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Date: Thursday 05 August 2010.
Time: 09h30 to 12h00
Venue: Artscape Theatre Centre, Foreshore, Cape Town
Real Women, Real Beauty at Artscape Women's Festival - Gender DynamiX partner event
Through the camera lens, photographer Jodi Bieber confronts the notions of: ‘Real Beauty / Real Women’.Amongst other she has photographer transgender women in context of their lives. During this workshop there will be a discussion about the perceptions people have of what constitutes a real woman. Is it about what you do, about how you dress, who you love or what body you were born in? What is real beauty? Is it what the media tries to portray, is it just skin deep or is their more to real beauty than meets the eye? We will discuss the impact of these things on women and how these stereo types keep us from achieving our full potential. We will also turn the gaze to question what is the meaning of an ‘African woman’? Who is she? Who qualifies to be called woman... and who not and why? Other great women on the panel will be poet and media person Pamella Dlungwana and Professor Jane Bennett from the African Gender Institute at UCT.
Date: Friday 06 August 2010
Time: 09h00 to 12h00
Venue: Artscape Theatre Centre, Foreshore, Cape Town
Who is In, Who is Out?
Gender DynamiX will facilitate a dialogue discussion about access to shelters. Who is in? Who is out? aims to address the challenges of sheltering and prejudices around the matter. We aim to look at it from many angles, I.e. what are the challenges for the women and minorities who need to access shelters. What are the challenges for the shelters themselves, what are the funding challenges? The session will start with screening of “The bad side of the Paradise” a short documentary about hate crimes, setting the background on how many marginalized people are in situations of homelessness. Funeka Soldaat, grassroots activist and founder of Free Gender will speak about these challenges first hand. There will be further screening of stories of women who needed to make use of a shelter at some stage in their lives.
Liesl Theron, director of Gender DynamiX will share insight from interviews collected while she was researching access to shelters as experienced by  LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex) people. The research was later published in a book by Jacana, called “A Tapestry of Human Sexuality in Africa”. Synnov Skorge, director of the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children who runs 2 shelters, will also speak about her experiences of running a short stay and a long stay shelter. Residents from the Saartjie Baartman Shelter will also be present and engage in the dialogue. We hope and aim to have interactive discussions and audience participation.
When: Saturday 7 August 14h00- 17h00
Where: Artscape Theatre Foyer, Artscape Theatre Centre, D F Malan Street, Foreshore, Cape Town
This is my Story:
Come onto a journey of experiences of various women and men who have challenged victimisation and gender discrimination in their own lives and the lives of their loved ones. Combined workshop by Sonke Gender Justice, Gender Dynamix, Wheat Women’s Fun, Zanele Muholi.
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