Wed 26 Aug
|Karl der Grosse
Resilience, Belonging, and Rebuilding
This AfroSwissters conversation explores how people across diaspora communities in Switzerland carry heritage as a living compass for identity, resilience, responsibility, and action.
Time & Location
26 Aug 2026, 18:30 – 20:00
Karl der Grosse, Kirchgasse 14, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland
About the event
26.08.2026 · 18:30 – 20:00 · Erkerzimmer, Karl Der Grosse
Sign Up: https://www.karldergrosse.ch/ticketreservation?event=resilience-belonging-and-rebuilding&execution=0
This AfroSwissters conversation explores how people across diaspora communities in Switzerland carry heritage as a living compass for identity, resilience, responsibility, and action. At a time when experiences of belonging are increasingly complex and fluid, the evening explores how cultural roots shape the way we navigate opportunity, respond to exclusion, rebuild after rupture, and create new forms of care, leadership, and economic agency.
In conversation with Lys Silva (lead and project manager at AfroSwissters) and Tallulah Patricia Bär (AfroSwissters founder) will reflect on diasporic life, migration, microaggressions, visibility, and the ongoing negotiation of identity across cultures. Drawing on her Brazilian background and her experience of fleeing the war in Ukraine, Lys Silva provides a unique perspective on resilience, belonging, and rebuilding life in a new country.
The evening invites an honest exchange on heritage as a source of resilience, trust,…