Event Name : Gender Vendor fucking gender since adam and eve.

Event Date : 20th November 2014

Event Time : 5 7 PM
Event Venue : Shop com, North campus
Event Description : This event is based on Judith Butler's theory of Gender Performativity. Through
this event the participants and the audience will go through an experience which
will make them aware about the performance of their gender by challenging the
existing gender performance norms.
Core Activity : Six participants will be chosen out of the registered participants through a lottery.
These chosen six will be assigned a gender based on a coin toss, according to which
they will be dressed and made-up. Once they are ready they will perform something
(see below) which is typically associated with a gender opposite to their assigned
gender.
Male Knitting, Crying and talking about how much he miss his mother, sitting
posture, making a birthday card.
Female Abusing (speaking a monologue from sakharam binder), weight lifting, sitting
posture, working with tools.
Action Plan : On the day of the event.

All the volunteers will be cross-dressed

Set-up starts at 4:00 PM.

Five volunteers will set up the performance area according to the ground plan.
Five volunteers will hand out the leaflets to the public at the shop com and spread the
awareness about the event.
Three volunteers will help coordinate and support the set-up activity.

Event will start with a dance performance. A boy will dance on Baby doll main sone di.
Time : 5 5:05 PM
This will be done in order to get the attention of the available audience.
Requirements - Sound system

After the dance performance, MC will open the event.

Time: 5:05 5:10 PM
Address the audience
Introduce and explain the event.
Requirements - Mic (sound system)

MC will call two volunteers from the audience both girls.

Time : 5:10 5:15 PM

 He will co-ordinate an arm wrestling match between them.

Requirement Tall table

MC will invite Mr. Rajeev Velicheti, the mentor of the event, on to the dias.
Time : 5:15 5: 30 PM.
To talk about gender performativity.
Objectives of the event.

MC will introduce the core activity.

Time : 5:30 6:15 pm
Conduct the lottery to select the participants.
Call the selected candidates.
Conduct a coin toss to assign them their gender heads' female and tails' male.
All six participants will be sent to different makeup tables.
Where the make-up and dress-up will be done according to their assigned gender,
accentuating the stereotypes.
While the participants are getting ready MC will engage the audience.
MC will call two volunteers from the audience one male and one female. They will be
asked to read out a famous scene (between hero and heroine) from a bollywood film with
their gender reversed.
Musical duet by a girl with a violin and a boy singing.
Participants will be ready by the end of the previous performance.
Six chairs will be placed in the performance space.
Participants will be ready by now.
MC will ask them to sit in the chairs.
MC will hand out images of different sitting postures to the participants which they have to
copy.
Postures will be typical sitting postures associated with both the genders.
Each participant will get a posture opposite to the gender assigned to him.
MC will give them following individual tasks.
Male : Knitting, Crying and talking about how much he miss his mother, making a
birthday card.
Female Abusing (speaking a monologue from sakharam binder), weight lifting,
working with tools (assembling a chair and nailing it)
All the participants will start their tasks.
MC will call all the participants one by one and ask them to display their task.
Conclude the activity by thanking all the participants.
Requirements : Bowl for lottery, Name slips, 6 tables, 6 make-up kits, wigs, costumes, 6
chairs, material for the tasks, images of sitting postures,

MC will open the floor for Discussion and Q&A session.

Time : 6:15 6:45 PM
Invite all the team members and mentors along with the participants on to the stage.
Discussion with the team members and the participants, chaired by the mentor.
Open the Q&A session
Requirements : more mic.

Conclude the event

Time : 6:45 6:55
MC will conclude the Q&A session.
MC will call the event coordinator to give vote of thanks.
MC will invite everybody for a dance session to conclude the event.
To celebrate the liberation of gender.
MC will close the event and ask everybody to disperse.
Requirements Playlist for the dance session.

Post-event management.
Time: 7:00 7:30 PM
Dispersing the audience.
Chatting with enthusiastic audience.
Winding up the performance space.
Dispatching the equipments and other materials.
Arranging team dinner.

