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TABLE OF CONTENT
Who we are .......................................................................................................................................................................
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Why are we doing this festival? ................................................................................................................................
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Objectives ..........................................................................................................................................................................
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Points of perspective ....................................................................................................................................................
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Places ..................................................................................................................................................................................
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Artistic presentations ....................................................................................................................................................
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Schedule ............................................................................................................................................................................
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Our team ............................................................................................................................................................................
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Budget ................................................................................................................................................................................
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Investment ........................................................................................................................................................................
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WHO WE ARE We are a Civil Society Organization that has emerged of the few spaces where the LGTBI/Queer community has been visible for over two centuries, mainly in classic arts, events and the production of Mass Media. Nevertheless, this visibility hasn’t broken heteronormative hegemony. In this process of reflection, Red Arte Diverso (Queer Art Network) was born in an attempt to call on the transformation of the hetero normative culture from inside cultural industry
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WHY ARE WE DOING THIS FESTIVAL? Venezuela has made headlines since the arrival of Chavez Bolivarian Revolution. Other than what is said in the mass media, the LGTBI/Queer Community has had more visibility than ever with in this government. However, their systematic oppress it’s still considered a situation without much importance As homophobia isn’t usually expressed in public with physical violence, there are no prevention policies. In fact, few people take homophobia as a social issue. There are no official figures of police violence or bullying in schools. In 2015 Venezuelan NGO that works the LGTBI/Queer Community published a report on discrimination in the country. The report showed that of the 742 LGTBI/Queer people asked in 2008 about violence 50% had had bad experiences with the police or another security worker, and 61% we victims of violence from civilians people. Only 21% of the victims reported as assault. The other 79% didn’t because they simply do not trust the police force and the justice system. The report also includes the results of research carried out in 2013 on how newspapers portray homotransphobic crimes. These showed that 46 killings and 53 attacks were reported in newspapers between 2009 and 2013. In the first case 91,3% of the news were not explicit about the queer sexual orientation or identity of the victim. In the second case
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the majority of the took place in Caracas. With regard to the law, Venezuela is one of the few South American countries that do not protect same-sex couples and still prohibits the change of gender on official documents. Besides that, homophobia in Venezuela is mainly manifested through humor. Almost all are homophobic jokes. In general are used frequently to interact, but in the poorer classes there are also used like a symbolic revenge trying to denigrate the high class that oppresses them suggesting that it is made of fags. Meanwhile, the high class reproduces its conservative idea that homosexuality is considered a disease threatening the status of the family. All of this makes it difficult for the queer community to feel free to be themselves in the streets and public spaces. One of the difficulties that we found trying to boost Queer/LGBTI activists is that, unlike other struggles, we do not have a territoriality that allows the consolidation of our identity in public spaces. We need a space that defends our identity and that is built with dignity. If not, homophobia and transphobia will continue to thirve in police violence, shouts and gestures of drivers and school bullying.
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OBJECTIVES Identify & denounce the homophobia as a systemic oppression. Homophobia is a problem that concerns society as a whole because it affects all of us. It is one more expression of male chauvinist culture and patriarchy as a system that submits our bodies and desires to pre-established gender roles that realize a social hierarchy, expressed mainly through the sexual/gendered division of labour. Build imagery based in dignity where the LGBTI community feels/becomes less vulnerable. In those territories we can begin to knit together living agreements that condition tolerance and respect for and by those who live or transit through them. Only in this way will germinate a sense of fully belonging that will also transform into a greater care and the defense of those spaces. Sensitize, inform & educate about homotransphobia. Sharing information about what homophobia means every day for those who are not heterosexual.
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POINTS OF PERSPECTIVE We understand that massive participation is vital to produce and execute the festival. The greater number of people involved the greater reflection process and the amount of possibilities to understand the issues as social problems. It is a priority for us to break with the idea that homophobia is a thing of others, that it is denounced more by pity than by consciousness. This is why we have assumed this project from a collaborative approach, so that from this very moment in which the preproduction starts, the political acts will be undergoing. That’s also why our principal forums will be to speak about other national and international experiences of activism from arts (arttivism, we said). We don’t believe projects like those are competing with each other. We think we all should be a network that put in public opinion why so important this struggle is.
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PLACES The three busiest public places of Caracas are: Sรกbana Grande, Bellas Artes and Downtown. We choose them because of that but also because there have been historical presence of LGBTI/Queer Community but not in a dignified way.
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ARTISTIC PRESENTATIONS
VISUAL
Cinema
Contest and exhibition of
Mural
Selfie Point
Artistic photo
Ilustration
Computer graphics
Dance
Theater
Photo Report
PERFORMING
Flasmob in subways and Bodypaint streets
Theme Crossdressing
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Urban Dance
Circus
Fine Arts
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LITERATURE
Open reading of selective lectures
Forum with writers
MUSIC
Tribute to Chilean poet Pedro Lemebel
Results of research about homophobia
MASS MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Film series
Radio spots
Social Networks
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Album Recording
Concert
OTHERS
Documentary film recording
Forums about human rights struggle
Collecting signatures for legislative projects
Art fair
SCHEDULE The tentative dates are from Friday, May 13 through to Saturday, May 21st 2016. May 17th marks the International Day against Homophobia (IDAHO). The festival is designed to travel every three days between these three public spaces. The festival will define activities in each one of them according to the conditions of space.
