These ideas can be continued in secondary schools and in the university and colleges at a more serious and deeper level. Silke Pillinger with Karin Heisecke , age 28, Germany for printing anti-rape slogans and information on bread and pastry wrappings. This is an awareness-raising campaign that may appear ordinary and trivial, for it uses an everyday object that everyone buys regularly, with the goal of making the sensitive, even taboo subject of rape visible in the daily lives of women and men. We want to emphasize that most rapes occur in a familiar context. We are talking about the small paper bags in which bread, rolls, cakes and pastries are sold in every bakery, and on which we will print surprising and provocative phrases concerning rape.
Art is the reason with all emotion.
The group wants to take advantage of presentations of street theater to record and project in video images public opinion on sexual violence and rape. They will show the video in a popular and central place, such as a park in the city, with music, dance and theatre. The objective is to promote public debate on a subject that is traditionally seen as private, to stimulate the expression of opinions, as silence is a conspirator of violence, and to contribute to the reversal of dominant cultural opinion on the naturalization of masculine violence, using the speech of our own citizens disseminating it widely through TV and public education. Click here for the action plans of the contest finalists.