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LadyFest vanaf 25.08 tot 31.08
LadyFest - 23.08.2003 10:20
Ladyfest programme starts on monday. here an overview of all activities:
film on monday 25 august in Vrankrijk at 20.00
Take Her Down! Lesbian Erotic Oil Wrestling Party
Written and directed by Sondra Goodwin, 80 minutes
Director and world-class champion oil wrestler Sondra Goodwin invites you to peer into the slippery depths of nude lesbian oil wrestling.
films on tuesday 26 august in Vrankrijk at 20.00
After Stonewall John Scagliotti,
Janet Baus & Dan Hunt (USA, 88 min)
Chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life frm the riots at Stonewall to the end of the century. Narrated by Melissa Etheridte, it captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting victories epxerienced in the making of the Gay Liberation Movement. Featuring Dorothy Allison, Michael Bronski, Rita Mae Brown, Barney Frank, Barbara Gittings, Arnie Kantrowitz, Larry Kramer, Craig Lucas, Armistead Maupin, Leslea Newman, Barbara Smith and many more.
Live Nude Girls Unite!
Julia Query & Vicky Funari (USA, 2000, 85 min)
A classic film made on the (successful!) union organizing drive conducted by the strippers at San Francisco's legendary Lusty Lady, who formed - in the face of no sick leave, unfair demotions, safety and privacy concerns, racial discriminaton and an intransigent management - the first ever Exotic Dancers Union. On stage and behind the scenes, Query - herself a dancer at the Lusty Lady - uncovers the struggles, the stories and the lives of women who work in the sex industry, and their union drive. "Wickedly funny, subversive, provocative!" [Village Voice] "Eye-opening. Goes way behind the green door!" [San Francisco Bay Guardian] This DVD release includes a bonus photo gallery, scene access, new before seen extra footage,and the original theatrical trailer.
27 august wednesday
12.00-14.00 workshop at Vrankrijk: Drag King - every outfit is drag, and all drag is a performance. This workshop will showyou how to “pass” in the everyday world. Learn make up tips for broad day light and dim bars. There will be emphasis on behaviour, rather than performing on stage. Come prepared to experience the world from a new perspective.
15.00-18.00 workshop at Afrika: Radical Cheerleading
we want everyone who's attending the workshop to write a personal cheer on a topic one thinks that is important. The cheer can be about everything, as long as it something one likes to shout out loud. If possible we would like people to add a drawing, picture or collage to their cheer, and put them together in a special Radical Cheerleading Zine. We will make pompons, practice a cheer and steps and go outside to perform.
from 17.45 there will be vegan dinner served at Afrika - please reserve and get your ticket at Vrankrijk during a day.
18.00 films at Afrika:
What are we doing tonight?
Marie Vermeiren (BE, 2002, 7 min)
The films follows a group of women through the night while they undertake actions against the sexist advertisings. The documentary focuses on transmitting the energy that these women can develop: physical, creative or sensual.
Hartes Brod (Sticky Dough)
Nathalie Percillier (Germany, 2000, 8 min, english subtitles)
The bread-factory’s up and running. The girls are going strong. Production’s right on target. But here comes Ute...
„A subtle, funny, bread-breaking story, almost like a fairy tale, told in a rhythmic way, with stunning camera work an lovely music.“ (Jury of the Panorama Shortfilmaward)
Some Real Heat Stephanie Jordan (54min)
A documentary about six female firefighters in San Francisco, about “chainsaw-mamas, good axe-moments, passion- and compassion-issues“ and about the myth and reality of a dangerous profession.
“San Francisco’s female firefighters tell their stories in this documentary by Stefanie Jordan. Strong both in body and in mind, the women candidly talk about the experiences that inspire them - and break their hearts.
Jordan skilfully weaves in facts (San Francisco, for example, has the highest percentage of women firefighters in the world) with the personal narratives, culminating in a riveting documentary for anyone who’s ever wanted to wear a firewoman’s hat for a day.“ (Inside Pride 2002 magazine, San Francisco) Personal copies of the film are available through Stefanie Jordan:
 notinkansasanymore@web.de
Out: The Making Of A Revolutionary
Sonja de Vries & Rhonda Collins. (USA, 2000, 60 min).
In 1985, activist Laura Whitehorn was convicted of bombing the US Capitol building and "conspiring to influence, change and protest policies and practices of the United States government through violent and illegal means."
OUT chronicles the life of this courageous woman, who grew up in a liberal Jewish household, became involved with radical left politics in the tumultuous years of the 1960's and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1985.
