06 Mar PRVO PA ZENSKO 3 PROGRAMME
PROGRAM
06.03. Friday
FEMALE ROOM 15.00 cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
LIVE BIBLIOTEQUES*: Subversion against social and patriarchal norms in “Hamlet” # 2
Open reading session and discussion initiated by Kristina Kostova.
The event is part of the project “Living Biblioteques: archives of civil’s disobedience”, curated by Ivana Vaseva and Filip Jovanovski and it will take place in between the books that were donated for this project.
It is not a secret that in his works Shakespeare inserts subtle suggestions that could be considered as subversive for his era. In our reading session we will discuss why is Shakespeare’s work still relevant, through comparing his social context and ours.
*LIVE BIBLIOTEQUES: Archives of civil disobedience is a long-term project of collecting and distributing literature addressing civil participation and reaction, through individual donations, donations from civil society representatives, and other relevant organizations striving for an open, contemporary and democratic society.
FEMALE ROOM 17.00 cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
Evening of women’s movies:
Screening of different movies followed by discussions with the authors, moderator Ana Vasileva
“Woman, Man or Human” is a film that transmits the gender roles discourse on the street, in the market, high school or kindergarten. Informal conversations with randomly selected individuals from different generations and belonging to different social groups in the city of Skopje do not give any conclusions, on the contrary, they raise questions about gender stereotypes, their reproduction as well as their re-examination, change, overcoming…
Short, documentary film by Sara Simoska and Kalia Dimitrova
14 min., Skopje, 2011
“Growing up”
Short film by Verica Nedeska – Trajkova
9 min., Prague, 2013
Rina is 10-years old and is living with her mother. The news about getting a sibling suddenly awakens her fantasy…
CINEMA FROSINA 18.00
Screening of the movie “We Want Roses Too” (Vogliamo anche le rose) 84 min.
A film by Alina Marazzi
This stunning visual masterpiece is an exuberant testament to the resolve of women of the ’60s and ’70s sexual revolution and feminist movement in Italy. Acclaimed director Alina Marazzi takes viewers on a gorgeous storytelling journey through archival footage, advertisements, and colorful images juxtaposed with the true-life struggles and first person narrations of three diverse Italian women: Anita, who is struggling with an oppressive father and the strict rules of her Catholic faith; Teresa, who must resort to a heartbreaking illicit abortion; and Valentina, a militant feminist caught between love and her commitment to the movement.
Translated to Macedonian by the Student workshop for translation (Feb., 2015)
CINEMA FROSINA 20.00
Movie program in collaboration with PRAVO LJUDSKI Film Festival
ANA ANA (“I am me” in Arabic)
Petr Lom, Corinne van Egeraat / Netherlands, Egypt / 2013 / 75 min.
This film presents the intimate testimony of four young Egyptian women. It is more than mere observation; the heroines of the film themselves operate the cameras, via which they reveal their inner lives. Their dreams, feelings and desires contrast with the chaotic reality of post-revolutionary Egypt.
DANCING HALL 21.30
Dance performance: WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Lipstick (check), Mascara (check), Powder (check), Botox (check), Push-up bra (check), Sexy attitude (check)… Oh, wait.. don’t forget to take yourself.. “Individuals feel physically obliged to participate in different social games (many times with the goal of following prescribed gender identities and behaviours), individuals usually fail to do so”. – Pina Bausch
Concept and idea: Ivana Kocevska
Creative team and performers: Viktorija Ilioska, Bojana Dodevska and Ivana Kocevska
Technical support: Tanja Ribarska
FEMALE ROOM 22.30 cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
FEMALE DANCE PARTY – DJ sets of the musical female associates of independent Radio Channel 103
Radio 103 has given us some of the most interesting female DJs in the 90s. Since then, the local scene has become wider and more diverse with women’s bands, female rapers, drummers, artists from different music genre and crowded dance floors. In 2014 the first women’s only compilation of macedonian contemporary music was published.
Within IT’S FIRST AND IT’S A GIRL Radio 103 brings their DJs and other girls that have been active in Skopje’s night clubs. Come, dance and listen to their music choices in the foyer of cinema Frosina!
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07.03. (Saturday)
FEMALE ROOM 12.00 cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
“MACEDONIAN WOMEN AND THEIR FIGHT FOR EQUALITY”
Lecture by the representatives of the Women Section of the 2nd World War Veterans Association of Macedonia
Lecture by Ms. Vera Bunteska – president of the Women’s organization in Karpos Municipality and vice-president of the Committee of the 2nd World War Veterans Association of Macedonia.
