In Toulouse, the Departmental Council launches the Gender Equality Week
72 hours before international day against violence against women, the Departmental Council is also mobilizing within the framework of its 2021 program “Equality between women and men is more than one day”. Started on March 8, it closes on Monday 22 november with the Gender Equality Week.
Until November 28, workshops, shows and professional meetings will come to animate on this occasion theRoguet space From toulouse. Through this mechanism, the Departmental Council thus wishes to reaffirm its priority in the fight against violence against women. “The events scheduled this week concretely illustrate this ambition. […] We will always be present for the fighting, “said Georges Méric, president of the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council, in a press release.
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Workshops around sexism
The programming a summer carried out in partnership with the Gender equality mission and the Department of performing and visual arts. Thus, the first highlights of this week revolve around the Sexism. In France, out of 209,000 people victims of crime or sexist offense, 87% are women according to the figures of government. Roguet space will therefore animate workshops led by Toulouse associations on this theme. From Monday 22 to Wednesday 24 November, a workshop entitled “Strengthen and assert yourself” is organized from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is animated by Ariane Gaillard, author and performer of the poetic circus company, the Cie MOA. Maité Dzudzevic, trainer of the Feminist Association The little, is also in the game. The objective is to better understand inequalities and know how to react to sexism. But also of being confident in one’s self and asserts itself. The workshop is also open to a group of 12 adult women.
The day of 25 november this time will be dedicated to professionals in the sector with a Workshop at 9 am on “Reacting to sexism in the cultural sector”. It will again be hosted by The little. Will follow at 2 p.m. a meet on “Parenthood in the artistic and cultural sector”. Organized in partnership with the Living Arts Network (RAVIV), it will evoke the place of women in performing arts.
Finally, on Saturday November 27, a participatory debate “X, Y and me?” is organized at 2:30 p.m. and open to the public from 12 years old.
Two feminist self-defense workshops
Fr 2021, it is not less than 48 women who have been killed since the start of the year in France, according to the government. And 220,000 also say they are subjected to violence each year. Thus, feminist self-defense workshops are scheduled during this week. The goal: to offer women the tools to ensure their autonomy, their defense and their freedom to move and act. A first workshop is scheduled for Friday November 26 a 1:30 p.m. for adults in selected co-education. It will be led by the trainer of the Toulouse association To face. And the saturday 27 november, she will also animate a workshop for teenagers aged 12 to 14 in chosen mix.
Three artistic highlights
Finally, three artistic highlights will punctuate this week dedicated to women. the Friday November 26 to 19h, Cie Origin and Pandora’s Box will play Like a girl, a spectacle at the crossroads between dance and music. Open to the public from 14 years old, it questions the place of women in a patriarchal society. A 8 p.m., the Toulouse actress and author Anne Lefevre will recite his text Even if it burns, in duet with the musician François Donato. Its performance vice to denounced feminicides but also the other forms of abuse, like the discrediting of the other through sex, age or social categories.
Finally, the Sunday November 28, the theater company Hey will end this week with a musical and clownish show for children from 5 years old at 4.30 p.m. Entitled Peronnille, the latter returns to the place left to difference and questioning.
Useful information
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Espace Roguet, 9 rue de Gascogne, Toulouse
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