Whitehorn has seen the twentieth century evolve, while the injustices surrounding class, race and gender remain the same. OUT is a compelling portrait of a modern American radical.
Whether you agree or disagree with radical left politics, this documentary challenges you to think about what you might be willing to risk for your own beliefs.
20.00 evening programme at Vrankrijk
20.15 The dreckqueenshow slide/sound/collage/show
It`s a slippery slide(show),fluid sexuality.challenging antique esthetics.amourphous psychotic genetalic displays to give you a few new phobias.
20.30 The Bridget Chones Pack (June side project)
electronic singer/song writer started to play in punk bands when she was 14, was in a riot girl band. In 2002 Augustina comes to France and meets Mudah Peach, a french indie label, ehich releases her album. Agustina is one of those few people who can write a song immediatly beautiful, touching songs as soon as they exist, before the arrangment. Her many facetted voice is deep, with many shades and her guitar melodies are rich in simplicity.
21.05-21.25 Diana Ozon - started as a performing poet in 1977 after she dropped out of Artschool in Amsterdam. In the DIY-punk movement she published a fanzine, performed with several bands and had a gallery and punk club in a squat. Nowadays she engages in her poetry only. Internationally established, performing, teaching and riding on the (illegal) airwaves
her voice grew stronger and accumulated the rythms of decennia. Ozon published numberous articles, pamphlets and books.
21.25 GRAM is a anagram of Marg (Marg van Eenbergen) in everyday life singer/guitarist of Seedling, a band from Amsterdam. Except Seedling she uses diffirent pseudonyms for her solo projects. Under the name GRAM she is cutting and pasting at home samples to a catchy popsongs. Sometimes the result is polished discomix, and sometimes messing around with brings folk ballade. On the stage she uses a microphone, guitar and sampler.If she has more time over, she is playing with the Tenants. Under the name Robin Brandbaar she is Angry Young Girl with guitar, and from time to time she is mixing records of another band Pfaff.
22.15 Bubblyfish (Haeyoung Kim)
Composer/ soundengineer/electronic musician. Coming from a classical music background, Haeyoung studied music technology at Berklee School of Music. Haeyoung has been experimenting with "lo-fi", 8 bit technologies and minimal electronic compositions.
www.bubblyfish.com
22.50-23.00 performance by Judy Zweijtzer
"you've become like a little dot growing smaller and smaller" - An 8 minute solo of movement theatre (mute) Why is this woman stuffing herself? Is it her passion for food, her lust for life? Or is she trying to avoid something? And what's that suitcase doing overthere?? Something funny and light about lust and loss.(music in collaboration with Jasper 'The J')
23.00 Räuberhöhle one-grrrl-casio-electropop project with puppet show by krawalla. once upon a time (let´s say winter 1999) she got synthie from a friend, get obssesed and started to collect more crap that makes noises... around 1 million casios, toy instruments, some stylophones, all this old nerd shit (c64, atari, amiga... you know what i mean?), sequenzer and bloody old drum komputers.
www.megapeng.net
23.50 Alice & Serial Numbers electro/techno/ IDM. Human vs. techno orchestra: Alice, soul of the band, writer, performer and the Serial Numbers, machines and instruments: synthetizers, samplers, sequencers, guitars, computers.
At first a rock guitarist, she then works as assistant studio engineer in Quèbec. In 1999 she buys her first computer and starts using it as a musical instrument,
recording studio, adding synthetic lines, samples and drum loops to her guitar riffs. In 2001 she establishes her own label and launches her first album.
& K Project (Vj Valérie)K-project defined as a collective of artist whose core is constituted by Frédéric Beaulieu and Valérie Leduc. They are creators of atmospheres or, more exactly, visual landscapes. These atmospheres are elaborated from concepts which vary according to the event, basing themselves on this guideline of the world to be discovered through a digital vision.
00.50 Dj Sylence & Dj Sirene they do play guitarz! In their hometown Utrecht they are inspired by Kitty, 'alternative mixed nights in da bassment', at ACU. Tonight they spin a Ladyfest-Special, lots of Girlz-with-or-without-guitarz, also 'new wave-punk-ska-electro-noise-alternative dance-metal-industrial-crossover' bits.
28.08 thursday
12.00-14.00 workshop at vrankrijk: selfpublishing diffirent forms of selfpublishing : political, personal, art in diffirent formats and diffirent methods (from stamp , copy and paste to computer layout and profesional printery) with discussion an making of collective zine during the workshop.
