Presentation of Diveristy House, Cup for People project, Civic Info Centre, refreshments and more.

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Can football be free from commercialization, fan clashes and "ultras" show-offs, racism and excessive focus on European championships?

These questions will be discussed on the meeting with Andrey, one of the founders o SPb DIY Football League: «Our league's basic principles are mutual respect and love for fair play. We don't tolerate prejudices and "no-matter-the-cost" attitude towards football».

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«Maxima» is an international team playing in Saint Petersburg league.

Created by the migrant for migrants it faced a lot of difficulties but now is presented as an antiracist initiative celebrating the diversity.

We gonna meet the players and the coach, Bakhtiyar Yususpov.

Let's discuss how independent cultural spaces happen to exist, how they survive in Russia and why some of the communities have to close their spaces.

Meet the authors of the research «Life and death of the independent cultural spaces in Russia» and the book «Делай сам/а» («Do it yourself») and the Diversity House team.

Why there are no traditions founding the "traditional values" activists worldview? How history is being distorted for political conjuncture? Why Russia and some of the Caucasus states have been tolerant countries, and what did Stalin have to do with this?

The ballet lesson for beginners from Alina Zvereva — dancer, choreographer and teacher, graduate of the Academy of Russian Ballet, the owner of the ballet studio called Lets ballet!

«I will show that everybody can do ballet, the main thing is to learn basic principles and find a "your" teacher who will believe in you and your style of dancing. Russian ballet school has a very serious base, but for a young people studying professional ballet sometimes its very hard to understand how really you want to dance, do you really feel and realize your body? A beautiful picture on the stage is given by hard work and blood, so there is a stereotype that ballet is an art only for the elite and if you not thin and young you should not start. Its very sad, but girls who has a big dream to dance just forgot about it because of the stereotypes I want to make something with it. In my classes, we will first learn to listen to ourselves and our body, move in dance, enjoy music.

No violence and hard discipline. My task — move, breathe and relax. We will study dancing etudes and, maybe, we will create something incredible together!»

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Can football be free from commercialization, fan clashes and "ultras" show-offs, racism and excessive focus on European championships?
These questions will be discussed on the meeting with Andrey, one of the founders o SPb DIY Football League:

«Our league's basic principles are mutual respect and love for fair play. We don't tolerate prejudices and "no-matter-the-cost" attitude towards football».

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What if sports could be a platform for social change?

We'll learn about the local initiatives working in between sports and activism in the mini-conference and networking party.

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Can sports help defend human rights? Can sports hurt human rights? Why should dragons need sports and human rights? Where will be Olympic Games leading human rights in the near future? We will examine sports as a battlefield for human rights. Which dragons hinder people from uniting around human rights? Can society move forward without overcoming their own dragons?

We will discuss all this with Andrey Yurovy, one of the leading human rights defenders from Eastern Europe, expert of the Council of Europe, member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, intellectual and social philosopher.

A young and talented English footballer nicknamed "Wonderkid" gets the chance to enter the Premier League. But on the way to success, he faces the rudeness of his team mates, a tense atmosphere in the locker room, caustic messages on the social networks, and most importantly, he faces himself. Why should his sexual orientation be a problem?

The film was made with the support of England National Football Team, English Premier League, the company Adidas, the TV channel SkySport and many LGBT organizations in England.

The discussion will be led by Ivan Tikhonov, a civil activist, chairman of the board of the LGBT Sports Federation, and a member of St. Petersburg's branch of the Federation.

We will talk abouth the myth around HIV and different methods of preventing HIV and STI, we will also discuss the stigma and discrimination that suffer women with HIV and different mechanisms of self-protection.

Maria Godlevskaya, has been an activist for 11 years in the field of HIV/AIDS, program manager in the association EVA, and consultant on HIV at the SPID Center, she has been living with HIV for 18 years.

What could be the cultural response to the "propaganda law"? What's the best way to organize a dialogue about LGBT issues with society? Could such topics be adressed in places other than courtrooms by poeple other than advocates and human right activists.

