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Feminist Documentaries at MOMA

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Last year, Paradigm Shift proudly hosted a screening of Jesse Epstein’s “Body Typed” a series of short films on perfection, including 34x25x36.  If you missed it, 34x25x36 will be screening with pioneering feminist films of the 1970’s at The Museum of Modern Art.

Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media
Saturday, February 26, 2011, 1:30 p.m.

The line-up includes the founding documentaries of New Day Films, listed below. New Day was formed by independent filmmakers in 1971, and 40 years later, New Day’s filmmaker owned & operated distribution model is still going strong.

34x25x36 is Executive Produced by Chicken & Egg Pictures in Association with The Fledgling Fund, and received a national PBS Broadcast on POV. Includes music by T. Griffin of the Quavers. Distributed through New Day Films.

Program 97 min. Introduction and discussion with Reichert, Klein, Brandon, Rothschild, Epstein

The Films:
* 34x25x36
2009. USA. Directed by Jesse Epstein. Inside the Patina-V mannequin factory in the City of Industry, CA, the “ideal woman” is crafted out of plastic into a 34 x 25 x 36″ figure. The chief designer notes that the roots of his craft lie in French 19th-century wax figures and in the medieval religious icons. New York festival premiere.  8 min.  JesseDocs.com

*  Anything You Want to Be
1971. USA. Directed by Liane Brandon. In a series of vignettes, a teenage girl discovers that despite her parents’ assurance that she can “be anything she wants to be,” reality sometimes throws a curveball. 8 min.

* Growing Up Female
1971. USA. Directed by Julia Reichert, James Klein. This early film of the modern Women’s Movement was widely used by consciousness-raising groups to generate interest and explain feminism to a skeptical society. The film looks at female socialization through the lives of six women, ages 4 to 35, and the forces that shape them, including teachers, counselors, advertising, music, and the institution of marriage. 50 min.

* It Happens to Us
1972. USA. Directed by Amalie R. Rothschild. This film presents the personal stories of a wide range of women, rich and poor, young and older, black and white, married and unmarried, on the topic of abortion. Some of their stories evoke experiences from before the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision. 30 min.

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Spring 2011 Prediction: The Paradigm Will Shift by at Least 5%. Spring Events Announced Soon!

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We’ll announce our Spring events shortly, so in the meantime please check out our co-sponsored events listed on the event calendar, our blog, and our about page for testimonials and list of past events.

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Paradigm Shift NYC events challenge and inspire participants to contribute to the feminist movement by providing a unique and welcoming platform for expression and coalition building.  The result is almost 4 years of feminist community building that is creating both intra- and interpersonal paradigm shifts, contributing to a transformative societal ripple effect.

By donating- you are creating change

Suggested Donations:

$10-25 – will allow one person who is not able to pay to attend an event for free
$50-100- will help subsidize the cost of building a partnership coalition for one event
$100-250- will help subsidize the cost of one venue for one event
$500-750- will help subsidize the costs of event video production

Your donation of $5, 10, $25 or $50+ is greatly appreciated- donate today

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A LOWER EAST SIDE FEMINIST TAKEOVER POST-HOLIDAY HAPPY HOUR

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Honoring 20 LGBTQ Activists: 7th Annual Stonewall Honors

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Join us on Thursday, December 2, 2010 for the 7th Annual Stonewall Honors, Stonewall Community Foundation’s signature women’s event.  Stonewall is celebrating its 20th Anniversary by honoring 20 extraordinary women for their contributions to the LGBT community. Join us in honoring these amazing women in our community by:

  • Buying a sponsorship or ticket to the event by clicking the link below.  Sponsorships start at $250 and general tickets are $95 ($120 at the door).

This year’s event will be held at the Highline Ballroom (431 West 16th Street, NYC) from 7:30 PM to 12 AM.

