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Equality Festival (E­FEST)

March 6 to 12, 2016 ∙

March 6, 2016 event program

discussion/ book launch on anarcha­feminism c/o chung x randy mobile anarchist school x marindukanon studies center, diemedia x etniko bandido 1­5pm

opening of exhibit c/o mity & various artists various works, wall bound pieces 6pm onwards cocktails & food to be served outside (vege pansit & snacks) c/o organizers (march 6­12 duration of exhibit)

dance/musical performance c/o mia exhaure & kaibuturan 8pm

open acoustic jam c/o mity, yaman, taks & alden (amps, guitars, instruments) 9pm onwards

March 12 2­5pm open library/ zine distro by WALA, sulat kamay artists collective, Mag­isa kolektib & others open jam various indigenous instruments c/o Pagibig Lang open workshop/ skill sharing

6pm­8pm film screening badjao documentary (60 mins) by puling balintataw productions white man’s burden (20 mins) by cho dantes teka natatae ako ah (5 mins) by windang aesthetics labor army (WALA) 15 minute talk by film makers/presentors

8pm onwards solidarity gig c/o flowergrave collective, wampayb produkshons & various bands

rationale:

in line with the perennial women’s month, support activities such as variable exhibition, open discussion on anarcha­feminism, DIY film about badjaos and a solidarity gig would take place to articulate marginal, peripheral and subaltern issues on equality. Everyone is invited to take part of the Equality Festival on March 6 to 12, 2016 at the Green Papaya Arts Projects. E Fest was conceived by autonomous, anti authoritarian and non­hierarchical individuals along with collectives. The event would be including but not limited to workshops, discussions, book launch, film showing and a solidarity gig for gender and against discrimination. The intention is to provide a platform for the oppressed, marginalized and silenced. Hence, E fest would serve as an interface to share thoughts, concerns, resistance, even direct action. E fest hopes to create a safe space to process differing and layered forms of violence against the cognitariats.

At any point of the consensus building: before, during and even after, E fest can become a viable toolbox to monkey wrench the state and the market. In the end, E fest attempts to mold and transform the everyday circumstance for inventing alternative futures.

Specifics:

March 6

Variable Exhibit In as much the work, creator and the theme on equality, the audience could very well partake by sharing possible tools of participation. Sohail Inayatullah, a proponent of Future Studies, postulates about layered approaches: the litany, social causes, discourse/ worldview and myth/ metaphor could provide a different perspective. The ordinary life is a potential repository of tools to overturn the past and the present. Through a crowd­sourced exhibition, various objects could become ammunition to dismantle market forces and neutralize state violence. With variable modes of expression, from the more conventional 2 dimensional works to the more unusual, the accumulated materials could be building blocks of the coming community without the state and market interventions.

Open Discussion on A­Fem

Since 2012, Mobile Anarchist School already provided an interface for distribution, content generation and creative resistance with fluid focus on radical ecology, anarcha­feminism and alternative history, MAS aggregated different collectives and individuals from mindset breaker press, non collective, onsite and etniko bandido info shop. MAS took part of the emergent autonomous network in the archipelago. The open discussion would serve as a context for the publication of a book on Anarcha­Feminism. The book itself is multi­faceted outcome of years and years of consensus building and breakdowns, eventual consolidation. The history of Anarcha­Feminism has no sole author, therefore it could be considered as a common story told by different narrators. Some of them would be around, while the rest could still continue the conversation on Anarcha­Feminism in the archipelago.

DIY Film screening Autonomous filmmakers, DIY production outfit, autodidacts of the really­really free school come up with a rough cut about fellow travelers struggling to find their way. After miles and miles of hitchhiking free highways, hours and hours of raw footage was assembled to narrate a story about survival and will­to­move. Sea gypsies from the Philippine South, continue their old folkways. Despite being uprooted and removed from their saline environments, Badjaos roam the streets of concrete and city lights, they move on still. Pulang Balintataw, Magisa kolektib and ako media collaborate in solidarity for the everyday plight and psychogeography of indigenous peoples in hostile territories.​ “Teka Natataeko Ah” is WALA's experimental dabbling to the business of film­making. The group recorded people's conversations and also the sound – or occasionally their mimicking by a human voice – of buzzing machines, roaring vehicles and other various kinds of noise that can be heard usually in an urban setting. They are used as a material to an approach in creating a film montage that can be thought of as an inverted dubbing. The recordings are used as the main reference point in deciding which moving images will be put together for the work. What can be heard are dissociated to their usual interpretations because of connecting them to either found or taken videos not really related to their original contexts. Because of this seeming disjunction created, the work becomes a play with the relationship between what we perceive and the ideas we associate with them; leaving it to the viewers to create some sort of sense or/of narrative out of it – or just not to try at all.

Solidarity gig th​ To cap E fest off, a solidarity gig would happen on the 12​ of March. After the variable exhibit, A Fem exchange, Film trip and a host of different last minute, spontaneous and sporadic workshops and discussions, an assault to the senses would occur. The closing event of E Fest is an aggregate of cause oriented folks, culture jamming musicians, new age and punk­inclined sound explorers would take turns during the solidarity gig for the downtrodden.

1­5pm

6pm~

7pm

March 6/ opening

Anarcha Fem discussion

Variable exhibit cocktails & opening food ℅

8pm

9pm~

dance performa

acoustic open jam/

March 12/ closing

c/o chung x randy

c/o mity & various artists

organizers (vege pansit & snacks)

nce c/o mia exhaure

performance by kaibuturan & alien

various workshops, free market, free jamming, zine distro c/o autonomous individuals & collectives

film screening on badjao documentary c/o selo “white man’s burden” ℅ cho dantes “teka natataeako ah” ℅ experimental film by WALA (as intermission during gig)

start of gig ℅ flowergrave & other bands/ cocktails & food ℅ organizers (vege pansit & snacks)