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September 8-10, 2005, Humboldt University of Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Unter den Linden 6
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 Party and Performance
Orquesta Burundanga
and DJs shou & shoute
A major highlight of the party on Saturday evening, September 10th will be a performance by the Berlin women’s salsa band Orquesta Burundanga which promises to be a lively event. Orquesta Burundanga.
Orquesta Burundanga have been entertaining audiences in Berlin’s salsa clubs since 1992. A broad spectrum of modern and traditional arrangements with a range of Latin-American rhythms from acaballo to comparsa to songo are the ingredients for the heady, intoxicating mixture that is Burundanga’s stage show. Vocalist Sonja Solarte has salsa in her heart. She hails from Kali, the cradle of Colombian salsa music. The second singer, Cristina Otey from Chile, leads the choir of instrumentalists. Befitting the music there are plenty of rhythm instruments: timbales, congas, bongos and others. Add to that bass, keyboard, trumpet and trombone. The nine musicians, with the addition of one male musician, studied at various music academies. Burundanga is particularly proud of the close co-operation with well-known salsa musicians: the legendary José Luis 'Changuito' Quintana has rehearsed with them; Tebelio 'Toni' Fonte, former bassist with the well-known Cuban salsa band "Cumbre de Pinar del Rio" writes compositions especially for Orquesta Burundanga. Whether in the Tränenpalast venue, the House of World Cultures, at street festivals or now at the international congress "Femme Globale," Burundanga always manage to entice listeners onto the dance floor.
When and Where: Saturday, September 10th 8.30 pm; the tent in the courtyard of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
By the way: the party on Saturday, September 10th is open to the public – your family, friends (male and female) and colleagues are cordially invited! Additional tickets can be purchased at the congress for €5.
Anniversary Celebration - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom invites to celebrate its 90th anniversary.
We welcome WILPF International President Regina Birchem, WILPF International General Secretary Susi Snyder and the President of the
german section of WILPF Irmgard Heilberger who give official speeches.
Furthermore we're happy to present the women's choir FATAL VOKAL.
When and Where: Friday, September 9th 8.30 pm at the Café Krähenfuß at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
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Films & Videos
Exercise the Power – Peacetrain to Beyjing (German/ English) 30', Germany 1995
Documentary by Karin Albers
In 1996 the Women's International Ligue for Peace and Freedom ( WILPF) organized a long train-journey from Helsinki to Beijing, passing the main cities of the east-european countries, to reach the Women's World Conference. Over 230 women from all over the world took part in this adventure. Among them were Mrs. Dr. Krishna Ahooja-Patel and Mrs. Mercedes Pani-ker, two international ladies with intensiv and extraordinary life-experience in high positions in politic and in economy. They have an ecxiting and wise dialogue about the situation of wo-men worldwide and about the philosophy of power.
When and Where: Thursday, September 8th 3.30 pm + 4.00 pm in the Foyer of the Audimax
Password: Women (english with span. subtitles), 47‘30‘‘ Netherlands
Dokumentary by Rinske Bosch,
comissioned by the Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging, Netherlands (International Information Centre and Archives of the Women´s Movement (IIAV))
Is the Internet a useful instrument for Roma women in Eastern Europe to challenge tabo-o's about sexuality? Can information on a cd-rom improve the economic position of semi-literate or illiterate women? Does the Internet enhance or limit opportunities for women worldwide? These are some of the questions at the heart of the film Password: Women.
Password: Women is a film about how communication and information tools like the Inter-net, (Internet-)radio and cd-roms can be put to work to advance the position of women. It is a film about the possibilities as well as the limitations of these new information tools. A 'virtual discussion' between three women is the connective thread running through the film. Their ideas are illustrated with personal stories of extraordinary women from around the world: Uganda (East Africa), Costa Rica (Central America), and Macedonia (Central Europe). They all use the Internet, cd-rom, radio and e-mail to advance the position of women.
When and Where: Friday, September 9th 2.45 pm in the Kinosaal
No-Essence, 12‘ Germany 2005
Video-Film by Ulrike Markert
Information and contact: http://www.markert-art.net/
The film offers video portraits of various women, who while thinking about a personal re-quest, regardless of the topic, formulate a NO for the film. What it is the individual chooses, to what she is saying NO, remains secret. The women are of different backgrounds and diffe-rent ages with their own ways of expression. The NOs are fainthearted, decisive, tortured, drastic, loving, or celebrated with pleasure.
For the protagonists there was a synergistic effect during the filming and the conversations surrounding the topic. The film situation becomes a striking reference point, which can recur later in everyday situations.
Saying NO at important junctures means having more clarity.
The video offers a starting point for engaging with our own limits and ways to extend them.
