FEMME DM-CAT – Breaking Chains, Breathing Beats

This interdisciplinary art and education initiative uses hip-hop as a tool for empowerment, cultural resistance and artistic liberation. The project specifically targets FLINTA (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people) and the creation of safe spaces where they can unfold their stories and creative abilities. It builds platforms for collective learning, creative self-expression and anti-colonial practice. The focus is on breath - as a symbol of life, freedom and resistance. In workshops, the elements of hip-hop — rap/MCing, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti — are used as transformative tools to create collective memories and commons. It is an ongoing process, an invitation to intervene, to rethink and to get loud, where the participants show the knowledge and skills they have acquired during the workshops as part of the final festival event.