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UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
"What would an economy by "sisters" look like? Would they be able to create an inclusive environment for all women to grow together?"
WDC is organising a Book Reading and Discussion, on the book 'Sisterhood Economy: Of, By, For Wo(Men)' by Shaili Chopra. The author will be reading excerpts from her book.
About the Author and the Book:
•Shaili Chopra is the founder of India’s largest and most popular platform for women, SheThePeople.TV.
•The book 'Sisterhood Economy: Of, By, For Wo(Men)' attempts to highlight women's stories of struggle beyond statistics.
Join us to hear Shaili Chopra tell women's stories that bring forth political and socio-cultural issues that are important in our lives
Date: 12th October 2022
Time: 12:20 pm
Venue: LT-3
Registration link: https://forms.gle/vA2DM6jbrCunE7ZX8
This year at Unmukti
This year at Unmukti
2021-22
2021-22
Workshop
Workshop
STAND UP, UNMUKTI.pdf“Stand Up and Break The Silence”
“Stand Up and Break The Silence”
Unmukti, the Women’s Development Centre, Gargi College brings to you - StandUp Against Street Harassment in collaboration with Breakthrough Trust and L’Oŕeal Paris.
• A one-hour, free-of-cost online training designed to inspire people to effectively respond when they witness or experience street harassment.
• Find out about the different forms of harassment - from micro-aggressions to violence
• Get to know about Hollaback!'s 5D’s of bystander intervention
• How to prioritize your own safety while intervening
• How to respond if you get harassed
Date: April 24, 2021
Time: 2:00 P.M.
Register now: https://forms.gle/aA61HtKcg2wj5Kxx5
This workshop is compulsory for all WDC members.
Film Festival
Film Festival
"Sabhi muddei auraton ke muddei hai"
"Sabhi muddei auraton ke muddei hai"
UNMUKTI, WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, GARGI COLLEGE AND KRITI FILM CLUB PRESENT THE RISING GARDENS FILM FESTIVAL!
📽️We invite you to watch documentary films with us to explore how all issues are women's issues.
The aim of this film festival is to promote introspective films as they introduce women speaking to women and the uncommon realities of women's lives, along with a chance to see the works of independent filmmakers.
You'll also be treated to an exciting panel debate as well as sporting sports!
So, what are you waiting for?
Participate in our one-of-a-kind film festival and get to view the world through a more gendered perspective.📽️
WATCH THE MOVIES FROM 22nd to 29th April 2021 đź’«
Don't forget to follow us:
Instagram - https://instagram.com/unmuktiforwomen
Facebook - http://fb.me/unmuktigargi
UNMUKTI BROCHURE, FILM FEST-1.pdfUNMUKTI BROCHURE, FILM FEST-2.pdfTheme #1: Cosmic Connections (Women and Nature)
Theme #1: Cosmic Connections (Women and Nature)
Explore the unique relationship, one of simplicity and purity between women and the nature.
WATCH THE MOVIES in the first thematic showcase FROM 22nd April onwards đź’«
🍿Link for viewing: https://vimeo.com/showcase/cosmicrgffgargi
The password will be emailed to only those who have registered.
So, do register at - https://forms.gle/1hid8Zp4JqJ2JiN4A
Cosmic Connection- women & nature (22_04).pdfCosmic Connection- pt2.pdfTheme #2: Fields of Sorrow, Fields of Hope (Women & Agriculture)
Theme #2: Fields of Sorrow, Fields of Hope (Women & Agriculture)
Women - the agents of change for the global food system.
WATCH THE MOVIES in the second thematic showcase FROM 24th April onwards đź’«
🍿 Links for viewing: https://vimeo.com/showcase/fieldsofsorrowhopergffgargi
Reap What You Sow Eat What You Grow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1hWuwAe6k&t=428s
In Search of Our Lost Rice Seeds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tt6ANzw1G4&t=27s
The password will be emailed to only those who have registered.
So, do register at - https://forms.gle/1hid8Zp4JqJ2JiN4A
fields of sorrow, fields of hope- women & agriculture.pdffields of sorrow, fields of hope pt2.pdfTheme #3: Community and Sustenance (Women, Food and Livelihood)
Theme #3: Community and Sustenance (Women, Food and Livelihood)
The struggles and strength of women, who go against all odds for their community and sustenance.
WATCH THE MOVIES in the third thematic showcase FROM 26th April onwards đź’«
🍿 Link for viewing: https://vimeo.com/showcase/communityrgffgargi
The password will be emailed to only those who have registered.
