face*To do:

To do when there are many people there at the working bee weekend: 

A-list:

Clean ceiling
Clean outside of kitchen fan
Carry down printer
Clean all doors - get them to close?
Swipe floor, clean steps.
Clean/scrape ceiling of pre-room/editorial poster room

B-list:

Install spotlight for editorial poster (Or check with Alice if she has it under control)
Install led-stripe for vitrine.(Or check with Alice if she has it under control)
Clean editorial poster-wall with bleach and wallpaper/paint it according to how the decoration commitee plans
Find keys for glass doors



To do for Mia + 1 on Monday:

Fix hole in ceiling
Semi-fix hole in wall
Build plate to cover bottom of ceiling fan.



Thurdsay:
- check publication
- add symbols to the archives
- credits to the archives
- documents with personal postal address: remove
- which personal pics do we use?
-- Lieve Snellings: OK
-- Marian: some 
- check together problematic documents? Vuuve vuveke
- check the list of bars (outside Bxl) — Mia asks Bart: list of bars in Be
- check if we have documents for each section (bars, organization)
- invitations/flyers ?
- start working on exhibition layout: draw on Mia’s models
- make a document to test prints A1 (10-20p)


*Planning:



23rd-25th of April Proofreading
26th of April print A1
28th of April delivery prints A1
28th-1st of April Taping together A1
30th of April Deliver the catalogue PDF 


*Title brainstorm:


formula suggestion:
[something to do with party] + [something to do with activism]

*Summary meeting:

A1 prints: ABC Europe (near Flagey)
bad news: difficult to find blank and printed 
weight is an issue for money
80 grams - 110 euros
130 grams - 1200

Catalogue:
Dates from Koen: send on 2nd get on 9th
+- 1 week to print
Graphius: 2720€



Interview questions and checklist for external meetings: 




*Content outlines:


*
*Thoughts on scenography:



*Resources:

*Dropbox folder from reading room 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yxcws2k53umu17w/AABZddwhzfR6ZFn3m3CJmiP-a?dl=0

*Links for further investigation


*Other:



Budget


*Timing

*
*Archive key words:

- SEARCH TERMS -

General topics :

Lesbian space
Lesbian history/herstory
Lesbian bar/fuif/salon
Lesbian maps
Lesbian protest
Lesbian organisations/clubs
Lesbian Brussels
Lesbiennedag
Lesbiennedag protest
Pride protest

PUBLICATION CATEGORIES

Lesbian space:

Lesbian bar/fuif/salon — personal pictures + flyers ? (The Gate flyers, menu, pics)
Lesbian maps — still to be done

Lesbian organisation + publications:
Lesbian organisations/clubs
Lesbian publications

INVITATIONS:
Lesbiennedag
Lesbiennedag protest
protests
- tegen Vlaams Blok (Amsab)
Pride protest

BUTTONS
> symbols? pictos?

*
*ARCHIVES

Symbols: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/jftr-meetingtemplate


*Overview materials

9 lesbian periodicals in Brussels
25 lesbian periodicals in BE
5 feminist magazines
6 books 
= 45 publications 

20 bars Bxl
4 flanders
9 organisations
= 33 spaces


*Order of the materials for the publication
Alphabetical order: https://ethercalc.org/BAL-ABC
Timeline: https://ethercalc.org/BAL-timeline


*Some of the lesbian or lesbian-centered magazines and newsletters 

*Edited in Brussels:
Artémys
Aware
De paarse paperpot / Paperpot
De paarse peperpot
Lady June Info
Les lesbianaires
Vrouwenwoorden
Ze SCUM Girls / SCUMGRRRLS

*
*Edited in Belgium:
Betty Boop News
Coördinatie Comité Homofiele Vrouwen - Coördinatie Comité Lesbische Vrouwen
De chatteraar / De nieuwe chatteraar
De Madam
De vrouwen Gazette
Femeus
Gebundeld Zweet
Goudou nieuwsbrief
Heksenvoer
Het Knallpotteke
'Het ondraaglijk besef - La notion insupportable'
Het rozeknopje
Impuls
Knalpot
Labyrint
La marque sur le mur
Le café des femmes
Les cyclades
Sansevieria
Sappho-Nieuws
't Aksent
Tout - Toutes
VIEUX ROSEnblaadje






*5 Feminist magazines

Et ta soeur?
Dulle Griet Krant
Les cahiers du GRIF
Lilith
Schoppenvrouw

*
*6 Books BE

Het Vlaams heksenboekje
Thuiskomen
Glijboekje
Lesbische leeslijst
and the lesbian issue of Les cahiers du GRIF (n°20).
Oud is Out
*

*Bars/cafes :
BXL 
*timeline:


Cleaned up list for exhibition:


*A myriad of bars, cafés or regular parties for lesbians in Brussels, in approximate chronology


