Club Femme Beat at Hanoi Rock City
Sun 19 Apr 2015, 8 – 11 pm
Hanoi Rock City
From Swedish Embassy:
Welcome to Club Femme Beat! An evening of dance and music with DJs who are not men. Be the first to get to know the latest DJs in Hanoi!
See, listen – and dance! – to eight new female DJs!
Twelve Hanoian women have been taken part in the Femme Beat DJ School. A two-day-workshop held by DJs Maja Asperö Lind and Casandra Cornelio, and lecturer Sanna Beer from the Swedish network Equalisters. This Sunday you will have chance to support their first public gig. You will also get a chance to listen and dance to the two Swedish DJs during the evening.
Come and dance and listen to great music and get to know the new DJs in town!
Fee: Free of charge
Organisers: Embassy of Sweden in Hanoi, Swedish Equalisters, Swedish Institute, Hanoi Rock City
Why a female DJ School?
Equalisters is a Swedish network working to break stereotypes. The organization was launched five years ago when the founder of Equalisters, using social media, collected names of more than two hundred DJs who weren’t men, after hearing people claim that there were none to book at a night club in Stockholm.
Equalisters Femme Beat DJ School is a workshop for young women who want to be DJs. In Hanoi it’s arranged together with the Swedish Institute, the Swedish Embassy in Hanoi and Hanoi Rock City. The DJ School started in Stockholm with the aim of giving more women an opportunity to learn to mix their favourite music and to expand the notion of who can be a DJ. Roughly the same number of men and women go clubbing today, but when it comes to who chooses the music played, it is not as evenly balanced.
Today, Equalisters’ 80 000 followers help organisations to think outside the box. Even Swedish ministries use Equalisters and the initiative was congratulated by the Swedish Prime Minister Mr Stefan Löfven himself when the initiative celebrated 5 years recently. The goal has been the same since the start: to demolish any type stereotypes connected to, for example, gender, ethnicity or age. Equalisters is simply a tool to achieve a more diversed and open debate in the Swedish society and a tool for employers and event organisers to have more alternatives when they are looking for new people. It’s a win win. More information: www.rattviseformedlingen.se
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