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Special Plenary Workshop Prides – facing challenges of the future
Mediator: Peter Achtnicht
The goal of this plenary workshop is to strenghten the worldwide cooperation among Prides, partners and other relevant players in the LGBT community. In this plenary workshop we want to develop ideas empowering us to face the challenges. For example we will define measures enhancing poorly established Prides and discuss cooperations between InterPride and other relevant organisations such as EPOA or try to encourage partnerships between established Prides in order to strengthen the movement. After a plenary session, smaller workgroups will be formed with different themes to work on. The work of the groups will then be presented to the plenary. Special Debate Diversity
Podium speakers: Rob Lengacher, UBS; Michael Naegele, Sunrise; Christoph von Gamm, IBM;Claude Koehl, Intercultural Services
Switzerland – though a small country – is the domicile of some of the largest Multinational Corporations in the world. Especially large enterprises have an enormous impact on changing the work environment, on how LGBT employees are viewed in the workforce – and within society at large. For any LGBT employee the question could arise: Is it reasonable to out myself at work? How will this influence my career? Does the company support an internal LGBT group? Do enterprises allow their employees, to take part and visually show the company logo in a Parade? Is it also likely that companies with a diversity programme would sponsor a Pride Event in general? Pride events can be an opportunity for companies to demonstrate their acceptance of diversity and show a modern corporate image. Some enterprises discuss these questions within their diversity bureau, others have an internal Pride group, but there are still some companies that avoid the fact that lesbians and gays are working for them. After a podium talk, the discussion will be opened to the audience.
SOCIAL POLITICAL
The gayness of the business
Presenters: Christoph von Gamm and Albert Kehrer
Participants will discuss with senior representatives of IBM about :
1. What are the mutual expectations of multinational companies (MNCs) and the GLBT movement?
2. How to work together in a better way?
3. Marketing and Sales – who is selling what to whom?
4. The people aspect in all dealings.
5. The future. First Life, Second Life, Ghetto Life and Real Life? Foreign Policy for the LGBT-community
Presenter: Simone Brander
The workshop starts with information about the efforts of the working group „International“ of the Swiss lesbian organization (LOS), the national organisation for gays (Pink Cross) and Anmesty International for gays and lesbians. Simone shows examples, how countries engage themselves for LGBT human rights. The following discussion gives you the opportunity to talk about the developments on this subject in your country and hopefully help others to launch positiv changes in their home country as well as to develop strategies on how to cooperate more in the future. Prides in hostile environments
Presenters: Slava Sementsov, Tomasz Baczkovski, Sahran Abeysundra and Billy Urich
The “Rainbow’s End”. A short film about islamophobia and homophobia and Human Rights sets the mood for the following presentation by guests from Belarus, Poland and Sri Lanka talking about their situation and needs. The workshop will not just concentrate on the horror and sadness of Human Rights violations, but accentuate their success as well. Afterwards there will be a discussion what the “Happier Prides” in their respective organizations have done during the past years to promote awareness of Human Rights and Pride violations around the world. It will be an audio-visual teaching and learning workshop with time for questions and answers after all the presentations have been completed. Pride without Boundaries
Presenters: Alejandro Cueva and Lorenzo Herrera
Participants will be learning about who the organizers of Tijuana Pride are, what they do in their Community in Tijuana and how they are dealing with. What is the special problem or benefits they have because of being next door to the USA? In this case is just a step between first and third world. Swiss same-sex laws and the world: What can we export, what can we import?
