Program
Preliminary list of events throughout the whole month of Warm Spring - 5th May - 6th June 2009:
6.6.2009 – Sport day, 12.00 - 18.00 - M. Lerch Grammar school , Žižkova 55, Brno
Past events:
30.4.2009 – Queer Parade and the Rights of Sexual Minorities, Alžběta Možíšová and Jolana Navrátilová, 18.00 - NESEHNUTÍ library (třída Kpt. Jaroše 18 - 1.th floor)
30.4.2009 - Traditional sabbath, 20.00 - hill near Mendlovo náměstí (map), (http://plavani.stud.cz/)
4.5.2009 – Press conference
4.5.2009 – “Father, Father and a Child“, Věra Sokolová, FSV UK Praha (Faculty of Social Science) , lecture with discussion, organized by Gender centre FSS MU (Faculty of Social Studies), 16.00 – University hall, Faculty of Social Studies MU, Joštova 10, Brno
5.5.2009 – University Queer Day (at Masaryk University, Brno Technical University, and others)
5.5.2009 – “Queer: Concept and Reality“, 18.00 – University hall, Faculty of Social Studies MU, Joštova 10, Brno
8.5.2009 - Trip to Lednice and back to Brno in a historic steam train, 9.05 - departure from Brno Main Station (http://plavani.stud.cz)
12.5.2009 – Discussion about Inger Edelfeldt´s book “Handy Boy“ / “Jim in the Mirror“ with the translator Mirek Pošta, 18.00 – Room M117 at Faculty of Social Studies MU, Joštova 10, Brno
13.5.2009 – “Discrimination on the basis of Sexual Orientation“, Olga Pechová, FF UP Olomouc (Faculty of Letters), lecture with discussion, organized by Gender centre FSS MU (Faculty of Social Studies), 18.00 – Room M117 at Faculty of Social Studies MU, Joštova 10, Brno
15.5.2009 – "Queer activism in central Europe"; Czech and Slovak LGBTIQ groups participate in the discussion, including Petra Podlahová, Dita Jahodová and Hilary Binder (QPP Tábor), Robo Furiel and Alexander Schneider (Ganymedes, SK), Romana Schlesinger and Ondrej Durovsky (Queer Leaders Forum, SK), Tereza Mikšaníková (eLnadruhou) and Jolana Navrátilová (QP Brno), 18.00 - Salon Daguerre, photo-film-art exile, Slovákova 1, Brno
16.5.2009 – workshop on safety for Queer pride parade in Tábor
16.5.2009 – Walk round Brno´s legends, 17.00 - meeting is in front of the Kapucín church (Kapucínské nám.)
19.5.2009 – “Intersexuality“, Martin Fafejta, FF UP Olomouc, lecture with discussion, organized by Gender centre FSS MU (Faculty of Social Studies), 17.30 – Room U30 at Faculty of Social Studies MU, Joštova 10, Brno
19.5.2009 - AIDS Candlelight Memorial, 19.30 – Starý pivovar, Božetěchova 1, Brno
21.5.2009 – Queer theatre – lecture and discussion led by Andy Jochman, 17.00 – U42 at Faculty of Social Studies MU, Joštova 10, Brno
pá 22.5.2009 - festival of masks - music - dance - a whirl of masks - joy until late at night on NÁMĚSTÍ SVOBODY (Liberty Square); start: 18.30 (meet us at 18.00 on Zelný trh) - come wearing a queer mask and join us in a night whirl of masks in the city centre
23.5.2009 - Gay teens discussion, 14.30 - Main railway station, under the clock near trams (http://www.gejt.cz/)
23.5.2009 – The L Show party (women only), 21.00 - Music bar Baraccuda, Běhounská 22, Brno
st 27.5.2009 - Author reading of queer poetry - promising, rising star of Czech lesbian poetry, Bno-based poet, rebel and bohemian Andrea Vatulíková with a Beatniks drive and poems on life, and Šumperk-based talent of explicitly playful gay poetry Aleš Kauer present their poems. The public reading will take place in the scope of Evenings with NESEHNUTÍ in the organisation´s library (třída Kpt. Jaroše 18 - 1st floor), start: 18:00, admission free.
28.5.2009 – V-Queen performance, 19.00 - Salon Daguerre, photo-film-art exi, Slovákova 1, Brno29.5.2009 – “How to Make Lesbian Porn“, lecture and discussion led by Manuela Kay (L-Mag, Berlin, GE), 19.00 – Barracuda club, Běhounská 22, Brno
30.5.2009 – The discussion about contemporary queer literature with Veronika Lenzova, 16.00 - Salon Daguerre, photo-film-art exi, Slovákova 1, Brno
30.5.2009 – Main Queer Spring (Warm Spring) festival party , 20.00 - Fléda, Štefánikova 24, Brno
At the vast majority of events (whichend to be indoor), leaflets about LGBTIQ organisations, events, festivals, or information brochures will be available; it is also possible to buy promotion articles from the Queershop, including rainbow flags.
More:
Each Wednesday at 8 pm, swimming sessions take place in Brno (http://plavani.stud.cz); Normal boys (http://normalnikluci.org) meet each Thursday at 6 pm in tea room Probuzený Slon (Awaken Elephant). Our agenda also features an exhibition of photos of last year´s Queer Parade Brno, performances, regular programmes broadcast by Radio R.
