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hoax # 6 - feminisms & communication is officially finished(!!!)
essays include: the power & privileges of academic language; feminist reflection on self-care; comedy & comics as an exercise in visibility; re-thinking “righteous anger”; challenging the unspoken commandments of punk; empowerment through getting a tattoo; communicating anger in a subdued manner; feminism & disability on campus; white-washing and the trouble with “people of color” as an umbrella term; scholarly journals & achieving accessibility; the privilege of “progress”; trans* identity & expressing anger; exploring the waves of US feminism; blackness & perceived education; false exposure and “confessional” writing; communicating trans feminine experience; why the n-word is not for white people; recovering from intimate partner violence; rape denial & the cops; “ally” as a false identity; slutwalk & false individualism; handling suicidal thoughts; gay capitalism & the pink dollar market; conscientious language vs. political correctness; women & learned shyness; reframing anti-semitism; survivorship, zine-writing, and disabilities; and the women’s land army! also includes original art/comics, prose, feminists we love, and vegan recipes! ½ size, 76 pages, b&w and super text heavy!
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The Kickstarter for “It’s Complicated” is live! And we made you a high school crush zine-style video for it, shot by Sean Ruch and featuring the eternally relevant “What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes” (used with the generous permission of Le Tigre’s Johanna Fateman). This is the only way to preorder the first two issues of the zine, and judging by the essays we already have for “It’s Complicated #1,” they are going to be fantastic. Contribute, and learn more about the project, here.
In case I have not yet talked your ear off about this, here’s the short version: Niina Pollari and I are in the midst of a zine and future book project/ongoing critical conversation about feminist writers’ relationships to the misogynist art we love. We have a ton of excellent contributors participating and are having a wonderful/fulfilling time working on this. So any help we could get spreading the word would be awesome, and if you’re interested and have the extra cash to back us, we would be so grateful.
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“What the Water Wore” at Sandy Spring Museum
As part of the opening for
RE/ USING OUR RE/SOURCES ECO-ART PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBIT
JUNE 24th, 2012, 2-4pm
Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD www.sandyspringmuseum.org
Hours : Mon., Wed., Thurs. 9am-4pm and Sat., Sun. 12pm-4pm.
Evite here.
The Women’s Caucus for Art of Greater Washington DC and Philadelphia Chapters, open a 34 artist exhibit with performance art and eco-demonstration on Sunday, June 24th, 2012, 2-4pm at Sandy Spring Museum. www.wcadc.org
WCA-DC and Philadelphia are affiliate chapters of The National Women’s Caucus for Art, a 40 year old organization, focused on art, education and social activism. Its members include visual artists, museum professionals and curators, historians, teachers and collectors. WCA supports the cultural diversity of its membership.www.nationalwca.org
The June 24th event will feature the eco-performance art of Philadelphia based artists Bonnie MacAllister, “What the Water Wore”, Mira Treatman, “Gertrude for Dinner”, Gabrielle Casella, “Transit Tales: a public her-story” as well as “Rockin’ Retro Using Relics”, a jewelry workshop using recycled objects by Gabrielle Casella. Performance art, historically a feminist art form, has its roots in feminist art performances of the 1970’s.
The visual art exhibit, curated by Barbara Wolanin, PhD, opens on June 13 and continues through September 9, 2012 at Sandy Spring Museum’s galleries. This exhibit is diverse in expression and media; representing painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, assemblage and multi-media art in topics concerning the beauty of nature, the environmental problems today and of the future as well as works using natural or recycled materials.
Additionally, summer, 2012 in coordination with the Sandy Spring Museum and this exhibit, a children’s art project for environmental awareness and fun making art, will be offered by Margaret Paris, visual artist, art teacher and a Maryland resident.
For more information on performances: http://youngwc.blogspot.com/2012/04/ywc-sandy-spring-museum-performances.html
DC Chapter blog: http://wcadc.blogspot.com/
FB group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/61523271251
Philadelphia Chapter: http://phila-wca.blogspot.com/
FB page: http://www.facebook.com/phila.wca
FB page: http://www.facebook.com/wcaphila
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2, 2012
“DISCOVERING SAGACITY: WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS ON THE TRIALS AND TRUTHS OF BEING FEMALE”
Part of the three-week Shubin Theatre 25th Anniversary Festival A wonderful evening of plays written by some of Philadelphia’s most provocative women playwrights will be presented during the Shubin Festival, on April 27, at 8 p.m. Six short plays by Diana Cavallo, Joy Cutler, Bonnie MacAllister, Kate McGrath, Robin Rodriguez, and Debra Leigh Scott, will be performed at The Shubin Theatre, 407 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147. Directors are Malika Oyetimein, Denise Shubin and Debra Leigh Scott. The cast includes Marley Alig, Jean Brooks, Mlé Chester, Chris Davis, Patricia Mayer, LaNeshe Miller, and Denise Shubin.