We invite all civil initiatives to share their experiences.

For 5 years, since 2013, the Russian LGBT-community faces the "propaganda law". Officially, the law forbids the spread of any LGBT issues in society. In fact, it is an instrument of repression. Websites that support LGBT teenagers or memebers of the LGBT community with HIV are being blocked. Initiatives that promote tolerance, acceptance and diversity, such as the diversity house are really hard to realize.

In the context of the unawareness of LGВT issues, it has become really important to start a dialogue with society. The "QueerFest" became the cultural reponse — international, awareness-raising and human rights-protecting festival. It is a safe place for a public and respectful dialogue about human rights аnd cultural self-experession of different identities. How do you account for the "propaganda law"?

Alexey Chernorechensky, PhD in philosophy, linguist-culturologist and former teacher at the Moscow State University.

His sphere of academic interests is art history and semiotics, and his creative orientation is dramaturgy and musical composition.

During the master classes, activists and minority representatives will learn how to write stories on discrimination, Alexey will also share his own stories.

During the run-up of the presidential elections and the FIFA World Cup in Russia many anti-fascists and anarchists suffered repressions. In autumn 2017 the Federal Security Service fabricated a case of terrorism against the community "The Network". The case involves 9 accused, 8 of them were arrested and now are being hold in detention centers in Penza and Saint Petersburg. Most of them were tortured with electric shocks to extract the confessions needed by the Federal Security Service. Also anarchists and left-wing activists in Crimea, Moscow, Chelyabinsk and other cities in Russia were subjected to repressions.

The members of the Campaign for Solidarity with arrested Anarchists and Anti-fascists will talk about the repressions, procedures followed by the employees of the Federal Security Service and ways of helping the prisoners.

The ballet lesson for beginners from Alina Zvereva — dancer, choreographer and teacher, graduate of the Academy of Russian Ballet, the owner of the ballet studio called Lets ballet!

«I will show that everybody can do ballet, the main thing is to learn basic principles and find "your" teacher who will believe in you and your style of dancing. Russian ballet school has a very serious base, but for young people studying professional ballet sometimes its very hard to understand how really you want to dance, do you really feel and realize your body? A beautiful picture on the stage is given by hard work and blood, so there is a stereotype that ballet is an art only for the elite and if you not thin and young you should not start. Its very sad, but girls who has a big dream to dance just forgot about it because of the stereotypes I want to make something with it. In my classes, we will first learn to listen to ourselves and our body, move in dance, enjoy music.

No violence and hard discipline. My task — move, breathe and relax. We will study dancing etudes and, maybe, we will create something incredible together!»

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26th June 2018 will be the 6th Day of Action for the Support Don't Punish campaign that calls for better drug policies anchored in public health and human rights. Last year, thousands of people across 205 cities in 93 countries took part in the 5th Global Day of Action.

26th June is also the United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking – a day when many governments celebrate their 'contributions' to the global 'war on drugs'. In the past, some governments have even commemorated this day by holding public executions or beatings of drug offenders. By taking part in the Global Day of Action, you can help to reclaim the message of this important day.

26th June is also the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture – an ironic coincidence given the widespread torture and abuse suffered in the name of the war on drugs.

Become a guest at an informal conference on humane drug policies, decriminalization of drug use, and harm reduction programs for drug users.

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The German-Russian Exchange Saint Petersburg will talk about the participation in the international volunteer movement. You will get the chance to know about the program Erasmus Plus and European Voluntary Service, you will also understand how to participate in trainings and exchanges, how to go to Europe for up to a year to participate in social, cultural, ecological, and anti-discrimination projects.

During this event you will be able to meet young people from Europe who are doing cultural and volunteer exchange in St. Petersburg. They will share their own experiences and impressions and prepare a surprise for all the guests.

We will discuss political identity and the problem of racism in today's sports with Vitaly Gorokhov, associate professor of the Faculty of Comparative Political Studies of the North-West Institute of Management of the RANEPA.

