undGretel? promoting women in music and art: September 2006

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

We love
Love of Diagram!!!
These guys have got it all
they are released on the passport label (see below)
they have a female drummer - Monika Fikerle

you go girls (and their male band mate Luke Horton is pretty hot too)

Watch out for their new album out early '07
When they come back to London we will try and get an UndGretel? performance out of them!
www.loveofdiagrams.com
http://www.myspace.com/loveofdiagramss

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Friday, September 22, 2006

Who Are UndGretel?

Birgit, who is working in London’s art world, has studied art history, media and the political, with a focus on gender and queer topics, in Leipzig and Utrecht. Since being a teenager she has been a music lover, always enjoying different styles, never fitting in one scene. Now her anger about patriarchal structures in the art and music world, who are pretending to be “oh so progressive”, has built up to a boiling point, she now has to release her negative energies by turning them into positive action by organising undGretel?

Leanne is involved in the project because she is tired of the way women are sidelined in the arts, but loves a good dance and live music. She is also interested in the possibilities that can arise through collaboration and is always looking for ways in which she can work together with artists from different disciplines who have a common ground.

Sam is an artist interested in how women are represented in all areas of the arts. Her artwork doesn't always take the form of a specific object preferring to make work that is process led and evolves from and involves the audience. UndGretel? is an extension of her practice, highlighting the diverse roles of women in both music and art, the Workingmen’s club acts as an open arena, taking these issues out of the closed confines of the gallery space.

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Sunday, September 10, 2006

The Gretel Collective presents:

und Gretel?

an evening of illuminating the female in music

19 October 2006

The Bethnal Green Working Men's Club

42 Pollards Row, London E2 6NB, Tube Bethnal Green

3 Bands, 2 Mixtapes, 3 DJ sets and lots of Visuals.

Women in contemporary popular music are not only in the background chorus, in a girl group or as singer fronting an anonymous male band; women do not only perform men’s compositions, and are not only managed and produced by men.

The aim of und Gretel? is to highlight and promote the diverse roles that women play in the music industry.

Curated and organised by The Gretel Collective

und Gretel? will be produced in association with Good Grief.

The Gretel Collective are:

Birgit Bertram

Sam Trotman

Leanne Turvey

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."

Cheris Kramerae

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