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MALMOE FREE UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (MFK) has written a manual that tries to sum up the knowledge that they have acquired when working with MFK. Under the headings Start, Organization and Structure, Economy, Art, Strategic Separatism, Intersectionality, Radical Pedagogy and Utopia we have formulated our own definitions, clarified with concrete examples and experiences and collected practical tips. The book is written with the aim to activate and spread knowledge and we hope that as many as possible will find it useful. Use, ponder and exploit the manual for your own purposes.
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GIRLS LIKE US is an independent journal turning the spotlight to an international expanding community of women within arts, culture and activism. Through personal stories, essays and vanguard visuals GIRLS LIKE US unfolds feminist legacies in arts and writing. Mixing politics with pleasure, the magazine is mapping new routes towards a feminist, post-capitalist future.
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FUL is an artist collective, which use queer feminist and post-colonial theories as an important part of aesthetic expression. Ful does not believe in a two gender-system but welcome all genders and non-gendered, and call them ze. With Ful art magazine #1-2 2011, Ful comment on and resist towards the white neonationalistic movement that is massively spreading through Europe. With #1-4 2012, Ful investigate the skin as a space for contact and projection, and a place where politics are exercised. This is done in a publication that is letting ideas about body politics take physical form.
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We are never faceless, not even in the most grey anonymous streets of the city. We will never stop being responsible, being extensions, of one another. We will never stop longing for each other, and for something else.3

We, The Knife, will be performing live. We will be there, on stage, all seven of us, sometimes all ten of us, or even more. We have worked hard, together. Things, ideas, concepts have been tried, tested, discarded, evolved, perfected and discarded again.

We know of the performative parts of power (Hegemony! Hi!), the on-going upholdance of everything through the performance of everyone. The habitual dance of the ordinary, the narratives of the normal. We know how the norm functions. But this is not every day. We have put on our glitter, we are ready to sparkle. This is special, if we were birds, (maybe we are) our feathers would shine (they do). We are building a place, a scene, a moment. But the blocks aren’t set, the pieces move. We slipper and slide around it, under it, above. Shaking our habitat.

With raging lungs we breathe, exhausted but enthralled. We sweat and smile and frown, laughing at the future, crying at the past, holding on. Legs astride, one foot yours, one foot ours.

You have the most beautiful way of putting one foot in front of the other
Being horizontal is wonderful most things we love are open ended4

Kick, kick, left leg back, turn, kick, right leg. Stay. Things get blurry, that’s ok. We’ll move. Open arms, twisted ankles. We will be performing live.
All of us

How at 5am that warehouse beat is coming up like sour steam.
All over the dance floor we’re asking: can this DNA turn into something else?
It’s not metaphorical. It’s explicit.
No habits!

Of course we’re growing restless.5

1 This text is written and edited by Petter Hallén
2 Jess Arndt
3 Marit Östberg
4 Emily Roysdon

THE EVENING WILL OPEN WITH…

Bremen (26thApril ), Hamburg (27thApril ), Milan (29th April), Zurich (30th April), Munich (1st May), Copenhagen (May 12th and 13th), Oslo (May 15th) and more:

Absurdist Aerobics class taught by a master-teacher-guru-shaman-dictator-aerobics instructor- new age workshop leader, Tarek Halaby.

Participatory/interactive absurdist warm up for anybody who wants it.
Death Electro Emo Protest Aerobics… DEEP AEROBICS

DEEP AEROBICS is a workout form invented and shamelessly disseminated by Miguel Gutierrez, who hopes to soon destroy the technique, because it’s just too hard to teach, and really the world is going to hell in a hand basket anyway. It is the communal/political/conceptual/imaginational workout experience you always wanted but never could embarrass yourself enough to find or do in public. It is for anyone who has ever had any interest in combining the joie de vivre that is the vigorous bouncing of one’s anatomical/spiritual/energetic molecules with the existential absurdity that is living in a world/country/economic system of injustice, war-mongering, and cultural ineptitude. Oh wait, that’s you. If you feel like it: come in your own crazy aerobics costume, whatever that means to you. Taste the sweat.

ps. Take one class and you are instantly a certified master teacher of the form. No yearly dues, fees, reports. Just give credit to Miguel Gutierrez.

