Red Dawns: Saturday, October 26th 2013

The program on Saturday, October 26th, is going to wrap-up the special autumn edition of Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns, organized in collaboration with City of Women - 19th International Festival of Contemporary Art as part of our joined project Red Dawn above the City of Women.

You can check the whole program at our website. This Saturday, you are invited to the following events:


13.00, Mesarski most, Central market, Ljubljana
Street dance performance
ACT Women (Serbia): My Body, My Territory

  















A socially engaged performance about sexual violence against women. It is dedicated to sexual abuse survivors and addresses the complex process that women who have experienced it go through: from the moment of rape to the point when they decide to report it to the police and dare to say: »Rape is never a woman's fault. The perpetrator is the one who should be ashamed.«

No entrance fee

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16.30, in front of Menza pri koritu, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana

Performance

Ana Čigon (Slovenia): Dear Ladies, Thank You

An evolving performance that has been presented in several variations. The common thread that connects all versions is the discourse of the under-representation of women in art history, art theory, art institutions, and in the broader collective memory.

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The performance is a part of Urban Art Projects, produced by KUD Mreža. Supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City Municipality of Ljubljana.

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18.00, Menza pri koritu, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana

Lectures and workshop
Jasmina Husanović (BiH): Doing a double-take through BiH lenses: Materialising feminist and anticapitalist critique and practice
Lilijana Burcar (Slovenia): From an orchestrated destruction of socialism back to capitalist barbarism: imposition of regressive socio-economic status for women

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21.00, start in Menza pri koritu, follow-up in A-Infoshop, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana
Reading performance

Bibliothèque Érotique (The Netherlands): The Empire of the Senses

 

Bibliothèque Érotique will start with a short reading performance in Menza pri koritu and continue their erotic readings (Henry Miller, Marquis de Sade, Audre Lorde, Anaïs Nin ...) in a more intimate manner in A-Infoshop, which will get a make-over for this special occasion, arranged by Ljubljana's own Red Cabaret. The audience is invited to discover, through sight, taste, touch and sound, an enhanced experience for their erotic fantasies. Consensus, respect and enjoyment will constitute the precepts of ‘Boudoir des Sens’.
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Price for both events in Menza: 7 eur, 5 eur (students upon submission of an identity card, pensioners, persons with disabilities, unemployed and self-employed in culture).

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22.00, Menza pri koritu, ACC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana
Sound performance
chra & Cherry Sunkist (Austria): black black black black nr.1

The sound performance takes place in complete darkness, allowing the listener to rely on her ears and imagination, rather than her eyes; to experience sound in a public, yet intimate, setting. Their experimental mix of pop, dub, minimal techno, and ambiental electronic music is played at different volumes, and from different angles, encouraging the audience to approach this ever-changing soundscape actively, by moving through space and in between other listeners. .
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Price for both events in Menza: 7 eur, 5 eur (students upon submission of an identity card, pensioners, persons with disabilities, unemployed and self-employed in culture). Supported by the City Municipality of Ljubljana - Department of Culture
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The program will continue with DJane Vaservaga's & DJ Augenmas' (Slovenia) "Kein spass, bitte!" DJ program, featuring electro music, Syrian techno and Youtube extravaganza.
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All events, except for Ana Čigon's performance, are supported by Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.

Red Dawns: Special October Edition 2013

 

Welcome to the special October edition of Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns. For this occasion, we have allied with the 19th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women.

Our joint project Red Dawn above the City of Women continues our locally situated feminist and queer politics. We look across national borders, because we believe that patriarchy is transnational. We are convinced that borders between genders as well as between nations and classes can be crossed, moved, and demolished with art, activism, and theory; that these forms of expression intertwine in our struggle for the ‘impossible’ – for that which is yet to come.

From October 3rd to 13th 2013, you could visit City of Women whose 2013 slogan Let’s Create a Place for Ourselves invited you to a variety of interdisciplinary, multicultural and multimedia events.

From October 12th to 26th 2013, Red Dawns welcome you to the special 2013 edition. Click here to access the full program.

Festival concept:
Tea Hvala: Red Dawn above the City of Women
Mara Vujič: All Different, All Equal!
Vesna Leskošek: Personal is Political and Public Privatised


To access the schedule for all events, click here (PDF).

Catalogues:

City of Women, October 2nd – 13th 2013
PDF version

Red Dawns, October 12th – 26th 2013
SWF version (to browse, click on any corner of the page)

As part of the Red Dawns Festival, two events will be held on the occasion of the reissue of the Simone de Beauvoir’s book The Second Sex.

We hope that our festival reaches you. And we hope that the critical insights and pleasurable experiences we offer in our program are going to help you live – not only survive, but live in hope that one day, the sun is going to really rise above the City of Women.

Silk-screened merchandise for 13th Red Dawns Fest

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On February 28th, the Red Dawns team met with this years' festival visuals designer Ana Baraga and silk-screen mistress Urška at the MetaTisk silk-screening studio at ACC Metelkova. We printed the new posters and bags as well as second hand T-shirts, kitchen cloths, skirts, underwear etc., all of which we receive from you in response to our call for contributions.