For women, saying NO is often fraught with fear. It also means self-assertion, contradiction, possibly making oneself unpopular. Saying NO in this context is on a par with self-preservation, with looking after our own interests and an avowal of our own needs.
My wish is to assert the agency of NO as a strengthening essence in its stringency and re-duction.
In my search for women’s NO I sometimes felt myself to be a hunter after this essence, which I increasingly came to see as a treasure. I ran after a saleswoman in “Chen’s Depart-ment Store,” who hurried along the corridors with a scrubbing brush because she was sud-denly too busy for the 30-second recording, I persuaded imposing black women, whose NO could not be gained because they already knew well how to say NO. I filmed minutes-long waiting for a NO that needed time to come out. I experienced fits of rage because a woman despaired of herself: I can’t do it but I want to!!
I discovered that in some languages there is no NO at all, since one avoids and circumscri-bes something that should not or cannot be. I sweated with excitement with the women who bravely faced up to the scenarios of their own making.
When and Where: Friday, September 9th 4.30 pm in the Foyer
Texas – Kabul - Frauen gegen Krieg, 93' (German), Germany 2004
Dokumentary by Helga Reidemeister
contact and information: www.texaskabul.de
Dieser Film ist ein politisches Roadmovie. Es ist eine Reise um den ganzen Globus, auf der Suche nach dem Sinn in den Zeiten des Krieges und gleichzeitig eine Reise in die eigene Vergangenheit. Das zerstörte Kabul weckt Erinnerungen an die verwüsteten deutschen Städ-te nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Es ist ein Film, der in einem inneren und äußeren Ausnah-mezustand entstanden ist.
Die Regisseurin, beunruhigt durch die Ankündigung der Kriege, die nach der Tragödie vom 11. September in New York folgte, begibt sich auf die Reise. Sie sucht Verbündete, die in der ausgebrochenen Panik besonnen handeln. Sie findet vier Frauen in vier verschiedenen Län-dern der Welt.
Die erste Station ist New Delhi, Indien. Dort trifft die Regisseurin die 43j.hrige Arundhati Roy, die nach dem Welterfolg ihres Romanes „Der Gott der kleinen Dinge“ aufgehört hat, Literatur zu schreiben, um sich gegen Krieg und Globalisierung zu engagieren.
In Serbien besucht die Regisseurin eine alte Freundin, die 50j.hrige Stascha Zajovic, die Frau, die in Belgrad während der Milosevic-Diktatur die Gruppe „Frauen in Schwarz“ gründe-te. Diese Gruppe war lange Zeit die einzige Stimme der Vernunft unter den wahnsinnig ge-wordenen Nationalisten.
Die nächste Station ist Kabul. Über den Horror der vergangenen Jahre berichtet die 45j.hrige Jamila Mujahed, Herausgeberin von „Malalai“, der einzigen Frauenzeitschrift in Afghanistan.
Die Amerikanerin Sissy Farenthold, ist die Gesprächspartnerin der Regisseurin in Houston, Texas, der letzten Station der Reise. Sissy Farenthold ist eine 76jährige ehemalige Jura-Professorin und Politikerin, die ihre parteipolitische Karriere nach dem Vietnamkrieg beende-te und sich seitdem für Menschenrechte engagiert.
Dieser Film, der aus Unruhe entstanden ist, provoziert Unruhe und fordert zum Handeln auf.
When and Where: Friday, September 9th 8.00 pm in the Kinosaal
Adelante Muchachas! (OF with english Subtitles), Germany / Honduras 2004
Documentary von Erika Harzer
contact and information: http://www.adelante-muchachas.de/
This film about four young women who play football in Honduras is the story of an unusual conquest of ground by girls. They are a breath of fresh air, small whirlwinds in their own world. The film conveys this sense of movement as it portrays their lives, victories and de-feats on a number of different sports fields, in the national stadium of Tegucigalpa or on dus-ty stony fields. The film has its own rhythm and is interspersed with scenes shown in slow motion or scenes which are speeded up.
Adelante Muchachas! follows these four girls into different aspects of their lives, such as their families, circles of friends, schools and jobs as well as their most intensive hobby, football.
The meeting with these four girls gives us an insight into their homeland, the social problems, and the restrictions and fears that girls in particular experience in an environment which is marked by violence. Due to the bond formed to each of these four during the course of the film and their willingness to allow us to share their lives, their fears and joys, their dreams and secret wishes, as well as the authentic pictures, the film is a sensitive portrayal of the world of teenagers in other cultural circles.
Time and again the football appears - this their shared passion, their meeting point and sym-bol of their emancipation; and this in a country in which football is the top priority – men’s football of course.