13.00 excursion to Homodock, gathering in vrankrijk
(max. 5 people! - please sign yourself on list in vrankrijk, on friday there will be another trip too)
we will visit Homodock-LAA, you will receive short introducory and guidetour and after that you can take a look in the archive yourself.
the Homodock-Lesbian Archive is open for everyone who seeks information about lesbians and/or homosexual men, their history, culture and living environment.
Nieuwpoortkade 2A
1055 RX Amsterdam
Tel.: 020.6060712
Email: info@homodok-laa.nl
 http://www.homodok-laa.nl/
Open: monday t/m friday, 10.00-16.00
14.00-16.00 workshop at binnenpret (occii): Belly Dancing the first part will consist of a short talk about the history of the dance and description of it’s movements and the physical and psyhological ...... you will learn the basic techniques of that oriental dance and a short choreography will be taught and a small demonstration will be given.
16.00-18.00 workshop at binnenpret (tent): Henna In this workshop you will learn process of making and applying henna, as well as some history and you will receive your own try out kit. There will be DOCUMENTARY shown by and about henna artist Barbee Cain
from 17.45 there will be vegan dinner served at Vrankrijk - please reserve and get your ticket at Vrankrijk during a day.
18.00 films at vrankrijk
Omdat ik het ben
Janneke Raaphorst (NL, 2003, 10 min)
A camper girl invites us for a cup of tea. By reading from her diary she explains her identity crisis. It turns out not to be such a big problem at all, thanks to Johnny Logans eurovision songfestival winning song and her post-modern friend in the garden.
Kim Plays Back
Anne Smolar (BE, 2002, 7 min, french language with english subtitles)
‘Kim Plays Back’ is a feminist rereading and parody of the typical macho TV sitcom. Smolar works with the framing of women in representation systems, and notably in the media.
It’s fascinating how a sexist plot can be turned inside out… Like on LP’s there seems to be a hidden message when you play them backwards. That is what Smolar does with an episode of the famous TV sitcom ‘Chips’. It reveals the macho misogynist attitude of men against women, in a pregnant way.
Junk Punk Funk!
Martha Colburn
"My personality keeps coming out in my work: dark humor mixed with a bit of punk mixed with dirt and sex and smoking-- all the things people enjoy but are taboo. Things that delight my sense of humor." Martha Colburn
Martha Colburn corrupt collage animator, chaos poet, and music/filmmaker from Baltimore produces perversely pleasurable 16mm films alongside some 'scopitones' (1960s precursors to the music video, originally shown on what were similar to jukeboxes). Her work - which pokes fun at Americana pop culture - has been featured at The New York Museum of Modern Art, as well as many notable underground film festivals. Female spiders, feet, anxiety, asthma, alcohol, shark attacks, striptease and cholesterol are just some of the themes.
De Todo La Vida: All Our Lives
(52 min, spanish with english subtitels)
This documentary chronicles the life of the anarchist-feminist organisation Mujeres Libres (Free Women) during the Spanish Revolution (1936-39). It includes interviews with numerous former members where they discuss revolutionary Spain and the involvement of women in the war, their relationship to the other anarchist organisations at the time, and their life since. Decades later the Mujeres Lebres organisation still remains a model for revolutionary feminist theory and action. Spanish, with English subtitles.
Hot And Bothered: Feminist Pornography
Becky Goldberg (USA, 2002, 38 min)
Take a rare and empowering look into the pornography industry and feminist community to see how they intertwine within the politics and poetics of female sexuality. Becky Goldberg is a documentary filmmaker and editor living in New York and is originally from Nebraska. Hot and Bothered is her first Pornography. Either you love it or you hate it, you use it or you don't. No matter how you look at it, pornography is here to stay. Feminism, on the other hand, has been going in and out of style for decades and it can carry just as many polarized views that pornography can. But what happens when you bring the two together; some say oppression others say sexual expression. Within the pornography industry, female actresses, directors, and producers are coming out, saying that their feminism, in fact, informs the pornography they make and the ability for their work to help women become sexually empowered - both on screen and in the privacy of their living rooms. Who better to claim the adult industry for themselves, than the women it revolves around. Hot and Bothered is a 60 minute documentary that looks at both worlds -- pornography and feminism - with the goal of exploring and revealing the current state of sexual identity especially for women.
