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Archive for Events
Rally for Women’s Health – New Jersey!
Calling all DC Feminists for the 2011 Visions in Feminism Conference!
“Using the theme: ‘No Wave: Moving Past the Tide” the 11th Vision in Feminism will create a space to push against the limits of the current understanding of feminism. The theme ‘No Wave’ is more than an exploration of the distinct, and all too limiting waves, so often referred to in feminism. Together we will interrogate: exclusionary spaces that approaching oppression as silos of experience, manifestations of identity warfare, and find ways to leap over the gaps between feminist theory and anti-oppression application. There will be three tracks of workshops:
1. Groundwork: revisiting the primary elements of Feminism through its actions, goals, and faults.
2. Skillshare: Application of theory from sharing how to safely ride a bike, to dismantle the machine of our oppression.
3. Digging Deeper: No space for ‘theory for theory sake’ these workshops will focus on ‘doing the work’ of challenging each participant to move forward applying current critique writing and theorizing.
Registration for the conference is a sliding scale of $10 – $15 in advance and $15 for day-of registration.
vegan breakfast and lunch provided. Childcare upon request- please email if needed!
American University students get free admission with student ID.
Paying online will allow us to better gauge food and beverage needs. Additionally, if you pay more than $10 the additional funds are paid forward to a scholarship attendee: http://tinyurl.com/ViFPayPal
After the conference please join us at Science Club for the annual HIPS Benefit Art Night! More details to come!
Questions? Ask us! Email ViF with questions, concerns, and to pre-register: visionsinfeminism@gmail.com.
For more details leading up to the conference and pre-conference events:
www.vifcollective.com“
Friday, March 25th: Ladybits Comedy Show in Park Slope – Free!
Ladybits co-founder Abbi Crutchfield has long been co-hosting New York’s longest running clean comedy show, Living Room Comedy, with Luke Thayer at the Postmark Cafe in Park Slope.
This month, Living Room’s shows will feature all-female lineups as Ladybits meets the Living Room in a grand estrogen explosion!
Featuring Arden Myrin, Nikki Glaser, Jennifer Grant, and Ladybits co-founders Abbi Crutchfield and Jen Dziura.
Come and make yourself at home with Abbi and Luke at this unique comedy show. It’s just like your living room…only hilarious! (By “just like your living room,” we mean there’s good coffee and scones!)
Friday, March 25 @ 8pm
NO Cover, NO Food/Bev. Minimum! Totally FREE!
The Living Room at Postmark Cafe
326 6th Street (between 4th & 5th aves)
Park Slope, BK 11215
www.livingroomcomedy.blogspot.com
or call (718) 768-2613
Take the F train to 7th Ave stop or 4th Ave/9th Street stop
OR Take the R train to 4th Ave/9th Street stop.
Ending Women’s Oppression: Imagining – and Fighting For – a Different World!
Tomorrow, March 13th, join Sunsara Taylor for a discussion entitled “Ending Women’s Oppression: Imagining – and Fighting For – a Different World!” The talk will be taking place at 3:00 pm at Revolution Books (146 W. 26th Street, New York, NY). Remember to set your clocks ahead!
Taylor is a writer for Revolution newspaper and sits on the advisory board for The World Can’t Wait!, a group that “organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed.”
If that alone is not enough to convince you to attend this talk, here is a brief description of the event:
“If you are a woman, your body is a battleground. Spin the globe. Anywhere you look women are being held down and slammed backwards, objectified and degraded. But there is no biological, god-given, or man-made reason why things have to remain this way. All this can change through revolution and through building a movement for revolution — starting now!”
A donation of five dollars will be requested at the door.
100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day & Feminist Coming Out Day!
Participate in International Women’s Day online
- Follow the Twitter feed featuring latest news, events, resources, comments and much more
- Watch and enjoy the YouTube International Women’s Day videos & broadcasts from around the world
- Interact, learn and share on the International Women’s Day LinkedIn discussion group
- Network & interact through the International Women’s Day Facebook channel
- Share your International Women’s Day photographs on Flickr
- Grab and use the International Women’s Day RSS feed
Reflections on International Women’s Day, from Anika Rahman, the new president of the Ms. Foundation.
It’s also Feminist Coming Out Day, a new national campaign. Declare your feminist pride at http://feministcomingoutday.com/sub
“Endangered Species: Preserving the Female Body”
On Friday, March 18th, and Saturday, March 19th, the New School will be hosting “Endangered Species: Preserving the Female Body,” “an international summit to challenge the toxic culture that teaches women and girls to hate their bodies.” The conference is being organized by the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute and plans to “launch a comprehensive, worldwide campaign in collaboration with the leading organizations and individuals already on the front lines of this public mental health epidemic. This campaign will engage government officials, educational institutions, multi-national corporations, the fashion industry, and the mainstream media to join us in creating a new visual culture–one where the diverse, real beauty of women and girls is valued and magnified. The time is now. Take back your body. Re-imagine the world.”
“The summit will be a lively combination of keynote speeches, panels, international video testimonials, LOVED BODIES, BIG IDEAS presentations, and group discussions/action groups. We hope it incorporates frank, complex, and solution-oriented conversations among a genuinely diverse range of people.”
For more information about the schedule and speakers, check out the program.
The website also has information about online registration, details about other activist events in New York City, and great blog posts about body politics!
