Collective residencies / Olot
QLGBTI+
From Monday, 3 February 2020 to Friday, 28 February 2020

Present and future
Different kinds of revolution involving social, cultural, economic, ecological and personal identity question and challenge us. These changes must be accompanied by mechanisms that ensure respect for the human rights of each individual, including individual rights of homosexual, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. These changes, however, will not occur without representation and active presence in all fields, especially in those of knowledge and exchange of experiences and projects, which is what concerns us at Faber.
At Faber we want to rethink the diversity of gender, sex, identity and how they are combined with differences of origin, culture, religion, social class or age. What are the new social policies that we have to establish? How should we approach an inclusive and transformative education? What role does the administration have and what role do we citizens have? How do power differences work when it comes to establishing a field of equity among LGBTI* people? What new personal and collective discourses should we take into account to overcome LGBTI*-phobia? How do we think about concepts such as freedom, rights, family or progress?
That is why we call researchers from any discipline related to these fields of interest (sociology, political science, philosophy, biology, psychology, economics, work and social education, etc.): activists, artists, writers, journalists and all those people who have a project related to the field we propose. We would like to debate, together, the challenges our societies, institutions and cultures are facing.
Residents

KATHERINE LIM
Writer
SPYRIDON CHAIRETIS
Gender & Media Studies Researcher
KYLE RUBINI
HIV Prevention Worker
SEBASTIAN MITCHELL BARR
Psychology Fellow
CHRIS HILLER
PhD Researcher, Institute for Geography, University of Potsdam
ANN MARIE WILSON
Assistant Professor of History
TANJA DITTFELD
PhD Candidate / University Teacher
AGNES TÖRÖK
Author and activist
KHALED ALESMAEL
Writer and journalist
ANNUKKA LAHTI
Postdoctoral researcher, Gender Studies, University of Jyväskylä
RICHARD HUDDLESON
Translator and doctoral student in Catalan Studies
SEBASTIÀ PORTELL
Writer
CHRISTINA GRIFFIN
Psicoanalista, Psicòlega forense, escriptora
ROBERT MIZZI
Associate Professor
VERA BOITCOVA
Performance artist
CLÁUDIA NAOUM
Writer
Olot
A roof for Love
Opinions
What residents are saying about us

Writer and journalist
KHALED ALESMAEL
My Green Boiler Jumpsuit I decided to have my last trip with my green boiler jumpsuit, as a Danish friend called it, to Catalonia. I wanted a rough and practical visit. In Olot, I wrote The Queen Shams story from my next book, I cooked Syrian ...
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Assistant Professor of History
ANN MARIE WILSON
Writing, Rest, and Reflection in the Mountains Olot is such a wonderful place in which to retreat and work on one’s project. Every morning I would step out onto my balcony and take in the gorgeous skyline and think: what a gift to be able ...
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PhD Candidate / University Teacher
TANJA DITTFELD
Queer(y)ing a residency On a hill overlooking Olot, a charming town nestled in the Baixa Garrotxa region of Catalonia with no less than four volcanoes scattered around its centre, is Hotel Riu Fluvià, the physical frame of the Faber apartment ...
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HIV Prevention Worker
KYLE RUBINI
A Chapter Worth Reading I came to the Faber Residency to write about how stories affect our lives. Which I did. However, my stay here has become a story in itself. The residency delivered on its promises: we were provided with an exceedingly comfortable ...
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Writer
CLÁUDIA NAOUM
A rich and remarkable surprise My experience as a resident at Faber couldn't be better. Before I arrived in Olot, I expected that I would spend all my time just writing my project, without much contact with people. But to my ...
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Associate Professor
ROBERT MIZZI
Rejuvenating, Re-energizing, and Reconnecting with the Faber Residency Upon arrival into Faber, I was immediately granted with a warm welcome and a hearty laugh. I did not realize at that time that this warmth and laughter would carry on throughout ...
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