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Estrogen Fest II (Commerce, MI)

 

Estrogen Fest II is a three day event, scheduled July 25-27 at the Proud Lake Recreation Area, in Commerce, Michigan.

The event is centered on women empowering women through music, the arts, workshops, networking, and a common cause. We are hoping to raise funds thought ticket sales, raffles, food service, sponsorship, donations, and keep the costs of the event low, with hopes of raising enough money to build a playground for kids that really need one.

The Godmothers are seeking support in a variety of ways. Sponsor the event; we are seeking sponsors that range from $500 - $5,000. Sponsorship is a great way to advertise. Donations for the event are also needed, such as dessert trays, baked goods to sell or raffle, or gift certificates, and donations. A donation, in any amount $$$ would be greatly appreciated, and in turn we will recognize you at this year’s event, in our literature, and on our web-site.

• Expected Number of Attendees for Estrogen II: Over 2000
• Demographics: Women 21 and up out to have fun and network, vendors, numerous volunteers and of course, the Godmothers!
• Event: This is a three-day festival event set in the beautiful, natural recreational area of northern Oakland County, Michigan, only a 35 minute drive from Detroit and surrounding suburbs.
• KICK-OFF PARTY: Friday Gates open at 5p.m.
  V.I.P MINGLER PARTY STARTING AT 7 P.M.
  in the Conference Center. WINE. FOOD. MUSIC.
  Everyone is welcome! The roster will be posted in the coming weeks! This event promises to have something for everyone! Music. Art. Workshops. Special Guest Appearances from top musicians and DJs. Comedians, poets, crafts, vendors, gourmet foods sure to please anyone’s pallet. This event you won’t want to miss, they will be talking about it for years to come!
• SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Musical performances will begin at noon and carry on into the evening with local and national headliners, recording artists and bands. Sunday will include leisure activities, “Old School” reunions, live D.J.’s from past and present, more contests wrapping up the weekend with an Afternoon Tea Dance.

Bio of Entertainers: By request as acts are signed.

Primary Contact: Vicky Lewis
Email: vicky@thegodmothers.org
Phone 248-346-8960

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Utah Phillips on Democracy Now!

 

“… We’ve got a serious male problem. And I bought into it, so I know. And I’m buying myself out of it, you see. It’s terribly, terribly important for me for people to understand that and begin to shut up and listen. The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what’s going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I’m sure of it.”

-Legendary folk musician and peace and labor activist Utah Phillips, from an interview with Amy Goodman in 2004. Phillips died last week at the age of 73.

Watch the entire interview here.

Women of Color Publishing

 

From Maegan la Mala at VivirLatino.com

I never buy the American Book Review, but I’m going to make an exception for their lastest issue and you should too! The current issue features Women of Color Publishing and contains the words of some blogger/writer hermanas!

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Women, girls and feminism - support!

MICHIGAN

 Iron Ladies of Liberia - A Documentary by Henry Ansbacher, Jonathan Stack, and Daniel Junge.

When: Friday, March 14, 2008

Time: 7 - 9 p.m.

Where: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI

Follow Ellen Johnson Sirleaf through her first year in office as she faces angry mobs, ambitious political rivals, and high-ranking members of the international community. Her story is inspiring a new generation of leaders in Africa and around the world.

ACTIVE ART

Hosted By: Sicily McRaven

When: Friday, March 21, 2008 (one-day show)

Where: Wayne State Undergraduate Gallery, Detroit, MI

Active Art is a show dedicated to all forms of political art. It’s a one night art show, the day after the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war.

Open call for all political art in any media. Submissions due March 18th. Send descriptions of work to sis_artistry@yahoo.com or call Sicily at 313. 544-8317.

“Art is activism because it is a powerful tool to cause reflection upon the world we live in.”

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NEW YORK CITY

Writers Rising: Women Authors Talk Feminism & Activism

When: Thursday, March 20, 2008

Time: 6:30pm

Where: Revolution Books, 9 West 19th St. (bet. 5th & 6th), 212-627-9895

The National Organization for Women - NYC Service Fund hosts an exciting group of women writers to discuss their unique contributions of fiction, poetry and non-fiction work and the ways in which it inspires, mobilizes and sparks debate on feminist issues.

Featuring: Felice Belle, poet, playwright, and the former curator and host of the Friday Night Slam series at Nuyorican Poets Cafe. She recently created original poetry for the play History of the Word; Courtney Martin, Reporter, Professor of Gender Issues, and Author of Perfect Girls and Starving Daughters; and Sofia Quintero, Screenwriter, Activist and Author of Divas Don’t Yield.

$10 suggested donation for non-members.

Your Voice Can Stop Sexual Harassment

Dear Teens in NYC Schools-

Sexual harrassment is a very serious issue and many people do not take the time or effort to acknowledge this matter. Maybe it is because they’re afraid, there’s no one to talk to about it, or perhaps no one knows what sexual harassment is. The Sisters in Strengthy Youth Organizers are working on the issue of sexual harassment in schools, and we need the help of students (of all genders!) who attend schook in NYC. We are asking you to fill out your opinions and ideas in our Survey and Slam Book by March 7th, so we can make a difference together.

Email it to other students, post it on your website, put the link on your Myspace and Facebook pages, just get it out there! We are interested in hearing from as many students as possible.

The NYC Sexual Harassment Survey is available online here.

The NYC Sexual Harassment SlamBook is available here.

Please email us at sisters@ggenyc.org with questions or to request a paper copy of the Survey. Thank you for being a part of the School Safety Collaboration!