It will be wrong to say that the macedonian woman has not been part or is not part of the everyday fights of the macedonian nation. Even if she is in strict slavery, nationally, politically and socially, enslaved to the man, we have numerous examples that show her active presence in the fight against the occupier.” – Women Section of the 2nd World War Veterans Association of Macedonia
FEMALE ROOM 14.00 cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
ANTI-LECTURE: THE GENDER OF POLITICS AND THE BODY POLITIC
Speakers: Jelisaveta Blagojevic (Singidunum, Belgrade) and Katerina Kolozova (Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje). Moderator: Slavcho Dimitrov
The discussion is an attempt to critique the complex historical and neutralized relation between the construction of the political/political imagination and construction of masculinity. The goals of the discussion is to question the suppressed, and yet universally present metaphor and imagination of the body politic which in the western politics and philosophy of the political is noted as a tool for unification and justification of the unequal distribution of the sensible in the social body (or its distribution within the community).
FEMALE ROOM 18.00 cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
LET’S TALK ABOUT (CLITORAL) SEX: Lecture and workshop with Sandra Dahlèn (Sweden)
How does the body work and how can we enjoy? Why are words about sex so important? During this lecture you get to learn all there is to know about the clitoris, and how to enjoy clitoral sex – on your own or with others. The basis of the information is from the booklet “A guide to clitoral sex”. With space for questions.
Sandra Dahlén, from Sweden, has been working as a sexuality educator for 20 years – as a lecturer, trainer and writer. She wrote the first Swedish feminist book about sexuality in 2002 (Sex etc), and 2006 the first “popular science” book about heteronormativity (Hetero). Sandra Dahlén is also working as a lecturer regarding equal opportunities, discrimination and normcritical pedagogy.
CINEMA FROSINA 20.00
FILM PROGRAM in collaboration with VOX FEMINAE Festival (Croatia) and Women Make Movies (USA)
Vox Feminae Festival is an international and interdisciplinary festival whose focus is to promote national and international female artists and/or groups of artist and in their work which examine clash of contemporary art, urban and alternative culture and gender issues and gender-sensitive social engagement.
“Guerrillas In Our Midst”
A film by Amy Harrison / 1992 / 35 min.
GUERRILLAS IN OUR MIDST presents a savvy exploration of the machinations of the commercial art-world during its boom in the 1980s, and brings the Guerrilla Girls to the screen. This anonymous group of art terrorists has succeeded in putting racism and sexism on the agenda in the art-world since 1985, and their witty and creative tactics have changed the face of political and cultural activism. Interviews with key figures in the Manhattan art scene, record-breaking auction sales, exhibition openings and interviews with the Guerrillas Girls themselves combine to highlight how the myth of the heroic male painter is perpetuated.
“Some American Feminists”
A film by Luce Guilbeault, Nicole Brossard and Margaret Wescott / 1980 / 56 min.
SOME AMERICAN FEMINISTS explores one of the most significant social histories of this century-the second wave of the women’s movement-and is a fascinating flashback on the women’s liberation agenda in the light of 1990s backlash. Inspirational interviews with Ti-Grace Atkinson, Rita Mae Brown, Betty Friedan, Margo Jefferson, Lila Karp and Kate Millett are intercut with newsreel footage of the tumultuous sixties and early seventies. Some American Feminists is critical viewing for all those interested in women’s studies, history and social studies.
DANCING HALL 22.00
CONCERT: Sajsi MC and Threesome (Serbia) and Da Dzaka Nakot, Green Fuzz and Palindrom (Macedonia).
This year our music program is consisted of the awesome PALINDROM, serbian surfers Threesome, our amazing GreenFuzz, the angry rapper babe from the neighbouring Serbia Sajsi MC and the brutally honest Dzaka! Be there!
Entrance is 100 den.
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08.03. (Sunday)
POCKET CINEMA 12.00
CHILDREN CORNER: A safe and comfortable space where both children and parents are invited to join in the creative activities we have prepared for them – gender sensitive colouring books, reading of feminist children books and children theatre plays on gender equality.
