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[dykeumentary]

Sharon Bridgforth is reading in NYC on December 16th

Book release party 12/16/10 in New York City
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic
Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project
6PM – 8PM at New Dramatists
424 West 44th Street,
New York, New York 10036
Readers include:
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Sharon Bridgforth, Monique Cortez, Carole Metellus, Angela Kariotis, Jaclyn Pryor, Ana Maurine Lara.
Please RSVP by calling 212-757-6960.
This event is free. Books will be available for sale.

In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin Project (tAP), which meets annually in order to provide a space for women of color and their allies to build relationships based on trust, creativity, and commitment to social justice by working together to write and perform work in the jazz aesthetic.

Inspired by this experience, this book is both an anthology of new writing and a sourcebook for those who would like to use creative writing and performance to energize their artistic, scholarly, and activist practices. Theoretical and historical essays by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones describe and define the African American tradition of art-making known as the jazz aesthetic, and explain how her own work in this tradition inspired her to start tAP.

[Ginger]

ATTENTION N.Y. AND N.Y.-ADJACENT LAURA NYRO FANS:


Michele Kort is moderating a panel on Laura at the Stoned Soul Symposium at 12:30 on Aug. 11 at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, at 65th and Amsterdam.

The panelists will be Laura's friend Felix Cavaliere (who coproduced Christmas and the Beads of Sweat), Herb Bernstein (arranger of More Than a New Discovery, her first album), and Sheila Weller (author of Girls Like Us).

Michele is, if you didn't already know, the author of the Nyro bio Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro.

That night at 6 p.m. at the Damrosch Park Bandshell outside of Lincoln Center will be The Triple Goddess Twilight Review honoring Laura's music, featuring Labelle members Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, Desmond Child & Rouge, Melissa Manchester and cabaret singer Kate Ferber.

[Ginger]

http://micheleandaudrey.wordpress.com/A Book Party and Reading for Here Come the Brides!

Bluestockings bookstore, 172 Allen Street (at Stanton, just below Houston, Lower East Side, NYC)

Saturday, July 28, 7 p.m.

In Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage, editors Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort gather together the voices of women taking part in and shaping this major historical shift.

The anthology features everything from intimate portraits of long-awaited weddings to political and social essays on the implications of the same-sex marriage movement for the LGBTQ community.

Join Bilger and Kort, along with contributors Kim Reed, Joan Lipkin, Emily Douglas, Susan Goldberg, Stephanie Schroeder, and Jennifer Camper for a night of story and celebration.

[Ginger]

Hi,

PM me if you want to come along
this Saturday night,
July 28, 7 p.m.
for a reading and book party for
Here Come the Brides!:
Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage.

Bluestockings bookstore is at
172 Allen Street
(at Stanton, just below Houston).

In Here Come the Brides!,
editors Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort
gather together the voices of women taking part in
and shaping this major historical shift.

See you there!
Scout

[Ginger]

Two Moon Art House & Cafe
315 Fourth Avenue, Park Slope Brooklyn

(F) to Smith & 9th Street

4-6 p.m.

Open Mic, limit 5 people, 5 minutes each

$10 cover gets you one free drink

Featured readers:

Gerry LaFemina
Amy Holman

See you there! I co-curate the series with Gerry.
Scout

[Ginger]

I'm reading at Cornelia Street Cafe on Wednesday, October 10 at 6 p.m.

Readings are in the downstairs Cabaret space, which has comfy red banquets and a beautiful old varnished bar. It's $7 cover which gets you one drink.

Cornelia Street cafe is on Cornelia Street between Bleecker and West 4th, in the West Village. Take the F/A/C or West 4th Street. Walk on West 4th toward 7th Avenue, turn left on Cornelia Street very close to West 4th.

Scout

[CherylNYC]

Once again, please join us for our inclusive Beltane celebration in Brooklyn:

All are welcome to join us for the Annual Backyard Garden
Beltane Celebration

Saturday May 4th, 2013

Gather with Us to Drum and Socialize at 1:00 pm

Maypole Dance Starts at 2:00 pm

Remember to Bring 9 Yards of Ribbon and Food or Drink to Share
Backyard Garden on the Corner of Hamilton Avenue and Van Brunt St Brooklyn, N.Y.

[BestButchBoy]

Happy Bastille Day. Le jour de gloire est arrivé!
http://www.bastilledayny.com/

[nycfem]

Potluck at the Piers, hosted by the Trans Empowerment Committee
Saturday, August 17, 2013, 7:00pm at the Christopher St Piers.
Join CBST's Trans Empowerment Committee for a potluck and Havdalah! Meet outside of CBST (come inside for an indoor picnic in case of rain). Together we will stroll to the Christopher Street Piers at the Hudson River Park and have a vegetarian, dairy potluck, followed by the beautiful mystical Havdalah prayers. If you would prefer to meet us at the Piers, we will be arriving at the Christopher St. Piers around 7:30 p.m. Look for us on the shorter pier with the tables. All are welcome.
Questions? Call (646) 820-3591

[BestButchBoy]

HEY NY'ers! Put down your iPad down! Get off that phone! Bring your swagger and/or your sweetness to meet one another IRL, all while having fun! This is a private group for the Tri-State [NY, NJ, CT] only Butch-Femme-Trans-Queer ID folks to get together on a bi-monthly basis to have fun and socialize! It will only post events. You either go or you don't, but you got to join in to know where to go.

90% of life is showing up for it. You decide: Stay in and hide behind that screen or actually meet other people like you and have fun.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/687011917987609/