BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-// - ECPv6.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mhasberlin.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260426T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260426T160000 DTSTAMP:20260415T145240Z CREATED:20260323T151621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260415T145240Z UID:1097-1777212000-1777219200@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:Interwoven Workshop #1 with Emily Basa Besa - Interwoven: Weaving Together Our Stories & Traditions DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/interwoven-workshop-1/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mhasberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Emily1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260425T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260425T180000 DTSTAMP:20260412T080831Z CREATED:20260304T141219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260412T080831Z UID:1056-1777132800-1777140000@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:"We Feed Those Who Came Before Us": Food-as-Care-Ritual Workshop with Rabiga Marx DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/we-feed-those-who-came-before-us/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mhasberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/rabiga-marx-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260411T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260411T160000 DTSTAMP:20260411T100624Z CREATED:20260411T095531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260411T100624Z UID:1126-1775916000-1775923200@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Lizza May David and Fumiko Kikuchi - as part of "Caring Histories" DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/artist-talk-with-lizza-may-david-and-fumiko-kikuchi-as-part-of-caring-histories/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mhasberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/WhatsApp-Image-2026-04-11-at-11.57.00.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260328T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260328T210000 DTSTAMP:20260303T113212Z CREATED:20260303T112750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T113212Z UID:1032-1774724400-1774731600@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:Film Screening of "JACKFRUIT" and Q&A with director ThĂčy Trang Nguyễn DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/jackfruit/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mhasberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Thuy-Portrait_Nguyen_©Fegg-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260321T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260321T183000 DTSTAMP:20260304T141441Z CREATED:20260303T103425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T141441Z UID:1024-1774108800-1774117800@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:“Sao con chÆ°a về? | Why haven’t you come home yet?” Community Gathering Workshop with LÆ°u BĂ­ch Ngọc and Lem TragNguyen DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/sao-con-chua-ve/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260307T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260307T210000 DTSTAMP:20260303T122549Z CREATED:20260303T115954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T122549Z UID:1043-1772906400-1772917200@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:Opening of “Caring Histories: Asian Caregivers in Berlin – Migration\, Memory\, and Social Change (1950–present)” DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/opening-caring-histories/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mhasberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Caring_Histories_Info_Tile_EN.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260125T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260125T180000 DTSTAMP:20260116T094813Z CREATED:20251229T132055Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T094813Z UID:910-1769356800-1769364000@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:Spoken Word Performance by amaeze DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/amaeze/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251130T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251130T180000 DTSTAMP:20251110T182652Z CREATED:20251028T113531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251110T182652Z UID:708-1764518400-1764525600@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:The Birth of River Snake - Book Launch and reading by joy maps DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/the-birth-of-river-snake/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251127T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251127T200000 DTSTAMP:20251013T182221Z CREATED:20251013T135828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251013T182221Z UID:672-1764266400-1764273600@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:"How to Tend Grief?: Collective Grief Tending – A Ritual to Ground in Times of Chaos" (BIPOC-only offering) DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/how-to-tend-grief/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251106T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251106T193000 DTSTAMP:20251013T182253Z CREATED:20251013T135057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251013T182253Z UID:654-1762452000-1762457400@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:“How to Gather Warmth?: Healing as a Collective\, Embodied Practice” with Rositsa Mahdi DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/how-to-gather-warmth/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251016T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251108T190000 DTSTAMP:20251104T150003Z CREATED:20250917T113808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T150003Z UID:479-1760637600-1762628400@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:"Letters of Healing": An Introspective Exhibition with Vespera Meng and Patricia FernĂĄndez DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/letters-of-healing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251002T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251002T113000 DTSTAMP:20250918T100321Z CREATED:20250917T110348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T100321Z UID:466-1759399200-1759404600@mhasberlin.com SUMMARY:Anxiety Lab x Mental Health Arts Space Online Workshop DESCRIPTION:INTERWOVEN: WEAVING TOGETHER OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS: THREE WORKSHOPS BY EMILY BASA BESA \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The workshops are free; donations are appreciated. 🙂All are welcome\, no previous experience needed. These workshops are suitable for children aged 10 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Mental Health Arts Space is a partially accessible space (ground floor)\, the main entrance is 86.5 cm wide. The bathroom might not be acccessible for larger wheelchair users. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOP #2 – ANCHORED: HOMING OUR STORIES & TRADITIONS SATURDAY\, MAY 16\, 2-4pm  In this workshop\, we will practice setting the scene\, making the home a sanctuary wherever we are\, and making wherever we are a home. Everyone is invited to bring an object or image of an object\, place or person that holds meaning for  them. Emily will share stories of altar-making connected with Philippine traditions\, and we will make a centerpiece together. We will reflect on creating sacred spaces in the home\, how we anchor ourselves when in diaspora\, and feeling at home in ourselves. We will support these reflections with creative writing and mindful and somatic exercises.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please note: During this workshop\, there will be two artists present for the purposes of artistic documentation: Meikey To (who did the wonderful poster & graphics for Caring Histories!) will be collecting impressions\, thoughts and stories for their zine documentation\, and Hany Tea will be archiving sonic impulses\, voices and dialogue for their sonic/audio documentation piece. Are you excited already or what! Both the zine and audio documentation will be made available on the Caring Histories project website end July! 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Basa Besa is a facilitator of social practices\, a meditation and mindfulness teacher\, and a creative consultant working at the intersection of art\, care\, and collective meaning-making. Her practice centers on creating spaces where individuals and groups can feel at home in themselves through embodied presence\, storytelling\, shared ritual\, and therapeutic processes practiced collectively. She works across retreats\, workshops\, ceremonies\, and socially-engaged art contexts\, drawing on mindfulness-based\, trauma-sensitive\, and somatic approaches.Through ritual\, reflection\, somatic practices\, and shared meals\, she creates participatory formats that support collective presence and dialogue. Using her Filipino heritage anddiasporic experience as the framework\, she engages questions of lineage\, exchange\, hybridity\, movement\, and continuity\, inviting participants to reflect on their own personal and cultural lineages/narratives. Her work is grounded in relationship with the natural world\, encouraging attunement to inner experience alongside landscape\, seasonality\, weather\, celestial bodies\, cycles of nature\, and our more-than-human relations. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meikey To (they/them) is a freelance illustrator\, comic artist\, and political educator based in Hamburg. Since 2017\, Meikey has created spaces for collective storytelling and solidary knowledge exchange through comics\, zines\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, using analog and digital media as political tools. Their practice focuses on postcolonial memory\, diasporic experiences\, and intersections of race\, gender\, and the body.Meikey‘s work includes illustrations for Carlsen Verlag and Goethe-Institut Beijing. A comic essay on food\, diaspora\, and cultural appropriation appeared in the Italian magazine Internazionale. In 2025\, Meikey presented a comic exhibition on race\, body\, and gender at Mikropol RBO and a group exhibition at Frappant\, for which they developed a digital-to-analog first-aid zine generator against state surveillance and police violence.Meikey is currently completing their studies in Illustration at HAW Hamburg\, focusing on anti-discriminatory visual language and graphic storytelling. Their current project is a comic tracing migration\, ruptures\, Hakka heritage\, and the deconstruction of time as a postcolonial narrative strategy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n hany tea is an interdisciplinary artist\, sonic practitioner\, and researcher working at the intersections of diaspora\, memory\, and care through sound\, oral history\, and storytelling. Their practice centres collective listening and transgenerational dialogue as ways of engaging with lived experience\, migration histories\, and forms of social and emotional labour.In 2025\, Hany curated Listening to the Past – Hearing the Present at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)\, a project that brought together former contract workers from Cuba\,Mozambique\, and Vietnam and their children through workshops\, shared listening\, storytelling\, and musical practice\, positioning music as a medium of remembrance and intergenerational exchange.From March to June 2025\, Hany presented an audio installation at Dump Gallery in Almaty\, Kazakhstan as part of Kitchen Conversations\, tracing layered soundscapes ofmemory\, labour\, and intimacy through fragments of recordings while cooking with parents. Hany is also a member of the Mutating Kinship Lab (MKL)\, an artistic think-tank fostering dialogue and collaboration within Asian diaspora artistic communities in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Please sign up for the workshops using the form below. You will receive a confirmation email from us. If you cannot attend\, please notify us so we can give your spot to someone else. 🙂 \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Name \n \n \n \n \n Email \n \n \n \n \n Which workshops are you signing up for? \n \n \n \n \n Workshop 1 (Sunday April 26)\n Workshop 2 (Saturday May 16)\n Workshop 3 (Saturday June 6)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do you have any accessibility requirements? If yes\, please write them here. \n \n \n \n \n How did you hear about the workshop? (e.g. through a friend/on the MHAS website/via community associations like ALPAS Pilipinas/from Emily herself \n \n \n \n \n Do you identify as Filipino or of Southeast Asian heritage? (Please select one) \n \n \n \n \n Yes\n No\n I don't know\n \n \n \n \n \n I confirm that I am registering for this in-person event and will attend only if I am not feeling unwell/experiencing medical symptoms (e.g. cough\, cold\, fever\, etc.) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Send URL:https://mhasberlin.com/event/anxiety-lab/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR