In this Phase of my solar System journey i was at my most chaotic and unsure Phase. I had to figure out what was important and not, which is often times was very difficult for me to conclude. Moreover, i learned that what you learned in your previous journey often times can not be used for certain Problems.Therefore, it is a Phase of confusion,anger and suprise .There is a saying that through every journey you learn siomething - but sometimes you become more confused as when you started that journey.

In the beginning of the project my task was to find sponsors for the afterparty and to create the website for it. I found and contacted the following companies/Organisations like microtool, lieferando, Clinton Großhandel GmBH, Gig Pharmacy, Gasag , Charite Stiftung , Berliner Pilsener, Deutsche Telekom ,Guido Maria Kretschmer, VW, Berlin Allianz Kulturstiftung , Deutsche Bank Stiftung und Coca Cola.

Unfortunately, none of them were willing to sponsor the afterparty.

Moreover, i was responsible for programming the website for the afterparty.I programmed the website with the web-tool Jimdo,where you can create and program your own website and publish it.It took me two weeks to create the website.

The idea of the website was for potential visitors to get all the information they need and also extra information like personal details about the planning-team of the afterparty and who are the sponsors.

Finding the Venue

Our approach on finding the venue was based on a suggestion from Hellas Filmbox Crew that they wanted a place with a underground-feeling.We found two possible places: WBB Willner Brauerei in Berlin-Pankow and Maze.Berlin in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The advantages of the WBB Willner Brauerei in Berlin-Pankow are that the building has several floors and has the feeling of an underground abondent Building

There is place for ca.200 people, there is a bar and the guest can smoke there but the disadvantages is that there is no stage there which is necessary for our entertainment act.The advantages of Maze.Berlin is that it has different rooms on one floor, that there is a bar and a backstage-room for the acts. Moreover, there are different entrances were vip-guests and normal guests can be separated.In comparisen we decided for Maze.Berlin for the venue for our afterparty.

Finding Entertainment

At the beginning of planning the Afterparty we brainstormed who can we invite to the Afterparty as an Entertainment act.We invited acts like Conchita Wurst or Elton John to our afterparty but only Raja Gemini Management answered us and accepted our proposal.I contacted a friend of a mine who is a gay belly dancer but unfortunately he is at that time in Holiday.

The Symposium

Because of the difficulties we faced in planning the afterparty we decided to take on a new project and decided to plan a symposium about how the Greek financial crisis in particular has impacted the LGBT community (rise of right-wing groups, limited healthcare access etc).Following issues should be included in the Symposium

1. Economic pressures forcing refugees into sex work
2. Lowered healthcare Access
3. Rising intravenous drug use; HIV rates exploding
4. Police aggression against transgender individualsLimited recognition of queer refugees
5. Religious tension with LGBT peoples

The topic of the symposium is related to the films who are shown at the 20th of January 2017 who are dealing with this specific topic. Our idea was that the symposium should take the role of little preview for the Hellas Filmbox Festival in January.The symposium should be on the 12th of January 2017 on 18 h at the Macromedia University and should be also hosted by the university.

Finding Speakers

Our approach on finding speakers for the symposium was that we want different aspects represented in the Symposium.We wanted to have a speaker who has a theoritical knowledge about gender theories, feminism and lgbtq issues in greece. Also we thought about having a religious aspect and thought about inviting greek orthodox priest to our Symposium. Moreover , another aspect that could be interesting in the Symposium would be to have a greek lgbtq refugee to talk about his experience in Greece and also organizations or charities who are working with refugees of the lgbtq-community or working with that topic. Possible People with the theoritical background were Bärbel Mauß, who is the coordinator for the study program Gender Pro Mint at the Interdisziplinare Frauen-und Geschlechterforschung in Berlin who is working in fields like science and gender studies in biology and biomedicin and in development of learning concepts for gender studies in natural and technology science

.Also we contacted Aline Oloff, academic assistant at the Centre of Interdisziplinare Frauen-und Geschlechterforschung in Berlin who is currently working in theories of feminism, history of feminism , science studies and france studies.Moreover, we contacted Dr. Pat Treusch , alo an academic assistant at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinare Frauen-und Geschlechterforschung in Berlin in which she is working in queer-feministic technoscience studies about Human-Robot-Relationship, Cyborg-feminism, queer-feministic material-and bodytheories and critical posthuman science and environmental posthumanities.

