International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns

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Rdeče zore, mednarodni feministični in queer festival
Masarykova 24, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 1 434 0345
Frequencyannual
Festival dates5.3.2015 - 8.3.2015




Launched in 2000 by a small group of women – members of associations KUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association, ŠKUC_LL, Monokel and Kasandra Lesbian-Feminist Association (now defunct), the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns takes place annually at Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone in Ljubljana. Red Dawns features young international creators and activists whose work engages in or transgresses gender roles and identities. The festival features performances, concerts, exhibitions, urban interventions, as well as video projections, round tables, book presentations, and lectures.

International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns 2014 Metelkova Photo Rebeka Bernetic.jpgThe Revolting Women Social Workers present their calendar I Want My Part Of The History! at the Metelkova mesto Autonomous Cultural Zone, A - Infoshop, in the scope of the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns in 2014


Background

The festival was instigated by the requestioning of the position of women in an inseparable intertwinement of art, culture, politics, activism, and everyday life. The title and motto of Red Dawns festival is taken from Kurt Held's 1941 novel The Red Zora and Her Gang. Red Zora had beautiful red hair and her daringly witty, anarchist attitude inspired many struggles, including the militant feminist organisation Rote Zora of West Germany, which stood against patriarchy, biotechnology, and nuclear power, among other things. Zora means "dawn" in Slovenian language. The Red Dawns festival hosts artists and activists whose work is subversively beautiful in their brave-hearted questioning of the supposed natural and social determinants of women's femininity and supposed men's masculinity.

International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns 2015 FEM TV 3.0 Photo Rebeka Bernetic.jpgFEM TV 3.0 performance at the Klub Menza pri koritu, International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns in 2015

Overview

Red Dawns annually invites women and queer artists who actively voice their visions, politics, opinions and feelings through any media. It supports women and queers who express their creativity in self-organised ways, capturing the do-it-yourself ethic of constructive rebellion against capitalist consumption. The festival's ideal ground is to unite the strength of women and queer activists as well as artists in order to demonstrate the possibility of a festival that is produced, organised, and performed by women and queer men.

Programme

Each year the festival presents from 20 to 30 different events. The 2009 edition of the festival, for instance, featured the first exhibition of Slovene feminist art Women Are Coming [Ženske prihajajo], presenting Slovene feminist video, photography, and other visual art works, performances by Liad Kantorowitz (Israel/Palestine), Noa Reshef (Israel), and Sara Filipovič (Slovenia), concerts by Kombinat Choir and Cherry Sunkist (Austria), etc.

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The festival also organises intriguing workshops, such as a DIY workshop of clothes recycling, a workshop on Internet security and privacy, a workshop on preventing burn-out, a workshop on DIY sex toys, etc.


Bodeča Neža Award

The Bodeča Neža (Barbed Flower) Award points out sexist statements of public persons, which usually are, after being published or declared, neither reflected upon nor criticized. The first Barbed Flower award was bestowed on March 8th, 2013


Partners

The festival is organised by KUD Mreža in cooperation with ŠKUC Association, Klub Monokel, Klub Gromka, Alkatraz Gallery, MC Podlaga, Mostovna Cultural Centre, Pekarna Magdalena Network, the Society for the Protection of Atheistic Feelings (DZAČ), Radio Študent (RŠ) and KUD Anarhiv. Red Dawns was supported by ACU (Utrecht) and the Global Fund for Women.

International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns 2013 Mojca, ne jezi se performance Photo Rebeka Bernetic.jpgMojca, don't get irritated (Ludo) performance by Petja Grafenauer, Simon Macuh and Zoran Srdić Janežič) at the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns 2013.

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