Paradigm Shift

The Affordable Art Fair NYC returns to the hustling and bustling art capital of the world to showcase new and emerging artists, galleries, programming and must-see installations.  Since its debut, the Fair has become a true international phenomenon, launching in eleven cities, garnering attendance of over 1 million visitors and selling over $300 million of contemporary art.  Continuing to reach new heights, the Affordable Art Fair NYC Spring edition, taking place April 18 – 22 2012 at 7W New York (7 West 34th Street), is sure to be another must-attend event.

This spring we are delighted to welcome over 75 galleries from across the globe, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Singapore, and Vietnam.  We have a strong line up of programming panel discussions with major art world figures from Art.sy, Artnet, Paddle 8 and SVA speaking about the current art market and incorporating art into your home taking place in the Programming Lounge sponsored by The Conran Shop.  One of the partners for this edition is HGTV, and they will be hosting a special installation “HGTV’s The White Room Challenge Showcase” in which their season 4 Design Star winner will be create a site specific designed booth at the Fair.  HGTV who will recreate their White Room Challenge Showcase in a booth at the Fair and on Thursday from 5pm-9pm the designer will be onsite to discuss his design.

Similar to the 2011 Fairs we are delighted to share a combination of physical invitations as well as select electronic codes to use online via a shared link.  We would be pleased to offer you Private Preview Invitations (all printed), and General Admission codes to share for complimentary admission.

Private Preview

Wednesday, April 18, 6pm – 9pm

General Admission

Upcoming Off Broadway Play , “Bonafide Women.”

A  play that deals with Real Life Stories on : Gender Roles in Foreign Countries , Prostitution,Cancer, People with Disabilities Abortion, Homosexuality, Domestic Violence,  and Sexual Discrimination. This theatrical performance includes dance/poetry/ uninhibited sex scenes in a way that will make you question, think and allow you to reminisce and learn. “Bonafide Women” takes the audience on an emotional roller coaster, giving us a TRUE look into what it means to deal with the issues mentioned above, and how to OVERCOME!! We created this show not just for entertainment but to educate our society and enhance our open minds. The show is comedic but also dramatic, so if this is something you are interested in , get everyone one you know and come see it!!!P.S. For MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY!!! (ages 16 and up)

for tickets : https://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID=&showCode=BON9&BundleCode=&GUID=6ad42b28-4d9e-4839-a010-22b435149f79

Venue : ROY ARIAS OFF BROADWAY THEATER : 300 west 43rd street New York N.Y.

show dates:
Friday April 13th,2012: 8-10pm show
Saturday April 14th 2012: 4-6pm & 8-10pm shows
Sunday April 15th,2012: 4-6pm show

More information about the playwright:  http://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/BONAFIDE-WOMEN-Opens-Off-Broadway-April-15-20120313 ( press release)

Friday, April 13, 2012 – 3:00pm to Sunday, April 15, 2012 – 12:15pm
From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom

26TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

FOR STUDENT AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS

CIVIL LIBERTIES AND PUBIC POLICY (CLPP)
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, AMHERST, MA

PS is a proud sponsor… for another year!

Click link fror schedule/more info:
http://clpp.hampshire.edu/2012-conference

Open House
Friday, April 27, 7:00-8:30pm
Social Therapy Group
106 S. Oxford St. (between Fulton and Lafayette)
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Experience the power of group therapy

Join Dr. Hugh Polk and staff of the Social Therapy Group at an Open House at our community therapy center in Fort Greene.  You will have the opportunity to observe the performance of an ongoing social therapy group and participate in a post group discussion with therapists and patients.

Social Therapy, at the cutting edge of humanistic, developmental approaches to psychology, has helped thousands of clients create new possibilities for themselves, their families and their communities. Our positive, group therapeutic process helps adults, families and children create with others and in doing so, to grow emotionally.

Please RSVP to Ryan Freeman at rfreeman@socialtherapygroup.com or 718-797-3220.

