Jane Addams was a leading statesperson in an era when such possibilities for women were almost nonexistent. Few people today, however, know the full scope of her work as a political progressive. Join us to commemorate the 150th anniversary of her birth, and to celebrate the release of Jane Addams: Spirit in Action.

In this fresh interpretation, the first full biography of Addams in nearly forty years, Louise W. Knight shows Addams’s boldness, creativity, and tenacity as she sought ways to put the ideals of democracy into action. Starting in Chicago as a co-founder of the nation’s first settlement house, Hull House—a community center where people of all classes and ethnicities could gather—Addams became a grassroots organizer and a partner of trade unionists, women, immigrants, and African Americans seeking social justice. In time, she emerged as an all-around progressive leader: an advocate for women’s suffrage; an advisor to presidents; a co-founder of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP; and a leader for international peace.

Knight’s fast-paced narrative traces how one woman worked with others to make a difference in the world, and how her legacy has contributed to the ideals and policies we strive for today.

Click here to RSVP for this event!

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Louise W. Knight is a Visiting Scholar in the Gender Studies Program at Northwestern University and a writer and consultant to nonprofits. The author of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy, she lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Blanche Wiesen Cook is a bestselling biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt, and Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at John Jay College.

Are you ready to own your sexuality, to reclaim it, heal it and celebrate it? If you are ready to explore and transform your sexuality, join sexuality educator Amy Jo Goddard and some of the former participants of the Women’s Sexuality Empowerment Apprenticeship program for a free introductory night. Amy Jo will help women to assess where they are currently in their own sexuality and lead them in a guided meditation and interactive discussion. There is no obligation to take the program, and you will definitely walk away with some clarity and action steps about your own sexuality.

“I know there is a deep need for safe spaces where women can study and grow their sexuality, so I’ve carefully constructed a framework where women can learn experientially and share with each other aspects of their sexual selves that have been in hiding. I want to see women be truly empowered sexually. I want to see women support each other. I want women to have the intimate relationships they dream of. I want to support women to take the risks required to become their most authentic, fulfilled sexual selves.”

For more info or to sign up, go to:
http://sexualityintronight.eventbrite.com/

www.amyjogoddard.com
BIO:
Amy Jo Goddard, M.A. is a sexuality educator & trainer, writer, performing artist and activist. She travels to colleges, universities, communities and conferences teaching workshops and speaking about sexuality and maintains a private sex coaching practice. She is co-author of Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men and is a contributing author of All About Sex: A Family Resource Guide on Sex and Sexuality. Her article about queer performance artists and activism was published in 2007 in the Social Justice Journal and she has been published in numerous other publications including LOFT and Bust Magazine. Amy Jo was host of cherrybomb.com’s web stream program “Fresh Advice,” developing, researching, writing and performing over 60 episodes on women’s sexuality. A professional trainer of sexuality professionals, medical students, college students and youth for fifteen years, she has taught courses relating to sexuality at the City University of New York and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Amy Jo has taught breast and pelvic exams to medical/nursing students for 8 years and she is director/producer of the forthcoming documentary, At Your Cervix, a film that depicts this unusual work. She facilitates the Women’s Sexuality Empowerment Apprenticeship in New York City.

The Big She-Bang, organized by For The Birds Collective, is being held on Saturday, August 14th at Church of the Messiah, located at 129 Russell Street (Lower Level), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY from 11AM to 10pm.

The Big She-Bang is an all-day event of workshops, panel discussions, visual art, and music by and for women-identified artists & community members. The Big She-Bang strives to cultivate a space for women to share creative endeavors, exchange ideas, and provide support in a safe and open-minded environment. It is a multimedia event that serves as a platform for women artists and activists. This year’s She-Bang festival will include workshops and panel discussions, live musical performances, an all-day art show and tabling by various feminist organizations from New York. The event is always all ages, and everyone is welcome.

THIS YEAR, our theme is – Feminist Communication.

