19.00, Menza pri koritu
Grand opening: Crowning of Miss Red Dawns’ World!
Our favorite candidate is the Australian anti-globalist and queer activist Moon with her performance Miss World. The spectacle is moderated by the famous Serbian TV presenter Zed.
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20.00, Alkatraz Gallery
Opening of the international group exhibition Sex, Work and Society
Opening performance: Maja Savić (Serbia): Cigarette Girl
Exhibiting: Jelena Radić, Goca Belić and Milica Ružičić (Belgrade), Julia Wieger, Elke Auer, Esther Straganz, Eva Jantschitsch and Eva Egermann (Vienna). Guest curators: Ivana Marjanović and Vida Knezević (Kontekst Gallery, Belgrade).
The artists explore relations of power, desire and gender differences as consequences of the different legal treatments of sex workers, clients and sex industry.
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21.00, SOT-24,5
Paintings exhibition opening
Joanna Zajac (Poland): Venus
Subtle aquarelles about radiations and collisions between the sexes.
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21.30, Infoshop above Menza
Video installations and video screenings opening
Juan delGado (Spain): Don't Look Under the Bed (2001), Who Are You Entertaining To? (2002)
Paula Muhr (Germany): Inventing Solitude (2002-05)
Helena Schultheis (Croatia): Borders and Shading (2006)
Zemira Alajbegović (Slovenia): Quick Slow (2004)
Antonella Bukovaz (Italy): Scrivimi (2006)
Tanya Bezreh (USA): Untitled (2005), Air Paradise (2004) in Morning Addition (2005)
17.00, Menza pri koritu
Presentation of Italian organization Comitato per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute ONLUS (Committee for the civil rights of prostitutes ONLUS) from Pordenone.
CDCP ONLUS is a non-profit association that was founded in 1981 by sex workers. Its main objective is to provide assistance to prostitutes. The Committee organizes sensibilization campaigns aimed at raising public awareness about the dignity and right of sex workers.
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18.00, Menza pri koritu
Discussion About Prostitution
Moderator: Mitja Blažič
Participants: dr. Majda Hrženjak (Peace Institute), Katjuša Kodele Kos (Association Ključ), Marlenna and dr. Zoran Kanduč (Institute for Criminology).
Leaving moral judgments aside, we will reflect on different views of prostitution. We will focus on the role of prostitution in Slovenian and global society from the point of view of Slovenian legislation and sex workers’ point of view. We will discuss prostitution in relation to trafficking of women, to gender differences in the trade and the changes brought by the decriminalization of prostitution in Slovenia. (The debate will be in Slovenian language only.)
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20.00, Menza pri koritu
Documentary films about trafficking of women
Gillian Caldwell: Bought & Sold (1997, USA, 42', Eng. without subtitles)
Danijela Majstorović: Counterpoint for her (2004, BiH, 30', Bosnian with English subtitles)
Nadja Ridžić: Stranputice života (2005, BiH, 40', Bosnian without subtitles)
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20.00, SOT-24,5
Two paper theatre monologues
Katja Kähkönen (Finland/Slovenia): Dark Paradise
The play interprets two short stories by the infamous finish writer Rosa Liksom. Two grotesque and bold monologues about different sexual preferences, different forms of violence and love. Spiced up with a great deal of black humour!
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21.00, Klub Monokel
Exhibition opening
Nino Jaeger (Austria): Pipistrello: Dolce Vita
Porn photo story inspired by Mozart's Figaro's Wedding (Chérubin's Aria)stages the sexual encounter between the bat/vampire sex doll Pipistrello and the flesh-and-blood worker. Their sexual act transgresses gender and sex roles thus showing that the idea of the one and only true love, desire and sexuality as depicted in Figaro's Wedding is merely an illusion.
16.00, SOT-24,5
Workshops
1000 Tiny Sexes
This workshop seeks to catalyze creative thinking about the ways that sex is multiple (more than just MALE or FEMALE). With the help of images and stories about tiny and always differently incarnated sexes we will treat ourselves to tiny exercises in thinking outside of the gender box.
Peeping
The peep-box view is a limited view. When we can not see everything we tend to make our own conclusions and explanations to fill up the gaps. We have the urge to make the vision clearer; we make an effort to see. It is a dreamlike experience. For this reason there is a surrealistic touch in the project. The participants will create their own peep-boxes, a multidimensional adventure through the world of auto-sexuality and voyeurism.
Announce your participation to e-mail: rdece.zore@gmail.com
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16.00-20.00, Menza pri koritu
Conference
Feminist Activism
Representatives of different women’s, feminist and queer festivals and representatives of feminist media from the Balkans are going to discuss possible tactical responses to the reproduction of class and gender stereotypes, inequality and exploitation as experienced in the region.
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20.30, Menza pri koritu
City of Women festival intervention
Video screening
Kitch Ona: Her Pleasure: Naked Reading of Lacan
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21.00, Menza pri koritu
Theatre play
KD Fantazija Drugačne Vrste: SKRITO: SPOL
Director: Jernej Škof
Actors: Sarah Končina, Uroš Konc, Miha Topolovec in Jernej Škof
Slovenian adaptation of Kate Bornstein’s play Hidden: A Gender will de-construct and re-construct your gender identity.
