Annual focus 2016 "Break It Down"

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On November 30, 2015, the Marianne.von.Willemer Prize was awarded by the City of Linz for the eighth time in the Old City Hall. The prize is an award for high-quality works by female writers and is intended to help women gain a foothold in the local literary scene

Writer Gabriele Kreslehner has been awarded this year's Women.literature.prize, endowed with 3,600 euros, for her text "indian summer". The text was chosen by the expert jury from more than 100 submissions.///////////////////////////////

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On January 28, 2016, at 9:00 a.m., the next "menless parliamentary session" will take place in front of the Linz Landhaus

The aim of this action is to make women's politics visible and to draw attention once again to the women's session that has existed since October 23

Landtag government that has been in place since 23 October.

Link to the 1st Upper Austrian state parliament session

"As we tell[hear] stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves."
[Martha C. Nussbaum]

Austria concluded a recruitment agreement with Turkey in 1964 and with the former Yugoslavia in 1966 in order to recruit workers. "Guest workers" came and stayed. In the 1990s, the collapse of Yugoslavia brought in numerous refugees who also stayed. Within the "foreign" resident population, the largest group (37.7 percent) comes from the countries of the former Yugoslavia. [http://www2.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at] Around 48% of these are women*.

FEMINISM & KRAWALL

...is a transcultural, women's political association for feminist riots on March 8, International Women's Day! Since 2013, musical, acoustic and performative actions for women's rights have been taking place in the city center of Linz on Women's Day.

All photos © zoe* photography

FIFTITU% supports FLINTA* of all disciplines in artistic projects and careers. We offer free consultations and workshops for individuals, groups, national and international artists, students, collectives, project initiators, the self-employed, freelancers, cultural institutions and associations.

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Monday - Thursday: 10 am - 2 pm
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Artists* and women* producing culture can make an appointment with FIFTITU% for consultations at any time, even outside of consultation hours. Please call: +43 732 770353 or send an email: office@fiftitu.at !

Women* who make music are still largely defined in the following order: first as women* and then as musicians*. Pop music is still dominated by men*, as shown by the SR Archive of Austrian Popular Music, which this year analyzed the database it has built up over two decades.

Feminists are often accused of NOT having a sense of humor.
But humor was and is an essential component of feminist criticism and feminist strategies. On October 23 and 24, humor was explored as a means of transport for serious feminist concerns. Examples of feminist action in everyday life were tried out together. In order to cover as broad a spectrum as possible, prominent contributors from various areas of feminist humor were brought in: e.g. the legendary performers from Les Reines Prochaines and the linguist and pioneer of German feminist language criticism Luise F. Pusch. The result was mischievous smirks, cheeky giggles and loud laughter!

English Version of the demands of the refugees staying at the tent camp at Linz
What we want:

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Michèle, Fränzi, Sus and Muda - Les Reines Prochaines - were at the Posthof at the end of October 2015 as part of the event "Feminism and Humor". Rosvita Kröll conducted an interview with the queens. They talked about their music, ageing and their project "Fremde Torten im falschen Paradies".

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