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Girls Rock Camp und Ladyfest Graz 2010

Location

Graz
Austria
47° 3' 21.2508" N, 15° 25' 29.298" E

"GIRLS ROCK CAMP GRAZ
ein Projekt des Doku Graz

Das Girls Rock Camp wird von 25. Juli bis 1. August 2010 im Jugendkulturzentrum Explosiv Graz stattfinden.

Es richtet sich an alle Mädchen und junge Frauen, die Interesse an alternativer Musik haben (Rock, Punk, Metal, Indie,...) und gerne mehr in diesem Bereich machen würden!
Dabei ist es egal, ob Du schon ein Instrument spielst, in einer Band aktiv bist oder noch keine Vorerfahrungen hast.

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Breaking the Waves: Cardiff Feminist Festival

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“Breaking the Waves” is a grassroots, non-profit, innovative festival exploring diverse expressions of feminism through a vibrant weekend-long programme of events in Cardiff, including speakers, arts, music, discussions, and loads more!

The festival will take place in March 2011 as part of celebrations for the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. It will be open to all and will stimulate intergenerational dialogue between all who are, or have been, working towards gender equality.

With an ethos of empowerment, inclusion and innovation, we hope to break down perceived or real generational divides, build supportive networks for future anti-sexist work in Cardiff, and ultimately seek new ways of defining what it means to be a feminist today.

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Festival
Topic: 
Girls and young women
Older woman
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“No Rent-A-Feminist”: An interview with Catherine Redfern from The F-Word (UK)

Topic: 
Activism
Girls and young women
Grassroots media in Europe
Internet & digital divide
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The F-Word: Contemporary UK Feminism is a phenomenally successful e-zine that has helped rejuvenate feminist networking in Britain and further afield. Red talked to founder Catherine Redfern about the site's history, emerging forms of feminist activism, and her exciting new book Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement, co-written with Kristin Aune (Zed Books, 2010).

Interviewee: 
Catherine Redfern
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey
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Reclaiming the F Word (Book)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

In today's 'post-feminist' society, women and men are considered equal. For younger women and men, feminism is often portrayed as unfashionable and irrelevant. But since the beginning of the new millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions and assert a vibrant new agenda. This groundbreaking book reveals the what, why and how of the new feminist movement and what it has to say about women's lives in today's society.

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Artist Cordelia Donohoe has work currently showing as part of a V Day photography exhibition 5th – 20th March 2010 at the New Players Theatre, Villiers Street. London.

Topic: 
Art
Gender studies
Girls and young women
Sex and sexualities
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Tell me about the work you have been doing.
My recent bodies of work are around the notion of the prostitute, they are part of a dialogue about what creating a sexualized identity and advertising on the internet might mean. I take apart the process of taking photographs, I also use text and collage to question what one is seeing and who is being addressed. It is also a personal journey about my own relationship to my womanliness.

How did you get into doing this?

Interviewee: 
Cordelia Donohoe
Interviewer: 
Christina Olivieri
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Feminism
art
photography
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Girl Power Fest 2009

Location

Koprivnica
Croatia
46° 9' 42.3396" N, 16° 49' 36.966" E

Girl Power Fest 09 takes place from 13th to 22nd November 2009.

"Potpuni naziv festivala - Girl Power, festival ženskog stvaralaštva, zapravo samim nazivom govori o kakvom se festivalu radi. U "moru" razno raznih događanja Udruga M:A:K odlučila je napraviti festival posvećen isključivo ženskom stvaralaštvu.

Zašto samo ženskom stvaralaštvu?

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freiTräume – DIY-Camp für Mädchen und junge Frauen in Salzburg (Austria) 26.-27. September 2009

Location

Salzburg
Austria
47° 48' 1.7964" N, 13° 2' 39.876" E

Einladung zum
freiTräume – DIY-Camp für Mädchen und junge Frauen
26. und 27. September 2009
Insel, Haus der Jugend, Franz-Hinterholzer-Kai 8, 5020 Salzburg

Nach dem erfolgreichen ersten freiTräume-DIY-Camp Ende August im Pinzgau sind am 26. und 27. September alle Mädchen und jungen Frauen aus Salzburg und Umgebung herzlich eingeladen, ein Wochenende lang Neues auszuprobieren, kreativ, stark und in Bewegung zu sein!

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Ladyfest: Books, Articles and Websites

Zines
Heather Crabtree and Melanie Maddison,UK Ladyfest Artwork 2001-2008: The Collected Interviews. Leeds: Self-published zine, 2007.

Articles
Elke Zobl, "Grrrl and Lady Style Revolution, Now!", Peace Review. A Journal for Social Justice, 16(4), 2004, pp. 445-452.

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Reading Lists
Topic: 
Ladyfest
Girls and young women
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Feminist / Grrrl / Zines: Books, Articles and Websites

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Websites
Grrrl Zine Network, (there is an extensive zine related bibliography here, http://www.grrrlzines.net/writingonzines.htm)

Books
V. Vale, Zines!,Vol. I and II. San Francisco: ReSearch, 1996/1997.

Karen Green and Tristan Taormino (eds), A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Stephen Duncombe, Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture . New York: Verso, 1997.

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Reading Lists
Topic: 
Girls and young women
Zine
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Riot Grrrl: Books, Articles, Websites

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Books
Gillian Garr, She's a Rebel: The History of Women in Rock and Roll. New York: Seal Press, 1992.

Chérie Turner, The Riot Grrrl Movement: The Feminism of a New Generation , New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 2001 (Everything You Need to Know About young people's series)

Nadine Monem (ed), Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now!, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007.

Marion Leonard, Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse and Girl Power, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

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Reading Lists
Topic: 
Girls and young women
Riot Grrrl
Youth culture
Zine
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