TUPILAK CALLING

Swedish visit to Tallinn LGBT center. January, 2012

Swedish visit to Riga LGBT Center, February 7, 2012



2012 MOONBOW SOLIDARITY CRUISES -- 

                                               STOCKHOLM to BALTIC STATES

Two nights on board. In Stockholm: discussion on board on "Tupilak co-operation with Eastern Europe."


In Tallin/Riga,  meeting with LGBT activists and culture workers.

Riga visit (Photo by Sayeed of  Sweden)

                                                                                                    






For next cruise, contact: bill@tupilak.org  

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2012 TUPILAK RAINBOW CULTURAL AFTERNOONS 
                                          at HALLONGROTTAN (Hornstull, Stockholm)
                                                                       

      

By Aleksandar Duvnjak




Usually Last Sunday of the month.  Presentations, discussions, foreign guests, photography, films, music and performances.

                                                                       
Next time: (Next to the last Sunday) --
                        February 19,  (17.00 - 20.00)








 Report from Tupilak/ILGCN Cruise to Riga (Feb. 6-8) 4th Baltic Pride - Riga (end of May)
 Senaste nyheter från riksdagens HBT gruppen
 Lesbian art from Belarus -- L. Mosolova 
 Rainbow art from Serbia -- Aleksandar Duvnjak

Report från HBT Seniorerna, Göteborg -- Bill Schiller
Tupilak with UN Women -- 8th of March: "Violence against Lesbians, Trans Persons"

Tupilak at the Nordic LGBT Workplace Forum & Career Fair -- Stockholm  2/3 August, 2012

                               http://nordic-lgbt-workplace.org/


Performance: The Mad Monk -- "The Wrinklies & the Reluctant Reaper"

Film: Tupilak Swedish/Belarus delegation to Kiev, 2011    

Next time: March 25  (17.00 - 20.00)
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Olena Shevchenko, Kiev in Stockholm (Photos by Jussi Jässkeläinen) 

Trio Continuo - Budapest

                                                                                            




Special input from Ukraine and Hungary
Stockholm: 1st  Nordic Fire Salutes East Europeans


   Stockholm -- The first Nordic Fire on Eastern European Rainbow Barricades festival took place in the Swedish capital November 25-27, 2011 with invited guests from Ukraine and Hungary as well as presentations on LGBT situations in Belgrade, Minsk, Riga, Helsinki and Bucharest.


      "We are fighting against the same law proposal against positive information about homosexuality now spreading to more Russian provinces," says Olena Shevchenko of the women's organization, Insight - Kiev, new ILGCN (international rainbow cultural network) cultural ambassador from Ukraine.

    Folk and classic music, song, and dance was provided at several of the festival venues by Tamás Lovas, Károly Varga and Sándor Fehér of the Continuo Trio of Budapest, the ILGCN cltural ambassadors of Hungary.
                                                                            
     "We are working with LGBT groups in St. Petersburg and in the Balkans, and hope more Helsinki Human Rights Committees in other countries will join us in work with LGBT human rights," says Peter Öholm of Civil Rights Defenders (formally the Swedish Helsinki Human Rights Committee).

                               Tupilak and ILGCN awards for Swede, Poles

    At the Nordic Fire session at the CRD offices in the Stockholm Gamla Stan island, Swedish Liberal Party parliamentarian Barbro Westerholm received the annual Tupilak "Bifrost" awards honoring heterosexual bridge-builders uniting the LGBT and the heterosexual communities both in Sweden and abroad.

   The Polish Institute - Stockholm received the annual ILGCN "Rainbow Iceberg" award for promoting Polish and Swedish LGBT cultural exchange and for bringing Polish LGBT women and men to different Swedish Pride events and for promoting Polish and international art exhibitions and publications.

    "Thanks for this fine award. This appreciation for our work with this fanatic and moving motivation really means a lot to us," says Michal Piotrowski, project leader at the Polish Institute.

    Also at the CRD, Bill Schiller described the long history of Tupilak & ILGCN involvement with Eastern European colleagues and the emphasis on mutual exchange. "We were very impressed with the mutual interaction of LGBT groups in the Ukraine and Belarus with our Swedish groups," says Schiller over the recent 3-nation meetings in Kiev and Minsk made possible with support from the Swedish Institute -- the official body promoting international co-operation.

