AMOQA

In 2015 I was granted a 5 month fellowship to initiate AMOQA (Athens Museum of Queer Arts) by the program“stART – Youth Culture Initiatives in Greece”, a program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung conducted in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and the Bundesvereinigung Soziokultureller Zentren e.V.
The space was inaugurated on March 2016.
Since May 2016 AMOQA is a self organised space and a collective project.

AMOQA is an hybridic meeting point for the networking of researchers, activists and artists working on body politics, remembrance, gender and identity.
It hosts festivals of performance, screenings of documentaries on gender politics, as well as experimental queer films, technology workshops, lectures on gender topics, queer music gigs and wellcomes various undefined forms of arts and crafts that produce and promote queer feminist culture. AMOQA curates its own venues, but also hosts projects coming from the broader feminist queer community under the title: Boom Boom Dates.
By inviting guests and collectives from abroad connects the international and local LGBTQI+ feminist scenes, providing a space of cultural dialogue and exhange.
AMOQA is a nonprofit initiative, all the workshops and events are of free access and participation, while the space is accesible for people on wheelchairs.
At the same time, it has initiated the building of an LGBTQI+ archive, bringing together collections, artworks, zines, interviews, films, photography etc in an attempt to trace a cartography of greek LGBTQI+ movements and culture. Interested in LGBTQI+ feminist herstory and LGBTQI+ testimonies, strongly supports artistic projects that re enact and re visit our past.
Aditionally AMOQA functions as a safe space where different activist feminist queer groups use for their meetings.