20.00 evening programme at OCCII
20.30 C.E. Kuper since 7 years, the singer-songwriter from Bremen has written songs about sexual violence, racism, identity problems, travelling and other experiences in everyday life. Three years ago she made her first CD which she distributed by herself without a label. Now she presents her second recording, which again impress with powerful voice and honesty.
21.05 Estrokings part 1 A mix of cabaret, spoken word, sex show, homohop + political satire, the envolving line-up of the netherlanths only drag troupe promises to suprise and entertain with their gender blending performance. Join them in giving the middle finger to the 2 gendered system.
21.20 Jauko Barik - hardcore/rock from basque country
21.55 Estrokings part 2
22.10 Motorama energetic garage, punk & blues. Dirty sound! A lo-fi bomb! 100 % rock’n’roll. they released since 1996 4 demos, 7inch, an album “No Bass Fidelity”, video clip, soundtrack, and compilations - with just 2 of them on guitar and drums - check it out!
23.00 Kevin Blechdom is Kristin Erickson, who recently moved back home to Tallahassee, Florida after 5 busy years in San Francisco. While in the San Francisco area, she attended Mills College, founded a band called BLECTUM FROM BLECHDOM, toured the world playing music, and released records on tigerbeat6, deluxe, orthlorng musork, shimmy disc, four states fair, unbearable, dial(), and phthalo. Kevin Blechdom plays two laptops, a red strap-on MIDI keyboard, a red banjo, and sings songs. Live performances include a variety of original pop songs, computer music, banjo playing, and a cover of Tina Turner's 'Private Dancer' while doing an awkward chair dance. Kevy released two new 7"s this year, one features a collaboration with Fred Frith. Her full-length computer/pop record called "bitches without britches" for Chicks on Speed Records will be out early next year.
www.kevyb.com
23.40 Estrokings part 3
00.00 Dj. Rackerzed’s Reetpeper RansRock plays old garagerock’n’roll and/or 70’s punk & 80’s hardcore. She sometimes dj in the “weird” places like toilets with her portable 7inch player playing old disco & punk. She is also djing for the Radio Transistor and regulary in de Diepte and Occii.
29.08 friday
12.00-14.00 workshop at vrankrijk
Consequence: Beyond Resisting Rape
takes participants on a journey from victimization to empowerment, incorporating the work of local rape crisis centers, self defense instructors, spoken word artists, and musicians. The program begins with a screening of War Zone, a film documenting sexual harassment on the streets across America. It moves on to a consciousness-raising discussion about the phenomenon of violence against women, springboarding off the daily dynamic witnessed in the video screening. Participants then get into their bodies and learn basic self defense moves to combat harassment and other forms of assault. Instructors offer what is for many the first active encouragement to be physically powerful. Once participants are energized by this exercise, they are treated to a spoken word performance by artists fighting violence against women in its many different forms. Following this performance, Loolwa Khazzoom does a spoken word performance of her own, with excerpts from Consequence: Beyond Resisting Rape, accompanied by live music. The program ends with a question/answer session and general discussion about pushing the envelopes of response to sexual harassment.
http://www.ZzoomZzoom.com/ or
www.loolwa.com
13.00 excursion to Homodock, gathering in vrankrijk
(max. 5 people! - please sign yourself on list in vrankrijk, on friday there will be another trip too)
we will visit Homodock-LAA, you will receive short introducory and guidetour and after that you can take a look in the archive yourself.
the Homodock-Lesbian Archive is open for everyone who seeks information about lesbians and/or homosexual men, their history, culture and living environment.
14.00-16.00 workshop at vrankrijk selfdefence for women
(if there is nice weather we will go to the park)
with an in-depth understanding of issues of oppression and violence against women, we will explore verbal, internal, physical and community-based strategies for increasing our safety and self-esteem. This workshop will use presentation and participatory teaching models. There will be body movement involved and is accessible to all physical abilities.
16.00-18.00 workshop at binnenpret (tent) guitar playing by Agustina
She will talk about the decision to start playing alone or with others.If the project has a message, it would be that everything is valuable if you use your energies. Techniques:schools versus own initiative. To learn how to read a music sheet and to talk about not knowing how to read one. Chords:minors and majors. Singing and playing at the same time. Being patient. Playing with other people, techniques for playing along with records.
Finding your own sound, the search (guitars,amps,basses,drums,etc). Simplicities and complexities of playing:how a very simple song can touch souls and how a difficult guitar riff can be beautiful and equally as motivating as a simple song (we will show examples of songs). The challenge of wanting to learn more and not making a routine of using little chords. The need for consistent practice. Space for practice, questions, etc.(space to work with the people taking part in the workshop).
at 17.45 there will be vegan dinner served in vrankrijk and MKZ restaurant at the binnenpret - please reserve and get your ticket in vrankrijk during a day.
