title: Re#Sister: WORM & Mama Cash Feminist Festival
start: 2018-03-08
start time: 18:30
end: 2018-03-09
end time: 01:00
venue: WORM Rotterdam
city: Rotterdam
country: NL
coordinates: 51.9159, 4.4763
tags: feminism feminisme feminismo feminismus mamacash womenrights
links:
Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/213949822515089/
description:
Celebrate International Women's Day with Mama Cash!
With RE#SISTER, a varied, powerful and colourful evening with short talks, live concerts and performances, expo, body art, pizza and cigars. Featuring: Miranda Driessen, Victoria Shen, Non la Decadence, Lone Taxidermist, the S/ASH GA\\ERY and RE#SISTER DJs.
The themes for this edition of RE#SISTER are: How can we bring more diversity in the music industry? And what are the mechanisms that define who is successful or not? Who gets the gigs, the grants, the reviews? We feel feminist action is needed and we welcome you, whatever you are, to think, talk and act with us.
Sophia Seawell, who works at Mama Cash and writes about issues of race, gender and diversity in the culture sector, will host the evening. With our guests and everyone that feels involved, she'll facilitate a discussion about the present and possible future situations in the music scene. And we'll have - of course - three very special performances, an exhibition and a great party to celebrate the power of music, the voice and the body.
ARTISTS
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Miranda Driessen is a trained classical singer, musician and composer, very much at home in the world of Dutch composition. She has a strong personal view on the way the contemporary music scene is structured at the moment, and wants to share that with us.
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Victoria Shen is a multimedia artist and musician from the US whose music/sound performance features analogue modular synthesizers (Flower Electronics), contact microphones, and other hand-built electronics.
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Non la Decadence is Rotterdam's figurehead of queer culture. They and their crew of genderclowns will do a short performance dealing with sense of space, freedom, respect and awareness.
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LONE Taxidermist is the project of Natalie Sharp from the UK, an extraordinary artist when it comes to songwriting, producing, body art, stage and costume design. In her amazing Trifle Show (a mix of performance art, video art, DIY synth-pop and post-punk deconstruction), she will involve local artists, and the audience in a really mindblowing experience. Get ready for "..a glutinous exploration into the dark online culture of sploshing, crush fetish and cake sitting"
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S/LASH GA\\ERY will present an exhibition with female artists invited by female curators. No need to explain about the pizza and the cigars. Just come and you'll find out what that's about.
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Sophia Seawell is Communications Associate at Mama Cash, develops workshops on gender and sexuality with Stichting Sexmatters, and has published pieces for DJBroadcast, Subbacultcha, Bitch Media and bluestockings magazine on issues of inequality and diversity in the culture sector.
This program is part of the Mama Cash Feminist Festival. For more information about the events in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and TivoliVredenburg (Utrecht), see mamacash.org/vrouwendag