urania is a women's centre in Elberfeld's Nordstadt, founded in 1977 and run as a non-profit association since 2006. It calls itself a protected space for lesbians, bisexual women and trans women.
The programme is made by the women who go there rather than for them: readings, discussion evenings, film nights, live music, dance courses and game afternoons, with darts and a table football in the room. The centre's Schwoof, its dance party, grew big enough that it moved out to a larger hall elsewhere in the city, where it now runs as a queer Schwoof.
urania shares its rooms with Inside:Out, Wuppertal's queer centre. It was urania that proposed the centre to the city's participatory budget and got it through.
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