Please join SWAN for a fun & festive
BBQ in appreciation of Servicemembers
and Veterans of the Armed Forces
May 29, 2010
1-5pm
Carver Community Garden
E124th St, btw 2nd & 3rd Ave
(4,5,6 trains to 125th St)
*Food & drinks will be provided. Please feel free to bring a side dish or anything special you’d like cooked.
*RSVP to 212-683-0015, ext 324 or Kalima@servicewomen.org
The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership
is offering a highly selective
Women’s Ethical Leadership Retreat!
June 18-20th, 2010
Ancramdale, NY
Cost: $595 (Covers tuition, materials, room and board)
Very flexible payment plans, group discounts, and scholarships available!
Mention Paradigm Shift and get $100 Discount!
Learn the SKILLS & get the CONNECTIONS you NEED to SUCCEED
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Contact Rebecca at 646-435-0837 or at RMarcus@woodhull.org
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Facilitated by international Jungian psychotherapist and author, Benig Mauger
HALF-DAY WORKSHOP
Gay Center, NYC
Saturday, May 29, 2010
11 am–4 pm (Opening circle begins 11 am promptly)
ALL WELCOME: Please register in advance by calling Amethyst at 212-222-2467 or emailing amethystsylviachild@gmail.com
$30.00 with advance registration (you may pay on the day of the workshop); $40.00 at the door without advance registration (Cash ONLY)
“An understanding of the transcendent and mystical that is deeply grounded in the psychological is necessary if we are not to get bogged down in the narcissism of ‘woundology,’ or swept away by an ungrounded mysticism that promises healing without struggle.” *
We suffer from a collective broken heart at this time in history. Not only are our hearts broken personally, they’re also broken en mass, making for the unprecedented upheaval we are experiencing. Despite being told that wholeness and love lie within us, in our “quick fix” society, we often look for answers outside of ourselves and remain trapped in our wounds thus hampering our spiritual growth. Using a unique blend of psychology and spirituality, Jungian psychotherapist and author Benig Mauger, drawing from her latest book, will present this experiential workshop to guide you on your inner journey to healing. Using meditation, art, myth, poetry, movement and dream work, we’ll consider how heartbreak can be an initiation that leads to love and compassion. Come discover what your own path to inner healing, wellness, and spiritual purpose can awaken in you.
* From Love in a Time of Broken Heart: Healing From Within, by Benig Mauger
A book signing will follow the event
What to bring: something to write on and art materials such as crayons or paint, if desired. Very important: Please bring a personal item with you that you feel represents you or how you see yourself at this time…it can be a flower, piece of clothing, a crystal, whatever.
Love in a Time of Broken Heart: Healing From Within by Benig Mauger will be used as a resource during the workshop. Copies will be available for purchase that day for $27 (cash please).
Benig Mauger will be available for a limited number of one-on-one sessions on Sunday, May 30, 2010 by appointment. If you would like an appointment please contact Benig directly: benig@me.com.
Benig Mauger is an Ireland-based Jungian psychotherapist, writer, poet and public speaker. A pioneer in pre- and peri-natal psychology and founder of the Holistic Birth Center in London, she is the author of Songs from the Womb: Healing the Wounded Mother, Reclaiming Father: The Search for Wholeness in Men, Women and Children and, most recently, Love in a Time of Broken Heart: Healing From Within. Benig travels internationally to teach, lecture and run workshops. Well known in Ireland and Europe, she is now expanding her audience to the United States. Benig Mauger is warm, humorous, sincere and heartfelt in her caring for people and her subject: Healing From Within. Learn more about her at http://www.soul-connections.com.