SĂ BANA GRANDE
Spaces
Friday Days 13
th
Saturday 14
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BELLAS ARTES
Sunday 15
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Monday 16
th
Tuesday 17
th
DOWNTOWN
Wednesday
18
th
Thursday 19
Friday
th
20
th
Saturday 21
st
Muralist / Contest and exhibition of photo-report, computer graphics, Permanent
photo-art and illustrations / Art fair / Flashmob / Selfie point 4-5pm
5-6pm
6-8pm
Street theater
Opening Theme Crossdressing contest
Forum
Open reading
Fine art
Open reading
Forum
Forum
Open reading
Urban dance
Circus
Street theater
Dance
Circus
Street theater
Circus
Theater
Cinema
Cinema
Theater
Tribute to Lemebel
Cinema
Theater
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Closing concert
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OUR TEAM As we mencioned before, the team we made for this Festival is young people who work in arts organizations. Red Arte Diverso (Queer Art Network) is leading the team in the General Direction of Festival. For that mission we have chosen:
Victor Fernández 33 years old, graduate in Journalism with magister in Communication Management. He’s been an activist for the Queer Community for over six years. He also has experience in art events production and he is currently finalizing a research on how homophobia has mark the lives of Venezuelan people.
Dayana Castillo 33 years old, finishing Economy studies with experience as business men Assistance. She is also poet and yoga teacher. She had worked producing congress were yoga and arts are mixed for the personal development therapy
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Francisco Osorio 35 years old. Graduate in Administration, a few years ago he decided to work designing dresses and trimmings with recycled material. He is the one who proposed from the start that this festival should be a way of providing the crossdressing community with an opportunity to showcase their work outside bars.
BUDGET DEBTS Festival Design and Planning Crowdfounding videos Graphic design TOTAL US$
August September October November December 20,00 20,00 20,00 20,00 20,00
TOTAL 100,00
-
-
-
-
50,00
50,00
20,00
20,00
20,00
20,00
30,00 100,00
30,00 180,00
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PAID STAFF General Direction Administration General Production Assitance
Febrary March April 50,00 50,00 50,00 40,00 40,00 40,00 40,00 40,00 40,00
Visual Art Production Assistance Technical Production Assistance Performing Art Production Assistance Educational activities Production Assistance Opening. Cross -dressing contest Production Assistance
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
Closing Concert Production Assistance Mass media Director Community Manager Assistance Assistance Journalist Designer TOTAL US$
40,00
40,00
40,00 30,00
100,00 440,00
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40,00
May 50,00 40,00 40,00 20,00 40,00 20,00 40,00 20,00 40,00 20,00
June 50,00 40,00 40,00 20,00 40,00 20,00 40,00 20,00 40,00 20,00
TOTAL 250,00 200,00 200,00 40,00 200,00 40,00 200,00 40,00 200,00 40,00
40,00
40,00
200,00
20,00
20,00
40,00
40,00
40,00
200,00
20,00 40,00 20,00 40,00 30,00
20,00 40,00 20,00 40,00 30,00 15,00 15,00 30,00
40,00 200,00 40,00 40,00 40,00 200,00 30,00 30,00 150,00 15,00 15,00 30,00 30,00 90,00 100,00 440,00 470,00 610,00 640,00 2700,00 40,00
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PAYMENT FOR ARTISTS, PRODUCTION, CATERING AND MATERIAL Activities
Production Payment Catering & for artists Material
Murals Contest and computer graphics exhibition Contest and photography exhibition Contest and illustration exhibition Flashmob posters and subway Body paint Fine arts Opening: Theme cross-dressing contest Forums
300,00 50,00 85,00 55,00 55,00 115,00 30,00 1500,00
Collecting signatures for legislative projects Open reading of selective lectures Tribute to Pedro Lemebel Street theater Contemporary dance Cinema 1 Cinema 2 Cinema 3 Theater 1 Theater 2 Theater 3 Urban dance Circus Closing concert Selfie point Documentary film recording Mass Media Campaign TOTAL US$
45,00
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30,00 55,00 75,00 55,00 155,00 155,00 155,00 300,00 155,00 155,00 155,00 155,00 6155,00 55,00 1000,00 1000,00 12045,00
Total
330,00 300,00 300,00 380,00 105,00 105,00 600,00 -
50,00 50,00 55,00 55,00 85,00 30,00 30,00 150,00 75,00 150,00
680,00 400,00 440,00 490,00 140,00 250,00 165,00 2250,00 75,00 195,00
155,00 175,00 155,00 155,00 155,00 155,00 155,00 200,00
45,00 105,00 105,00 75,00 75,00 75,00 75,00 105,00 105,00 105,00 105,00 105,00 450,00 155,00 -
3425,00
2415,00
75,00 160,00 335,00 305,00 230,00 230,00 230,00 560,00 415,00 415,00 415,00 415,00 6605,00 210,00 1200,00 1000,00 17.885
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INVESTMENT
US$ 20.765,00 1% 13% Debts
Paid Staff
86%
Production, payment for artists, material POP and catering
Any donation, however small it may seem, it’s important to realize this project. We hope to meet the goal of funding for the second week of February 2016. Thank you for helping us!
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