Community Guidelines

In a heartfelt tapestry of emotions, memories, and beginnings, BLADE embraces creativity through empathetic dialogues in a safer space where we can express ourselves joyfully and embark on a collective journey toward healing.

BLADE positions itself as feminist, queer-friendly, and against racism, sexism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, ableism, fatphobia, classism, elitism, and any other forms of group-based misanthropy. We strive to make the unconscious conscious by reflecting on our privileges and advocating for a space where our FLINTA* and QTBIPoC community feels seen and respected.

BLADE is a celebration: people come together, make music, dance together, and stand in solidarity with and support each other in the conflicts of our time. We find inspiration by honoring the multiplicities of our existences and spirits. Together, we craft a sanctuary of trust and compassion, transcending the echoes of suppression into resilience for freedom.

BLADE is a non-commercial space that exists and evolves through the collective participation of all: through your music, your dance, your forms of expression, your joy and grief, your knowledge, euphoria, love, and pain, your awareness, and empathy.

We practice empathy together – on and off the dance floor – to counter sequences of violence and patriarchy that produce hierarchies of pain. How can we establish a space to care for each other in these troubling times that affect us so differently? It is about care and community in a space through which we practice listening to each other, forge more solidarity with one another, learn and unlearn, and grow together.

BLADE is shaped by different backgrounds and lives through collective work. Our team operates fully unpaid and wholeheartedly, to curate and produce BLADE 2024. Become a part of the BLADE community and contact us at support (at) blade-festival.de