Throughout the day, there will be an art show exhibiting different mediums of work created by various women in New York City:

PATTY BOWMAN
MOLLY FAIR
XANDER MARRO
BETH SLUTZKY

MEG TURNER
MICHAELA ZACCHILI

Workshops and panel discussions will also be happening throughout the day, covering topics such as:

on FEMINISM THROUGH CREATIVITY
presented by members of Sister Spit & YOUNITY

on CONSENT & INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
presented by Support New York & Fuckin’ (A)

on YOUTH & MEDIA
presented by Femmedia, Nicole Acosta, & Nydia Swaby

The event will end with performances by:

DES ARK

BLESS ROXWELL

AYE NAKO (ex-Fleabag)

BELL’S ROAR

& 1 more TBA

We are asking for a $6 to $10 sliding scale donation, although no will be turned away. A tape and CD compilation of bands fronted by female and woman-identified rockers, including some of those performing, will be available for purchase.

The collective that organizes The Big She-Bang is called FOR THE BIRDS. For The Birds is a collective of New York women whose main intent is fostering the creative empowerment of women, as well as the dissemination of feminist projects: art, music, information, and scholarly work. A large part of this feminist info-sharing occurs in the form of a distro and a label imprint. In our distro, we carry writing, art, and music by feminists and women-identified folks. On our label imprint, we continue to publish similar work.

The Big She-Bang was previously a celebration thrown by the Long Island Womyn’s Collective. Information on The Big She-Bang 1 & 2 can be found here: http://myspace.com/liwomynscollective

All information on The Big She-Bang 3, 4 & 5 can be found here: http://myspace.com/thebig_shebang

or

http://www.forthebirdscollective.org/about2/herstory/

DIRECTIONS

http://www.messiahbrooklyn.org/
129 Russell Street — Brooklyn NY 11222 — 718.389.0854
messiahgreenpoint@gmail.com

SUBWAY:

FROM THE G TRAIN
Take the G to Nassau Ave. Exit near intersection of Nassau Ave. and Manhattan Ave. Walk East on Nassau towards Leonard St. (about 7 blocks), make a Right on Russel St. when you reach McGolrick Park.

FROM THE L TRAIN
Take the L to Lorimer St. Exit near the intersection of Lorimer and Metropolitan Ave. Walk north on Lorimer towards Conselyea Ave. where you will pick up the B48 Bus and take it to the intersection of Nassau and Humboldt Streets.  Walk one block east on Nassau to Russel St and turn right.  Church will be on your right.

BUSES:

The B48 stops at Humboldt and Nassau Aves. Walk one block east on Nassau to Russel St and turn right.  Church will be on your right.

Take the B62 to Manhattan and Nassau Aves.  Walk east on Nassau towards Leonard St. for 7 blocks and make a right on Russel St. when you reach McGolrick Park.

For any further questions or press contact, please contact us at forthebirdscollective@gmail.com

Contact: thebigshebang@gmail.com

FORTHEBIRDSCOLLECTIVE.ORG

myspace.com/forthebirdsnyc

twitter.com/forthebirdsnyc

NARAL Pro-Choice New York
470 Park Avenue South, 7th Floor

Please join for a fundraising phone bank to benefit our Political
Action Committee. We need your help! In the upcoming elections, we
need to elect only those candidates who have made a clear commitment
to standing up for the women and families of this state and the values
we hold dear. With your help, we can have the resources necessary to
make real pro-choice political change this fall.

Training and pizza dinner will be provided.

