Workshops and Timetable

Workshop details:
Title:	Info:
Anarcha – Feminist Discussion	Discussion on the meaning of anarcha-feminism and how this differs from other feminist concepts.
Bike Maintenance
Colonialism	A workshop that aims to generate useful discussion about colonialism in general by looking at the legacy and continuation of British imperialism.
Feminist Health	What does feminist heath mean? some of the history of the feminist health movement and a look at some feminist self-help health books, information and ideas.
Feminist Self Defence
Home schooling and radical parenting	Homeschool discussion and support for liberation from the hiearchical intrusion on the minds,hearts and lives of ourselves and our children.
Improvised dance	A collective improvised dance will rise from a journey through body awareness (body mapping, structure and shape), space exploration, sensory experiences of touch, movement and voice interactions. we will work as a group, in pairs and individually. Wear loose clothing, please bring water. We will dance in bare feet.
Massage	Basic massage exploring the body using gravity, weight, self massage and exchanged massage through clothing.
Polyamoury Discussion	A discussion space to explore our ideas about sex, intimacy and friendship and the politics of how we organise these in our lives.
Spoken Word poetry writing and discussion
Women and the Middle East
Yoga	This Yoga is breathing, asana and relaxation specifically inspired by and for womens health.

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Friday 17^th April 8 pm

Documentary Films 8pm, ACE Feminist Film school presents: two Roma Documentaries,lent by Document, http://http://www.potatoscone.com/doc7/doc7.html Trial of a Child Denied. Michelle Coomber. England/Czech Republic 2008 / 25 Mins. Through the poignant and unnerving stories of various Roma women, this film explores the controversial practice of forced sterilization that still persists in contemporary Romania. I Have Dreamt Of Working As A Hairdresser. Lidija Mirkovic. Serbia. 2007 / 85 Mins The story of Iva, a young Roma hairdresser from Serbia, who hopes to remain in Germany to make a life for herself and her family but who is under the constant threat of deportation.

Saturday 18^th April 10 am – 6pm

Books, Zines, info stall and cafe all day in the YWCA

	Hall, YWCA	Meeting room, YWCA	Creche
10am-11:30am	Improvisational dance		Kids’ Space – please sign up for a volunteer shift at the welcome table
12noon - 1:30pm	Yoga	Feminist health	Kids’ Space – please sign up for a volunteer shift at the welcome table
2pm - 4pm	Massage	Colonialism	Kids’ Space – please sign up for a volunteer shift at the welcome table
4.30pm - 6pm	Beginners self defence	Women and the Middle East	Kids’ Space – please sign up for a volunteer shift at the welcome table

Saturday 18^th April 8pm

Queer and feminist short films 8pm, ACE Feminist Film school presents: shorts. The Angelmakers. Astrid Bussink. Hungary/ Holland. 2005 / 35 mins. The Angelmakers focuses on the sleepy village of Nagyrev in rural Hungary and explores the ‘arsenic murders’ which took place in 1929, when a large group of women were held responsible for poisoning their husbands with the so-called ‘flypaper’ method! Ottica Zero. Maja Borg. Italy / Scotland. 2007 / 12.46 mins. Soon after her ‘big break’, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared. Ottica Zero follows Nadya in her search for an alternative way of life outside the capitalist system. The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being. Faisel Aziz. Scotland. 2007 / 10 mins. A documentary following two young British Asians trying to set up a distribution chain for their skin – lightening product. Various. Jack Waters. (ABC NoRio New York) c1990′s. 7 mins. Intelligent, politically engaged video montage from this underground, New York queer filmmaker. Divide and Conquer. Nosheen Khwaja. Scotland. 2009. approx 10 mins. Divide and Conquer was an immediate reaction to the most masterful act of racism and propaganda – the Oscars… in 2001 it was black actors sweeping the boards whilst Iraq was invaded and now in 2009 the Indians win while Pakistan is bombed… ‘the sustainability of sweetness…the film’. Naomi Shoba. Scotland. 2009. approx. 15 mins. A fun, frenzied, feminist look at the politics and culture surrounding women today. Naomi Shoba is a Glasgow based performer and director specializing in contemporary performance. C6H806. Nonto Zephaniah. Scotland. 2009. approx. 15 mins Powerful, striking short about racism. Slip Of The Tongue. Karen Lum USA. 4.14 mins. Smart image edits to text adapted from the poem “slip of the tongue” written and performed by Adriel Luis.

Sunday 19^th April 10 am – 6.15 pm

Books, zines, info stall all day in the Forest front room

	Action room, Forest	Forest Hall	Craft room, Forest
10:00 – 11:30	Home-schooling and radical parenting	Anti-prison movement	Kids’ Space – please sign up for a volunteer shift at the welcome table.
12:00 - 1:30	Anarcha - Feminist discussion (women only)		Kids’ Space – please sign up for a volunteer shift at the welcome table.
2:00 – 4:00	Polyamoury discussion	Bike maintenance	Kids’ Space – please sign up for a volunteer shift at the welcome table.
4:15 – 6:15	Spoken Word poetry writing and discussion space	Feminist Self Defence (women only)	Kids’ Space – please sign up for a volunteer shift at the welcome table.

Sunday 19^th April 7 pm

Open Mic 7pm, Forest Café

Band The Zorras 9:30pm, followed by DIY Disco, Forest Café

Thursday 23^rd April 8 -10pm

Herb Study group, Potent plants, medicine and healing. 8pm, ACE The herb study group meets on the first and third Thursday of the month. We usually look at one herb each time; fresh, dried, as a tincture etc and explore it experientially and through reading though herb books etc to learn more about it’s uses. Anyone welcome; folk new to herbs and those who want to deepen their connection the plants we look at. This extra herb study space is for consideration of potent/ altering indigenous and non-indigenous plants and to look at contexts they are used in, what we can learn from other cultures, discussion about traditions that have been lost/ suppressed in this culture etc.

Friday 24^th April 8 pm

Experimental films and music 8pm, ACE Feminist Film school presents: experimental film and music. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods Of Haiti. Maya Deren. (Footage captured throughout the 1940′s and edited in 1981 by Teiji and Cherel Ito) 60 mins. Maya Deren takes us on a journey into the fascinating world of the Haitian Voudoun religion, whose devotees commune with the cosmic powers through invocation, offerings, song and dance. Balkan Erotic Epic. Marina Abramovic. 2007. Performance art legend Marina Abramovic delves into Balkan folklore to create a series of mise-en-scenes that explore the magical and mysterious folk-law rituals surrounding fertility and virility. Cinderella (Aschenputtel). Lotte Reineger. 1923. 15.52 minutes. Groundbreaking shadow animation from the 1920s. The evening will conclude with Music For One playing solo resonator guitar. http://www.musicforone.com