Monday, March 3rd 2008

Open until March 10th 2008.

Wednesday, March 5^th 2008

12.00 - 16.00, KUD Mreža studio (building Pešci)
Computer workshop / The GenderChangers
Donna Metzlar (The Netherlands): The Computer Hardware Crash Course
We are going to take apart a computer and put it back together again. We will explain such jargon as: ports, plugs, bus, interface, PCB, cards, processor, memory, storage, cache, master, slave and the BIOS. Participants do not need any previous experience or knowledge to be able to follow the workshop.

Free, in English, for women only. Please, let us know until March 5th that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: The Computer Hardware Crash Course).

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14.00 – 17.00, Klub SOT-24,5
Textile art workshop
Helen Terry (UK/Netherlands): Reinventive Fashion
Helen Terry, a passionate do-it-yourself designer, wants to help reinvent your wardrobe. Bring your old clothes and save them from their sad destiny with dye, paint, stencils, beads, patches or anything else that comes your the way.

Free, in English, open for anybody interested. Please, let us know until March 5th that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: Reinventive fashion).

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17.00, Klub Gromka Book presentation
New Feminism. Queer and Networking Conditions (Löcker, Vienna, 2008)
Speakers at the presentation are the co-editors, Marina Gržinić (Slovenia) and Rosa Reitsamer (Austria), and contributors Reni Hofmüller (Austria) and Đjurđa Knežević (Croatia). The second Slovenian contributor, Nataša Velikonja, is going to be available for individual questions and conversations after the presentation.
In New Feminism. Queer and Networking Conditions, sixty theoreticians, artists and activists open the discussion on the recent changes within feminism, asking what are the conditions within global capitalism that inform and reshape its relation to labor, migration, capital and democracy.

The book is going to be available for sale after the presentation. The printing of the book is supported by ZRC-SAZU and Amidas.

In English.

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19.00, Menza pri koritu
Fairytale opening of 9th Red Dawns festival!
Svetlana Makarovič (Slovenia), legendary poet, writer of children's stories, illustrator, actress and singer is going to open the festival with her remake of the Little Red Riding Hood.

Moderated by Irena Duša Draž.

In Slovenian.

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20.30, Menza pri koritu
Fairytale opening of the 9th Red Dawns!
Tales of Women
Storytellers: Ana Duša, Špela Frlic, Tjaša Koprivec, Matjaž Štirn, Boris Vlajič
Musicians: Zaš Brezar, Goran Završnik
Host: Irena Duša Draž
Storytellers and musicians from Radio Študent are going to tell fairytales about women. From Innuit stories to North American jests, from Primorska to Africa!

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22.00, Gallery Alkatraz
Performance
Ana Hoffner(Serbia / Austria / Germany): Panic: Perverted
A re-enactment of Valie Export’s Aktionshose: Genitalpanik (1969). “Who is allowed to watch and who is supposed to be under surveillance? Who is allowed to speak and take the position of an active subject?”

Exhibition opening
Urša Vidic (Slovenia): X TENSION
Urša Vidic’s conceptual matrix consists of bodies which are connected by sensual communication, a silent sign language that is louder than the language of identity categorizations based on biological sex.

Open until March 29th 2008.

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Thursday, March 6th 2008

12.00 - 16.00, KUD Mreža studio (building Pešci)
Computer workshop /The GenderChangers
Donna Metzlar (The Netherlands): Privacy and Security Workshop
Donna will demonstrate how data travels in clear text across the internet and how encryption, keys (PGP, the Enigmail plug-in for Thunderbird), certificates (CACert) and anonymising applications like Tor and Privoxy protect your data from prying eyes. We will also take a look at TrueCrypt.

Free, in English, for women only. Please, let us know until March 5th that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: Privacy and Security Workshop).

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12.00 - 16.00, in front of Menza pri koritu
Car-repair workshop
Ksenija Glavač (Slovenia) will present basic car-repair tools and techniques: how to change tires, oil, safety valves, etc.

Free, in Slovenian and English, for women only. Please, let us know until March 5th that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: Car-repair workshop).

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14.00 - 17.00, Klub SOT-24,5
Textile art workshop
Emeli Röndahl (Sweden): Bloody Norms
Emelie will introduce you to the absurd handicraft of heteronormative violence. Concrete embroidered wounds for invisible pain; lacquer, hair, thread, color, glue and fabric come to use in the production of wound-patches, street-art wounds and folklore wounds in this queer sweat shop.

