Calala Women’s Fund is organizing the Copa Calala I Solidarity Women’s Football Tournament in order to create a visible space for women’s football, highlighting the power that this sport has in order to unravel integration and exchange values like gender equity and equality, the empowerment and visibility of women and to collect funds for women’s groups and grassroot organization for collectives that Calala supports habitually (young women, indigenous women, lesbians, transsexual, migrants, domestic and sexual workers, etc.).
Because we want women to fully enjoy their rights on the football field and in all other avenues of life, this will be a space of meeting and exchange to create networks and reflect over the realities in women’s football, in spite of having a long tradition in Catalonia in different spaces more or less professional, counts with less visibility, recognition and investment than your male equals and more precariousness when forming teams, and finding coaches and fields to play on.
The Copa Calala I Solidarity Women’s Football Tournament will be a football tournament lasting 4 hours in which 10 football sala teams will participate. We have created a space with 3 fields where we can create groups that play 15 minute games within themselves, semifinals and the final game. It will take place on the premises of l'Eix Transversal (CEM Bogatell, at Carmen Amaya st., num. 4-6, Barcelona) on September the 21st., from 9 to 13 o'clock.
The teams can be formed specifically for the tournament, and is open to women football players, 18 years or older, just as are all the competitions that are in Catalunya, like football 11, football 7 or in indoor football.
During the tournament there will be a discussion table with the presence of organizations that promote gender equality in football, like the Panteres Grogues (Yellow Panthers), a lesbian sports club, that work towards the eradication and discrimination and homophobia in the sport. Also we'll enjoy the music by three women DJ's: PD Rudith Rude (Bluebeats FM); Laia Selectah and Sistah Iris.
You will find information about Calala-Women’s Fund and solidarity articles on ways you can further support us. Now more than ever we need your help to defeat gender violence and fight for women’s rights. See you there!
The funding target we have will be used to cover the entire expense of the tournament, which are: the rental of the filds, referees and sport equipment (1,200 €), the edition of Calala's Soli-Stuff (300€) , promotional and grafic materials for the tournament (200 €), rental of sound equipment and DJ set (80 €) and production costs (220 €).
The sign up fee is 150 euros per team, without limits on the quantity of players, and includes referees, balls, breastplates and use of the locker rooms throughout the tournament. All of the beneficiaries of the tournament go towards the support of women’s groups, networks, and grassroot organizations in Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Now, more than ever, we need your help to defeat gender violence and involution of the rights of women. See you there!
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