CHELSEA CLINTON, CHRISTINE QUINN AND OTHERS DISCUSS WOMEN IN POLITICS AT 92Y
Co-Presented with Cindi Leive and Glamour Magazine, Panel Guests Include Republicans and Democrats

Wednesday, March 28, 8 pm

New York, NY: March  14—In 2008, a woman almost won the Democratic presidential nomination and another won the Republican vice-presidential nomination. It was a high-water mark in national politics. Four years later, the presidential campaign is currently an all-male affair, but what’s happening with with Senators, Representatives, Governors and state legislators? How have things changed – or not – for women involved in politics? 92nd Street Y, in partnership with Glamour magazine, presents a special panel discussion on Wednesday, March 28 at 8 pm: Running in Heels: Where Are the Women Candidates for 2012 And How Can We Get More of Them? Chelsea Clinton moderates a discussion with five women from across the political spectrum about the successes and challenges for women in government. Here’s the line-up:

Introductions:  Cindi Leive, Glamour’s editor-in-chief
Moderator:       Chelsea Clinton, Board Member, Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. She is also a special correspondent for NBC News.

·       Christine Quinn, Speaker of the New York City Council.

·       Nicolle Wallace, bestselling author of Eighteen Acres and It’s Classified, political commentator and former White House communications director under President George W. Bush.

·      Abby Huntsman Livingston, daughter of former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman. She most recently worked on his campaign and previously worked for ABC News and for Good Morning America.

·       Stephanie Schriock, President of EMILY’s List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics.

·      Amy Holmes, former CNN contributor and news anchor for The Blaze and GBTV.

WHO:             Chelsea Clinton, Christine Quinn, Nicolle Wallace, Stephanie Schriock, Abby Huntsman Livingston, Amy Holmes & Cindi Leive on Women in Politics
WHEN:           Wednesday, March 28, 8 pm
WHERE:        92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
TICKETS:      www.92Y.org <http://www.92y.org/>  or 212.415.5500

Limited press seats are available. Please contact Sarah Morton, smorton@92Y.org or 212.415.5435

Dear Supporters,

We are working hard on planning Truth and Justice: The 2012 Summit on Military Sexual Violence and wanted to inform you of an important change.

We just heard from congressional offices that our original conference dates coincide with the week when the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will be debated in the House of Representatives. The NDAA is the key piece of legislation that pertains to defense issues, including military sexual assault reforms. Last year, SWAN worked with Representatives Mike Turner (R-OH) and Niki Tsongas (D-MA) to get life-saving victims’ protections put into the Act. SWAN is working closely with this bi-partisan team to introduce key sexual assault reforms into this year’s NDAA, putting the focus now on changing the military judicial system.

Due to the scheduling of this important NDAA debate, we need to move our Summit. Fortunately, this change will give our movement an enormous advantage–by coming to Washington, DC and sharing your stories with elected officials the week before this debate, you will have the opportunity to directly influence the outcome of military sexual assault reform.

SWAN is moving the Summit to Tuesday, May 8th and compressing our activities into one day, with panels in the morning and congressional visits in the afternoon.

Our mobilization will send Congress a strong message at exactly the right time. We will also be pressing forward with a national media strategy to push these issues and this historic gathering even further across the nation. Additionally, the Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus, co-chaired by Reps Tsongas and Turner, has agreed to officially sponsor the Summit. We are grateful to both congress members for taking leadership on these issues in the past and continuing to lead into the future.

We sincerely hope you will be able to join us (register now!), and regret any convenience this re-scheduling may have caused you. Even if you cannot make it, there are lots of ways to participate and lend your support. Check out our sidebar to the right for a few opportunities. Thank you for your courage, dedication and support!

Sincerely,

Anu Bhagwati
Executive Director, Service Women’s Action Network
Former Marine Captain

SWAN is a civil rights organization founded and led by women veterans. SWAN’s vision is to  transform military culture by securing equal opportunity and the freedom to serve in uniform without threat of harassment, discrimination, intimidation or assault. SWAN also seeks to reform veterans’ services on a national scale to guarantee equal access to quality health care, benefits and resources for women veterans and their families.

On February 13th, 1969, New York’s legislature held a hearing on the matter of abortion reform. Under what conditions would abortion be permitted, if any? Fifteen witnesses were called to help answer this question: fourteen of them were men; the fifteenth was a nun. Then, young radical feminists, the “real experts” broke in, and seized control of the conversation. These women testified to their own experiences with abortion and called for the repeal of all laws.

At last month’s birth control coverage hearing, the Senate’s row of white male contraception experts didn’t even bother with a nun. Representative Darrell Issa turned law student Sandra Fluke away on the grounds she was unqualified to speak about the subject at hand, which was not contraception or reproductive health but, as one male speaker after another agreed, “religious freedom.”

