Dates/times: January 9, 5.30-7pm
Location: Foyer – Academy of Theatre and Dance - Jodenbreestraat 3   
Contributors: Lectorate + South Boom Boom project Yujing Liu (BA SNDO), Mario Lopes (DAS Choreography), Flavia Pinheiro (THIRD) and Sofia Castro (BA SNDO), Papaya Kuir, Paula Montecinos (THIRD).     
 
Come join us in the foyer for drinks, snacks and an open mic session to mark the start of Research Month and to celebrate the launch of the SOUTH BOOM BOOM and Somatic Laboratory - trans* Latinx memories. SOUTH BOOM BOOM is a multi-lingual collection of performative texts originating from a project at DAS Graduate School combining contributions from artists participating in the Theatre and Choreography programs, alumni and invited guests. Edited by Mario Lopes, Flavia Pinheiro and Tom Oliver with Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, this special section is part of the larger, multi-year project SOUTH BOOM BOOM which “invites artists to discuss the importance of dissenting invisibility in art and education to contribute to knowledge on how institutions can articulate and enact an anti-racist and anti-colonial agenda.” Among the connecting threads of the texts is the affirmation of collectivity and “collective doing” (Lopes) over individualism in artistic research. With readings from: Yujing Liu (BA SNDO), Mario Lopes (DAS Choreography), Flavia Pinheiro (THIRD) and Sofia Castro (BA SNDO). Papaya Kuir will be also launching a fanzine with contributions from the Latinx Kuir Community. Papaya Kuir is an intersectional feminist collective for & by Trans and Lesbian Queer Latinx Asylum seekers in the Netherlands including Paula Montecinos (THIRD).
 
Acuerpadxs, is a zine that assembles written stories, notes, collages and visual traces of trans*latinx migrant community living in the Netherlands. The material was created in the context of somatic laboratory - Trans*latinx memories sessions organized with Papaya Kuir collective, with the aim to democratize learning and knowledge production processes, creating support networks and cross-pollination between academic, artistic spaces and grassroots communities that don’t have access to these healing technologies.
This zine is a collective archive, to share, process, integrate, transform and politicize memories of displacement, migration and transitioning, that trans and queer latinx refugees/migrants/asylum seekers have to deal with.

Editors:
Jack Porter
Paula Montecinos

Organisation:
Papaya Kuir Collective

With financial support by:
Papaya Kuir Collective
Platform 2025 - Diversity and inclusion ATD
DAS Research Funds

South Boom Boom in the Performance Philosophy journal
https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/issue/view/15