18.00-20.00 films at vrankrijk
I wanna be a butch
Marie Vermeiren (BE, 2002, 4 min)
Backseat Detour
Allie Sultan (USA, 2002, 12 min)
Catherine is back from college for thanksgiving. Stuck in the car with her parents at a train crossing, there’s never been a better time to share her ‘secret’.
Mono
Tamar Zinger (Isreal, 2003, 4 min)
Night-time in a dark pub, a young lonely lady is trying to find a bit of comfort...
Alles Wird Good (Everything Will Be Fine)
Angelina Maccarone (Germany, 1997, 90 min)
With all the classic features of the genre romantic infatuation, mistaken identity, and climactic mayhem Everything Will Be Fine is a lesbian romantic comedy with a real kick. When Nabou is dumped by her girlfriend Katja, she is not about to give up without a fight. While obsessively staking out her ex's apartment, Nabou mistakenly ends up in the apartment downstairs and is subsequently taken on as a house cleaner by Kim, a successful ad executive unsure of her own life decisions. As Nabou gets increasingly caught up in Kim's life, both find their own romantic intentions becoming confused.
Underlying the film's whimsical and sexy exterior is the compelling story of its Afro-German heroines' pursuit of love and fulfillment in the face of everyday racism.
20.00 evening programme at occii
20.15 Poetrrry Flash! by Rackerzed’s Reetpeper part 1 - Femke is performing regularly with her poetry in diffirent venues around the town. Her poems are direct and raw. She published untill now two collection books: “Dit razende universum” and “een goeie scheut peut”, both illustarted with her collages. tonight she will present 3 short and sharp sets of her poetrrry.
20.30 De Fatwa’s
feminist all girls power band from Amsterdam, whose music is a fast take on the basics of late 70-ties punk. Their songs are short and powerful, with lyrics about women’s issues and social politics.
21.00 Poetrrry Flash! by Rackerzed’s Reetpeper part 2
21.15 Emaline Delapaix
Emaline is a singer songwriter who possesses the unique talent of being able to blend truly beautiful vocals with lush fiery melodies and merging many genres of music to create her own delicious sound.
Emaline's performances are fun, honest and captivating and incorporate anything from lilting lullabies to funky folk, jazz roots, melodic blues, lazy cabaret andlush eclectic pop/rock from an australian perspective, as well as a handful of foreign and traditional songs.
www.emailnedelapaix.com
21.55 Poetrrry Flash!
by Rackerzed’s Reetpeper part 3
and SM Korps - slide show
22.10 Tschilp
Tschilp is a german word for chirp - a sound which bird makes. The 3 girls playing post punk noise - as dark as a flock of crows, will give you wings and take you to the skies.
23.00 Hello Cuca
Describing themselves as punk soul, and promising a rocking and beating show, where dancing and handclapping are welcome. Garage surf at it's best by 2 sisters and one guy, who also run spanish independent label Rompepistas.
www.rompepistas.com
23.50 Rythm King & Her Friends
queer electrrronica, Marvelous Pop melodies with corners and edges combined from sampled rhythms and a playful use of different instruments and singing (in several languages, among others French), result in a singular music style faraway from a Berlin- or other school. Rrhythm King and her Friends, the new Berlin group of Sara John, Linda Woolf and Pauline p., have something else on their mind. Instruments such as samplers, drumcomputers, guitar, bass and xylophone are used, in order to make music, embodied in the field of queer and gender Politics - "i know i need some vacation from my boyish closet". Meanings are transported by the means of quotations, an appropriate performance and a free, but stylish handling of popsong-structures. Rhythm King and het Friends have toured in spring 2002 as a support-act of Le Tigre in Germany, Sweden and Norway. Their first EP was published on the Geneva label 8 & 0.
00.30 D-Monica...underground hip hop & drum'n 'bass www.basscrew.com
 E-Mail: info@ladyfestamsterdam.org  Website: http://www.ladyfestamsterdam.org
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30.08 saturday
11.00-14.00 workshop at the binnenpret: bicycle repairing how to fix your flat tire, raise your handlebar, change your tubes, straighten your chain or fix your lights.bicycle will be provided but you can bring your own bike too!
12.00- 14.00 workshop make your own witch-mailart with Ka
14.00-16.00 discussion at vrankrijk: DolleMina herstory
Dolle Mina, second wave radical feminist thinking & action
Feminist thinking and action had a rich history. A history we can learn from, a history in wich we can admire strong women doing brave things, a history which can inspire us. Second wave feminism put a lot of issues on the political agenda which are still actual toppics now a days; sexual violence, beauty standards, division of labour, unequal respect for which is seen female and which is seen male. Still there is not a lot of discussion between second wave feminists and new feminist groups/initiatives of the last 10 years.
Dolle Mina was a group of young girls and women in the seventies, who wanted to show their anger and wanted to discuss feminist toppics in the public. They did a lot of direct actions, disrupted a lot of rusted ideas about womenhood and they were loud. A lot of these women are still active within feminism. We invited two Dolle Mina’s: Petra de Vries and Saskia Poldervaart, both are now teachers of womenstudies at the University of Amsterdam.
First we will give a little herstory lesson. Show some video’s on Dolle Mina actions, pictures and leaflets. And ofcourse the stories of the ones who were there. Secondly we want to discuss how we can use this knowledge of the past, in feminist action and thinking nowdays. What did work, what didn’t, how do the ‘old’ Dolle Mina’s reflect on their action now. Critical questions, principal questions, practical questions, tactical, stragetical questions, all is possible. We want communication between two generations of feminism!
16.00-18.00 workshop/discussion at vrankrijk
Turkish and Kurdish women ready to resist!
Recently, Turkish and Kurdish women in Turkey have demanded a stronger political and non-governmental position in the fight against the repression by the Turkish state. The Dutch representative of the International Women’s Delegation, who was in Turkey last June shall enlighten us on the various women’s organisations, the
campaign for civil peace and a general amnesty for political prisoners and the repression by the Turkish officials.
at 17.45 there will be vegan dinner served in vrankrijk and MKZ restaurant at the binnenpret, please reserve and get your ticket in vrankrijk during a day.
18.00 films at vrankrijk:
The power of the peemiss,
Anarcha-feminist Collective (NL, 2003, 5,5min) few years ago, we find out that when you are pee in public areas you have to pay fine, the fine was higher for women - beacuse its more obscene, (said city council clerks).
In the same time the city council doesn't provide public toilets for women - and if you are in need you have to go to cafe or restaurant while men are peeing in so called pissuars, that you can find in the city centre. since it's not always comfortable or possible to squat and pee, we thought of little device: peemiss, for every women to make and use. on the video you will see guide how to make your own, demonstration and attempts of finding out by police (who is giving out fines...) about the prices and if the fines still are higher for women.
Tampon Manual
Seong Saeron (South Korea, 14 min)
A charming yet bold statement presented as product instructions, this film promotes the advantage of tampons over menstrual sanitary pads for its value as a masturbation tool.
Äußerst witzige Umsetzung der Kreativität im Umgang mit einer der besten Erfindungen des letzten Jahrhunderts - vielleicht deshalb, weil dieser Aufklärungsfilm aus Korea eigentlich absolut ernst gemeint ist...
The Day I Will Never Forget
Kim Longinotto (UK, 2002, 92 min)
When she was barely 8, Fouzia Hassan was pinned down on her living room floor by two local women in her western Kenyan hometown of Eldoret. They tied her legs, clamped her mouth and sat on her chest to prevent the frail schoolgirl from thrashing around, as a third woman circumcised her with a razor blade.
A 92-minute film documenting the experiences of a number of women and girls, including Fouzia, who have been circumcised, The Day I Will Never Forget has been making the rounds on the international film festival circuit, picking up rave reviews and awards along the way.
20.00 evening programme at occii
20.15 spoken word Megan Garr part 1
Megan Garr is a poet, a dyke, and she's reading. Via Nashville, Missoula, and Glasgow, Meg moved to Amsterdam for a girl (as you do). Once Dutch-side she founded the wordsinhere writers and currently edits its lit mag Versal. Her writings can be found in journals such as the Southern Poetry Review, Number One,
The Keith Wright Memorial Collection, and 42opus.
20.30 Amtrak non guitar music,amtrak members are playing also in brustkrebs, karl heinz and tschilp, they describe they music as cosmetic wave post noise gothic - for those who missed them last time in am*dam - one more chance, check them out!
21.05 performance Bridge Markland
"The most beautiful woman in the world"
the Berlin dance-theatre-performance-artist is a virtuoso of roleplay and quick-change. A chameleon which throws herself into many extremes, but isn't merely limited to one of them.
