Projects

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CITY OF WOMEN AT FEM_11 FESTIVAL

We started last year with the initiative of connecting with festivals addressing women creativity, and by a lecture and visual presentation introduced the City of Women at FEM Festival (Girona, Spain).

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'Shape And Situate: Posters of Inspirational European Women' zine

(Photos and info here: http://remember-who-u-are.blogspot.com/2010/11/shape-and-situate-zine.html )

This zine is made up of of posters made by artists and DIY creatives within Europe, each poster highlighting the (often hidden) history and lives of radical inspirational women and collectives from Europe, as a way of connecting us with the past, the present and to help us to make sure that there will be a future which contains such creative and pioneering female action and activity.

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Did you know n.paradoxa http://www.ktpress.co.uk/, the only international feminist art journal dedicated to contemporary women artists and feminist theory around the world, has now reached its 14th year of publication?

n = noun , para = beyond, doxa = taught or accepted opinion.

In 14 years n.paradoxa has published over 250 articles and interviews on the work of contemporary women artists in more than 50 countries in the world!

Women have always played an important role in movements for social justice. Using media to transport their messages, to disrupt social orders and to spin novel social processes, feminists have long recognized the importance of self-managed media. In the past two decades an increasing number of women have taken the tools of media production into their hands; a vital social phenomenon that has gone largely undetected by members of the public, academia, and even sometimes the feminist movement.

Marking its 12th year, the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns is going to take place at various venues of AKC Metelkova Mesto (Ljubljana, Slovenia) between March 8th and 11th 2011.

The organizers invite aspiring artists, activists, researchers and collectives whose works explore issues of the body, gender identity and sexuality, to participate in the festival. Feminist and queer views on other axes of difference and social justice are welcome as well.

Submission deadline: Wednesday, January 5th 2011

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We http://www.vbkoe.org have recently engaged with the defining, positioning and constructing levels of the notion of a "women's movement." We problematized the non-naming of the first, feminist artist women's movements within history-writing.

In "Movement Politics. The Revolution Is Longer Than We Think," we further expand these analyses within an art historical, collective and activist context. We decipher their new potentials for feminist forms of action. We will carry that out through critical interview material and virtual conversations with the following participants:

Now in its fourth year, The Nigah Queer Fest’10 http://www.thequeerfest.com is Dehli‘s annual celebration of queerness. The festival this year brings back the curated film festival and our popular performance component along with a visual arts exhibition, workshops, parties and more.

On July 2nd, 2009, the Delhi High Court ruled that Sec 377 of the Indian Penal Code – an anti-sodomy statute – was unconstitutional and violated the rights and dignity of queer Indians. Since that day, many have said that queer people in India are on their way to becoming “free.”

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Call for action - call for contributions:

The Feminist Poster Project

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Thursday, 03 March 2011 - Saturday, 05 March 2011

University of York, UK
www.feminist-cultural-activism.net

We ask, can feminist art* save the world, and if so, how?, and issue an invitation to artists, activists and academics to respond. Please send 300-word proposals for papers and presentations. Deadline 31st October 2010.
e: carnivalfeminist-cultural-activism [dot] net

Full details on www.feminist-cultural-activism.net

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ECHO is...

a low-budget DIY feminist media, music and art production project started in 2001

ECHO produces...

- the zines Flapper Gathering, Same Heartbeats, Not Lady-Like, Coma To Action...
- the comix Radix
- pamphlets about anarcha-feminism, riot grrrl...
- the compilation tapes Echoholic, Riots in the Benelux...
- crafts
- artwork
+ more