    RFSL chairperson Ulrika Westerlund also described the national Swedish LGBT organization's extensive international work with the Baltic states, Uganda and elsewhere, "The situation in Latvia is hardly easy and even those few open LGBT activists don't get much support from often very critical LGBT colleagues," says Kjell Rindar, former RFSL chairman and teacher at Latvian universities.

    "We are very happy to have had the financial support of ROHS (Swedish national LGBT solidarity organization) to make this min-festival "between" Stockholm Prides possible," says Bill Schiller, international secretary of Tupilak (Nordic rainbows cultural workers) and secretary general of the ILGCN's Information Secretariat in Stockholm.

     Alexander L. described the turbulent situation and extensive homophobia Serbian. (Belgrade is to be the site of one of the stages of next year's ILGCN world conference, along with Rio de Janeiro and the Crimean town of Seimiz.) while Finnish photographer Jussi Jässkeläinen described his work with Bucharest and Helsinki Prides.

                               Films, Music, Photography, Discussions at Posithivagruppen

   "We are pleased to have another Tupilak event at our premises," states Ola Ståhle of the Posithivagruppen (HIV positive men having sex with men) office, and we are happy to have colleagues from the Baltic states at our summer camps and hope to join in future Tupilak and ILGCN exchanges in Eastern Europe."

LGBT Monument-Visby (Photo by Willi Reichhold)

    Films by Swedish Tupilak member Willi Reichhold described the recent Swedish-Ukrainian-Belarus solidarity visit to Kiev, the summer inauguration ceremony in Visby of the first Nordic LGBT monument on the shoreline of the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland and the "Global Survival" journey of plants and human beings in harsh conditions around the world.

    Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic and Eastern European works from the Tupilak & ILGCN Travelling Art & Photography Exhibition were displayed at all the festival venues including new photo series from Belarus and  the Ukraine, and LGBT CD music from Poland and the Nordic nations were played at festival venues as well.

    Other foreign visitors taking part in discussions at the CRD office, the Bio Rio, Posithivagruppen and the LGBT cultural center Hallongrottan came from Norway, Finland, Kenya and Somalia.

                                        Next stop: Estonia, Russia, Belarus

     "We hope the next Nordic Fire festival in Stockholm at the end of next March will focus on Swedish and Nordic LGBT co-operation with Estonia, Russia and Belarus," concludes Bill Schiller. "Once again we'll ask our Tupilak colleagues and the national LGBT organizations in the Nordic region to join us. We hope the Nordic Fire festival can be duplicated elsewhere in the Nordic region -- and we'll discuss this at coming Nordic-Baltic-Polish-Russian-Belarus Rainbow Network meetings coming up in Stockholm and other Nordic capitals during 2012."
             
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                                                                                                                                                        Visby LGBT Monument - Visby



LGBT
Moument - Visby



Olena Shevchenko (far left) in Kiev 
(Photo by Willi Reichhold)

    Stockholm -- The first Nordic Fire on Eastern European Rainbow Barricades festival took place in the Swedish capital November 25-27, 2011 with invited guests from Ukraine and Hungary as well as presentations on LGBT situations in Belgrade, Minsk, Riga, Helsinki and Bucharest.

     "We are fighting against the same law proposal against positive information about homosexuality now spreading to more Russian provinces," says Olena Shevchenko of the women's organization, Insight - Kiev, new ILGCN (international rainbow cultural network) cultural ambassador from Ukraine.

    Folk and classic music, song, and dance was provided at several of the festival venues by Tamás Lovas, Károly Varga and Sándor Fehér of the Continuo Trio of Budapest, the ILGCN cltural ambassadors of Hungary.

    "We are working with LGBT groups in St. Petersburg and in the Balkans, and hope more Helsinki Human Rights Committees in other countries will join us in work with LGBT human rights," says Peter Öholm of Civil Rights Defenders (formally the Swedish Helsinki Human Rights Committee).

                                             Tupilak and ILGCN awards for Swede, Poles

     At the Nordic Fire session at the CRD offices in the Stockholm Gamla Stan island, Swedish Liberal Party parliamentarian Barbro Westerholm received the annual Tupilak "Bifrost" awards honoring heterosexual bridge-builders uniting the LGBT and the heterosexual communities both in Sweden and abroad.

     The Polish Institute - Stockholm received the annual ILGCN "rainbow iceberg" award for promoting Polish and Swedish LGBT cultural exchange and for bringing Polish LGBT women and men to different Swedish Pride events and for promoting Polish and international art exhibitions and publications.

    "Thanks for this fine award. This appreciation for our work with this fanatic and moving motivation really means a lot to us," says Michal Piotrowski, project leader at the Polish Institute.

     Also at the CRD, Bill Schiller described the long history of Tupilak & ILGCN involvement with Eastern European colleagues and the emphasis on mutual exchange. "We were very impressed with the mutual interaction of LGBT groups in the Ukraine and Belarus with our Swedish groups," says Schiller over the recent 3-nation meetings in Kiev and Minsk made possible with support from the Swedish Institute -- the official body promoting international co-operation.

      RFSL chairperson Ulrika Westerlund also described the national Swedish LGBT organization's extensive international work with the Baltic states, Uganda and elsewhere, "The situation in Latvia is hardly easy and even those few open LGBT activists don't get much support from often very critical LGBT colleagues," says Kjell Rindar, former RFSL chairman and teacher at Latvian universities.

      "We are very happy to have had the financial support of ROHS (Swedish national LGBT solidarity organization) to make this min-festival "between" Stockholm Prides possible," says Bill Schiller, international secretary of Tupilak (Nordic rainbows cultural workers) and secretary general of the ILGCN's Information Secretariat in Stockholm.

     Alexander L. described the turbulent situation and extensive homophobia Serbian. (Belgrade is to be the site of one of the stages of next year's ILGCN world conference, along with Rio de Janeiro and the Crimean town of Seimiz.) while Finnish photographer Jussi Jässkeläinen described his work with Bucharest and Helsinki Prides.
     
                                           Films, Music, Photography, Discussions at Posithivagruppen


     "We are pleased to have another Tupilak event at our premises," states Ola Ståhle of the Posithivagruppen (HIV positive men having sex with men) office, and we are happy to have colleagues from the Baltic states at our summer camps and hope to join in future Tupilak and ILGCN exchanges in Eastern Europe."

     Films by Swedish Tupilak member Willi Reichhold described the recent Swedish-Ukrainian-Belarus solidarity visit to Kiev, the summer inauguration ceremony in Visby of the first Nordic LGBT monument on the shoreline of the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland and the "global survival" journey of plants and human beings in harsh conditions around the world.

     Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic and Eastern European works from the Tupilak &  ILGCN Travelling Art & Photography Exhibition were displayed at all the festival venues, including new photo series from Belarus and the Ukraine, and LGBT CD music from Poland and the Nordic nations were played at festival venues as well.

     Other foreign visitors taking part in discussions at the CRD office, the Bio Rio, Posithivagruppen and the LGBT cultural center Hallongrottan came from Norway, Finland, Kenya and Somalia.

                                                                          Next stop: Estonia, Russia, Belarus

     "We hope the next Nordic Fire festival in Stockholm at the end of next March will focus on Swedish and Nordic LGBT co-operation with Estonia, Russia and Belarus," concludes Bill Schiller. "Once again we'll ask our Tupilak colleagues and the national LGBT organizations in the Nordic region to join us. We hope the Nordic Fire festival can be duplicated elsewhere in the Nordic region -- and we'll discuss this at coming Nordic-Baltic-Polish-Russian-Belarus Rainbow Network meetings coming up in Stockholm and other Nordic capitals during 2012."

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Special input from Ukraine and Hungary
1st  Nordic Fire in Stockholm Salutes Eastern Europeans 

Nordic Fire

 Hi dear Tupilak supporters and friends!

The coming festival is just around the corner! We hope to see you the coming weekend. 

Warm regards

Zafire Vrba

Here is the updated program:

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NORDIC FIRE  on Eastern European Rainbow Barricades     

-- a mini-festival between Prides          on LGBT rights, identity & culture
 
Stockholm, November 25-27, 2011
                                                             
          Free entrance!                                                                                                                                                       

 

Special guests, Seminars,  Discussions, Art, Photography, Films, Performances,   

       Award ceremonies                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                               
An event organized by: 
 
TUPILAK (Nordic rainbow cultural workers)/  ROHS (Swedish National Organization for LGBT Solidarity)

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FRIDAY, November 25 
 
12.00   LGBT discussions at Civil Rights Defenders (Note: limited space!)  

(Stora Nygatan 26  T-bana Gamla Stan)  
 
