POSTER & PROGRAM LF RO 07

afis_lf_net.jpgLADYFEST BUCHAREST
12-14 october 2007
“Whatever your fight, don’t be ladylike!”
– art and grassroots activism on gender themes

[1 RON suggested donation for during the day]
[10 RON concert entrance / 25 RON pass-par-tout]

 
>> WORKSHOPS, ACTIONS, DISCUSSIONS, SCREENINGS
@ H.arta
str. Pictor Arthur Verona nr. 19, sector 1
(entrance from B-dul Magheru)


* Friday (12/10)

13-14:30 Anti-racist strategies
14:30-16:30 Self-defense – gender attacks
20:00- “The borders of transition”… D MEDIA discussion on transition and post-communism
ACTION
18:00-20 Take Back the Night rally (for all) and march (women-only)
[leaving from Piata Constitutiei]
D MEDIA FILMS
20:00 “Paint Romanian”; “Border diaries”

* Saturday (13/10)
10-12 Vegan baking
12-13 Discussions about “women and science/technology”
13-14:30 Queer vs. heteronormative identities
14:30-15:30 Discussion/workshop on non-hierarchical, feminist, non-violent communication and group organizing
15:30-17:00 Maternity and its social and political implications
17:00-19:00 H.arta: how to address fear and radical reading
20:00- “Women’s work”… D MEDIA discussion/round table about the work situation in romania and the discrimination that still exists towards women
D MEDIA FILMS
20:00 “Made in Italy”; “Eden”

* Sunday (14/10)
10:00-11:30 Gender and wikipedia/women’s presence in internet spaces
11:30-13 Workshop/forum/panel on prostitution, trafficking, violence against women
13-14:30 Video activism
14:30-16:00 Feminine corporeality, our corporeality
16:00-18 “Radical Tour” through Bucharest
16:00-17:30: Preconceived ideas: a day in the media.
18:00-19:00: Intro to open source software
19:00- “Precarious lives”… D MEDIA discussion about the concept of precarity

During the entire festival:
ZINE-MAKING, ACTIVIST FAIR, TRAVELING ZINE LIBRARY
SCREENINGS from the Ladyfest videotheque: “Ladyfest Grenoble”, “female+queer words+beats”, “Bought and sold”, “Behind the labels”, “If hope were enough”, “War zone”, “Mami”, “Hot and bothered – feminist pornography”, “Grrlyshow”, “Clitfest 2004 – the documentary”, “Born in flames”, “Market this!: queer radicals respond to market assimilation”, “The art of hollering”, “Barely audible”, “Flori de mac”

>> CONCERTS & EXPO
@ PUNKOTECA,
str. Atelierului nr. 14
(near Gara de Nord)

* Friday (12.10) from 22:00:
STACEY CAPOOT – acoustic / indie (San Diego, U.S.A.)
NOT YOURS – rock (Deva, Romania)
DJ: K* (Bielefeld, Germany)

* Saturday (13.10) from 21:00:
HEADPHONE KICKS – funk / ska / alternative (Bacau, Romania)
THE FITS – pop (Orebro, Suedia)
DJ PINKTROL (Poland/Stockholm, Suedia)

* Sunday (14.10) from 21:00:
VIVE LA NOIZ – alternative / ska / punk (Bistrita, Romania)
MEANOX- aternative / rock / indie (Bucharest, Romania)
DJ IF (Munchen, Germania)

During the entire festival:
ART EXPO
—-photography: Mira Marincas (Cluj); Luiza Puiu (Timisoara); Elena Stoehr (Köln, Germany); Adina Rafaila (Brasov)
—-painting: Iulia Nicolaie (Brasov); Maria Ivan Gurzu (Bucharest); Ana Maria Dinescu (Bucharest); Eliza Gereanu (Bucharest)
—-engraving/painting: Laura Partin (Iasi)
—-engraving/collage: Olivia (Bucharest)

Cosponsors: ACCEPT, Alert Fund, D Media, Indymedia Romania, Komunitas, Ladyfest Frankfurt, Ladyfest Mannheim, Project Space, XminY Solidariteitsfonds

++++++++ Details: https://fia.pimienta.org
++++++++ Contact: ladyfest-ro@lists.riseup.net

ak kraak – videoactivism si documentare critica in contextul activismului

Project Space
10.10.2007
str. Pictor Arthur Verona, nr.19

ak kraak – videoactivism si documentare critica in contextul activismului – Katharina Koch, Marie Du Vinage, Florian Hülsey, Elizabeth Grenier.

