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Workshops with Renowned Artist/Activists THIS FRIDAY Before
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brice Smith)
Wed Apr 2 20:15:40 2003
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Resistance Workshops and Discussions (descriptions below)
"Words As Weapons"
Friday April 4, 2003
Room 5-217
6:00 - 7:00 pm
"Women, Art, and Resistance"
Friday April 4, 2003
Room 5-217
7:15 - 8:30 pm
FREE Concert and Performance to Follow Featuring :
Jolie Rickman
nationally touring feminist singer/songwriter
the Mahina Movement
a NYC-based multi-cultural performance art collective
Gina Young
a self-described singer/songwriter,
actress/activist, daredevil dyke dreamer
Lenelle N. Moise
an out, Haitian-American performance poet
Date : Friday April 4, 2003
Time : 9:30pm (doors open at 9pm)
Room : 54-100 (in the Green Bldg.)
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Workshop Descriptions
"Words As Weapons"
The first workshop of the evening (6-7pm), facilitated by the Mahina
Movement, will focus on strategies of creative resistance. Mahina
Movement is a performance troupe and production theatre company of four
women of color, committed to provoking new ways of experiencing art,
politics, and life. Mahina, taken from the Tongan word for moon and the
Spanish word "to imagine," explores creative means to reframe our
consciousness as individuals and members of a larger society. Through
images, stories, and words, