KULTUR PROGRAM -- CULTURE PROGRAM

"Tupilak performance at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland."


BUCHAREST -- Succesful 1st stage of this year's ILGCN world rainbow cultural conference in the Romanian capital, May 22 (part of annual Gayfest).

BUDAPEST -- The 2nd stage of the ILGCN world conference has been postponed since the dates for Budapest Pride have been moved back to August 30 - September 6.

ST. PETERSBURG -- September 21 for the 3rd stage of the ILGCN conference 2009.(part of Russian Rainbow Cultural Festival).

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SWEDEN:

Visby -- Tupilak /ILGCN work will be presented at the Baltic Square solidarity event on this Swedish island between June 29 - August 4 during a major political/cultural week.

Stockholm --

• Monday July 27 "Nordic Rainbow Culture over Nordic Borders." 16.00 Pride House

• Tuesday, July 28
  Nordic Rainbow Co- with Eastern Europe 15.00 Teater Tribunalen
  Nordisk Rainbows in Chains: Belarus 15.30 Teater Tribunalen
  Rainbow Cultural Co-oepration over Nordic Borders 16.00 Teater Tribunalen
  Humanists on the Rainbow Barricades 16.30 Teater Tribunalen
  Nazi & neo Nazi Persecution of the LGBT" 17.30 Teater Tribunalen

• Tupilak/ILGCN Travelling Art & Photo Exhibition, Photo Exhibit: "27 Prides in the EU"

Performances in the afternoon at Teater Tribunalen.

• Wednesday, July 29 "The Dark Side of the Nordic Rainbow: Faroes" 12.00 Pride House
  
  
• Thursday, July 30
  Humanists on the Rainbow Barricades 13.00 Pride House
  Nordic Co-operation with Eastern Europe. 15:00 Pride House
  Nazi & neo Nazi Persecution of LGBT 17.00 Pride House

Gothenburg -- Work of Tupilak/ILGCN will be presented at the International Square solidarity event at the giant book fair

(the biggest annual cultural event of the Nordic region) September 24-27.

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VILNIUS -- A European Parliament/ ILGCN rainbow cultural exhibition and seminars are planned for October in the Lithuanian capital -- this year the European Cultural Capital which so far has ignored rainbow contributions.

NORDIC HUMANIST AWARD TO ROMANIANS

PRESS RELEASE MAY, 2009


BUCHAREST/STOCKHOLM -- The 2009 Nordic Rainbow Humanist award has been
presented to the memers of the newly-started Rumanian Humanist
Association.

The award diploma was handed out during the ILGCN (International
Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network) 1st stage of this year's world rainbow
cultural conference in the Romanian capital oon May 21st as part of
this year's annual Bucharest GayFest.

The Romanians are being honored for -- despite the association's
young age and the fierce homophobia from politicians, religious
leaders, the media and neo nazi hooligans in that Eastern European
nation -- giving strong support to the LGBT community and for
standing up in solidarity in public at Pride parades and LGBT cultural
events -- proving that real progress for human rights can best be
achieved by gays and straights jointly manning the rainbow barricades.

Earlier awards from the Stockholm-based Nordic Rainbow Humanists
have gone to pioneering human rights activists in Britain, Norway,
Sweden, the Netherlands and Nigeria (see diploma for details).

For more information: http://www.tupilak.org