Free, in English, open for anybody interested. Please, let us know until March 5th that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: Bloody norms).

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17.00, Gallery Alkatraz
Presentation / Net art
Evelin Stermitz (Austria/ Slovenia): World of Female Avatars
The “distant gaze” of avatars offers a different perspective on one’s body, identity.

In English.

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18.00, Ženska svetovalnica (Women’s Counseling Service, Langusova 21, Ljubljana - Vič)
Burn-out prevention workshop
Zoe and Sunčica, Žene na delu (Women at Work, Serbia): Feminist Politics of Care
This burn-out prevention workshop is dedicated to women who work as advisors on help phone lines, in women's centers and shelters; to women who work with women, girls and children, victims of various forms of violence. The workshop is based on belief that advisors are responsible and need to take care of their own peace, safety and health first.

Free, in Serbian or English, for women only. The number of participants is limited. Please, let us know until March 5th that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: Burn-out Workshop).

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18.00, Gallery Mizzart
Video installation opening
Vagina Dentata (Italy / France): Between the Clotheslines
This witty deconstruction of symbols of masculinity looks at domestic histories from the housewives, daughters’ point of view. Men’s outfits sway between the sheets and clotheslines: grandfathers’ and fathers’ ties, shirts became trophies, cut out with scissors and sewn with a needle.

Open until March 10th 2008.

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18.30, Klub SOT-24,5
Exhibition opening
Coelestine Engels (Austria): Final Solution: Questions
How does resistance form in times of totalitarian regimes? What’s the role of individuals who conform to these systems? There are the questions asked by portraits of women who were either part of the resistance or part of the Nazi dictatorship – facing each other.

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19.00, Klub ŠKUC-LL-Monokel
Opening of exhibition
Andreja Gomišček (Slovenia): Det's d uej ahaaha aj lajk it
Interactive collages exhibition presents silenced and uncommon sexual practices, while the interaction involves the mirrors which are incorporated in the collages.

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19.30, Klub ŠKUC-LL-Monokel
Discussion
Sophia Starmack (Turkey): Lesbian and lgbt movement in Turkey
LambdaIstanbul's activist will speak about legal consequences of being considered »immoral« by the state. She will also present human rights violations in Turkey; especially police raids of gay clubs and hamams and discrimination against trans sex workers.

In English.

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21.00, Menza pri koritu
Video-theatrical manifest
Vstaja lezbosov: HOMO-RISK
Vstaja lezbosov (or The Insurrection of Lesbos’) is asking questions about meanings of public space; asking where do lesbians find their place. By using video and elements of theatre performance – and your help – they will be discovering an ironic narrowness of heteronormativity and go over the boundaries of the visible and audible. We recommend the use of anti-virus protection clothing; the lezbos virus is raging again!

In Slovenian.

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22.00, Menza pri koritu
Stand-up comedy
Martina Ipša (Slovenia): Martina’s Monologues
Stand up and spit it out! Martina’s stand up comedy is not the mere cracking of unrelated jokes, but rather the expression of her opinion on various current and intimate issues. She doesn’t consider herself an activist, instead arguing that she hasn’t been active for years. Her stage tools are words, her body, and ingenuity and - of course - audience reaction, which may well take any performance in a completely new direction.

In Slovenian.

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Gustav - CANCELLED
23.00, Klub Gromka
»Pop« concert
Gustav (Austria)
"Save the whales, overthrow the system," urges singer and songwriter Gustav who’s solo performance will include songs from her 2004 debut Rettet die Wale and the upcoming album Hallo Knallo!. Her intimate / active IDM synth sound draws out an authentic canvas on which both activist and humorously ironic colours are painted.

DJ Emmanuella Cunt and VJ Inocybe (Slovenia) present their sleazy listening & sexadelica set.

Entrance fee: 4 €

Friday, March 7th 2008

12.00 - 16.00, KUD Mreža studio (building Pešci)
Computer workshop / The GenderChangers
Urška Merc (Slovenia / The Netherlands):HTML / CSS Workshop
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a simple mechanism for changing the style of a Web document without compromising its structure. This works by separating the visual design elements (fonts, colors, margins, size, background etc) from the structural logic of a Web page and makes it safe to play around with your desired design without messing things up. Interested? Just come and see.

Free, in English, for women only. Please, let us know until March 5th that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: CSS workshop).

