2011 Theme Announced

"From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World:
Let's Challenge Militarism and End Violence Against Women!"
(abajo en español)

This theme announcement builds on the work of so many activists during the 2010 campaign. The five sub-themes will be:
1. Bringing together women, peace, and human rights movements to challenge militarism
2. Proliferation of small arms and their role in domestic violence
3. Sexual violence in and after conflict
4. Political violence against women, including Pre/During/Post-election violence
5. Sexual and gender-based violence committed by state agents, particularly the police or military

For the online version of the announcement, please visit the 16 Days website: http://16dayscwgl.rutgers.edu/2011-campaign/theme-announcement. We’ll be sending updates as more campaign materials become available.

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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign
Center for Women's Global Leadership
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Email: 16days@cwgl.rutgers.edu
Website: http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu

Sign up for the 16 Days E-mail Listserve: https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/16days_discussion

El CWGL tiene el gusto de anunciar el tema de la Campaña de los 16 Días de Activismo contra la Violencia de Género (2011):

Desde la Paz en el Hogar hacia la Paz en el Mundo:
Desafiemos al militarismo y terminemos con la violencia contra las mujeres!

Construyendo sobre la base de la información que hemos recibido de las participantes de la campaña del 2010, con la campaña de los16 Días de este año, vamos a investigar más profundamente los cinco temas que fueron señalados como prioritarios por las activistas que trabajan en torno a las entrecruzadas de la violencia contra las mujeres y el militarismo:

1. Uniendo a los movimientos de mujeres, la paz y los derechos humanos con el fin de desafiar al militarismo;
2. La proliferación de las armas cortas y su papel en la violencia doméstica;
3. La violencia sexual durante y después de los conflictos;
4. La violencia política contra las mujeres, incluyendo la violencia antes, durante y después de las elecciones; y
5. La violencia sexual y la violencia con base de género comitida por agentes del Estado, especialmente por parte de la policía y la fuerza armada.

Para acceder el anuncio mediante el internet, por favor visite el sitio web de los 16 Días: http://16dayscwgl.rutgers.edu/2011-campaign/theme-announcement. Enviaremos información actualizada sobre la campaña tan pronto que esté disponible.

You Can't Erase Us

This image is a photo transfer monotype I created, no, co-created, in 2010, from a wall of grafitti I found in Oaxaca in 2006. The title "You Can't Erase Us" seems fitting for this post. There were no Imagina events in 2010, simply because the bicentenario took up everyone's time, energy and budget for the year. With a fresh start, we will see where it can go as we open the doors of all possibilities for 2011. Internationally, our voices continue to be heard, we will not be silenced, until violence against women is history.

Juntos Acknowledged by NGO Committee on the Status of Women/New York. Number Three on the Playbill

P    L    A    Y    B    I    L    L 

The NGO Committee on the Status of Women/New York wishes to thank the talented artists, writers, performers and musicians who volunteered their time and efforts at the Forum. We applaud their generous spirit and dedication to bringing cultural messages of gender equality, development and peace.

(in order of appearance)
The Salvation Army Brownsville Corps.Steel Orchestra was founded in 2007 and is a New York city-based group of young drummers aged 10 to 26 years. The steel orchestra plays a variety of instruments, but the principal ones are steel drums. “We chose this because we wanted something unique,” said Marc Brooks, their creative director. He notes that its origins in the Caribbean were linked to the history of slavery. In the early 20th century, as slavery came to an end in places like Trinidad, people used many cultural means to celebrate their newly found freedom of expression. At first, these drums were made from castaway biscuit tins, then, oil drums. The group has played at numerous Salvation Army events in the New York and New Jersey area. All songs are spiritually inspired so that young people learn to use music as a form of worship. E-mail: marc_darius@yahoo.com.

Kinding Sindaw Melayu Heritage (www.kindingsindaw.org) is a not-for-profit cultural organization whose mission is to reclaim, preserve and re-create the legends and unwritten ancient history of the Philippines when the country was known as “Dunya Melayu Nusantara”. It was founded in 1992 by the tradition bearer and artistic director Potri Ranka Manis, Bai a Labi a Gaus of Borocot, Maging, 15th Pagawidan of Pat Pangempong Ko Ranao. Kinding Sindaw’s repertoire is based on classic and ritual dances, kulintang music, chants and silat martial arts. The group is a resident dance theater member of LaMaMa, ETC, NYC. Among its education activities are workshops and school programs for colleges, communities and public and private schools as well as lecture forums on the history and traditions of Filipino oral history. E-Mail: kindsindaw@aol.com.