We contacted Archimandrit des Ökumenischen Patriarchats Emmanuel Sfiatkos in Berlin and Archimandrit des Griechische orthodoxe Gemeinde der Himmelfahrt des Herrn Nikodimos Totkas.

I contacted

- queer leben : They are helping queer people in different areas like finding a flat or go to state authorities.

-Schwulenberatung Berlin gGmbH: They are advising homosexual people in different areas like finding a job or with other difficulties.

-TransInterQueer (TrIQ e.V.) :  Education work on transsexual and intersexuality as well as on queer lifestyle

- queeramnesty-berlin: They are a suborganization of amnesty international who are educational work on lgbt issues and other actions.

- Hannchen-Mehrzweck-Stiftung: They support projects who are dealing with lgbt issues

- LSU Bundesverband: They are a suborganisation of the CDU who are supporting and fighting for different lgbt issues.I find it interesting because CDU is a political party with christian background and how this can work together

-.Olge :: a greek organisation who deals with the difficult situation for the lgbtq community in greece they are based in Athens

- ILGA Europe :: the Europe section of the International Gay and Lesbian Association,promoting the interests of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, at the European level. participate.

Furthermore ,we contacted Vasilia Kaga who participated and has experience with queer and feminist projects in Athens and Berlin. She was willing to speak at our symposium. Moreover, we contacted Margarita Tsomou ,who worked with HBS and Missy Magazine, discussing women’s rights and Greece. Also, we contacted Eliza Goroya , a greek lawyer and Greece and Cyprus Campaigner at Amnesty International who is living in London who accepted our proposal to participate at the symposium but because she lives in london can only participate through skype. Because she was the only one willing to participate at the 12th of January we postponed the symposium on the 17th of March 2017.

Marketing

For our marketing concept we decided to do a social media campaign based on the fact that we do not have any budget to use.We decided to use facebook as our main platform for our Social Media Campaign.

My idea was to use Memes as a part for our social media campaign. A meme is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture".

We thought about the content of the memes and how it should look. A Team member than made first draft ideas for the memes.

My opinion was that people do not recognize them as memes and do not really understand their message. After my critic the Team member developed new memes.

The memes can now be seen as memes and the message is now clear.

My Review on the Project

When i joined the project i liked the idea of the combination of art and social activism. Also because of the restricted numbers of members in the group it would be easier to work, the communication would be easier and faster and more tasks and more reliabilities are there to do. Also, i liked the idea that we are almost completely free to plan the Afterparty ourselves and that we can experience what is important to plan an event. During our project i learned that it is really important to have a clear and understandable project proposal so that the companies,charities or organizations do not skip the possibility of sponsoring us because they do not really understand what they are exactly would be sponsoring. Moreover, the problematic situation in finding sponsors is that it is better to have inner connection to a company especially in a big company because the sponsorship proposal get easily lost because often the staff do not really know who is responsible for sponsorship or the email got lost in the many emails they get. In terms of finding venues and entertainment there was not really any problem. Moreover, marketing and design was interesting because we all as group had an input there and the endproduct is a collaboration of all the members of the group.The difficult situation was that without budget we can not really realize our plans and unfortunately we had to cancel our plan and restrict it to a gathering in a bar. Instead of the Afterparty we decided to plan a Symposium as an pre-opener for the Hellas Filmbox Festival. Because of our limited time and the specific topic symposium in the to find speakers we could not find enough speaker who were willing to participate at the symposium at the 12th of January.The working relation between hellas Filmbox and us was sometimes difficult because we as a group did not get all the information we needed or get them really late so we had to adjust our plans based on information we got. Overall, although the difficulties we faced in the project i learned how difficult it is to plan an event without money, to find sponsorship and the importance of time and adjusting to the partner you are working with.