DECOLONIZED GLAMOUR TALKS

Guests: Nika Herero, Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Duduzile Voigts

Lara-Sophie Milagro – actress, filmmaker, and CEO of the production company Label Noir – invites artists from various disciplines to join her in Decolonized Glamour Talks, a performative talk format that dives into heart-to-heart real talk about the dream of living life and creating art in a „decolonized” way. Each talk includes a joint performance by Milagro and her guests.

Decolonized Glamour Talks aims to create spaces for self-determined discourse and celebrate German-Namibian culture of remembrance, in spite of the current repressive (cultural) political developments worldwide. In this Special Edition the complex history between Namibia and Germany and the (artistic) engagement with postcolonial structures take center stage.

At the heart of this edition are three artists and their work – each of them shares a special connection to Namibia. What are their visions and desires, dreams and nightmares, hopes and demands – both for their own artistic practice and for the contemporary cultural landscape in Germany and Namibia? No goes: Diversity debates and explanatory loops that negotiate the selfevident. Instead: An exchange of diverse perspectives on equal footing – empowering positionings within a cultural scene in transition!

Lara-Sophie Milagro
Lara-Sophie Milagro is an actress, author, director, producer, and Berliner with roots in Guyana and Germany. As CEO of the Afro-German producers’ collective Label Noir and a passionate storyteller, she has dedicated herself as a filmmaker to giving voice and visibility to new narratives from intersectional perspectives in cinema. Deeply inspired by a wide range of artists including May Ayim, Toni Morrison, Barry Jenkins, Channing Dungey, Janet Mock, and Hanelle Culpepper, she began to develop her own aesthetic signature and cinematic language with her debut feature film Emmett, German History X produced by Label Noir. Her work is characterized by ancestral storytelling and multi-perspective narrative layers, celebrating the beauty and complexity of diasporic, diverse identities at the beginning of the 21st century. Her first short film On Noah’s Blood Stained Rainbow We Dance premiered in 2025 at the Afrika Film Festival Cologne. Lara-Sophie also regularly appears in film, theater, and television productions, most recently in the tragicomedy Catch Me If You Can (Network Movie, premiered at Filmfest Hamburg 2025), Woodwalkers 2 (blue eyes fiction, theatrical release January 2026), and Dreaming Emmett (Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts Berlin, 2025).

Duduzile Voigts
Duduzile Voigts is a Berlin-raised dancer and performance artist whose practice operates at the intersection of movement, healing, and ecological awareness. Her artistic research is informed by a deep engagement with identity politics and postcolonial discourse, alongside extensive training in diverse movement traditions – from Bharatanatyam and Odissi to Kalaripayattu in India, as well as contemporary African dances and psychological research in South Africa. A solo dance as a teenager with the Berlin Philharmonic was followed by performances across Europe, South Africa, and India. Her ongoing research in dance therapy and somatic practices, she now deepens through a PhD on Embodiment and Ecology, exploring the body’s transformative and healing power in relation to its environments.

Vitjitua Ndjiharine
Born in Upstate New York to Namibian parents and raised in Namibia, Vitjitua Ndjiharine graduated from City College in New York in 2017. In 2018, she received a research fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Research Center for “Hamburg’s (Post-)Colonial Legacy,” which enabled her to work in the archives of the Ethnological Museum in Hamburg and the National Archives of Namibia. In 2020, Ndjiharine coordinated workshops on Namibian art and history with various artists and young people across Namibia. Her work includes developing educational strategies for deconstructing and re contextualizing texts and images from colonial archives. Ndjiharine’s drawings, paintings, collages, and installations invite critical engagement with contested historical themes and have been exhibited in New York, Hamburg, Berlin, Belgrade, Zurich, and Windhoek. In 2022, she was Artist in Residence at Dekoloniale Berlin, where she explored the history of Gropius Hain as part of her residency.

Nika Herero
Born in West Berlin, Dominika Kahiha aka Nika Herero, is the child of a Polish mother and a Namibian father who fled apartheid as a member of the Herero people. Growing up between cultures, she found a bridge to her roots through Afro and Tribal House music. She uses her music to reconnect heritage and identity, creating spaces for exchange and dialogue. As an exciting new talent in the Berlin DJ scene, Nika Herero has already made her mark with unforgettable performances at renowned venues including Georgia Bar, Weekend Club, HÖR Berlin, Bredouille, Amano Rooftop Bars, Hotel de Rome, Provocateur, The Door and the Berlin Fashion Week. Driven by her passion for rhythmic electronic beats, powerful drums, and unforgettable vocals, she transforms her sets at brand events for Ploom at Parookaville, NIO House, Lynk & Co., Café am Neuen See, We Are Social Deutschland, and Pitaya Düsseldorf into a truly memorable experience – a musical journey into Tribal House featuring captivating Afro House, Latin House, Tech House, and House Music.

Concept & Artistic Direction, Host: Lara-Sophie Milagro
Producers: Kulturprojekte Berlin, Label Noir (Lara-Sophie Milagro, Tibor Locher), Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin
Editorial Team: Lara-Sophie Milagro, Josephine Papke
Camera: Leyla Hoppe, Tibor Locher
Editing: Tibor Locher, Lara-Sophie Milagro
Production Management: Natascha Tertre
Project Assistance: Tabea Papritz
Styling: Sylvia Sousa
Hair & Make-Up: Ester Nyakato
Title Sequence: Victor van Wetten
Social Media: Olga Boychenko

In cooperation with Label Noir, the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, and Kulturprojekte Berlin
Special Edition | Focus Namibia
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Windhoek–Berlin city partnership