JUNTOS: Artists United to End Violence Against Women is a grassroots organization begun in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico, as a vehicle for awareness through artistic expression. The founder of the project, Lena Bartula, along with members of the Mexican and expatriate community, organized a series of events called “imagina 2009”. These activities included visual arts, panel discussion, poetry readings, film series, craft fairs and community celebrations organized as part of the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign. The cultural events covered a wide range of topics from gender equality to HIV/AIDS and human rights at local and international levels. The community of artists and galleries involved can be found at the blog site: http://imaginajuntos.blogspot.com/. E-mail: lenabartula@gmail.com

Margot Smith (www.offcentervideo.com) is a social scientist and convener of the Berkeley-East Bay Gray Panthers. To Empower Women: the Fourth U.N. World Conference was filmed in 1995 at the United Nations Fourth World Conference in Beijing, China and narrated by the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug. As an active feminist, Margot worked to educate the public on global women's issues. To this end, the film was on several PBS stations, won a trophy at Movies on a Shoestring film festival in Rochester, NY, and was shown at the Ohio Independent Film Festival, the American Public Health Association film festival, and several other festivals. Ms. Smith produces award winning independent videos on political and social justice issues and is a member of the San Francisco Film Society, California, USA. Her videos may be seen on video.google.com, (search for Margot Smith Videomaker).

The Children’s Theatre Company (http://www.childrenstheatrecompany.org) is rooted in the conviction that through the magic of theater, children and youth can be the voices of change and agents of healing. In collaboration with professional composers, writers, directors and choreographers, CTC engages four age groups in the creation and publication of musicals, plays and cast-albums. Heralded as the “crown jewel of children’s theatre in New York” by actor James Earl Jones, it serves an average of 300 to 400 children per week with a resident theatre in Greenwich Village, public schools residencies, and has eight active chapters across the United States. The Company has garnered accolades from Verizon Literacy Awards, New York Times, appeared on Sesame Street, the Today Show, Good Morning America and performed at the United Nations with Nelson Mandela. E-mail: mehrjoun@gmail.com.

Lynn Nottage (www.lynnnottage.net/) is a playwright from Brooklyn. Her plays include Intimate Apparel, Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Las Meninas, and Ruined (awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 2008-2009). These have been produced at theatres in the US and abroad including the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Goodman Theatre, the Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Center Stage, South Coast Rep., Second Stage, Freedom Theatre, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, St. Louis Black Rep., Crossroads Theatre, Intiman, San Jose Rep., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf, Yale Rep., The Vineyard Theatre, The Women’s Project, New Dramatists Playtime Lab and The Tricycle Theatre in London. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2007 MacArthur Genius Award, an OBIE Award for playwriting, NY Drama Critics Circle Award, Best play and John Gassner Outer Critics Circle awards, and American Theatre Critics/Steinberg 2004. Nottage is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama, where she is currently a visiting lecturer.

EVENTS SCHEDULE

25 de Nov miercoles/wednesday
Dia Internacional Para Eliminar Violencia Contra Mujeres
3 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica, Insurgentes #25
Film: En el Tiempo de las Mariposas / In The Time of the Butterflies
60 p, Procede beneficio de Biblioteca Publica y Programa de Prevencion de Violencia de CASA

7-9 pm, Gala Inauguracion
Instituto Allende, Ancha de San Antonio #22
Exposiciones de Arte / Recepcion Galeria Pinto, “Rompiendo el Cristal”
Artistas: Beverley Ashe, Ana Thiel, Laura Begoña, Lena Bartula, Norma Suárez, Marissa Boullosa, Ana Quiroz. Curated by Margaret Failoni.
% of sales to Mujeres en Cambio.

