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We are delighted to welcome author, curator, and art historian Celina Baljeet Basra for an evening of insightful conversation surrounding her first novel ‘HAPPY’. We will cover themes such as migrant labor in the food industry in Europe, what is home/belonging, when does a room become a home, and much more. Celina will also share more about the form and writing process when creating her work of fiction.
About the book
Happy is a daring feat of postmodern literature, a polyphonic novel about the urgent, lovely coping mechanisms created by generations of diasporic people. Set against the enmeshed crises of global migration and the politics of labor within the food industry, Celina Baljeet Basra’s luminous debut argues for the things that are essential to human survival: food, water, a place to lay one’s head, but also pleasure, romance, art, and the inalienable right to a vivid inner life.
About the Author
Celina Baljeet Basra is a writer and curator, based in Berlin. She is the founder of The Department of Love, a curatorial collective. HAPPY is her first novel.
Celina has graduated in Art History in a Global Context, and has since worked as the curator of the art space Galerie im Turm, has worked with Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, and with Berlin Biennale. Celina has been awarded residencies with the Shanghai Biennale and Kochi Biennale, and she has received both curatorial and literary research stipends of the Berlin senate. She is part of several juries for public art funding, and appointed member of the Berlin Atelierbeirat. She is currently part of the team of the project Talking Objects Lab and is working on her second novel.