Tuesday 08.09.2026 7:30-9:00 pm @Hole of Fame (Königsbrücker Str. 39, 01099 Dresden)
Loss is an inevitable part of life and activism. In the face of all the adversities we confront, political struggle always entails making some sacrifice. Loss can occur in connection to our political struggle, repression, prison, war, displacement, femicide, genocide, or climate catastrophe. Losing loved ones, spaces, homelands, comrades, habits, familiar things, or entire species is overwhelming when one grapples with that alone. Remembering helps combat this sense of overwhelm. Yet remembrance is not a purely mental process, nor is grief merely an emotion. Commemoration is a living task. When we come together to process loss and hold grief collectively, it unleashes a tremendous force that brings people from different parts of the world together, provides the courage to take risks, and gifts the resilience to get back up when the situation seems hopeless. Every fallen friend is thus one more reason to keep fighting and to not give up.
No historian of the ruling system will write our history for us. We must actively take our place in history and write it ourselves, every day. In Stockholm, an anonymous comrade has repainted the inscription on the monument to the fallen brigadistas of the 1936 Spanish Revolution. Now it reads again: “Passersby, pause – remember them with pride.” Ensuring that the history of people, movements, geographies, and events is not forgotten helps us process the past and enables this history to live on in our hearts and in our movements.
As part of the exhibition—“In Motion: 10 Years of Anarchist Days”—there is one wall dedicated to collective mourning and loss. Everyone is welcome to contribute and take up space here. It is not necessary to have known people personally to mourn and remember them; sometimes we only get to know comrades after their death.
We invite you to an evening of collective commemoration. Here, we can share our grief collectively, exchange rituals, share thoughts, tell specific stories, draw or paint, and create this wall together. Please feel free to bring photos, flowers, drawings, stories, poems, songs, and personal items.
Further opening hours:
A-Days Week: Tue & Thu 3:30 pm, Sat 2:30 pm + check the program to not disturb any event in the space
14.-17.09.2026, 3:30-5 pm
