Women's Creative Collective for Change
Our craft as storytellers and image-makers rewrites the culture’s master narrative through listening and sharing undertold stories.
Our priority is to create a venue for people from different communities to gather, vocalize under-told or untold stories, and bear witness to the similarities within their struggle and experience. Through this common story, people can unite to create change within their own communities.
WCC has become an international network of amazing contingents. Currently, WCC Los Angeles and WCC New York are actively engaged in workshops, events, and various creative projects. We are in the process of bringing WCC to San Francisco and East Bay, California as well as Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Support the Black Girl Dangerous Writing Workshop for queer, trans*, and gender-non-conforming writers of color! Go HERE!
Thank you from all of us!
You are invited to the
4th Annual Skillshare Retreat
“Re.generation”
June 8 - 10 | Ojai Valley
Our 2012 skillshare will honor collective re.generation, a process of renewal, restoration, and growth. On ceremonial land in Ojai, we will co-create workshops and creative practices to strengthen our relationships to our roots, ourselves, each other, and the earth. Coming together at this year’s skillshare we will work toward building more resilient communities, transforming ourselves, and increasing our capacity for radical imagination.
WHO: The skillshare is for women, genderqueer and trans folks.
WHEN: JUNE 8-10. Friday evening to Sunday afternoon.
WHERE: Muhu Tasen, a Native American ceremonial space in the Ojai Valley.
We are helping to coordinate and provide transportation for anyone who needs it.
COST: $20 suggested donation covers the cost of all meals and accommodations.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Ready to sign up? Please fill out a retreat registration form ASAP!
http://tinyurl.com/ skillshare2012
Please see attachment for more information or visit us at
http://skillsharecollective.wordpress.com
We are also looking for workshop leaders! If you have something you want to share, we would love to have you bring your knowledge to the group. Fill out the
Workshop Facilitator Form by May 27: http://tinyurl.com/skillshare-workshop2012
Hope to see you there!! And please spread the word! :-)
send us a message!
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When: June 28-July 1, 2012
Where: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
More Info: alliedmedia.org
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AMC Mission
The Allied Media Conference cultivates strategies for a more just and creative world. We come together to share tools and tactics for transforming our communities through media-based organizing.
AMC Vision
PARTICIPATORY MEDIA TO TRANSFORM OUR SELVES & OUR WORLD
The Allied Media Conference advances our visions for a just and creative world. It is a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. Since our founding in 1999, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to break-dancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers, technologists and social justice organizers. We draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment. We are ready to create, connect and transform.
“Heart of Gold” — Sister Crayon (dir. by Ariana Natale)
The Women’s Media Center has opened up applications for their Progressive Girls’ Voices media training program! From the website:
Progressive Girls’ Voices trainings and webinars help girls develop leadership, media, and activism skills. In 2011, Progressive Girls’ Voices graduates…
If you’re looking for a different way to celebrate Mother’s Day, Strong Families’ Mama’s Day cards might be for you. Think someecards with politics but with beautiful art. Just pick an image, and customize the text: www.mamasday.org
“Jellyfish” by Andrea Gibson
when we’re wrong
the whole world feels wrong
and when we’re right
even as the world crumbles around us
it feels right
koreans mark disaster
with numbers—4-29—Sa-I-Gu.
no police. no help.
fire. if I touch
the screen my fingers
will singe or sing.
raw hands rip nikes
out of boxes, break glass
into white cobwebs.
my mother presses her hand
to her ruined lips.
—from “Sai-I-Gu” by Ishlie Yu Park
South Asians for Justice Los Angeles (SAJ-LA) will be holding an event to remember and discuss the genocidal violence plaguing Gujarat, India since 2002. Please join us on Sunday, April 22nd to reflect, heal, and talk through the parallels between continued state violence in Gujarat and other injustices experienced by South Asians and other communities of color locally in Los Angeles and throughout the United States. The event will include a photography exhibit by Sahir Raza, a creative writing installation by the organizers of Sahiyar, discussions with activists Hamid Khan, Yasmin Qureshi and Gujarat-based Trupti Shah, performances by Elephants with Guns, and poetry by Naazneen Diwan and Taz Ahmed.
Refreshments and snacks will be served. Please RSVP on our facebook page. Also, for translation services, please contact (216) 952-7968. We hope to see you there.Also, you can click here if you have the means to donate! Every dollar counts. The money will be used to put on the event, and the rest will be donated to a local LA-based charity.
(via fuckyeahsouthasia)
Are you a resident of South Los Angeles and interested in community theater and environmental issues?
Click on the link to check out the flyer and download the application! Email completed applications to k@kristinasherylwong.com by April 18 at 5 pm.
You can also mail completed applications to: Kristina Wong c/o The Bus Riders Union/ The Labor/Community Strategy Center, 3780 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1200; L.A., CA 90010. Mailed applications must be postmarked by April 13.
More about the program below:
“Environmental Justice League” is an eight-week performance and writing workshop drawing on the subject matter of environmental justice issues, particularly as they affect District 10 and South Los Angeles. The EJL Program includes visits from guest experts and organizations that will address issues like mass transit as a human right, food justice, clean air, and climate change— giving participants a strong overview of environmental justice issues to integrate into the performance work they create.
The project time is split between gathering environmental justice research from guest speakers and field trips and then using it as inspiration to make original performance work. Participants will engage in theatrical exercises in vocal & physical improvisation, dramaturgy, and directing. The content of the work created will draw from independent research, information gathered in the group from guest speakers, field trips, and personal experiences. The workshop curriculum explores different disciplines like dance, text-based performance, puppetry, and site-specific performance art.
The goal of the workshop is to give a diverse group of participants who would not have access to a multi-disciplinary performance workshop, the opportunity to explore different disciplines, find their unique artistic voice and create original performance work anchored around the theme of environmental justice. The workshops are intended to foster community support and learning. The workshops will culminate in a final performance showing for the public with a post-show discussion for our host organization, artists and audience.
Poet, writer, activist Eve Ensler lived in her head. In this powerful talk from TEDWomen, she talks about her lifelong disconnection from her body — and how two shocking events helped her to connect with the reality, the physicality of being human.
Eve Ensler created the ground-breaking “Vagina Monologues,” whose success propelled her to found V-Day — a movement to end violence against wombyn everywhere.
