WEAPONS, WOUNDS AND WHAT COMES AFTER.

Awareness & Critical Reflection

Jun 20, 2025

19:00

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2:00

Bar Bario

Sliding scale starting at €5 and education events are free, if you do not have means to purchase a ticket please email us.
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Militarised Masculinities and Demilitarised Futures: Conspiring Conversations through Film, Dialogue and Music.

Join us for an evening of critical film and collective conversation exploring the entanglements of militarised masculinities, forced displacement, and ongoing armed conflicts.
The evening will feature a screening of the documentary "Power on Patrol" followed by a participatory discussion, centring voices from conflict zones and diasporas. DJ Lobo will close the event with a live set, carrying us into a space of sonic imagining, towards futures demilitarised and reimagined.
We’re taught that this is the way the world is... but it’s not actually in reality, the dominant scene. So what we need to do is dig in, find the examples of countries, societies, communities, and households that live differently, and build those up as the norm.
“What is it that we could create instead of the system that we have today?” - Ray Acheson
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Sofian is a queer activist from Argentina, and a seasoned gender and inclusion practitioner with over 13 years of global experience advancing social and gender justice. As an intersectional feminist and decolonial thinker, they are deeply committed to equity, empowerment, and cross-sector collaboration. Their work spans grassroots feminist organizing, transnational advocacy, and cross-movement network building. In this session, Sofian will guide the conversation by raising critical questions about how we can resist militarisation while collectively imagining alternative, more just futures.
Angelica Pino is a feminist lawyer with extensive experience in gender-based violence and gender equality. She started her work in the human rights field in Chile in the 80s, while the country was under General Pinochet’s dictatorship. She is currently based in South Africa. She has contributed to the field of engaging men and boys for gender equality by bringing a feminist perspective to programmes run across Africa. At the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, she coordinates work on mobilising men for feminist peace. Angelica is a proud member of the board of Gun Free South Africa.
EL LOBO is a DJ, gay activist, and artist performer. This son of Aby Ayala was born and raised in Panama City, Panama, among Latin beats like Merengue, Salsa, Bachata, Guaracha, Cumbia, Pop, Telenovela Balads, Ballroom beats, and Reggaeton. He calls his track selection "Música Verguerosa" for the "Perreo pa' lxs Perrxs". His energetic "Pinche Personality" on decks captivates the crowd. Nowadays, he also explores and gets inspired by his personal refugee experiences, in Street Culture, Electronic Music, and LGBTQI+ Ballroom Culture.
Reem Abbas is a Sudanese feminist researcher and writer. With Ruba El Melik, she co-authored "(Un)doing resistance: authoritarianism and attacks on the arts in Sudan's 30 years of Islamist rule" in 2023. Her essay “Smuggling Books into Sudan: a Brief History from 2012 to 2016” was published in the Art and Solidarity Reader: Radical Actions, Politics and Friendships. She published papers and essays on the women's movement in Sudan, the WPS agenda, cyber-bullying and peace processes. She was a non-resident Fellow at Tahrir Institute on Middle East Policy and a former member in the coordination committee of MANSAM, Sudan’s largest women’s coalition. She is the former communications coordinator and the co-host of the Mobilising Men for Feminist Peace Initiative at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.