When and Where: Saturday, September 10th 11.30 am in the Kinosaal
Gender Montage – Paradigms in Post-Soviet Space
(Documentaryseries)
This series of documentary films “Gender Montage: Paradigms in Post-Soviet Space” is the result of a unique three-year project, “Mass Media Gender Policy”, created by an international community of Soros foundations women’s programs in 12 countries and coordinated by Network Women’s Program of the Open Society Institute and the Institute for Social and Gender Policy (Russia), with participation of Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan (in 2001).
The project was conceived in recognition of the fact that there are few sources in the mass media that look critically at the impact of socioeconomic and political forcers which shape patterns of gender in the post soviet era. We are pleased to have supported this series which brings many important and often invisible issues to public attention.
The challenge was to create films that not only have the ability to educate broad audiences on the issues and experiences of women in the post-transition period, but that are also engaging, reflective and artistic. The publication, which is an integral part of the project, provides analytical background information on media and gender in each country. In order to fulfill this vision, we realized that we would need to bring together experts from several professional sectors. Each country established a team consisting of film directors and producers, journalists, gender studies experts, human rights activists and media specialists to create the films and analytical materials.
When and Where: Saturday, September 10th 1.30 pm in the Kinosaal
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Book presentations by the authors (only in German)
Ute Scheub, "Friedenstreiberinnen"
Psychosozial-Verlag, 2004
 In dem Buch Friedenstreiberinnen werden die Lebensgeschichten von Frauen in Krisenregionen geschildert, die sich in beispielhafter Weise um den Frieden verdient gemacht haben. Den elf porträtierten Frauen ist gemeinsam, dass sie viel Mut aufgebracht haben, um bestehende Verhältnisse zu verändern, auf Konventionen keine Rücksicht nahmen, sich Widerständen entgegensetzten, Gefängnisaufenthalte nicht fürchteten und sich von Misserfolgen nicht bremsen ließen.
Ute Scheub lässt die Frauen selbst über ihren jeweiligen Krisenherd - Afghanistan (Nooria Haqnegar), Bosnien (Bosiljka Schedlich), Großbritannien (Helen John), Indien (Indien Ahooja-Patel), Irak (Susan Ahmed), Israel & Palästina (Sumaya Farhat-Naser und Gila Svirsky), Kolumbien (Christiane Schwarz), Rwanda (Bonny Dikongue) und weltweit (Elisabeth Odio Benito und Hildegard Goss-Mayr) - erzählen oder liefert ergänzende Hintergrundinformationen.
contact: http://www.utescheub.de/
When and Where: Friday, September 9th 8.00 pm in the room 2103 between Senatssaal and Audimax
Waltraud Schwab, "Berlin ist eine Frau"
erschienen im Jaron Verlag März 2005
 Da ist es: Das Buch über die Berlinerin von heute. In 27 Portraits und Reportagen legt es die Stärken der Hauptstadtbewohnerinnen offen und meidet ihre Abgründe nicht. Es zeigt die vielen Facetten dieser im Alltag stolpernden Damen von Welt und die Eigensinnigkeit, derer manche von ihnen sich rühmt. Das Buch der gerade frisch mit dem renommierten Theodor-Wolff-Journalistenpreis gekürten taz-Reporterin heißt "Berlin ist eine Frau".
Der Name des Werkes ist typisch für Berlin: Als gelte es, immer am Rand des Banalen entlang zu gleiten. Dabei verbergen sich hinter dem Titel nicht nur ein Geheimnis, sondern auch Zweideutigkeiten und Anspielungen.
Da gibt es zum einen das Gegenstück zu der Berlin. Niemand geringeres als Paris ist gemeint. Paris war, soweit es die Mythologie offenlegt, männlich. Dass er Aphrodite zur schönsten Frau erklärte, soll am Ende den Trojanischen Krieg ausgelöst haben. Vor ein paar Jahren kam ein Buch auf den Markt, das Paris geschlechtsumwandelte. "Paris war eine Frau" heißt es. Die weiblichen Koryphäen der Seine-Metropole aus den 20er Jahren wurden darin geehrt.
An "ist" und "war" zeigen sich die Unterschiede von Berlin und Paris. Die Zeit der Pariserinnen ist vorbei, die der Berlinerin ist da. Die Berlin, um die es heute geht, steht mit beiden Beinen im Leben. "Sie wird in der Gegenwart, in den Niederungen des Alltags personifiziert", schreibt Schwab. Ihre Herkunft setze sich aus vielen Herkünften zusammen. Genau hinter diesem Satz steckt das Geheimnis, das es zu lüften gilt: In den 70er Jahren nämlich kam der Name der Stadt unter Migranten und Migrantinnen aus der Türkei als Vorname für ihren in der Stadt geborenen Nachwuchs sehr in Mode. Die Titelgeberin des Buches ist so eine Berlin. Sie arbeitet im Urbankrankenhaus in Kreuzberg. "Ich bin Berlin", sagt sie.
