Festival Lesbico Internazionale
Theater, Music, Clown, Videos and Lesbian Lifes
Maïwenn Braud
Maiwenn Braud, on the stage Ovule Mac Drive, describes in this way her artistic experience: "A tenderness that breaks everything! Perhaps my desire to become a clown comes from a curios mix between the love for the earth and the enjoyment, with a dose of feminist militancy. The clown let me live in a world without frontiers or barriers. To live the present moment with sincerity and generosity is a primordial condition. Through ridicolousness you can find freedom". Ovule Mac Drive is a natural, hot-tempered, passionate clown, sensitive to the search of love.
Paola Cavallin
She lives and works in London and Italy. She is a teacher, an actress, she writes and she is a director for english and italian theatre companies. She trained in the theatre school of Commedia dell'Arte Avogaria, Venice, her native town, in the Antonio Fava's International School of Commedia dell'Arte, in Reggio Emilia, and with Serena Urbani, ex Living Theatre, in Bologna. She is interested in the gender question and in its comic-absurde variations. She writes, plays and directs her pieces, combining surreal mime and textes with evident lesbian contents. Among her works we can cite: “Cupido l’Ormone", “Che bella giornata”, “La scopata”, “Il Gran Consiglio”, “L’assassina” (with E. Sarno). During the festival she will play "Welcome to Lesbialand" on August 16th , then she will lead a theatre workshop from 13th to 15th of August.
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Monica Besser
Brazilian singer and composer, she’s on the Rio de Janeiro’s scene since the age of 14. Monica has written more than 100 original compositions. She has lived and worked in Berlin for 2 years. The song which gave the title to her album "Vem Pra Ficar ", produced by one of the most important Brazilian label of Brazilian music, became the sound-track of the soap opera “Beleza Pura" in 2008.
Her music is a mix of bossa nova, reggae, pop-country, rock, blues, soul and drum'n'bass.
From the 2012 she performed in concerts with Debora Saraiva, with whom she will perform the night of August 15th, with excerpts from the new album "Fusion Roks", come out in April 2013. On August 14th and 16th she will lead a workshop on the voice.
Débora Saraiva
Born and grown up in the Samba schools of São Paulo, she learned to love music and popular poetry in the squares of Samba de roda e Samba de mesa. At 16 years she began to play in the company "Teatro Vento Forte". For ten years she has participated to important festivals in Europe and Brazil. She has been living in Berlin since 2006, where she is continuing her musical search, collaborating with different partners, bands, directors and compositors. From 2012 she is collaborating with Monica Besser.
During the Festival she will lead a workshop on Brazilian percussions on August 14th and 16th, on August 15th she will perform in a concert with Monica Besser.
Badhole Video
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Badhole Video was born in 2001 and in 2010 became an association. They are a group of five militant, resistant, insistant women. They realize short films. They speak about rights, women, work, discriminations, and generally about all the things make them indignant. It's a group really creative that since the 2002 has received a lot of recognitions in various festivals and events in Italy and in the world.
Filmography:
"B-movie, ragazze in b" (2002), "Tutto su mia sorella" (2005), "Cavolini di Bruxelles" (2005), "Saro' flessibile con te" (2005), "È femmina no?!" (2006), "Guerra e pacs"(2006), "Ho visto cose" (2006), "Gli eroi di casamiya" (2007), "Adele e le altre" (2008), "La capretta di chagall" (2010), "Lavoro (s)velato" (2010), "E' bella chi si ribella" (2011).
During the festival it will be shown their web-serial "Re(l)azioni a catena", a comedy about connections among women, rights, work and new families.
VIDEOS
"Lesbiana A Parallel Revolution" directed by Myriam Fougére (Canada, 2012) 63’
lang. English, subt. Italian
Born in to the arms of feminist movement in the '70s, in the '80s the lesbian culture was flourishing in many towns and little villages in all Canada, United States, Europe, Israel, Japan. The documentary tells the story of that movement through interviews with some protagonists of that period (activists, writers, philosofers, teachers, carpenters, nurses, etc.) who tried to invent a new world centred on women. www.lesbiana-film.com
During the festival we will show some videos of Badhole Video, in particular a part of the web-serial "Re(l)azioni a catena" ("Chain Reactions/Chain Relations").
"Le lesbiche non esistono" ("Lesbians Don't Exist") directed by Laura Landi, Giovanna Selis
Documentary, 60' , Italy 2012
An indipendent documentary, made thanks to people contributions, made day after day thanks to the contributions of the lesbian web. It has been realized by two young women filmmakers from Tuscany and it questions about lesbian visibility in Italy.
WORKSHOPS
CLOWN ATELIER with Maïwenn Braud
Clown is inside us: it makes visible our weakness, defects, our foolishness, awkwardness, incompetences, our social attitudes, our daydreams...we need to find the raw material in ourselves.
THEATRE WORKSHOP with Paola Cavallin
The workshop will be a trip into desire, sexuality, obsessions, fantasy during the creative process. Open to everybody, with or without theatre experiences.
BRASILIAN PERCUSSIONS with Débora Saraiva
We will learn basic knowledges of Brazilian rythms. From Congas to Jambé, to Cajon. Bring with you all the percussions you have and you like to play.
VOICE with Monica Besser
Monica will guide us in a trip through matter and energy, the sound and the voice that let throb the Univers. Open to everybody.
WELL-BEING AND SPORTS-ACTIVITIES
QI GONG
ARCHERY
STRETCHING
MINI-SOCCER COMPETITION
PING PONG
REIKI
MASSAGES
HAIRSTYLING
TREKKING
WORD-CIRCLES
The Word-Circle is an ancient form of comunication, a tradition of women history. It's a precious occasion to exchange, to share and to listen to various points of view, personal experiences and visions about significant subjects.
We will speak about endless plots of our lesbian lives, at work, with the family and in the world.
To participate, to have informations about hospitality and organization, to support the Festival and to know how to arrive, contact us: (Places are limited)
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