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This year’s Annual Conference takes place in Athens between 28 and 31 October 2015. The ILGA-Europe team is currently developing the programme, more information will become available soon. Registration for the conference is expected to open in May. The conference will open with a welcome dinner on Wednesday evening 28th of October and close with a Party on the evening of Saturday the 31st of October. This means that arrivals are foreseen on Wednesday and departures on Sunday. Note, booking your flight to Athens early might save you costs! Please also note that this year’s host committee is planning to organise a beach brunch on Sunday afternoon the 1st of November. Whilst the brunch is not formally part of the conference programme, we encourage people to join the brunch to have a relax afternoon under the Greek sun. Busses to the airport depart from close to where the brunch will take place. You could consider taking a late afternoon / evening flight, or of course decide to spend a few extra days in the city of Athens (at your own expense). This year, the local team of organisers consists of Olke in collaboration with SYD (Transgender Association of Greece), Rainbow Families, Colour Youth, Athens Pride, Thessaloniki Pride and Praksis. On this event page we will be posting the most important practical details you need to follow as participants of the conference, as well as other content related information on the conference that might interest you. Feel free to comment, ask questions and interact. Also don’t forget to visit conference section on ILGA-Europe’s webpage: http://ilga-europe.org/home/about_us/annual_conference/athens_2015 See you soon! EPAS is co-organising this political conference with the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and the Planica National Sports Institute. It will take place on 19 and 20 November 2015 in Bled, Slovenia. The conference aims to increase awareness on the role of physical education and sport in promoting diversity, tolerance and intercultural dialogue in European societies and in developing democratic culture. Quarterly boardmeeting of the EGLSF board SCRUM! – Genesis Cinema, London // Friday 27 November, 9:00pm Rugby, gays and the quest to belong; cue inspirational documentary Despite crash tackling the terrorists on United Flight 93, Mark GAME FACE This sports feature documentary tells the parallel story of Fallon The Diverse Identities in Sport conference will take place on Friday 4th March, from 930am – 430pm at the Scottish Youth Theatre in Glasgow. The conference will focus on issues of inclusion of transgender, intersex, non-binary, genderqueer, asexual and other diverse identities related to gender and sexualities in their intersections with other identities within a sport context, and look at practice and strategies for inclusion. We will look at a range of pathways but will focus primarily on access level, grassroots and recreational sport. The full programme for the day will be available to download here from mid-January 2016. The newly formed board of the EGLSF will have it's first face to face meeting in Rotterdam. We would like to extend an invitation to our member organisations in The Netherlands and Belgium to drop by the Ferry Store in the centre of Rotterdam for a meet and greet. We hope to see you there! The board will hold a face to face meeting in Copenhagen the weekend of the 19th-21st August 2016. We will meet with the local member organisation Pan Idræt, and on Saturday afternoon from 1pm, we will also take part in the Copenhagen Pride. We hope to see as many of you there as possible, and look forward to meeting our hosts Pan Idræt. https://www.facebook.com/events/1736274056611294/ Village Manchester Football Club To celebrate Village Manchester Football Club's 20th anniversary and 20 years of inclusive football, we are hosting our own football tournament, in the run up to Manchester's famous Pride. The event will include an opening ceremony at England's National Football Museum, two days of 11-a-side football on grass, individual team changing rooms, free entry to Manchester's biggest gay club, closing party and presentations, evening entertainment, and the unique opportunity to walk in the Manchester Pride parade in front of tens of thousands of cheering spectators. Participants are invited to stay on to enjoy all that Manchester Pride has to offer. Twitter:- villagemancfc
The conference will open with a welcome dinner on Wednesday evening 28th of October and close with a Party on the evening of Saturday the 31st of October. This means that arrivals are foreseen on Wednesday and departures on Sunday. Note, booking your flight to Athens early might save you costs!
The programme will include interactive discussions, presentations, workshops facilitated by experts, practitioners and academics as well as a political debate transmitted live on-line inviting comments from the audience in Bled and via social media.
The political debate will outline the possibilities for improving policies and strategies by identifying sport as a tool for promoting tolerance and diversity in modern society. The conclusions will be reflected in the Conference Declaration and provide impulse and guidance for possible further steps at national level.
SCRUM!
Bingham died on September 11, 2001. An international gay rugby
tournament was founded in his honour. SCRUM follows the lives of a
self-assured Canadian jock, an Irish backpacker and a stoic Japanese
outsider when they compete for a position on the world’s premier team
in the lead-up to the 2014 Bingham Cup - the Sydney Convicts.
Underlined by a pulsating soundtrack the film beautifully manages to
capture the physicality of the sport while also exploring the
emotional depth of the athletes it portrays.
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London // Saturday 28 November, 8:00PM
Fox, MMA’s first transgender pro fighter, and Terrence Clemens, a
college basketball player in Oklahoma who happens to be gay. The film
follows both athletes during their coming out process, and sheds light
on the obstacles LGBT sports players deal with throughout their
career. Former NBA star Jason Collins shines as a mentor for Terrence
in this inspiring documentary.
