GemSe - Gemeinsam Sein
In recent weeks, a small group within our community has begun to establish the “Murmeltierbau” as a complementary collaborative project centered around GemSe.
An additional small association has been founded, and a direct loan campaign has already been launched to purchase the neighboring house.
For more information about the project and direct loans please send an email to: murmeltierbau[at]riseup[dot]net
Who? WildWandern
What can you expect?
After launching this format in 2024, we would like to offer it again in 2025 following a fabulous weekend. We will gather strength before the dark season and focus on sustainable activism, resilience, and burnout prevention. The energy workshop will also include short hikes in the surrounding area and time in the November forest.
Where? Gailtal (Wertschach 15, Verein GemSe – Gemeinsam Sein)
Course fee
Costs for the hike depending on financial possibilities €145 / €185 / €220. You can find more information about the price scale HERE. Costs for accommodation & meals: flat rate of €190. We are at Gemse and we will cook breakfast and dinner for you, mostly organic, vegan, and vegetarian!
Meeting point
Verein GemSe – Gemeinsam Sein, Wertschach 15
Registration
wanderwoman[at[riseup[dot]net
Course leaders
Mika & Lie
The GemSe Collective mourns the loss of Dani, our friend and companion in dreaming and living a loving, friendly, just, and joyful world.
Dani passed away on October 12, 2025, after a tragic accident at the hospital in Ljubljana.
Wherever Dani was,
the network sun shone
in its most dazzling colors.
For everyone.
Always.
Dani, with ease, laughter, connection, love for animals, mountains, and nature, with understanding, wit, and laughter again and again, with a clear commitment to a more just world, enriching and helping to shape the GemSe community.
Thank you for the TIN* conversations. And for your encouragement to strive for us all to be even better off. But above all, for courageously showing us how to take the plunge.
Dani, we will miss you! We miss you! We will carry on everything you brought and created into the world!
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*) TIN* = Trans*Inter*Nonbinary
Who? WildWandern
What can you expect?
Our new format! Easy to moderately difficult hikes take us into the rugged rock formations of the Julian Alps. We use the GemSe as our base, from where we will start our hikes. For trans, inter, and non-binary people.
Where?
Border triangle (Italy/Slovenia/Austria)
Course fee
Cost of the hike depending on financial means: €145 / €185 / €220. You can find more information about the price scale HERE.
Costs for accommodation & meals: flat rate of €190. We are at GemSe and we will cook breakfast and dinner for you, mostly organic, vegan, and vegetarian!
Meeting point
Verein GemSe – Gemeinsam Sein, Wertschach 15
Registration
wanderwoman[at]riseup[dot]net
Course leaders
Mika & Lie
Unsichtbar? Unaufhaltsam! presents queer history and stories in Carinthia and the Alps-Adriatic region – from persecution under the Nazis to Pride movements and contemporary initiatives. An exhibition about visibility, resistance and community.
Curated by Daniel Hill
Languages: German (English tours on request)
When: 28 September to 22 December 2025
Where: frei:räumchen, GemSe
Wertschach/Dvorče in Carinthia/Koroška
Contact for exhibition visits:
by email to gemse_gailtal@riseup.net or via Instagram at gemse_gailtal
Es war wunderbar! Danke an alle!
Rückblickend ein paar Eindrücke vom Fest in Bildern und ein Hinweis auf die Ausstellungseröffnung in der Galerie im frisch eröffneten frei:räumchen.
Im Rahmen des Herbst- und Lifteröffnungsfestes wurde auch ein neuer Raum, das frei:räumchen, sowie die Ausstellung Unsichtbar? Unaufhaltsam! eröffnet. Mehr zur Ausstellung findest du hier und zum frei:räumchen hier.
Be creative and lean back – come to F*Art Week! Paint, draw, make pottery, print, carve, write, collage, move… try out different techniques, learn new things in a summery, appreciative atmosphere. The joy of doing and creating together takes centre stage, no previous artistic knowledge is required. Let perfectionist demands go with a breeze!
We (Carolina, Mika and Leno) provide the framework and give a few creative inputs, but above all there is plenty of space and time to immerse yourself in the creative process and explore the arising topics.
F*art week takes place in a self-managed community space. Delicious food is provided and we help set up, cover up, wash up and tidy up together. At the end, we clean the space together so that the next ones staying at GemSe can enjoy themselves!
The costs are on a sliding scale between €510 and €630 according to your own estimate (the costs include accommodation, meals, fees for the workshop leaders and the materials we will be working with). Participants are responsible for their own travelling expenses. You will receive a guide to the price scale by email after you have expressed your interest. If you can’t afford it, let us know – we’re sure to find a solution!
Languages: German, English
When: 8.7-13.7.2025
Where: Wertschach/Dvorče in Carinthia/Koroška
Registration and info: gemse_gailtal@riseup.net
Wanna help create spaces that are open, accessible and full of care? We warmly invite you to join our community building days at GemSe!
We will sleep in shared bedrooms and we will cook and clean together.
What we’ll be working on:
It is great if you bring experience in working independently & lots of energy for collective work!
These days are part of our project “Removing Barriers at gemSe”.
Languages: German, English
When: 16.8.-20.8.2025
Where: Wertschach/Dvorče in Carinthia/Koroška
Registration and info: gemse_gailtal@riseup.net
A 5-day lab in which we’ll move between garden, forest, and studio to explore how ecosomatics, (co-)creative moving- and writing practices can inspire re:generative ways of relating amongst and beyond humans. What can we learn from being_with snails, trees, compost and co., on an embodied level, about and for our entanglements? How can we build re:generative communities,
amongst and beyond humans?
This lab will be an assemblage of guided sessions, open lab space for your curiosities, free time to enjoy the place, and experimental sessions.
Language: English (German or French translation optional)
When: 03.09. evening – 07.09. midday
Where: Wertschach/Dvorče in Kärnten/Koroška
Costs: 340 – 420 – 500 € (including organic food, accommodation, and lab)
Registration via movingpoetries.com
accessibility info in the registration form
It has been a wonderful time at GemSe’s garden days – Thank you all for coming!
