Timofey - Stage Zone

The workshop will be of interest for a wide audience: for everyone who likes music and wants to explore the connection between music and movements of lesbian and gay liberation in the West.

When people sing, they are creating the bound among them at the very moment. Songs signify mutual experiences, mutual values, and mutual aspirations of those who sing them. Therefore, almost every social movement starts to sing at some point in time. That is how songs of resistance, collective identities, solidarity, and political arts were born.

A song is always a text, i.e. a certain narrative. If this is a song, which was born inside some community, this would be a narrative about injustice, which the representatives of the oppressed group face; a narrative about experiences, which are shared by the representatives of the one community; this is a critique of dominant ideology and a narrative of dreams about the world where there is no injustice.

At this workshop, we turn to the traditions of singing songs having been present at the Movement for lesbian and gay liberation in the West from 1920 till 1994.