Workshop Location and Directions:
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &
Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
Website: www.gaycenter.org
Phone: 212-620-7310
The Center is between 7th and 8th Aves
Subway & PATH Directions
1, 2, or 3 to 14th Street and 7th Avenue
A, C, E, or L to 14th Street and 8th Avenue
F or V to 14th Street and 6th Avenue
PATH to 14th Street and 6th Avenue
Testimonials about Benig Mauger:
“Benig’s workshops and talks are powerful and profound because of her soulful and intimate way of working with people. A strong teacher and speaker as well as therapist and writer, Benig is gifted with the ability to provide information while coming directly from the heart, and touches participants through compassionate engagement, moving them into their own hearts.” Editor
“Benig’s workshop at Rowe Conference Center was the best I have attended in a long time, a combination of deep inner work and physical play which included singing, dancing, writing and drawing. She held us as we told our stories, moved through our grief, relived our past through our presence with each other. Benig has the ability to adapt to the participants’ needs, and the strength to guide the group to a compassionate whole. Her books are simple enough for the layman and yet complex enough to hold the attention of the clinical worker. Wonderful!” Singer and songwriter
“With the use of archetypes, fairy tales and dream enactment, Benig encouraged us to explore how our earliest experiences shape our patterns of relating. I found Benig to be a very human and compassionate woman who shared some of her own journey with us thus enabling us to do the same. A truly healing and transformative experience!” Social Care Worker
“Benig’s workshop was for me in ONE word an AWAKENING.” Psychotherapist
“Benig just knows when to go forward, when to withdraw … What more can be said … She embraces us at all times.” Holistic Massage Therapist
Quotes from Benig Mauger:
“It is always important to express the feelings involved in loss.”
“Nowadays we need to build soul stamina; we need to be able to endure hardship, and grow from it. It is no longer enough to simply be aware of soul and to be prepared to heal our wounds. We need to develop the capacity to endure.”
“Separation and aloneness are very important when we are healing our hearts.”
“The catch phrase “love yourself” is so clichéd as to be often dismissed, yet is nonetheless an important reality and essential truth.”
“Facilitating the movement from enduring the suffering of early painful experiences, learning from them and transcending them, I consider one my main tasks as a therapist.”
“Experiencing profound love and heartbreak is also the conduit to learning to love unconditionally and to experience compassion.”
“The marriage of psychology and spirituality is one of my main focuses, because the time has come when our evolution demands it.”
“We are largely unconscious of what story we might be living, but if we do not work at becoming conscious, we identify with the drama, so that we live, act and behave as the characters we identify with.”
“We always seek what we lack, and we always seek balance.”
“People that feel loved glow, and are generally able to give and receive love more easily than those who feel intrinsically unloved.”
“We always have choice, but we generally need to become aware of our unconscious patterns before we can exercise this choice.”
“We have to earn spiritual qualities; they are not handed to us on a plate.”
“At the core of falling in love is a vision of wholeness.”
“It often takes great courage to accept the challenges that the soul sets up for us.”
“When we love we are immediately in the realm of the soul.”
“Letting go of what we think we want and simply being and accepting what is means something new can arrive.”
“Our hearts are the messengers of our spirits, so that listening to the heart connects us with our soul and our life’s purpose.”
“At the time of writing, world events have shattered the heart of man so that, I believe, we are living in a time of broken heart.”
“One thing is clear … healing always comes from within.”
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PARADIGM SHIFT: NYC’S FEMINIST COMMUNITY Proudly Presents
“GUYLAND: THE PERILOUS WORLD WHERE BOYS BECOME MEN”
Lecture and Discussion featuring
DR. MICHAEL KIMMEL, PhD, Author & Sociologist, is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today
Moderated by SHELBY KNOX, nationally known feminist organizer & subject of the Sundance award-winning film, “The Education of Shelby Knox”
TimeOut NY Rated CRITICS’ PICK! Our 7th honor 🙂
“Michael Kimmel’s Guyland could save the humanity of many young men- and the sanity of their friends and parents- by explaining the forces behind a newly extended adolescence. With accuracy and empathy, he names the problem and offers compassionate bridges to adulthood.” — Gloria Steinem
Obsessed with never wanting to grow up, this demographic, which is 22 million strong, craves video games, sports and depersonalized sexual relationships. Kimmel offers a highly practical guide to male youth.
GUYLAND is the best-selling investigation of young people’s lives today.
