As you may know, I am one of
the founders of the Women's Group at the Amnesty International Hungary. We already arranged and participated in some events dealing with human rights issues, especially about women's rights. (for example the cookie action on women's day -- if you don't remember, you can read back, link here). So, while Amnesty is famous for lobbying, we
regularly organize events which obviously have awareness raising campaigns, but
we also want to "entertain". Ok, this is not the expression I
was looking for, but the aim is to show an aspect of a certain country,
territory or a specific case. We want to involve, invite, inform etc.
Last Wednesday we organized an
event dealing with Egypt. The title "Denial and Repression" refers to
the actual situation of women. The event itself was organized at Fogasház (oh
yeah, I'm in love with ruin bars so it is not that surprising that I
wanted to have it there). Program: film screening with a talk afterwards.
So, Egypt. On the Spot. What's this? It is is a documentary run by two young Hungarian people in her twenties, Cseke Eszter and S. Takács Andris. We invited Eszter to tell about her personal experience and to give us a broader picture of what the life is like there. The Egyptian episode was shot a year ago when a series of civil demonstrations took place against the Mubarak regime -- millions of protesters from various social, economic or even religious background demanded the overthrow of the regime... but since then, the life of an everyday men has not changed much.
The audience was larger than we expected (at least larger than I expected...), approximately 60-70 people attended and they were pretty much curious, asked a lot of questions, so it was a nice surprise (for me). And of course, who does not like watching a movie and talking about human rights issues while drinking beer at a ruin bar? :)
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