Rappen gegen ein Tabu
Begegnung mit Fatou Diatta (Sister Fa)
Gesprächsführung: Johanna Richter, Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Ciné Débat
Filmvorführung: „Education sans Excision“ ein Film von Lukas May (m.d.UT)
Adresse: Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin
Eine Begleitveranstaltung zur Ausstellung: Die Hälfte des Himmels – 99 Frauen und du, die bis zum 14. August 2011 in der Galerie im Saalbau gezeigt wird.
Promotional Trailer for the campaigne “Education sans Excision” against Female Genital Cutting from Sister Fa in Senegal.
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The movie “Sarabah” about Sister Fa and her engagement against FGC (Female Genital Cutting) won the Documentary Award at the Movies That Matter Festival in Den Haag.
Friday the 25th March Sister Fa will play a concert and participate at the round table of the festival “African women on waves – Promoting social change through talent and pride” in Rom, Italy.
Through the powerful and universal languages of music and dance, African Women on Waves will be an occasion for actively campaigning against FGM and in favor of African women’s creativity, empowerment and pride.
Sister Fa was invited from an UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to be part of the event entitled ‘Building Bridges between Europe and Africa’, organized by the IAC (Inter-Africa Committee), the 7th February in Geneva, Switzerland.
The event included representatives of governments in Africa, Europe and Latin America, several United Nations agencies, other international groups and women who have undergone FGC like Sister Fa, who has spoken out widely and performed songs calling for an end to excision.
“In Africa, if you play music in an open space, any music, then people will generally come. ‘It is the way to reach people, to bring them together.’ So says Sister Fa, a Senegalese urban soul and hip-hop star who has been lending her voice to a remarkable new drive against female circumcision in 12 of the countries worst affected by the practice across the continent.”
Raising Awareness Tour report – Education without Cutting
Sister Fa and her band have been travelling through Senegal for over three weeks to play concerts and to attract attention to the very sensitive topic of female genital cutting. Their aim was to sensitize the population in Sister Fa’s homeland and to draw their attention to the negative consequences of such practice. Besides the many concerts at different places that were received with great applause and attended by thousands of listeners her biggest success was, in cooperation with the NGO Tostan, that the inhabitants of her home village Thionck Essyl – which had been carrying out the cutting persistently – now officially abandoned this practice of cutting the young girls.
Further on Sister Fa carried out her program of sensitization in various schools in the southern region and in the Senegalese media with life interviews and listener participation.
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