She is an artist who effortlessly crosses all boundaries between sub- and high-culture, dance, theatre, performance, comedy and erotic-art.
Her speciality is transgender-performance in which the audience can experience the change of woman to man (or vice versa), life on stage.
There is an erotic aura around her in all roles and genders. She has female and male sex-appeal far away from hetero- or homosexual limits and all inscribed identities.
Other focuses are: writing, readings, grotesque-dance, dance-improvisation, audience intervention, silent-movie characters and biographical performances.
For many years she has been a thrill to her audiences performing on many national and international stages.
21.15 Grrrl Monster traditional middle eastern and north african jewish music - accapella
21.30 spoken word Megan Garr part 2
21.45 Lolita Storm digital hardcore cheerleaders with new line-up and new release coming up on 555 Records Arizona, entitled “Studio 666 Smack Addict Commandos”
22.15 performance Bridge Markland "Sweet T."
22.30 Con Mun Gos (Stubble Bunny side project)
riot grrrls & boy in the vein of Huggy Bear, Bikini Kill
23.10 performance Bridge Markland
23.20 spoken word Megan Garr part 3
23.30 Gertrude eclectic post punk orchestra.
Coming from London's underground artsy/squat scene. Formed in 1997 as a collective from the outset, the bands commitment to radical ways of organising and managing themselves was realised musically by the rhythmical interplay between different band members and by having three main vocalists who weave in and out of multi layered songs.
Gertrude was created to stick two fingers up at the narcissistic macho rock posturing that popular culture romances with, and just as importantly, to write sophisicated agitated music.
dj night at vrankrijk: from 22 untill 5!- spinning ladiez:
- Dj Sahara plays contemporary vibes of drum’n’bass mixed with massive jungle & hardstep-tunes, Sahara is also founder of the “Female Skillz” to help promote female djanes in the jungle & drum’n’bass scene.
- Dj G.Bean plays a diverse selection of sets from groovy funk and breakbeat to punk and new wave electro to asian underground. she was the first in-house female dj at club winston international and now alternates weekly with another woman dj in the friday night slot there. www.djgbean.net
- Dj Pat Kim - skool breaks and electro
31.08 sunday
13.00-15.00 workshop/discussion at vrankrijk
Women On Waves
The activist will talk about their recent trip to poland on 21/06/03 - 04/07/03, previous actions, the organisation self , with discussion about women's rights worldwide.
Women on Waves is a non-profit organization concerned with women's human rights. Its mission is to prevent unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortions throughout the world.
Every year 20 million abortions are performed under illegal and unsafe conditions, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 70,000 women annually. In response to this medical calamity, Women on Waves has developed a mobile gynecological unit, the 'A-portable'. It can easily be loaded onto a ship, which enables it to travel to wherever it is needed worldwide. The 'A-Portable' can also travel by truck allowing it to go to countries where reproductive health services are legal but largely unavailable, for example due to war.
With a ship Women on Waves can provide contraceptives, information, training, workshops, and safe and legal abortion outside territorial waters in countries where abortion is illegal. Working in close cooperation with local organizations, Women on Waves wants to respond to an urgent medical need, empower women to exercise their human right to reproductive health and legal, safe abortion and draw public attention to the consequences of unwanted pregnancy and illegal abortion.
15.30-17.30 discussion at afrika Ladyfest evaluation
the future of ladyfest - the women, activists and riot girl network in europe and beyond / how to prevent to became another white-middle class elite event? / how to keep accesible to everyone? / ladyfest as political statement or cultural women’s event? / organisers of ladyfest amsterdam will be there too - so you will have chance to ask everything about making of the fest: tips, the highlights, the crisis moments.../ and what is your impression after 5 days? we would like to hear from you too!
at 17.45 there will be vegan dinner served in afrika - please reserve and get your ticket in vrankrijk during a day.
18.00 films at afrika
I´m not a feminist but...
Marjut Rimminen (UK, 1998, 8 min)
Marjut Rimminen is the internationally best-known Finnish animator. This is the first animated film she directed in England. This hilarious film is dynamic and well structured and it is based on a well-known book by Christine Roche. In this magnificent piece of animation women certainly are in the spotlight on both sides of the celluloid.
Tampere Film Festival, March 1998: Rimminen’s feminism has a playful and ironic element to it, her films show just how possible it is to combine critical cinema and entertainment.