The Shubin Festival is a celebration of the 25 years that the Shubin Theatre has been providing nurture and support to the theatre community of Philadelphia. A small, affordable and welcoming space, The Shubin has been an incubator for many actors and companies in the community for decades. A quarter century is well worth celebrating, and this festival does that with exuberance — three weeks of performance that include plays, music, dance, literary and poetry readings, even a bit of magic. It is also serving as a fundraiser for the Shubin, which has never, in the 25 years of its existence held a fundraiser — hard to believe, but true. This is a great way for everyone who has benefitted from the existence of the Shubin to show affection and appreciation to its owners, Denise Shubin and Don Martinelli.
The evening of women’s plays brings together a group of talented women playwrights, directors and a cast of wonderful actors, all who have worked together to create a seamless evening of entertainment. “The Truth of the Matter” by Diana Cavallo is directed by Denise Shubin, and stars Patricia Mayer and Denise Shubin. It deals with the struggle between difficult personal truths, and the way the media and the arts world sometimes deal callously with other people’s suffering. A young graduate student whose death, along with that of her graduate advisor, was subject to the feeding frenzy of tabloid news, is now the subject of a play. When the mother of the young girl shows up in the dressing room of the actress/ playwright who has written the script, the confrontation reveals just how little truth matters in the overall scheme of things.
“The Craving” by Joy Cutler is directed by Debra Leigh Scott and stars Chris Davis and LaNeshe Miller. Iris is pregnant and her husband, Denny is excessively attentive to her needs. He knows pregnant women are prone to outlandish cravings and he’s desperate to satisfy her impossible wishes, but the harder he tries the more frustrated she becomes. He anxiously looks forward to the birth of their first child, but Iris’ pregnant belly is only another one of her tricks to restore her husband back to the man she used to love before his bizarre accident that day on the baseball field.
“Mother’s Day With Irma” by Bonnie MacAllister is directed by Denise Shubin and stars Chris Davis, LaNeshe Miller and Denise Shubin. Somehow an artist’s child grows up to be a financier. A feminist take on meeting the parent, “Mother’s Day With Irma” shows the constant dance of love and resentment that can take place between a mother and daughter.
“How to Fold” by Kate McGrath is directed by Malika Oyetimein and stars Mlé Chester and Patricia Mayer. Two women meet in a laundromat. Nancy is a feisty, middle-aged rock and roll wannabe. Ava is a permanent elementary school sub with a penchant for playing second fiddle. “How to Fold” gives us a slice of life that shows what happens when two female strangers reveal secrets, discover truths and learn just how connected they really are.
“Misery….Love…..Compay” by Robin Rodriguez is directed by Malika Oyetimein and stars Marley Alig and Mlé Chester. Spring is here. Mia is desperate to find her runaway dog, not to mention her runaway boyfriend. But first she has to deal with Dee, her once- upon-a-time best friend. If Mia can just right a few wrongs, maybe she can move some of this past-tense life into the present. “The Dressing Room: Designer Destitution” by Debra Leigh Scott is directed by Malika Oyetimein and stars Jean Brooks and Denise Shubin. The manager of a designer boutique in Haverford, deep in the heart of the Philadelphia Main Line, arrives at the shop early one morning to discover a homeless woman asleep in the dressing room. Their encounter reveals more than surprising identities; it reveals the truths we struggle to keep hidden while striving to live the perfect life.
Deceit, abandonment, poverty, shame and anger are blended with hope, love, determination and humor in these six pieces, which investigate the many ways women are awakened to the realities - both the struggles and the blessings - of being female. “Discovering Sagacity: Women Playwrights on the Trials and Truths of Being Female” will be performed Friday, April 27, at 8 p.m. at The Shubin Theatre, 407 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19147.
More information about the festival can be found at https://www.facebook.com/events/107251592732537/
Tickets for “Discovering Sagacity” can be purchased online at http:// shubintheatre.ticketleap.com/shubin-april-fest-2012/dates/Apr-27-2012_at_0800PM
Coming soon in April 2012: Mother’s Day with Irma
Starring Denise Shubin as Irma
Also starring Kate Black Regan and Chris Davis
as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Shubin Theatre
Performance on April 27, 2012
shubintheatre.com
www.greenlightarts.org
Part of the Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival, The Dressing Room is a multidisciplinary performance and visual art piece that explores the rituals and customs performed in a dressing room. The Dressing Room, created and presented entirely by women artists, explores the conflicts women find in their everyday lives - perseverance against abandonment, nurturing against adversity, and personal pride versus objectification. Inspired by the 1972 feminist installation WOMANHOUSE, The Dressing Room seeks to show how women survive these small endless battles.