Honoring Women, "Engendering Progress"
The Second Annual ‘Engendering Progress’ event honoring women thought-leaders, activists, and trailblazers will be held on Thursday, March 24th from 7-11pm at popular establishment Marquee at 289 Tenth Avenue in Manhattan.
This year’s honorees include: GEMS, Domestic Workers United, Women’s Media Center, Krista Brenner (pro-choice activist and one of the few women in New York State to hold the position of campaign manager in 2010) and Lizz Winstead, co-creator of the Daily Show. We are expecting a strong showing of several hundred progressive young people and a special guest elected official!
HERE is information on last year’s honorees as well as some pictures of the event which attracted over 100 young people and brought together many groups that had not had the chance to meet previously.
RSVP on Facebook and
Co-sponsors include: NY Downstate Young Democrats, NYS Young Democrats Caucus of Color, Greater NYC for Change, New Kings Democrats, Paradigm Shift (NYC’s Feminist Community), Women Elect, and NARAL Pro-choice NYC.
From Violence to Empowerment: Combatting Domestic Violence In Your Community- FREE Interactive Webinar
- Webinar is open to the public and Berkeley College students
- General Public: Preregistration is available until 4 PM EST- submit your name and email:
rsvp@paradigmshiftnyc.com - Limit 50 – please note that preregistration is encouraged, but does not hold your spot, webinar is first come first serve.
- Instructions: Visit Berkeley College WebEx Meeting: http://bit.ly/e6hLLT
- Members of the public may login as a guest by clicking “Enter as a Guest” under “Not a member?”
- You will be prompted with phone dial in information
About Quentin Walcott:
At CONNECT, Quentin is the Director of the CONNECT Training Institute (CTI) and Community Empowerment programs. Quentin also spearheads the Male Anti-Violence initiatives, where he creatively develops programming training, educational programs centered on males to cultivate participation and leadership by men in the anti-violence movement. Quentin developed a curriculum and training for young adult males that examined violence against women and girls at V-Day’s New York Stop the Violence Festival as part of the newly created V-Day Men’s Committee. Quentin and his team of anti-violence educators have launched city-wide workshops for men and boys looking to transform them from bystanders to allies to activists against family and gender violence.
Quentin was trained, supervised and mentored by Dr. John Aponte, and started facilitating Batterer’s Intervention groups throughout New York City over 14 years ago. Quentin is currently the Co-Chair of the Committee on Working with Abusive Partners Batterers.
Quentin has previously worked with the Educational Alliance Early Head Start, piloting their Father Involvement Program and Southern Queens Park Association’s Families In Need Preventive Services Program as a teen group facilitator and Domestic Violence Specialist. Quentin has a wealth of experience facilitating groups for young and adult males on masculinity, manhood development, fathering, batterer’s intervention and accountability. Quentin combines his experience working with social agencies and several years of human rights work bringing a new and fresh perspective to the work to end family violence.
CONNECT is dedicated to preventing interpersonal violence and promoting gender justice. By building partnerships with individuals and communities, we strive to help change the beliefs, behaviors and institutions that perpetuate violence. Through legal empowerment, grassroots mobilization and transformative education, we seek to create safe families and peaceful communities.
Berkeley College, established in 1931 as a business school, has grown since that time to a thriving multi-campus institution offering degree programs in a variety of disciplines. With seven locations in New York and New Jersey, Berkeley today offers programs that balance traditional academic study with professional training and hands-on experience.
JOIN PARADIGM SHIFT TOMORROW AT THE RALLY FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH!
Meet PShifters at 12:30 PM Tomorrow- Front of Duane Reade at 111 Worth St., corner of Worth and Lafayette
Look for the PShift banner (cell 201.394.8173)
The U.S. House of Representatives has just voted to bar Planned Parenthood health centers from all federal funding for birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, and other lifesaving care. It is the most dangerous legislative assault in our history, and it cannot go unanswered.
IT’S TIME TO FIGHT BACK!
Join us Saturday, February 26th at 1:00pm in Foley Square! Stand with thousands of New Yorkers and voice a common message:
RSVP here TODAY:
http://bit.ly/eX9rEb And share this event with your friends!Sponsoring Organizations: (List in formation) Choice Matters, Community Health Care Networks, Concerned Clergy for Choice, Diaspora Community Services, Family Planning Advocates of New York State, Feminist Majority Foundation, Judson Memorial Church, League of Women Voters-Nassau County, Inwood House, Long Island Women’s Association, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, National Council of Jewish Women New York Section, New York Civil Liberties Union, NOW-New York City, NOW-New York State, Planned Parenthood Affiliates New Jersey, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Planned Parenthood Mid- Hudson Valley, Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, Planned Parenthood of Nassau County, Planned Parenthood of New York City, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, Public Health Association of New York City, Public Health Solutions, Raising Women’s Voices, Religious Institute, Reproductive Health Access Project, SisterSong NY, Trust Black Women, Trust Women, United Neighborhood Houses, Violence Intervention Inc., Women’s Media Center, Working Families Party, YWCA of Brooklyn
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Foley Square is in lower Manhattan, across from the courthouse:
A/C or J/Z to Chambers St.
2, 3 to Park Place
4/5/6, N,R to City Hall
Feminist Documentaries at MOMA
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.
