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Exhibits, Art Prizes and Projects around the Globe
In the "Art News" area of GLOW you can find single projects with feminist perspectives or gender dimensions, as well as projects by artists whose work focuses on peace, security and violence - the main focus of the Feminist Institute.
We will also publish your art recommendations! Simply send an E-mail or Word document with "Art News" in the subject line to glow@boell.de.
10 Minutes: 20 Lives
In early May 2007, as part of the events leading up to the G8 meeting in Heilengedamm, Germany, the Global Fund held a public exhibit in Berlin. This exhibit of 19 giant photographs illustrated ordinary men, women and children around the world who are affected by AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria – and how Global Fund-supported programs are changing their lives for the better. This outdoor display took place in Potsdamer Platz in the very heart of the city.
See stunning photographs and read a copy of the catalogue created for the event at their website [The Global Fund]
International Museum of Women
The Museum was founded as the Women's Heritage Museumin 1985. In 1997, in response to growing support, the Museum’s Board began plans for a single destination museum in San Francisco and changed the name to the International Museum of Women. The Museum organized major exhibits, created a speaker series drawing world-class speakers, offered special events and public forums, and educational curricula to the local student and teacher community. In 2005, the Museum embarked on a global strategy to reach women around the world leveraging advanced technology, collaborative strategic partnerships, and a physical presence in San Francisco and in key regions around the world. In 2006, the Museum launched Imagining Ourselves, A Global Generation of Women, the Museum’s first interactive, multi-lingual online exhibit designed to reach a global audience.
Visit the Website of the [International Museum of Women]
International Exhibition on Sexist Advertising in Hungary
Ads surround us. They are everywhere, invading our public and private spaces via tv, radio, magazines, billboards, citylights. The use of sexist stereotypes, negative images of certain groups (mostly women) in these ads, the use of the human body as a sexualized object is prevalent: wherever you look, you will find bodies for sale.
Do these images influence our perception of human values, our perception of genders and gender equality? Do they shape the thoughts of future generations? Where is the borderline of freedom of speech? Is it democracy at all where only those can speak out, send messages to the wide public on these billboards who have economic power?
A series of events in the Czech Republic, in Poland and now in Hungary endeavours to find answers to these questions. ´
The exhibition presents photos of Polish, Czech, Slovakian and Hungarian sexist billboards in the urban environment. This exhibition had been organized already in the Czech Republic and Poland, so Hungary is the 3rd venue. The exhibition will take place in a popular independent cultural centre (Tuzraktér) that is free of charge for visitors. The exhibition will be opened by an opening party with a press conference participating the foreign partners' delegations.
Women's Film Festival Scores Points for German Filmmakers
The International Women's Film Festival marked its 20th season last month, with programmers saying that even though women are filling up film schools they still need a special showcase for their productions in Europe.
Gender data on the German industry is not available, but participants say female film directors are scarce even though nearly half the students in film academies are women. The structure of the German movie industry, they say, helps explain many of the barriers to women and others trying to break in.
German movies are largely supported by the government through the German Federal Film Board, which dispenses support through a point system based on a combination of commercial success and awards from international competitions and film festivals.
Under this system--which requires producers to repay the film board out of ticket sales or other revenues--established filmmakers and producers are more or less automatically granted funds.
Read the full article [here]
"Dispatches: Iraq. The Women's Story"
Documentary film on the impact of the War in Iraq on the nation's women.
View film online at [google video]
Domestic Violence Photo Exhibition
On 17 April 2007 the Parliamentary Assembly will open a photo exhibition sponsored by the Assembly and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, in the presence of Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
The photographer Sandro Weltin portrays people in different lights: parliamentarians, representatives of local and regional authorities and non-governmental organisations, people active in the field, and above all the victims themselves. The regional co-ordinators of the parliamentary dimension of the campaign contributed to this work and expressed their commitment to the cause. Give your opinion, too, and sign the visitors' book.
This travelling exhibition is available to parliamentarians for presentation in their national parliaments. They can break the silence on domestic violence by showing these different visions and telling the moving stories of the victims.
Find out more [here]
Third International Women's Peace Conference
You are cordially invited to submit artwork to the Third International Women's Peace Conference in Dallas, Texas, July 10-15, 2007. The art will be an important part of the conference, serving to express an international energy for peace that inspires and empowers peacemakers. We hope you are coming to the conference, but if you cannot, please send your art as your proxy.
The theme of the art exhibition is "Vision of Peace." With simplicity in mind, we ask for works on paper approximately 8.5 inch by 11 inch (22 cm by 28 cm). Any type of paper and meduim is acceptable as long as the materials used are well fixed to the paper. Please affix colorful stamps to your mailings. We plan to diplay them for all to enjoy.
Read more on the [conference website] or in the >> PDF Download
For Women By Women
For Women By Women (FWBW) is an initiative founded by an independent voluntary group of professional and amateur female photographers who came together to help create a change in the status of underprivileged women in Turkey . The photographers' goal is to create awareness about the issues of violence against women, foster positive change in the lives of women at risk, and help provide funding for women's organizations and shelters.
Find out more at the [website]
"Women and War" - Photos
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has compiled photographs on its website of the feminine face of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
View the photos on the [ICRC website]
"War in Women's Memory" Project
The untold stories of everyday women in the former Soviet bloc are being brought out from behind the curtain of obscurity in a new documentary film. A women's oral history project has been going on for 10 years and spans at least eight countries. "War in Women's Memory," a documentary of six women's recollections of World War II aired on a Czech public television station last year to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the war's end.
Broadcast as part of two hours of programming on women's war-related stories, women's advocates viewed the film as a breakthrough since programmers had initially questioned the relevance of those stories to the World War II observation. It did, however, suffer the initial indignity of being postponed for an ice-hockey broadcast.
The documentary was part of Women's Memory, a project launched 10 years ago by the Gender Studies Center, a Prague-based nongovernmental organization that wanted to record the oral histories of women--mothers, grandmothers, neighbors, friends, colleagues--born between 1920 and 1960 in the former Soviet bloc and the former Yugoslavia.
The Clothesline Project
The Clothesline Project is a national art project started by women in Massachusetts as a memorial to the victims and survivors of domestic violence.
The project involves designing shirts which reflect women's personal experiences with battering, rape, sexual assault, incest, child abuse, and prostitution. The shirts then are hung on a clothesline and displayed in a public location. The purpose is to create a visual memorial to the casualties and survivors of the war against women.
Besides bearing witness to the victims of the war against women, the Clothesline Project is also a powerful healing tool for survivors of this violence. Survivors can be invited to participate in the Clothesline Project by decorating a shirt paying tribute to their own survival. Organizers planning to exhibit the Clothesline may want to consider offering shirt-making workshops alongside the exhibit.
For more information, please contact the National Clothesline Project at P.O. Box 727, East Dennis, MA, 02641. Phone: 508-385-7004.
For more information please visit [The Clothesline Project Website]
Frauenmuseum Bonn
The first women's museum in Germany - the Frauenmuseum - was founded in Bonn in 1981. In the meanwhile, the museum has carried out more than 400 exhibits and become an internationally recognized institution. Over 2500 female artists have exhibted their work here. Many have also been able to establish themselves on the internaitonal art market. The Women's Museum is not static place with a permanent collection. Instead, it is a space where new projects are constantly taking place acommodating creative ideas of women artists and curators.
Further information at the institutions [Homepage] (German only).
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