All proceeds from Stonewall Honors will support Stonewall Institute’s Out In Front New York Program, a dynamic new initiative focused on training a younger generation of LGBT leaders as we seek to develop the skills for organizational leadership and the inspiration for philanthropic giving to the LGBT community.

For additional questions about Stonewall Honors and Stonewall Community Foundation, please contact Thai Pham, Director of Events and Communications, at 212-367-1265 or thai.pham@stonewallfoundation.org.

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“Finding Elizabeth Taylor” Satirical Solo Play Opens by Feminist Plus-size Model with a Legendary Name

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PLUS-SIZE FORD MODEL ELIZABETH TAYLOR RECOUNTS LIFE WITH A LEGENDARY NAME:

What’s life like being named after The Most Beautiful In The World?

Things haven’t been easy.

Born with the unmistakable name of a legend, Elizabeth Claire Taylor finds she has a little too much in common with the other Elizabeth Taylor.

You are invited to experience the dark, satirical, hilarious and heartfelt hour that is Finding Elizabeth Taylor.  More than just a ‘one woman show’, Elizabeth performs a solo play. Topics include: media and celebrity culture, the plus-size fashion industry, body image and eating disorder awareness.

Overcoming the jokes and one liners, Elizabeth finds her true self despite, and because of, her famous name.

“Finding Elizabeth Taylor has warmth, heart and sincerity”

“More than a traditional solo show  – a revolution, a movement”

“Campy and clever,  it is a beautiful homage to La Liz”

Show info:

Nov. 11, 8:30pm at Theatre Row www.unitedsolo.org 212 239 6200;

Nov. 15-16, 8pm at Manhattan Theatre Source www.theatresource.org 866 811 4111

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Please visit www.findingelizabethtaylor.com for more ticket information, commercial clips, up-to-date press and photos.  Photos also available for viewing at http://www.flickr.com/photos/findingelizabethtaylor/

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Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV by Jennifer Pozner- Reading & Book Launch Party

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Join WAM! NYC and Women In Media & News as Jennifer L. Pozner, WIMN’s Executive Director, reads from her new book, Reality Bites Back.

Nov. 4th Thurs. 7-9:30 PM
Bluestockings
172 Allen St., NYC
Facebook Invite: http://on.fb.me/b58K03

Why is reality television built on such blatant gender and race stereotypes? Why are women and people of color represented so harmfully, and with so much bias, in popular culture? What is “Frankenbite” editing, how many hours of tape are shot for every hour of reality TV aired, and how much cheaper is it to produce a reality show than a scripted program? Is it true that networks are simply “giving people what they want,” or is reality TV really the result of media consolidation, media economics, and stealth advertising?

Find out at Bluestockings, NYC’s leading indy progressive bookstore, at the first official stop on Pozner’s book tour. For more information, seehttp://www.RealityBitesBackBook.com

Also announcing:

Reality Bites Back NYC Book Launch Party Nov 10!
Nov. 10, Wednesday 7:30 – 9:30 PM
Kush Lounge and Bar
191 Chrystie St. (bet. Stanton & Rivington), NYC
http://thekushnyc.com
Facebook invite: http://on.fb.me/cImXt1

After transcribing every episode of three seasons of “Flavor of Love,” after NOT accepting “The Bachelor’s” rose for fourteen seasons, it’s finally here. So come help me (Jenn) celebrate the publication of Reality Bites Back!

The official NYC book launch party will be held at the fabulous Kush bar and lounge. Great people, tasty treats, strong cocktails, maybe some dancing… and a pile of books, ‘natch. (Twist my arm, I’ll sign ’em for you.)

Cohosted by:
* Women In Media & News: www.wimnonline.org
* Culture Kitchen’s Liza Sabater (@blogdiva on Twitter) — who is cohosting this party to double as a NYC indy media and progressive tweet-up
Supported by: Paradigm Shift NYC

BOOKS WILL BE SOLD by NYC’s progressive bookstore, Bluestockings.

RSVPs appreciated. See you there!

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PLAYGROUND: A Postmodern Laboratory for Fun and Development

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PLAYGROUND
A Postmodern Laboratory for Fun and Development
with Carrie Lobman and David Belmont
Friday, October 29, 7:00-9:00pm
TRS, Inc, 44 E. 32nd Street (betw. Madison & Park Aves)
$25 in advance/$30.00 at the door
Play is at the heart of social therapeutic methodology. Over the last four decades, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman have advanced the discovery that play helps people of all ages grow and develop. The Institute’s Playground series brings together play theory and playful activity in a fun, challenging and philosophically engaging environment where participants can play (and discover) together.  For our October Playground, Carrie Lobman teams up with eclectic music person and community activist David Belmont to get down into some seriously funky and participatory music/movement play. Yes, that means you’ll get to jam on some cool instruments…as well as vocal sounds. Conversation also likely to occur.

Carrie Lobman is director of pedagogy at the East Side Institute, the founder of the Institute’s Developing Teachers Fellowship Program and associate professor at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education. She is co-author of Unscripted Learning: Using Improvisation Across the K-8 Curriculum and frequent presenter at professional conferences on learning, development and play, including meetings of the American Educational Research Association, the Association for the Study of Play and the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research.

David Belmont is an entrepreneur, musician and political activist. He coordinated Lenora Fulani’s presidential ballot drives in 1988 and 1992 and is currently a statistician and researcher for the Neo-Independent magazine.  His formal musical credits include co-writing the film score of Fred Newman’s Nothing Really Happens (with Josh Neretin), arranging the music (with Michael Walsh) and co-creating the sound design (with Michael Klein) for Castillo Theatre productions of Fred Newman’s Safe At Third (Josh Gibson Don’t Bunt) and Heiner Müller’s The Task. His latest CD, WindWater Journal Entries, was released in May of this year. David co-leads Live Music Continuum workshops with Mary Abrams and has built several small businesses.
To register, go to www.eastsideinstitute.org and click on “Classes and Events”, or contact Melissa Meyer, 212.941.8906, ext 304, mmeyer@eastsideinstitute.org.

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F-WORD: FEMINISM, FUNNY & FEARLESS! A Fundraiser for Paradigm Shift

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Featured in TONY’s “This Week In NY”! Our 9th feature!


Hosted by the infamous
ABBI CRUTCHFIELD (MTV, NBC Stand-Up For Diversity Finalist) &
JEN DZIURA (Williamsburg Spelling Bee, McSweeney’s)
Co-founders of New York’s all-female Ladybits Comedy!

Featuring Performances by
JESSICA DELFINO, COMEDIAN
Publicly denounced by the US Catholic League
“A comedy rock star”- Comedy Central

LEAH KING, WRITER-PERFORMER “HEY, YOU. CAN I GET A SMILE?”
Known in the Burlesque world as LadyLUXXX, her one-woman show about street harassment fuses music, dance, and spoken word.

HADIYAH ROBINSON, COMEDIAN
Finalist in the NBC Stand-Up For Diversity
Performances on BET’s “Comic View” and “One Mic Stand”

THURS, DECEMBER 9th, 7-10 PM
The Feminist District
 Angels & Kings @ 500 East 11th St. Between Ave A & B

INVITE FRIENDS on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/bVp5V6

$25 students/ pre-paid, $30 at door

Venue requires ID

If you can’t make it, please donate- we need your support!
Donations are secure using Pay Pal

SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
Bella Abzug Leadership Institute * Belladonna Books * Craftermath * Feminist Teacher * Hollaback! * Hudson River Massage * Ladybits Comedy * Manhattan Young Democrats * Men Can Stop Rape * Moontide Dyers * NARAL Pro-Choice NY * NOW NYC * NOW NYS YFTF *  Our Hen House * PlanetGreen * Red Umbrella Project * Sebastian Huynh Photography * Soapbox Inc. * The Line Campaign * The Women’s Mosaic * The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership * Trixie Films * Women In Media and News * Women’s Media Center

