I create, curate, coach and consult.
Works
Toni Morrison once said:
"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you were so brilliantly trained for, remember that your real job is that if you are free, you must free someone else. If you have power, your job is to empower someone else.'"
Melanelle has been on this journey since 2020 and has strengthened and enriched a multitude of projects, stages, organizations, institutions and individuals with her expertise and creative gifts.
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Child of the red soil,
Child of the burning sun,
Child of the calm, flowing water,
I stand, whole and strong where it all begun.
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I call my power back to me,
Protected by the heavens above,
Guided by my ancestors’ love
I call all my power back to me,
I am a living testimony.
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Publications
„Schwarz wird großgeschrieben“ mit „AYA“ (Evein Obulor und RosaMag, 2021)
"Literary Diverse - Magazine#4 - Love"
with "Mother Nature" (Literarische Diverse Verlag, 2021)
“Resonances - Black Literature Festival” with
“O le gbo gnea?”
(Sharon Dodua Otoo and Ruhrfestspiele
Recklinghausen, 2022)
„Sisters and Souls 2“ mit „Ein Brief an die Community“ (Natasha A. Kelly, 2021)
“1619 - A New History of the USA” with “Like the Sound of a Mighty Wind” by Tracy translated by Melanelle BC Hémêfa (Blessing Verlag, 2022)
“Parabolis Virtualis 3” with “Frei” and “Memoirs of a Survivor”, Noah Anderson & Kevin Junk (ed.) (querverlag, 2023)
Spheres of Influence
2024
Pop-up Workshop: Black German Literary Perspectives
Opening Festival: Reading & Poetry Performance
Moderation of the book premiere “Adikou” - Raphaëlle Red, Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus. In cooperation with Rowohlt Buchverlag
Reading and book premiere “Adikou” - Raphaëlle Red, Moderation: Melanelle BC Hémêfa in the Literaturforum in the Brecht-Haus. In cooperation with Rowohlt Buchverlag.
(Un)conscious Racisms – An Introduction to Racist-Critical Thinking and Speaking (NS Documentation Center Munich)
workshop
2023
Heritage and Roots Black Literature Festival
Reading with Winni Atiedo Modesto, Bahati Glaß, Melanelle BC Hémêfa, Joe Otim Dramiga, Raphaëlle Red and Dean Ruddock, moderated by Ibou Coulibaly Diop and Dominique Haensell
Parabolis Virtualis 3 House for Poetry
reading
"Black I am and woman I am too!" - Afrodiasporic / Black literary perspectives
seminar leader at the University of the Arts, Berlin
Minotsu - EmpOURment Conference
curation festival and performance
Advanced training for anti-racism trainers
Seminar led by Angelo Camufingo and Antony Pattathu
2022
Spoken Word
Summer School Universität Mannheim
Lesung und Gespräch
Resonanzen Black Literature Festival
Creative Writing and Reading
2021
Absolventin der Universität Mannheim
Staatsexamen Historik und Romanistik
Sisters and Souls 2 - Inspirations by May Ayim
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin eV & Natasha A. Kelly
Poetry Performance & Premiere
Black Voices – in Literature, Politics & Science
Holtzbrinck Berlin, Heimathafen Neukölln & Humboldt University of Berlin
reading
Language meets sound, poetry meets music: Crossing disciplines, arts, genres and languages, this evening releases potentials by bringing together words and sounds
Poetry Performance
2020
Black Lives Matter demonstration
speech “Black Skin on White Soil”
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