La de El Lado, "Hasta las Monjas....de Aguilita" Artistas: Estudiates de Instituto Allende

Galeria Eclectica/Dawn Gaskill, “When Every Breath is Prayer”,% de ventas a Casa Hogar Santa Julia

El Taller – “El Universo del Arte”, % de ventas a Casa Hogar Santa Julia

YAM Gallery, “Exilio”, Javier Aréan. % of sales to Casa Hogar Santa Julia

Espacio del Patio, Carmen Rioja

Instalación Escénica / Performances, con “Akaros”,Sandra Ríos, Doris V. Bebber, Mónica Hoth, Christian Baumbartner, Rosario, Lamuk

Con musica por Jimena Gimenez Cacho


26 de Nov jueves/thursday
3 pm, CASA, Santa Julia #15 Cena de Thanksgiving (dia de gracias) Festejo Traditional de gratitude, chef Kirsten West; benediccion, musica en vivo, rifa de regalos.
350 p, Procede beneficio de CASA y Jóvenes Adelantes.


27 de Nov viernes/friday
3 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica Film: Persepholis
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica y programa prevencion de violencia de CASA

5 pm, Galeria Pergola, Instituto Allende Exhibicion de Arte/ Recepcion
“A Geometry of Echoes”, Josephine Sacabo. % de ventas a Mujeres en Cambio


28 de Nov sabado/saturday
5- 8 pm, Casa Diana Galeria de Arte, Recreo # 48
Exhibicion de Arte / Recepción
“I Am and I Am Not”, Mary Lou Lipkin
Otros artistas: Karen Wight, Deborah Turbeville, Miguel Angel Castellanos

6 to 8, Nudo 21st Century Art, Recreo # 42
Exhibicion de Arte / Recepcion “En Voz Alta”, Alejandra Mendoza B

6pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Insurgentes #25
Danza: A Punto De Ebullición, De Argentina Compania Arnica, 200 p.


29 de Nov domingo/sunday
2–4 pm, Café Buenos Dias, Reloj #64
Exhibición de Arte / Recepcion “Training Girls / Training Women”, Terry Hertz- Daugherty
% de ventas a beneficio de Mujeres en Cambio

3:30–5:30 pm, Biblioteca Publica, Reloj entrance
Exhibicion de Arte/ Recepcion “Not Just Pretty Pictures”, Sallie Latch

4 pm, Teatro Santa Ana,
Danza: Las Máscaras de Lilith, con Natsu Nakajimo y Lola Lince, 200 p.


30 de Nov lunes
5 pm, Galeria Pergola,Instituto Allende,Ancha de San Antonio #22
Panel de Discussion:"Arte para un cambio social" / Art for Social Change



1 de Dic martes/tuesday
Dia Mundial del SIDA / World AIDS Day
3 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica
Film: “Documentaries about AIDS: Focus on Issues Affecting Women" Discussion al terminar.
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica y programa PESANE de CASA

6 pm, AIDS walk / camita del SIDA , organizado por CASA



2 de Dic miercoles/wednesday
3 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica
Film: OSAMA
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica y Programa de Prevencion de Violencia de CASA

5 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica
Film: Pandemic: Facing AIDS
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica y programa PESANE de CASA


Jueves,3 de Dic
3 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica
Film: Not Without My Daughter
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica y Programa de Prevencion de Violencia de CASA

6 to 8 pm, Galeria Atelier Flor Acosta, Tata Nacho #8
Exhibicion de Arte / Recepción
"In-Tolerancia", Artistas internacionales


Viernes,4 de Dic
3 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica
Film: Bordertown
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica y programa de prevencion de Violencia CASA

Celebracion en Honor del dia mundial del SIDA
Kuni Doni Restaurante, Salida a Celaya #24
5 pm, Recepcion
6 pm, Film: Princesas
8 pm, Concierto: musica de Letua, un trio Mexicano de Jazz.
Procede beneficio del programa PESANE de CASA

5 to 7 pm, ART WALK/ Fabrica la Aurora, Calzada de Aurora
Exhibiciones de Arte / Recepcion de Apertira
William Martin Gallery, Artistas: Fatima Cabrero, Alejandro Devesa, Mariana Abundiz, Daniel Urias, en una produccion de “ALMA DE LA MUJER”

Galeria Alebrije, Mario Oliva
Generator Gallery, Artistas: Karen Wight, Agnes Olive, Lavinia Ruiz, Lulu Torbet, Rita Torlen % de ventas a Casa Hogar Santa Julia
William Martin Gallery, William Martin
Juan Ezcurdia Studio, Juan Ezcurdia
Kerlegand Gallery, Victoria Lynn Pierce