To RSVP, please contact Lalena at lhoward@prochoiceny.org or 646-520-3506

Sign the Reproductive Health Act petition on-line!:

http://www.prochoiceny.org/getinvolved/rhapetition.shtml

NEW YORK, NY - The Jewish Museum will present Shulie: A Film by Elisabeth Subrin from September 12, 2010 through January 30, 2011 in the Museum’s Barbara and E. Robert Goodkind Media Center. Shulie (1997) is a shot-by-shot remake of a little-known documentary about 1960s feminist Shulamith Firestone. Author of the treatise The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, Firestone was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967 when four male directors selected her as a subject for a film about the so-called Now Generation. Shot in the style of direct cinema, the original Shulie featured Firestone discussing religion, the limitations of motherhood, and racial and class issues in the workplace. Thirty years later, Elisabeth Subrin recreated Shulie using actors in many of the original locations. The resulting film is a nostalgic and somewhat cynical reflection on the legacy of second-wave feminism. Subrin writes, “in the compulsion to remake, to produce a fake document, to repeat a specific experience I never actually had, what I have offered up is the performance of a resonant, repetitive, emotional trauma that has yet to be healed.” The exhibition also includes four new digital photographs of enlarged film stills from Shulie, two of which will be shown for the first time. Shulie is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism.

Elisabeth Subrin’s award-winning work has screened widely in the US and abroad, including in solo shows at P.S.1, The Museum of Modern Art, The Vienna International Film Festival, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Harvard Film Archives and The San Francisco Cinematheque; and in group shows and festivals at The Whitney Biennial, The Guggenheim Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The New York Film Festival, and The Rotterdam International Film Festival. She has received grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Annenberg, and The Creative Capital Foundations, and participated in the Sundance Institute Screenwriting and Directing Fellowships with her first feature-length narrative film, in development with Forensic Films in New York. She has received film commissions from The MacDowell Colony and The Danish Arts Council for recent projects, The Caretakers and Sweet Ruin. A solo exhibition curated by Lia Gangitano will take place at PARTICIPANT, INC. in New York in 2011. She is currently Assistant Professor of Film and Media Art at Temple University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Located on the third floor of The Jewish Museum, the Goodkind Media Center houses a digital library of radio and television programs from the Museum’s National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting (NJAB). It also features a changing exhibition space dedicated to video and new media. Using computer workstations, visitors are able to search material by keyword and by categories such as art, comedy, drama, news, music, kids, Israel, and the Holocaust.

Media programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

About the National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting

The National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting, founded in 1981 in association with the Charles H. Revson Foundation, is the largest and most comprehensive body of broadcast materials on 20th century Jewish culture in the United States. With a mission to collect, preserve and exhibit television and radio programs related to the Jewish experience, the NJAB is an important educational resource for critical examination of how Jews have been portrayed and portray themselves, and how the mass media has addressed issues of ethnicity and diversity. Its collection is comprised of 4,300 broadcast and cable television and radio programs.

About The Jewish Museum

Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent United States institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture. The Jewish Museum was established in 1904, when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, the Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects—paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media.

General Information

Museum hours are Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, 11am to 5:45pm; Thursday, 11am to 8pm; and Friday, 11am to 4pm. Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for children under 12 and Jewish Museum members. Admission is free on Saturdays. For general information on The Jewish Museum, the public may visit the Museum’s Web site at http://www.thejewishmuseum.org or call 212.423.3200. The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.

Premiere Stages at Kean University (Union, NJ) presents a dynamic mix of original plays. The professional theatre’s season includes a powerful new drama, an important new play in a co-production with Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, and the development of a speedy new comedy. Family-friendly musical theatre productions and special initiatives for children and students make the season enjoyable for all audiences.

The Good Counselor is Kathryn Grant’s drama about a chosen son’s quest for truth. A bright, young public defender struggles to represent two neglectful mothers, one his client, the other his own. A thought-provoking and beautifully written new play, The Good Counselor literally prompts the audience to serve as the jury in determining what it means to be a good parent. This Premiere Stages Festival Winner, selected from over three hundred submissions, opens Thursday, July 15, in the Zella Fry Theatre and continues through Sunday, August 1.

