Living Room

Living Room is a community center in Bern’s Breitenrain neighborhood. The space enables dialogue between artists, activists and community members to create a unique space where connections can be built and unheard stories can be told. Living Room uses community building, art, expression, healing and participation to address current issues around racism and other forms of exclusion. It’s a place for all of us but especially for those of us who may not have access to other spaces. It’s a place where we can feel at home, just like in our living room, a place where we can feel free.

Living Room has an atelier, library and workspace. We sustain multiple projects: Manioca People’s School, Atelier D’Ici, Artists-in-Community, Diaspora University, Living Archiv, and Anticafé.

Saturday, June 17 2023 16:00–22:00

Living Sound - Djs Mugabo/Mmh.

We're delighted to invite you to our Living Sound event
with DJs Mugabo/Mmh! Come along and enjoy the mixes of our top DJs,
Bar and buffet | Free admission upon «Kollekte».
All are welcome!
Livingroom, Moserstrasse 30, 3014 Bern

Past events

Atelier D’Ici

D'Ici is a digital, multimedia studio in which inputs and interventions are produced by users of the Living Room. Stories, analyses, experiences and visions from a polyphonic Switzerland, a polyphonic Bern are developed.

To these ends, a studio will be set up as laboratory with software and hardware, home studio equipment, cameras and lighting - a multimedia home base for the creative, participatory, anti-racist spirit. In the studio, the group meets regularly with art and culture professionals, activists and researchers to work on current issues. After the research and production, the results, opinions and stories are disseminated via social media (e.g. Youtube, Instagram and Facebook).

Diaspora University

EVERY WEDNESDAY FROM 6PM TO 10PM. Other dates sporadically.

The diaspora is a multi-voiced community with a lot of knowledge about Switzerland, about migration and racism, about politics, community and art.

DIASPORA UNIVERSITY provides an open, cultural platform to express and share this knowledge as well as unheard stories, little known images and sounds. Film screenings, jukebox, lectures, political discussions, performances or simply discuss, play, remember, drink, be silent, laugh together.

Anticafé

Open on Fridays from 10 am to 3 pm.

Every Friday, the Living Room is open as a work space, social meeting place and to linger, without focusing on consumption.

People help themselves to food and drinkor can bring their own food to warm up. We offer drinks, food, outlets for charging devices, WLAN and workspace.

Donation is voluntary, suggested Fr. 5.-

Artist-in-Community

The Living Room offers an artist-in-community program: In it, local and international BIPOC artists or collectives enter into an honest conversation with the Living Room, with communities and the neighborhood.

Participatory research and other creative formats open up new aesthetic and critical perspectives on migration, anti-racism and decoloniality. Community Arts and Social Arts approaches are used to invent new relationships, communities and public spaces.

Manioca People's School

Self-organized and liberatory learning and community empowerment. Existing or newly formed groups define for themselves issues they wish to address and meet regularly to gather their knowledge, discuss and, if desired, take public action.

Each meeting can include large and small group discussions, presentation of related theory, art, poetry, theater and music. The goal is for participants to build relationships with each other, develop an awareness of structural oppression in Switzerland, and work through options for collaborative action.

Visit the archive

The Living Archive is a place for everyone, a place of learning, unlearning and encounter. A public archive that collects intersectional, decolonial, and power-critical media in various languages, selected and written primarily by Black people and people of color. A place for discussion and self-reflection, in order to bring new perspectives to local resistance. The Living Archive consists of analog and digital media.

There are children's books, novels, poetry, non-fiction, (auto)biographies, magazines, films and a documentation archive of resistance (consisting of flyers, posters, etc.). For borrowing media, we need your name and phone number.