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The Swedish Program of a short film “Simple life” (Sweden)
March 25th, 6.00 pm Boygame John and Nicolas are 15-years teenagers and they are best friends. Both of them want to make acquaintance with girls, but they feel really diffidently themselves. What if it come to a sexual contact with a women? And they decided first of all make an experiment with each other… Next […]
“Dotyk” Ceremonial Opening
The 3rd International queer-festival “Dotyk” ceremony of opening took place on 24 February. It is the story about a pure celebration. It is the story about a sparkling weekend.
Human Library “The Meeting with Another”
March 5th, 12.00 Imagine that you can literally speak to a book, ask it any question and learn about the character’s background, which was omitted by the author. Human Library doesn’t consist of traditional books. They are represented by people, who want to share their stories and experience with the world. The project organizers say […]
The closing ceremony of the III International festival of queer culture DOTYK
March 5th, 9.oo pm Spring slowly and carefully comes to Minsk. We hope that this our hearts, minds and endless glow of events, lectures and workshops are producing in the air those warm waves which we have tried to create since the opening.Celebrate spring and new, revaluated part of your life at the closing of […]
Individual consultation for LGBT+people
3 March 1.00 – 8.00 pm Palina Linnik – psychologist-diagnostician. Her way of helping people includes working as a consultant on the helpline “Radzislava”, consultation on issues of domestic violence, participation in self-help groups for LGBT+parents. Palina works with psychological traumas, makes trainings and group psychotherapy, and gives individual consultations.Psychological consulting and psychotherapy in Belarus […]
Discussion “Pride as a concept in various contexts”
25 February 4.00 pm Participants: human rights defender, member of the organizing Committee of the Minsk-Gay-Pride 2014 Ekaterina Borsuk (Belarus), human rights defenders, participants of the organizing Committee of the Baltic Gay-Pride 2016 Virginia Prasmiskaite and Vladimir Simanko (LGL, Lithuania), coordinator of the program “Gender democracy” of the Fund named after G. Boll in Ukraine, […]
III International queer culture festival DOTYK ceremonial opening
Photo’s by Violetta Savchits Photo’s by Marie Vance-Raven
Film screening «A Sinner in Mecca»
March 3, 8.00 pm dir. Parvez Sharma/2015/79’ (India, Saudi Arabia, USA) «My mother never forgave me for being gay. I’m now faced with the crysis of faith. I need to prove that I can be a good muslim – and be gay». A Sinner in Mecca is not a simply documentary film, it’s a confession […]
Workshop by Milota Sidorova «Rethinking public spaces for sports: designing girls’ inclusive playgrounds»
4 March 11.00-5.00, 5 March 10.00-5.00 pm Organizers: Zdolnaja Project and Minsk Urban Platform. Parks, playgrounds and other public spaces represent gender-marked places, which are dangerous for girls in the evening and at night and non-friendly during the day. The EU Gender Equality Strategy has been developed to change this situation. Within its framework only […]
Ethno-extreme band «IVA NOVA» gig (St. Petersburg, RU)
March 4, 7.00 pm by DOTYK ft. public association «Radislava» IVA NOVA – is an alternative ethno-extreme, which combines Slavic motives, punk energy, techno-dance and avant-garde noise experiments in experimental manner. The music is both energetic and creative. It’s impossible to squeeze it in some stylistic frame: it’s much more interesting than its definitions. These […]
The workshop «Migration and fleeing: the aspect of LGBT»
February 26th, 7.30 pm The artist and social worker of the Berlin center for refugees Mischa Badasyan (Germany) and «Human Constanta» human rights organization (Belarus) A year ago the artist Mischa Badasyan began work in the refugee camp Tempelhof. This event fundamentally changed his life. Now he is devoted to his work with refugees around the […]
DOTYK Closed – Gender Changer party/DJs Pogodina + Scarlett
March 4, 23.00-5.00 Entrance fee: 6 BYN A clothes changing party will be held under the slogan «gender free». No borders, but definetely someone among your relatives and close ones has an excellent wardrobe? Spangles, skirts, gaiters and knee socks, hats and suspenders suit everyone. Your body is a canvas, clothes and make-up are your […]
Lecture «Between the image and the subject: gender history of belarusian art»
March 3, 6.30 pm The researcher of gender and visual culture Tanya Setsko (Belarus). The lecture is a feminist view on the space of belarusian art. We will see the nuances of artistic sphere, that gender optics and feminist theory of visual arts allow us to see. Referring to the work of the past three […]
Lecture «Short history of homosexuality in Russia (18-20th cent.): marking of researching fiel»