Presenter: Pierre André Rosselet
The participants will learn the basics and if interested also details of the Swiss Law on registered partnerships of same sex couples as well as interesting parts of the criminal and constitutional laws (non discrimination because of way of life) and what we had to do to get there. Participants can talk about the laws in their countries and we can find out together what could be „exported“ to their country or „imported“ to Switzerland and how this could be done. Swiss democracy and the national elections on October 21, 2007
Presenter: Patrick Hadi Huber
You will learn how the direct Swiss direct democracy works and how a system with seven presidents having equal rights can be that stable. Find out how Switzerland happened to have the first public vote on a national partnership law for gays and lesbians worldwide. A short preview to the Swiss national elections taking place one week after the InterPride conference will make you understand the visible campaining in the street. After all you will dive into the role of a Swiss citizen. Development of Gay Pride in Switzerland during the past 30 years
Presenter: Gion Linder
You will learn about how gay Pride developed in a small and conservative country. CSD Zurich has been growing over the past years and is now one of the largest events in the city. It will even grow bigger when in 2009 EuroPride will be in Zurich. „derBUS“ – how to organize a touring exhibition on LGBT lifestile
Presenter: Brigitte Röösli
The exhibition of „derBUS“ communicated in a very clear way. It invited people to discover the lifestyle of gays and lesbians in Switzerland and brought up a public discussion. This exhibition was touring through Switzerland for three years and was visited by about 25’000 people. In this workshop Brigitte Röösli will talk about the idea behind the exhibition and how it was created. „derBUS“ is successful project which could be established in other countries too.The workshop will be translated from German into English. Fighting homophobic prejudice among Swiss schoolchildren
Presenters: Siri Kohl, Sandra Kuenzli and Ruben Ott from GLL
Participants will receive background information on the current situation of homosexual people in Switzerland and gain a detailed insight into the work of GLL. Through roleplay and discussion, they will help us evaluate our work and generate new inputs that may influence and improve our future work. Is there still place for HIV-Prevention at Pride Events?
Presenter: Thomas Bucher
During the late 80s and early 90s HIV/Aids and the prevention from this virus/disease were present in each gay men’s mind and made up one part of the gay community. Today the disease is hardly visible any more and the activists against aids have disappeared. Instead we find a massive presence of commercial companies at gay events where as non profit organizations hardly get any attention any more. Has HIV become unimportant to gays? Does it disturb our proper image so we don’t want to have HIV prevention visible at our prides? Discuss these things with the representatives of national aids prevention of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and find answers. „Sleeping With The Right People – Building coalitions between labor unions and the LGBT community“
Presenter: Cleve Jones
What LGBT travelers and event planners need to know about the global Hotel Workers Rising campaign. Around the world, hotel workers are organising in response to the globalisation of the hotel industry. Tens of thousands of LGBT individuals work in the hotel industry and hundreds of thousands of us use hotels for vacations, business and community events every year. What are the hotel workers fighting for? Unions have supported the struggle for LGBT rights, how can we support the workers? How will hotel strikes and boycotts impact LGBT events? How will LGBT activists benefit from union support? In this workshop we will look at „Sleep With The Right People“ – a successful example of an international coalition between organized labor and the LGBT community. Pride activities and religious dimensions
Presenter: Dr. theol. Martin Müller
This workshop offers a practical approach to the above topic: We shall discuss experiences of actual religious celebrations during Pride in Zurich and many other cities. We will further see where momentary problems, limits or – even better – possibilities lie, and we will work on ideas and projects to be hopefully realized in various future occasions. Religion and homosexuality do not exclude each other!
ORGANISATION
Board affairs and development
Presenter: Dr. Philipp Princetta
A group discussion on all that creates and maintains a pro-active and function board. Topics include: Define board needs and committee ideas, “Boards from Hell”, Strategic goals – how to define and set them, How your board works and is perceived by community, Who does all the work on your board and why, Keeping the board “fresh” and Diversity – Difficult or not difficult. How to structure and building up a pride organisation
Presenter: Lorenz Bützberger
A firm structure of the pride organization helps to motivate every member of the organizng team. Job descriptions give a clear view of everyone’s duty and increase the chances finding the right person for the right position. In this workshop you will learn to know work methodolgies structuring a pride organization and elaborating job descriptions. Canuck & Yank Financial Consulting
Presenters: Russell Murphy and Ross Chapman
Amortization; Assets; Audit; Balance Sheet; Budget; Cash Flow; Contribution; Deficit; Depreciation; Earned; Expense; Financial Statement; Grant; Income; Liabilities; Revenue; Surplus; Unearned.Are these terms that scare you? Do your eyes glaze over when your treasurer begins speaking? Does your organization have a treasurer? This is an open forum for delegates to bring their questions, problems and concerns for their organization’s finances and accounting. Russell Murphy and Ross Chapman are professional, as well as volunteer, financial workers. Instead of a structured workshop here is a chance for your specific questions to be answered. You may be surprised to find out that other organizations and delegates have similar problems and solutions. Realising a Festival Place
Presenter: Maria del Carmen Maget
This workshop will teach you magic tricks. You learn how CSD Zurich turns a plain public place into a pride festival area and how it helps the event to fund a concert without taking any entrance fee! We take the following Ingredients: stages, barriers, community information stands, electricity, technical equipment, a drink delivery enterprise, community bars, food stands, seating areas, water connection, toilets and some helpers. Mix them all in a bowl, say abracadabra and: your Pride festival is born! If you want to learn that trick or if you have other successfull ways: visit this workshop.
