Ladyfest Dublin

Ladyfest is a non-profit DIY festival organised and orchestrated by women and is supported by our friends of all genders. Women in Dublin have been organising for the past 6 months to pull together this fantasitic weekend.

Ladyfest Dublin starts on Friday Nov 12th with bands, workshops, films, talks, comedy and performaces in the hub in temple bar. The weekend will continue with most events in the hub. There will be art dispalyed in Red Ink books/Murder City records, The Front Lounge, Outhouse Community centre, and Juice. Some of the talks and workshops will also be held in those locations.

Tickets are available in Red Ink Books/Murder City Records and Road Records. There are 2 ticket types - regular weekend tickets, which cost €30, and a small availability of weekend tickets for under 18's which are priced at €15.

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The first Ladyfest was held in Olympia, Washington in 2000. It aimed to be 'a non-profit, community-based event designed by and for women to showcase, celebrate and encourage the artistic, organizational and political work and talents of women'. Since then nearly 50 wide-ranging Ladyfests have been held around the world.

Ladyfest Dublin is a DIY, non-profit festival that has been organised by women but is open to our friends of all genders. Ladyfest Dublin has been put on entirely without corporate sponsorship. A series of fundraisers (two discos, a scavenger hunt, a benefit gig, and a table quiz) were held in Dublin from July through to September, and received huge support from the Dublin community. Ladyfest Dublin is non-hierarchical. There is no festival director or leader, instead there's a core group of about 25 diverse organisers who have come together with a common goal: to put on a great feminist festival that celebrates the amazing creative, organisational and political work women are already doing, and that encourages more women to get involved.

Some of the workshops and talks throughout the weekend will include:

• Forgotten Radical Ladies
  Dr. Pauline Conroy, a social policy analyst, lecturer and researcher who has been writing on women and gender issues since the 1970s will talk on the often-forgotten contributions to social action and thinking made by women such as Emma Goldman, Constance Gore Booth and her sister, and the radical labour organiser Mother Jones.
• Feminist Health
  Basic intro to feminist DIY health, this workshop is one in a three-part series hosted by visiting health collective members from the UK and will look at the history of women's health movements and redefining ideas around women's health and sexuality.
• Ecology in the City
  For anyone who ever thought Dublin city was just us and the road works, the truth is wildlife still thrives in our midst.
• Stencilling & Graffiti Art
  Not always illegal, graffiti art has its own style and message. This will be a hands-on experience!

Reduced weekend tickets (for all daytime events on Friday and Saturday and all events on Sunday) are available for 15 euro. Full weekend tickets (including entry into all events) are 30 euro and available from: Red Ink Books/Murder City Records, City Discs, and Road Records. Day tickets will be available at the door. See the website at www.ladyfestdublin.org for full schedule and more details.

The schedule is; FRIDAY 12TH NOVEMBER

FILMS (in the Hub) 1:00pm – 3:00 pm
Ladyfest Philadelphia by Anne Cremieux, Kerri Pyne
Very Addictive by Natasha Gunn
Bored Before I Even Begin by Jessica Ward
The Pefect Man
Turkle by Jane Clancy
Asparagus Harvest by Gerda Heck
Six by Davorka Natetilic
Mayday

BANDS (Hub) 7:00pm - late Jessie and Layla
Medea
El Diablo
Rebecca Collins
Pram

ART EXHIBITIONS All day
Art Exhibitions will be taking place all weekend in Red Ink / Murder City Records, Outhouse, Juice and Anthology Books

SATURDAY 13TH NOVEMBER

FILMS (in The Hub) 11:00am -2:30pm
Sacred and Profane; Sunburn, by Jennifer Keegen, followed by talk with Jennifer Yomango Tango
Naomi Klein interview followed by The Take by the greenpepper project, p2p Fightsharing crew.
Precarias alla Dervia by the Greenpepper Project, p2p Fightsharing crew.
Breaking Barriers by Samira Allma
Hot and bothered by Becky Goldberg

LADIES ONLY CAFÉ SPACE (Breakfast Room, Mezz) 11:00am -4:30pm Stitch n’ Bitch
Sexual Health workshops on: Feminist Health Basic, Breast Health, Politics of the Menstrual Cycle
Plus Erotic Accessories: Entrepreneur from the UK brings her wares for show & tell

WORKSHOPS & TALKS ( The Hub and The Mezz) 12.30pm – 5.00pm
Including bookbinding, growing herbs, ecology in the city, 'Forgotten Radical Ladies', talk by the Alliance for Choice, gender identity, reflexology, and more

4:30-5:45 in the Outhouse cafe: 'Naked Ladies in Western Painting - the Body Politics'? talk, slide show and discussion led by Diedra Dowling. (this talk is free, you don't need a ladyfest ticket to attend)

BANDS (Hub) 6.00pm – late
baba yaga
miriam ingram w/ nina hynes
katell keineig
americhord
blonde leading the blonde dj's
andrea parker/mira calix

ART EXHIBTIONS All day
Red Ink / Murder City Records, Outhouse, Juice and Anthology Books

SUNDAY 14TH NOVEMBER

CRAFT AND ‘ZINE FAIR (Mezz) 11:00-3:00pm in The Mezz, free to the public
WORKSHOPS 12:00-3:00pm Comics and Creative writing

Performance (The Mezz) 12:30-3:00pm Comedy Improv Crew and The Shamcocks

BANDS (All-ages gig in The Hub) 4:15pm-9.10pm Val Francis
Easpa Measa
Rats of the Shining Path
Hysteria
La Fraction

All day ART EXHIBITIONS