BFFW '17 Talks & workshops

During the weekend we will have a bunch of activities to analyze and discuss some aspects of feminism.
Join us to extend and challenge your knowledge of feminism.

We will have some delicious vegan finger-food from our friends at Alaska for your delight.

▼ The learning identity - The leading body / Sarah Balzat / Saturday 11th - 10:00 am ▼

Lecture & demonstration
Sarah Balzat is a dancer and dance teacher who uses philosophical approaches and the complexity of movement to re-define stereotypes, beauty concepts and to create new community concepts.
The lecture will focus on the question of identity and more precise: Who am I in what I do? Through personal experience made with the body and from a various teaching experience, a simple reflection based on the process of learning will be presented, that should make a contribution to the definition of leadership.

The Workshop will be a chance to experience the body inside different leadership situations. Movement will be used to reflect the term of leadership. We discover together what it means, how it is perceived and how we make decisions inside of it. There is no dance experience needed for the workshop

Free of charge, donations to the instructor welcome.

▼ Cake & Fairytales / Antonia Roeller / Saturday 11th - 12:00 am ▼

Talk
Princesses are beautiful, jeopardized by their guilelessness and then saved by the man of their dreams. Gratefully they fall into his arms and live happily ever after… We’ve all heard the story.

But can this pattern still be found in the latest fairy tale adaptions? Which identification figures do they offer us? And what message do they convey on topics such as financial security, beauty, the image of the mother, the definition of the family overall and emancipation?

Screenwriter Antonia Roeller will analyse this with examples as MIRROR MIRROR, THE PRINCESS & THE FROG and FROZEN.

Antonia Roeller studied screenwriting at UCLA in Los Angeles. Now she works as writer and story consultant in Berlin. She teaches “Creating complex female characters for Film and TV” at Master School Drehbuch. Since 2015 she published two film essays: “Career-driven, power-hungry, lonely? The Portrayal of Female Leaders in Film and TV” and “The Princess awakens. Modern Fairytale Heroines in Film and TV”.

Tickets with cake and coffee here: http://www.mobilekino.de/?p=10175

▼ ZYKLUS1 / Joanna Gröning / Sunday 12th - 11:00 am ▼

Talk
The project ZYKLUS1 by Joanna Gröning has been developing over the past 25 years. Ever since puberty hit, menstruation became a symbol for the many differences and inequalities that exist between men and women. Per se these differences are not bad, but fundamental. Maybe more than we tend to think.

Dealing with menstruation became a metaphor for how women adapt to a still mostly male dominated work environment, where "high functioning" seems to be the strongest imperative. This, women do, successfully, even when their bodies may demand a different approach.

The cost of functioning is subordinated, even to the point of saying the financial burden is not relevant enough to be addressed in public. Or is it?

With ZYKLUS1 the artist and psychotherapist Joanna Gröning hopes to start an inclusive conversation about all that women do behind the scenes to fit in. The subservient behaviour of women needs to be addressed, both by challenging the male perspective AND by encouraging women to step out onto the stage.

Free of charge / donations welcome.

(Artwork by Eugene O’Donald)