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Join us for a screening of *Ballroom – Danser pour exister* (2025), Amandine Gay’s documentary series on the ballroom scene in France, followed by a conversation between Amandine Gay and fashion designer and Professor of Practice Ervin Latimer.Organised by the Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Hub Finland and CEREN, in partnership with Southnord ArtFest and Tekstin talo.
📅 Tuesday 17 November, 18:00
📍 Tekstin talo, Permantosali, Helsinki
🎟 Free entry · Registration recommended through Lyyti: https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/Ballroomdokumenttielokuvan_naytos_9215/en
🎬 English subtitles
Amandine GAY divides her time between creation and advocacy. Filmmaker-producer (Speak Up -2017; A Story of One’s Own -2021), writer (A Chocolate Doll -2021) and founder of Adoptee Awareness Month in the francophone world, she defines herself as a political author. In 2025, Ballroom, her first docuseries is broadcasted on France Télévisions’ plaftorm; while her second essay, Vivre, libre, is published by editions La Découverte. In 2026, her first book gets an Italian edition, Una bambola di cioccolato, by Fandango Libri. In 2026-2027, she’s a fellow at Villa Medici (Rome).
You can follow her in French and in English online: @orpheonegra
Ervin LATIMER @lervern is an award-winning fashion designer, textile artist and Professor of Practice in Fashion at Aalto University. Latimer's creative practice revolves around questions of gender performance, Afro-Nordic identity and the use of post-consumer waste textiles. Latimer is the founder of the internationally renowned ready-to-wear label Latimmier, and in 2025 he was featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's prestigious Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibition.
Image description: Event poster featuring eight members of the French ballroom scene posing against a red and pink background, with information about the Ballroom screening and conversation with Amandine Gay and Ervin Latimer.
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Tekstin talo, Tekstin talo, Lintulahdenkatu 3,Helsinki, Finland
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