March 5, 5.00 pm Historian, senior lecturer of School of History in National Research University Higher School of Economics Irina Raldugina. Queer-history is a rather new phenomenon, which was designed to shed some light on blind spots in mankind history. It is exploring something we can’t (yet) read in textbooks. Exhaustive history of homosexual inclination […]
Q&A with organizers of International LGBT film festival «Side by side» (Russia)
February 26th, 4.30 pm International LGBT film festival «Side by side» exists in Russia (Saint-Petersburg) till 2008 and it’s activity create open cultural space in which gay, bisexual and transgender people can can freely express and explore their identities. SbS calls for fighting against all forms of discrimination and inequality based on sex, gender, sexual […]
The program of a short movie by Russian directors “One day from life…”
February 26th, 3.30 pm International LGBT-film festival “Side by side” (Russia) International LGBT-film festival “Side by side” will represent a program of a short movie “One day from life… “ Four filmstrips made by Russian directors telling us about life of LGBT-people, and about problems they encountering with and some of them… together.Film “Holiday interview” […]
Performance
The story-thriller about the interaction of robots and humans, about non-human actors, about autonomy of cyber-machines «A human who works as a human». Eeefff group (Minsk-Moscow). March 2, 8.00 pm Grouping «eeefff» (Minsk-Moscow) Dina Zhuk and Nicholas Spesivtsev are developers of patterns of present and future life. Their instruments are creative collaborations on the intersection […]
Film screening «Sonita»
February 26, 6.00 pm Dir. Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami/2015/90 minutes (Germany, Switzerland, Iran). Sonita grew up in Herat, Afghanistan, under the rule of the Taliban which caused her family to flee to Iran. There she had to face the threat of forced marriage when her mother, who were forced into marriage herself, wanted to sell Sonita for 9000 $ in […]
Short films program #5films4freedom
March 5, 4.00 pm 5films4freedom is the international project of British Film Institute and the British Council. The directors from five countries have joined together to show the on-screen love in its various manifestations. They have created five unique love stories: love in high school or love in retirement age; in the futuristic state of […]
Closing film
“Girls lost”, dir. Alexandra-Teresa Keyning / 2015/106 minutes (Sweden) March 5, 8.00 pm Film “Boys” explores the relationships between society and gender, and how they affect the self-determination and sexuality during adolescence. Using the elements of magical realism, the director shows the teenagers who face difficulties, perceive themselves and try to answer the questions […]
Lecture «Romantic adventures description: The diary of a Soviet-Latvian queer-man and Minsk episode in 1952»
March 6, 7.00 pm Presented by a Doctor of Historical Sciences, a senior researcher at Institute of History of Latvia of State University, Ineta Lipsha. Male homosexuality was persecuted in Soviet Latvia during the republic lifetime (1940s-1980s). Over the course of decades the homosexuals’ history was based on investigation of official acts, which had a […]
Vogue dance class is arranged by the «Zdolnaya» project
February 28th, 12.00-2.00 pm All interested, aside from gender identity, are welcome. «Zdolnaya» is the project aimed at motivating women of all ages, body constitutions, and social standings to do sports. On February 28 «Zdolnaya» invites everyone to Vogue dance class. Vogue (or voguing) is a dance style inspired by Vogue magazine and based on model-like […]
Training session on women’s self-defense and assertiveness Wen-Do in Belarus
February 25-26th 10.00-5.00 pm PA «Radislava». Literally Wen-Do means «the way of woman». This method includes both social and political context and teaches women to confront not only sexual violence but also psychological and economic violence, which are not obvious but in the case of domestic violence often are immediate harbingers of physical attacks.Wen-do guides […]
Conversation «Requirement, desire, law»
March 3, 9.30 pm Conversation «Requirement, desire, law» with the invited guest – a historian and art theorist, online magazine «Raznoglasiye» (colta.ru) editor-in-chief Gleb Napreenko (Russia); This year DOTYK introduces a new meeting form. Gleb Nepreenko who is a historian, art theorist, online magazine «Raznoglasiye» (colta.ru) editor-in-chief, will be the first guest of this conversation. […]
Lecture «Homophobia as biopolitics»
February 25th 2.30 pm Social activist and researcher Roman Leksikov (Ukraine). By examining sexism, homophobia and transphobia as well as fighting them, we examine the phenomenon of power and resist the pressure imposed over us by this power. But why talking about power we primarily associate it with politics or economy and absolutely disregard the […]
DOTYK-Lounge. DJ Scarlett
February 25th, 10.30 рm The first festival Saturday we begin with a chill out. Pleasant evening talks to calming sets DJ Scarlett. Chill out!
