Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival

20th Edition of Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival

The International Women’s Film Festival of Barcelona – Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona celebrates its 20th edition from 7th – 17th June, 2012. More details of the actual programme soon.

The International Women’s Film Festival of Barcelona, began in June 1993, has as its objective the promotion of cinema directed by women, making women’s audiovisual culture visible, showing films by women film-makers from all over the world, thus proving the importance of women’s contribution to the development in audiovisual creation. After more than a decade of history, the International Women’s Film Festival of Barcelona has become a stable cultural space and a launching pad for alternative showings that are more and more committed to the debate on creative processes. (Source: www.dracmagic.cat)

Obama: Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal

President Obama declared for the first time on Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage, putting the moral power of his presidency behind a social issue that continues to divide the country.

Source: NYTimes.com ,
Read More: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/obama-likely-to-speak-about-same-sex-marriage-in-interview/?emc=na

New Handbook to Combat Gender Stereotypes in the Media

The Council of Europe offers a new publication related to gender and media: “Women and journalists first – A challenge to media professionals to realize democracy in practice, quality in journalism and an end to gender stereotyping”, written by Joke Hermes on behalf of the Steering Committee for Equality between Women and Men.

Available online!

GOAL 2013: About One Billion Rising

V-Day is a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls which actually invites to join their action One Billion Rising. This action is prepared to turn the 15th anniversary of V-DAY  on February 14, 2013 in a global strike to demand an end to the violence. ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME. If you refuse to watch as more than one billion women experience violence on the planet, YOU CAN SIGN HERE

Image from: http://www.onebillionrising.org/

Español: V-Day es un movimiento global de activistas que trabaja para detener la violencia contra mujeres y niñas. Si te niegas a ver como más de un mil millones de mujeres experimentan la violencia en el planeta. Únete  a V-Day en 02.14.13 en una huelga mundial para exigir el fin a la violencia de género.

 

“Occupied” – Vienna in the 1970s

 “Occupied” is the title of the recently launched exhibition in Vienna reminding us of the struggle for free spaces in the 1970s and the summer of 1976, when the occupation of the former foreign abattoir in St. Marx, the ‘Arena’, by squatters marks the beginning of a “100 Day Happening”….

Occupied!
The Struggle for Free Spaces since the 1970s

12. April 2012 to 12. August 2012

Wien Museum; Karlsplatz
Image source: www.wienmuseum.at

Science and integration of gender perspective

Seminar in Madrid, 12-13 /04 / 2012 about “Scientific Innovations and the gender Perspective” discusses the successes and future challenges of integrating the gender dimension into Spanish scientific and technical research content. Full program and further details only available in Spanish

Gender perspective – an instrument for quality in journalism

Article in Catalan about the necessity of including a gender perspective in journalism.