Paradigm Shift

This week the New York Abortion Access Fund dipped below $1000, less than our average weekly grant total. To replenish the fund and keep our services operating, we are calling an emergency fundraiser for next Thursday, September 16th. Please join us from 6-9pm at Destination Bar for an evening of discounted cocktails, a raffle and silent auction in support of the New York Abortion Access Fund.

Suggested donation: $20 (or more if you can afford it)

When: September 16, 6:00-9:00pm

Where: Destination Bar, 211 Avenue A @ 13th St

Can’t come but support the cause? Donate anyway! Via Facebook Causes or via our website: http://www.nyaaf.org/.

What if street harassment was a crime? In her multidisciplinary show, writer-performer Leah King examines the distinctly New York experience of the “holla” through four Brooklyn women contemplating a new anti-harassment law. A shy bike mechanic worries that the law will sabotage her ability to meet women; an open mic host and indie rocker explores sexuality in her music career; a poetic 50-something yoga teacher wonders if the days of “hollers” may be behind her; and a sex-blogging burlesque performer dishes on the law during her online talk show. King asks the audience: how do YOU holla?

Sections of the show will be performed and followed by an interactive panel discussion about our societal response to street harassment. For more information, check out http://canigetasmile.tumblr.com/

Can I Get a Smile? premiers Thursday September 16, 2010 at Littlefield (622 Degraw St, Brooklyn). Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm

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 at venues such as 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.

Her one-woman show, Can I Get a Smile?, is funded in part by a grant from the NY Department of Cultural Affairs/Brooklyn Arts Council.

The Women’s Mosaic Semi-Annual Visioning Workshop

Find focus and manifest your dreams!
Feeling a little confused with all that’s going on with your career and the economy? Not sure what to do next with your life? Maybe you’re just a bit unsatisfied overall but can’t exactly pinpoint what it is.

Our Visioning Workshop can help you sort it all out! Come to our popular and powerful semi-annual workshop for a creative, transformative afternoon where you will make a collage to manifest your heart’s desire – you may be surprised as to what that turns out to be! It’s not unusual for participants to start new businesses, relationships, families or career paths as quickly as weeks or months after the workshop. If you are looking for both answers and results to help figure out where you are right now in your life and where you want to go next, this could be thing exact thing you need to push you forward and take you there.

RSVP to hold your spot – these sell out fast!
COST:$75 for TWM Members; $120 for Non-Members
NOTE: Please RSVP to sally@thewomensmosaic.org

Hosted by Cheryl B. & Sinclair Sexsmith

Phoenix Bar
447 East 13th Street
www.queerliterarycarnival.com
Facebook Event

This month’s theme is BACK TO SCHOOL, starring:
Melissa Febos, Theadora Fisher, Loren Krywanczyk, Tanya Paperny, Rachel Simon

Sideshow: The Queer Literary Carnival is a monthly reading/performance series in NYC. Featuring some of the very finest queer (and queer ally) writers, poets,  spoken word performers, storytellers, playwrights and narrative comics out there, Sideshow enthusiastically presents “serious literature for ridiculous times.”

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.