                   Peter Öholm –  CRD work with LGBT organizations      
                     Lena Shevchenko – Insight – Kiev   
  Ulrika Westerlund – RFSL's international work 
             Jussi Jääskeläinen (Finland): Bucharest Pride       
Tamás Lovas – Rainbows in Budapest            
               Bill Schiller - Tupilak/ILGCN in Eastern Europe    
                        
                         Salute to "UN day against violence  against women"
 
   Tupilak "2011 Bifrost" – Barbro Westerholm, Liberal parliamentarian 
 
Polish Institute-Stockholm -- ILGCN "Rainbow Iceberg" Award 
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16.00-18.00        Discussions at Bio Rio (Salong 4) NEW LOCATION!!
                                   (Hornstulls Strand 13    T-bana Hornstull)
  
                                Dmitri Plax -- Rainbows in Belarus
            Lena Shevchenko -- Insight's cultural work – Kiev   
                  Jussi Jääskeläinen (Finland) -- Bucharest Pride
          Tamás Lovas – Rainbows in Budapest            
Bill Schiller -- Tupilak/ILGCN in Eastern Europe                            
             
Films:  "Visby: 1st Nordic LGBT Monument"                          
              "Tupilak in Kiev" – Willi Reichhold             

 

            Performances: Continuo Trio - ILGCN ambassadors - Budapest                                       
                               Mad Monk – readings from the Humanist Bible
 
Rainbow CD Music: Nordic region, Eastern Europe                                                                      
Publications:  "Ars Homo Erotica" (National Art Gallery - Warsaw),             
         "Pride Art:  Gay Art from Poland"  – Pavel Leskowicz                               
                                        
                                              "Queer Warsaw" - anthology

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                       SATURDAY , November 26  
  13.00  
  Study visits including POSITHIVAGRUPPEN with Ola Ståhle     

 (Tjurbergsgatan 29 T-ban Skanstull) 
                                                   
Evening performance of Continue Trio - Budapest  20.00  at Posithivagruppen     
 
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                                                                       SUNDAY, November 27    17.00-20.00  
 
                        Discussions, performances, films  at:    Hallongrottan   
                                                                                                    
                                                                 Bergsundsgatan 25 (T-bana Hornstull)
 
 
Participants:      
Sabina Carlsson – UN WomenLena Shevchenko -- Insight – Kiev   
     Tamás Lovas – Rainbows in Budapest            
                                              Kjell Rindar – Rainbows in Latvia     
                          Bill Schiller -- Tupilak/ILGCN in Eastern Europe                           
            
Films:  "Visby: 1st Nordic LGBT Monument"    "Tupilak in Kiev"
                              – Willi Reichhold   
 
  MUSIK by Continuo (Classic & Folk) Trio - ILGCN cultural ambassadors,  Budapest          
                                                                                                     
 
Rainbow CD Music: from the Nordic region, Eastern Europe                                                                      
Tupilak & ILGCN Art & Photos from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Czeck Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania
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Next 'Nordic Fire on Eastern European Rainbow Barricades' Festival 
 Stockholm, Spring 2012    
 
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 NORDIC FIRE Festival Participants/Supporters/Contributors:

Hallongrottan              Nordic Rainbow Humanists  
 
Nordic Rainbow Council

   Bio Rio   Civil Rights Defenders    Insight -Kiev      RFSL     POSITHIVAGRUPPEN                  

TUPILAK (Nordic rainbow cultural workers) www.tupilak.org       
                                 
ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network)  www.ilgcn.tupilak.org                                   ROHS (Swedish National Organization for LGBT Solidarity)

 

                      Nordic-Baltic-Polish-Russian-Belarus-Network            MOONBOW Festivals      Kungliga Musikhögskola (Royal College of Music) 

 Noble Travel                                                  
                                                                                                                                          

 Tupilak & ILGCN Travelling Art & Photo Exhibit  
 

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Hello from Tupilak

Hello dear friends! Hej kära vänner!

Some of you are new members, some of you have been members or supporters of Tupilak for a long time.

As the new chair person I want to say hello and invite you to the up-coming event Nordic Fire on Eastern European Rainbow Barricades - a mini festival between Prides on LGBT rights, identity and culture. 25-27/11- 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden. The program is attached as a pdf-file. 

For those of you who can't make it to the festival, please keep giving your support to Tupilak by spreading the word or continue to be a member.