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12.00 – 16.00, [A] Infoshop
Crash keyboard poetry workshop
R.G. Gözüm (Turkey): A new way for recycling e-waste
R.G. will inform you about the problems caused by e-waste, explain which valuable and hazardous materials it’s made of, and talk about different methods of disposing and recycling it. Then everybody takes a screwdriver and starts recycling! R.G. uses old keyboards as an example of common e-waste that can easily be turned into solid pieces of glowing poetry, while discovering and exploring its anatomy.

Free, in English, for women only. Please, let us know until March 5th that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: Recycling e-waste).

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14.00 – 17.00, Klub SOT-24,5
Textile Art Workshops – part II
Emeli Röndahl (Sweden): Bloody Norms
Helen Terry (Great Britain / The Netherlands): Reinventive Fashion

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16.00 – 18.00, Klub Tiffany
Piercing Workshop
Kaamala (Slovenia) offers know-how and piercing.

In Slovenian and English, for anybody interested. Price can be discussed, around 10 € contribution is welcome. Please, let us know until March 3rd that you are coming to 031 487 238 or kaamala7@gmail.com.

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17.00, [A] Infoshop
Exercise in interpretation
»If you're a woman, become a man!«
The discussion will focus on examples of Balkan fairy tales written at the end of the 19th century; fairytales with atypical plots about heroines who go into the world, overcome numerous obstacles dressed into a man, and finally earn a princess. How can we understand fairy tales and their gender roles differently today? Can a socially determined fairy tale heroine be saved from a heteronormative patriarchal order? Is a lesbian fairy tale heroine possible?
Interpreters: Lilijana Burcar, Suzana Tratnik, Maja Pan and Zdena Gajser.

In Slovenian.

20.00, Klub Gromka
Solo theatre performance
Simona Semenič (Slovenia): Jaz, žrtev /I, Victim
A monologue, focused on the process of victimisation based on the stigma of epilepsia and other diseases.

Author and performer: Simona Semenič
Production: Mesto Žensk

Ska and swing music keep on rollin' after the performance – by DJane Lidija (Slovenia).

In Slovenian.

Entrance fee: 4 €

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22.00, Klub ŠKUC-LL-Monokel
Stand-up Comedy
Urška Sterle (Slovenia): Prosimo, ne hranite lezbijke! / Please, do not feed the Lesbian!
A natural habitat of the lesbian is the subculture's most remote places. The social environment of the lesbian is called The Lesbian Mafia and mostly consists of her past, present and future lovers. Keep away from a creative lesbian – keep a social distance and avoid any physical contact, and never, even when it’s very tempting, feed the critical lesbian. It may migrate to some other fields…

In Slovenian.

Big party On the dark side of fantasy follows. With: DJ Cherry (rock, electro rock; Slovenia) and members of DJ collective Lezklektika (Slovenia): DJ Kamasutra (electronica, dark, 80's indie pop) and DJ Muza (electro and techno rock)

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23.00, Menza pri koritu
Concert
Dekolaž (electro pop, Croatia)
Ana's and Lana's “decollage sound” consists of seemingly loyal replicas of pop and electronica a la Cobra Killers, Suicide, Peaches and DAF. The blood beneath the skin of a robot, a dark wave, an aching voice and geometrical costume that exorcise the aesthetic of “beauty”.

Diyala (trip hop, Croatia)
The loquacious MC, signer and poet Diyala and the master of raw trip-hop rhythms DJ Ain'tun are joining their hands to present a repertoire of songs that won Diyala the reputation of the “queen of Croatian trip hop”. Poetry, the rhythm of the words and beats...“IT'S DA FIX“!

Electropop, powerpop, disco, glam rock and pop rock – the beats will keep you up! By the inseparable DJ Brat and Djane Sister (Slovenia).

Entrance fee: 5 €

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23.00, Klub Tiffany
Red Dawns fest party
DJ CorpseKing (electro/indy)
The club is secured. No drinks provided, bring your own.

Saturday, March 8th 2008

12.00 - 16.00, KUD Mreža studio (building Pešci)
Computer workshop / Žene na delu / Women at Work
Majda Puača and Milica Gudović (Serbia): Drupal and Joomla Workshop
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website: community web portals, forums, corporate web sites, blogs, resource directories etc. Joomla CMS is a multi functional Open Source application for creating websites. It provides you with the great opportunity to create your own website without any design or script programming knowledge. It is free to use and has a great community support. You will get a short introduction to Joomla and Drupal, install a working server on your computer and work with a few simple examples of the systems.