Youth Organziang Interns

Girls for Gender Equity

E: sisters@ggenyc.org

P: 718-857-1393

Website

Free Playwriting Workshops for Teens

Attention: Young Writers, Parents, Teachers!

Open ot All Area High School Students

When: Saturday, March 15, 2008

Time: 1 - 5 p.m.

Location: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle (Broadway at 66th Street, across from Lincoln Center)

Free Admission - Limited Space!  To get on the list call: 212. 594. 5440 or email latinochallenge@youngplaywrights.org

WRITE A PLAY TODAY and submit it to the YOUNG PLAYWRIGTS LATION CHALLENGE — a city wide competition! YOU COULD WIND $500!

Help us spread the word by forwarding this email to other folks who care about young people!

TeatroStageFest, a production of the Lation International Theater Festival of New York, Inc.

TeatroStageFest, New York, NY 10016, 212-695-4010

To register for the March 15, 2008 Workshop email latinochallenge@youngplaywrights.org

Website: TeatroStageFest

Website: Young Playwrights

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GENERAL

Girls Rock!: The Movie

If y’all are in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Franciso, East Bay, Portland or Seattle, this week may be your last chance to see Girls Rock! If you’ve been thinking how cool this movie is, or if you’ve seen it and you love it and want all your friends to see it, now is the time!

By March 13 it may be a very long time before you have a chance to see it again. Go here for screening locations, links and showtimes.

You CAN use Hip Hop to Promote Social Change

Concious Women Rock the Page: Activists Team Up to Publish Curriculum that uses Hip Hop Fiction to Explore Social Issues and Promote Political Action.

Visit them here.

Give Meaning - click and cast vote

Greetings of Peace! Please take a few moments to click on and cast your vote as we retreat to the worldwide web and take flight to serve in South Africa. Pass it on to your networks as you are so inspired and bookmark the page as I will be posting updates from the ground when I arrive in South Africa in a couple weeks.

Blessings, joy and thanks for your support and your presence in this world. RevL (look for original poems to be posted soon.)

I just voted on a great idea to raise money for a charitable goal. If you like it too, please add your vote.

What you’re “voting” on is whether you feel the proposed project is worthwhile. When you vote, you’re NOT making a financial commitment of any kind; you’re simply indicating that you think it’s a good idea and should go ahead.

Voting takes less than a minute, and it’s easy - so please VOTE NOW, by clicking here to review the project profile (and then just click on the Vote icon to cast your vote).

With enough votes, the Project’s founder can work towards making the idea a reality.

Celebrate Latino Heritage Month - Yo Soy Latina!

YO SOY LATINA ! is a funny and very moving ensemble play that challenges a group of diverse Latina women to examine their identity and their connections in the contemporary American landscape.  The play’s premise unites these women who come to share their individual anecdotes of living Latina in contemporary America . 

There’s Migdalia, a Nuyorican, who experiences prejudice from her own family because of her interracial marriage; Jennifer, a young Mexican-American college student who’s discovered her Chicana rights; Alicia, a Colombian actress who struggles with what keeps her from landing Latino roles because of the “lightness” of her skin; Maria Elena, a Panamanian, who faces inequity from other Latinos because of the darkness of her skin; Soledad, a Dominican mother who finds the courage to leave her machista husband in pursuit of her own dream; and Louisa, a Cuban-Irish who defends her right to be Latina. 

Playwright Linda Nieves-Powell, having recently been honored in Los Angeles with the prestigious 2005 Imagen Award for YO SOY LATINA!,  has become an important national voice for Latin women in America and has created the perfect fictional setting to address the many real issues that are prevalent in the lives of many Latinas.

YO SOY LATINA ! is expected by many to be as ground breaking in its voicing of Latina issues as For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf  was for African-American women.

YO SOY LATINA ! was an overwhelming success at the Crossroads Theatre Company’s Genesis Festival of New Voices in 2005.  As many Crossroads audience members attending its preview at Genesis last year have pointed out, “This play is very funny, honest, illuminating and evocative. It has a unique power and universal appeal that transcends all ages and ethnic backgrounds.” 

 It is no mystery why such a gifted Latina writer and her play, Yo Soy Latina!, have been given voice on the famous Crossroads stage and are playing such an important role in the theatre company’s new culturally-expanded mission and rapidly growing audience.

YO SOY LATINA! is coming back!

September 15, 2007

7:45pm

$25/$15 General/Student/Senior

Center of the Arts

2800 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, NY

 NY Box Office Info:718-982-ARTS 

This show sells out fast!

www.csi.cuny.edu/arts/, www.latinoflavored.com

Donating to the Jena Six

 

For The Month of August, we Are Collecting Donations for the Jena Six!

Who are the Jena Six?

The Jena Six are a group of black students who are being charged with attempted murder for beating up a white student who was taunting them with racial slurs, and continued to support other white students who hung three nooses from the high schools “white tree” which sits in the front yard.  

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We want to help the Jena Six by providing for their Defense Fund! So far, the ByteThis Poetry Series patrons have donated $73.00 USD.  The Detroit Poetry Collective is donating $75.00 USD.  The goal is $500.00 USD.  Let’s give LA’s young black men a Detroit support line.

If you would like to personally contribute to helping these young men then you can contact the Jena Six Defense Committee, PO Box 2798, Jena, LA 71342, jena6defense@ gmail.com.    

The ByteThis Poetry Series

Presented by The Detroit Poetry Collective 

Beans & Bytes Café, 4200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI  

Advice for Authors

 

The current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine introduces five debut fiction writers who offer great advice to emerging writers as well as describing the impetus for their books and how they came to be published. Link