Collaborating with Playwrights’ Theatre of New Jersey, Premiere Stages presents Tammy Ryan’s Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods (September 2 trough 19). In this timely new work, Gabriel, an optimistic former “lost boy” from Sudan meets Christine, a suburban mother in desperate need of attention and adventure. What begins as an unlikely friendship becomes an unbreakable bond that changes the pair and leads them to a better understanding of their place in the world.

“We workshopped the play in staged readings,” stated John Wooten, Premiere Stages’ Artistic Director. “The response was incredible. It was clear that this was not a story that should be told, it was one that had to be told.”

The campus community agrees. The Human Rights Institute at Kean University, the Darfur Rehabilitation Project, and the Kean Department of Theatre are collaborating with Premiere Stages to bring this important story to the stage. A special opening night pre-show reception for donors will be held on September 3rd in Kean University’s new Human Rights Institute and a champagne toast with the cast follows the performance.

“I am pleased to have these important partners working with us to bring the play to life. It’s an amazing story and another example of how the arts often bring important issues to the forefront.”

In a similar developmental process, Premiere Stages will advance Gino Dilorio’s The Jag. In this evolving new comedy, a father and son struggle to find missing parts as they reconstruct a car that was never meant to be finished. Through an intensive one-week process, interactive staged readings are presented to the public (June 25 through 27).

Premiere Stages’ Musical Fun Series features two of New Jersey’s finest Actors’ Equity Association theatre companies for young audiences. Running Rabbit Family Theatre presents Pinocchio and Pushcart Players offers Stone Soup and Other Stories and Cuentos Del Arbol .

Premiere Stages launches the brand new Premiere’s Holiday Workshop. A special holiday treat for the entire family, the Workshop features readings of three holiday-themed plays and includes hot cider and treats for everyone. Admission is free; patrons need only to bring a new, unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots.

All performances take place on the Kean University campus, located at 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, N.J. Premiere Stages offers affordable prices, air-conditioned facilities and free parking close to the theatres. Premiere Stages provides free or discounted tickets to patrons with disabilities. All Premiere Stages facilities are fully accessible spaces. Please call for a list of sign-interpreted, audio-described or open-captioned performances. Assistive listening devices and large print programs are available at all times. Publications are available with advanced notice in alternate formats.

Tickets for productions range from $15 to $25, with discounts for groups (Musical Fun tickets are $12 with discounts for groups). The Premiere Package (a new subscription series) saves patrons up to $30.00 and includes free admission to staged readings and other special events. For more information, call 908-737-4092 or visit www.kean.edu/premierestages .

Premiere Stages is made possible in part through funding from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Kean’s Quality First Initiative, The Westfield Foundation, The Gleason Family Foundation, The Provident Bank Foundation, and through the generous support of individual patrons.

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Schedule of Events:

The Jag
FREE staged readings in the Murphy Dunn Theatre (Vaughn Eames Fine Arts Building)
Friday, June 25, 7 p.m.
Saturday, June 26, 7 p.m.
Sunday, June 27, 3 p.m.

The Good Counselor
Zella Fry Theatre (Vaughn Eames Fine Arts Building)
Thursday, July 15 – Sunday, August 1
Thursday - Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday matinee performances begin at 3 p.m.

Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods
Zella Fry Theatre (Vaughn Eames Fine Arts Building)
Friday, September 2 – Sunday, September 19
Fridays and Saturday performances begin at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday matinee performances begin at 3 p.m.
“Pizza Preview” Performance on Thursday, September 2 at 8pm
VIP Opening Night Fundraiser and Performance on Friday, September 3 at 8pm
Special “Early Curtain” performances on Weds, September 8, at 10 a.m. and Thursday, September 16 at 5 p.m.

Premiere’s Holiday Workshop
December 9 – 11, 2010 time(s) to be announced

Musical Fun Series

All Musical Fun performances will be presented in the Little Theatre, with ticket prices ranging from $10 to $12.

