Cikel LGBT in revščina: LGBT in stanovanjska problematika

ŠKUC – Kulturni center Q (klub Tiffany) vas vabi
na cikel pogovorov LGBT in revščina.

Gospodarska kriza običajno najbolj prizadane prav tiste, ki že tako živijo na marginah družbe – mlade, ženske, LGBT-jevce idr. ali kar vse od naštetega, in jih tako potiska še globlje v revščino. Na ciklu se bomo pogovarjali o socialni stiski LGBT populacije in opozorili na diskriminacijo ter drugorazredno obravnavo na področju zaposlovanja, razmer na delovnem mestu in stanovanjske problematike. Spregovorili bomo tudi o načinih reševanja tovrstnih vprašanj in primerih dobre prakse.
Na prvi pogovor, ki se bo osredotočal na stanovanjsko problematiko LGBT populacije, vas vabimo

v četrtek, 7. julija 2011, ob 20. uri v klub Tiffany.
Gostili bomo Petra Davyja, enega izmed ustanoviteljev Stonewall Housing Association, londonske organizacije, ki med drugim nudi prenočišča LGBT brezdomcem in svetovanje ter pravno pomoč na področju stanovanjske problematike (več na: http://www.stonewallhousing.org/).

Pogovor bo potekal v angleščini, vodila pa ga bo Špela Bibič.
Vljudno vabljeni!

Dogodek podpira MOL – Urad za socialo.

Predavanje in pogovor: "Težave s queerom v Ljubljani"

ŠKUC – Kulturni center Q (klub Tiffany) vabi napredavanje in pogovor Tee Hvala

v sredo, 25. maja 2011, ob 20.00 v klubu Tiffany (ŠKUC - Kulturni center Q).

»Ne tlači me v (o)queer!«, odličen grafit aktivistične skupine Vstaja Lezbosov, je zajel celo mavrico lokalnih interpretacij tega izmuzljivega pojma, ki se povečini izključujejo. Kaj pomeni queer, če pink partizanke očitno nočejo, da jih kdorkoli tlači v njegov okvir? Mar ni bil queerovski aktivizem mišljen kot upor proti togemu in ozkemu razumevanju identitet? Kako in kdaj se je izrazito opozicijski koncept spremenil v lastno nasprotje? Zastavljajo se še druga vprašanja, recimo, v katerih kontekstih se pri nas pojavlja ta izmuzljiva tujka? Ali zastopa novo samoopredelitev, novo nevidnost (za LGBTI skupnost), življenjski slog, modno muho, novo politiko, posebno teoretsko metodo ali celo novo paradigmo? Menda ne vsega naštetega?

Skratka, odkar je tudi v Ljubljani v določenih krogih popularno trditi, da si queer, je iskanje politično spodbudnih odgovorov na omenjena vprašanja še posebej pomembno za lezbično in gejevsko skupnost, saj queerovska novotarija (zaenkrat) zadeva predvsem njo. Zakaj? Ker je ta skupnost, kot je leta 1997 na podlagi intervjujev z lezbijkami zaključila Suzana Tratnik, naš »alternativni dom«, iz njega pa so tudi v Ljubljani izključeni »tisti, ki niso ‘v celoti drugi’, a tudi ‘ne povsem/zadostno naši’«; torej obrobneži, odpadniki, izobčenci ali, kot bi rekli Američani, queeri.

Na ta in podobna vprašanja bomo skušali odgovoriti s pomočjo Tee Hvala, sociologinje, ki je pred kratkim raziskala kontekste, v katerih se pojem queer pojavlja v Sloveniji. Njen esej Težave s queerom je dostopen tudi v februarski (2011) številki revije Tribuna na spletnem naslovu.

Vabljene, vabljeni!

Dogodek podpira MOL – Oddelek za zdravje in socialno varstvo.

Umetnica–umetnost preživetja

SCCA – Projektna soba, March 4th (Photo: JK)

More photos from the discussion here.

Red Dawns at Civilmedia09 in Salzburg

http://www.civilmedia.eu/
Address: JUFA Salzburg, Josef-Preis-Allee 18, 5020 Salzburg, +43(0)662/84 26 70

The panel on Participatory culture and technology in on- and offline networks is going to be introduced by short presentations of works and project – among them, Rdeče zore / Red Dawns festival – and followed by a discussion.

The short presentation of Rdeče zore is going to focus on the ways in which the festival enables active participation and builds (on- and offline) networks. Some of the difficult questions we’ll ask: How do these networks intersect with activism? How do we perceive the interaction between online and offline networks? What are the festivals potentials, challenges and barriers of participatory culture and technology?

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Panel
Participatory culture and technology in on- and offline networks

Participatory culture describes a culture where people act as active contributors and producers of media and cultural productions. The term has often been described in relation to Web 2.0, social networking and new media technology. Henry Jenkins describes a participatory culture as one:

1) With relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement
2) With strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations with others
3) With some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices
4) Where members believe that their contributions matter
5) Where members feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created).

In: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, 2006

Online communities and networks produce content and have come to interact also in offline spaces. In this panel we discuss examples of participatory culture and the use Web 2.0 in building networks, on- and offline interaction, Internet activism, and the potentials, challenges and barriers of participatory culture and technology.

For more information on participatory culture see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_culture.

Panelists:
Alek Ommert (Germany) - Social networking of queer-feminist activism
Sonja Prlic (Austria) – Frontiers, www.frontiers-game.com, 3d online Computer game to the topic of crossing borders
Tea Hvala (Slovenia) - Red Dawns festival, blogger and feminist graffiti: http://www.kudmreza.org/rdece/index_eng.html, http://prepih.blogspot.com/
Michi Gründler (Austria) – International network of street papers: http://www.street-papers.com/
Elliat Graney-Saucke (Germany/USA) – Travel Queeries; http://www.travelqueeries.com/
Co-organized by Rosa Reitsamer, Red Chidgey and Elke Zobl within the research projects "Feminist Media Production in Europe" and "Young women as producers of cultural spaces" (www.grassrootsfeminism.net).

Type: Short Presentations & Panel Discussion
Language: English
Suggested overall duration: 90 mins

Women's Assembly in Rog

Thursdays at 16.00 in the big door of Rog

The first women's assembly (ženska skupščina?), that will hopefully become regular... On Thursdays at 16.00, in Vagabund, one room inside of Rog, Trubarjeva 72. We can meet in the grey door, outside.

The proposition is create a space where women can feel comfortable to share their experiences, feeling, about sexism and feminist, analyses our reality and create mutual support. Some dynamics can be debates or discussions, role playings, feminist activism...

We hope it will be relax and funny, and all ideas are welcome.

Hope to see you there!