WHOLE - United Queer Festival

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Stage at the Whole Festival 2018

WHOLE - United Queer Festival is a queer music festival that has been organized by a coalition of Berlin underground party collectives since 2017 . It is the first queer electronic music festival in Europe.

The festival took place for the first time from August 25 to 27, 2017 at Bergheider See in Brandenburg , and since the second edition in 2018, the Ferropolis site at Gremminer See in Saxony-Anhalt has been the venue. It was founded by Chris Phillips and Raquel Fedato with the aim of creating a protected space for queer people that other electronic music festivals in Europe did not offer, but queer parties in Berlin and other cities did.

Different collectives should have a joint project with the festival to bring the queer scene together. The founding collectives included Members , Pornceptual , TrashEra , G day , female: pressure , Riot and Liber Null . Other Berlin collectives such as Room 4 Resistance , Licking , Buttons and CockTail d'Amore as well as collectives from New York ( Unter ), Lisbon ( mina ), Mexico City ( Traición ), London ( Horse Meat Disco ) and other cities were added later.

In addition to electronic music, there are various performances , workshops and installations. Musicians and other artists who perform at the festival are mostly queer themselves. One focus is on female, trans and non-binary DJs and performers, who should make up at least half of all performing artists. Well-known musicians who performed and appear at the WHOLE include Kim Ann Foxman , Octo Octa , Oliver Deutschmann , The Black Madonna and Noncompliant .

Resident Advisor recommended the third edition in 2019 as one of the world's ten best festivals in June 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Frank Hermann: "Whole": Europe's first queer festival for electronic music. In: Siegessäule. August 22, 2017, accessed on May 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Patrick Hinton: The Black Madonna and rRoxymore are playing Whole - United Queer Festival. In: Mixmag. April 24, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c “As diverse as possible”: The Whole United Queer Festival 2018. In: Siegessäule. August 18, 2018, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Top 10 June 2019 festivals. In: Resident Advisor. May 2, 2019, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Michael Rädel: Queer Festival: WHOLE. In: blu. March 27, 2019, accessed on May 22, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Jake Indiana: Whole - United Queer Festival Is the Summer's Most Inclusive Destination. In: cold blood. July 28, 2018, Retrieved May 22, 2019 (American English).