Croeso nol! Welcome back!!
You are invited to the second Institute Europe (Wales). We meet this time in beautiful Manorbier, at the YHA Manorbier Hostel. Surf and look up the hills to Manorbier Castle!
Dewch yn llu/Come along! Join us for a weekend of learning, thinking, discussion, water activity, community, and movement building.
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Our event will be held at the YHA Manorbier Hostel and begins on Friday afternoon, with optional surf activity. We have Friday dinner at the cafe, and meet together there in the evening. Same with Saturday and Sunday morning. We end by Sunday noon. There is no fee, and affordable hostel lodging is available. Participants contribute “skill-shares,” meaning a resource, skill, labor of some kind, or a project update. Skill-shares are done in presentations to the group, or you suggest a format. The tabs to the right on this page show tips for making your own presentations, and to apply. See below for Overview Schedule.
Space is limited. Applications due June 15, 2019. Once participant selection is complete, curriculum and logistical details will follow.
DATES: July 5-7, 2019
PLACE: Manorbier, Wales / Maenorbŷr, Cymru
2019 TOPIC: “Collaboration // Cydweithio”
The Institute for Women Surfers is pleased to be back in Wales, by popular demand, exactly a year from our initial launch! Our meeting is co-organized with Lyndsey Stoodley of Cardiff University, Dani Robertson of Surf Senioritas, and Krista Comer of Rice University. As was our theme for the initial meeting, we will revisit our emphasis of “Collaboration.”
Our event brings together women from Europe, the US, and possibly Australia.
As in years past, the Institute devotes itself to political education of activist leaders, artists, filmmakers, and surf organizations. Participants meet for three days of learning, communal surfing, and skill-sharing presentations. Our goal is to teach one another what we know, support new collaborative feminist relations, including between scholars and community experts. The Institute is about our connections, and through them, the movement for the lives of waterwomen everywhere.
Participant Skill-Shares are big highlights of meetings!
HISTORY The Institute was co-founded in 2014 and conducted its first training at the North County LGBTQ Center in Oceanside, California. We taught one another how to identify confusing contradictions for women in the world of surfing in order to create more just worlds and better activist projects. We took seriously the importance of our relationships to building long term surfeminist movements. The Institute 2015, held at the beautiful Brooks Institute in Ventura, took up the linked topics of Storytelling, Sustainability, and Building a Movement. As a mode of activism in surfing, storytelling can move people to action and to new ways of thinking. But stories are far from simple and the ethics of telling new stories is not straightforward. Our question was: how to sustain new stories and surf movements to create the worlds we value? Many reported on the value of new collaborative relationships to the projects they hoped to do, or were in the thick of doing. The Institute 2017 transformed our work by taking on “Issues of Access.” As a conceptual and practical point of departure, the idea was to explore communities of women who are forced out or simply not thought about due either to official sanctioned policy or due to unofficial cultural practices that exclude (by class and race especially). We identified the importance of geography to issues of access, since what matters in one place is not automatically relevant to another.
A respect for geographical difference led us to expand our work, outside of the US. In Institute 2018, we conducted the first non-US training, in Wales. IWS Europe (Wales) and an emphasis on “Collaboration” helped to create new networks of feminist support for projects in an environment that, in the past, has pitted women against each other. Those new European networks are thriving so much so that a follow up Institute 2019 in Wales will be held in the historic Manorbier. Lyndsey Stoodley of Cardiff University and Dani Roberston of Surf Senioritas, are IWS Europe (Wales) co-founders.
Institute Oceania, launched also in 2019, and held in Frankston, Australia, is the first Global South Institute. Generously hosted by Monash University Peninsula campus, and co-founded by Dr. lisahunter, check out the Institute Oceania video!
