News from women’s museum San Francisco

Democracy through Art, Film and Performance Call for Submissions: Campaigning Top Political BooksJoin I.M.O.W. Today and Make a Difference Happenings Around the World Democracy through Art, Film and Performance Getting Creative to Inspire Political Participation Spanish artist María María Acha Rodríguez uses visual biographies of women leaders of Mexico and the world to inspire the masses to work for gender equity. Women, Power and Politics is turning the spotlight on the ways women are spreading democracy through creative means. Performance artist Sheryl Oring assumes the role of a 1950’s secretary—complete with typewriter—as a way of Dictating Democracy and capturing the attention of political leaders. Community participant María María Acha Rodríguez uses vibrant posters in public squares in Mexico to showcase inspiring Women Working for Women. 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News from “1000 Peacewomen across the Globe”

Eva Gillis from the “1000 Peacewomen across the Globe” writes today to the network women in museum:

“Dear womanmuseum women! It is such a common expression, though as true as ever: time goes by so fast! But the memories I treasure from our meeting at the occasion of the 1. International Congress of women’s museums in Meran, are still very much alive and I recall particularely the spirit of inspiration and sense of pioneerism, the enthusiasm and above all, meeting and talking with all of you.
On my way home to Zurich, so many things regardeing your museums in combination with our project and exhibition “1000 Peacewomen Across the Globe” went through my head and I will try now to capture a few of them and put them into words.
To start with, there couldn’t be a better platform for the 1000 peacewomen to be shown and made aware of than a women’s museum. Whilst I appreciate that there are all kinds of women’s museum, some accentuate more on the history of women in their own region, others show past and modern art of women and again others put their emphasies on humanitarian and politcical issues. And somtimes it’s a blend of it all.
Therefore the work of the 1000 peacewomen, which in our project, book and exhibition is devided into ten categories of fields of activities, is tangend to all types of women’s museum. This also has to do with our
definition of peace which is a lot more than just the absence of war. It means to respect human rights, women’s rights, fighting poverty, assuring education, have access to health systems, build awareness of
ecoligical issues etc.
The 1000 peacewomen are representative for many, many more women, who, with their work are tremendous peacebuilders, though most of the time are not noticed, harldy ever mentioned in the media, are not appreciated by a vast majority. The message of the exhibition is to make these women visible and noticeable all over the world.
There are also some dates throughout the year which lend extremely well to the exhibition such as:
March 8, International Day of Women
September 21, International Day of Peace
and this year 16 days will be dedicated to “Stopp violence against women” from November 25 – December 10, 2008. The last day also being the International Day of Human Rights.
In October 2010 will be the the highlighting of UN-Resolution 1325 which demands that more women are actively integrated in confilict resolving. The resolution had been implemented in 2000 though not much has been realised so far….
If you are interested in the exhibition and would like to know more about it, please visit our website www.1000peacewomen.org The fotogallery shows a variety of possibilities how the cards can be shown.
But of course, I’m also just happy to get a word from you in letting me know, how you are doing and what your prospects are for the near future and should some of you have any more questions with regards to the
exhibition I would be more than glad to give you the necessary information.
Also I hope, that by the next congress of womenmuseums, Switzerland, will be represented with its own museum. Martha is very dedicated to it and maybe I will get involved aswell.
For now I close with my very best wishes and warm regards to all of you. Eva Gillis.

News from the women’s museum from Central African Republic

Mrs. Rachel Mamba, director of the women’s museum initiative, send a mail today. She is happy to be part of the network, because that give her new forces to go on. She told, that in last years the director of the senegalese women’s museum “Henriette Bathily”, Annette Mbaye D’Erneville, gave her very much moral support. She wants to give from now on all the news about her museum and want also to know the news about other women’s museums.

News from the women’s museum of South Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Hien Linh from the women’s museum of South Vietnam wrote today: “We already visited the web site www.womeninmuseum.org and have seen alot of beautiful information about our congress. Thank you very much for your distribution.
We will send you Vietnamese translation of resolution in the next few days.
Hereby is our museum web site adress: http://www.womaninmuseumsouth.edu.vn/ for you to up date a link. Thanks and best regards.” 

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SIGN IN to the network “women in museum”

To all women’s museums and initiatives: If you want to be a member of the network “women in museum”, please read the resolution and the network projects on www.womeninmuseum.org and send a simply mail writing in the subject-matter “SIGN IN” to as@astrid-schoenweger.info, where you give following informations:

For museums:
- the complete adress of the museum
- the name and mail-adress from responsable person in the museum for the network
(also museums which are dedicated to a important woman can be part of the network!)

For initiatives:
- the future name of the museum
- the name and mail-adress of the promotor of this initiative

We will print within this year a flyer with the resolution and give on it also the list of women’s museums which agree with it and feel themselves part of the network. Please join in!

Who has contact with the Peruvian women’s museum?

We have known from the existance of the Peruvian women’s museum initiative at the following internet-adress:

http://www.caretas.com.pe/1367/culturales/culturales.html

and try to get in contact with it. Who has contact with it?

News from women’s museums all over the world

The network was contacted from another women’s museum: Museum van de Vrouw” from Netherlands. We’ve given it on the list of existing women’s museums.

Further informations about this museum: 
http://www.museumvandevrouw.nl/

media-attack on Mrs. Shirin Ebadi in Iran

Mrs. Ebadi has now to fight also against lies to protect her life and those of her family. The official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran (=IRNA) claimed that the daugther of Mrs. Ebadi has converted to Baha’ism, a fate outlawed in Iran and an offence punishable by death. The resaon behind these media-attacks is, so Mrs. Ebadi, that she is defending seven accused Bahai’s.

More informations about you can read in following articles:  iran press service or AFP

News from the iranian women’s rights mouvement

Read the news in:

http://www.femschool.com/english/

News from the Iranian women’s museum initiative

Women’s museum initiative Iran

The Iranian Sabri Najafi living in South Tyrol is dedicating herself – also on behalf of Shirin Ebadi – to the idea of an Iranian women’s museum and meets regulary the women’s museum of Meran to prepare the first steps for it in Iran. She is mailing the protocolls of this meetings to Iran.
Saturday, 12th july, Mansoureh Sojaie, director of iranian women’s library will meet Shirin Ebadi to discuss seriously about the future of the iranian women’s museum on the base of this protocolls.

Iranian women’s library: During the congress it came to a meeting between Shirin Ebadi and the persons responsible of the Office of Cabinet Affairs. Besides, it was agreed that the women’s library should be helped with a project of book donations.