The main languages of the event are English/Belarusian, but you can write and nap in any language.

Hosted by: Varvara Sudnik and Viktoryia Hrabennikava 
One day before New Year's Eve we invite you to sleep inside a gallery. 

We will take one room out of the institutional hands of Zachęta and use it for rest and dreaming. At our slumber party we’ll write dreams and try to dream it right there.

We will not try to control dreams in any way. Instead, we want to experiment with a writing practice where stories follow dream logic(which sometimes means no clear logic at all). 

We will pick fragments of our memories, add people (who, of course, are not who they are), stretch and compress the experience of time, and place everything in the stairwell of your first home or into a school gym. We want to write dreams that can be a whole story or exist only as a fragment of flight, a moment of napping with half-open eyes. 

We’ll also have some before-sleep herbal tea, sweets and gossip. At the end, you will have time to take a short nap and try to imagine your dream, and we will take care of it.

The event is

F female 
L lesbian
I intersex
N non-binary
T trans
A agender

which means it’s welcoming for women, lesbians and queer people. 

Here you’ll feel safety and joyness of having a sleepover with your childhood girlfriends*.

We are doing this event for ourselves, for those who see dreams, and for those who are already half-asleep because of the winter darkness. There are no required rules for participation - this is just a game.

Unnecessary dress code: pajamas and nightgowns

The main languages of the event are English/Belarusian, but you can write and nap in any language.

This event is a part Mycelium [Грыбнiца] – decolonial laboratory and exhibition “What Are Our Collective Dreams?”

Varvara Sudnik — a broke queer artist from Belarus, their work addresses the topics of exclusion and visibility, gender, labor, and trauma.
Viktoryia Hrabennikava — Belarusian visual artist, researcher of culture and art. Queering, human and labor rights, representation of lesbian femininity and movement towards non-binary gender narratives, mental health – are the themes that are reflected in her works. 

Hrabennikava’s artistic and activist practices intersect, outside their personal projects Viktoryia cooperates with NGOs and grassroots activist initiatives focused on human rights.