The #Az_Pretaz Collective is accepting applications from black women and indigenous people for the LAB PRETAZ_HUB, an audiovisual training laboratory, until February 5. There are 20 vacancies, and you need to fill in the application form at the following link: https://goo.gl/8cGGBS Priority will be given to trans or cis women, preferably with children, from the state of Rio de Janeiro who are developing entrepreneurial initiatives in the areas of communication and technology or are interested in female Afro-entrepreneurship in the areas of communication and technology.
The course will take place in person, in Morro da Conceição, Rio de Janeiro, and will last four days, with a total workload of 16 hours. The course is scheduled to begin on March 13, 2018.
The LAB Pretaz_HUB, created by the #AzPretaz Women's Communication & Technology Collective, aims to work with the training of black women, trans, cis and indigenous people in communication and technology by creating a network of collaboration between black women and indigenous digital entrepreneurs, youtubers, bloggers, audiovisual production collectives and independent filmmakers. The project is one of those supported by the Building Movements - Contemporary Feminisma partnership between the ELAS Fund and the British Council, UN Women, the Open Society Foundations and the Global Fund for Women to strengthen the feminist movement.
The project has three fundamental pillars: audiovisual training, intersectional feminism and afro-entrepreneurship. "The project is an initiative that aims to expand the space and representation of black women and indigenous people through training and technical improvement in the field of audiovisual activism and afro-entrepreneurship. Guided by a policy of combating sexism, racism and other forms of oppression, the #Az_Pretaz Collective developed the Pretaz_Hub project to organize actions for the inclusion and training of women in the audiovisual and digital content production context. Because we understand that opportunities for training and encouragement are scarcer - if not non-existent - for black women and indigenous people, this work is aimed primarily at these groups," says Aline Lourena, the project's coordinator.
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