3:30 pm - 5 pm: Talks: With Lily Dragoeva, Valentina Likhoshva, Kristine Garina, Julia Machiocha: Frontline organisers in Russia and eastern Europe
As more and more countries in Europe join in on the legeslative and cultural backlash against LGBT rights, we speak with four brave women who are at the frontline of these struggles. Julia from Poland, Kristine from Latvia, Valentina from Russia and Lilly from Bulgaria joins us at the FLUID stage for a talk about the current situation in their countries, efforts of organising in the struggle against the backlash and how we as a community can show international solidarity and drive change.
5 pm - 6 pm: Writers Voice:
Kristina Nya Glaffey (DK), Louise Haugaard Jørgensen (DK), Aaiün Nin (Angola)
8 pm - 11 pm Music: The Songbirds Collective (DK/GB) / Falden Rysgaard (DK) / Baby in Vain (DK)
Fluid Festival: A space to celebrate women, genderqueer and non-binary identies
At Gammel Strand – one of the most beautiful squares in the center of Copenhagen – we will proudly move through a nine-day colorful program of performances, debates, speeches, and installations.
The program will be a representation of women, genderqueer and non-binary identities and embraces, respects and challenges the understanding of gender expression. Focusing on the fluidity of gender expression, sexual orientation and gender identity, Fluid Festival offers up an inclusive space for female-identified, non-conforming and non-binary people.
There will be a daytime political festival with both speakers and international activists and a daily spot, Writers Voice, where writers from around the world share their poetry. As day turns to evening, we will create atmospheric summer evenings with performances, complemented by large lounge areas, dining areas, drinks bars, areas for outdoor plays, six wooden rafts floating in the canal and a ramp down to the water.
The Festival will be an ample opportunity for experiences, meetings, presence, love, celebration – a unique opportunity to be exactly who you are in the safe understanding that #YouAreIncluded.
Fluid Festival has a zero tolerance approach to any kind of discrimination and stigmatization