English Speakers’ Series
“Amazons in the Drawing Room"
April 26, 2004 at 19.00.
” Man in the Moon” pub
Doria has shared the stage with legendary folk artist Odetta, Janis Ian,
Shawn Mullins, Me’Shell N’degeocello, Angelique Kidjo, Sarah McLachlan,
Sinead O’Connor, Suzanne Vega, The Indigo Girls, Author Alice Walker the late Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, John Mayer and many others.
“My politics and music are a push for compassion and always have been. It’s not about pointing at someone and saying, ‘You’re wrong,’” she says. “More like, ‘This has been my life experience as a black woman who is lesbian in America. It’s a view you probably don’t hear a lot, and maybe you should take a look at what’s going on outside your backyard.’”
Meet Doria and find out what she is trying to do with her music what
her dreams are. Hear what she has been doing and what her plans are for “The Black Eyed Susans”, “Queerstock” and “Rock for Youth” which are some of the many musical projects she is doing.
(This will not be a concert. If you want to hear her sing don't miss her concert on April 24th at Allhuset at Stockholm University.)
Entrance fee: 50kr
Everyone is welcome!
Come early to enjoy the international menu and beer.
Service will stop during her talk.
“Amazons in the Drawing Room”
“Man in the Moon” Pub ,Tegnérgatan 2C , Stockholm
(three blocks from RFSL huset)
For information: contact
"Amazons in the Drawing Room” coordinator Rita "Chan"
chanproductions@hotmail.com
söndag 4 september 2005
TUPILAK COLLECTING BOOKS for ESTONIAN LIBRARY
Stockholm -- Tupilak (the organization of lesbian and gay cultural
workers in the Nordic area) is launching a book campaign to collect
books and publications for the pioneering rainbow library in Tallinn --
run by MeaCulpa.
This is Estonia's first lesbian and gay library -- aiming at
providing crucially needed inspiration and information to the
homosexual community in a nation where only a dozen years ago Stalin's laws called for the imprisonment of gays and where the legacy of homophobia and persecution continues even today.
The project has already won the 'Sapho in Paradise' award from the
ILGCN (International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network)-Nordic and the London-based publishing co-operative, Paradise Press, which has donated a copy of 'Merle' by Elsa Wallace to accompany the award -- announced at the Berlin stage of the ILGCN World Lesbian & Gay Cultural Conference in October, 2003.
British writer, Elsa Wallace (right) author of 'Merle' (part of ’Sapho in Paradise award’ and partner Kathryn Bell at a London book launch
(photo: Ian Stewart, Paradise Press)
Award Ceremony at Moonbow Festival -Tallinn
Paradise Press is planning to join Nordic colleagues and
others at the Moonbow International Homo Culture & Human Rights
Festival's Estonian phase in Tallinn August 7-8, 2004 -- organized by
MeaCulpa and other activists. The 'Sapho in Paradise' award will be
officially handed over during the festival.
MeaCulpa has been denied financial support from Estonian
authorities, with the motivation that since the birth rate in this
former Soviet republic is so low, no support can be given to lesbian
and gay organizations at this time!
New and old books can be sent to Tupilak Box 23 15, 103 l7
Stockholm and financial contributions can be made via
Tupilak's postgiro 498 37 67 -7 marked 'Meaculpa'.
workers in the Nordic area) is launching a book campaign to collect
books and publications for the pioneering rainbow library in Tallinn --
run by MeaCulpa.
This is Estonia's first lesbian and gay library -- aiming at
providing crucially needed inspiration and information to the
homosexual community in a nation where only a dozen years ago Stalin's laws called for the imprisonment of gays and where the legacy of homophobia and persecution continues even today.
The project has already won the 'Sapho in Paradise' award from the
ILGCN (International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network)-Nordic and the London-based publishing co-operative, Paradise Press, which has donated a copy of 'Merle' by Elsa Wallace to accompany the award -- announced at the Berlin stage of the ILGCN World Lesbian & Gay Cultural Conference in October, 2003.