All the merchandise - and a new series of badges - are going to be available for sale during the festival at the Infopoint in SOT-24,5 Club and during major festival events in other Metelkova venues.

Below, there are some photos from the printing session. More printing and merchandise photos can be seen on Ana Baraga's blog.

Invitation to Red Dawn's benefit party - Thursday, 29.12.2011

 

Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear!

TREŠ BENEFIT ŽUR RDEČIH ZOR

(English version below.)

Ekipa feminističnega in queerovskega festivala Rdeče zore je v polnem zagonu: pripravljamo naslednji festival, ki bo med 7. in 10. marcem 2012 tudi z vašo pomočjo lahko znova kljuboval samoumevnostim, vpisanim v spol. Rdeče zore lahko podprete že na prednovoletni nabirki ali treš benefit žuru.

Oder: burleskne, plesne, drag in striptiz enodejanke. Nastopajo: Lucifer Vertovšek, anonymous sTripper, Jožefina Jožef, The Snake Lady, The Hunter z nastopom 'Fuck Xmas' in drugi!

Zvok: INTO TRASH: DJ KITCH vam postreže s plesnimi trash zvoki raznih sort, zmešanimi z 80-imi, punkom, orientom

Video: KITCH (v Menzi), Ana Grobler (na dvorišču, tehnična pomoč Neven Korda)

VJ: I.G.S.empl, KITCH

Dekor: Alota Trash

Gretje: koktejli in kuhano vino, majčke in broške z motivi Rdečih Zor

Dresscode: Treš! (Merry Crisis and Happy New Fear!)

Vstop: 3 € (vključuje kozarček kuhanega ali broško)

Četrtek, 29. december 2011 ob 21.00 v Menzi pri koritu, AKC Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana

Vabljene, vabljeni!

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Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear!

RED DAWNS' TRASHY BENEFIT PARTY

The Red Dawns team is busy preparing the next festival, scheduled between March 7^th and 10^th 2012. With you help, the feminist and queer festival Red Dawns is going to be able to counter common (non)sense about gender and sexuality for the 13^th time! We invite you to express your support by visiting Red Dawns’ trashy benefit party.

Stage: short burlesque, drag and striptease shows by Lucifer Vertovšek, The Snake Lady, Josephine Joseph, anonymous sTripper, The Hunter with 'Fuck Xmas' and others!

Sound: INTO TRASH: DJ KITCH serves you danceable trash of all sorts, mixed with ’80s, punk and Orient

Video: KITCH (indoors), Ana Grobler (outdoors with Neven Korda’s technical support)

VJ: I.G.S.empl, KITCH

Decoration: Alota Trash

Heating: cocktails, hot wine and the collection of Red Dawns T/shirts and badges

Dresscode: Trash! (Merry Crisis and Happy New Fear!)

Entrance fee: 3 € (includes a glass of hot wine or a badge)

Thursday, December 29^th at 9 p.m., Menza pri koritu, Metelkova mesto, Ljubljana

Welcome!


P.s. For those of you who have been asking whom or what do we mean by "trash" in the title of the party - and what does it refer to in terms of the dress code. Here's a possible answer from Virginie Despentes' book King Kong Theory:

“... the weirdos, the ones who shave their heads, those who don’t know how to dress, those who worry that they stink, those who have rotten teeth, those who don’t know how to go about things, are never given presents by men, those who will fuck anyone who’ll have them, the fat tarts, the skinny sluts, those whose cunts are always dry, those who have big bellies, those who would rather be men, those who behave as if they were men, those who think they’re porn queens, who don’t give a damn about guys but are interested in their girlfriends, the ones with big arses and thick, dark body hair they don’t wax, brutish, noisy women, who destroy everything that gets in their way, those who don’t like perfume shops, whose red lipstick is too red, who haven’t got the figure to dress like hookers and yet desperately want to, women who want to wear men’s clothes and a beard in the street, those who want to show it all, those whose shyness is due to their hang-ups, those who don’t know how to say no, those who are locked up in order to be controlled, women who are scary, pitiful ones, women who don’t turn men on, those with flabby skin and a face full of wrinkles, those who dream of plastic surgery, of liposuction, of having their nose broken so it can be reset but can’t afford it, women who look like the back of a bus, those who can rely only on themselves for protection, who don’t know how to comfort others, who couldn’t care less about their kids, women who don’t behave; and men who don’t want to protect, men who would like to be protective but don’t know how to start, men who don’t know how to fight, those who cry easily, those who aren’t ambitious, competitive, well-hung or aggressive, men who are fearful, timid, vulnerable, men who prefer looking after their home to going out to work, men who are fragile, bald, too poor to be attractive, men who’d like to be fucked, men who don’t want to be counted on, men who are scared to be alone at night.”

Vabilo k sodelovanju / Call for proposals: Rdeče zore / Red Dawns 2012

(English version below)

Rdeče zore vabijo k sodelovanju ustvarjalke in ustvarjalce!


