Tuesday March 2, 2010

Woman’s Day – Not only for woman! – 7th of Marc

On the 7th of March woman artists and Civil organizations will set an example with high standard programs that International Woman's Day can be more than an empty gesture with a few flowers. “Woman’s Day – Not only for woman!” in Gödör Club is the first time that artists and the civil sphere tries to attract attantion together for woman’s human rights and that there1s still lot to do about gender equality in Hungary. At the alternative event there will be many literary events, concerts and exhibitions as well as civil organizations, who will offer talks, a book fair, and workshops.

A flower, sweets or a small present. That’s all what Woman’s day means these days. Men usually greet the woman close to them, but sometimes they forget, or they don’t even know about it. It has become an obligatory circle, sometimes we even feel its awkward. The original matter has changed.

The tradition of International Woman’s Day has started in 1857 with demonstration of North-American women, who were protesting against bad working conditions and low salaries. After 150 years and many more protests, the problem of woman work, and salaries are still existing. These protests in the last 150 years have suggested other problems too: the injustice of woman’s social subserviency, dual imposition, which arises because of the difficulty of conciliating work and private life, violence in relationships, children abuse, sexual molestation at work, different kinds of bias (referring to religions or traditions), woman trade, prostitution, question of abortion.

All of these are the daily questions for many woman living in Hungary, but we cannot see them as only a problem of theirs. They are all social questions, which are affecting all of us.

Woman's Day pre-day event will present how it is today to be a woman in Hungary, how many forms are there to show, who we really are and that how much we still need to do for all women to be free and equal.

The festival of Woman's Day presents the possibility of an alternativ woman’s day, where unique woman singers will give a concert. Some of them are: Bori Péterfy, Ági Bárdos Deák, Bori Rutkai, Eszter Takáts, Dalma Berger and Juci Németh. At the event literary programs will be dissecting the possibilities of woman's writing and the presentation of their experiences. There will also be a photo exhibition with suggestiv woman portrays.