Habibti Queer Club

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Diva Beirut and DJ Ipek from the queer club scenes in Paris, Beirut and Berlin will make the night unforgettable. When the internationally renowned Simona Abdallah plays darbuka no one can stand still. Chamsex plays irresistible Arabic pop and bangers from Western Asia. The night is led by the one and only Jafar the Superstar!

Live tattoo for all of you that are dying to get a tattoo during the night will take place in the exhibition Tattoo – stories in ink from the Mediterranean. The tattoo artist is Jazz from the queer Tattoo studio StaDemonia. If the urge to confess is too strong, visit Butcher Queen in their confession booth

Nasreen Aljanabi Larsson kicks of the evening with a dabkeh workshop and Sara Swanson and Helena Meyer talks about Queer tattoos through past times.

Tours of the exhibition Tattoo – Stories in ink from the Mediterranean.

The popular Bagdad café is open the whole night where you can order tasty food and refreshing drinks, tea and coffee.

Bags are not allowed in the museum so please leave your bags at home as the museum had limited storage.

PARTICIPANTS

Diva Beirut
Diva Beirut is a famous Lebanese drag queen celebrated for her oriental dance, humor, and vibrant showcase of Lebanese and Arab culture. Born and raised in Lebanon, Diva channels icons like Umm Kulthum and Fairuz in her performances, blending tradition with modern drag. A plus-size queen and costume designer, she advocates for self-love and acceptance, inspiring audiences with her message of body positivity.

Diva has helped grow Lebanon’s drag scene and gained international acclaim in The New York Times, Vogue, and L’Orient-Le Jour. Touring across Europe and beyond, she proudly brings Lebanese and Arab culture to the global stage.

Simona Abdallah
Simona Abdallah is a percussionist and performer whose music carries rhythm, emotion and storytelling. With roots in Middle Eastern traditions and a strong international career, she creates immersive performances that invite the audience into presence, pulse and shared energy 

Jafar the Superstar
Host of the night is Jafar the Superstar, interdisciplinary performance artist and drag artist who works with subversive comic. Their performances investigates the encounter between pop culture and politics and highlights subjects like celebrity worship, spiritual consumption and hypersexualising through queer perspectives.

DJ Ipek
Based in Berlin. DJ, producer, curator, queer-activist, Ipek is regarded as one of the most popular and diverse DJs of the Berlin club scenes. Inspired by her passion for music from Anatolia & the Middle East and for genre-hopping dance MidEast’Elektro-TechnOrient’ sets create an extraordinary warm, dynamic interpretation of club music today. Psychedelic Turkish funk meets Disco, Balkan to Minimal, AnatolianFolk to Deep House, Armenian Halay to Electro, Kurdish Gowend 2 Moombahton, from Dabke to Reaggaton, Iranian Bandari to Techno. Ipek has been pushing boundaries within the ethnic and electronic music scene for more than two decades. Ipek’s sound is free of conventions, and it refuses to be limited by style, tempo or genres.

Chamsex
Chamsex, formerly known as Rasuul, is a club organizer, DJ, and producer who has initiated and founded several clubs and platforms within Stockholm’s queer nightlife and arts scene, including BLOW and Stockwig. For this special night, he will be bringing a big suitcase filled with the most dancy hits and unexpected gems from the Middle East!

Nasreen Aljanabi Larsson
Nasreen is a dancer, choreographer with roots in Damaskus, Syria. Nasreen has a deep passion for movement and experience of dabkeh, belly dance, spin dance from early age combined with a master’s degree in choreography from SKH where she researched the history of folkdance and it’s cultural context.

Dabkeh is more than just dance, it’s a living tradition which unites generations through rhythm and movement. Dabkeh is a folkdance from Southwestern Asia and North Africa and carries a unique energy that arises when people are moving in unison and every step creates a collective pulse.

Sara Swanson
Sara opened StaDemonia Tattoo i Barcelona 2005 together with Soledad Aznar Rodriguez and since 2017 StaDemonia is based in Stockholm. Sara has organized Queer Art Festival, Queer Art StaDemonia and Queer Tattoo Expo Stockholm. Sara is the author of the book Queer Tattoo history. Sara also works with the project Queer Tattoo where she gives public talks about art and Tattoo and how to create a safe and enjoyable spaces.

Butcher Queen
Butcher Queen, or Flor Rolf Backman Ossandon, is an artist, performance artist and appretice at StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm.

Helena Meyer
Helena Meyer is an historian of the art of tattoo, journalist and author to the books Tatuering -myter, fakta, historia och framtid och Tatuering och kroppsmodifiering i Star Wars.

Jazz E
Jazz E is a tattoo artist at StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm and specialize in blackwork, dot work, ornamental and gothic art that follow the form and movement of the body.