TUPILAK CULTURAL EVENING

Wednesday April 22, 2009 19.00 www.tupilak.org

Musik Valvet Kåkbrinken 5 Gamla Stan, Stockholm
(a few steps away from the exit of the "Old Town" tube station)






Preliminary program:

• Jenny Gabrielsson -- song and music
  
  
• Peter Fröberg -- music and song
  
  
• "LGBT films at major film festivals" -- Marit Kapla, director of the Gothenburg International Film Festival
  
  
• "Tupilak and ILGCN (International rainbow cultural network) Events 2009"
  - from Riga to Krakow, Visby to Bucharest, Gothenburg to St. Petersburg
  -- Bill Schiller, Tupilak chairman and secretary general of the ILGCN Information Secretariat - Stockholm
  
  
• "News from Rainbow Colleagues in Belarus* -- Yury Kazhura, Tupilak international secretary.
  
  
• Bastian Damascus "Flowers of the Cock" -- dance-performance
  
  
• Tupilak award ceremony
  

Wine at budget prices!


(No entrance fee, but donations appreciated to help cover the rent!)

NOTE: Short Tupilak steering committee meeting at 18.00. (Open to all members as well.)


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Supporting Tupilak, ILGCN: Nordic Rainbow Council, Nordic Rainbow Humanists



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Tupilak has members in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland. Iceland, Åland, Faroes, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania.

Yearly Meeting protocol March 18, 2009, Stockholm

Nordic rainbow cultural workers and supporters

www.tupilak.org p.g. 498 37 67-7

Yearly Meeting protocol March 18, 2009, Stockholm

Special thanks to Hallongrottan for the meeting place! And special thanks to Hallongrottan TV for the film greeting to our rainbow colleagues in Belarus on this the international day of solidarity with LGBT Belarus!

1. Meeting chairman: Peter Fröberg. Secretary: Bill Schiller
   
   
2. 2008 Tupilak activities report approved (see separate report).
   
   
3. 2008 financial report approved. Outgoing steering committee free of liability.
   
   6100 sv kr. in the account. No funds coming in 2009 from the Swedish state. Fund-raising essential. New membership drive (100 kr./year).
   (see separate report).
   
   
4. Webmaster report approved. (see separate report).
   
   
5. 2009 Tupilak events & Tupilak participation:
   Baltic Pride – Riga (May), Gothenburg Rainbow Festival (May), Baltic Solidarity Square -- Visby (June-July) , Sidelines of Stockholm Pride (July-August), Tribade Festival – Helsinki (September), Gothenburg Book Fair (September) Rainbow Islanders Festival– Reykjavik, ILGCN world cultural conference stages: Bucharest, Budapest, St. Petersburg). (see 2009 Calendar)
   
   
6. New steering committee, areas of responsibility, right to make post giro payments:
   Chairman: Bill Schiller (firmatäckare. ILGCN, Nordic Rainbow Council, Nordic Rainbow Humanists, Swedish Pol-Balt Network)
   
   Finance secretary: Peter Fröberg (firmatäckare. Performances)
   
   International secretary: Yury Kazhuara (Belarus)
   
   Webmaster: Martin
   
   Other committee members/special contacts:
   
   Bitte Andersson (Hallongrottan), Jenny Gabrielsson (Umeå), Kai Heino (Finland/Gothenburg), Tomas Näslund (East Europe)
   
   Substitute (suppleant): Zafire Vrba (Gothenburg/East Europe)
   Mihkel Kivilaan (Estonia)
   
   Auditor: Jerry Nordquist
   
   
7. Next meeting: April 22. Musik Valvet. Gamla Stan. 18.00 prior to Tupilak Rainbow Cultural evening 19.00 – including Tupilak "Polar Bear" award presentation to Gothenburg International Film Festival.

Minutes by Bill Schiller

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has members in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Faroes, Åland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and is a member of the Nordic Rainbow Council -- a member of ILGA (International Lesbian & Gay Association) and the ILGCN (international rainbow cultural network).