Instalación Escénica / Performances, con “Akaros”
Sandra Ríos, Doris V. Bebber, Mónica Hoth, Christian Baumbartner, Rosario, Lamuk


Sabado, 5 de Dic
11 - 4 , Bernie Weismann Fdn.,Quebrada #67
Mujeres Trabajando Juntas / Womens/ Craft Fair

6- 8 pm, Ana Julia Aguado Gallery, Plaza Principal #18
Exposición / inaguracion "Las Poderosas Dimensiones del Arte de la Mujer"
Artistas: Ann McCoy, Ana Thiel, Paulina Aguado, and Ana Julia Aguado

6 to 8 pm, Arias Art Gallery, Correo #73
Instalacion de Arte, Natalia Sanchez

Domingo, 6 de Dic
11 am to 4 pm, Bernie Weismann Fdn., Quebrada #67
Mujeres Trabajando Juntas / Womens' Craft Fair



Lunes,7 de Dic
7 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica
Film: "Take My Eyes/Te Doy Mis Ojos
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica y programa de prevencion de violencia de CASA

5.30 pm, The Empowerment Center, #5 Privada de la Luz
DVD showing: “La Camara Como Espejo” /"The Camera as a Mirror"



Martes, 8 de Dic
3 – 5 pm, Sala Quetzal, Biblioteca Publica
Lectura de poesia: "Voices of Awareness and Social Change" Participando: Kate Crosby, Patricia Compuzano, Rochelle Cashdan, Judyth Hill, Nancy Shapiro, Billie Rose, Judyth Rosenthal, David Garza, Marcia Wolff entre otros.
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica



Miercoles, 9 de Dic
3 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica
Film: V Day, Until the Violence Stops
siguendo el Corto: Private Violence, 20 min.
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica y programa de prevencion de violencia de CASA


Jueves, 10 de Dic
Dia International de Derechos Humanos
3 pm, Teatro Santa Ana, Biblioteca Publica
Film: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
60 p, Procede beneficio Biblioteca Publica y programa de prevencion de violencia de CASA
Evento de Cierre: Fiesta de GRACIAS a todos los participantes y ayudantes
8 pm – 10:30 pm, Cerveza de San Miguel, con DJ La Niña

Project Manager Announced

JUNTOS is proud to announce our new project manager for imagina 2009. Laura Rodriguez, a San Miguel artist and events planner has come on board to organize, coordinate and assist with all committees in preparation for our November projects.

She will definitely have her hands full, with so many events in the works. Here are some of the latest:

*Gala reception and ribbon cutting to inaugurate the 16 Days of Activism in San Miguel.

*A Gratitude Feast on Thanksgiving Day with the women of CASA, masterminded by our local culinary explorer, Kirsten West.

*An exhibition of cloth Milagros made by women from four different ranchitos, under the direction of Angeles Agreda Peinado, seen here with Laura.

*Performance/ drama workshops for the students at Santa Julia.

This is turning out to be a spectacular community happening; if you want to create something or volunteer to help please post a comment here or email me: lenabartula@gmail.com

Exposiciónes Internacionales / International exhibitions

In the column at right, I will continue to post websites of interesting ways in which artists around the world are united to end violence against women. As artists, we have numerous ways in which to facilitate change on a local level. If you aren't inspired yet, click on these photos.

En la columna de la derecha, voy a seguir para publicar páginas web interesantes de diversas maneras en que artistas de todo el mundo se han unido para poner fin a la violencia contra la mujer. Como artistas, tenemos muchas maneras en que para facilitar el cambio a nivel local. Si no está inspirada, sin embargo, hacer clic en estas fotos.

Visual Arts committee / Las Artes Visuales

The committee for the Visual Arts will meet Tuesday, 9:00 am, June 16, at Casa de la Cuesta. We will report on the galleries committed to support our project, the artists who have been contacted or are being contacted, and we'll begin trying to match artists with venues. If you're interested in participating, make your comments here please.



El Comité para las Artes Visuales se reunirá Martes, 9:00 am, 16 de junio, en la Casa de la Cuesta. Nos informe sobre las galerías se comprometieron a apoyar nuestro proyecto, los artistas que han estado en contacto o se están en contacto, y comenzaremos a tratar de coincidir los artistas con locales. Si estás interesado en participar, hacer sus comentarios aquí por favor.