PARTNERS & SPONSORS WELCOME:
JWeis@paradigmshiftnyc.com

Our Hosts:

ABBI CRUTCHFIELD, CO-FOUNDER LADYBITS COMEDY
A comedy virtuoso, Abbi Crutchfield keeps her plate full in New York city with writing, performing stand-up, improvisational comedy, creating sketches, starring and directing in short films and producing a live comedy hour called The Living Room Show. For a daily laugh, read her Curly Comedy blog!

JENNIFER DZIURA, CO-FOUNDER LADYBITS COMEDY
Jennifer Dziura is a New York-based comedian, blogger, and quizmistress best known for orchestrating the Williamsburg Spelling Bee, the nation’s most popular adult spelling bee, as featured in the New York Times. As a standup comic, she has performed at clubs and colleges nationwide and for the troops in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, and Africa. She writes quizzes and games, hosts math, trivia, vocabulary, and geography competitions for adults, and has produced over 100 shows at venues from Ivy League clubhouses to the famed rock club CBGB’s. She recently appeared in a Sci Fi Channel pilot for the television show Brain Trust, was filmed as an “expert” for a VH-1 reality dating show, has been heard numerous times on NPR, has contributed to five books including “The Idiot’s Guide to Jokes,” and was once unceremoniously cut from The Tyra Banks Show. Her one-woman show is entitled What Philosophy Majors Do After College.

JESSICA DELFINO, MUSICIAN & COMEDIAN
A critically acclaimed musician whose songs boast a ribald, comedic slant. She has performed at festivals worldwide and her polarizing work has both been publicly denounced by the US Catholic League. “A comedy rock star”- ComedyCentral.com, a Village Voice “best of”, “stellar” by the NY Times. The Onion opined that she was a cross between “Redd Foxx and Jewel” Her songs, “My Pussy Is Magic” and “I Wanna Be Famous” experienced cel-web-rity status. “Fetchingly filthy. . . . Some of the most nasty, offensive, and genius comedy you’ll see all year.” —New York Blade

LEAH KING, WRITER-PERFORMER “HEY, YOU. CAN I GET A SMILE?”
Leah King is a multidisciplinary performance artist and youth educator based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work focuses on women’s empowerment, afro-diasporic arts and multicultural identity. As a singer and dancer, Leah has performed with Brown Girls Burlesque, Black Rock Coalition Orchestra and Marc Jacobs, and been featured at Bowery Poetry Club, Whitney Museum, BAM, B.B. King’s, Le Poisson Rouge, Santos and Galapagos. She has led arts workshops at Rikers Island, Manhattan JCC, Grassroots Media Coalition and numerous educational institutions, and is currently touring her one-woman show about street harassment and sexuality, ‘Can I Get a Smile?’.

HADIYAH ROBINSON, STAND UP COMEDIAN
Hadiyah was a Finalist in the NBC Stand Up For Diversity showcase, a Semi Finalist in the Ladies of Laughter competition and a featured comedian in the New York Underground Comedy Festival. Hadiyah made her television debut on BET’s Comic View and returned for BET’s One Mic Stand. She has also been a commentator on MTV’s Yo Momma, and BET’s Do’s and Don’ts of the Hip Hop Awards. She has appeared on Sirius Satellite on Jamie Foxx’s Fox Hole Radio, NYC’s 98.7 Kiss FM Crank Squad and the online radio talk show Urban Hang Suite. Hadiyah is creator, writer and producer of the upcoming web series, “The Grind” as well as writer on the upcoming sketch comedy series “The Jump Off.”

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Tonight 6pm- Ladybits Comedy “Equality, Hilarity, Booze!”

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Do feminists have a sense of humor?  You bet they do!

