Equal Opportunities for Older Women
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Fotowettbewerb: Nach der Mitte des Lebens - Frauenbilder unserer Tage (Photo competition: After Midlife - Images of Women in our Times)
Communicational details
Address:
Netzwerk älterer Frauen Sachsen e.V.
Herrmann-Meyer-Straße 38
04207 Leipzig
Germany
Contact persons and their known foreign languages:
Gisela Kurtz, Chairwoman of the Saxony Network of Older Women, a Registered Charity, English, Russian
Telephone: 0049-341-4229861
Telefax: 0049-341-4229861
E-Mail:
Internet:
About the initiative
Status of the initiative: The initiative is an initiative of the accociation "Netzwerk älterer Frauen Sachsen e.V." (network of older women in Saxony).
The initiative has the dicisive support of the following organisation:
Netzwerk älterer Frauen Sachsen e.V.
Address:
Herrmann-Meyer-Straße 38
04207 Leipzig
Germany
Telephone: 0049-341-4229861
Telefax: 0049-341-4229861
E-Mail:
Internet:
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Content and framework conditions of the project work
The initiative was founded in: 1999
The initiative was founded because of the following reasons:
The initiative was founded for a limited period of time:

Deadline for entries for the competition was October 1999. The awards ceremony and exhibition opening took place on 7 December 1999.
Target group(s): All friends of photography could participate - men and women, amateurs and professionals - who have taken pictures, including series, of older women.
Targets: The idea was to demonstrate that older women can be interesting photographic subjects. Older women who are to be found in all walks of life were thus presented as visual art.
Details of the work done by the initiative:

Each participant was allowed to submit 4 entries, to include one short series of pictures. An independent jury of photographic experts and members of the association selected the best works and nominated the prize-winners. Prizes, including money prizes, were awarded, and special mentions were also made. Twenty-nine of a total of 86 photographs were selected by the jury for a representative exhibition in the Galeriecafé of the Leipzig Association of Age Culture, which ran from December 1999 to March 2000.
Areas of work of the initiative:
Presence of older women in public
Success that the initiative has achieved:
Problems that the initiative has been faced during its work:
Participation of the target group concerning the conception, planning and implementation of the initiative's work:

Women from the network helped to judge the photographs that were sent in.
Co-operation:
Information:

We are available for people interested in receiving more information on our initiative by phone, post or e-mail.
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Organisational background of the initiative
Staff:
Budget:
Sources of funding:
One-off grant from the City of Leipzig's Office of Culture
Publications or information material available on our initiative:

Leaflet advertising the photo competition.
Recommended literature:
Tips and suggestions for people interested in foundig a similar initiative:
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2001-04-25