Uue aasta soov/ New Year´s wish

Kallid sõbrad, kaasvõitlejad, osalejad!

2011. aasta hakkab oma valguse ja varjudega lõpule jõudma ning hoolimata sellest, et pidime selle aasta sügiseks plaanitud üritustesarja "Feministid tulevad kell kolm" teise osa toimumisaja edasi lükkama, loodame südamest, et suurem osa teie plaanidest ning soovidest siiski täitusid. Samas pole sugugi halb ju mõelda, isegi soovida, et uus aasta tuleks eelmisest parem. Ja et see nii ka läheks, vähemalt ühe konkreetse plaani osas, siis teavitame rõõmsalt, et oleme sukeldnud üritustesarja "Feministid tulevad kell kolm" ettevalmistustöödesse, mille teise osa toimumisajaks oleme kalendrisse märkinud järgmise aasta novembri.

Kõikide eelduste kohaselt toimub Tallinnas 21. 11 - 25.11. 2012 taaskord "Feministid tulevad kell kolm". Projekti raames korraldame temaatilise skriiningu, vabas vormis arutelu, performance-etendusi, teoreetilise feminari ja praktilisi töötube ning see kõik lisaks kümnetele huvitavatele vestlustele huvitavate inimestega, mis toimuvad väljaspool ametliku programmi ajakava. Tegemist on üritustesarjaga, mis tõstab ja täiendab teadlikkust meie avalikku ja isiklikku elu valitsevatest ning vägivaldsel domineerimisel põhinevate võimusüsteemidest ja -suhetest ning suunab sellele avalikkuse tähelepanu. Samaaegselt osutades ja pakkudes alternatiive empaatilise, vägivallatu ning inimõiguseid arvestava riigisüsteemi võimalikkusest.

Jah, 2012. aastal on, mida oodata!

Kaunist aastalõppu ja õnnerikast uue algust!

Anna-Maria Penu ja Dagmar Kase


Dear friends, fellow activists, participants!

As 2011 with its lights and shadows is coming to its end and despite of the fact that we had planned the second part of "Feminists come at three" for this ending year but had to postpone it, we sincerely hope that the greater part of your plans and desires were succesfully completed. However, we can always wish that the new year will be better than the previous one. And it will be, at least because of one specific plan: we are happy to announce, that we are already preparing the second part of the "Feminists come at three", which is expected to take place in Tallinn, from the 21st up to the 25th of November in 2012.

There will be thematic screening, free-form discussion, performances, theoretical feminar and practical workshops besides hours and hours of intresting conversations with intresting people outside the official programme timeschedule. The aim of the project is to raise awareness of our public and personal life ruled by male-centered, dominance and violence based power systems and relations, and to direct attention to it. At the same time we want to provide and offer alternatives for emphatic, non-violent social and state system which takes human rights into account.

Yes, there sure is something to expect in 2012!

Happy New Year!

Anna-Maria Penu and Dagmar Kase

Feminari tekstid/feminar texts

Sellelt ENÜ kodulehelt saab Feminaril esitatud tekste lugeda juba nüüd. Loodetavasti õnnestub meil need siiski ka siin blogis eraldi üles riputada.

Before we are able put here all the translated texts presented in Feminar, you can already now read them from this page of EWART.

Inspirational season after November. Thank you, dear Maria Angeles!

Feminism ja naisõiguslus. An article in Sirp (in Estonian).

Dagmar Kase. Feminism ja naisõiguslus. Sirp. 10.12.2010

Lühendatud ettekanne 27.10.2010 feminaril „Feministid tulevad kell kolm”.

Fotos/photos

Aitäh! Thank you, Maria Angeles!

Why aren't you a feminist?

leeraloo found a pretty interesting article in In These Times, "Girls Gone Anti-Feminist", by Susan J. Douglas, and though she had some problems with the article, leeraloo thought she’d post it as a good segue into a topic she has been meaning to explore on her blog.

And leeraloo asks 'Why aren’t you a feminist?'.

Afterthoughts

The first "Feminists arrive at three" is over and we want to thank all participants, helpers, partners, visitors who helped an idea, a dream that sprung up a couple of years ago in hot Madrid, to become true in snowy, white Tallinn. We spent five unforgettable days with intelligent, creative, talented, special people with whom we discussed different forms of violence against women. We listened, we talked, learned, explored and we found that there is still so much to be done in Estonia: starting with the meanings of the words, definitions and the understanding of the whole phenomena as far as to the demand of the specific law. We enjoyed inspiring video and film art, we were marvelled by a gorgeous burlesque performance, we danced in März and we realized how important is an existence of such an event, our own room, our environment. Time and place where we can talk, share, listen, participate, be present, be together, and through all of this increase awareness of all the wide range of issues related to feminism.
Dagmar Kase summed it up in her feminar's talk with the following words: "In 12 years, there has not been many changes in Estonia - "'feminism / feminist" and "women's liberation / women's liberation' activist' as meanings are even more distanced from each other and negative shades of these meanings are not lost. Thus, the past is not gone, it is still here with us. How to change the meanings more positive? Solving the issue is mostly related to our own attitude towards the meanings and behaviour, and depends heavily on the actions we take.
One way is to bring together people, without shame and fear, under "feminists arrive at three", which among other things proves the existence of feminists and their arrival, and no less important is the fact that feminists do not arrive in the dark, and they do not leave."
So the feminists arrived at three but they do not go away at five. See you again in November 2011!

In estonian: Järelmõtted
Anna-Maria Penu