Directed by Malika Oyetimein and featuring new plays by Debra Leigh Scott, Gabrielle Corsaro, Cat Hasson West and Bonnie MacAllister, The Dressing Room runs from September 3rd -17th at The Plastic Club. The Plastic Club was founded in 1897 as the first women’s art club in Philadelphia. Green Light Arts is thrilled to present The Dressing Room at this historic landmark.
The Dressing Room interweaves visual and performance art, featuring simpatico exhibits by local artists including Bonnie MacAllister, Alexandria Dilks Pandola, Ellen Bonnet, Ana Vizcarra Rankin and a partnership with the Philadelphia Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art, whose members are creating an exhibit that will be showcased during the run.
The Dressing Room stars Jennifer M. Birnkrant, Jean Brooks, Mle’ Y. Chester, Kathleen Harmer, Becki Zaritsky, Erlina Ortiz, Jana Nogowski, Cherie J. Patterson, and Denise Shubin.
Green Light Arts explores the relationship between art and social change and we are creating The Dressing Room to continue the conversation that WOMANHOUSE started almost thirty years ago. WOMANHOUSE was the first public exhibition of feminist art. Judy Chicago (best-known as the creator of The Dinner Party) and Miriam Shapiro rented an old Hollywood mansion and altered its interior through decor and set-pieces to “search out and reveal the female experience…the dreams and fantasies of women.” WOMANHOUSE explored the function of women in society by creating a nurturing environment for artists to test the boundaries of what it means to be a woman in the modern world.
In 2010, over twenty of our member artists created The Waiting Room, a multidisciplinary performance that explored the experience of women waiting. The show performed to sell-out audiences at The Old Pine Community Center in Philadelphia and prompted us to host a screening of the documentary film WOMANHOUSE by Johanna Demetrakas, which documented the original work of art. This film along with our production of The Waiting Room started a conversation among our members about what we could do next to keep this important work alive. The Dressing Room promises to do just that.
Tickets now on sale through http://www.greenlightarts.org and Fringe Box Office.
The Dressing Room
September 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14, and 17
Green Light Arts
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
Plastic Club
247 S. Camac Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
all shows 7 pm
Green Light Arts Presents The Dressing Room for the 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
For Immediate Release 7/25/2011 Contact: Alexandria Dilks Pandola- Executive Producer Green Light Arts
The Dressing Room is a multidisciplinary performance and visual art piece that explores the rituals and customs performed in a dressing room. The Dressing Room, created and presented entirely by women artists, explores the conflicts women find in their everyday lives - perseverance against abandonment, nurturing against adversity, and personal pride versus objectification. Inspired by the 1972 feminist installation WOMANHOUSE, The Dressing Room seeks to show how women survive these small endless battles.
Directed by Malika Oytimein and featuring new plays by Debra Leigh Scott, Gabrielle Corsaro, Cat Hasson West and Bonnie MacAllister, The Dressing Room runs from September 3rd -17th at The Plastic Club on 247 S. Camac Street in Philadelphia. The Plastic Club was founded in 1897 as the first women’s art club in Philadelphia. Green Light Arts is thrilled to present The Dressing Room at this historic landmark. Tickets are $15 and performances are at 7pm on September 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14 and 17th. Running time is 60 minutes.
The Dressing Room interweaves visual and performance art, featuring simpatico exhibits by local artists including Bonnie MacAllister, Alexandria Dilks Pandola and a partnership with the Philadelphia Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art, whose members are creating an exhibit that will be showcased during the run.
Green Light Arts explores the relationship between art and social change and we are creating The Dressing Room to continue the conversation that WOMANHOUSE started almost thirty years ago. WOMANHOUSE was the first public exhibition of feminist art. Judy Chicago (best-known as the creator of The Dinner Party) and Miriam Shapiro rented an old Hollywood mansion and altered its interior through decor and set-pieces to “search out and reveal the female experience…the dreams and fantasies of women.” WOMANHOUSE explored the function of women in society by creating a nurturing environment for artists to test the boundaries of what it means to be a woman in the modern world.
In 2010, over twenty of our member artists created The Waiting Room, a multidisciplinary performance that explored the experience of women waiting. The show performed to sell-out audiences at The Old Pine Community Center in Philadelphia and prompted us to host a screening of the documentary film WOMANHOUSE by Johanna Demetrakas, which documented the original work of art. This film along with our production of The Waiting Room started a conversation among our members about what we could do next to keep this important work alive. The Dressing Room promises to do just that.