If you haven't paid your membership fee for 2012, please pay 50 SEK to our account: plusgiro 4983767-7 

Write your name, address and email so we can update our list of members.

If you don't want to be on our mailing list, unsubscribe by answering this email saying you don't want to stay on the list. 

All the best and hope to see you soon!

Warm regards

Zafire Vrba

Tupilak Calling November 2011

Nordic Fire on Eastern European Rainbow Barricades  -- a mini-festival in Stockholm between Prides.  

                                                                                                      November 25-27, 2011

Swedes, Belarus visit to Women's Insight - Kiev    

Continuo       Trio - Budapest

                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                          

Special guests from Hungary, Ukraine, Finland, etc.. . Local experts on Belarus, Latvia, Romania, Poland.

Seminars, Discussions, Art, & Photography, Films, Performances, Award ceremonies.

Venues:

Civil Rights Defenders (Gamla Stan) -- Friday, November 25 (12.00)

Bio Rio (Hornstull) -- Friday, November 25 (16.00)

POSITHIVAGRUPPEN (Skanstull) -- Saturday, November 26 (13.00)

Hallongrottan (Hornstull) -- Sunday, November 27 (17.00)

CD's and art work from the Nordic region and Eastern Europe

No entrance fee.

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              Successful Tupilak/ILGCN Visit to Belarus

Swedish-Ukrainian-Belarus LGBT Cultural Meeting in Minsk

     Minsk/Stockholm – Swedish and Ukrainian queer delegations met with Belarus colleagues in the Belarus capital October 20-23,

Belarus Pride press conference       2011—the 2nd stage in the 3-nation project following a similar meeting     in Kiev in October – also  Minsk supported by the Swedish Institute, the official body promoting Swedish international exchange and co-                                                                                           operation.                                                                                                   

        "We were very pleased to have had this international input into our Belarus Pride,” says Natasha P. of the GayBelarus organization. “And to have once again Swedes joining us in Minsk!”

        Despite the ban on any Pride parade, Belarus and foreign LGBT visitors “outwalked” any potential homophobic followers through numerous city streets in different groups, jumped into vehicles and re-appeared in a distant suburb – unfurling rainbow flags, marching a short stretch in the streets and cheering the release of a giant rainbow banner carried to the skies by large helium-filled balloons – to the delight of a crowd of Belarus newspaper, radio and television journalists.

                                                     Interested and supportive Belarus media

     “We wery pleased and surprised to see so many Belarus and Polish journalists present both at the GayBelarus office press conference and at the parade – and the positive response and intelligent questions – and great coverage in the media, ” maintains Bill Schiller, Swedish Radio journalist and international secretary of Tupilak (Nordic rainbow cultural workers). “And we are very happy that our 3-way meeting could be part of Belarus Pride – no doubt one of the most important Prides in Europe today.”

     The meeting included country-be-country presentations, seminars and discussions, Swedish film screenings and music provided by well-known Belarus singers and musicians calling for democratic rule in this the last dictatorship in East Europe, as well as a musical and dance-filled performance by members of the internationally-famous Belarus Underground Theater – banned by the regime.

     “Our meetings in Kiev and Minsk have been very beneficial and show what our organizations can learn from – and teach each other,” says Olena Shevchenko of the women’s organization Insight of Kiev, who also informed the delegates about the importance of working against the Ukrainian government’s and parliament’s plans to crack down on positive information about homosexuality.

      During the visit, the three national delegations also visited the office of the internationally-finance Belarus organization working with men having sex with men and combating HIV and AIDS.

    “These meetings have given us new inspiration on how to work in new ways for LGBT rights also using rainbow culture as a weapon against discrimination and phobias – including the discrimination of those with HIV and AIDS,” says Taras L. of the Men’s Alliance – Kiev.

    The visit also included displays of art and photo exhibitions from Tupilak and the ILGCN (International queer cultural network) which has works from nearly 40 nations and now has new brand donations from the Ukraine and Belarus.

                                                             More Belarus photos and art work on the way


    “I was very impressed with the international exhibit and will create a special Belarus exhibition at our next event” says journalist/photographer Alexander N., also editor of the biggest LGBT website in Belarus,.

      “We are working out plans for long-term Swedish-Belarus-Ukrainian rainbow co-operation – with our next event scheduled for June 1-2, 2012 in the Crimean port of Semiez,” says Slava Bortnik from Belarus Amnesty International and his nation’s second city, Gomel. “Overcoming the isolation of LGBT people in Belarus is crucial for our survival.”

