11th Fest Program is Online!

Here! http://www.rdecezore.org/
Or click the poster on your right to get there.

PREDIGRA! Benefit žurka za Rdeče zore 2010

photo:J.K.
Rdeče zore vabimo na predigro z DJane Sladko, Kikiriki synth nojzom in koktejli! DJane Sladka vrti: soul, disko, fank, new wave in zimzelene melodije.

Z udeležbo in simbolnim prispevkom boš podprl/a/e/i/o/u izvedbo 11. feminističnega in queer festivala Rdeče zore, ki se začne 4. marca 2010.

V petek, 26. februarja, ob 23.00 v Menzi pri koritu.

Larve, Ž'buka in WCSAT v Menzi pri koritu!

Posredujemo vabilo na koncert...

LARVE (Reka)
Ž/BUKA (Zagreb) in
WE CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT (Trbovlje)

Pred med in po koncertu vrti muziko NINJA!
Vstopnina: 6€

Petek, 29. januar 2010 ob 21.30h v Menzi pri koritu, AKC Metekova mesto

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Trboveljska zasedba WE CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT je od leta 2005 naprej prekrižarila slovensko klubovje ter bila v letu 2006 del klubske karavane Radia Študent, v sklopu katere so potrdil status zasedbe, ki s svojim brezskrbnim pristopom zmore razgibati glave in telesa obiskovalk in obiskovalcev njihovih koncertov – »domišljen nastop in suverena izvedba sta bila z roko v roki z nepretecioznim mladostniškim elanom, ki je šprical z odra v polno Menzo pri koritu,« je o njihovem nastopu na finalu Klubskega maratona zapisal Igor Bašin. Njihov prvenec, izdan splomladi 2008, je požel kritiške hvalospeve, saj gre za eno redkih zasedb pri nas, ki se dotika sodobnih smernic v polju neodvisnega rocka, ki danes na široko nagovarja predvsem mlajšo generacijo. Zato ne čudi, da so si We Can't Sleep At Night svojo bazo poslušalcev že zagotovili tudi v tujini, kjer so njihovi nastopi čedalje številčnejši.

http://www.wecantsleepatnight.net/
http://www.myspace.com/wecantsleepatnight

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LARVE (Reka)

Novonastala tričlanska »all-girl« zasedba iz Reke je najnovejši fenomen od peščice zasedb, katerim je klubska scena po bivši jugi lahko hvaležna za svoje nadaljnje preživetje. Temelj vzroka za njihovo ustvarjanje sega dekletin seštevek let nazaj v čase punka, žanrsko pa se približujejo nosilcem 80ih, kot so Devo, New Order, Public Image Ltd. in »domačim« Videosex, Denis & Denis, Termiti ipd. Njihova profesionalna izvedba koncertov pod taktirko ritem mašine skozi samosvoj značaj članic kaže na dovoljšnjo mero unikatnosti, zato je na njihov nastop greh priti pozneje, kot je določeno ali nikoli.

Dunja - kitara,vokal
Petra - bas,vokal
Vida - klaviature, ritem masina

http://www.myspace.com/larverijeka
http://www.muzika.hr/clanak/19467/b-scena/larva-zdrava-nada-u-bolje-glazbeno-sutra.aspx
http://www.rirock.com/rirock-scena/intervju-larva-prvi-rijecki-all-girl-band-nakon-20-godina/

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Ž/BUKA (Zagreb)
Ž/buka je postpunk dekliška trojica, ki je ravno končala balkansko turnejo, letos pa je bila nominirana za hrvaško glasbeno nagrado Circoolar v kategorijah za najboljši "demo" bend, najbolj izviren "demo" bend, pevka Eva pa še za "demo" herojinjo.

Eva Badanjak/electric guitar/vocals/
Sara Ercegović/drums/vocals/analog synth/
Ivona Ivković/bass guitar/

http://www.myspace.com/zbuka

Mini Report from Civilmedia Conference

Below, there are some photos taken by Dušan Dobiaš at the panel on Participatory culture and technology in on- and offline networks that took place on Saturday, November 7th 2009 in Salzburg at the Civilmedia conference. The audio recording of the debate was published on the CBA (Cultural Broadcasting Archive) site and can be heard here.