12:00 – 19:00 Video lounge

19:00- 21:00 Prezentarea istoriei grupului Ak Kraak ca parte a scenei de stanga din Berlin 1990 – 2007

21:00 – 22:00 Magazin 24- documentare de scurt metraj, Berlin, 2006

Prezentarea istoriei si activitatii grupului de video activism ak kraak din Berlin in contextul miscarii anarhiste din Germania si internationale cat si atelierul despre moduri alternative de a produce filme documentare vor cuprinde idei despre strategii de auto-organizare, despre conceptul de do it yourself, despre o raportare critica la filmul documentar, diferita de cea mainstream corporatista, despre feluri de a lucra impreuna. Va fi proiectata o selectie de filme din arhiva ak kraak realizate in perioada 1990-2007 si va putea fi consultata o arhiva cu postere si materiale informative despre activitatea grupului.

Project Space este parte din proiectul Spatiul Public Bucuresti / Public Art Bucharest 2007.

Ce mai fac eroii nostri?

Va invitam in 08.10.2007 la orele 19:00 pe strada Pictor Arthur Verona nr 19 la prezentarea Ce mai fac eroii nostri? sustinuta de catre Cristian Cercel

In timpul national-comunismului promovat de Ceausescu, manualele scolare (de istorie si literatura romana mai cu seama) prezentau o naratiune eroizata a istoriei romanilor (n.b.: istoria era a romanilor, si nu a Romaniei). Fara existenta unor alternative autentice, monopolul producerii si reproducerii de identitate se afla in mainile Partidului, unul dintre canalele cele mai importante prin care o identitate nationala departe de a fi all-inclusive era propagata fiind sistemul educational. Care este insa situatia acum, dupa ce manualele alternative au devenit o realitate cotidiana pentru elevii de liceu? Cum o mai duc acum vajnicii nostri eroi nationali? Cat de diferita este actuala ‘naratiune romana’ fata de cea din epoca national-comunista?

Cristian Cercel este traducator, absolvent al departamentului de Studii Europene din cadrul Facultatii de Litere a Universitatii Bucuresti, Master of Arts in Nationalism Studies, la Central European University, Budapesta.

Project Space este parte din proiectul Spatiul Public Bucuresti / Public Art Bucharest 2007. (www.spatiul-public.ro)

prezentare Initiativa One Laptop Per Child in Romania

Va invitam in 07.10.2007 la orele 19:00 pe strada Pictor Arthur Verona nr 19 la prezentarea Initiativa One Laptop Per Child in Romania sustinuta de catre Liviu Pop.

Prezentarea Initiativa One Laptop Per Child in Romania se va referi la proiectul OLPC initiat de Nicolas Negroponte care propune o alternativa educationala revolutionara destinata tarilor din lumea a treia, dar nu numai. Chiar daca laptopul proiectat de catre reprezentantul MIT pare modest ca si caracteristici tehnice in comparatie cu standardele tehnologiilor informationale de ultima ora, ar putea reprezenta o imbunatatire radicala a sistemului educational romanesc. Povestea acceptarii initiale si a ingroparii ulterioare a proiectului de catre politicienii romani nu ar trebui sa fie ultimul capitol al OLPC-ului in Romania, ci inceputul unei dezbateri serioase despre modernizarea reala a educatiei in Romania.

Project Space este parte din proiectul Spatiul Public Bucuresti / Public Art Bucharest 2007. (www.spatiul-public.ro)

fwd h.arta

Miercuri, 03.10.2007 la orele 19:00 va invitam la Project Space, pe strada Pictor Arthur Verona nr 19 (sediul OAR) la o prezentare sustinuta de Emil Moise: Scolile publice din Romania: instrumentele Bisericii pentru perpetuarea discriminarii de gen.

