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Brooklyn to Host First-Ever Festival for Gender Equality!
Connect! Create! Educate!
August 27, 2006 * 11am - 4pm
FREE!
In a world where boys are still made fun of for wanting to jump
double-dutch and
girls are still kicked off the basketball courts because they might
“break a
nail” while playing, Girls for Gender Equity is proud to organize the
first New
York City Festival for Gender Equality on August 27th 11am - 4pm. Open
to all
New Yorkers, it will be held at Von King Park in Brooklyn, NY and
feature
entertainment by musicians, spoken word artists, and theater
performers;
workshops and other fun activities for children and adults; free food
and
giveaways; and appearances from local politicians. Over 50 community
organizations will participate including Brooklyn Children's Museum,
Forest
Hills Community House, Global Action Project, Loisaida, New York Police
Department, Planned Parenthood, Schomburg Center, Street Harassment
Project, and
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls.
“I feel it's important to have a New York City Festival for Gender
Equality as
greater awareness needs to be raised around the sexism, harassment and
violence
girls and women face every day on the street, in playgrounds and
schools, at the
work place and at home. NYC must come together to let everyone know we
will not
tolerate discrimination or abuse against girls and women in any form,
any time,
anywhere,” says Oraia Reid, co-founder of RightRides.
The Gender Equality Festival is a free public event for education,
networking,
resource sharing, community interaction, arts and recreation. Workshops
on a
wide variety of topics - responding to street harassment, media
literacy,
HIV/AIDS, communicating with your child, youth leadership, yoga, health
care
access, democratic education and more - will be offered throughout the
day to
children and adults. The Grand Street Campus girls’ soccer team will
lead a
mother-daughter soccer clinic, where girls and their sisters, mothers,
cousins,
friends, aunts and grandmothers are all invited to learn basic skills
and then
show them off in a short game.
Representing local politics at the event are Councilwoman Helen Sears,
Democratic Senate nominee Jonathan Tasini, Democratic Congressional
candidate
Chris Owens, Green Party Lt Governor candidate Alison Duncan, and State
Senator
Carl Andrews (D). Not to be missed are performances by hip hop artist
Carlethal,
poet and educator Piper Anderson, singer/songwriter Chris Pureka,
activist dance
and theater group Zany Angels, queer youth performers Generation Q,
Palestinian
stand-up comedian and co-founder of the New York Arab American Comedy
Festival
Maysoon Zayid, and the folk-hip hop hybrid sounds of Mahogany. The
afternoon
will wind down with a keynote speech from Councilwoman Yvette Clarke!
All attendees will receive a gift from one of the Festival for Gender
Equality
Sponsors: Akademics, American Girl, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX),
Brooklyn
Symphony Orchestra, Brownstone Books, Candle Café, Clamor, Eva Scrivo
Salon,
Finetune Pilates Studio, Harriet's Alter Ego, Madame Tussauds NY,
Museum of
Television & Radio, Palacinka, Pretty Tough Sports, Regal
Entertainment, Road's
End Organics, St. Marks Bookshop, The Home Spa, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.
- Find out how to register for this event by clicking on
http://www.gges.info/latest-news.php
or contact Jessica at 718-857-1393 or intern@gges.info.
boy i wish i was going to be in ny on friday.
somebody else go and play for me.
~s