WMC Film Festival 2008
The 2008 feminist film festival (from 24th to 26th of March) screened the following films: The Take by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein; Provoked by Jerg Mundhra; and Sancharam by Steven Soderbergh. The films were screened twice each day and a discussion after the matinee show was facilitated by Prof. Neloufer de Mel; Kaushalya Perera, … Continue reading WMC Film Festival 2008
WMC Film Festival 2008
The 2008 feminist film festival (from 24th to 26th of March) screened the following films: The Take by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein; Provoked by Jerg Mundhra; and Sancharam by Steven Soderbergh. The films were screened twice each day and a discussion after the matinee show was facilitated by Prof. Neloufer de Mel; Kaushalya Perera, … Continue reading WMC Film Festival 2008
Forum Theatre
The Stages Theatre Group approached WMC for financial support for their next Forum Theatre production scheduled to go on boards from 8th to 12th of March 2008. The topics selected for the performance included Marital Rape and Ethnic Conflict. The purpose of Forum Theatre is to encourage people of different perspectives to start exchanging views, … Continue reading Forum Theatre
YA TV – Point of View
කාන්තාව හා මාධ්‍ය සාමූහිකය, Women”s Campaign International හා යාටීවී එක්ව 2008 සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ සිට නව රූපවාහිනී සහ ගුවන්විදුලි සංවාද මාලාවක් හඳුන්වා දුන්නේය. ඉන් ස්ත‍්‍රීන්ගේ අත්දැකීම් හා ඔවුන්් සමාජයට ලබාදුන් දායකත්වය ඉස්මතු කෙළේය.
YA TV – Point of View
YATV in collaboration with WMC and Women”s Campaign International introduces a new TV and Radio Talk Show Series from September 2008. The series highlights women”s experiences and contributions to society.
We Women campaign
2008 ජනවාරි. කාන්තාව හා මාධ්‍ය සාමූහිකය ජනවාරි මාසයේ දී ‘අපි ගැහැනු’ නමින් ව්‍යාපාරයකට එකතු විය. ස්ත‍්‍රින් සහ ස්ත‍්‍රී කණ්ඩායම්වල එකතුවක් වන ‘අපි ගැහැනු’ ව්‍යාපාරය බිහි වූයේ ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාව 2008 දී 60 වැනි නිදහස් සමරුව පැවැත්වීමට සූදානම් වන අවස්ථාවේ දීය. මෙම එකතුවේ අරමුණු වන්නේ සිවිල් යුද්ධය, ආර්ථික ලිහිල්කරණය හා ගෝලීයකරණ සන්දර්භය තුළ ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ කාන්තා ව්‍යාපාරයේ … Continue reading We Women campaign
We Women campaign
The Women and Media Collective was part of the ‘We Women’ coalition in the month of January. ‘We Women’ is a coalition of individual women and women’s groups who came together in the event of Sri Lanka celebrating 60 years of independence in 2008. The objective of forming this coalition was to collectively and critically … Continue reading We Women campaign
Media Campaign – 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based violence
In commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women sixteen TV and Radio messages were broadcast during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based violence. It was noteworthy that the messages were all relayed by men, both well-known personalities and ordinary citizens, from diverse walks of life. The aim behind this … Continue reading Media Campaign – 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based violence
Radio Clips on Women’s Issues
The WMC produced two-minute radio clips called “Kadathurawen Eha” which focus on women’s issues. The clips were aired on the Sinhala Commercial Service radio stations in 2007. The clips raise issues such as women’s rights, violence against women, sexual harassment, International Women’s Day, migrant workers, women plantation workers, women in politics, education, health, and media.