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LaD.I.Y.fest Berlin (16.-19.09.10) is CALLING FOR FILMS!

LaDIYfest is a non-profit volunteer run Do It Yourself (D.I.Y.) festival of music, art, performance and workshops, organized and orchestrated by feminist activists, artists and musicians of various genders. It helps to showcase the skills and talents of a diverse group of groundbreaking feminist people working in the arts, community building and activism. It is a PARTICIPATORY festival, a community festival.

In Berlin we take on the idea of the first Ladyfests of empowering the presence of women in the arts and try to take it further, outside the binary gender system.

As LaD.I.Y.fest Berlin is non-profit, we donate any excess cash that is received to other organizations that are non-commercial. While we like to give anything we can to those who we think deserve it and of course share our feminist standards, we are especially interested in helping those that have their focus specifically on feminist and queer politics.

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July 7, 2010 • Posted in: call

Rae Spoon live in Hamburg


Rae Spoon continues to navigate through uncharted terrain, blurring musical genres, lyrical lines and electro-infused beats. His latest album ‘love is a hunter’ is a pop-infused exploration of identity, contradiction and longing.
raespoon.com
After the show DJ Flush and Monsieur Schneider

date: 30. July 2010
beginning: 9 pm
venue: Centro Sociale, Sternstrasse 2, Hamburg

PAROLE: HOCHFORMAT CALL FOR FILMS

Have you ever had this problem: your ideas won’t fit the format, whether it was 4:3, or even 16:9?
Ever thought of changing your position, or turning the camera around?
Try it: all of a sudden things appear totally different.
We recommend ‘high format’ (portrait/vertical format) for “out-of-the-box thinking”.

For the video festival “parole: hochformat” in autumn 2010, bildwechsel is looking for short videos in ‘high format’.

‘parole: hochformat’ can be seen as a request to artists and to audiences to change position alongside a changing video format (from landscape to portrait).
It is an invitation to take note, to position one’s self and to change one’s position.

“CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE OR TAKE ACTION”

is therefore the motto of this call for films.

all contributions must be made in ‘high format’.
videos should not exceed 5 mins.
formats: dvd, vhs, minidv

submission deadline is 20th august 2010 more

Panel Discussion at Entzaubert Film Festival Berlin

bildwechsel was invited to take part in the panel discussion on Queer DIY – Art, Activism & Film making at Entzaubert – queer D.I.Y. International Film Festival Berlin.

From the program:
This Panel addresses some questions of DIY creative self-production in the queer community: What is DIY? Is art-making a form of activism? and how? How can queer DIY film- and art-making subvert dominant discourses (capitalism, heteronormativity, racism and other oppressions)? Solo-practice vs. collaboration: How is autonomous self-representation and -production enacted by these different modes of working? What is the impact of community support (queer film festivals, archives, distribution) on queer culture and activism?

Presentations by Liz Rosenfeld, Thirza Cuthand, Vika Kirchenbauer, Ho Tsm, bildwechsel, and other filmmakers and curators, both local and international. Followed by open discussion for all. Come with ideas and questions!

date: 4th of July, 2010
beginning: 5pm
venue: Schwarzer Kanal, Kiefholzstrasse, Berlin

Entzaubert will take place from July 1st to July 4th, 2010 in Berlin.
Please check out the Entzaubert website fot the whole festival program: entzaubert.blogsport.de/

Group, Collaboration, Network, Sharing – how does it really work?

Bildwechsel will take part at the Workshop „Group, Collaboration, Network, Sharing – how does it really work?“, organized by Megafån. It is a gathering to discuss what it means, to work in a group with a feminist/ queer/ gender perspective and using collaborations as a feminist strategy. We will introduce Bildwechsel with a focus on its archives and building up networks, followed by a video screening. We will show videoworks from the last ValiePLUS – pocket archive screening.

Workshop will be hold in english.

For more details see the weekend schedule:
Megafån
KUMA Galerie

8.-11.07.2010 Group, Collaboration, Network, Sharing – how does it really work?/ Gathering/ KUMA Galerie/ Novalistr.7/ Berlin

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