Above photo: Magi Hubert (ABR 2011)
European Gender Bender
90 minutes north of Barcelona
May 20th - 22nd, 2016
Registration is Open Here!
Map of Event Location
Venue Website: Mas Frances, A Cooperative dedicated
to ecological and social transformation.
Vision Statement: At the Gender Bender Recess we are working to create safer spaces within our dance community for all peoples, bodies, genders, and sexualities.
The Setting: All meals will be provided and communal. Workshops all day, dancing all night. Prepare for an inspiringly beautiful venue, with inspired, deep conversation about real issues. And the venue is a Cooperative dedicated to ecological and social transformation.
Curriculum Overview : The curriculum is designed to both inspire and challenge every participant. We will actively be working on the major projects we identify in our own communities, as well as the major projects that we identify in ourselves. This is a place to come and be humble, to learn, and to be a part of something both difficult and very special. We will spend portions of the weekend working on dancing our non-dominant dance role as well as talking about and workshopping some of the hardest hitting issues in the community. The event will have be one cohesive curriculum that all participants will move through together, combining dance, activism, discussion, and play. One of our main goals with this event is to not only help improve skills of people dancing outside of their primary role, but to do the work necessary to create a community that allows people to safely dance outside of their primary role, and as a whole to do the work to improve the overall safety and empowerment of our community.
Everyone will be take together through a single curriculum involving the following topics.
Mini Essential Packing list:
1) Bring Your Own Sheets. The event is providing a bed, blankets, and mattress for everyone; however, participants need to bring their own sheets. Otherwise the venue will charge you 15 Euros for sheets.
3) Clothes to be screen printed on ("Revolutionize your dance!")
4) Hot outfit(s) to wear for Saturday night's gender fuck theme. We'll be hosting a gender fuck costume closet—feel free to bring costume donations to help stock it and make someone else look FABULOUS.
5) Warm winter clothes, just in case.
6) Your beautiful, glowy, badass selves.
The Workshops
Topics to Be Covered In The Activist Track
The Setting: All meals will be provided and communal. Workshops all day, dancing all night. Prepare for an inspiringly beautiful venue, with inspired, deep conversation about real issues. And the venue is a Cooperative dedicated to ecological and social transformation.
Curriculum Overview : The curriculum is designed to both inspire and challenge every participant. We will actively be working on the major projects we identify in our own communities, as well as the major projects that we identify in ourselves. This is a place to come and be humble, to learn, and to be a part of something both difficult and very special. We will spend portions of the weekend working on dancing our non-dominant dance role as well as talking about and workshopping some of the hardest hitting issues in the community. The event will have be one cohesive curriculum that all participants will move through together, combining dance, activism, discussion, and play. One of our main goals with this event is to not only help improve skills of people dancing outside of their primary role, but to do the work necessary to create a community that allows people to safely dance outside of their primary role, and as a whole to do the work to improve the overall safety and empowerment of our community.
Everyone will be take together through a single curriculum involving the following topics.
- Dance Workshops: Classes covering a variety of topics including: learning your non-dominant role, dancing switch, role fluid partner dancing, and classes addressing how gender is expressed by or projected onto movement.
- Activist Workshops: Interactive workshops and discussions addressing larger cultural and community issues such as gender assumptions, homophobia, sexism, consent, abelism, ageism, and the sexualization of dance to name a few.
- Facilitated Discussions: Focused conversations designed to create constructive and safe spaces to share personal experiences, discuss issues we see in our community, and construct action plans to bring home after the event.
Mini Essential Packing list:
1) Bring Your Own Sheets. The event is providing a bed, blankets, and mattress for everyone; however, participants need to bring their own sheets. Otherwise the venue will charge you 15 Euros for sheets.
3) Clothes to be screen printed on ("Revolutionize your dance!")
4) Hot outfit(s) to wear for Saturday night's gender fuck theme. We'll be hosting a gender fuck costume closet—feel free to bring costume donations to help stock it and make someone else look FABULOUS.
5) Warm winter clothes, just in case.
6) Your beautiful, glowy, badass selves.
The Workshops
Topics to Be Covered In The Activist Track
- Check Your Privilege
- Consent and Viewer Consent
- Social Hierarchies and Power Dynamics
- How Have Gender Assumptions Affected Us?
- What the Hell is a PGP?
- Creating Safer Spaces
- Projecting Our Own Communities
- Being Allies and Being Leaders, and How They are Important
Read Recess's Braver Spaces Policy
Event Pricing: Sliding Scale
Please pay at the upper end of what you can afford to help make this event affordable and accessible for everyone in the community.
Can't Afford A Low-Income Ticket? Fill out our Scholarship Form*
€28 Event Meal Plan, food for the entire event
€98 Low-Income Ticket
€128 Mid-Low Income
€168 Mid Income Ticket
€208 Upper Income
€268 Benevolent Gentry Ticket
*Please note that Scholarship covers only entrance to the event and does not cover food. While we really believe in financial accessibility, the amount we charge for food is literally the cost it takes us to feed you, so we ask that you try to cover your food costs if at all possible. We are charging less than €3 dollars a meal for local, organic food with big portions. We generally ask that people either cover their own food costs to buy meal tickets or that they try to feed themselves at the event.