The workshop will be translated from German into English. Getting visitors to your Pride – Club Mondial’s travel and marketing solutions
Presenters: Rainer M. Willa and Jérôme Bühlmann
This presentation will show Club Mondial’s global approach of international collaboration: it includes travel services and joint marketing efforts and enables InterPride and its pride organisation committees to open a new revenue channel and to drive more visitors to theirs events. Participants will learn that this emerging business opportunity is simple and easy to implement at no additional financial cost. Collaboration is possible for 2008 events already.
MEDIA & MARKETING Media relations after almost 40 years of media coverage
Presenter: Andres C. Nitsch
Since the early days of our movement, the media reported about us and our goals – in many cases in a supporting way. How do you still attract the media interest to establish a broad coverage of your event? How do you approach journalists and reporters with a general interest but no specific knowledge about our movement and goals? What do you have to think about when establishing a comprehensive communication concept for your event? Know more about the “dog bites man – man bites dog” principle. Succsessful Presentations
Presenter: Mark Frederick Chapman
Now and then you have to do a presentation for your Pride, your Organisation or your Business. Mark will show you how to visualise and dramatise your presentation. What makes presentations effecvie and memorable and most importatnt how to capture the attention of your audience right from the start. This workshop will also point out the potential of PowerPoint. Branding your Pride
Presenter: Mark Frederick Chapman
In a world of brands it pays to have an identity for your Pride. Mark shows how you can give your Pride a Corporate Identity and unique face, making it a brand. Show casing the visuals of CSD Zurich over the last four years and the recent work for EuroPride 09, Mark will demonstrate how you can develop your brand and keep it up to date. The raise & future of gay media
Presenters: Spyros Petridis and Thomas Wyss
Focussing on the German speaking countries, this workshop demonstrates the importance of gay magazines and media. Find out how the gay media network functions in Europe. See a whole range of magazines from amateurish to professional examples. The two presenters – well experienced in producing „akut:“, a gay lifestyle magazine – will also give you an overview of the Swiss magazine scene. A question that finally should be discussed is, is there still a place for printed media in the era of the internet? Getting Sponsors
Presenter: Farah de Tomi
You know how difficult it is to find sponsors? Farah will explain how you can get sponsors by presenting your pride event from its best side. She is very experienced in getting sponsors as she currently is responsible for raising funds for the Zurich Film Festival, elections of Miss and Mister Switzerland and a lot of other Events. Learn how she contacts potential sponsors and how you can find some for you event.
MISCELLANEOUS Walking through 2000 years of history
Tour guide: Andres C. Nitsch
Zurich was officially founded 16 b.c. as “Turicum” by the Romans, establishing a small trade and transportation post on the way north, though first settlements by natives are reported to go back in history some 4000 years – natives who built houses on wooden poles in the lake or the river near the shoreline. Since the days of the Roman Empire, Zurich developed into the leading city of Switzerland, into one of the five largest financial centers of the world, and into the city with the highest life quality in the world. Come along on a tour through centuries of history, and see from the last remains of the Roman Empire to stunning modern architecture some amazing insights. Mix your favourite Cocktail
Presenter: Jvan J. Paszti
All you need to know about mixing your favourite Cocktail such as the perfect Martini. Jvan will show you the tricks of the trade and give you advice how to stock your own bar at home. The workshop will take place at the Cranberry bar in the old town. (Limited to 12 participants per day, reservations at the conference office) How to be a Drag Queen
Presenter: Alf Heller
Did you ever want to see what it takes for a man to look like a woman? Do you want to go out as a Drag Queen or Drag King on Saturday Night? If you like being in company while the process or if you want to have a sneak peak at this quite tremendous moment of metamorphose be ready and attend this workshop. Well. If you want to dress up on your own do not forget to take your costume with you.
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