Open writing circle

Pablo Santacana López invites participants to explore writing as a practice of queer world-making.
This workshop approaches writing as a way to build what doesn’t yet exist. When we write from queer experience, we’re constructing alternative realities, imagining different ways of being together, oriented toward the future.
We’ll practice using space and perception as tools for writing. How do our stories occupy, disrupt, and transform the territories they inhabit? How can we use autofiction and critical fabulation to challenge normative historical narratives and imagine alternative futures?

Pablo Santacana López (Madrid, 1991) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working between Madrid and Berlin. His practice interrogates how representations, archives, and monuments shape whose stories get remembered and whose get forgotten.
Pablo is co-founder of the art collective Vendedores de Humo and a PhD researcher at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. His work examines performative heritage, embodied memory, and the politics of queer space. He writes about how queerness transforms places and how places can be queered—how a street corner, a monument, or a text can become a site where new forms of life become possible. His research includes collaborative work on hauntological remembrance and the entanglements between past, present, and futures of queerness visible in materialized forms of memory.
His contributions have appeared in Texte Zur Kunst, Kaltblut Magazine, Arch+, and Arts of the Working Class, and he has collaborated with institutions including Gropius Bau and Haus der Kulturen del Welt in Berlin.

Words and stories reside within all of us, waiting to be discovered.

• Our monthly Open Writing Circle invites people with all levels of writing experience to explore their creativity and imagination.
In each session, one of Berlin’s many exceptional writers, poets, artists, or curators will create a vibrant and collective learning experience.
• Whether you’re interested in fiction, memoir, non-fiction, or poetry, this supportive space encourages you to uncover the words within you. We’ll draw upon techniques used in writing workshops to unleash your innate talent in a collaborative environment that will allow for a dynamic exchange of ideas and insights.
• This workshop aims to create an affirming, playful and empowering space for queer people to explore, express and celebrate their identities as well as to provide a platform for the stories of the LGBTQIA+ community to be shared, heard and valued.

General Information
Level: No previous experience is necessary.
Language: While the group is primarily conducted in English, you are welcome to write in any language you feel comfortable with.
Cost: this event is free of charge.We also invite all writers to consider leading a future session—please contact us for more information

** This event is part of the we are village program ‘Belonging versus Lonelines‘, with the support of LADS.
Learn more about the program here.