Konstanz. In its first season under artistic director Karin Becker, the Konstanzer Theater is taking International Women’s Day on March 8th as an opportunity to establish a festival in the city that uses various formats to focus on social issues and / or visionary answers. Due to the pandemic, however, it is switching to the digital space and offers a diverse and free festival program for everyone.
In the first edition of the festival, the focus is on female artists. The assigned gender roles in our society influence how women artists can express themselves, how their art is perceived and how they exist professionally. The artistic work of women is often opposed to restrictive cultural ideas, family constraints, social conventions and economic interests. Could everything also be different? LET’S ALLY searches for utopias, for visions, for solidarity with one another – in art and discourse. LET’S ALLY is the program: We want to inspire one another, engage with one another and, in any case, create alliances.
“Let’s ally!” will take place on Saturday, March 6th, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. as a stream on the theater’s website, followed by a live debriefing, free of charge
About the play “Care Affair” by women and fiction
The women and fiction collective invites you to a glamorous evening of the carers; to a celebration of caring figures beyond clear gender roles. From conversations with people who do care work professionally and / or privately, women and fiction, together with their accomplices, create sensual images of caring activities such as physical care, saying ‘no’, listening, being patient, nourishing, in short: taking care of yourself . They pose the attributes of security, solidarity and security in a glamorous costume show so hot that we realize again how fundamentally important they are.
In Care Affair women and fiction question why care is traditionally linked to the biological, childbearing body. They imagine caring communities beyond a capitalist exploitation logic and present real stories of success.
By and with: Gregor Schuster, Jonas Mahari, Marilyn Nova White and Geraldine Schabraque
Concept and research: women and fiction (Anja Kerschkewicz, Eva Kessler, Felina Levits, Paula Reissig)
Text version: Anja Kerschkewicz, Eva Kessler and Anngret Schulze
Production: Anja Kerschkewicz and Felina Levits
Funded by: Hamburg Authority for Culture and Media, Hamburg Cultural Foundation, Claussen-Simon-Foundation
22.00 – 23.59 Live DJ set on website and youtube with DJane Beatzn
On Sunday, March 7th, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
there is a “Young Theater” workshop on Zoom under the title “Let’s board the Allyship”. In a workshop, the Junge Theater Konstanz poses the question of the possibilities of cohesion among women. Whether at school, at work, in everyday life or on the Internet, we want to know from you: How can we support each other? What can strategies and ideas be to empower women * around us? We don’t want to stretch our elbows to move forward! We want to make alliances! For everyone from 14 years. Registration at: junges-theater (at) konstanz.de
From 6 p.m. a stream will be broadcast “A room to yourself”to run a scenic reading to Virginia Woolf.
Another stream will run on the Care Affair website from 8 to 9 p.m. Youtube-Kanal des Theaters.
On Monday, March 8th, the “International Women’s Day”, Instagram takeover runs all day via @theaterkonstanz. The REVOLution band hijacked Theater Konstanz’s Instagram account. Stay tuned! #sample diary
From 12 noon, the audio contribution on the theater’s website will be about “Pop makes feminism easy. But feminism is not easy” by Fatima Moumouni with her spoken word poetry
From 10:00 am, the special podcast “Waiting for …” with Julika Funk, Head of the Equal Opportunities Office of the City of Konstanz, in conversation with Kristina Hänel, a doctor from Gießen, who campaigns for the abolition of paragraph 291a of abortion, will also be available. put online.
From 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., the third stream of Care Affair will follow via the Youtube-Kanal des Theaters
More under https://www.theaterkonstanz.de/programm/lets-ally
Wochenblatt @: Oliver Fiedler- .