PINOCCHIO
Tuesday, July 13 at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm..
Wednesday, July 14 at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm..

CUENTOS del ARBOL
Thursday, July 15 at 11:00 am

STONE SOUP…and other stories
Wednesday, July 21 at 11:00 am and 1:00 pm

CUENTOS del ARBOL
Wednesday, July 28 at 11:00 am

This press release is also available online at:
http://www.kean.edu/about_press.html

Contact Information:

To order tickets, join our mailing list, and/or to request a season brochure, please call the Kean Stage Box Office at 908-737-SHOW (7469).
For groups, call Paul Whelihan at 908-737-4077.
For Camp and the Premiere Residency Program, please call Erica Nagel at 908-737-4092, or visit Premiere Stages online at www.kean.edu/premierestages.

For specifics of the season, please contact Artistic Director John Wooten at jwooten@kean.edu or 908-737-4360.

The Bowery Poetry Club
Friday, July 9, 2010 @ 7:30PM

featuring
Tara Betts, Timothy Liu, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Jeffrey Perkins
Devi Lockwood, Jon Sands & Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
with special guest David Henderson

We are pleased to announce the publication of phati’tude
Literary Magazine’s relaunch issue, MULTICULTURALISM: IN SEARCH
OF A NEW PERSPECTIVE and our Summer issue, THE LAVENDER ISSUE:
LGBT LITERATURE TODAY. Both publications will be available for
sale on our website on July 15, 2010 on Amazon.com. Each issue
features writers from the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland,
Australia, New Zealand, Guam, the Philippines, Japan.

Come join us! It’ll be great to see old friends and meet new
ones!

For more information visit us at http://phatitude.org

Who knew? During the 50s, an era in auto design known for super-sized macho male autos with rocket-like tailfins and increasing engine power, when guys tended to call their cars “she,” General Motors surprisingly hired a team of women auto designers who were trailblazing pioneers and had a critical role in the company’s Renaissance of Design. And today, a group of women are among the designers spearheading the generation of new cars that might make or break the company.

The Museum of the City of New York, in conjunction with its current exhibition, “Cars, Culture and the City,” presents Designing Women:  The Intersection of Art, Culture and Car Design, a very special public program that examines this largely untold story of GM’s past and present designing women (June 28, 6:30pm). Four of GM’s top women designers will lead the program, discussing both the pioneering days of the early women designers at GM to their current roles designing such cars as next generation Cadillacs. They will be able to take questions and be available for conversation following the program.

For a fascinating preview of the Designing Women program,
please enjoy this short video:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MuseumofCityofNY

To make reservations, please visit:
http://www.mcny.org/public-programs/all/Designing-Women.html

For more information or to RSVP by phone, please call:
917-492-3395

The first 200 people to RSVP will receive at the end of the
program a free autographed sketch of new Cadillac designs drawn
by the designing women.

Amy Nizwantowski
Phil&Co
On behalf of the Museum of the City of New York

Hosted by Josette Persson, Lisa Esselstein & Therese Shechter

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Hello Friends! It’s been too long… our last boozy gathering was back in April, before the days of flip flops and thunder storms. So we’ve planned another “Cocktail Hour” event. But who are we fooling? We’ll be there for more than 60 minutes. And we hope you will join us!

Like last time, we’re drinking with a purpose. Lisa and Therese are nearing the end of a Kickstarter campaign for Therese’s documentary film, HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY, to kickstart the editing phase of the project. We’ve already raised 80% of our goal, with most of the pledges coming from people we’ve only met through the campaign. Once our friends, neighbors, colleagues and drinking buddies get involved (hey, that’s you!), we’ll sprint to the goal. But we have to raise 100% of our goal by July 1st or we get nothing — that’s how Kickstarter works.

Please go to our Kickstarter page and pledge what you can. And join us at Jake’s to drink as much as you can because the bar will be donating proceeds as well.

http://kck.st/9Hm93b

We hope to see you there!

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