So, do register at - https://forms.gle/1hid8Zp4JqJ2JiN4A
Community and Sustenance- women, food & livelihood (26_04).pdfCommunity and Sustenance pt2.pdfTheme #4: Moving Mountains (Women and Solidarities)
Theme #4: Moving Mountains (Women and Solidarities)
Our solidarity is what gives us the strength, credibility, and power to make vital changes.
WATCH THE MOVIES in the fourth thematic showcase FROM 28th April onwards đź’«
Link for viewing: https://vimeo.com/showcase/movingmountainsrgffgargi
The password will be emailed to only those who have registered.
So, do register at - https://forms.gle/1hid8Zp4JqJ2JiN4A
Moving Mountains- women & solidarities (28_04) .pdfRETROSPECT
RETROSPECT
📽️Love watching films, analyzing and sharing your opinions about them? Then here is your chance.📽️
You will have to review one film from each of the 4 themes which will be showcased in the Unmukti, WDC's film festival.
Tell us what struck you, what inspired you, and what you liked and disliked through 4 reviews. Seize the chance to critically analyze and understand movies.
RULES:
1- Plagiarism will lead to disqualification and disciplinary action.
2-Word limit (100-200 words per film, you will have to review 4 in total).
3- Do not exceed the word limit.
GUIDANCE:
1- The language of review should either be Hindi or English.
2- You will have to review 4 films of different themes.
3- The reviews can be about any 4 films showcased at the festival.
4- You are required to mail your reviews to unmuktiwdc@gmail.com
PRIZES:
First Prize- Rs.1000
Second Prize- Rs. 750
Prize-winning and other creditable entries will be published in our newsletter and on our social media.
So hurry and register now!
Registration through Google forms: https://forms.gle/1hid8Zp4JqJ2JiN4A
Last date for submission of entries- April 30, 2021
The film festival and its constituent activities are open to current Gargi College Students.
For further updates and results follow us on:
Instagram-
https://instagram.com/unmuktiforwomen
Facebook-
Retrospect Competition .pdfSNAPSHOTS
SNAPSHOTS
Think you can make a film? Yes! First, we need a script, so send us your snapshot storyboards! You can put together any series of photographs to tell a story.
Theme: The multidimensional relationship between women and nature.
RULES:
1- Photographs can be clicked using a phone or a camera.
2- Basic editing is allowed but not compulsory.
3- Plagiarism will lead to disqualification and disciplinary action.
4- Original photographs only, photographs taken by others or saved from the internet cannot be used.
5- Limit of photographs should be:
Max.- 12
Min.- 8
6- If you have not registered for the film festival and plan to send in entries, they will not be considered.
GUIDANCE:
1- You can use music if you want. Use either royalty-free music or give proper credits to the artist.
2- You are required to e-mail the storyboard that you have created to unmuktiwdc@gmail.com
3- Restrict to the theme "The multidimensional relationship between women and nature".
4- No dialogue necessary, you can add small texts if required.
5- You can take inspiration from the films showcased at our film festival. Watch them to get ideas, facts and inform yourself about the relevant issues.
PRIZES:
1st place - Rs. 1000
2nd place - Rs. 750
Prize-winning and other creditable entries will be published in our newsletter and on our social media.
So hurry and register now!
Registration link: https://forms.gle/1hid8Zp4JqJ2JiN4A
Last date for submission of entries - April 30, 2021
This film festival and its constituent activities are open to current Gargi College students only.
For further updates and results follow us on:
Instagram - https://instagram.com/unmuktiforwomen
Facebook- http://fb.me/unmuktigargi
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
A ROUND TABLE with the Rising Gardens Film Festival's Curators
A ROUND TABLE with the Rising Gardens Film Festival's Curators
We will discuss the screened movies, the various issues they have portrayed, the overall cinematic experience, and the inherent human values seen through the lens of different filmmakers.
Date: April 30, 2021
Time: 5:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/xkT4YoTNrrjJhUzZA
Panel Discussion.pdfRound Table Update.pdf2019-20
2019-20
DOC-20191021-WA0004.pdfWomen: Rights,
Women: Rights,
Safety, Allies
Safety, Allies
The Women's Development Centre Gargi College is organising an outreach (on 22.10.2019, 12.30--2.45 PM) programme on women's safety in collaboration with the National Commission for women. The specific goal is to create safer structures for women from the North-East in alliance with all women. Topics covered will include in preventing, prohibiting and redressing the sexual harassment of women at the workplace; stalking and voyeurism; the empowerment of women. As these are issues of significant importance to all students of the institution, we request that each department identify and send interested students from each year and course to attend the same.