Stockholm (16th and 17th May):

DANCEOKE with ÖFA-KOLLEKTIVET
&
COOL PANS – The biggest steel band i Scandinavia!

ÖFA-KOLLEKTIVET is an artist collective and feminist support group through which several performances, workshops, exhibitions and club-performances have been created. ÖFA takes the liberty to challenge the bipolar gender thinking and aim to create a space for gender-free experiences. Breaking stereotypes is to break the system that controls and limits, reins and holds back, shapes and dictates – that’s why ÖFA has an aftertaste of gingerbread, promiscuity, trust, hope, daring and do-it-yourself spirit!
ÖFA: DANCEOKE is like karaoke but instead of singing alone you dance to music videos together with a full dance floor. Danceoke shifts the perspective of performer/audience and makes people come together no matter what.

COOL PANS – The biggest steel band i Scandinavia!
Since forming in 1997, Stockholm based steelband Cool Pans have performed at numerous parties and venues around Stockholm and in other parts of Sweden. But the music doesn’t stop there! Cool Pans have also performed at several destinations in Europe at carnivals and festivals. Norway, Germany, France, England, Denmark have all enjoyed the caribbean music and infectious rhythms, played with an enthusiasm and energy that is significant for Cool Pans musicians.

…AND END WITH DJ SETS BY:
Amsterdam (6th May): Shinedoe
Berlin (May 11th): rRoxymore
London (May 8th and 9th): Hannah Holland
Copenhagen (May 12th and 13th): Pernille Krog Mogensen
Stockholm (May 16th): Lemieux
Stockholm (May 17th): Lemieux & Jin Mustafa b2b
And more to come…

WHEN AND WHERE

SEE YOU SOON!

/Shaking The Habitual Show Team:

Adena Asovic, Anna Efraimsson, Andrea Svensson, Bella Rune, Erika Niklasson, Halla Olafsdottir, Iwa Herdensjö, Jonas Nobel, Karin Dreijer Andersson, Kim Einarsson, Jesper Strömbäck Eklund, Laura Davis, Lotje Horvers, Lucie Barinkova, Marcus Baldemar, Maryam Nikandish, Nicole Lattimore, Olof Dreijer, Rami Jawhari Jansson, Sharon ‘Bamo’ Bampton, Stina Nyberg, SUTODA, Thomas Romlöv and Zoë Poluch, and hopefully more people in the future….

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Created in conjunction with Marit Östberg, it goes some way to explain their intentions and thought processes behind the new album ‘Shaking The Habitual’, which is out now.

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The album is released next week, but is available to pre-order as a 2xCD, 3×12″ Vinyl or  iTunes download. These formats also include a comic by Liv Strömquist, which you can also see on the website.

All formats also available at the Rabid Records Store here.

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Also on the bill at this years event are The xx, Nine Inch Nails, Bat For Lashes, Skunk Anansie and more.

RSVP to the Facebook Event here.

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“A Tooth For An Eye” deconstructs images of maleness, power and leadership. Who are the people we trust as our leaders and why? What do we have to learn from those we consider inferior? In a sport setting where one would traditionally consider a group of men as powerful and in charge, an unexpected leader emerges. A child enters and allows the men to let go of their hierarchies, machismo and fear of intimacy, as they follow her into a dance. Their lack of expertise and vulnerability shines through as they perform the choreography. Amateurs and skilled dancers alike express joy and a sense of freedom; there is no prestige in their performance. The child is powerful, tough and sweet all at once, roaring “I’m telling you stories,trust me” (a quote borrowed from Jeanette Winterson’s novel The Passion). There is no shame in her girliness, rather she possesses knowledge that the men lost a long time ago. – Roxy Farhat

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Tickets are available from Ticketline and you can find out more information about the festival and this years lineup here.

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