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- Don't forget to do this before arriving to Tel-Aviv
- What to bring with you to Queeruption Tel-Aviv?
- Updated: Where to come when you arrive to Israel?
- Queeruption Tel-Aviv Meetings in Europe
- Preparatory Meetings in Tel-Aviv
- Program Outline
- Invitation
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Don't forget to do this before arriving to Tel-Aviv
- To subscribe to the mailing list (send a mail to: majordomo@lists.queeruption.org with the words: subscribe queeruption9Tel-Aviv in the body of the message). This will give you the actual relevant information and will give us idea about how many people to expect.
- To read the FAQs on this website. Especially the part about What kind of problems can I face entering the country?. It’s also available in French and Spanish.
What to bring with you to Queeruption Tel-Aviv?
- A sleeping bag or a sheet (nowadays it’s 20′ c./ 70′ f. at nights and 30′ c./ 85′ f. in the day time…the humidity now in Tel-Aviv is 60%. in August it can be higher…)
- A sleeping mat (there are spaces to sleep, but we won’t be able to find mattresses for everyone, especially in the 3 days in nature)
- A glass and a plate (there will be 3 vegan meals a day)
- A bathing suit and a towel (our venue is a 10-15 minutes walk from the beach!)
- A hat and a sunblock of SPF 15 and higher (it’s going to be sweaty…)
- Mosquito Repellent (some of the sleeping spaces are on a roof, under the sky…)
- Movies that you made/like (we will have screening room) and music you want to put in the parties
- Ideas/materials for workshops/actions/performances/art you want to have in the Queeruption, and any materials from your own community that you want to share with others…
- Spending money during the Queeruption: You don’t have to bring money to the 11 days of the Queeruption unless you want to buy alcohol, juice and other stuff. You don’t have to pay for the food, sleeping spaces, parties, workshops and the transportation to Jerusalem, West Bank and the nature camp. Still, It will be nice to bring some money as a donation.
- Spending money before and after the Queeruption: you can find cheap accommodation, food and travel for 150$ for a week in Palestine and 250$ for a week in Israel. it will be also possible to stay for free in some spaces in Tel-Aviv before and after the Queeruption, so don’t worry.
- Love and Rage!
Where to come when you arrive to Israel?
The queeruption cellphone is: 052-3725519 (From abroad:
972-52-725519).
You can call us after you arrive to Israel, you can use a public phone
with a Telecard (a card with an amount of money on it to use in public
phones) that you can buy in every shop. there are not a lot of public
phones in Israel that take money, so it’s better to buy this
telecard.
if you are being detained in the entrance for more then just two or
three hours you should have the right to make a free phone call. call
us and we will see how can we help.
After you arrive to Ben-Gurion Airport (and if you don’t arrive from Ben-Gurion please email us for different information) you should take the train to Tel-Aviv Merkaz (Center). the train works from 3:53am till 23:23pm and it leaves the air-port to Tel-Aviv every 20-40 minutes. you will have only 10 minutes on the train so enjoy it.
If you come before the 30th of July:
We have a place for people in the roof of the apartment in 32 Sheinkin
st.
from Tel-Aviv merkaz train station take the bus no. 5 or 18 to the city
center. ask the bus driver what is the closest bus stop to Sheinkin st.
if you take line 18 you should get of in the first stop on Allenby st.
and walk in the in the same direction that the bus continued on till
you’ll see to your left sheinkin st.
if you take no. 5 you should get off on Rotshild Blvd. next to Sheinkin
st. and then turn into sheinkin st.
if you prefer not to use buses, you should take the train to
“Tel-Aviv
hagana” station and from there walk to Levinski st. in the
direction of
the central bus station and go to the left on David Zemach st. , there
will be service taxis (a small bus with 10 sits) over there and you
should take line 4 (”kav arba” in Hebrew) and ask
to go down on
Sheinkin.
If u come on the 30th of July or after:
come directly to the place of the Queeruption in Hertzel street 146.
From Tel-Aviv merkaz train station take bus number 18. Ask the driver
for the first station on Salame/Shlomo street (after the bus is turning
right from Haaliya street). You will get of in Salame/Shlomo street 69.
Go back to the corner with Hertzel and turn right. Keep walking in
Hertzel for 2-5 minutes and before you get to the next main road
(Kibutz Galuyot) take the right alleyway. You got to hertzel 146.
it’s
the Silver/Queens/Shchitut club. Welcome!!
