Context
Over the years, One Billion Rising (OBR) campaigns have brought deeper into focus the intersectional issues of poverty, the environment, economic violence and other factors that cause and sustain the continuing violence towards women and girls (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender based violence). The call of OBR 2022 is to connect in a deeper, more purposeful, political, transformative and yet also empowering and hopeful way. And to make this year a truly radical, bold, fearless escalation of artistic risings.
The past two years have seen global lockdowns, government neglect, health crises, proliferation of authoritarian regimes, endemic exploitation of labor, escalating corporate greed, worsening poverty, racism and exclusion, the grave ongoing destruction and pillaging of the environment for capital, as well as the deterioration of the climate. At the core of all of this is the injurious hold of patriarchy and misogyny ––on women’s rights and freedom.
One Billion Rising 2022 calls on the world to hold Artistic Risings for the bodies of all women and for the ‘ultimate body’- our earth. Using the body as your call. Using the body as your resistance. We call on the world to use ART. Dance. Visual art. Physical and immersive theatre. Film. Sculpture. Painting. Sports. Performances (Live and Recorded). Photography and digital art. And more.
OBR Travelling Film Festival in India
curated by Aanchal Kapur
Gender based violence
The past two years have seen global lockdowns, government neglect, health crises, proliferation of authoritarian regimes, endemic exploitation of labor, escalating corporate greed, worsening poverty, racism and exclusion, the grave ongoing destruction and pillaging of the environment for capital, as well as the deterioration of the climate. At the core of all of this is the injurious hold of patriarchy and misogyny ––on women’s rights and freedom.
One Billion Rising 2022 calls on the world to hold Artistic Risings for the bodies of all women and for the ‘ultimate body’- our earth. Using the body as your call. Using the body as your resistance. We call on the world to use ART. Dance. Visual art. Physical and immersive theatre. Film. Sculpture. Painting. Sports. Performances (Live and Recorded). Photography and digital art. And more.
OBR Travelling Film Festival in India
curated by Aanchal Kapur
The festival will include a mix of moving images, including documentary films, animation, short films, music videos and features. In line with the 2022 Artistic Risings, the festival will use FILM as a medium of connecting and caring; challenging and changing; (re)claiming feminist lives and livelihoods…
The festival will be held in eight states across the country, over the months of May and June 2022 and will be locally hosted by OBR India’s network organisations. These include Azad Foundation in Delhi, Jaipur (Rajasthan) and Kolkata (West Bengal); BGVS (Jharkhand); Action Aid, Jan Pahal and Gavari in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh); Jagori Grameen in Sidhbari (Himachal Pradesh); PG Govt. College for Girls in Chandigarh and Bodhana in Guwahati (Assam).
THEMES
Body of Woman
The festival will be held in eight states across the country, over the months of May and June 2022 and will be locally hosted by OBR India’s network organisations. These include Azad Foundation in Delhi, Jaipur (Rajasthan) and Kolkata (West Bengal); BGVS (Jharkhand); Action Aid, Jan Pahal and Gavari in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh); Jagori Grameen in Sidhbari (Himachal Pradesh); PG Govt. College for Girls in Chandigarh and Bodhana in Guwahati (Assam).
THEMES
Body of Woman
- What Girls Want
- Women, Work & Livelihood
Body of Earth
- Development, Marginalisation and Mobilising Women
- Ecosystem, Nature and Women
- Indigenous People and the Environment
Gender and Sexual identities
Gender based violence
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