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21.00, Klub Gromka
Documentary film screenings
Kagendo Murungi: Sunshine Boutique (2006, USA/Kenya, 30', English without subtitles)
Maša Hilčišin Dervišević, Ćazim Dervišević: It's not that you can, you gotta (2006, Bosna and Herzegovina, 27’, Bosnian with English subtitles)
Danijela Majstorović: Dream Job (2005, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 51', Bosnian with English subtitles) The author will be present and available for questions from the public after the screenings.
Uta Busch, Sandra Ortmann: Step up & be vocal: Interviews zu queer punk und feminismus in San Francisco (1999, Germany, 60', English with German subtitles)
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22.00, Menza pri koritu
Spoken word performance
Jet Moon (Australia/GB) & Sacha Boi (GB): Easy Jet Set
A storm of queer, sexradical and anti-capitalist words speaking against border controls.
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23.00, Menza pri koritu
DJane & VJane program Luxativ
DJane Emmanuella Cunt (housewife paranoia lounge cocktail from the 50’s)
VJane: Inocybe
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23.30, Klub Gromka
DJane program
DJane Sladka
A cheerful selection of evergreen and newer melodic flirts. DJane Sladka invites women to send her their music wishes to: sladkezelje@gmail.com
Red Dawns’ invasion in Izbruhov kulturni bazen in Kranj
22.00: Concert
First Fatal Kiss (Austria)
Pop-punk-new wave-garage rock with analogue warmth of the 80’s and keyboard melodies that escaped straight from a low-budget horror movie.
14.00, Menza pri koritu
Workshop for girls, women and transgender people
Repair your bicycle
Do you know how to fix a hole in the tire? How to adjust your brakes? How to change bearings? The workshop is going to be in English language.
Announce your participation to e-mail: rdece.zore@gmail.com
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16.00, SOT-24,5
Workshops
1000 Tiny Sexes
This workshop seeks to catalyze creative thinking about the ways that sex is multiple (more than just MALE or FEMALE). With the help of images and stories about tiny and always differently incarnated sexes we will treat ourselves to tiny exercises in thinking outside of the gender box.
Peeping
The peep-box view is a limited view. When we can not see everything we tend to make our own conclusions and explanations to fill up the gaps. We have the urge to make the vision clearer; we make an effort to see. It is a dreamlike experience. For this reason there is a surrealistic touch in the project. The participants will create their own peep-boxes, a multidimensional adventure through the world of auto-sexuality and voyeurism.
Announce your participation to e-mail: rdece.zore@gmail.com
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19.00, Rog Factory's Social Center
Documentary film screening
Julia Query, Vicky Funary: Live Nude Girls Unite! (2000, USA, 70', English without subtitles)
This first person documentary follows Julia Query, lesbian/stand-up comedian/peepshow-stripper, and daughter of a feminist activist, on her raucous journey to help organize the – at the time – only union of strippers in the United States.
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20.00, Klub Monokel
Prose reading
Mima Simić (Croatia)
In 2005, writer Mima Simić released her first short stories collection Pustolovine Glorije Scott in collaboration with Croatian comic artist Ivana Armanini. The stories about the absurd adventures of a famous London detective and her assistant Mary Lambert are an excellent parody of Victorian morals and the genre of detective novel.
Concert
Drvena Marija (Croatia)
Drvena Marija (Wooden Mary) is a socio-religious band using pop-rock and acoustic death metal as its primary expression. The number of band members is undefined but never amount to less than one. Provocative and straightforward lyrics are written by two of the most prominent Croatian literature figures: Roman Simić and Mima Simić.
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22.00, Menza pri koritu
Concert
First Fatal Kiss (Austria)
Pop-punk-new wave-garage rock with analogue warmth of the 80’s and keyboard melodies that escaped straight from a low-budget horror movie.
Evazija (Croatia)
Anarcho hard core from Zagreb.
VJs Small but Dangers are going to create live images using the newest technology – an overhead projector!
http://smallbutdangers.cerkno.net/
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22.00, Klub Monokel
DJane program
Djane Ganzza
Pop music caught between XX. and XXI. century.
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24.00, Menza pri koritu
DJane program
Djane Shushu (Austria) Indie and 80’s music.
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24:00, Klub Monokel
Surprise film screening.
Red Dawns’ invasion in Mladinski kulturni center in Koper
19.30: Photography exhibition opening
Barbara Milavec: Ile d´Yeu
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20.00: Concert
Ksenija Jus – Xenia
Ksenija Jus - Xenia uses an array of styles and shapes them into expressive and experimental dark ballads.
Brejn & Bubizz
Electro-rock with political lyrics based on a simple mix of electric guitar, bass and sampled rhythms.