The time has come to take back control of the conversation and foreground women. The present is unacceptable; so let’s make it impossible. We can begin by reclaiming our radical past, by learning from the women whose voices forever changed the tone of the dialogue about abortion in the United States, and from the activists, artists, and health care providers who have kept up that tune even when others tried to drown it out.

Keynote panels at Urgent! will feature veteran radical feminists and pioneer abortion activist Rosalyn Baxandall; abortion activist and provider Merle Hoffman, founder of Choices;  Lynn Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women; Miriam Perez, aka Radical Doula; Loretta Ross, co-founder of SisterSong; Alix Kates Shulman; Barbara Winslow; and Nona Willis Aronowitz.
Scheduled breakout sessions include a conversation with The Doula Project, a workshop on manual aspiration abortion led by the Reproductive Health Access Project, film screenings, skill shares, and much more!

Saturday, March 17th

10 AM – 6 PM sponsored by the New School’s Gender Studies Program

Produced by the I Had an Abortion Project/Soapbox Inc. and the n+1 Research Collective //

All Urgent! events are free and open to the public; advance registration is encouraged (although not required).

Email: urgentconference@gmail.com

Website: freeabortionnow.tumblr.com

Twitter: twitter.com/freeabortionnow

Facebook: facebook.com/freeabortionnow

The Festival of Conscience Presents Women And Resistance

In conjunction with Women’s History Month, prominent feminist activists Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, War Resistors League organizer Kimber Heinz, and eco-feminist Ynestra King will lead a discussion on women’s role in the movements’ against militarism, nuclear weapons, war, and torture.

Festival of Conscience is being run in conjunction with the play, “Another Life”, about the collective trauma post-9/11, greed, war and the ensuing U.S. torture program. Both events are produced by Theater Three Collaborative, Inc. with the Irondale Center, Fort Greene, Brooklyn; March 8-24, 2012.

All panels will take place following the performance of “Another Life”.

For more information and to purchase tickets:

www.irondale.org

Irondale Center is located at 85 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn, NY.

April 2, 2012
Museum of Motherhood (MOM)
New York, NY
8:30am-6:30pm
www.spiritualityofmotherhood.com

This 1-day conference on April 2, 2012 aims to highlight the largely unacknowledged spiritual dimensions of motherhood. Presenters will share their personal and professional insights into the spiritual life of mothers and the growth-producing potential of parenting. Together we will re-imagine pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering as an initiation into a new way of being— an opportunity for spiritual awakening where children are also empowered as true catalysts of transformation. Experiential exercises, lectures, discussion groups, and lunch are included in this groundbreaking all-day intensive on a unique subject. Please come and make history with us!

Sponsored by Museum of Motherhood (MOM)
Organized by Aurélie Athan Aurélie Athan, PhD

Presenters: Leading scholars and practicioners in the field who integrate spiritual perspectives into their daily work with (and lives as) mothers.

Aurelie Athan, PhD
Marin Bach-Antonson
Buffy Bernhardt, LMSW
Jerilyn Brownstein, MSW
Lisa Miller, PhD
Lisa Rafel
Meg Richichi, MS, LAc
Ellynne Skove, LCAT, BC-DTR, RPP, NCC
Elizabeth Visceglia, MD

When: Monday, April 2nd 2012, 8:30am-6:30pm, Lunch included.
Where: MOM Museum, 401 East 84th Street (1st Ave) Lower Level (Map)
Price: $30 advanced ticket/$40 same day [Student: $15 advance/$20 same day]

Full Info & Tickets: www.spiritualityofmotherhood.com

Welcome to the Third Annual National Abortion Access Bowl-a-Thon!

New York Abortion Access Fund: NYAAF is joining funds from across the country to raise money to make reproductive rights a reality for women who can’t afford to pay for an abortion—and we want you to join us!

Check out some pictures form Last Year’s Bowl-a-Thon!

This year our Bowl-a-thon will be on April 29th!

We are shooting for 40 teams of 8! So get 7 of your Pro-Choice Pro-Fun friends and register now!

http://bowlathon.nnaf.org/nnafbowl/fundevent.asp?nnaffundid=28&eventid=102