Free, in English, for women only. Please, let us know until March 5th that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: Drupal / Joomla Workshop).

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12.00 – 16.00, [A] Infoshop
Crash keyboard poetry workshop – Part II
R.G. Gözüm (Turkey): A new way for recycling e-waste

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13.00, Klub SOT-24,5
Activism
Help Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin (India) is a physician, a writer, a radical feminist, human rights activist and a secular humanist. She was born in Bangladesh in 1962. Her writing and her feminist views are critical of Islam and religion in general. She currently lives in exile in India in a secret place and has received death threats from Islamic fundamentalists. We will listen to Jasmina Jerant’s interview with Taslima Nasrin and speak about our possibilities of actively helping her get Indian citizenship.

In Slovenian.

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14.00, Klub SOT-24,5
Discussion / Workshop
Noha Ramadan (Australia / The Netherlands): Body as the Site of Action
Australian performer, fauxlosopher and street activist Noha Ramadan is researching the revolutionary necessity of liberating the body in public. The body is conceptualized as a means and site of activism that disturbs predetermined meanings of public space – and of the body with unexpected, unusual, “improper” movement. The workshop may turn into preparations for an actual body action.

Free, in English, for anybody interested. Due to limited space please, announce that you are coming to: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Subject: Body Action).

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18.00, Gallery Alkatraz
Dance performance
Nina Fajdiga, Jasmina Križaj (Slovenia / The Netherlands): HAWBFA (as part of exhibition X TENSION)
HAWBFA or, Habits are worth Being Fanatical About questions the status of the female figure in today's pop culture. It speaks of her body as stripped of emotions and identity, of her body as an object of desire, an idea, and an advertisement.

Concept, choreography, dancers: Nina Fajdiga, Jasmina Križaj
Music, visuals: Peter Auguštiner
Production: DWA - Danswerkplaats, Amsterdam

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18.00, [A] Infoshop
Discussion
Maruša Krese (Slovenia / Austria / Germany)
Free-lance journalist, poet, writer and psychoterapist Maruša Krese is coming to Red Dawns directly from Chiapas! She will speak about feminist activism of Zapatista women and about her short story collectionVsi moji božiči (2006) that won the fabula award for best short story collection in February 2008.

In Slovenian.

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21.00, Menza pri koritu
Dance and music performance
Soft Man

Director, dancer: Ryuzo Fukuhara (Japan / Slovenia)
Dancers: Martina Štirn (Slovenia), Maja Pučl (Slovenia)
Choreography: Alchemic Sisters
Costume design: Martina Štirn
Musical director: George Cremaschi
Musicians: Liz Allbee (trumpet, electronics), George Cremaschi (contrabass, electronics)

Despite fifty years of modern feminism, the image of the rough, tough, ‘hard’ man is as strong as ever. In observing popular culture, it is often difficult to tell the difference between 1968 and 2008 - indeed, if anything, the current vision of manliness is bigger and stronger than ever. Men who don't aspire to classic models of virility are called geeks, wussies, nerds, pussies and fags. The message being if you're not tough, you're not a ‘real’ man. No wonder men are insecure and anxious. In this performance, Ryuzo Fukuhara, Martina Štirn and Maja Pučl propose that men can give up chasing an illusion, in order to find a more balanced and relaxed perspective.

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22.00, Menza pri koritu
Experimental solo concert
Reni Hofmüller (Austria): The BOW
The BOW is a live generated soundscape, a movement in space, evolving from a known instrument (the electric bass) via daily life machinery such as a sewing machine to media itself by using a world receiver, opening the perception to sounds that are there anyway.
Instruments: electric bass, cello bow, sewing machine, laptop, world receiver.

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22.30, Menza pri koritu
Two spoken word performances
Stav Balla (UK): Give me something and Let’s be... not

»…little by little, drop by drop, the glass of my being will fill one day, ready to drink, to devour, to enjoy, to kill completely…«.

In English.

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23.00, Menza pri koritu
Video instalation
Mirjana Batinić (Croatia / Slovenia): Ex Voto
A metaphysical image of passion, a giant and double view of the same, everlasting kiss in Menza's »kissing booth«.

Dance until the red dawn with Zagreb duo Disco Cunts.

Entrance fee for Saturday's events in Menza: 6 €

Sunday, March 9th 2008

15.00, Menza pri koritu
Brunch. Hanging out hung-over!

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