La Pergola
Unnamed cafe on the corner of Lofstraat
Elle (later Amfora)
Black Swan
Le Chewing-gum bar [?]
Le Cercle [?]
Lady June
De Kluts
Le Capricorne
Madam / Le Madam Club
Amfora (old Elle)
L'Evenement
Diamant Rose
Le Feminin
La Peniche
Club Radical [?]
Sappho
D-LIGHT / Pussy Galore
Sappholie
The Big Noise
Wings
Le Bistrot Lesbien
Womania
Lespace
Gate



Matching list of dates to go with the bars:

late 1950s
late 1960s
1980-1982 [?]
early 1980s
early 1980s
early 1980s
around 1985
on Wednesdaays 1987
1990 [?] - end of 1994
12/11/1981 - end of 1983
01/08/1982 - [?]
-
1990-1997 [?]
1990
around 1990
around 1990
monthly party 1995 to 1998
1995-1999
around 1998
-
ca year 2000
ca year 2000
on Saturdays 1998 - 1999
2000-2003
1999-2003



*
*Slang

ingeboren lesbienne (NL, lit. native lesbian) = true lesbian
Jules (FR, lit. stud) = soft butch
Kiki = Androgynous, or neither butch nor femme
‘tarte au riz’ (FR, lit. Rice tart) = Lesbian
tweetaligen (NL, lit. bilingual) = bisexual
wuve-wuvetjes (NL, lit. derogatory version of woman-woman) = married women wanting lesbian experiences/wannabe lesbian
‘ze is van de familie’ (NL, Lit. she is from the family) = She is a lesbian

*

*A collection of undertitles from Brussels-based Le Lesbianaires - Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur le Lesbianisme Radical, in chronological order.


Création Éclatée
[Blank]
L'Heterofeminisme
Il n'y a pas d'HISTOIRE sans histoires
[...] Michelle, Miaou, ma chatte, lesbiennes, encore, encore, amour, adresse [....]
Afrique, Lutte, Asie, Resistance, Lesbanie
Les Lesbiennes et leur santé
Le travail des lebiennes, les lesbiennes dans le travail
Litterature Lesbienne
Arts Lesbiens
Stratégies Lesbiennes
Pour un communauté lesbienne...
Lesbiennes tout terrain
Les Lesbiennes & Les Connaissances
IL N'Y A PAS D'AGE POUR LES RAGES
LESBIENNES émigrées/exilées/réfugiées
LESBIENNES émigrées/exilées/réfugiées
[Blank] 
[Blank] 

*
*L - caption:
*
*There is no definition of words starting with an L in this series.

*(Alphabet-list, no title:)

Awel merci
Bah
Corvée
Dazalwelzijn
Effekes
Foefkes
Gosseminee
Holala
Ikke
Jaja
Knuffel
Magda of magdani?
Nou en dan
Oksel
Poepeloerzat
Qua 'liter ta'liter
Rillingen
Treuzelen
Ukkepuk
Voddevent
Warempel
Xanthippe
Yourcenar Marguerite 
Zonnedauw


Arrè
Brr
Cochot
Da's straf
Èlaba
Fleske fanta
Gijnje
Hatsekidee
Istnawaar of istnaniwaar?
Jeezes
Kus
Mor allé seg
Naadawer
Okapi
Pot
Quasimodo
Rez-de-chaussée
Troelala
Underdog
Vanalles
Wuft
X-benen
Yuca
Zusterliefde


Aiaiaiai
Babbelut
Cache-pot
Dikkop
Eksterogen
Frou-frou
Gifmengster
Héleba
Idioot
Jackpot
Kandawel?
Madam
Nou moe
Okidoki
Pst
Qou va'dis?
Rekel
Tram
Utopia
Vastegrond
Warom
Xenograaf
Yankee
Zaaien



CATALOGUE INPUT

THANK YOU LIST PUBLICATION


This would not have been possible without the help, care and resources from: Marian Lens, Lieve Snellings, Carine Demesmaeker, Bart Hellinck, Els Flour, Valentine Castel, Christin Ho, Severine Janssen, Alice Versieux, ooooo, Alastair Bealby, Maya Witters and Goedele De Caluwé. The expertise of AVG-Carhif, Fonds Suzan Daniel, RoSa vzw, BNA-BBOT, and Amsab-ISG Institut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
Thank you ♥ Mycket - and the project myths and realities- for lending us your heart to open up the term Lesbian
And a big thank you to all the people who contributed to the Q&A

SUBSIDIES
Cabinet Bianca Debaets (Gelijke Kansen | Egalité des Chances)
Cellule Egalité des Chances de la Ville de Bruxelles



THANK YOU LIST EXHIBITION

This would not have been possible without the help, care and resources from: Marian Lens, Lieve Snellings, Carine Demesmaeker, Bart Hellinck, Els Flour, Valentine Castel, Christin Ho, Severine Janssen, Alice Versieux, ooooo, Alastair Bealby, Maya Witters and Goedele De Caluwé. The expertise of AVG-Carhif, Fonds Suzan Daniel, RoSa vzw, BNA-BBOT, and Amsab-ISG Institut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
Thank you ♥ Mycket - and the project myths and realities- for lending us your heart to open up the term Lesbian
And a big thank you to all the people who contributed to the Q&A

