NETWORK OF WOMEN’S, FEMINIST AND QUEER FESTIVALS IN THE BALKANS

1st Meeting at 8th Red Dawns Festival

Sunday, March 11th from 15.00 to 20.00, Rog Factory's Social Center

In October 2006 Red Dawns festival sent a call for co-operation to all women’s, feminist and queer festivals in the region. Even though the festivals largely differ in terms of their political views, artistic visions, festival programs, audience and also in terms of their level of professionalism and conditions of work, the response from the majority of festival organizers was very supportive of Red Dawns’ call.

Most organizers agreed that there is a great need for communication. Even though some festivals have co-operated in the past (mainly by exchanging parts of programs), there has been no attempts at co-operation on a more structured and profound level.

Hoping that we will be able to know each other’s work better and make a detailed plan of our future co-operations, Red Dawns festival invited representatives of festivals to Ljubljana. We are going to discuss the following issues:

  1. on-line network
  2. possibilities for practical co-operation in 2007
  3. possibilities for joined fund raising
  4. future network meetings

The network meeting is for invited guests only.

Representatives of the following festivals have been invited:
Mesto žensk (Ljubljana)
Girlz are Weird (Kutina)
AnFemA (Zagreb)
FemFest (Zagreb)
PitchWise (Sarajevo)
Queer Beograd
FemFest (Skopje)