On Monday, November 28, 2016 TPO Foundation in cooperation with the Museum of Literature and Performing Arts B&H and Sarajevo Open Centre opened an exhibition ‘Razija Handžić’s Poetry and Museum’ within the international campaign ’16 Days of Activism against Gender based Violence’. Exhibition represents commemoration and tribute to women who contributed to cultural development in B&H, the promotion of women’s work in B&H literature and it is one of the ways to keep B&H female writers’ work from oblivion.
<img src=’http://etos.ba/etoscms/tinymce/plugins/image/uploads/IMG_7788.JPG’ alt=” width=’740′ height=’555′ />The director of the Museum Šejla Šehabović welcomed the present ones and recited a poem from the only published collection of poems by this B&H female author and thanked everyone for coming. A former employee of the Museum, Miroslava Miljanović emotionally remembered cooperation with her director of the Museum, Razija Handžić from whom, as Miljanović said, one could have learned much.
<img src=’http://etos.ba/etoscms/tinymce/plugins/image/uploads/IMG_7789.JPG’ alt=” width=’740′ height=’555′ />Melika Šahinović on the behalf of TPO Foundation emphasized that joint project aims are to keep Razija Handžić’s work from oblivion and to show there were women who worked and created but intellectual and political honesty failed to keep and promote their works. Our cultures are predominantly male with male norms and even when there is a female pen, artist and someone who thinks beyond those norms is usually erased from memory and that is the reason why we lack female creative endeavour in reading and school books and we often hear there were no women in B&H literature.
<img src=’http://etos.ba/etoscms/tinymce/plugins/image/uploads/IMG_7734.JPG’ alt=” width=’740′ height=’555′ />Šahinović said there will be three open classrooms for students from three secondary schools who will talk about forgotten female B&H authors and why there is none of them in school curricula. The importance of educational activities with the aim of awareness raising about fatalities of domestic violence was emphasized as well as the activities that will be implemented in 24 schools in three canton gathering 500 students that will TPO Foundation sensitize for peer and gender based violence.
<img src=’http://etos.ba/etoscms/tinymce/plugins/image/uploads/IMG_7742.JPG’ alt=” width=’740′ height=’555′ />Emphasizing that violence cannot be a solution and in accordance with TPO Foundation’s motto for 16 Days of Activism to wake up, move and change what we can in our families, schools and communities.
<img src=’http://etos.ba/etoscms/tinymce/plugins/image/uploads/IMG_7738.JPG’ alt=” width=’740′ height=’555′ />Curator and exhibition author Zlatan Delić emphasized the particular importance of promotion of B&H invisible and forgotten female authors and read a part from the book by Handžić and opened the exhibition that will be opened for public for the next 16 days.
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