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Network before the discussion
Catering by Tastee Vegan
July 14th, THIS WEDNESDAY
7:00-10:00 pm
Theatre 80 St. Marks
80 St. Marks Place, NYC 10003
Just west of 1st Avenue
$15 students/ pre-sales till 14th 2pm, $20 at door
BUY NOW FOR DISCOUNT: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/113133
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Supported By (final list- updated 7/12):
AbortionGang.org, Bluestockings, CONNECT,East Side Institute, Feministing, Hollaback, IAmDrTiller.com, Manhattan Young Democrats, Men Can Stop Rape, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, New York Activist Calendar, NOW NYS Young Feminist Task Force, NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault, Service Women’s Action Network, Soapbox Inc., Students Active For Ending Rape, The Line Campaign, The Ripple Effect, The Women’s Mosaic, The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, Trixie Films, Women’s eNews, Women Make Movies, Women’s Media Center
Photography by Amy Mitten, amittensphoto@aol.com
SPONSORS email Meredith@paradigmshiftnyc.com
DR. MICHAEL KIMMEL, PhD
http://www.guyland.net
http://www.michaelkimmel.com
Michael Kimmel is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. The author or editor of more than twenty volumes, his books include Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity (1987), Men Confront Pornography (1990), The Politics of Manhood (1996), The Gender of Desire (2005) and The History of Men (2005). His documentary history, “Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990” (Beacon, 1992), chronicled men who supported women’s equality since the founding of the country.
His book, Manhood in America: A Cultural History (1996) was hailed as the definitive work on the subject. Reviewers called the book “wide-ranging, level headed, human and deeply interesting,” “superb… thorough, impressive and fascinating.” One reviewer wrote that “Kimmel’s humane, path breaking study points the way toward a redefinition of manhood that combines strength with nurturing, personal accountability, compassion and egalitarianism” while another called it “the most wide-ranging, clear-sighted, accessible book available on the mixed fortunes of masculinity in the United States.” (A 10th anniversary edition was published by Oxford University Press.)
His most recent book, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2008) is a best-selling investigation of young people’s lives today, based on interviews with more than 400 young men, ages 16-26. Featured in major television and radio interviews, the books was widely reviewed and praised in all major media outlets. “If you’ve ever had a conversation with a teenage boy and wondered what on earth was going on…this book will serve you well.” And feminist icon Gloria Steinem said that “Michael Kimmel’s Guyland could save the humanity of many young men – and the sanity of their friends and parents.” Feature film rights were optioned to Dreamworks.
Kimmel is a Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, and lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family.
SHELBY KNOX
http://shelbyknox.com
Shelby Knox is nationally known as the subject of the Sundance award-winning film, The Education of Shelby Knox, a 2005 documentary chronicling her teenage activism for comprehensive sex education and gay rights in her Southern Baptist community. She has appeared on Today, the Daily Show, Hardball, and sat down with both Dr. Phil and Al Franken to discuss sex education, youth activism, and her varying states of virginity. She travels across the country as an itinerant feminist organizer, doing trainings, workshops and civil disobedience in the name of reproductive justice and sexual health. She consults for the Girls Leadership Institute, Plan B and Trojan, among others. She’s has an essay in the recently published Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists and regularly blogs for The Huffington Post and RH Reality Check. Shelby lives in New York City, where she is working on a book about the fourth wave of feminist activism and plotting the revolution via Twitter, handle @ShelbyKnox.
Legendary: A Chloe Sullivan project (full commercial) from Legendary on Vimeo.
Legendary Women Inc. is a group generally comprised of young, professional women engaged in a project to pay tribute to the positive representation of young women in the media in order to promote and encourage values young women should strive to achieve. According to the website, Chloe Sullivan is a role model for young women because of such traits as intelligence, tenacity and heroism. Here is an update since their last post on Paradigm Shift along with their ad appreciating Chloe Sullivan:
What a difference three weeks can make!
Since our last feature on Paradigm Shift on the Chloe Sullivan/Allison Mack Tribute Project, Legendary, we have had our premiere on May 14th on KTLA, the CW station in Los Angeles. On Thursday, May 20, 2010, we are becoming a bicoastal “double header.” We will be airing once during the six p.m. news hours in both Los Angeles (KTLA) as well as in New York City (WPIX). This Big Apple affiliate is considered the “flagship” station of the CW network. It is, incidentally, also the day of the CW Upfronts in NYC!