These students are expected to attend the programme so that takeaways from the outreach carry forward to their classes in future and help the institution fulfil its mandate of sensitisation on gender issues.
2018-19
2018-19
Annual Festival of Unmukti
Annual Festival of Unmukti
Safety!
March 08, 2018
Unmukti, Women’s Development Centre, Gargi College
(Venue: Auditorium; Time: 11.30 am onwards)
Discourses of safety in relation to the world around us often have a gendered aspect. Most likely, these are focused around a scheme of morality directed towards women: female children, girls, and women are familiar with injunctions about how to keep intact their “honour”, which is presented as implicitly or explicitly connected to their bodies of all ages. Their subsequent loss of control and autonomy over their bodies, privacies, and indeed their lives are further presented as successful femininity. This Women’s Day we invite you to examine how discourses of the digital era are changing the fraught relationship with safety, and by extension, autonomy for persons/bodies marked as feminine. How can we delink discourses of morality from discourses of safety? Our program for the day features an acclaimed documentary film that looks at how mass media, particularly television, represent young women’s autonomous choices as unsafe for their family, religion, nation, and indeed herself.
Safety apps are popularly marketed these days as a modern “solution” to personal safety issues. We invite you to launch an app that is markedly different in content from most other available apps: Stri Suraksha, made by Enfold, CDAC, and UNICEF in collaboration, is an information app that provides morality-free practical and strategic advice that is legally and procedurally sound. We invite the college community to consider the various dimensions of digital media usage for feminist work: will it strengthen us by normalising the narrative of autonomy and liberty for women? Will it concurrently make us vulnerable to privacy issues and breach of confidentiality in being able to track our very lives? Our panel discussion includes a lawyer, an IPS officer, a media person, besides representatives from Enfold and Safetipin, another major women’s safety app.
The day includes creative activities for students. An art and design competition seeks to draw out the creative power of the hands to resist misogyny, while a poetry competition, invites students to use the power of the spoken poem to free speech. We conclude the day with a performance by Sukhmanch Theatre, of Mahesh Dattani's play Seven Steps Around the Fire, which will help us consider the question of what it means if we don’t have a body marked with the privilege of normative masculinity.
Let’s celebrate International Women’s Day together! All are welcome!
Women seek Justice
Women seek Justice
Unmukti, the Women’s Development Centre, Gargi College, invites you to consider our relationship to the question of feminist justice.
How do we participate in questions of right and wrong in our everyday lives? What are our responsibilities and rights- as victims, but also as bystanders and, often (unacknowledged) as perpetrators and deniers of justice to those who face patriarchal violence?
When others speak up, how do we respond? #MeToo suddenly descended on us and set down in words what was unsaid about the constant and daily experiences of sexual harassment. But after the hashtag and the talking, what next? How do we seek and get justice? How do we find ways to create a world where we are not shaping our every action, our own identity as already an attempt to “prevent” sexual harassment. How women dress, choose friends, make life-defining choices of careers, partners, places to live, thoughts to think, almost always is in this mode to prevent harassment.
The WDC Gargi College invites everyone to the performance of “Allegedly”. This is a play built on personal stories and experiences , that questions the contradictions and the confusions in our own behaviours. It also seeks to engage the audience and encourage us to ponder these questions for ourselves. Join us in examining and rewriting our own #MeToo narratives.
Standing Together to Enable Peace (STEP)
Standing Together to Enable Peace (STEP)
Unmukti, The Women's Development Center, Gargi College in collaboration with Standing Together to Enable Peace (STEP) Trust, a Delhi- based NGO is conducting a workshop for students on ' critical media literacy.
This will be an interactive workshop-
Topics include:
*Role of media and its effects.
*Introduction to Media literacy on Gender equality
*Identity and inclusion
*Analyzing media
(Critical Media Literacy)
* Introduction to creating social media
* Creating new media based on gender inclusivity
✨Workshop will focus on✨
âś” Fighting Misogyny
âś” Undoing Stereotyped gender and sexuality roles
✔Understanding gender-based violence that is legitimised by media coverage,
âś” LGBTQI and feminist inclusiveness
Date: 9th March 2019
Time: 12.40 to 3.40 pm
Venue: Seminar Hall
2017-18
2017-18
Film Screening
Film Screening
Unmukti, Women's Development Centre, Gargi College, invites you to this Feminist Friday to watch and discuss a series of films on Sexualities in collaboration with traveling film festival Kashish Forward to create understanding for the issues related to the LGBTQ+community.
Duration: TWO hours with films screening and discussion
12.20--2.30pm
Friday 13.10.2017
Seminar HallÂ
SIX significant short narrative and documentary films from India and other countries from the 7th KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival will be shown. Non-English films are with English subtitles.
