The 1st Rockin' Girlz Festival soon in Moscow

On July 31st in Moscow will be held the first "Rockin' Girlz" women rock festival in PLAN B Club. It's motto: "The Day of African Woman".

According to its organizers, this festival gathers together under its aegis different music bands that have more than once already performed in Moscow's clubs. Only the most talented and exciting girls are selected for the performance. Kaffein, MirT, Katya Chikvina (on foto) and many other performers have passed the casting. All of them will perform rock music, however every music team is very likely to add its unique individuality and spirit.
The motto "The Day of African Woman" is chosen not by an accident. Internationally, the 31st of July is a Day of African Woman. African theme will be heard in sounds of the drums and also girls from the music studio "The Voice of Africa" are scheduled to perform at this festival.
The organizers are saying that "there is still a scanty number of really popular and recognised women rock groups around the world" and have serious intention to shift this situation.
For any information please contact Elena Kalinichenko (e-mail: kalina__05@mail.ru, cell phone +7 926 563 9741).

http://english.gay.ru/news/rainbow/2008/07/15-13483.htm

Russian basketball team competes in an international championship in London

14 Russian lesbians arrived in London for the championship which was held from the 21st to 29th August. Both male and female teams from different countries competed.

The lesbian team 'A-Mega' from Saint Petersburg received a special invitation from the 'London Cruisers' team. Both teams met for the first time at the GLBT 'Our Games' in the summer of 2006.

In 2006 there were only 5 players but now it's a packed team of 11 players. After returning
from the championship 'A-Mega' began training for the GLBT 'Eurogames' to be held in Barcelona.

You can contact the 'A-Mega' trainer Inessa Gromova by email ness@a-mega.com.

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Moscow Lesbians Create Self-Defense Group

2006/07/27. In the near future Moscow will see the beginning of a new group Women's Group of Strength Training and Self-Defense." Classes will be held in a high-level sport club and are promised to be taught by professional trainers.

The organization of the Self-Defense Group is a direct response from the lesbian community to the bashings that took place at the end of April, beginning of May 2006. During the incident, in which defenseless lesbians were primarily targeted, a Creative Center for Lesbians was burned down in Moscow and several lesbians were subjected to violence.

The Lesbian community was alarmed by the incident especially after rumors were spread on the internet concerning the violent rape by one lesbian by fascists. The rumors, however, were never confirmed by local Moscow police.

The Self-Defense course will be offered for free by the group.

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Premiere Screening of Film about a "Happy Lesbian Family" Included in the "Festival of Festivals - 2006"

2006/06/21. On June 25th and 27th, in conjunction with the "14th Annual St. Petersburg International Film Festival Festival of Festivals - 2006", the documentary film "My Happy Family" will receive its debut.

The project, which was envisioned in early 2004 by a St. Petersburg lesbian organization "Labris," conveys the everyday life of one lesbian family, who is preparing for the imminent birth of a baby.

"My Happy Family" is Russia's first documentary film to tackle the question of motherhood in a lesbian family. The heroines of the film candidly portray their home lives and relate their wrestle to attain their dream of having kids. Another unseen, yet constantly present, person takes part in the lives of these future mothers - their unborn child. He struggles to make a decision about whether these two loving women can become his parents.

For some time the project's creators kept the name of the film's director a secret. It has now come to light that it is the independent documentarian from St. Petersburg, Ekaterina Kharlamova. Ms. Kharlamova's films have been regular participants in various international festivals. To date "Text, or Apologetic Commentaries" (based on anecdotes and jokes from Faina Ranevskaya and a novella by Vladimir Nabokov A Forgotten Poet") has been her most critically acclaimed film, winning a number of awards. In 2001, her works were selected for Berlin Film Festival in its "Forum" program.

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Moscow Gay-Lesbian Culture Festival "Rainbow Without Boundaries". 1-5 may, 2006

Moscow Gay-Lesbian Culture Festival "Rainbow Without Boundaries". 1-5 may, 2006

2006/02/19. Press-conference for the Festival organizers and participants will take place on 28-th April, 2006. Mass Media will be advised of exact time and place of Festival holding in addition later.

1 DAY
Day of Gay-Lesbian Literature and Public Press.
Presentation of books, magazines, newspapers; meetings with authors.

Day of Gay-Lesbian Publicity.
Demonstration of original publicity films on gay-lesbian culture, having been collected all over the world.
Fashion show of jeans clothes.

Opening of Photo Exhibition " Open THEME".
Works of professional photographers from Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities will be presented.

2 DAY
Bard-Song Festival "No Orientation".
Singers, authors of the songs, from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ulyanovsk, Petrozavodsk, Samara, other Russian cities and the Ukraine will take part in the Festival.

3 DAY
Literary-Theatrical Festival.
Performances of the Theatre-Studio "BILITIS", Creative Club "Ladder" (St. Petersburg).
Literary concert of the Publishing House "Labrys"

4 DAY
5-th Russian Lesbian Conference "SHE+SHE". Topic: "Coming out".
Homosexual coming out in modern Russia.

Night Entertaining Show.
Information about the event will be given later.

5 DAY
Seminar for Mass Media "Myths and Stereotypes about Sex Minorities".
Target: myth dethronement and creating of adequate gay and lesbian image in participants’ minds.

Press Conference on the Festival Results.

Festival Organizers:



Charity Fund "Rainbow"
Organization "LesbiPARTY"
Organization "PinkStar"

FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS:

Organizations


Charity fund "Rainbow".
All-Russian lesbian organization "PinkStar".
Russian National GLBT Center "Together".
Karelian department of public organization "Circle".
Independant non-commercial women organization "Tolerance".
Publishing house "Labrys".
Creative union of socially active lesbians "LesbiPARTY".
Creative club "Ladder".

Net Projects and Mass Media


Newspaper for non-standard women "L"
E-magazine for gays and lesbians "Gayclub.Ru"
Gay Magazine "One of Us" (The Ukraine)
Gay Magazine "Kvir".
Russian national gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual server Gay.Ru.
Site Youla.Ru.
Russian travesty site Travesty.Ru.
Russian national lesbian server Lesbi.Ru.
Theme portal Labrys.Ru.
Site Lestnica-club.Ru.
Official site of the organization "Pinkstar" – Pinkstar.Ru.
Law information agency "LINA"
One of the largest international acquaintance portals Qguys.Ru.
Official site of the organization "LesbiPARTY" – Lesbiparty.Org.Ru.

Internet projects, art projects, initiative groups, organizations, authors, artists, designers and everybody who is interested in the Event are welcome to join the program and take part in the Festival.

Additional details about the Festival will follow with the renovation of the information.


Pinkstar.Ru, info@lesbiparty.org.ru, osuvorova@pinkstar.ru.