This Saturday and Sunday (26th and 27th) the Cultural Center of Diversity, in São Paulo, will host the Bee Multicultural Festival of Lesbian Visibility. Initially a film festival, the event has grown and will have several types of activities in its first in-person edition, all for free.
In addition to the film show, the meeting will feature an art and gastronomy fair, musical attractions, exhibitions, debates and many other activities. On both days, activities begin at 3 pm and go on until dusk (check out the full schedule at the end of this text).
Among those invited to the activities are women who work in corporate, artistic and political circles, in addition to popular movements. Historian Heliana Hemetério, an activist for the inclusion of gender and sexual orientation in the anti-racist agenda, will speak on the theme “lesbian aging”.
There will also be discussions on the theme “motherhood and possible families”, with the participation of writer Marcela Tiboni, who has written books in which she reports her experience with the lactation induction protocol, in an example of experiencing lesbian motherhood.
The cinema sessions, which gave rise to the festival’s history, will take place on the two nights of activities. On Saturday, a session with Brazilian short films is scheduled. On Sunday, international short films will be shown.
The event takes place between two important dates for the lesbian movement, both in August. The 19th is National Lesbian Pride Day, in honor of activist Rosely Roth. The second date, the 29th, is the National Lesbian Visibility Day, in reference to the day the 1st National Lesbian Seminar took place in the country.
Service:
Bee Multicultural Festival of Lesbian Visibility
Diversity Cultural Center – São Paulo (Rua Lopes Neto, 206 – Itaim Bibi)
Saturday and Sunday (August 26th and 27th)
Free entrance
Schedule:
Saturday, August 26th
3 p.m. – Opening of the festival
3pm to 8pm – Art Fair (outdoor area)
3pm to 8pm – DJ Monic show (external area)
3:05 pm to 3:40 pm – Show by the band Exausta Samba
3:45 pm to 4:45 pm – Conversation circle: Maternity and possible families (with Ágata Dourado, Ana Garcia and Marcela Tiboni)
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm – Cine Sapatão: screening of the documentary film “40 years of Levante do Ferros Bar”; Lecture: History of the lesbian feminist movement in Brazil (with Rita Quadros, Andrezza Czech and Ananda Puchta)
6:45 pm to 7:30 pm – Conversation circle: Lesbian aging (with Daniela Uga, Heliana Hemetério and Márcia Balades)
7:45 pm to 10:00 pm – BEE national lesbian film screening: “Duas”, “Absence”, “We are no longer what we were” and “Letícia, Monte Bonito, 04” (with Maria Maya, Ana Cavazzana, Alexia Araujo and Julia Regis)
Sunday, August 27
3pm to 8pm – Art Fair (outdoor area)
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm – Lecture: Lesbian Representation in Illustration (with Jenifer Prince)
4:00 pm to 4:45 pm – Conversation circle: Lesbian representation in the webseries “Stupid Wife” and “Os Signos das Minhas Ex” (with Ingrid Pedroza, Gabi Lemos, Laís Aranha, Priscila Reis and Natalie Smith)
5 pm to 6 pm – Show Anna Moura and Bárbara Barbosa
6:10 pm to 8:00 pm – BEE international lesbian film screening: “Rebel Dykes”, “Please God Heal Her” and “Bes”
Editing: Thalita Pires
