Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi: Performance as Radical Resistance

In the organizer's words:

Va-Bene Elikem Fiat's radical performances always demonstrate genuine empathy, compassion and solidarity. They invite participants, witnesses and spectators to reflect on the global rise of fascist movements and to take action against anti-queer forces that condemn LGBTQIA+ people both inside and outside Ghana.
As the founder and director of perfocraZe International Artist Residency (pIAR), Our Railway Cinema Gallery (ORCG) and crazinisT artisT studiO (TTO), which are currently under threat due to the proposed anti-LGBTQIA+ law in Ghana, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi will also describe the genesis of her advocacy. condemn both inside and outside Ghana.

In her talk, she will present the persecution of the LGBTQIA+ community in Ghana and the draconian anti-LGBTQIA+ bill that seeks to criminalize and imprison queer people, allies, parents, landlords, sympathizers and others.