Workshop «The Theater of Oppressed: guidance on conflict resolution and discussion of problems»
February 26th, 1.30 pm Research by Lena Agarelyshava (Belarus). Forum-theater is a technique of working with crisis groups, a way to discuss problems and resolve conflicts with the use of therapeutic and theater practices, bright combination of sociality and creativity. The theoretical basis of the theater was brought by brazilian director Augusto Boal. His idea […]
The presentation of «CinemaQueer» Stockholm film festival (Sweden)
February 25th, 7.30 pm Cinema Queer International Film Festival is the largest queer-cinema festival in Sweden. It takes place every September in Stockholm, accompanied by the events throughout the country and some special events such as film screenings in a sauna, for example. Oscar Eriksson and Melissa Lindgren, the founders, worked at other film projects, […]
Film screening «Becoming Ann-Christine»
Film screening «Becoming Ann-Christine», directed by Helena Isaksson Baeck/2015/58 minutes (Sweden) February 25th, 9.00 pm Åke used to be a Swedish vicar, a husband and a father-of-three. He used to live a regular and at the same time fake life. However, 5 years ago he became Ann-Christine. Despite the risk of losing his job and […]
Live action role-playing game «LARP as way of a gender issues research» by public association “The educational centre “POST”
March 4th, 12 pm Larp is a live role-playing game, where game masters simulate a situation and announced players participate as characters. Larps often explore sensitive social topics while helping their players to act out all the scenarios and sometimes have a broader view of the problem. Events included in DOTYK can be divided […]
Minsk Queer Walk. DOTYK ft. MAKEOUT co-project
February 25th, 12.00 pm March 4th, 12.00 pm (Attention: excursion is photographed and recorded)Minsk Queer Walk: queering the city we live in Modern Minsk space doesn’t represent history of homosexuality, as well as the life and requirements of LGBTQ-community do not fit the city’s official history. The appeal to a physical embodiment of the LGBT […]
DOTYK Opening Party
February 24th, 11 pm YES, EVERYTHING. NOW is a manifest which is essential to bring back the repressed desire from under the police baton, out of «Sand»mythical club at bank of the Minsk sea, out of public toilets and kitchens into a public space. YES, EVERYTHING, NOW: Dotyk Opening Party introduces the face of current […]
3rd International DOTYK Queer Festival Gala Opening
February, 24th, 7 pm Come to meet new interesting people, listen to our speakers and to come along with loving and understanding community. DOTYK will start with the organizers’ speeches: they will give a review of festival’s history, they’ll tell you how DOTYK was started and how it was changing, they’ll give up the secrets […]
Opening film
Opening film «Who gonna loves me now?» Directed by Barak Heymann, TomerHeymann, Alexander BodirSafir (Great Britain, Israel), 85 min. February 24th, 7 pm 18 years ago a young jew Saar from a religious family had to leave his native kibbutzdue to his sexual orientation. He moved to London, where he became able to live his own […]
The exhibition «We are (not) alone»
February 24th-March 6th The exhibition «We are (not) alone» will take place at the same time with the festival and as its integral part. Desire of solidarity and reaction to events of 2016 year underlies the artistic statement. The hypertrophic not serious title of the exhibition is situated on an equal level with Trump’s populist […]
DOTYK. VOLUNTEERS WANTED!
The festival starts very soon and we cannot do without dozens of the greatest volunteers. We are looking forward to meet and work as a team with responsible, initiative and queer-positive people.
