- Workshop for Mentors and Professors of Higher Education
- Creation and Production of E-Learning Course on the Gender Dimension
- Co-Creation of Mentoring Pilots in Higher Education
- Hackathon Equal.STEAM
- Creation of Best Practices Booklet with Activity Toolkits targeted at Higher Education audience
- Pre-professional immersive experience in STEAM
- Immersive research experience in STEAM
- Video and image contest "Why I Want to Be an Engineer/ Inventor/ Scientist..."
- Creation of Transversal Curricular Units
- Participation in Job Fairs
- Creating Podcasts about Women's Inventions in Engineering, Science and Technology
- Monitoring marketing materials and website to ensure they include women students
- Equal.STEAM Community of Challenges
- The theater in the deconstruction of gender stereotypes
- The cinema in the deconstruction of gender stereotypes
- Dissemination and communication of the Equal.STEAM project
- Equality Days: Artistic Intervention for the integration of girls and women in STEAM areas
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Equality Days: Artistic Intervention for the integration of girls and women in STEAM areas
The Equality Days seek to raise awareness among the UC community, as well as the surrounding community living in the city of Coimbra, for the theme of integration of girls and women in STEAM areas.
The event is composed of artistic performances, including music, theater, cinema, exhibitions, workshops and conversations with the aim of deconstructing gender stereotypes.
This will be the first edition of the event, which will have regular annual continuity in the following years, focusing on other themes of inclusion and diversity.
When:
Equality Days will take place on May 30th to June 1st 2023.
Where:
Equality Days take place on UC pole 2 in a combination of outdoor and indoor spaces.
Most activities take place in a DOME, located in the East parking lot of the Civil Engineering Department (DEC), Pole 2.
FREE ADMISSION, limited to the spaces where the performances take place.
Detailed program:
Day 1 | May 30
Title: Illustrated Feminist Glossary
Type of activity: Exhibition
Location: Atrium of DEC, Polo 2
Organization: Casa da Esquina
Description:
When we talk about gender, feminism, and social justice causes, we sometimes struggle to keep up with these conversations, either because we don't know the key words or because it all seems too complicated. The Illustrated Feminist Glossary comes as a response to this ignorance with the goal of creating an introductory guide that addresses these topics in a simple, clear and relaxed way. With this three voices glossary, the result of the collaboration between Amargo, biakosta and Filipa Namorado invited by Casa da Esquina, we don't intend to present definitive answers or create a comprehensive manual detailing all the possible nuances of these themes, but rather combine brief definitions and thematic illustrations in order to build an overview of the concepts that we consider important in the context of this moment and this space. What we propose to do is just to give the starting point so that each person can question their own internalized preconceptions and later do their own more in-depth research. Also because we are not academics in any of these areas, just three interested people who decided to draw on these themes.
Title: Quorum
Type of activity: Theater Performance
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: DOME DEC Pole 2
Maximum capacity: 150 people
Production: Marionet | CEIS20 | Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra
Description:
A group of people who study and research at the University of Coimbra, in various areas of knowledge, came together to build a theatrical performance about gender stereotypes in academia. The result is a collective performance that reflects on issues of power, representation, gender, parenting, precariousness, masculinity, productivity, and the search for balance.
In every decision we make, in every act we perform, how do we maintain justice?
This play was co-produced in the context of Activity 14 of Project Equal.STEAM
Day 2 | May 31
Title: Botanical Printing
Type of activity: Workshop
Duration: 2 hours
Limited number of participants: 15
Location: DOME DEC Pole 2
Organization: TenChi Coimbra Association
Description:
Women and Plants in the Contours of Botanical Printing
What can we learn from the plants around us? What stories can they tell us? How can we reuse clothes and stories for botanical printmaking?
The workshop will be held in two stages (making the garments and developing the print) and will allow, on the first day, to learn about some dyed plants used in botanical printing and then the workshop itself using the techniques of tying and baking. On the second day, there will be the opening of the fabrics, observation of the results, and conclusion of the activity.
Facilitator: Carmen Cavalcanti, art educator, teacher of movement arts and fine arts (Tenchi Tessen, Aikido, ceramics, botanical printmaking) I seek through these arts of living, to express myself in the world, with the purpose of non-violence or Ahimsa.
What you need to bring: Clothes that can get dirty or an apron.
Title: Batucada do Ó - Intervention Music Workshop on Gender Equality
Type of activity: Workshop
Limited number of participants: 25
Location: DOME DEC Pole 2
Duration: 1 hour
Organization: Associação Catrapum
Description:
Intervention Music on Gender Equality
In this workshop we will work on the power of words and the power of music as an instrument to create change. The theme of gender equality serves as an inducer for musical composition, accompanied by percussion and melodic instruments, which everyone will have to experiment and create, composing in a spirit of sharing and collective creation. Once the compositions are done, we will move on to a presentation, where the intervention songs created will be performed in the streets and together, singing, with pride, the fight for equality and human rights, from the perspective and with the resonances of each of the participants.
Facilitator: Vânia Couto is a professional musician, having already carried out a series of intervention projects in the fight for Gender Equality. Besides being a musician, she is also the artistic director of Catrapum Association, where for 11 years she has been performing several activities of educational and cultural services.
Title: Pole Dance, a powerful tool in the deconstruction of gender stereotypes.