Initially, Alek Ommert was supposed to join the conversation but could not make it. Instead, Sonja Prlic spoke about Frontiers, an online computer game about crossing borders. Rosa Reitsamer spoke about the Vienna-based feminist and anti-racist series of discussions Female Consequences and about the DVD and online publication Dig Me Out dedicated to female musicians and performance artists. I spoke about Rdeče zore festival and a little bit about my own blogging. The debate was moderated by Elke Zobl.




Rosa Reitsamer, Tea Hvala, Sonja Prlic, Elke Zobl

2. Girl Power Fest v Koprivnici in razstava Gender Check na Dunaju

Otvoritev 2. Girl Power Festa je bila sinoči, festival pa traja do 22. novembra. Poteka v MMC Kugla oz. Domu mladih... Vabljene, vabljeni!

Program: http://www.girlpowerfest.com/program.html


Prav tako sinoči se je na Dunaju v Muzeju moderne umetnosti MUMOK odprla pregledna razstava Gender Check. Na razstavi gostijo dela umetnic in umetnikov iz nekdanjih socialističnih dežel, nastala med leti 1960 in 1989, na spisku pa se poleg svetovno znanih imen a la Vlasta Delimar in Tanja Ostojić najdejo še mnoga druga... Od Albanije do Ukrajine: o tem, kako smo in so na spole, ženstvenost in možastost gledali v "drugem svetu".

Podrobnosti: http://erstestiftung.org/gender-check/

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

Protest letter

Rdeče zore festival sent the following letter to Boris Tadić (President of Republic of Serbia), Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković, Ivica Dačić (First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior), Svetozar Čiplić (Minister of Human and Minority Rights) and Predrag Filipov (Ambassador of Republic of Serbia in Slovenia) in protest to the failure of Serbian state and police to defend the basic human rights of Serbian LGBT citizens – the right to publicly gather, speak and kiss in their own hometown without fear.

You are very much invited to do the same!

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PROTEST LETTER

On September 19th 2009, the organizers of Belgrade Pride held their final press conference before the Pride Parade which was planned for September 20th – but could not take place due to high security risks and lack of cooperation on the part of Serbian state and police to secure the event.

Serbian police canceled the permission for Pride Parade which was going to be held in the city center after months of planning by the organizing team and repeated assurance by the government at all levels, including the Minister of Human and Minority Rights, the Prime Minister as well as the President that Pride will be made possible and protected!

Feminist and queer festival Rdeče zore protests against the inability of Serbian state to protect the basic human rights of sexual minorities in its own state. We protest against the police decisions to not act on its own security studies’ measures and choose the tactic of pressure on the organizers (in hope they are going to cancel the event) instead. We protest against the fact that the police, in the last 48 hours before Pride, refused to cooperate with the organizers in securing Pride Parade, and thus applied even further pressure on the organizers. Police refused to take responsibility for maintaining public order during the event. Instead, the organizers were told that they would be held responsible for any public damage caused by the hooligans and fascist groups who have been organizing a violent response to Pride!

We ask: how it is possible that Section 49 of the Serbian Constitution condemns hate speech yet the responsible authorities do not prosecute it? Instead, the official line has been that this is “a debate, an exchange of opinions”! Are Serbian fascist groups’ calls for violence against Pride participants (published in Serbian media) that included calls for their lynching and beating an example of hate-free “debate”? The refusal to protect the participants of the Pride has forced the organizers to cancel the event and shown that right-wing violence has again won over the human rights of minority groups in Serbia.

Rdeče zore festival supports the efforts of Pride organizers to contiunally fight for human rights of LGBT citizens. We also support their official request that police takes action against fascist and right-wing organizations that have issued hate speech against LGBT citizens and Pride in the press. We support their protests against the failure of Serbian state and police to defend their most basic human rights – their right to gather and speak safely in the streets of their hometown and state.

Yours truly,
Feminist and Queer Festival Rdeče zore,
Ljubljana, September 23rd 2009