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Ehna men hon
2/10/2012
12pm - 9pm
“Ehna men hon”
- Billboard project in Ramallah, the West Bank
From 10 February – 10 March 2012, the streets of Ramallah will embrace the project ”Ehna men hon” (we are from here). Five artists, will celebrate International Women’s Day (March8th) in their own special way. The female artists: Lucia Ahmad, Rana Bishara, Asma Ghanem, Tanya Habjouqa and Omaya Salman will present their own personal rich and diverse images of women in the public space through photography.
The photographic works will be shown on billboards and there by add new vitality to the urban space and encourage reflection. The billboards will be located on one of the main streets of Ramallah on the walls of “Saryet Ramallah” – an educational and recreational centre for youth where sports and cultural events take place.
The “Ehna men hon” project challenges the stereotyes of women’s gender roles in Palestine, raise awareness and encourage public debate about gender issues. The women will have the opportunity to express themselves in public spaces on their own terms.
Billboards have a monumental and strong visibility in public space, and are therefore an ideal base for such discussion. The billboard section we are working with consists of 12 coherent billboards of different sizes and with this project we offer women to enter into a more dynamic/visual post to the public space.
Billboards in Ramallah billboards are very widespread and most of city space is plastered with commercial ads. In contrast, billboards have never been used in a visual art context, which in its own right thematize the power of advertising and content.
Flyers with some of the photos will be distributed in cafés and restaurants in Ramallah, and on the website www.voicesfromramallah.org there is more information and links to social networks so everyone can go online and discuss and comment on the billboard project “Ehna men hon” .
The billboard project is supported by the Danish Arts Council, Danish Center for Culture and Development (DCCD) and is curated by the Danish visual artist, Hanne Lise Thomsen and Hiltrud Awad in cooperation with the Danish House in Palestine DHIP. The Billboard company ZOOM in Ramallah is in charge of the practical execution of the billboard project.
Hanne Lise Thomsen has on several occasions visited the West Bank, where she met Hiltud Awad. Through their talks, the two women got inspired to work on the billboard project "Ehna but hon." Thomsen has primarily been focused on an ongoing dialogue with society as a whole and has used the urban space as a platform for many of her site-specific slide and video projections. In recent years she has realized several big project in public space, among others the billboard project ‘‘WOMEN2003’’ which involved 100 female artists from Scandinavia.
Lick-Wilmerding Presents The Vagina Monologues
2/10/2012
7pm - 9pm
“1 in 4 girls are sexually abused before the age of 18.''
What are YOU doing to STOP the VIOLENCE?
Join us February 10, 2012 as Lick-Wilmerding High School presents The Vagina Monologues. The production is part of V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. All funds raised through the performance will benefit Bay Area charities that are dedicated to preventing the physical and sexual abuse of women.
Date: February 10, 2012
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm
Location:
Lick-Wilmerding Ehrer Theatre
755 Ocean Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112
Tickets: Tickets will be sold at the performance on a first come first serve basis for a suggested donation of $5.
SFJFF Film Screening: Joanna
2/23/2012
7:30pm - 10pm
Director Feliks Falk spins a gripping story about Joanna, a Polish woman (Urszula Grabowska) to whom fate presents a split-second choice: to hide a young Jewish girl who she finds sleeping in a church. When seven-year-old Rose is separated from her mother in German-occupied Warsaw during a round up, she seeks refuge in the pews where Joanna goes to pray. Joanna, a piano teacher who is waiting to hear news of her soldier husband who she has not seen in years, takes the child home and they embark on a relationship that helps to heal their losses. The contrasts between the bleaks streets of Warsaw and the terror-ridden, paranoid interactions between the Poles, and the warmth of Joanna's home and heart are sharp and highlight the strain of trying to live normally during wartime. Joanna's family wonders why she has become increasingly isolated, while Joanna faces difficult decisions if Rose is to survive.
Falk, part of a school of Polish directors called "The Cinema of Moral Anxiety," expertly directs Grabowska, who gives a tour-de-force performance as a woman separated from her husband and struggling with fear. Falk's experience as a painter and a theatre director are evident in the grey palette of wintertime Warsaw and in the shades of grey that war brings to bear on morality.
Screening at
Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
1414 Walnut St.
Berkeley, CA 94709
SWAN Day Dayton
3/31/2012
3pm - 5pm
On March 31st, artists and community members will gather together at the Auditorium in the Dayton Metro Library Main Branch to celebrate female artists in Ohio’s first SWAN Day. This showcase of local talent will include plays, short films, poetry, readings from novels and memoirs, and more.
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