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"Ladyfest Hawai'i is a local version of a global movement of lady artists, educators and community organizers creating festivals of music, performance, visual art, and workshops. The original Ladyfest happened in August 2000 in Olympia, Washington. Since then Ladyfests have happened in 41 cities around the world. All Ladyfests are local-based, Do-It-Yourself, grassroots, not-for-profit (but rich in many other ways), massive creative efforts by ladies, for ladies and the entire community. Ladyfest Hawaii is slated to happen in Honolulu during March 2005.

Ladyfest Cambridge 07 took place from 26th March to 1st April.

"About me:
Ladyfest Cambridge 2008 is/are delighted to present LADYFEST WORKSHOPS: tutorials, talks, seminars, film screenings and an art exhibition to be held in multiple venues across the city between April 26th and May 4th 2008.

Who I'd like to meet:
musicians / DJs / artists / technicians / film geeks / music industry professionals / volunteers / secretaries/street-teamers/photocopying skivvies / cool girls!" (http://www.myspace.com/ladyfestworkshops)

"Ladyfest Mülheim lives up to the spirit of the first ladyfest.
It will be a noncommercial, queer-feminist counterpart to the otherwise sometimes unpolitical events. Especially women, lesbians and transgender people, who are underrepresented in many fields, get the chance to share their know-ledge via workshops and presentations, to perform and to present their creative work, without fearing sexist, hetero-normative or binary gender judgement. Our Ladyfest is also open to people defined as male to question patriarchal and capitalistic structures, if they support the idea of ladyfest.

"Ladyfest Bournemouth's Blurbs
About me:
Ladyfest Bournemouth was part of Oxfam's 'Oxjam 2006' campaign - Oxfam's biggest and most ambitious music festival to date. It took place between the 26th and the 29th October '06, and was extremely successful!

To date, Ladyfest has raised £2000 for Oxfam!

We are using this money to purchase the following items through the Oxfam Unwrapped Catalogue:
(Click on the links to see more information)

We are kitting out an entire village with seeds, trees, farm animals and tools.

We are also buying:

"Warum eigentlich Ladyfest? Warum hier heute und überhaupt?
# weil die Zustände immer noch so sind: patriarchal, sexistisch...
# weil es nur Mann und Frau geben darf und dazwischen nichts...
# weil immer noch Männer die künstlerischen, musikalischen und viele andere Ebenen dominieren...

Dem wollen wir, wie VeranstalterInnen in vielen anderen Städten, etwas entgegensetzen- Spaß vor allem und das Gefühl, dass etwas gehen kann. Wir wollen Mut machen, zeigen, dass es sich lohnt auszuprobieren und umzusetzen was bisher nur lang gehegte Träume waren...

"Ladyfest Leeds 2007 was a week long extravaganza of arts and music events that took place in venues across Leeds Tuesday 10th to Sunday 15th April 2007.

All in the name of celebrating creativity, diversity and promoting gender equality, it featured bands, solo artists, DJS, dance, theatre, clowning, cabaret, juggling, shadow puppets, art, a myriad of workshops and much more.

In Solidarity with “Out of Place”
(posted on behalf of ‘In solidarity with “Out of Place”, London’)

This statement is written by a group of white non-Muslim queer activists in solidarity and support for the writers of the article “Gay Imperialism: Gender and Sexuality Discourse in the ‘War on Terror’” (2008) by Jin Haritaworn, Tamsila Tauquir and Esra Erdem. This article problematises the role of the white queer activist Peter Tatchell, amongst others, in the construction of Muslim communities as homophobic, highlighting the racist and imperialist effect such constructions have in the context of the ‘War on Terror’. Haritaworn et al. point out that in many of Tatchell’s campaigns and political statements the discourse he uses reinforces the idea of Muslims as dangerous extremists, and constructs Muslims as “the other” of white gay people, and that in doing so he dismisses and marginalises the voices and experiences of queer Muslims, in particular those who object to having Tatchell as a spokesperson for their struggles.

Sometimes giving the time of day to a sexist isn’t the best way of dealing with them. But sometimes… sometimes… you’re at sea with them and there’s no getting off the boat, you just need some quick answers to the biggest sexist jibes, to right it and stand up straight again. This ‘zine will give a bit of that.

"Le Ladyfest Bordeaux est un festival non-lucratif et DIY qui se tiendra dans plusieurs lieux à travers Bordeaux les 11, 12 et 13 avril 2008. Organisé principalement par des femmes (mais les garçons motivés sont les bienvenus) pour mettre en avant le travail des artistes féminines indépendantes, le Ladyfest Bordeaux proposera des performances d’artistes, des concerts, des projections, des ateliers, des conférences…

Le premier Ladyfest a eu lieu à Olympia, Washington en 2000, et le concept s’est depuis répandu dans plus de 50 villes à travers le monde.