* for more info about the time of the train go to:
http://www.israrail.org.il/english
for more info about the time of the buses in Tel-Aviv go to:
http://www.dan.co.il/english/
in case there is no train, at nights (23:23pm-3:53am), on friday evening (from 15:00) and saturday (till 21:00), you can take a private taxi from the airport to Tel-Aviv. if you find other people to join you to the taxi it should be cheaper.
it is not impossible to try and hitchhiking (lifting, thumbing, hitching or tramping) from the airport. Just look around and ask people if they are going in the direction of Tel-Aviv with a car.
Costs
Train from the airport to Tel-Aviv: 12 NIS (3$)
Buses: 5.20 NIS (1$)
Service taxis (in Tel-Aviv): 5 NIS (1$)
Private taxi from the airport to center Tel-Aviv: 100-120 NIS.
(25$-30$)
Preparatory Meetings in Tel-Aviv
The Queeruption planning committee changed the time and the place for meetings. Send us an e-mail to check where we are this week q2006@queeruption.org. Meetings are in Hebrew and English and all are welcome.
Program Outline for August 3-13 2006
(the schedule and the contents can, and may be changed - it's a DIY event!)
Thursday, 3rd August
Welcome / Orientation day, including guided tours around Tel Aviv-Jaffa (which will be pretty closed due to "TISH'A BE'AV" - the Jewish holiday marking the destruction of the Jewish Temple).
Evening: Night swim at the beach
Friday, 4th
Workshops and films about Israel, Palestine and about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Evening: Open party - "Godess is a DJ and everyone is a godess"
Saturday, 5th
An introductory visit to the Separation Fence, Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Evening: Protest in Tel-Aviv against the war in Lebanon.
Sunday, 6th
Workshops and films...
The beginning of the queer basketball championship.
Maybe other political
actions in Tel-Aviv (it's Hiroshima Day today)...
Evening: Palestinian Party
Monday, 7th
Workshops and films...
(International Transgender Rights and Education Day)
Evening: The Mice show and a Drag King show.
Tuesday, 8th
Workshops and films...
Evening: The Queeruption Sex Party (on TU BE'AV - the Jewish festival of love!).
Wednesday, 9th
Workshops and films (including practical training for demonstrations in the Occupied Territories)...
The final match in the queer basketball championship (+radical cheerleaders?).
Evening: A night of fire in a natural spring in the Jerusalem area.
Thursday, 10th
Joining the demo in Jerusalem (instead of the World Pride parade)
Evening: Alcohol-free Evening?
Friday, 11th
Joining the people of Bill'in in their weekly protest against the fence.
Evening: Queerhana party in nature
Saturday, 12th
A day of conclusions and goodbyes...
Sunday, 13th
Post-Queeruption beach party
You are invited to the 9th Queeruption in Tel-Aviv, August 3rd-13th 2006!
In the last Queeruption* in Barcelona there was a proposal by present Israeli queers to hold the next Queeruption in Tel-Aviv, which was welcomed by activists from the Middle East, Europe and North America. This initiative was rooted in our belief that as queers we view ourselves as part of the global struggle for freedom, justice and self determination.Thousands of LGBT people are expected to attend the World Pride event in Jerusalem in August 2006. This event is also used as a chance for the Israeli office of foreign affairs to hide the government’s war crimes behind a rainbow flag. The slogan of the World Pride Parade is “Love Without Borders”. We believe that love without borders should reject occupation, apartheid, social injustice, ecological destruction and walls. There has been a global call to boycott the World Pride in Jerusalem by various Palestine solidarity groups as well. We feel that it is important to push our solidarity further by coming to Israel and Palestine for a celebration of our diversity, empowerment and resistance.It is the first time that Queeruption takes place outside the borders of rich western states. This Queeruption will also extend beyond the centralized location in Tel-Aviv to the West Bank and spice up the World Pride parade in Jerusalem. There are also possibilities for people interested in staying longer to join solidarity work in the area which we will provide links to. A group will be in Tel-Aviv sometime before the event in order to help set things up. Given the social and cultural situation there are a lot of issues to take into account and discuss during the preparation process and through the event. We need your help, whether you are coming or not, with raising funds and advertising the event. We also need your knowledge, skills and ideas, and your help on a ground preparation.In order to do so and if you have any questions or comments please contact us by subscribing to the mailing list of the Queeruption. Send a mail to: majordomo@lists.queeruption.org with the words: subscribe queeruption9Tel-Aviv in the body of the message.
*Queeruption is a do-it-yourself, anti-commercial, non-hierarchal, safe and open space for workshops, music, art, actions, parties, sex, performances and everything you propose and/or prepare. Queeruption welcomes and celebrates all gender identities and sexualities, with no toleration to sexism, macho behavior, racism, heterophobia, lesbophobia, homophobia, transphobia, discrimination based on different abilities or ages, and any form of aggression.
29/July/2006