We’ve had an overwhelmingly positive response to our ad from fans, media, and from the CW Network. The ad was featured in Variety, TV Guide Magazine, the Los Angeles Times blog “Hero Complex” and recognized by Jarrett Wieselman of NY Post’s Pop Wrap. We’ve also had a great response from more grass roots sites like Prime Time Geek, Sci Fi Mafia, and Sci Fi Latino. The CW has been supportive as well and we’ve received “tweets” from the publicists and the network’s official twitter. Legendary was also covered by the WPIX Gossip Guy blog (http://bit.ly/702oIx), who applauded us for choosing Chloe Sullivan and Ms. Mack as positive representations of young professional women in the media.
We at Legendary Women, Inc. feel that this is just the beginning. Our next mission is to apply for non-profit status so we will be raising funds for that process. We are also working to build our infrastructure and board so that we can construct our website. We’d plan to have that up and running by mid-July so that we can start profiling female characters and real women in film and television whom we view as role models. Ideally, we’d love to be able to unveil our site—a mix of real women and many beloved genre characters—at Comic Con in San Diego.
The big project that we are gearing up for in late October of 2010 is a charity drive for the East Los Angeles Women’s Center (http://elawc.org/ ) , which helps provide services for Latina women who have suffered from domestic, family, or sexual violence. We are looking forward to the fall and to this being the first of many charitable projects. We are inspired not only by our heroines in the media but also by the friends we’ve made already working at Legendary Women, Inc.
By a Paradigm Shift staff member
The majority of my response is informed by author, professor, feminist icon, cultural critic, and one of my most beloved role models, bell hooks. I also had the wonderful opportunity to attend a fabulous conference “The Message is in the Music: Hip Hop Feminism, Riot Grrl, Latina Music, and More” hosted by the Women’s History department at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY (march 5 & 6, 2010.)
It is important to properly frame the portrayal of women in hip hop within the context of how women are framed in the larger capitalist entertainment industry. Women hip hop artists are business women just like the men in the hip hop industry. They are selling themselves and their music as a product for mass consumption. The forces driving these men and women are the same that motivate all people who wish to succeed in our society, those that perpetuate the values of a patriarchal capitalist culture. It is no surprise then that often the most successful artists rely on the strategies that are in line with producing a product with maximum profit—that which condone and reinforce notions of misogyny, anti-feminism, and capitalism. It may seem unfair then to focus on women hip hop artists, or any businesswomen, as those who should be any different from those that wish to make a large profit. However, it is our obligation as consumers to analyze the impact of the presence of these women in the industry, as well as their ability to promote a change in those values they are using to sell themselves. Female hip artists may be relying on sexist or pornographic representations of themselves and their music, but they are also imploring a unique female voice in a hyper-masculine, male dominated music industry. Accepting that female MCs are balancing strategies of success with striving to create an individual strong persona, one can then dive into critiquing the larger impact of their audio/visual representation, content of their work, and influence to their audience.
I believe there are three ways to begin to discuss women in hip hop and their role as change makers in the music industry. The first is by looking at the packing of themselves as a product- their appearance, their “persona,” the work that is done to create a celebrity character of themselves. The Second is by looking at the lyrics of their songs- what the content is focusing on, if there is a message that is being communicated, if they collaborate with specific artists, etc. And the third, is really being creative at looking at how their overarching presence is affecting hip hop and the consumers who engage with the industry. I do believe female MCs have a positive presence for women, even if they are presenting themselves in a hyper-sexualized way, and even if the content of their songs is not considered pro-feminist. It certainly depends on the specific artist and how her career fit into these three categories of critique, but I do believe all female MCs are doing us a great service in at least giving women a voice when it comes to participating in the sphere of Hip Hop.
When I attended the Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence on Hip Hop Feminism, I was expecting a room full of scholars with arsenals of negative critique. It just seemed so obvious that Hip Hop openly exploits and subjugates women’s bodies, treating most women as goods or for their sexual services, to be consumed and acquired along with the rich and famous lifestyle (cash money hoes, right?). My experience at the conference was fortunately quite the opposite! Most of the panelists expressed a deep fondness and connection with the Hip Hop genre and really focused on looking toward the positives of female MCs as well as the new “independent woman” archetype that has become popular in current songs. One thing that I found particularly enlightening from this conference was the notion that Hip Hop was the most accessible way for Black Women to articulate a voice in mass media. As an audience we were asked- what place in our society do Black Women’s voices occupy? Where in any form of entertainment can we find a large amount of Black Women’s voices that can help shape communities and influence young black youth? What better place to create a dialogue about feminism than Hip Hop, a genre that is authentic to the Black community, accessible, and popular for the masses? Many panelists urged us to accept the flaws of the hyper-sexualized male dominated Hip Hop industry, and to see the genre as a vehicle for furthering discussion about feminist issues specifically for Black women.