   “We hope that the Swedish Institute will continue to provide assistance to make this future human rights and rainbow cultural co-operation possible between East and West,” concludes Bill Schiller, project co-ordinator and also secretary general of the ILGCN Information Secretariat-Stockholm.
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More information: www.tupilak.org  and www.ilgcn.tupilak.org

Photos by Elin Nordlinder and Willi Reichhold, Tupilak, Sweden

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Nordic annual mega event in Swedish west coast port 

Tupilak at Gothenburg Book & Library Fair September, 2011                                                    

                                                                               Christina Kjellsson

    Tupilak participated once again at the Gothenburg Book and Library Fair 2011 September 22-25 – the biggest annual cultural event in the Nordic region – at the International Square, both handing out printed material, displaying books and CD’s, meeting the public and presenting form the main stage Tupilak’s work with Eastern European colleagues.

    Included in the stage presentation was the Tupilak annual “Sowelu” award presentation to Swedish singer, musician and song writer Christina Kjellsson, who came up to receive her award. She was honored for her year’s-long contribution to the Nordic rainbow cultural scene and for the use of her music via CD’s at Tupilak events at Nordic, Baltic and Eastern European rainbow solidarity events.

    Tupilak shared its stand this year with the newly-created Göteborgs Rättighets Center (Gothenburgs Human Rights Center) – including RFSL-Gothenburg, Homan (working with rainbow refugees) and other LGBT organizations. At the stand , art and photography from the Travelling Tupilak & ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network) Art & Photo Exhibition were on display.
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Kiev: Men´s Alliance


Women's Insight Office, Kiev (photos by Willi Reichhold, Sweden)


Swedish-Ukrainian-Belarus LGBT culture co-operation

 TUPILAK VISIT TO KIEV - stage 1 of 3

      A Tupilak delegation has recently returned from a September 2-4, 2011meeting with Ukrainian, Belarus and Swedish LGBT activists and cultural workers in Kiev -- a trip made possible thanks to support from the Swedish Institute.

This included performances, art & photo exhibits, films, lively discussions and seminars as well as planning for future rainbow co-operation between the three countries.

Information and photos about the visit to Kiev will be presented at Tupilak's last-Sunday-of the-month cultural afternoon at the Stockolm cultural center, Hallongrottan on October 30 (see below.)

Minsk in October, 2011, Crimea June, 2012

Next stops in this Swedish-Belarus-Ukrainian rainbow solidarity project will be in Minsk October 21-23, 2011 and the Crimea June 1-3, 2012.

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Swedish and Ukranian visit to the Minsk office of the HIV/AIDS Campaign    (Photos by Willi Reichhold, Tupilak - Sweden) 

TUPILAK CALLING

Still to come: Visby, Stockholm Pride, Minsk, Kiev, Crimea, Gothenburg Book Fair, Uppsala, Poznan:

TUPILAK IN BELGRADE, ESKILSTUNA, GOTHENBURG, TALLINN

Stockholm – Tupilak rainbow cultural delegations have recently been at events in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, the Eskilstuna Spring Pride in this central Swedish city, Göteborgs HBT Festival (Gothenburg ILGCN Festival) in the Swedish west coast port, and the 3rd Baltic Pride in the Estonian capital of Tallinn (rotating each year between this city and the Baltic capitals of Riga and Vilnius).

“We were very pleased with our meetings with Serbian LGBT activists and hope to hold a stage of the ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network) world rainbow cultural conference in Belgrade next year together with contributions from Tupilak,” says ILGCN Information Secretariat-Stockholm general secretary, Bill Schiller.

SPRING PRIDE ESKILSTUNA

In addition to the Tupilak/ILGCN art exhibit, performances and seminars in the Swedish city of Eskilstuna west of Stockholm, a special guest was Polish activist and initiator of Warsaw Pride, Szymon Niemiec – whose visit was made possible thanks to the Polish Institute in Stockholm.

The Eskilstuna event also included the handing over of the ILGCN “Arco Nordica” 2010 award diploma to Spring Pride for promoting rainbow culture and international solidarity – emphasizing that this work is especially courageous and necessary outside of capital cities. The award was shared with Gothenburg LGBT Festival and Uppsala Pride.