FEMALE ROOM 12.00 cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
PRESENTATION OF THE REGIONAL CULTURAL AND GENDER PRACTICES NETWORK
The platform for cultural and gender practices is an informal network of organization that are addressing the mentioned issues through their programs (media, festivals, products), with the goal of strengthening the regional CSO’s through exchange of experience and by creating new collaborative activities. The network is consisted of the following organizations: FEMINIŠ (Srb), VOX FEMINAE (Cro), NOVOSADSKA LEZBEJSKA ORGANIZACIJA (Srb), QUEER. HR (Cro), LIBELA.ORG(Cro), ACT WOMEN (Srb), BeFem (Srb), TIIIIT! Inc. (MKD), CURE (BiH), QUEER SPORT (BiH), LFU (Slo), FEMALE’S CREAM (Slo), Pride parade (Slo)CENTAR ZA DEVOJKE (Srb), VSTAJNIŠLE SOCIALNE DELAVKE (Slo), Mesto žensk (Slo), Rdeče Zore (Slo) …
The network will be presented by Christina Wassholm, Angela Čeh and Jovana Gjorgjevik.
FEMALE ROOM 14.00 cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
PANEL DISCUSSION “WHAT SHOULD WE DO?”
Recent legislative changes threaten reproductive and basic human of women. LGBT community is under constant attack and without protection from the institutions. This forum will attempt to offer a critical review of the position of women and the LGBT community in the current political and social conditions and to discover possible new methods of activism based on cooperation and networking.
Concept: Urania Pirovska Irena Cvetkovic, Biljana Ginova and Neda Korunovska.
FEMALE ROOM 16.00 cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
MOVIE MATINEE WITH LEZFEM: Premiere of the short documentary film “Semi” and debate about the right to family life for the LGBTI community
The short documentary “Semi” is created by Ana Simonova, director and author and Ana Tanevska, editing. Both young feminists, activists for the rights of the LGBTI community and members of LezFem. The film speaks about the right to family life of the LGBTI community through the story about Semi and shows us the reality of his everyday life, a reality that is far from ours. The story is not concluded with the family life, but opens up many additional questions connected with one’s childhood and the childhood of children with same-sex parents, the fight against homophobia, the role of feminism, etc.
Moderator: Dragana Drndarevska – LezFem
Speakers:
Ana Simova – LezFem
Pavlina Simonoska-Arsikj – activist
Žarko Trajanoski – Coalition ‘Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities’
Petruš Teuniš
Cinema Frosina Buffet 18.00
Performance poetry: WOMEN’S WRITINGS – POETRY READING by Lezfem and Friends
Women poets, writers, activists and poetry lovers will gather in one place so they can bring to life the women’s writings.
CINEMA FROSINA BUFFET 19.00
MATINÈE CONCERT: Dragana Zarevska – Telemama
Cinema Frosina 19.00
“Freak Orlando”
Film by Ulrike Ottinger / 1981 / 126 min.
Film program in collaboration with PRAVO LJUDSKI Festival (Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina)
In the form of a “small theater of the world”, a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in a story of five episodes.
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PARALEL PROGRAM: 06 – 08.03, YCC foyer:
FEMALE ROOM, Cinema Frosina, foyer 1st floor
FEM LIBRARY
Library with literature from the field of gender and cultural studies, feminism and human rights. Publisher: Sigma Press.
YCC Dance Hall:
Skate workshop for girls with Ana Malo Stamatovska and Macedonian Skate Association (S.A.M.)
“I like to skate because it makes me feel free.”
– Fazila 13, Kabul, 2011
Long enough we have waited for the coolest, most emancipated workshop to crash stereotypes. From the 6th until the 8th of march, Tiiiiit! Inc. and S.A.M. will host the first ever skate workshop for girls.
Expect skate movies for the experience of young skategoarders in Afghanistan, as well as must-see skate movies.
YCC foyer:
BAZAAR
A great opportunity to buy (yourself) a present for the Women’s Day! Open space for presentation and sale of handmade crafts made for/by different women. Participating independent crafts(wo)men: Wizart, Just Because, Pleteni Kolacinja, Gligor Kuzmanovski, ATAMI, Em Ellephanstki, M craft’s, Black Fox, Drama Studio, Bip Art, Soro Jewelry, Aleksandra Sekutkovska, Наде Димушевска, UrbanBehavior, Soro Jewelry, Damaja, Mei Ro, Илина Поповска, LUDUS, IsNoGood, Windmillshop, Mia Pejovska, KAPKA Jewelry and Gjorgje Jovanovikj.
YCC Gallery
Installation
Kula
Subject: “What makes today’s home so different and so attractive in 2015? The collective from Kula will present with the work of their girl’s section through intervening in gallery space. The goal is to explore the opportunities how can one change the definition of what a space is, putting an accent on the inclusion of the public in it’s redefinition.
SEWING AND SCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOP
Join the girls from Kula in their sewing workshop after which you will have the opportunity to print your own t-shirt. Bring your creativity and your favourite t-shirt..