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The Lower Eastside Girls Club Presents...
THE SATURDAY PERFORMANCE SERIES
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@ Art+Community Gallery
56 East 1st Street (1st/2nd Aves)
Saturdays @ 3:30PM
FREE to the community
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Join us April 19, 2008 for
IMMIGRANT HERITAGE WEEK
with Piper Anderson, Tara Betts & Pamela Joy!
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THE SATURDAY PERFORMANCE SERIES IS A PROUD
PARTICIPANT IN IMMIGRANT HERITAGE WEEK! //
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Come celebrate with us for a short Girls Club-created video about immigration and stay for poets
Piper Anderson, Tara Betts and Pamela Joy. Each poet will share their own immigration story!
Immigrant Heritage Week is a city-wide celebration that honors the experiences and contributions of immigrants in New York City. Established by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2004 and coordinated by the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, Immigrant Heritage Week is a rich collection of free or low-cost programs that build cross-cultural understanding between diverse New Yorkers. Read more here.
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PIPER ANDERSON //
Piper Anderson is a musician, actress, writer, healer, Filmmaker and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Anderson has toured nationally as a musician and performance poet sharing the stage with such internationally acclaimed artists as The Last Poets, Medusa, Doug E. Fresh, Dead Prez, The Jungle Brothers, and many others. In 2007 Anderson founded She Leads Media a company committed to creating cultural products in the realm of theatre, film, music, and fashion that breed a spirit of inspiration, celebration, and communal healing.
Visit Piper Anderson online to learn more!
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TARA BETTS //
Tara Betts describes her writing as a blend of performance, formalism, autobiography and lyricism. She has performed in New York, Cuba and throughout the Midwest. Her work has been adapted at the nationally-renowned Steppenwolf Theater for the production "Words on Fire." Her short story from That Takes Ovaries! was also adapted by Washington, DC-based Horizons Theatre Company. She is also a fellow at Cave Canem, an African-American poets' workshop/retreat.
Visit Tara Betts online to learn more!
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PAMELA JOY //
Pamela Joy is a movement artist and poet. Using words to skip stones through the city, she has been writing, reading, yelling and humming her works throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan island. She has self published such collections as "Water in all the wrong places", and "Woman of Needing Her Sleep-Wishing for Nothing Else, Wishing on an Anonymous Eardrum. If I could Find the Right Muffler, the Voices in My Head Would Stop Crying. Everyone Was Invited In." She also makes picture books.
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And then come back for...
April 26, 2008: Erika Rose & Eagle Nebula
May 03, 2008: Lasonya Gunter, Alison Crockett & Rhonda Denet
May 10, 2008: Marty McConnell, Rebecca Hart & Shanelle Gabriel
May 17, 2008: Martha Redbone, Jen Chapin & DJ Laylo
May 24, 2008: Madafi & Christa Bell
May 31, 2008: Last Saturday Performance of season!
All-female DJ dance party featuring DJ Sabine & DJ Kamala
with live painting by Fly Lady Di, Crystal Clarity and more!
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Please visit http://www.girlsclub.org/about/perform for the full calendar, artist bios and links, and more information about the series.
& be sure to listen to the podcasts at http://www.girlsclubworldwide.org/wp
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What you missed last week!...
Jeanann Verlee, Jessi Robertson
& Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz!
What a special day of phenomenal performances. Check out our awesome photos below! Our biggest thanks for our performers for tearing down the house... Be sure to check Girls On Air next week for podcasts of the show!
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The Lower Eastside Girls Club Saturday Performance Series, now in its second year, is a weekly afternoon performance series, open to the public,free-of-charge and featuring all-women line-ups of musicians, singer-songwriters, MC’s and poets. This project is dedicated to upholding the Girls Club’s mission of offering free and innovative cultural programming to Girls Club members, connecting the Girls Club to the greater community, and supporting women in the arts. http://www.girlsclub.org/about/perform
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
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For more information please contact Caitlin atThe Lower Eastside Girls Club is dedicated to providing a place where girls and young women 8-23 can grow, learn, have fun, and develop confidence in themselves and their ability to make a difference in the world. By delivering strong and innovative arts, athletic, cultural, life-skills and career oriented programming, we provide girls with the vision to plan - and the tools to build - their future.
(212) 982.1633 ext 105 or development@girlsclub.org
