Gaia's women: International Lenea Festival

Gaia’s Women: International Lenea Festival Throughout history and today gender inequalities and the disadvantaged position of woman in societies keeps its urgency. It is important and beneficial for us to create and use rehabilitation and consciousness raising. Drama enables art to be experienced and reproduced and this carries out Drama with a great potential as a healer, teacher. Starting with this idea the “Gaia’s women: International Lenea Festival” will be held for a week in Foça, İzmir-Turkey. This festival is an EU project which is planned to create and benefit in means of gender equality awareness, cultural interaction, artistic production and education and empathizing with disadvantaged people. This project aims to blend and scrutinize the modern world problems and different cultures with the traditions of this land where theatre was born. The projects goal is to invite a lot of different partners from Mediterranean countries like Turkey, Greece, Italy, Malta to countries like Iceland, Holland where a lot of progress has been made in the name of eliminating gender inequality according to EU Gender Equality Institution or countries like Romania and Croatia which are still in the progress of change. By inviting a large variety of countries the project intends to be able to discuss different understandings of gender equality and different examples of very different cultures. During the project a higher level of interaction and education is targeted and with this a new level perspective and consciousness raising will be gained. Also After the project the goal is to create an international operation network. EU partners eager to take part in this project please send us your pic code and partner identification form: