Lesbians from all over Europe demonstrate in Vienna to claim visibility We want to thank you so much for participating to the European Lesbian* Conference. Listening to all of you, feeling your energy, watching your very enthusiastic faces made those three days unforgettable. We will keep you informed very quickly with more reports and information for the now empowered future of

COUNTDOWN: EL*C Participant Pack, EL*C Brief Report & EL*C Cultural Program!EL*C Newsletter What you can find in this issue:  1. Check out the EL*C Participant Pack!  2. Make sure to mention you’re on your way to EL*C! 3. Find out about the EL*C Brief Report! 4. Not to miss: EL*C’s incredible Cultural Program!  5. EL*C live streaming on Friday 6 October 1.   

Martina Mina & Sabine Schwaighofer dedicate themselves in an essential way, both in their individual work and in their common projects, to the genre of self-portraits. Each artist follows their own ideas and inspirations. Since 2016 these ideas also find expression in common works. For this they take on diverse roles and personalities.

Paola Cavallin’s Comedia dell’Arte expert and performer, Paola has worked extensively with half mask in Italy with several directors, among many Eugenio de Giorgi of Teatro Olmetto. She trained in Commedia dell’Arte at the school of “Avogaria” in her home city of Venice, with Enrico Bonavera (of teatro “Il Piccolo, Milan) and Carlo Boso. She is a renowned solo performer

Hilary McCollum is a novelist, playwright and feminist activist. Her first novel, Golddigger, which spans the California goldrush and the Irish Famine, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for historical fiction in 2016. Her second novel, Wild, set within the British suffragette movement, will be published in 2018. In 2014, her play, Life and Love: Lesbian Style, was nominated

AVOEC was established by Luiza Moraes and Lori Baldwin, who met in Budapest in 2013. AVOEC creates work that disrupts binaries, embraces uncertainty and revels in quiet spectacles. Working between the realms of performance, theatre and live art, their pieces are concerned with the experimental edges of traditional art making. RMQS (Raising My Queer Self) is a versatile performance that

Alisha Doody: Alisha is a young visual artist and activist living and working in Dublin/Leitrim, Ireland. Her practice is centered on issues relating to contemporary society and is focused on understanding how this relates to the personal. Utilising the interplay of medium and subject her working methods are fluid, meditative, including both analogue and digital photography as well as video.

Lovis Cassaris, geboren 1983 in Süditalien, aufgewachsen in der Schweiz, lebt heute in Fribourg. Sie studierte Germanistik, Philosophie und Englische Literaturwissenschaft in Zürich, Berlin und Potsdam. Aktuell promoviert sie im Forschungsfeld der Gender- und Queerlinguistik in Zürich, arbeitet als Kommunikationsverantwortliche und freie Journalistin. Für manche wäre eine 180km-Wanderung durch Lappland nur eine sportliche Herausforderung. Für Alexandra Roth ist der 5-tägige

maria salamon is an austrian violinist, composer and artist. her musical experience is extremely diverse and multifaceted, ranging from virtuous solo tunes to large scale pieces. her compositions have been performed all over the world. as a violinist, she has been awarded with several prizes, both for her solo playing and for her ensembles. gudrun salamon is an austrian singer,

Curator, Filmmaker and woman of culture, Veronika Minder was born in 1948, lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. She is involved in many different cultural events and has been one of the main influences on the Bern cultural landscape for over 40 years. During her studies – History of Art, Archeology, and Publishing – she took part (under the influence

Marie Vermeiren is a filmmaker and organizer of cultural events around women artists. Since 2008, she’s an active member of the Women’s Film Festival ELLES TOURNENT in Brussels. Synopsis/ Abstract: WE ARE HERE by Shitou and Jing Zhao (Chine, 2016, 60’, vo Ch Eng Subt, st Fr). Synopsis: Beijing, 1995. The Fourth UN Conference on Women breaks the taboos. The