British writer, Elsa Wallace (right) author of 'Merle' (part of ’Sapho in Paradise award’ and partner Kathryn Bell at a London book launch
(photo: Ian Stewart, Paradise Press)
Award Ceremony at Moonbow Festival -Tallinn
Paradise Press is planning to join Nordic colleagues and
others at the Moonbow International Homo Culture & Human Rights
Festival's Estonian phase in Tallinn August 7-8, 2004 -- organized by
MeaCulpa and other activists. The 'Sapho in Paradise' award will be
officially handed over during the festival.
MeaCulpa has been denied financial support from Estonian
authorities, with the motivation that since the birth rate in this
former Soviet republic is so low, no support can be given to lesbian
and gay organizations at this time!
New and old books can be sent to Tupilak Box 23 15, 103 l7
Stockholm and financial contributions can be made via
Tupilak's postgiro 498 37 67 -7 marked 'Meaculpa'.
MOONBOW 2004 SPREADS ITS LIGHT OVER THE BALTIC REGION
Press Release
December 18, 2003
Stockholm -- The 4th Moonbow International Homo Culture & Human
Rights Festival 2004 is spreading out on both sides of the Baltic Sea
--promoting international solidarity and opening doors instead of
creating commercial, dog-tag profit-hungry ghettos.
On the eastern side of the Baltic, Moonbow 2004 will begin in St.
Petersburg (June 5-6) -- with a special ceremony marking the end of the
year-long Amnesty International Russian campaign which failed to take
up homo rights. Moonbow light will again shine on Tallinn (August 7-8)
and Riga (August 14-15) with a Moonset in Minsk, the capital of the
dictatorship of Belarus (August 28-29).
On the western side of the Baltic, Moonbow in the Swedish capital
this year will take a pioneering departure beyond the sidelines of the
Stockholm Pride by hosting Moonbow cabarets in the spring (April 24),
the summer (August 28), and the winter (November 27) .
A well-known sculpture at a downtown bridge in St. Petersburg – site of the Moonbow festival 2004
’moonrise’ and ”Blue Amnesty”
ceremony marking the failure of Amnesty International to take up homo questions.
Alternative for those against Paying for Solidarity
"We want to continue supporting alternatives to those Prides
which create artificial, provincial ghettos mostly for young, white
males -- happy to buy their way into a twilight zone free from those
who can't afford the expensive dog-tags and prices -- women, refugees, the low-salaried, the unemployed and visitors from Eastern Europe," says Bill Schiller, Moonbow festival co-ordinator.
On the sidelines of 'Pride' period itself, Moonbow events
will include the 2nd Nordic Queer Film Days in co-operation with
Folkets Bio, Zita and the Nordic Council's information office, Norden i Fokus.
Also to be included are the annual reception of Moonbow
supporters, the Nordic Rainbow Humanists and HAI (homosexual cultural workers in Nordic sections of Amnesty International) (July 29), and the 'Green Moonbow' (August 1) with music, art and discussions at Hermans outdoor garden café overlooking Stockolm harbor harbor.
December 18, 2003
Stockholm -- The 4th Moonbow International Homo Culture & Human
Rights Festival 2004 is spreading out on both sides of the Baltic Sea
--promoting international solidarity and opening doors instead of
creating commercial, dog-tag profit-hungry ghettos.
On the eastern side of the Baltic, Moonbow 2004 will begin in St.
Petersburg (June 5-6) -- with a special ceremony marking the end of the
year-long Amnesty International Russian campaign which failed to take
up homo rights. Moonbow light will again shine on Tallinn (August 7-8)
and Riga (August 14-15) with a Moonset in Minsk, the capital of the
dictatorship of Belarus (August 28-29).
On the western side of the Baltic, Moonbow in the Swedish capital
this year will take a pioneering departure beyond the sidelines of the
Stockholm Pride by hosting Moonbow cabarets in the spring (April 24),
the summer (August 28), and the winter (November 27) .
A well-known sculpture at a downtown bridge in St. Petersburg – site of the Moonbow festival 2004
’moonrise’ and ”Blue Amnesty”
ceremony marking the failure of Amnesty International to take up homo questions.
Alternative for those against Paying for Solidarity
"We want to continue supporting alternatives to those Prides
which create artificial, provincial ghettos mostly for young, white
males -- happy to buy their way into a twilight zone free from those
who can't afford the expensive dog-tags and prices -- women, refugees, the low-salaried, the unemployed and visitors from Eastern Europe," says Bill Schiller, Moonbow festival co-ordinator.
On the sidelines of 'Pride' period itself, Moonbow events
will include the 2nd Nordic Queer Film Days in co-operation with
Folkets Bio, Zita and the Nordic Council's information office, Norden i Fokus.
Also to be included are the annual reception of Moonbow
supporters, the Nordic Rainbow Humanists and HAI (homosexual cultural workers in Nordic sections of Amnesty International) (July 29), and the 'Green Moonbow' (August 1) with music, art and discussions at Hermans outdoor garden café overlooking Stockolm harbor harbor.
4th Moonbow International Human Rights & Homo Culture Festival Warsaw-Stockholm-St. Petersburg-Riga-Tallinn-Minsk -- 2004
PRESS RELEASE April 13, 2004
Festival to continue to Stockholm, St. Petersburg,
Riga, Tallinn, Minsk:
'MOONRISE IN WARSAW -INCLUDING ANTI-NAZI EXHIBIT
Stockholm/Warsaw - The Polish - not the Swedish capital as scheduled
- will be the site of the "moonrise" of the 4th Moonbow International
Human Rights & Homo Culture Festival May 1-2, 2004. The festival then
moves on to Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Riga, Tallinn and Minsk (see
http://tupilak.org or http://ilgcn.org for dates and information.)
"We are proud to display the Nordic and HOSI-Linz exhibit "Nazis &
neo Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals" in the Polish city destroyed by
retreating Nazi troops * and where neo Nazis today threaten lesbians and gays as they do in cities all over Europe," says Bill Schiller, Baltic
Moonbow festival co-ordinator.
"The Pink Press and the fanTOM Club in Warsaw are pleased to
support the Moonbow event in Warsaw - and hope that we will be part of annual homo cultural festivals uniting colleagues across the Baltic Sea," says Slawek Starosta, Polish co-ordinator of the ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network).
Nazi & neo Nazi Exhibit to Auschwitz and Krakow
The "Nazi Persecution" exhibit and its films, poetry and literary
readings will also be taken to southern Poland for the Krakow Culture
Days - May 4-9 -- which will include the 2nd official 'rainbow'
memorial visit to Auschwitz.
The "moonrise" festival fills the gap left by Warsaw Pride which
has been forced to move to mid-June by authorities unable to provide
security because of EU membership ceremonies in the Polish capital.
_______________________________________________________
Note: A moonbow is formed by beams of lunar light piercing showers
of falling rain creating arcs of pale colors in a black sky - a
complement to the rainbow of the daylight hours - a rainbow by night!"
Although a growing number of "Rainbow Prides" -- especially in the
West - concentrate more and more on entertainment, commercialism and provinciality, the Moonbow Festival focuses on, international
solidarity, human rights and challenging homo culture.
Festival to continue to Stockholm, St. Petersburg,
Riga, Tallinn, Minsk:
'MOONRISE IN WARSAW -INCLUDING ANTI-NAZI EXHIBIT
Stockholm/Warsaw - The Polish - not the Swedish capital as scheduled
- will be the site of the "moonrise" of the 4th Moonbow International
Human Rights & Homo Culture Festival May 1-2, 2004. The festival then
moves on to Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Riga, Tallinn and Minsk (see
http://tupilak.org or http://ilgcn.org for dates and information.)
"We are proud to display the Nordic and HOSI-Linz exhibit "Nazis &
neo Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals" in the Polish city destroyed by
retreating Nazi troops * and where neo Nazis today threaten lesbians and gays as they do in cities all over Europe," says Bill Schiller, Baltic
Moonbow festival co-ordinator.
"The Pink Press and the fanTOM Club in Warsaw are pleased to
support the Moonbow event in Warsaw - and hope that we will be part of annual homo cultural festivals uniting colleagues across the Baltic Sea," says Slawek Starosta, Polish co-ordinator of the ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network).
Nazi & neo Nazi Exhibit to Auschwitz and Krakow
The "Nazi Persecution" exhibit and its films, poetry and literary
readings will also be taken to southern Poland for the Krakow Culture
Days - May 4-9 -- which will include the 2nd official 'rainbow'
memorial visit to Auschwitz.
The "moonrise" festival fills the gap left by Warsaw Pride which
has been forced to move to mid-June by authorities unable to provide
security because of EU membership ceremonies in the Polish capital.
_______________________________________________________
Note: A moonbow is formed by beams of lunar light piercing showers
of falling rain creating arcs of pale colors in a black sky - a
complement to the rainbow of the daylight hours - a rainbow by night!"
Although a growing number of "Rainbow Prides" -- especially in the
West - concentrate more and more on entertainment, commercialism and provinciality, the Moonbow Festival focuses on, international
solidarity, human rights and challenging homo culture.
SPRING MOONBOW
Åter dags för KONST MUSIK POESI DANS
Var?
Salong Katakomb, Västmannagatan 56, T-bana Odenplan
När?
Söndagen den 16 maj
Klockan 18-22. Programmet börjar 19.00
Vad?
Marie-Louise Landén ställer ut några av sina målningar och berättar om yoga
Linn Bodell ställer ut egna fotografier, bland annat från Kvinnohöjden
Malin Backström och Stella Triches med flera intar golvet i Latindansvirvlar
Information och rapport från Moonbow i Warsava av Bill Schiller
Öppen Scen - Fritt Forum för den som vill uppträda,
berätta eller informera om något - anmälan på plats
KOM! NJUT! UMGÅS!
Mackor, vin, öl serveras från klockan 18.00
VÄLKOMNA!
1st Homo Cultural Festival in Southern Polish City: 'Rainbow Battle of Krakow' Erupts in Medieval Center
PRESS RELEASE
May 10, 2004
More information:
marcin.smietana@intria.pl
Krakow -- The pioneering 5-day 'homo culture and tolerance'
festival took place in this conservative 'European cultural capital'-
condemned for weeks prior to the event itself by the Catholic Church and reactionary politicians -- and with its 'rainbow' march attacked and
aborted by stone-throwing, jeering homophobes.
Instead of just a handful of lesbians and gays taking to the
street as expected in this the city's first-ever rainbow march, the parade crowd mushroomed to a surprising 1,500 - with many mostly young heterosexuals coming out in support in reaction to the turmoil in the hostile media.
The rainbow-flag waving parade through the medieval old town
streets was both applauded by well wishers and constantly jeered by
homophobes and neo nazi -- hurling verbal abuse, eggs, apples, stones - injuring several participants -- and plastic bags of acid. A policeman was hospitalized after a bag splashed in his face.
A growing army of neo Nazis finally blocked the street and defied
police orders to disperse. Police with dogs on leashes and armed with
riot shields and helmets -- swinging battons and firing rubber bullets
-- clashed with neo Nazis trying to rip down riot barricades and
attacking paraders forced in the end to flee for safety.
Determined not to let the homophobes abort the festival itself,
a large crowd of participants -- hardly an hour after the last
incidents of violence in the old town's main square place -- made their way to the Nordic House only a few steps from the square.
The evening included Nordic and Polish performances, music, art
and photography from Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland and Norway - as well as panels from the "Nazi & neo Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals" from HOSI-Linz and Tupilak. The fate of a lesbian who persished in the death camps was presented by an American poetess.
Swedish Pledge of Support Next Year Again
"The presence of the Swedish delegation and the sponsorship from
the Swedish Embassy here was crucial," says organizer Marcin Smietana, of the Krakow branch of the Campagn Against Homophobia. "Other sponsors were getting ready to pull out!"
"We are proud that the Swedish cultural attaché who addressed the
festival the day after the 'battle of the streets" promised sponsorship
next year as well," says ILGCN's Bill Schiller. "We pledge our support
this as well - and will take this up with our colleagues at the
Nordic Homo Council session in Vaasa, Finland on August 21."
The festival also included university lectures on Polish homo life
and on Nazi persecution, Irish homo history, American lesbian poetry,
German sex education in schools, and Czech queer film festivals, Polish
homo theatre and opera.
May 10, 2004
More information:
marcin.smietana@intria.pl
Krakow -- The pioneering 5-day 'homo culture and tolerance'
festival took place in this conservative 'European cultural capital'-
condemned for weeks prior to the event itself by the Catholic Church and reactionary politicians -- and with its 'rainbow' march attacked and
aborted by stone-throwing, jeering homophobes.
Instead of just a handful of lesbians and gays taking to the
street as expected in this the city's first-ever rainbow march, the parade crowd mushroomed to a surprising 1,500 - with many mostly young heterosexuals coming out in support in reaction to the turmoil in the hostile media.
The rainbow-flag waving parade through the medieval old town
streets was both applauded by well wishers and constantly jeered by
homophobes and neo nazi -- hurling verbal abuse, eggs, apples, stones - injuring several participants -- and plastic bags of acid. A policeman was hospitalized after a bag splashed in his face.
A growing army of neo Nazis finally blocked the street and defied
police orders to disperse. Police with dogs on leashes and armed with
riot shields and helmets -- swinging battons and firing rubber bullets
-- clashed with neo Nazis trying to rip down riot barricades and
attacking paraders forced in the end to flee for safety.
Determined not to let the homophobes abort the festival itself,
a large crowd of participants -- hardly an hour after the last
incidents of violence in the old town's main square place -- made their way to the Nordic House only a few steps from the square.
The evening included Nordic and Polish performances, music, art
and photography from Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland and Norway - as well as panels from the "Nazi & neo Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals" from HOSI-Linz and Tupilak. The fate of a lesbian who persished in the death camps was presented by an American poetess.
Swedish Pledge of Support Next Year Again
"The presence of the Swedish delegation and the sponsorship from
the Swedish Embassy here was crucial," says organizer Marcin Smietana, of the Krakow branch of the Campagn Against Homophobia. "Other sponsors were getting ready to pull out!"
"We are proud that the Swedish cultural attaché who addressed the
festival the day after the 'battle of the streets" promised sponsorship
next year as well," says ILGCN's Bill Schiller. "We pledge our support
this as well - and will take this up with our colleagues at the
Nordic Homo Council session in Vaasa, Finland on August 21."
The festival also included university lectures on Polish homo life
and on Nazi persecution, Irish homo history, American lesbian poetry,
German sex education in schools, and Czech queer film festivals, Polish
homo theatre and opera.
'NAZI & NEO NAZI PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS' NOVEMBER 9
PRESS RELEASE November 10, 2003
'Kristallnacht' Discussions, Exhibit in Stockholm:
From the Tupilak photo exhibit ”Nazi & neo Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals” -- delegates of the first homo delegation to Auschwitz, handing over a Danish sculpture and a Finnish painting to the museum, honoring the information work about homosexuals who died in the Nazi concentration camps. (photo: Colin de la Motte-Sherman, ILGCN-Berlin).
Stockholm -- Discussions, readings, art and photo exhibits and memorial music were part of the November 9 'Kristallnacht' evening in
Stockholm -- in honor of the International Day Against Racism and
Antisemitism.
Discussions took up the link between Nazi atrocities and neo nazi
and other homophobic attacks on such events as Belgrade and Zagreb
'prides' as well as in Sweden -- with fatal stabbings of gays in
Gothenberg and other cities and with Nazi swastikas and 'kill homos'
sprayed on the windows of a homosexual-run cafe in Stockholm only a few weeks ago.
Photo exhibits covered the first official homosexual delegation
to Auschwitz and the pioneering erection of a homo monument in
Mauthausen concentration camp -- with work provided by HOSI-Linz in
Austria and Paul-Peter Hallberg of Stockholm. Other photos documented the HOSI-Linz exhibit tour to Tallinn and Riga this summer, while other exhibits described the annual 'Nazi & neo Nazi Persecution' events in Vilnius and other cities -- organized by the ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network).
Homosexuals in the Death Camps, Protest Music
Readings included passages of the life and death of individual
lesbians and gays imprisoned in the Nazi camps -- provided by the U.S.
Memorial Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Music included 'songs
of resistance' from various concentration camps and Norwegian opera
singer Björn Haugan's 'Toteslied' sung in Mauthausen during the
ILGCN/HOSI-Linz event there.
"We are pleased that this event followed the torch-light
'Kristallnacht' demonstrations in Stockholm, and that some of the
participants came straight to the discussions, filling the room at the
Herman's garden café donated for the meeting," says Bill Schiller, of
Tupilak ( Nordic organization of lesbian and gay cultural workers).
Other organizations supporting the event were the Nordic Homo
Council, Rainbow Homo Humanists, and HAI (network of homosexual
cultural workers in Nordic sections of Amnesty International).
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'Kristallnacht' Discussions, Exhibit in Stockholm:
From the Tupilak photo exhibit ”Nazi & neo Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals” -- delegates of the first homo delegation to Auschwitz, handing over a Danish sculpture and a Finnish painting to the museum, honoring the information work about homosexuals who died in the Nazi concentration camps. (photo: Colin de la Motte-Sherman, ILGCN-Berlin).
Stockholm -- Discussions, readings, art and photo exhibits and memorial music were part of the November 9 'Kristallnacht' evening in
Stockholm -- in honor of the International Day Against Racism and
Antisemitism.
Discussions took up the link between Nazi atrocities and neo nazi
and other homophobic attacks on such events as Belgrade and Zagreb
'prides' as well as in Sweden -- with fatal stabbings of gays in
Gothenberg and other cities and with Nazi swastikas and 'kill homos'
sprayed on the windows of a homosexual-run cafe in Stockholm only a few weeks ago.
Photo exhibits covered the first official homosexual delegation
to Auschwitz and the pioneering erection of a homo monument in
Mauthausen concentration camp -- with work provided by HOSI-Linz in
Austria and Paul-Peter Hallberg of Stockholm. Other photos documented the HOSI-Linz exhibit tour to Tallinn and Riga this summer, while other exhibits described the annual 'Nazi & neo Nazi Persecution' events in Vilnius and other cities -- organized by the ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network).
Homosexuals in the Death Camps, Protest Music
Readings included passages of the life and death of individual
lesbians and gays imprisoned in the Nazi camps -- provided by the U.S.
Memorial Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Music included 'songs
of resistance' from various concentration camps and Norwegian opera
singer Björn Haugan's 'Toteslied' sung in Mauthausen during the
ILGCN/HOSI-Linz event there.
"We are pleased that this event followed the torch-light
'Kristallnacht' demonstrations in Stockholm, and that some of the
participants came straight to the discussions, filling the room at the
Herman's garden café donated for the meeting," says Bill Schiller, of
Tupilak ( Nordic organization of lesbian and gay cultural workers).
Other organizations supporting the event were the Nordic Homo
Council, Rainbow Homo Humanists, and HAI (network of homosexual
cultural workers in Nordic sections of Amnesty International).
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