I agree that Hip Hop can serve as an area for Black female voice to thrive. However, it is important as listeners that we affirm the positives of female MC performances and also vocalize our disapproval of the negatives aspects (such as hyper-sexualization, anti-woman lyrics, etc.).
I feel that Hip hop is a music genre that uses the presentation of power very effectively. The most successful hip hop artists are those that describe their power, whether its wealth, strength, sexual prowess, intelligence, or career. Hip Hop MCs are the voices of that power. A female MC is an unusual presence because she harnesses this authority or this voice of power, usually reserved only for men. I think that the severe lack of women in rap and hip hop is specifically related to this notion, that our society is uncomfortable with women accessing power unless they conform in very specific ways to almost assure men that they aren’t a threat. This is where someone like Nicki Minaj or Lil Kim comes in. These women are POWERFUL. They are the strong, fierce, and unforgiving voices of women in hip hop. To balance this, they find that they must hyper-sexualize their bodies and create pleasing representations of themselves, almost pornographically unreal representations, so as not to come off as being a threat to male power. If they can be consumed as sex objects, they can be denied dominance.
Commenting on Hip Hop’s evolution to a harder more “thug” presence, Missy Elliot reminds us:
“Yo its ok though, you know if you wanna be hard and ice grilled and Harlem shake at the same time, whatever, let’s just have fun. It’s Hip Hop man, this is Hip Hop.” – Missy Elliot, “Work It” Under Construction, 2003
I think its also important to be able to step back from critically analyzing hip hop every now and then to remember that it is a form of entertainment. I love Nicki Minaj and the majority of her work because I find her voice to be so powerful and playful at the same time. I hear her lyrics and don’t necessarily relate to them, but what I do enjoy is hearing a female voice on the radio, tv, and internet, that holds such authority and power. One of my favorite things Nicki Minaj does is laugh in her tracks. She actually giggles, but either way I love that. Laughter is an extremely powerful tool that connotes a position of dominance (being “in” on the joke). When Nicki Minaj laughs I want to laugh a long with her. I’m becoming a very big hip hop fan and I agree with Missy Elliot—let’s have some fun!—- but seriously, we still have a long way to go…
As feminists we should engage with all sorts of media and really encourage women to participate in male-dominated spheres. But more importantly, we should be engaging in these kinds of critiques constantly, to affirm the positives aspects of hip hop and what it can do as an accessible and popular form of entertainment and influence in our society.
Here is Me’Shell Ndegéocello, a female hip hop artist i believe is powerful without compromising her presence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpdzEpGIqtY
(music begins around 40 seconds in)
Friday Introductory Seminar: Love in a Time of Broken Heart: Combining Psychology and Spirituality to Heal the Soul
“An understanding of the transcendent and mystical that is deeply grounded in the psychological is necessary if we are not to get bogged down in the narcissism of ‘woundology,’ or swept away by an ungrounded mysticism that promises healing without struggle.”*
Despite being told that wholeness and love lie within us, in our “quick fix” society, we often look for answers outside of ourselves and remain trapped in our wounds thus hampering our spiritual growth. Using a unique blend of psychology and spirituality, Jungian psychotherapist and author Benig Mauger, drawing from her latest book, explains how true healing comes from within and how to travel into this profound terrain of the heart.
*From Love in a Time of Broken Heart: Healing From Within, by Benig Mauger
Saturday Workshop: Healing From Within™: Initiating an Inner Path to Love and Your Soul
In an increasingly fragmented world, we seek inner wholeness, spiritual purpose-and love. While wanting to progress on our spiritual path, however, we are often held back by our sense of wounding. To be truly capable of giving and receiving love, we have to embrace our essential natures and heal our emotional wounds while practicing acceptance and forgiveness. With its unique blend of psychology and spirituality, this experiential workshop is designed to guide you on your inner journey to healing.