Sports have a great potential in terms of constructing political identities. Such labels as "ours" and "not ours" give a socio-political character to sports rivalry in the public space. The competitive nature of sports assumes the superiority of some over others, which makes sports a universal platform for demonstrating to others the own strength and power.

We will analyze where the idea of "ours" comes from and how sports fanaticism and its need to constantly demonstrating superiority is connected to the ills of society. Focusing on the problem of racism in sports, we will discuss, whether the fans can be considered guilty of spreading racism and whether modern sports can combat it.

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According to Levada Center and "Public Veredict" Fundation, half of Russians do not trust the police. Why does this happen? What kind of police do we want? And what do we need to know about the police, in order to trust them? We will discuss all this during the meeting "Police for people" together with activists and observers.

Dmitry Ostryakov and Gleb Paikachev from the Joint Public Monitoring Group will talk about their project "Police Map", which they launched this month. They gathered in this map relevant information on the departments and precincts of St. Petersburg, together with feedback from visitors and detainees. Volunteers of the Group conducted a monitoring in 2017, on the basis of which they created a rating of departments, regarding their openness and accessibility.

A similar study was conducted by Dmitry Vorobyov, a volunteer of the Assistance Group for Detainees, during mass detentions in 2017, collecting detainees' reviews of the departments. Dmitry Vorobyov will explain in what conditions people were kept, what opinion do they have about it and what did they pay attention to.

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Feminism is gaining popularity, despite the fact that many people still don't know what it really means. We will meet with those activists that are helping feminism get more popularity. They will talk about their own views on this movement and about their work.

By using mental images and the beat of music, we will focus on our body and the bodies of others: in pairs, individually and in groups.

Marina Shamova - non-binary, body-oriented performer, teacher of modern dance and performance, painter, choreograph and queer-rapper:

"I propose to focus on the points that support our bodies, about how to release unnecessary tension in the muscles and how to relax, entrusting your weight to gravity. Thinking about about the space, time, and place we are in, we will find ourselves in the "now" and our collabrative dance will be the "here". People of all identities, physical abilities and dance experiences are welcome to join!"

Ecoactivism in Russia is one of the bright manifestations of a civic position. People are more willing to mobilize and unite when it is necessary to protect their native land and small homeland. Civil processes during "ottepel" and "perestroika" partly began with environmental protection. Today ecoactivists are more under attack than others. Physical protection, blocking of illegal actions of builders, duty points and tent camps - these are the basic tools of ecologists when we say about direct struggle for nature even under the threat of loss of personal freedom. Some activists had to emigrate, and some did not have time and get a real prison sentence.

The film "Grassroots" examines three bright events of environmental struggle — in Karelia, Krasnodar and in the Voronezh region, and on their example the film answers the main questions facing environmental activists. We hear the voices of many of them and listen to the opinions of experienced environmental defenders: Evgenia Vitishko, Andrei Rudomakhi, Konstantin Rubakhin, Suren Gazaryan, Grigory Kuksin, Evgenia Chirikova, Tatyana Chestina and many others.

Olya Polyakova will share with "Trava" community and all interested people her thoughts on the seminars and conferences organized by RIPESS, a European association that promotes the idea of SSE. We will reflect together on what we like about SSE and which actors and scientists are already working in this field in Saint Petersburg.

Workshops are not conceived as lectures with experts, but rather as discussions around a topic and the planning of future actions.

Compulsory military service. Military trainings in schools and colleges. Militarization of the population. Closedness and inefficiency of State bodies. These are the conditions, in which people and organizations, opposing the propaganda of militarism, refusing military service and military trainings encounter themselves.

Alexander Belik, conscientious objector of the military service, lawyer and coordinator of the Conscientious Objectors' Movement, will talk about people who stand up for their right of freedom of expression and about the challenges they face, as well as their positive experience.

Classical ballet's strict basis is used all over the world as a learning method, nonetheless this method brings often in professional schools to children being hurt psychologically. It is difficult to understand to which extent people really want to dance and to which extent do they feel and realize their body.