Prezentarea va avea ca subiect modul in care, prin predarea confesionala a disciplinei Religie in scolile publice, dar si prin actiunile colaterale ce decurg din acest fapt se transmit si astfel se perpetueaza relatiile de putere in general, relatiile de putere cu continut de gen, in special.

Emil Moise este activist si profesor de discipline socio-umane. Are ca domenii de interes: cultura si atitudine civica, etica aplicata, drepturile fiintei umane, teoria deciziei sociale, promovarea tolerantei si a respectului fata de fiinta umana si mediul inconjurator.

Project Space este parte din proiectul Spatiul Public Bucuresti / Public Art Bucharest 2007.

Femeile din Romania – slab educate, prost platite, neimplicate in luarea deciziei

Comunicat de presa
CPE – Centrul Parteneriat pentru Egalitate
Bucuresti, 26 septembrie 2007

Diferente de salarizare intre femei si barbati continua sa existe in majoritatea domeniilor de activitate. Cea mai mare diferenta se inregistreaza in industrie, unde salariul barbatilor este cu peste 60% mai mare decat cel al femeilor. Chiar si in domenii feminizate, ca administratie publica si comert, salariile barbatilor sunt mai mari decat cele ale femeilor cu peste 15%.

Un numar semnificativ de angajati barbati acceseaza concediul pentru cresterea si ingrijirea copilului, insa, ponderea majoritara, de peste 70%, ramane reprezentata de femei.

Nivelul de educatie in randul femeilor este foarte scazut: aproape trei sferturi dintre femei au maxim 8 clase si numai 3% au absolvit studii superioare, in timp ce numarul celor care nu au nici un fel de studii se situeaza intre 5 si 12%. Comparativ, nivelul de instruire al barbatilor este mai ridicat decat cel al femeilor, 60% dintre acestia avand maxim 8 clase, iar 4% studii superioare. Discrepanta cea mai mare se inregistreaza in cazul analfabetilor, numarul femeilor fara nici o instruire fiind de 2,8 ori mai mare decat cel al barbatilor in judetul Botosani si de peste 4 ori mai mare in judetul Giurgiu.

Participarea femeilor la luarea deciziei in plan local ramane extrem de scazuta, ponderea femeilor in Consiliile Judetene fiind intre 6,5% si 24,2%.

La nivelul Inspectoratelor Teritoriale de Munca nu s-au inregistrat plangeri pe motiv de discriminare intre sexe.
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really perfect definition of feminism

reading through “The Books that changed our lives”, i came upon this perfect description (lots of other great comments from some awesome feminists in the article):

feminism isn’t an argument or a position but a kind of sanity … a way of looking at the world that takes the humanity of female people seriously” – ariel levy [some discussion of levy’s most famous book mentioned in an older post here].

a bit about the books that changed my life here. to which i’d add this about bell hooks, this about gloria anzaldua, this on jane eyre and this on fiul risipitor. and a feminist reading list i made a while ago here.

Petition for the parents of the Roma children…

Liberty and justice for the parents of the Roma children burnt to death in the fire of Livorno fire on August 10th, 2007

The EveryOne Group and the “Amici degli Angeli” are asking concerned for the immediate release of the parents of the young victims, as well as immediate assistance, starting with a home and state benefit. The groups also request an all-out inquiry against GAPE, a gang of racist murderers, who are responsible for this monstrous crime.

[SIGN ONLINE PETITION]
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… and these appeal to women, HOW?

gallery of sexist ads, parts 10^20 and 10^20+1:

“Alicia Silverstone Strips for Animals?” (yeah, of course PETA is involved)

“Pornography of War (Literally)”
as “bonus,” some more depictions of women being demeaned/abused that are making the rounds… because it’s all part of the same continuum:
Video of domestic violence
Blonda batuta de concubinul ei [Blonde beaten up by her live-in boyfriend]
(make sure to check out the “average joe” responses to these: “so what,” “she deserved it,” “why didn’t she just leave?” are among the mildest reactions to the video on youtube, and most of them, especially on the romanian site, are truly vile, misogynistic and violent… while the video is being sent around as a “joke”)

CAREFUL, links 3-5 contain images that could be seriously triggering!