Szymon also participated in a Stockholm cultural and church happening and at Tupilak’s last-Sunday-of -the- month session at the award-winning Hallongrottan cultural café in Stockholm, together with Swedish supporters of Palestinian rights and LGBT colleagues in Palestine .

GOTHENBURG LGBT FESTIVAL

Tupilak’s Gothenburg HIV Festival events included seminars (one recorded by Swedish Educational Televsion Broadcasting) on rainbow culture, rainbow history, Nordic co-operation with Eastern Europe and Humanism on the rainbow barricades as well as an unusual “daytime” performance of Tupilak cabaret artist Peter “Bo Peters” Fröberg,” and Concert House “cat” performances of Zafire Vrba and Tomas Woodski.

The Tupilak & ILGCN international travelling art and photo exhibition was displayed during the festival week at the city library with many visitors looking at this and the other exhibitions.

The Tupilak delegation to the Tallinn 3rd Baltic Pride included meetings with local LGBT activists and a visit to one of several Baltic art and photo exhibits in the Estonian capital.

FUTURE TUPILAK EVENTS 2011

Tupilak and the ILGCN will also be participating in the International Square – the week-long solidarity event during the giant political and human rights “Almedalen” week in July in Visby – the capital of the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland. This will also include the historic inauguration of the first LGBT monument in the Nordic area on the sea shore of this Baltic port on July 6th.

Tupilak will host a number of events at the coming Stockholm Pride—some in co-operation with the Polish Institute- Stockholm bringing several high-level Polish cultural personalities and activists to Stockholm – and the inauguration of the Tupilak & ILGCN expanded art and photo international travelling exhibition on August 2 at Teater Tribunal.

At the end of August and in the beginning of September, Tupilak and the ILGCN will participate in the 2nd stage of this year’s ILGCN world cultural conference (1st stage in Istanbul and Ankara in May, 2011) in the Crimean port town of Simeiz as well as a rainbow conference in Kiev and in the Belarus Pride event in Minsk in early September – thanks to support from the Swedish Institute.

Tupilak will also participate again in September’s the Gothenburg Book and Library Fair in this Swedish west coast city September 22-25 – the biggest cultural event in the Nordic region – manning an information booth and providing stage presentations.

Tupilak also plans to return to the Uppsala Pride event in this university city just north of Stockholm in November with more seminars, art exhibitions and performances.

Also on the list is another visit to Poland’s “Poznan LGBT event” in November – with performances, art work, films and seminars.

Tupilak members interested in joining these events are very welcome.

Bill Schiller, international secretary
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TUPILAK på HALLONGROTTAN

Bergsundsgatan 25 (tel. 658 1320) (T-ban Hornstull) Stockholm

REGNBÅGS KULTURAFTON * SISTA SÖNDAGEN I MÅNADEN / Rainbow Cultural
Afternoon ... last Sunday of the month.

Gäst presentation, konst, foto, film, utländska gäster, information om
framtids projekt och internationella samarbete*

Guest speakers from Sweden and abroad. Art, photos, films, information
about solidarity projects in Sweden, elsewhere in the Nordic region and
abroad.

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Also supported by: ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network)
Information Secretariat-Stockholm http://www..ilgcn.tupilak.org/

Nordic Rainbow Council

Nordic Rainbow Humanists

ROHS (Riks organisation för homosexuella solidaritet)
(Swedish National Organization for LGBT Solidarity)

Tupilak Hallongrottan Feb 27 2011

   TUPILAK på HALLONGROTTAN

Bergsundsgatan 25 (tel. 658 1320)      (T-ban Hornstull) Stockholm

REGNBÅGS KULTURAFTON … SISTA SÖNDAGEN I MÅNADEN / Rainbow Cultural Afternoon ... last Sunday of the month.

Gäst presentation, konst, foto, film, utländska gäster,  information om framtids projketer och internationella samarbete… 

Guest speakers from Sweden and abroad. Art, photos, films, information about solidarity projects in Sweden, elsewhere in the Nordic region and abroad.

Nästa gången: Söndagen 27 mars från 17.00….   Sunday, March 27. From 17.00...

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( Obs!!! 15 minut styreslemöte 17.00 -- alla välkomna!!)

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Also supported by: ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network) Information Secretariat-Stockholm http://www..ilgcn.tupilak.org/

Nordic Rainbow Council

Nordic Rainbow Humanists

ROHS (Riks organisation för homosexuella solidaritet)
            (Swedish National Organization for LGBT Solidarity)