A beautiful picture on the stage is achieved only through hard work and blood, for this reason there is the stereotype that only few selected people can dance ballet. And that if you don't have the right physical characteristics for it, then you shouldn't even start. Such pressure leads to the fact that girls who dreamed all their life about ballet, but had a different body, grew up with a feeling of inferiority. And it is necessary to do something with this feeling.

Alina Zvereva opened a ballet studio called Lets ballet! and offers master classes of Diversity Ballet:

"Everybody can dance ballet, the main thing is to learn the basic principles and find the right pedagogue, who will believe in you and your style of dancing.
During the classes we will especially learn to listen to ourselves and our bodies, move and enjoy the music. There won't be any violence or hard discipline. My task is to identify the strengths and help the dancer to liberate and relax himself. We will study etudes and, perhaps, we will create something incredible together!"

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Since last week, everybody is debating how the FIFA should react to the behaviour of the Swiss internationals with Kosovan background. First, Swiss international,Xherdan Shaqiri, was wearing boots, displaying the Kosovan Flag. The FIFA stated that they don't consider that as a political gesture. Then, Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri celebrated their goals by gesturing the two-headed eagle on Albania's national flag. Many interpreted that gesture as a support of Kosovo and Albania uniting.
The FIFA punished the two Swiss Internationals and their captain for a lack of sportsmanship.
This situation, similar political gestures and how the FIFA should react to such topics will be discussed during the next debates.

We will discuss about how civic education works with "Trava" community and everyone else interested in this topic: why do we organize lectures, discussions, master classes on society, city, diversity? How to understand if the participants change? What happens after the meetings? How to measure all this and evaluate it?

Workshops are not conceived as lectures with experts, but rather as discussions around a topic and the planning of future actions

The Federation of LGBT Sports in Russia will show the photo exhibition "Football for all", which reflects the important role of the Federation in promoting diversity and adopting LGBT + in football.

The exhibition shows meetings with football fans from different countries, the history of LGBT+ football matches and tournaments in Russia over the past 7 years. Here you will be able to see photos from conferences that are aimed at building a dialogue with official sports organizations.

"The Pass" is a film from 2016 directed by Ben Williams with the participation of Russell Tovey and Arinze Kene and based on a play by John Donnelly. The film examines the issue of the homosexual relation between two English football players and how their life develops over a decade. The film was nominated for the BAFTAs 2017 in the nomination of Outstanding Debut.

Elena Belokurova from German-Russian Exchange will organize a discussion with directors from various NGOs that deal with human rights and social problems in St. Petersburg. They will tell us how their NGOs started, what kind of difficulties they had to face and what kind of problems they have to deal with now, what NGOs typically strugge with and whether their problems are similiar to the ones NGOs all around the world experience.

How can experienced organizations and civil initiatives come and work together ? What can civil society do to fight social problems and discrimination ? How can that be done ?

After 19:30, there will be an open space for an informal get-together for people from different NGOs, universities, activists and anybody who is interested.

We're going to talk about the power geometry between global, national and local levels in modern sport with the associate professor of the policy searches faculty of the Nord-West Management Institute Vitaliy Gorohov.
Usually mega-events are considered quintessence of globalization of sport where rules of the game are regulated by "the love triangle" – alliance of the international sport organization, transnational business and the world media. At the same time, there is a struggle for conducting of mega-events between state, which consider the conducting of the biggest sport forums like an important part of the agenda and even like "a national project". With that, the local communities, having the mega-events been going on their territory, get possibility to express themselves to global auditory. We're going to discuss why mega-events become a platform for realization of interest of different levels and how that fits the logic of conducting of mega events.

Pavel Klimenko and Piara Povar from "Fare Network" will join to the discuss. The organization that is fighting against discrimination in football, including migrants, refugees and representatives of LGBT-community and support their rights with the help of football.

