The Queers Are Alive

Watch out for faux pas. Has your child or someone in your circle come out as queer? Are your knees secretly trembling as you take your first steps into queer territory? Do conversations with family and friends on this topic feel like walking through a gauntlet?

Welcome to our survival training. Join us on a scenic tour through a collage of young queer voices, performance and explanatory elements, and experience how the scenic motifs invite you to change your perspective. Allow yourself to be curious and perceive the urge for binaries, for right and wrong. And then, during the "gay aunties' coffee klatch" over jelly, take the opportunity to ask questions without inhibition, to address and dispel prejudices, to fill in the gaps in your knowledge and to express any uncertainties you may have in dealing with young people whose sexual orientation and/or gender identity is currently changing.Yes, that's right: participation is possible, but not mandatory. You choose the form. Let's dare to create a space for knowledge transfer together. It's okay to put your foot in it, and it won't strain any relationships. THE QUEERS ARE ALIVE sees itself as an artistic intervention that aims to relieve young queer people so that they don't have to act as experts on themselves and their generation. The invitation is deliberately aimed at the circle of young queers, at people who have had little or no contact with queerness and suicidality, as well as anyone else who is interested. We are convinced that difficult things need to be practised. Let's get started. A production by Stick Around.

By and with: Sabrina Tannen, Dorothea Mildenberger, Dominic Schibli, Mikki Levy-Strasser, Joh von Felten and accomplices

Stick Around's artistic practice is dedicated to the various aspects surrounding the complex issue of youth suicide. Queer young people belong to a proven vulnerable group.