Feministični in queerovski festival Rdeče Zore se bo od 7. do 10. marca 2012 že trinajstič odvijal na različnih prizoriščih v AKC Metelkova mesto in na drugih lokacijah v Ljubljani.

K sodelovanju vabimo vse (še posebej neuveljavljene) ustvarjalke in ustvarjalce, ki se v svojih delih posvečajo spolnim vlogam in seksualnosti v navezavi na širi družbeni kontekst. Kratek opis predloga in svojo biografijo pošljite na spodnji mail (zadeva: Prijava 2012).

O izboru predlogov in sodelovanju na festivalu vas bomo obvestili do začetka februarja 2012.
Prijavni rok: 15. november za glasbenice/ke in 15. december 2011 za vse ostale.

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Rdeče zore vabijo k sodelovanju prostovoljke/ce in študentke/e (študijska praksa)

Feministični in queerovski festival Rdeče zore prostovoljke in prostovoljce vabi k sodelovanju pri pripravi in izvedbi 13. festivala, ki se bo v AKC Metelkova mesto in na drugih prizoriščih v Ljubljani odvijal od 7. do 10. marca 2012.

Če želiš pridobiti organizacijske izkušnje, aktivno sodelovati pri sestavi programa in promociji festivala, se družiti z ustvarjalkami in nastopajočimi ter spoznavati feministično in queerovsko tematiko v praksi, piši na spodnji naslov (Sodelovanje 2012).

K sodelovanju vabimo tudi študentke in študente, ki bi pri nas radi opravili študijsko prakso.

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Red Dawns Festival: Call for Proposals

Marking its 13th year, the international feminist and queer festival Red Dawns is going to take place at various venues of AKC Metelkova Mesto from March 7th to 10th 2012.

Artists, theorists and activists of all genders are welcome to apply. We are looking for works that explore body politics, gender identity and sexuality, preferably in relation to a wider social context that includes other axes of difference. 

Submission deadline for musicians: November 15th 2011
Submission deadline for everyone else: December 15th 2011

Proposals should include a brief description of the project and its technical requirements, as well as the applicant’s CV. They should be submitted to the e-mail address below (Subject: Application 2012) or posted to our postal address below (Application 2012).

The selection will be made in the beginning of February 2012.


Red Dawns Festival: Call for volunteers and student trainees


If you want to gain experience in festival organisation, to actively participate in the programme-making and promotion of the festival, to socialize with festival participants and guests - and get a deeper insight into feminist and queer issues through practice, write to the e-mail address below (Subject: Volunteer 2012).

Students looking for traineeship are welcome to join us as well.

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Contact / Kontakt:

KUD Mreža
Rdeče Zore / Red Dawns Festival (Application 2012 / Prijava 2012)
Masarykova 24
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija

E-mail: rdece.zore@gmail.com
Past programs: http://www.rdecezore.org/

Book about Red Dawns festival just released!

Tea Hvala (ed.): Rdečke razsajajo! Intervjuji z organizatorkami feminističnega in kvirovskega festivala Rdeče zore (KUD Mreža, 2010)
Slovene / English, soft binding, 104 pages, 32 black/white photos, price: 8,00 € (+ postage)
Cover by Anna Ehrlemark

Red Dawns fest is breaking new ground in Slovenia. And that is really important: that a relatively known festival is opening new themes in the public sphere. Our international collaboration is important for the same reason. You have to bring people from abroad if no one here has thought about a certain issue yet! In addition, the international view brings awareness about the global nature of problems we are dealing with, like the lack of social justice. --Jasmina Jerant

The interviews collected in this book were made in 2009 when International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns celebrated its 10th anniversary. The interviewees discussed Red Dawns' contribution to the visibility of feminist and queer (counter)publics in Ljubljana. Tea Hvala interviewed the following past and present co-organisers of the festival: Anna Ehrlemark, Mirjana Frank, Danaja Grešak, Ana Grobler, Jasmina Jerant, Ana Jereb, Anja Kocman, Jadranka Ljubičič, Urška Merc, Slađana Mitrović, Lidija Radojević, Nataša Serec, Tanja Škander, Suzana Tratnik, Daša Tepina and Vesna Vravnik.

The book is in Slovene, except for the interviews with Anna Ehrlemark and Jasmina Jerant which are in English. Tea Hvala originally made seventeen oral interviews for her MA research in Gender Studies, part of which can be read here (pdf.). In it, she discussed Red Dawns festival as a rare example of a grassroots feminist public in Slovenia. Association KUD Mreža, the co-founder and organiser of the festival decided to publish the interviews in book format primarity because in Slovenia, there are very few works where the specifictiy of (feminist and queer) counterpublic organising would be discussed by the people who make it possible, rather than by academics.

In Slovenia, the book is available for sale in Azil Bookstore (on Novi trg 2 or at the Museum of Modern Art) and in Modrijanova knjigarna (Trubarjeva 27) in Ljubljana. For discount price, visit KUD Mreža's seat on Masarykova 24, ACC Metelkova mesto. For mailorder, please write to rdece.zore@gmail.com.

The book release was made possible with the generous help of many donators as well as public funds, provided by Municipality of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Education and Sport.