Our projects are initiated, developed and led by highly intersectional LGBTQIA+ people living in Vienna.
Activities include:
- Queer Writers Circle Vienna – Monthly Queer Writers Meetings. Highly intersectional, queer and multilingual writers support, share and create. All welcome.
- Queer Writers Circle Vienna ⎪Youth Initiative – Highly intersectional, queer writer initiatives by the youth of the Queer writers Circle Vienna; supported by storytelling and mental health coaches. By the youth, for everyone.
- Activate Queer Youth Club – Monthly queer youth support club meetings in a highly intersectional and multilingual setting. In collaboration with Villa Vida.
- DiasporARTS – Project bringing together artists, creatives, arts and culture educators, and creative social enterprises of African, South Asian and mixed diasporas. In collaboration with AQUAFI, our partners in Bordeaux, France.
- Transient Learning – Project to create spaces of learning and exchange that reach new museum audiences through storytelling. In collaboration with the Museum of Modern art (mumok) Vienna.
- Visual Philosopies of Human Rights – Project to introduce museum tours that explore art works and exhibitions from a human rights perspective. In collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art (mumok) Vienna, and the Masters of Arts in Applied Human Rights programme (University of Applied Arts, Vienna).
- Poetry for Pride – Annual, highly intersectional, queer and multilingual poetry performance event, which is organised during Vienna Pride Month.
- Poetic Intuition – Annual, highly intersectional, queer and multilingual storytelling festival. The 3 day festival brings storytellers from the Queer Writers Circle and Queer Writers Circle⎪Youth Initiative, together with international talents, arts education institutions and mental health coaches to perform, write and reimagine.
- Verlag Triple Threat WOW Publishing – A publisher established by Hint Wien to support and distribute highly intersectional, queer and multilingual stories, as well as raise the profiles of intersectional queer writers through collaborations with independent bookstores.
- Queer Vienna Mutual Aid Fund – An initiative to encourage social-economic solidarity across diverse queer communities in Vienna.
We believe that by working collaboratively to harness the power of highly intersectional queer centered and multilingual storytelling; we can create a world where diverse queer voices are present, heard, published and celebrated.
