Nordic Fire

 Hi dear Tupilak supporters and friends!

The coming festival is just around the corner! We hope to see you the coming weekend. 

Warm regards

Zafire Vrba

Here is the updated program:

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NORDIC FIRE  on Eastern European Rainbow Barricades     

-- a mini-festival between Prides          on LGBT rights, identity & culture
 
Stockholm, November 25-27, 2011
                                                             
          Free entrance!                                                                                                                                                       

 

Special guests, Seminars,  Discussions, Art, Photography, Films, Performances,   

       Award ceremonies                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                               
An event organized by: 
 
TUPILAK (Nordic rainbow cultural workers)/  ROHS (Swedish National Organization for LGBT Solidarity)

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FRIDAY, November 25 
 
12.00   LGBT discussions at Civil Rights Defenders (Note: limited space!)  

(Stora Nygatan 26  T-bana Gamla Stan)  
 
                   Peter Öholm –  CRD work with LGBT organizations      
                     Lena Shevchenko – Insight – Kiev   
  Ulrika Westerlund – RFSL's international work 
             Jussi Jääskeläinen (Finland): Bucharest Pride       
Tamás Lovas – Rainbows in Budapest            
               Bill Schiller - Tupilak/ILGCN in Eastern Europe    
                        
                         Salute to "UN day against violence  against women"
 
   Tupilak "2011 Bifrost" – Barbro Westerholm, Liberal parliamentarian 
 
Polish Institute-Stockholm -- ILGCN "Rainbow Iceberg" Award 
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16.00-18.00        Discussions at Bio Rio (Salong 4) NEW LOCATION!!
                                   (Hornstulls Strand 13    T-bana Hornstull)
  
                                Dmitri Plax -- Rainbows in Belarus
            Lena Shevchenko -- Insight's cultural work – Kiev   
                  Jussi Jääskeläinen (Finland) -- Bucharest Pride
          Tamás Lovas – Rainbows in Budapest            
Bill Schiller -- Tupilak/ILGCN in Eastern Europe                            
             
Films:  "Visby: 1st Nordic LGBT Monument"                          
              "Tupilak in Kiev" – Willi Reichhold             

 

            Performances: Continuo Trio - ILGCN ambassadors - Budapest                                       
                               Mad Monk – readings from the Humanist Bible
 
Rainbow CD Music: Nordic region, Eastern Europe                                                                      
Publications:  "Ars Homo Erotica" (National Art Gallery - Warsaw),             
         "Pride Art:  Gay Art from Poland"  – Pavel Leskowicz                               
                                        
                                              "Queer Warsaw" - anthology

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                       SATURDAY , November 26  
  13.00  
  Study visits including POSITHIVAGRUPPEN with Ola Ståhle     

 (Tjurbergsgatan 29 T-ban Skanstull) 
                                                   
Evening performance of Continue Trio - Budapest  20.00  at Posithivagruppen     
 
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                                                                       SUNDAY, November 27    17.00-20.00  
 
                        Discussions, performances, films  at:    Hallongrottan   
                                                                                                    
                                                                 Bergsundsgatan 25 (T-bana Hornstull)
 
 
Participants:      
Sabina Carlsson – UN WomenLena Shevchenko -- Insight – Kiev   
     Tamás Lovas – Rainbows in Budapest            
                                              Kjell Rindar – Rainbows in Latvia     
                          Bill Schiller -- Tupilak/ILGCN in Eastern Europe                           
            
Films:  "Visby: 1st Nordic LGBT Monument"    "Tupilak in Kiev"
                              – Willi Reichhold   
 
  MUSIK by Continuo (Classic & Folk) Trio - ILGCN cultural ambassadors,  Budapest          
                                                                                                     
 
Rainbow CD Music: from the Nordic region, Eastern Europe                                                                      
Tupilak & ILGCN Art & Photos from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Czeck Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania
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Next 'Nordic Fire on Eastern European Rainbow Barricades' Festival 
 Stockholm, Spring 2012    
 
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 NORDIC FIRE Festival Participants/Supporters/Contributors:

Hallongrottan              Nordic Rainbow Humanists  
 
Nordic Rainbow Council

   Bio Rio   Civil Rights Defenders    Insight -Kiev      RFSL     POSITHIVAGRUPPEN                  

TUPILAK (Nordic rainbow cultural workers) www.tupilak.org       
                                 
ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network)  www.ilgcn.tupilak.org                                   ROHS (Swedish National Organization for LGBT Solidarity)

 

                      Nordic-Baltic-Polish-Russian-Belarus-Network            MOONBOW Festivals      Kungliga Musikhögskola (Royal College of Music) 

 Noble Travel                                                  
                                                                                                                                          

 Tupilak & ILGCN Travelling Art & Photo Exhibit  
 

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Hello from Tupilak

Hello dear friends! Hej kära vänner!

Some of you are new members, some of you have been members or supporters of Tupilak for a long time.

As the new chair person I want to say hello and invite you to the up-coming event Nordic Fire on Eastern European Rainbow Barricades - a mini festival between Prides on LGBT rights, identity and culture. 25-27/11- 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden. The program is attached as a pdf-file. 

For those of you who can't make it to the festival, please keep giving your support to Tupilak by spreading the word or continue to be a member.

If you haven't paid your membership fee for 2012, please pay 50 SEK to our account: plusgiro 4983767-7 

Write your name, address and email so we can update our list of members.

If you don't want to be on our mailing list, unsubscribe by answering this email saying you don't want to stay on the list. 

All the best and hope to see you soon!

Warm regards

Zafire Vrba

TUPILAK på HALLONGROTTAN

TUPILAK på HALLONGROTTAN

Bergsundsgatan 25 (tel. 658 1320) (T-ban Hornstull) Stockholm

REGNBÅGS KULTURAFTON * SISTA SÖNDAGEN I MÅNADEN / Rainbow Cultural
Afternoon ... last Sunday of the month.

Gäst presentation, konst, foto, film, utländska gäster, information om
framtids projekt och internationella samarbete*

Guest speakers from Sweden and abroad. Art, photos, films, information
about solidarity projects in Sweden, elsewhere in the Nordic region and
abroad.

Nästa gång: Söndagen 27 mars från 17.00*. Sunday, March 27. From
17.00...
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( Obs!!! 15 minut styreslemöte 17.00 -- alla välkomna!!)
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Also supported by: ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network)
Information Secretariat-Stockholm http://www..ilgcn.tupilak.org/

Nordic Rainbow Council

Nordic Rainbow Humanists

ROHS (Riks organisation för homosexuella solidaritet)
(Swedish National Organization for LGBT Solidarity)

NBRBR Rainbow Network Calling

Sweden's Zafire Vrba, member of the Stockholm-based internatinal punk music & theater group,  Las Habereros, performing at Network and Tupilak solidarity events in Sweden and in the Baltic region.

Calling members and supporters of the

NORDIC-ESTONIAN-LATVIAN-LITHUANIAN-POLISH-BELARUS & RUSSIAN RAINBOW NETWORK 

Sessions 2011:

On the sidelines of:  3rd Baltic Pride - Tallinn (June)
                               Stockholm Pride (July-August)
                               Poznan Tolerance (November)

(This is to give as many as possible a chance to meet face-to-face.  As usual, most contacts are to be carried out via e-mail.)

Aims:

1. To review results of co-operation, visits, projects during 2010.  Plans for 2011 (including efforts to diversify Nordic delgations to reach more destinations and not concentrate on only or one or two targests).

2. Renew contacts with:

           Nordic embassies (in event nations)
           Swedish Pol Baltic Network
           Swedish Institute
           Polish Institute
           Nordic Council
           Nordic Council Culture Fund
           ILGA

3. Continuing efforts to initiate contact with colleagues in Kaliningrad and to carry out first Network events in the Faroes and the Åland Islands.

4.. First Nordic Network Scholarship (thanks to private donations) goes to Belarus gay photographer, Vladiks of Minsk.

  (His works are to be displayed at coming events in in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kakow, Warsaw, Wrocklaw, Poznan, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Eskilstuna, Uppsala.

Also at the coming ILGCN world cultural conference 2011 stages in Turkey (May) and the Crimean, Urkaine (September)

    Vladiks is to visit Stockholm in July, 2011.)

Network co-operation partners:  Tupilak (Nordic rainbow cultural workers), ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network) Information Secretariat - Stockholm, Nordic Rainbow Council (member of the ILGA: International Lesbian & Gay Association).

Bill Schiller, Network international secretary                     December, 2010    Stockholm

PALESTINSK REGNBÅGS KULTUR KVÄLL

  PALESTINSK REGNBÅGS

  KULTURKVÄLL  -- Stockholm

     

                 Tisdagen, 14 december 2010  från 18.00

    Högkvarteret  Närkesg. 8 (T-ban Medborgarplatsen)

 

 

DISKUSSION: "Regnbåger över Palestine...?  Svenska-Palestiniska Samarbete.  Hur störtar vi både ockupationen och patriarkatet?  
 --  Tupilak/ Palestinagrupperna i Sverige

 

 

Televiv PornFest 2010, PornFest 2011  -- Zafire Vrba

 

FILMS: "Ezra Nawi" isreali gay ,fredsaktivist,  "Divine Intervention"

FOTOS: Orlando Boström --  1st Jerusalem Pride    

                                       

CABARET, MUSIK, SÅNG:

 Peter  Fröberg 

  Jan Hammarlund
Los Habaneros

                                                                     Jenny Gabrielsson                                                                     

                                                         

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Efter 22.00:
Tupilak Vinter Fest

Pris cermoni.
  Skål till Tupilak's 20 års dag!

 

Film:  Tupilak cabaret salute to ILGA World Conference – Stockholm, 1990!

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Palestinagrupperna i Sverige   
              
   ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network)

 

www.tupilak.org          
 www.palestinagrupperna.se 
                                    info@tupilak.org                                        

 

 

TUPILAK CALLING

CALLING TUPILAK Members on both sides of the Baltic Sea on October 10, 2010!:

 

We're participating in Uppsala Pride November 4-7.  Colleagues from Sweden, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia and elsewhere will join us. Who else wants to join us...?

 

STOCKHOLM

 

We're receiving colleagues from Belarus in Stockholm on November 11, 2010 (see below).at the PositHIVa gruppen's local.   Who wants to work with us and join us on the stage, in art work, in seminars, etc...?

 

PALESTINE

 

We're working together with the Swedish Palestine Group for a joint "Human Rights and Rainbow Culture Evening" at Högvakt club local in Stockhom in December.  Who wants to help out ... to join us...?

 

TURKEY

 

Tupilak will join ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network) at an international LGBT cultural conference/festival in Istanbul next May.  Who wants to join us...?

 

LGBT CULTURAL PROJECTS IN SWEDEN

 

There are still funds available from the Swedish state support for LGBT organizations.  Do you have a project in mind..?  Preferably outside of the Stockholm area!  Get back to us as soon as you can.

 

CANDELLIGHTS

 

We're lighting candles for the threatened Belgrade Pride October 10th and the Algerian LGBT National day on October 10.  Light a candle and send your thoughts abroad!

 

Bill Schiller, chairman of Tupilak, Nordic rainbow cultural workers

 

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Tupilak and the Nordic-Baltic-Polish-Belarus-Russian Network invite you to a

       SWEDISH-BELARUS RAINBOW CULTURAL EVENING
(in English and Swedish).
 Thursday, November 11, 2010    18.00- 21.00 at the PositHIVa gruppens Locale on Tjurbergsgatan 2
        (T-ban Skanstull) Stockholm)

with Igor --  Belarus LGBT activist/ language student/ dancer, photo exhibition by Vlad Urzov of  Belarus, performance by  Zafire Vrba of Sweden, report from Swedish-Belarus LGBT Culture Conference in  Minsk (September, 2010  and supported by the Swedish Institute) by  Bill Schiller of Tupilak and more.

Would you like to join us and say some words about your organization's work and interest in Belarus or Eastern Europe or ...?

Shall I add your name to the speaker's list and the internet poster...?

Hoping to hear from you soon!

Bill Schiller of Tupilak (Nordic rainbow cultural workers) and the Nordic network