Can't Afford A Low-Income Ticket? Fill out our Scholarship Form*
€28 Event Meal Plan, food for the entire event
€98 Low-Income Ticket
€128 Mid-Low Income
€168 Mid Income Ticket
€208 Upper Income
€268 Benevolent Gentry Ticket
*Please note that Scholarship covers only entrance to the event and does not cover food. While we really believe in financial accessibility, the amount we charge for food is literally the cost it takes us to feed you, so we ask that you try to cover your food costs if at all possible. We are charging less than €3 dollars a meal for local, organic food with big portions. We generally ask that people either cover their own food costs to buy meal tickets or that they try to feed themselves at the event.
Recess Rainbow Forms
SCHOLARSHIP FORM
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SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER
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RIDESHARE BOARD
fill a car, find a ride, fall in love
Plugging Into The Recess
Recess events are not run by some huge production company; they are run and produced by you! Every single person who registers will work one volunteer shift during the event. You will get to choose where you plug in: working in the kitchen, building one of our structures, helping folks register and find their way around, creating a enchanted ambiance for the dances, supporting all our hard-working volunteers…whatever you decide, you’ll be helping to make the Recess magic happen.
The Recesses have had required volunteering for years, and many participants tell us that their volunteer shift was a highlight of their experience. You’ll get to hang out with people you may never have otherwise met, and most importantly you'll have an opportunity to spend time in genuine service to your community. This event and this community belong to you!
When you arrive at the event you will have a chance to pick how you want to plug-in and who you want to work with.
The Recesses have had required volunteering for years, and many participants tell us that their volunteer shift was a highlight of their experience. You’ll get to hang out with people you may never have otherwise met, and most importantly you'll have an opportunity to spend time in genuine service to your community. This event and this community belong to you!
When you arrive at the event you will have a chance to pick how you want to plug-in and who you want to work with.
Recess Survival Guide: What You Should Know
- We will arrive on site beginning at Friday at 2pm,.
- Everything you need for sleeping We are talking sheets, pillows, and warm bedding. We have enough beds for everyone, but they are just beds. Also , anyone is invited to camp if you would like more privacy in your sleeping situation. In that case be sure to bring all of your own camping equipment: ground pad, sleeping bag, tent, the works.
- Sun screen, bug spray, and clothes to be in the sun for much of the day. Temperatures at night will probably be in the 50s with daytime highs in the 80s.
- Snacks. If you buy meal shares we will feed you three meals a day plus snacks, (with vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, and meat options). If, however, you have other allergies or dietary restrictions, it's probably a good idea to bring some of your own food regardless of whether you buy meal shares.
- Clothes to be screen printed. We will be offering custom-prints on any clothes you choose to bring. Clothing must be dropped off for screen printing on Friday and/or Saturday morning and will be available for pick-up Sunday afternoon. The inks will be black and white, so bring clothes that will show those colors well. Also keep in mind that textured fabric and seams are hard to print on and often produce less-than-ideal outcomes.
- Venue Accessibility Statement. Indoor lodging with beds, toilets and electricity. Indoor and outdoor woods dance spaces. The facility is not setup for wheelchair accessibility. Email [email protected] for details or specific needs requests.
Tentative Event Schedule: All Heavy On the "Ish"
Friday Event Arrival Information: Dinner and opening circle at 6pm. Feel free to arrive anytime after 2pm, but know that we'll joyfully ask (and expect) you to help us set up! Music starts at 9pm.
Daily Meal Times: (All heavy on the "ish") 11am Brunch, 6:30pm Dinner, 1am Late Night Meal.
Dancing Fri/Sat/Sun nights: 9pm - When we stop. With venue changes and transitions.
Monday Noon: We miss you already, Selves and ideologies transformed. Now let's go take it to the outside world!!
Daily Meal Times: (All heavy on the "ish") 11am Brunch, 6:30pm Dinner, 1am Late Night Meal.
Dancing Fri/Sat/Sun nights: 9pm - When we stop. With venue changes and transitions.
Monday Noon: We miss you already, Selves and ideologies transformed. Now let's go take it to the outside world!!
What is the Recess food Co-op?
As always, collective meals and snacks will be available all day every day. Everyone who wants to eat with us can buy a food share and our kitchen team will pool all the cooperative food funds and volunteer labor to provide totally awesome meals made with the most fresh, local and organic food possible.
Vegan and gluten-free options will be available at every meal.
One food share (€28/event) entitles you to 3 days of vegetarian food, which includes 3 meals a day.
The first official meal of the event will be Friday dinner, and the last Monday Brunch.
Vegan and gluten-free options will be available at every meal.
One food share (€28/event) entitles you to 3 days of vegetarian food, which includes 3 meals a day.
The first official meal of the event will be Friday dinner, and the last Monday Brunch.