Paradigm Shift is thrilled to announce our partnership with Ladybits Comedy, a weekly all-female comedy show in the West Village.

From Ladybits’ Vision Statement:

Ladybits Comedy was founded by Abbi Crutchfield and Jennifer Dziura.  Jen came up with the name, and Abbi came up with the tagline “Equality, Hilarity, Booze!” Très French Revolution, no?  Here are some of our goals in starting Ladybits:

  • To entertain women who don’t like traditional comedy clubs.
  • To make you laugh until you cry.
  • To hold our show someplace where the food is tasty, the ladies’ bathrooms are clean, and you don’t feel like you’re in a frat basement. (Done!)
  • To create a community.
  • To warmly welcome male audience members, without unduly catering our show to them.
  • To generate more work for female comedians, rather than simply promoting competition for the limited amount of work that actually exists.
  • To reach out via The Internets to women comedy fans and comedians all over the world.
  • To offer a lineup that reflects the talent of women of all races, sexual orientations, body types, physical abilities, and ages (and probably some other forms of diversity that we’re tragically forgetting at the moment).
  • To put on an awesome show that makes you laugh, where you make friends, and where you identify with the voices on stage, and that is funnier than anything you can see staying at home watching your television.

Ladybits Comedy “Equality, Hilarity, Booze!”

Wednesday, October 13th (and subsequent Wednesdays through December 16th)
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St
Doors at 6pm, show at 6:30 sharp
$7 admission includes a free drink
All are welcome.

Check out LadybitsComedy.com for more info on featured comics  Amanda Baramki, Giulia Rozzi,  Leah Dubie, and Jen Kwok, as well as commentary on whether perfect grammar is compatible with comedy, and on Ladybits’ no-heckling, no picking-on-the-audience policy (quoth co-founder Jen, “Civilization: It’s easy!”)

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Only 3 Spots Left! Women’s Sexuality Apprenticeship

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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:
www.amyjogoddard.com

This training is for you if you think you would benefit from opportunities to:

  • Explore and examine how sexual norms and sexual shame have affected or inhibited your sexuality
  • Step outside of cultural limitations for relationships, identity, and gender
  • Challenge and confront body image issues
  • Explore sexual identity and develop ideas based on feminist and progressive approaches
  • Educate yourself about your own sexual and reproductive health and well-being
  • Practice and learn about sexual pleasure and sexual energy
  • Deepen your ability to experience intimacy
  • Learn sexual skills including communicating sexual needs, desires and boundaries, safer sex practices and new ways of experiencing pleasure
  • Examine sexual patterns that may or may not serve you
  • Connect your sexuality to your spiritual practice
  • Express your sensual self in a safe and loving context
  • Experience a sexual archetype ritual that helps you to examine how your sexual self benefits or suffers because of the sexual archetypes you personally carry
  • Utilize ritual to invoke the sexual being you dream of and who is already there, waiting to be claimed

“I now stand more grounded in who I am as a sensual being, swing my hips with more awareness of my body, flirt with more confidence, speak to my lover with a deeper and more honest intention, pray with a bit more attention, make love more deeply/wildly/soft/without walls OR sometimes I retreat back to where I was before yet I’m more mindful about it. It is an everyday (sometimes extremely hard) journey no doubt. However, the tools and energetic fuel I have gained from the WSEA workshops keep me mindful and intentional and capable of saying yes everyday, no matter how quiet or LOUD! I seriously whole-heartedly recommend this journey to all women wanting to live a fulfilled life in every way and are willing to accept the challenge to do so.”
–Kiki, Women’s Sexuality Empowerment Apprenticeship participant, 2010

The class will take place on 9 Tuesday nights and 3 full Saturdays with Saturday night events.

TUESDAYS from 6:30-10 pm
September 21, 28
October 12, 19, 26
November 2, 16, 30
December 7

SATURDAYS 10 am-6 pm, then reconvene around 9 for evening events:
September 25
October 23
December 4

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.

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