KEEP YOUR HEAD UPÂ
4 min / Narrative Short /Â Ireland / Lesbian, Peers, Coming Out, Acceptance
AMAR: DEAF IS AN IDENTITYÂ
5 min /Â Documentary Short / Canada /Gay, Queer, Disability, Diaspora
TO MUM (LOVE, ME)Â
17 min / Narrative Short /Â Singapore /Â Lesbian, Coming Out, Acceptance, Family, Female Filmmaker
NO MATTER WHO
19 min / Narrative Short / France / Lesbian / Bullying/ Coming Out / Peers, Female Filmmaker Â
ALL ABOUT LOVEÂ
16 min /Â Documentary Short /Â India /Â Lesbian, Gay, Coming Out, Acceptance, Same-sex Partners, Female Filmmaker
MY CHILD IS GAY, I AM HAPPY
38 min / Hindi, English, Marathi | India | Documentary Short
Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Acceptance, Coming Out, Peers, Parents
Feminist Fridays
Feminist Fridays
UNMUKTI, THE WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, Gargi College invites you for another session of Feminist Fridays on 13 October 2017.
A film festival 📽🎞 in association with KASHISH FORWARD.
Press going!
Date : 13 October 2017
Time : 12:20 PM - 2:30 PM
Venue: Seminar Hall
2016-17
2016-17
"What is Liberation?"
"What is Liberation?"
Unmukti, the Women's Development Centre, Gargi College, invites you to its annual festival!
Date and Venue: April 5, 2016, Tuesday, in the College Auditorium.
9.30 am, Documentary Film Screening, "Morality TV and the Love Jehad" by Paromita Vohra
10.30 am, Panel discussion on Women, liberation and the civil rights of citizens: How do we ensure freedoms for all?
Chair: Akhila Sivadas, Centre for Research and Advocacy
Speakers: Ajita, WSS, on women and state repression
Tenzing Choesang, Lawyers Collective, on sexual harassment at workplace
Liberation is a big word for women. What does liberty mean for women as citizens of India, with a focus on the concept of citizen? What kind of women are regarded as good citizens? How do these limited definitions of good women in public spheres extend to women in private life? How do these definitions of women impact everyone's freedom? How do women experience the liberties of the citizen, granted by the constitution, guaranteed by the law? How can women attain liberty as a group while ensuring the liberties of non-women are also safe? How can women resist and overcome their marginalization into a citizen-underclass?
We request your presence and that you encourage participation by your students in large numbers!
wdc fest poster.pdfUnmukti, the Women's Development Centre, Gargi College, invites you to its annual festival on April 5, 2016, Tuesday (Venue: College Auditorium)
Our theme is "Women, liberation and the civil rights of citizens: How do we ensure freedoms for all?"
The speakers are Ms. Ajita, WSS, on women and state repression, and Ms. Tenzing Choesang, Lawyers Collective, on sexual harassment at the workplace, and the session will be chaired by Ms. Akhila Sivadas, Trustee, Centre for Advocacy and Research (CFAR).
Wdc_concept_note.pdfThe theme of liberation is a big word for the women's movement.
Questions include: what does liberty mean for women as citizens of India when one focuses on the concept of citizen? What kind of women are regarded as good citizens? How do these limited definitions of good women in public spheres extend to women in private life? How do these definitions of women impact everyone's freedom? How do women experience the liberties of the citizen, granted by the constitution, guaranteed by the law? How can women attain liberty as a group while ensuring the liberties of non-women are also safe?
The panel discussion will take up questions of women's relationship with the law as a group and as individual activists, and as private citizens.
2015-16
2015-16
Maya Azucena
Maya Azucena
Unmukti, the Women's Development Centre, Gargi College invites you to a performance interaction on 28.10.2015.
Venue and Time: College Auditorium, 12.25--1.25 pm.
Maya Azucena is a visiting singer and activist from the USA. She is a survivor of domestic violence; she will be performing songs on her experiences to initiate discussion around this difficult subject. Sharing the stage with her will be senior Indian feminist activist, Kamala Bhasin, a dearly beloved interlocutor for Gargi audiences. This is a collaborative event with the US Embassy and One Billion Rising and will be valuable co-curricular exposure for teachers and students alike.
2013-14
2013-14
Walk against Violence
Walk against Violence
Walk against Violence
Walk against Violence
2012-13
2012-13
Rules for WDC 2011.docRules for WDC 2012(Edited).doc
2011-12
2011-12
Workshop
Workshop
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