Activity Title: Demonstration
Limited availability for 30 people
Duration: 1 hour
Location: DOME DEC Pole 2
Organization: Bats on Pole Practitioners Club, Coimbra Pole Dance
Description:
Bats on Pole, Coimbra Pole Dance's main purposes are to provide to the community, means to practice and organize physical and sports activities, associated with Pole Dance, with all the physical, psychological and social advantages that the practice of this sport provides, strongly oriented towards the promotion of gender equality; social inclusion and active mobility through dance as a form of sport, art and body expression. We believe that dance is a powerful art form and body expression that can be used to improve physical and mental health and promote self-esteem and confidence in our students. We believe that the existence of a multicultural and international space where dance is the universal language promotes social relationships by combating social isolation and individualism.
The practice of Pole Dance promotes positive body image and constructive relationships between physical activity and psychological well-being. Studies suggest that Pole Dance promotes female empowerment, helping in the deconstruction of beauty standards, subverting aesthetic expectations and reinforcing women's self-confidence. The self-confidence of women who do Pole Dance is often described as a transformation, after seeing what they can do with Pole Dance, to believe that it is possible to become what they want to be, whatever it is.
Facilitators: Bats on Pole students from several areas of UC and Rita Araújo - Graduated in Geological Engineering, by FCTUC, Master in Geotechnics and Founder of the first Pole Dance Practitioners Club in Portugal, Bats on Pole, helps women to know a new way of doing sport with POLE DANCE and to transform themselves into people, more active, safer, more confident and believing that they can be whatever they want.
Title: VERTERE: The (de)construction being
Type of activity: Cinema
Duration: 50 minutes
Maximum capacity: 120 people
Location: Laginha Serafim Auditorium, DEC, Polo 2
Production: Ponto Criação | LIPA
Description:
Thousands of people share and give meaning to the same space. Every single day. In the urgency to think the vertigo and the places that each one tries to occupy, emerge clues for new questions, urban and human topographies, multiple areas of knowledge that cross and complement each other, open opportunities, ceilings to be opened and premises to be deconstructed. At the borders between bodies that are strangers or recognize each other, we find, however, the energy that serves movement and joint change.
Vertere, "turn", "move", "change" is the verb that denotes a journey through the universe of the University of Coimbra, based on a set of interviews with students and researchers from different areas. Through their looks, aspirations and expectations, we discover new places and starting points, a vehicle to reflect on gender issues, science and the other.
This film is the result of Activity 15 of Project Equal.STEAM.
Dia 3 | 1 junho
Title: TenChi Tessen, meditation in movement
Type of activity: Workshop
Limited number of participants: 20
Location: DOME DEC Pole 2
Duration: 1 hour
Organization: Tenchi Coimbra Association
Description:
TenChi Tessen is the art of movement that keeps certain characteristics inherent to the Budo arts, which lead the practitioner to develop spontaneity and freedom of expression and, consequently, flexibility and open-mindedness, supported by the principle of katsujinnoken or "giving life with the saber". Here, the saber is replaced by the fan. The Budo arts, better known as martial arts, are full of prejudices and stereotypes regarding women, practitioners of these same arts. The proposal of TenChi Tessen is to deconstruct this place from "art of war" to art of dialogue, substituting the notion of "Attack/Defense" for the concept of "Question/Answer". Tenchi Tessen, "Art of Movement", can also be a proposal for the "Art of Life", in the true spirit of non-violence (sans. ahimsâ). The group of practitioners of this art, brings together, without discrimination, women, men, cis, trans from various backgrounds and cultures.
Facilitator: Carmen Cavalcanti, art educator, teacher of movement arts and plastic arts (Tenchi Tessen, Aikido, ceramics, botanical printmaking) I seek through these arts of living, to express myself in the world, with the purpose of non-violence or Ahimsa.
Title: Chatting with Capicua
Type of activity: Interview/conversation
Limited number of participants: 25 (FULL)
Location: iiiUC, Casa Costa Alemão, Polo 2 (to be confirmed)
Duration: 1 hour
Organization: RUC | To be defined
Description:
Ana Matos Fernandes, better known as Capicua, will be in conversation about the themes of the project Equal.Steam - gender stereotypes and the integration of girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. The activist, lyricist and chronicler, with a degree in Sociology and a PhD in Human Geography, will capture the attention and bring the message of gender equality more directly to the university student community. This conversation, with a relaxed tone, but that will go through serious and still very current topics, will contribute to deconstruct gender stereotypes that are the basis of so many segregations and gender asymmetries that still exist in the academic and professional environment.
Title: Capicua, the Concert
Location: DOME DEC Pole 2
Maximum capacity of 400 people, in order of arrival
Duration: 1.5 hours
Organization:
Description:
The rapper Capicua will present her album Madrepérola, this year on tour only in "hand-picked" venues and initiatives.
Target groups: Professors, internship supervisors, thesis advisors, mentors, higher education students, business internship advisors and the surrounding community.
Objectives: Dissemination and communication to the academic and surrounding community.
Main activity: Equality Days.
Team: Clara Barata (coordination), Luisa Neves Soares, Mário Montenegro, Ana dos Santos Carvalho, Jorge Figueira, Marta Costa, Karine Paniza and Sérgio Dias Branco
Support to coordination, programming and executive production: Sandra Silvestre