Hi

Please find below information about the 6th International Bisexual Conference which will take place in late August 2000. If you would help in any way, by distributing the information to relevant mailing lists, or insertin g information in related newsletters, or linking to a web site, we would be eternally grateful. 

With reference to the conference site, there will be an opportunity for community groups to have stall space, advertising space is also available within the conference booklet. For more information about stalls and progra mme booklet advertising please contact bicon@bi.org

Thanks

Laurence Brewer
Programme Team
IBC6


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6th INTERNATIONAL BISEXUAL CONFERENCE
24th August - 28th August 2000
Manchester, England, UK

Have you booked your summer holiday this year? If not, then here's a chance to have your cake and eat it. The 6th International Bisexual Conference will be taking place in Manchester UK, imortalised by the ground breaking TV series "Queer as Folk".The weekend, also coincides with Manchesters Gay Fest , so the city will be teeming with colour and celebrations. The Conference, will incorporate a four days of socialising, fun, debate, talks  as well as entertainment and site seeing, a chance to meet old friends and make new friends.

The conference provides a social space for Bisexuals, their friends, partners and families to meet, as well as space for those involved with activism and developing resources for Bisexuals, to share and discuss ideas and strategies.. The conference is not restricted to people who solely self identify as Bisexual, but is open to all people from different areas and interests to share ideas around Bisexuality. 
Calling all artists

Submissions are wanted from bisexuals, their friends and allies. Submissions can be in any media - text, drawings, photography, computer art, etc, but they must be 7" x 10" or smaller (1"=25mm) - to fit a standard comic bag.

Work need not be "about" bisexuality (whatever that means), and will not be judged on artistic merit. All work submitted will be on display throughout the conference and then auctioned and the proceeds donated to bi community causes.

The deadline for postal submissions is 10th August 2000. They should be sent to Line Bi Line, BM BiCon, London, WC1N 3XX, England.

Call for Sessions

Workshop, and presentations are invited on any issue related to Bisexuality, workshops may be group discussions, presentations panel discussion, social activity or simply social meeting such as an email group. In addition to general proposals, we would welcome proposals related to Bisexuality and the following themes.

* Activism / Organising / Politics / History 
* Youth/Student Issues
* Media/Culture : Film, TV, Literature, Theatre, Performance, Media representation
* Gender Issues : Transgenderism, Women / Men and Bisexuality, Feminism and Bisexuality
* Sexuality : Personal Growth, Relationship issues, 
* Non-Bi Partners/Families/Parenting issues
* Our Bodies: Differing Ability, Heath, Image, Aging
* Global/Regional/Racial/Cultural/Class Differences
* Research/Theory
* Spirituality / Religion
* Computer/Internet
* Health Issues : Safe Sex/HIV, Body Image, Mental Health.

To submit a proposal for a presentation or workshop, please supply, name and contact details, title of session, a brief description of the session, a short personal biography, and description of intended session format ( e.g. Group discussion, presentation ) by 1 August 2000.

Send proposals to 

IBC6 Programme
BM BiCon,
London 
WC1N 3XX.
United Kingdom

Alternatively send your session proposals to

Biconprogramme@post.com

For further information concerning the Conference and Conference Booking information contact.

Email : bicon@bi.org

Web : http://come.to/bicon/ 

BM BiCon, 
London, 
United Kingdom 
WC1N 3XX 
(send an SAE/IRC). 

Notes :

1. Due to space limitations we may not be able to accept every session proposal. We will try and select sessions in order to make a balanced and interesting programme for all.

2. The main language of the Conference will be English. 

3. This will be the 6th International Bisexual Conference. The 5th International Bisexual Conference was held at Harvard University, Boston, USA in the summer of 1998 and attracted up to 1000 attendees. The 7th International Bisexual Conference is planned to take place in Australia in 2002.