Und was machen die anderen 26 BerlinerInnen? Sie sind Erfinderinnen, Sängerinnen oder Verkäuferinnen, Mütter oder werdende Männer, Handelsreisende in Dessous, Mauerbrecherinnen oder Grenzgängerinnen, Migrantinnen , Weddinger Seelchen, Hundefriseurinnen und vieles mehr. An den Lebensgeschichten der Porträtierten spiegelt sich die Geschichte der Stadt in den letzten 70 Jahren. Angefangen von Frauen, die den Krieg noch erlebten bis hin zu Lebensentwürfen von jungen Migrantinnen, die morgens das Leben einer Deutschen und abends das einer Türkin leben.
In einer Sprache, die nie aufdringlich ist, führt Schwab durch den Mikrokosmos dieser ganz unterschiedlichen Personen und eröffnet damit intime Einblicke in das Leben der Berlinerinnen von heute. Auf diese Weise wird das Buch nicht nur zu einer Porträtsammlung, sondern es bietet vor allem eine Perspektive auf die Stadt aus weiblicher Sicht.
Touristen und Touristinnen stellen immer wieder fest, dass sich ihnen Berlin erst richtig erschließt, wenn Einheimische ihnen die Stadt erklären und zeigen. Aber nicht alle sind in der glücklichen Lage, Hauptstadtbewohner zu kennen. An der Stelle füllt das Buch eine Lücke. Die Mauer, die Trennung in Ost und West, die verschiedenen Kieze - durch die hier beschriebenen Frauen werden sie auch für Ortsunkundige lebendig. "Berlin ist eine Frau" ist ein anonymer Reiseführer. Und für alle, die es zu spät entdecken, ein tolles Souvenir. >> [Buchbesprechung]
Zeit und Ort: Samstag 10.09.05 20.00h im Café Krähenfuß
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Theatre
Strassentheatergruppe Piquetes zu "Globalisierung und Gender"
Die Strassentheatergruppe Piquetes aus Deutschland bietet zum Thema "Globalisierung und Gender" einen Theaterworkshop nach Boal an. Das "Theater der Unterdrückten" von Augusto Boal verstand sich als Antwort auf die Repression in den Diktaturen Lateinamerikas. Im Workshop werden auf spielerische Art und Weise Zugänge zu dem Themenkomplex Globalisierung und Geschlecht entwickelt. [ mehr dazu im Workshop 6.9]
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Exhibitions
 
Roaming Exhibition "Women and War"
with photographs by Ursula Meissner, photographer of war and crisis situations
Sexualised violence against women is part of every war, anywhere in the world. With its motto: “Never cease to start anew”, medica mondiale has taken on the task of lending support to women who have survived this breach of human rights. With this exhibition, the organisation medica mondiale would like to make sure that these women and their lives are not forgotten.
The exhibit contains 13 large-format photographs – images as seen through the sensitive eye of Ursula Meissner, the renowned photographer of war and crisis situations. Each picture tells a tale which is compelling, but never voyeuristic. A tale of women whose bodies, souls and rights have been violated.
The organisation‘s aim is to gain as many supporters as possible who would be willing to display our photographs in their cities so that more and more people become aware of the situation of women in war zones.
Information and contact: http://www.medicamondiale.org/html/presse/_in/ind_fotoausstellung_e.html
Where: Foyer of the Audimax
 "Rosenstraße 76"
Interactive Exhibition about Domestic Violence
Bread for the World, 2005
At first glance, “Rosenstraße 76" appears to be a perfectly normal apartment through which the visitor can walk. It contains perfectly normal household furnishings and objects which are standard almost everywhere around the world. Some of these are hung with signs providing statistical information on domestic violence and offering brief proposals on approaches to overcoming it. Visitors access the information contained in the exhibition through their own active participation.
That the evidence of domestic violence in the exhibition is recognisable only on closer inspection underlines in an extremely graphic manner its unique quality: covered up from shame or fear, receiving scant attention from society and almost impossible for executive and judicial forces to uncover.
The “International House” has deliberately chosen to dispense with the usual shock-effect gained by portraying the victims of domestic abuse, instead engaging the audience in an extremely sensitive manner in the everyday components of this form of violence. It becomes a part of this world. Instead of shock and outrage the “International House” summons feelings such as anxiety and surprise.
But the visitor is not left alone with their feelings. Staff of „Brot für die Welt“ will be on hand to provide further information if required.
>> Download of the documentation "Rosenstraße 76" 
Where: Foyer 2103 between Senatssaal and Audimax
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Aktualisiert: 07.09.2005, hbr
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