Coney Island Mermaid Parade 2011: A Photo Essay by Bonnie MacAllister
Available in paperback and hard cover here.
Green Light Arts has a few audition slots left on Tuesday, 6/14 for The Dressing Room as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
The Dressing Room was written by Debra Leigh Scott, Bonnie MacAllister, Cat Hasson West and Gabrielle Corsaro and is being directed by Malika Oyetimein.
Looking for nonunion women of all ages. These are non-paying positions with rehearsals in August (evenings and weekends) and performances Sept. 3-17th. Actors will be cast in 1-3 short plays.
Please send headshot and resume to Alex Dilks Pandola at alex@greenlightarts.org
Thank you!
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Green Light Arts is women creating visionary and innovative artistic programs that seek to challenge and change how society views women. Green Light Arts tells the true stories of women. Green Light Arts has produced over fifteen mainstage productions in Philadelphia and New York as well as as over seventy one-act plays that were all created by women.
She Should Have Written It: A Story of Bohemian Surveillance A Spring 2011 Production starred Celeste Walker as Enyo* Maleka Fruean as Druka Dan Baker as Dash Written and Directed by Bonnie MacAllister The play reveals what happens when a DIY artist and street dancer in the Free Republic discovers an unauthorized live feed on three channels. A Green Light Arts Production (greenlightarts.org) *member of Actor’s Equity Association
A Green Light Arts Production
Multimedia performance and works by Bonnie MacAllister
Featuring the one act play, She Should Have Written It: A Story of Bohemian Surveillance
stars
Celeste Walker* as Enyo
Maleka Fruean as Druka
Dan Baker as Dash
March 12 at 7 p.m.
Shubin Theatre
407 Bainbridge Street
Philadelphia
FREE (pay what you wish)
A fundraiser for Green Light Arts
Featuring trunk sale by http://www.realfruitjewelry.com/, Rachel Udell, and other independent craft merchants
http://greenlightarts.org/
http://sheshouldhavewritte nit.tumblr.com/
*member of Actor’s Equity Association
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Green Light Arts invites you to our reading series at The Shubin Theatre, 407 Bainbridge Street
March 10-12th, Thursday, Friday and Saturday night all at 7pm
These events are free however donations of any amount are welcome and appreciated!
We will also have 2011 Artist Memberships available for $24
All readings will feature a short post-show talk back and wine reception
Thursday, March 10th at 7pm
“Days of Obligation” by Debra Leigh Scott
Directed by Debra Leigh Scott
Featuring Denise Shubin, Pam Dollak, Karina Croskrey, Michael Onori, Marc Forget and Colin Wolfe
This play takes place in the home of Gilbert and Mitzi Keegan Fay, in the Virginia/D.C. area. Gilbert is retired military. Mitzi is ex-beauty queen/Southern Belle. The time is mid-1980s, late October. Diana Fay Fletcher returns home after fifteen years of estrangement with her family, with a Ph.D. in Buddhism and a Boston Brahmin husband. Cindy, her younger sister, has just returned home, too — from two years at The Virginia Correctional Center for Women — with a drug habit and a dangerous boyfriend we never see. Mitzi has just undergone a mastectomy and chemotherapy, but has not been told of her very negative prognosis. Her husband has decided to keep that a secret from her. This is not a loving family. No one’s motives are pure.
Friday, March 11th at 7pm
“Magdalene” by Jackie Ruggiero Jacobson
Directed by Ashley Kearns
Featuring Siobhan Groves and Joe Sabatino
Magdalene chooses exotic dancing as a way to rescue her sexuality from a fundamental Christian past. Paul, her first love deceased for two years, materializes in the no man’s land of her dressing room. As they reenact their adolescent courtship boundaries between consent and violation dissolve. For Magdalene being watched becomes an act of courage, and Paul is a reminder that what she leaves behind will never die.
Saturday, March 12th at 7pm
Multimedia performance and works by Bonnie MacAllister
Featuring the one act play, “She Should Have Written It: A Story of Bohemian Surveillance”
Starring Celeste Walker*, Maleka Fruean and Dan Baker
The play reveals what happens when a DIY artist and street dancer in the Free Republic discovers an unauthorized live feed on three channels.
Also featuring trunk sale by http://www.realfruitjewelry.com/, Rachel Udell, and other independent craft merchants
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association
These events are sponsored by The Shubin Theatre!
For more information about Green Light Arts, please visit www.GreenLightArts.org
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