SUBSIDIES
Cabinet Bianca Debaets (Gelijke Kansen | Egalité des Chances)
Cellule Egalité des Chances de la Ville de Bruxelles



COLOFON EXHIBITION
Artistic Research
Mia Melvær
Jessica Gysel
Loraine Furter

Graphic design
Loraine Furter

Exhibition design
Mia Melvær



COLOFON PUBLICATION
Artistic Research
Mia Melvær
Jessica Gysel

Editors
Jessica Gysel
Loraine Furter
Mia Melvær

Graphic design
Roxanne Maillet
Loraine Furter

Printing
Font


ARCHIVES


AVG-Carhif
Archive and Research Centre for Women's History (AVG)


asbl BNA-BBOT vzw


asbl Fonds Suzan Daniel vzw
gay/lesbian archives and documentation centre


RoSa Vzw
Center of expertise for gender equality and feminism


Personal archives:
Marian Lens
Lieve Snellings
Carine Demesmaeker

*Suugestions Vitrine

Geknuffeld
Marian Lens at conference
members cards


*
*Feedback proofread:


*Alphabet Volume:

p. 5 - legibility : picture too bright OK
p. 13 - legibility : picture too bright OK-ish


*Organisations Volume:

p. 8 - Marked Carine, is from Lieve Snellings, remove "Artemys" OK
p. 18 - Marked Carine, is from Lieve Snellings OK
p. 25 - unknown source is AVG-Carhif OK
p. 28 - unknown source is AVG-Carhif OK
p. 29 - unknown source is FSD OK
p. 32 - Photo by Lieve Snellings OK
p. 34 - Marked Carine, is from Lieve Snellings OK
p. 43 - Suzanne Cautaert is the name of the woman on the picture (who ran Reflex) OK

*
*Lesbianaires Volume /public and private :

p. 20 - legibility : text fragment too bright OK
p. 32 - legibility : text fragment cropped over text OK
p. 38 - legibility : text fragment too bright OK-ish (hard to make it better, it is blurred…)



Publication:


1 - Names organisations, ' het ontraagelijk OK
2 - location women's day? It is actually a publication: Les Petites Mâtines #17, Groupe Action Femmes, special issue on Women’s day, 1976
3 - sideways? system…
9 - Club radical is not confirmed, better remove it from list OK
13 - ad with picture of women does not come from chatteraar does it? It does!
15 - Lesbiennedag (not Antwerp because it is everywhere, in the program)
16 - ze scum girls repeats
19- ze scum girls repeats
20 - sideways? OK
21- ze scum girls repeats ---- Many times — We’ll integrate the final list later
24 - info photographers? Top is Lieve Snellings, bottom is from archive in amsterdam (name in file I think) — can we check in the book maybe?
25 - mistakes in caption- confusing dates  OK
---Several times: Excerpt ands Excerpts spelled wrong OK
---find clear protocol for indicating approximate dates, for example "ca 1985-1989" so it doesn't look like the place lasted from 1985 to 1989. OK
30 - Mix of Paperpot, Paarse Peperpot, … ?
34- not a lesbian organisation I think - remove page OK
35 - caption has strange spacing OK
36 - hard to find a precise caption…
37 - check caption?
41- date wrong - I think it is 1977? OK
43 - Wrong caption - D-light OK
46 - caption rework- excerpt from flyer OK
48 - Caption - check now?
49 - Caption - party at vooruit (no Femeus) OK
50 - cencor sirname OK
51 - newsletters OK
52 - Remove OK
54 - Remove OK
54 - Caption and date 1998 OK
56 - Make Sapho page OK
57 - Caption - pride flyer OK
58 - Palabraes - feminist not lesbian? Check Amsab — can’t find it…
60 - Split in two OK
61 - check dates and caption , flyers for pussy galore JESSICA ?
62 - date : ca 2002 - JESSICA checks?
64 - Heksenvoer - check amsab for date OK
65 - Clean up caption OK
66 - check exhibition for caption - por OK
67 - date - ca 1990 OK
68 - check exhibition file  for caption OK
70 - De Madam - Hasselt OK
71 - Cherry lane - flip image OK
72 - moira OK


Other suggestions : 
    Artemys protest lesbian power 1992
    Check lesbianaire volume for Lady June Info ads. (also some in the organisations volume, like  page 45)
    Quiz - Alphabet volume - Kiki, Jules, Femme OK
    Labyrint cover -organisations volume page 16 OK
    organisations volume page 22 - anti racist OK
    P 46  : use flyer from trans-event found in organisations volume on page 29 OK
    P 40 : Remove sanseveria cover - OK
    organisations volume page 36 - nice element OK


TO DO SUNDAY: