuse to disappear and the KITCHEN on the run. We will be feeding comrades, spreading resistance prints and singing revolutionary songs in different languages. join us at the revolutionary Mayday demo to stand up against all the imperialisms and the campists!
18:00 Oranienplatz with Antifa bloc
WE ARE THOUSANDS WE ARE MILLIONS
WE ARE GIANTS!
👻 GIANT PUPPET making for the May 1st DEMO
*Why PUPPETS
Giant puppets turn imagination into something real and visible — they make our ideas impossible to ignore; they carry collective voices, not just individual ones, becoming living symbols of shared struggle; they transform the street: from a place of control into a space of creativity, joy, and resistance!
✊ Join our PUPPET block
We’ll make and bring ghostly, monstrous puppets to the march, supporting each other as protest buddies, speaking for diverse, migrant workers and all those who are oppressed.
✊ Or build your own creature for your block
Build a figure, symbol, or character that represents your group and carries your message into the crowd.
Let them roar with us. Let them take over the streets!
29th APRIL
2–8 PM (Begin promptly!)
📝 How to join
Register via the link in bio
We’ll notify you if your registration is successful and share the address
(Puppet making methods inspired by Bread and Puppet)
Film Screening: Belki Sibe (Maybe Tomorrow): A Journey Through the Syrian War and Rojava Revolution (2023)
the film unfolds an 18 month journey through war and revolution, in Rojava Kurdistan NE Syria, highlighting women's role, international volunteers, key battles like Manbij and Raqqa, and civilian life under Kurdish self-rule.
Tofu Stand invited the filmmaker Alexis Daloumis for an online Q&A, moderated by Antson. Both the filmmaker and moderator fought in the Internationalist Brigade in Rojava during the war against ISIS. The screening and Q&A will take place in two independent spaces in Berlin and Rotterdam.
Time: April 26th (Sun) 19.00-22.00
Screening and online Q&A with filmmaker
Location: GelisPark (Berlin, DM for exact address ), Available & Rat (Rotterdam)
GELI-SCHULE 蛤蜊小學 Peer Learning Series: Introduction to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for Activism
Have you always wanted to know more about that one exploitative company that screwed you and your comrades over? Have you always wanted to know more about what kind of publicly available information that can be cross-referenced and checked to make visible the state violence that is invisible or inaccessible to many? Everyone has the right to information, data, and research against the big powers. How can we, as workers, migrants, queers, feminists, activists, and regular folks to collectively gather and organize information that can support our resistance movement?
In this peer-learning session, we will facilitate an introduction to open source intelligence (OSINT) for activism: a workshop to collectively learn together what OSINT is, and what we can do with it.
14:00-15:00 settle in & open reading time
15:00-17:30 workshop and snacks
17:30- open reading & hanging out
Please register & get address through DM.
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GELI-SCHULE 蛤蜊小學 Peer Learning Series at GeliSpark is a series of events that encourage our community to learn from and with each other new skills, tips, and hacks against hegemonic powers through reading, making, and other forms of collective studies.
How can the poetics to have revolutionary potentials? how can our resistance be embodied, sensed, and felt?
In this Sunday’s open day from 3-8, we invite you to bring one piece from your own to share with us: could be a song, a poem you like, or a receipe, a paragraph from literature, a real, lived, story, whatever you would define as militant poetics.
If you don‘t have anything in mind, don’t worry, come and read our selected books and zines, and find the militant poetics within.
We‘ll do a gentle round of sharing at around 5 pm, singing & reading and stretching encouraged.
Dm for address.
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Open Call for Participation: One Thousand and One Night School
for Shared Labour, Togetherness, Learning, Crafting and Storytelling
from 01–05 June 2026. We will cook, play, craft, learn, move and create stories together. Meet collaborators @gelispark , @maru_supi , @sanchakou_y , @176.yu.resonate , and @rubysircar .
Why is a silver lining, like a guiding star, in times as these dearly needed? We think unleashing ungoverned voices is not just a game played by jins, but something we can all magic up and fabulate and create our own life on. So let’s join hands to weave a fantastic like-minded artistic folk.
If you are interested in joining, please email us a short note (max. 250 words) about why you would like to participate: [email protected]
Deadline: 26 April 2026
Participants will be informed by the end of April.
poster design @lyfly_95@if_bur
We are gathering in Berlin to mark the Myanmar New Year (Thingyan).
In Berlin, New year yanant (the scent) is not the same—but we are making a home together through memory, scent, and each other. Celebrating the Myanmar New Year is a way of holding what we have gone through among the Myanmar diaspora, and those who stay close to it. Not as a big celebration, but as a way to be together, to sit for a while, to share space, to listen, and to do things together.
The evening will move gently between things: a screening of Three Strangers by Lamin Oo, zines from Myanmar sharing, and the making of Mont Lone Yay Paw, accompanying these programmes its the DIY rice noodle soup bowls by 米匪 Rice Band(it).
Dm us for address and see you 17th April!
5-7 pm Making Mont Lone Yay Paw
7pm-8pm Dinner Time with Mont Lone Yay Paw we made and Rice Noodles Bowls by Rice Band(it) 米匪
8-9 pm Three Strangers by Lamin Oo
You are welcome to join us, to stay present with what is unfolding.
Lamin Oo is a Myanmar documentary filmmaker based in Yangon. After graduating from
Gettysburg College (USA), Lamin returned to home in 2013 to start an independent film
production house Tagu Films with his childhood friends. He has collaborated with local and international filmmakers on an array of stories about Myanmar and its people. His work has been recognized with awards locally and internationally. In 2016, Lamin received The Power of Film Humanitarian Award given by FilmAid Asia for his documentaries.
米匪 Rice Band(it) is a food collective cooking & workshopping often rice-based dishes from the Hunan and Hubei, two neighboring inland provinces, historically known as ”Huguang（湖广）,“ and famous for its bandit-like, revolutionary, and “uncivilized” spirit. Rice Band(it) explores how we can bend rules and create self-organized yet yummy chaos.
🍜 Fundraiser for a Japanese comrade's legal fees after their arrest due to political repression✨
⏰ 2-7pm 12. April
This Sunday afternoon, we open our reading room and also printing something 📖
welcome to read and eat～
DM for the exact address.