Zapatista Women
Abraham Guillen Press (1995, 30 min, spanish with english subtitels)
This is an excellent introduction to the Zapatistas...Zapatista Women is about the indigenous women soldiers of the EZLN. It includes interviews with several insurgents where they tell about the conditions that indigenous women live in, how the came to be in the EZLN, and the type of world they are fighting for.
Runaway
Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini (UK, 2001, 87 min)
"Runaway" documents the experiences of young women living in a runaway shelter in Iran. Focusing on the sisterly bonds between the girls and the importance of friendship under adversity, this moving film broadens our understanding of Islamic girls’ lives in modern-day Iran and their relationship with their families. Though some of the stories may be difficult for younger viewers, their courage to hope and dream for a better future is an inspiring testament to the endurance of the human spirit.
20.00 evening programme at vrankrijk
20.30 Lady!Die An in the Netherlands unknown formation is now walking the planks: no men, but women, no punk rock 'n' roll or emocore, but ear-deafening punk, metal, hardcore and trash. Lady!Die is a loud, wild and energetic live-act. Coming from an activist background, the Ladies will continue to be socially aware throughout their lyrics. Making music is their activism.
21.10 Messy spoken word/stories/songs with a feminine, mystical, but also at times dark erotic touch on a layer of loops/samples/beats/keyboard
21.45 Linus Rock/pop/punk/
Linus is a London-based band with two American gals and two British guys; Tammy (sings), Deb (bass), Andy R (guitar), and Andy W (drums). They’ve been around for over 10 years, and have quite a history. Their early contemporaries were Huggy Bear, the Voodoo Queens, etc, and were founding members of the London riot grrl scene.
They put on our own mini festivals in the early days, such as the Piao festival with 40 bands from around the UK, and other girl-focused events. They have released 2 albums, three singles, and contributed tracks to various compilations.
22.25 performance t.turner:
the question is always: is your body wearable?
music, performance, videoclips - t.turner will present a life full of music.
22.50 SM Gorilla - minimal electro wave
23.30 Broostkrew - We started, first with brustkrebs by covering deutsch punk songs that had somehow weird -or very"normal"- look onto sexuality and gender - with more keyboards, more bass, more coldness. After the nuclear winter tour feb.02 everything started to change again. We modulated our name into Broost krew and had a vision of POP-TUMOR. We started searching for it and what we found is a new show with electric-rap sounds, video-loops and life-surgery.
www.atombusentransporte.de
00.10 Dj Diepvriesdame - the last hours of ladyfest!
sexy, funny, angry and all grrrl powered - a tribute to women's voices
sighing, screaming, whispering and moaning their way through anything
from belly dancing to riot punk mixed with latin, hiphop, rock 'n roll,
klezmer, jazz and more.
+ extra + extra + extra + extra + extra
--photography by Verena Eichoff--
--photography by Anais--
--paintings by Patries van Elsen--
--paintings by p.h. gregoire--
--photos and slide show by Dreck Kings--
--photography by Mrova--
--art by Richtje and Roosmarijn--
--performance by SM Gorilla--
--performance by offenbach artists collective--
--Duimelijntje is a comic by Sjaron and is inspired by the fairytail of Andersen.More information and pictures at: www.drawinc.com/duimelijntje--
Transistor radio on location on saturday!
visual films ILLUSION Barleyqueen (NL, 2001, 10 min)
we chase try to reach and grab te ultimate perfection. we see it all around us on the street in the shops on the tele.. but everytime we think we have it it dissolves and what remains is a disillusioned person naked and alone
FITNA (feminin chaos)Barleyqueen (NL, 2002, 13 min)
Synopsis:I am ...who? many...one i dream... free...imprisoned?
a nightmare / reality / alone
exposition of Witches-mailart collected by Ka
tickets for all 5 days will cost 25 euro
The festival headquarters is Vrankrijk at Spuistraat 216 where you can find all up-to-date changes and extensive information on the schedule.
Vrankrijk will be open every day from 12.00. You can also get a snack or drink here. All daytime activities are free of charge.
Our second venue is the Binnenpret complex located in the western part of
the city,(on the edge of Vondelpark) at Amstelveenseweg 134 (OCCII) and
1e Schinkelstraat 14-16 (restaurant, workshop tent,coffeshop). The venue is easily reached by public transport: from the city centre take tram 1.
Our third venue will be the Afrika Warehouse on Oostelijke Handelskade (10 minutes walk East from behind cental station), where on the 27th and 31st there will be films shown and food served, as well as a visual art exhibition.
Website: http://www.ladyfestamsterdam.org
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