PERSBERICHT

A Day In Her Life vertelt het verhaal van vrouwen wier levens op de één of andere manier verbonden zijn aan de Amsterdamse Wallen. Dit multimedia project van Voices of Women (VOW) Media streeft naar een menselijk en veelzijdig beeld van de seksindustrie.

Iedere vrouw creëerde een persoonlijk oeuvre dat representatief is voor haar levenservaringen. VOW Media wil laten zien dat deze industrie zeer complex is, bestaande uit zowel sekswerksters die recht hebben te kiezen voor dit vak, als vrouwen die gedwongen zijn dit werk te doen.

Zaterdag 26 mei a.s. zal A Day In Her Life in première gaan in theater Casa Rosso te Amsterdam.

Om 14.00 uur openen we de deuren. RSVP via info@voicesofwomenmedia.org.

We are happy to announce the screening of our 5th project, A Day In Her Life 2012.

From October 2011 until April 2012, we worked closely with women connected to the sex industry at the Prostitutie en Gezondheidscentrum (P&G 292) in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. The participants created a body of work which includes self-portraits in photography, a radio show called “Where is your rainbow?” – about leaving home for a better life, and a series of short videos. The videos – directed, shot, and edited by the participants themselves, reflect their hopes, dreams and struggles as they navigate through life.

Saturday, May 26, 2012
Theatre Casa Rosso, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 106-108, Amsterdam
Doors open: 14h
Screening starts: 14:15h

Seating is limited, please RSVP by sending a request to: info@voicesofwomenmedia.org

“Displaced Daughters” participant Ilena Saturay is a finalist in the Adobe Youth Voices “Aspire Awards”.

Please support her by voting for her video and “Liking it”.

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VOW Media is happy to support our dear Maria in her upcoming workshop!

April 6 at 6:00pm until April 27 at 11:30am
Joe’s Garage, Pretoriusstraat 43, Amsterdam

Emotional and/ or sexual involvement with one or more people, friendship, open relationships,
monogamy and non-monogamy, polyamory, friends with benefits, platonic love, crushes…the list
can go on forever.
Do you want a safe space where you can talk about it all?
Do you want to discover and create your own love story?
Do you want to share it using multi-media tools?

Then come join us for our digital story-telling workshop about non-monogamy and the romantic
idea of love!

Maria and Irina, gender and sexuality graduates and activists, will guide you through four-sessions
of digital story-telling that will allow you to find your story and express it. The result of this
workshop will be creation and collection of digital stories.

Digital story-telling refers to a form of low-tech video-making that allows people to share aspects of
their lives. A digital story consists of images, music, voice-over and text and lasts between 2 and 6
minutes.

Who can participate? Anyone interested in joining the workshop. Because this is a no-cost/ low-
cost workshop, you will need your own laptop in the last two sessions of the workshop. Ideally, we
hope to have a group of no more than 8 participants.

Please send your name and a short paragraph about your motivation to join the workshop to
of.love.stories@gmail.com.
When: In April 2012, every Friday from 18 to 20.30 o’clock

6 April 2012: Discussions about the workshop themes + discovering
and/or creating the story
13 April 2012: Conceptualizing the story and translating it to
photography, music, text and voice-over
20 April 2012: Making the digital story using basic low-tech video
editing software like Windows Movie Maker or iMovie or Ubuntu Avidemux.
27 April 2012: Finalizing the digital stories + Feedback
Mid May 2012: Screening of the stories

A special shout-out to all the girls and women making moves and movies in this world.

Check out photos of the Displaced Daughters booklet and DVD.
Thanks to Ana for the design work!

It was so great to meet COSWAS in Taipei after first meeting them in Mama Cash in 2007 on their way to support sex workers in Sweden. We have always been actively following the media created from COSWAS, including their beautiful documentary, Our Life Saving Vinegar – which explores former sex workers producing and bottling “life saving” vinegar to support their own lives. On my visit to their office and center in an old red light district of Taipei, I luckily had a taste of this vinegar myself, very tasty and good for women organs!

COSWAS is busy advocating for current and former sex workers. In addition, they work with alliances of many other organizations that support marginalized communities in Taiwan. They are active with making media and documentaries, also giving workshops and offering cameras to their participants.

The building across the street from the center is an amazing, and thanks to them a historical monument. It is an old brothel from the 30’s or 40’s. The rooms are kept in tact as a sort of visitor’s center. It is also a monument and homage to a sex worker activist who championed for sex worker rights.

Thank you to Zi Teng in Hong Kong for the personal and friendly invitation to visit their space to check out the work and advocacy they are doing for women in Asia.

Zi Teng provides support for local and migrant sex workers in Hong Kong – offering health, social, cultural and legal services. Since reading about them at Mama Cash in 2006, this grass-roots women’s organization has always inspired VOW Media with their work. In 2006, they collaborated with San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival and with COSWAS to produce the 1st Hong Kong Sex Worker’s Film Festival. Besides producing monthly newsletters raising awareness, they are busy with on the ground outreach and providing advocacy for women detained by the police.

We are happy to be included in their September 2011 newsletter, and to see our poster hanging in their office!

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Amsterdam Oost presents BajesDoc, Reclaim the Screens, 8-11 December 2011. Bajesdoc is a free alternative documentary film festival in Bajesdorp and other autonomous locations in Amsterdam Oost, Joe’s Garage and de Valreep. With dozens of inspiring documentaries related to environment, politics, human-rights, and various social struggles here and over the world, discussions/debates with some of the movie makers will sometimes follow the screenings…Bajesdoc is made possible by a group of international volunteers engaged in alternative neighbourhood initiatives. Documentaries will be screened with english subtitles. Discussions will follow. We’ll provide you drinks and food.
Bajesdoc at Joe’s Garage, friday december 9th:

19:00 Voku
20:00 Red Forest Hotel (Mika Koskinen, Finland, 2011, 87′, english subs.)
21:30 Behind the Mask (Shannon Keith, US, 2006, 72′)