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22.00: Documentary film screenings
Kagendo Murungi: Sunshine Boutique (2006, USA/Kenya, 30', English without subtitles)
Danijela Majstorović: Dream Job (2005, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 51', Bosnian with English subtitles)
16.00, SOT-24,5
Presentation of workshops 1000 Tiny Sexes and Peeping
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18.00, Klub Monokel
Alter šalter screening, lecture and debate
Tonja Zadnik & Erik Blatnik: Hijras (2006, Slovenia, 10', Slovenian, English, Hindu with Slovenian subtitles)
Often (somewhat misleadingly) called eunuchs in English, Indian hijras may be born intersex or apparently male, dress in feminine clothes and generally see themselves as neither men nor women. After the Hijras documentary screening, Tonja Zadnik will present her undergraduate thesis in which she compared the hijras status with Western medical and general perception of intersexuality. In the discussion we will speak about the invisibility of intersex people in Slovenia.
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19.30-20.30, Klub Monokel
Performance/instal-action
GYRL GRIP: SURGEMONY III: HERE WITH YOU (USA/GB)
No longer deliberately unannounced, the performance or “install-action” conducted by American artists Llewyn Máire and Lisa Newman explores the rediscovery of intimate touch after a physical and hormonal change through the use of movement and video.
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20.30, Klub Gromka
City of Women festival intervention
Theatre play
Marijs Boulogne (Belgija): Večna medikacija
Slovenian adaptation of the theatre play Endless Medication
Directed and adaptated by: Simona Semenič and Marijs Boulogne
In Endless Medication, religious ecstasy all too easily turns into highly sexually charged delirium. The story of Rosa, a girl who cannot weep and is impregnated by the JesusChristMachine is brilliantly depicted by actors Barbara Krajnc and Jelena Rusjan.
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22.00, Klub Gromka
Alter šalter & Sindikat Queer Party
DJane Wilma (Alter Šalter)
DJ Dečko z vlečko (Sindikat)
VJ Delta NU (Sindikat)
VJ transmission of TRANS/FORM performance from Menza pri koritu
Drag/cross-dress code!
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22.00, Menza pri koritu
Concert
Brejn in Bubizz
Electro-rock with political lyrics based on a simple mix of electric guitar, bass and sampled rhythms.
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22.30, yard in front of Menza pri koritu
Street performance with fire juggling
Mashvatri: Women’s Bullying (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The performance took its name from Rachel Simmons’ book about the culture of aggression between girls and women. The performers play with fire and create a caricature of non-physical and hidden violence by demonstrating acts of calumniation, exclusiveness, insults and manipulation.
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23.00, Menza pri koritu
Performance/concert
TRANS/FORM (Croatia)
Zagreb-based group TRANS/FORM performs and ironically transforms pop songs by constantly changing the band-members appearance and thus changing their (gender) identity. Visitors of Saturday’s Alter šalter queer party in Klub Gromka will have the honour to see the live transmission of TRANS/FORM´s parodic copy of Fashion TV.
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24.00, Menza pri koritu
DJane program
DJane Slutty Trailor Trash (Germany)
Slutty and trashy disco hits
Red Dawns’ invasion in Mladinski kulturni center in Koper
20.00: Documentary film screening
Uta Busch, Sandra Ortmann: Step up & be vocal: Interviews zu queer punk und feminismus in San Francisco (1999, Germany, 60', English with German subtitles)
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21.30: Concert
Pavza (Slovenia)
Hardcore punk made in Koper! Pavza are still the only Slovenian punk group with female members only. Born out of the ashes of band Fregatura.
15.00, Rog factory social center
First meeting of women’s, feminist and queer festivals in the Balkans
This introductory meeting is going to bring festival organizers together so that they can get to know each other’s work better and plan future collaborations. Red Dawns festival invited representatives of the following festivals: City of Women (Ljubljana), Girlz are Weird (Kutina), FemFest (Zagreb), AnFemA (Zagreb), PitchWise (Sarajevo) and Queer Belgrade.
Invitees only.
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20.30, Klub Gromka
City of Women festival intervention
Theatre play
Marijs Boulogne (Belgija): Večna medikacija
Slovenian adaptation of the theatre play Endless Medication
Directed and adaptated by: Simona Semenič and Marijs Boulogne
In Endless Medication, religious ecstasy all too easily turns into highly sexually charged delirium. The story of Rosa, a girl who cannot weep and is impregnated by the JesusChristMachine is brilliantly depicted by actors Barbara Krajnc and Jelena Rusjan.
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21.00, Menza pri koritu
Concert
Virginia Genta accompanied by David Vanzan (Italy)
Improvised music on tenor and baritone saxophone accompanied by percussions.
The Tiptons (USA)
Formerly known as The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, The Tiptons are coming to Ljubljana two years after their last show – introducing a new drummer and singer, Faith Stankevich. Lively jazz influenced by New Orleans groove, klezmer, hip hop and punk.
EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA:
Monday, March 12th 2007
12.00-14.00, Hostel Celica, Srečišče Gallery
Music workshop with The Tiptons (USA): Music games of improvisation and composition.
The workshop is meant for musicians and music students. The participants are asked to bring their own instruments. Together we will investigate different technics of experimenting and composing music. With the inspiration from The Tiptons’ music we will create some compositions of our own. We hope that the participants will contribute their own ideas and experiences.
Information and applications: Jessica Lurie, zipa@earthlink.net
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