Team :
Event coordinator

Admin

Volunteers

Publicity

Volunteer

Registration

Finance

Funding

Production

Sourcing
Venue
management

Sound & video

Entertainment

volunteers

Event Coordinator :
Set-up a team
15 members
First meeting
Discuss the event
Distribute roles and responsibilities
Set time-line
Organize daily review meetings.
Support sub-teams
Volunteer management.
Additional Responsibility : Registration
Team members : Event coordinator and a volunteer
Respond to the request of participation on phone, facebook and in person.
Register the participants who would like to be part of the core activity.
Additional Responsibility : Funding
Along with the finance in-charge.
Find funding

Admin :
Team : 2 people In-charge and a volunteer
Take all the necessary permissions
Pass the relevant information to the concerned authorities.
Security arrangements
Preparation of the performance space.
Risk Assessment
Discuss with the event coordinator and the team.
Make a list of all the probable risk
Rain
Power-cuts
Outside interference
Security concerns etc.
Make contingency plan to deal with these risks.
Publicity:
Team : 2 people In-charge and a volunteers
Come up with a publicity plan
Identify target audience
Target audience for this event - mostly university students
Some of teaching staff
Majority of the audience is expected from the social science department and the feminist
group of the university.
Publicity will be focused towards them.
But other students and teaching staff will also be targeted for the success of the event.

Publicity Modes
Facebook page
A facebook campaign will be started where university students will be asked to post
their pictures.
In the picture they will be holding a placard.
Placard will contain a name of the subject, their gender and any one of their
behavior/trait/hobbie etc..
People will be encouraged to name a behavior of theirs which doesn't correspond to
their typical gender.
Or they can write any personal behavior to give the campaign a human touch.
Posters
Leaflets.
The day prior to the event, all the team members will cross-dress.
Spread the awareness and distribute the leaflets.
Word of mouth.

Finance :
Team : 1 person
Discuss with the team about the requirements.
Prepare the budget.
Approval from the event coordinator.
Release money to sub-teams as per their request.
Control the expenditure.
Work closely with sub-teams.
Work on cheeper alternatives.
Keep balance sheet.
Production:
Team : 7 people In-charge, other sub-departments and volunteers
Production team is divided into four sub-departments.
Sourcing
Venue management
Sound and video
Entertainment

Sourcing
Discuss with team and make a list of required materials.
Source those materials.
Make a list of the materials which needs to be
Bought
Rented
arranged from the available resources.
Distribute materials to different departments as per the request.

Venue management
Visit the space.
Make a ground plan.
List of materials required.
Handover the list to sourcing personnel.
Number of people required.
Plan the set-up.
Check with sourcing on the availability of material.
Execution.

Sound and Video

Sound requirements.
Arrange a person for video documentation.
set-up of sound system.
Execution.

Entertainment
Find a MC.
Discuss and prepare the event script with the MC.
Plan the core activity
Tasks for the participants.
Sequence of activities.
Materials required.
Find performers for the event.
Rehearse with the MC and performers.
Select music for the event and create a playlist for the dance.
Coordinate with sound and video.
Additional Responsibility : Make-up team
Find six volunteers to do make-up and help participants dress-up.
Arrange make-up practice sessions.
Materials requirement.

List of material
S. No.

Material

Quantity

Source

Cost

Remark

Sound system

Available

Speakers, cables, mixer, mics, etc.

Tables small

Available

Big enough for setting a make-up table

Table big

Available

For the sound system

Chairs

Available

Make-up kit

Buy

2000

Wigs and beards

Rent

3000

Costumes male

Available

Volunteers and theatre arts costumes

Costumes female

Available

Volunteers and theatre arts costumes

Bowl

Available

For lottery

10

Name slips

NA

Available

For lottery

11

Coin

Available

Coin toss

12

Knitting set

Buy

200

13

Dumbles

Available

14

Tool kit

Available

Total

5200

Budget
S. No.

Item

Cost

Remark

Materials

5200

Table above

Printouts

1000

Food

3000

Misc.

1000

Total

10200