Using meditation, art, myth, poetry, movement and dream work, it will help us to examine how soul patterns transmitted to us in early life influence how we behave in our current relationships. We’ll explore how to balance our inner masculine and feminine aspects, as well as consider how heartbreak can be an initiation that leads to love and compassion.
Come discover what your own path to inner healing, wellness, and
spiritual purpose can awaken in you.
A book signing will follow.
Cost: $25 – Friday Evening Introductory Lecture
$99 – Saturday Workshop
Note: The evening workshop on Friday, June 4, Love in a Time of Broken Heart, is a prerequisite for the full-day workshop.
At Transformations Holistic Learning Center
2301 Evesham Road, Suite 109
Voorhees, NJ 08043
Benig Mauger is an Ireland-based Jungian psychotherapist, writer, poet and public speaker. A pioneer in pre- and peri-natal psychology and founder of the Holistic Birth Center in London, she is the author of Songs from the Womb: Healing the Wounded Mother, Reclaiming Father: The Search for Wholeness in Men, Women and Children and, most recently, Love in a Time of Broken Heart: Healing From Within. Benig travels internationally to teach, lecture and run workshops. www.soul-connections.com
What is mental illness? Is it a health condition characterized by dramatic alterations in mood, thinking and behavior? Is it a chemical imbalance? Or is it the common euphemisms we hear tossed about daily like “out of your mind” or “nutty as a fruit cake”? What is recovery and how do we achieve this elusive goal?
In the fast-paced, one-woman show Now Who’s Crazy Now?, Elly Litvak brings her personal experience of living with and recovering from a serious mental illness to the stage. Now Who’s Crazy Now? is a candid, humorous, entertaining and highly educational piece, with a message of hope for recovery for everyone.
Elly’s story resonates with everyone. People living with a mental illness relate strongly to aspects of her experience while witnessing how her life transformed into one of health and balance.
Monday, June 14, 2010, 6:30 pm
St. Malachy’s Church, The Actor’s Chapel
239 West 49th Street
(between 7th and 8th Avenues)
Tickets: $35/$15 unemployed/students
The performance will be followed by a
Q&A and reception.
For more information or to buy tickets
call Melissa Meyer: 212-941-8906, ext 304
To order online: http://bit.ly/aqlgqs
Elly Litvak is a wellness and recovery specialist with extensive experience facilitating programs and workshops that benefit businesses, non-profit organizations and individuals. An ardent believer in healing through the arts and performance, Ms. Litvak is the founder of two theatre companies for people living with mental illness, Puzzle Factory and The Looney Awards. More recently, she has developed Now Who’s Talking — Telling Our Recovery Stories, a program that helps people living with mental health challenges tell stories that focus on the process of recovery. Ms. Litvak lives in Toronto.
Presented by:
The East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy – a New York City-based international education, training and research center for social therapeutics and other innovative approaches to human development, learning and community building.
Fountain House – founded in 1948 by former psychiatric patients of Rockland State Hospital. It is the world’s leading provider of recovery services for men, women and young adults living with major mental illness.
SAVE THE DATE
Summer, Sex and Spirits
A benefit for Planned Parenthood of NYC
Thursday, July 8th 2010
at the newly renovated Museum of Sex
after hours admission to NYC’s most provocative museum
open bar all night
and
chances to win fabulous silent auction items
For information on sponsorship opportunities, contact melissa.lee@ppnyc.org.
On Wednesday, May 19th, Poetic People Power will hold its 8th annual
event. This year’s show is titled Price Check: How We Became A Culture
of Consumption. Poets will premiere new poems about the economics,
psychology and costs of our consumerism culture. Poets include Tara
Bracco, Erica R. DeLaRosa, Andy Emeritz, Nate Gunsch, Angela Kariotis,
Frantz Jerome, Shetal Shah, and Justin Woo.
Date: May 19, 2010
Time: 7 PM
Location: Grand Theater at The Producers’ Club, 358 West 44th Street, NYC
Admission: $15
Seating is limited so please RSVP by emailing p3rsvp@gmail.com.