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Эко-энтузиазт Всеволод Василькиоти открыл первый и единственный в Петербурге сервис по доставке собранной населением переработки до эко-пункта: за небольшую плату он приезжает к вашему дому, забирает пакеты с отсортированным стеклом, пластиком и алюминием и отвозит их на пункт на Боровой.
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Расскажет о практической стороне сортировки мусора: как подготавливать тару для переработки; как различать семь видов пластика; какую упаковку лучше оставить на полке в магазине и почему. Вы сможете задать вопросы и узнать, почему бумажные стаканчики не лучше пластиковых, как на самом деле разлагаются «биоразлагаемые» пакеты, кто убил Лору Палмер и перабатывается ли плёнка в которую она была завернута.

На будущее подумаем, какие сложности останутся для раздельного сбора в заведениях и на событиях.

«Открытая карта» — фестиваль экскурсий от местных для местных.

Раз в полтора месяца мы встречаемся с будущими, прошлыми и настоящими гидами и со всеми, кто делает фестиваль или задумывается о создании своих экскурсий.

Обменяемся опытом с фокусом на экскурсиях про разнообразие, а во второй части встречи будет занятие по ораторскому мастерству для гидов от Алексея Чернореченского.

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Cooperative house: How can I reach my goals ?

Cooperative house - mutual place for community and for you, for life and public activities. We´re searching and learing for/about different experiences and about the possibility to buy a building in the city center.

This format doesn´t need experts and lections, it is about exchanging different experiences and planning future steps.

Together with the "Trava"-network, and anyone who is interested, we wil discuss civic education: Why we´re hosting lectures, discussions, master-classes about society, the city, diversity, how to understand who we reach with our events, what happens after our meetings.

This format doesn´t need experts and lections, it is about exchanging different experiences and planning future steps.

on The football championship is in full swing, the championship of torture as well, and the doors of Diversity House are open for solidarity

A solidary concert in the yard of the Berthold Center will be held in support of the anarchists and anti-fascists who were arrested on the made-up FSB case about the "network" terrorist group. They are imprisoned since autumn 2017.

You can write them words of support, help them with lawyers by participating at the activist auction or buy a T-shirt or bag. And, of course, you can enjoy great music: the Techno-Poetry cooperative, the "Arkady Kots" group, Stas Poczobut (Deviation), musician Azat Divaev and Vadim Khokhryakov with his ensemble. The hosts are Shura Ogonek and Boris Konakov.

What are the Sustainable Development Goals? How should be the world in 2030? Can the sustainable development's strategy protect human rights and make out of Russia a more tolerant society?

We will start the day at 14:00 with a discussion on "Peace. Equality. Well-being. Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and their application in Russia" with social innovators and the project manager of the Living Lab for Sustainable Development, Sergei Medvedev from Berlin. The event is part of a program by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote dialogue between civil societies of the Eastern Partnership countries and Russia.

How to talk with parents about sexual orientation and gender identity?
We will continue at 15:30 with a presentation and discussion with Irina Khodyreva, co-author of the platform for parents of LGBT teenagers illuminator.info. We will discuss digital approaches in civic education, communicative activism and the search for new ways of education at the interface between science and art.

illuminator.info is a project for parents who want to understand the question of sexual orientation and gender identity in order to better understand their children. The web page contains materials reflecting the current view of the world scientific community about these phenomena.

We will conclude with a buffet and informal communication, then we will see together the match.

In the wake of Europe's growing immigration wave are emerging many ultra-right and nationalist organizations that do not accept new rules or religions, their state's policies or the existing migration regulations.This film tells the story of the English Defence League, an organization that opposes radical Islam, as well as any of its branches, which, in their opinion, threaten the established British way of life and democratic principles.

The film's authors show the situation from the point of view of the members of the League, they try to understand the reasons for their discontent and talk about the possibility of interaction between different vital and ideological positions. Viewers are encouraged to comprehend the documentary material from a research position.

After the film, there will be a discussion with the director and sociologist Dmitry Omelchenko from the Center for Youth Studies of the Higher School of Economics.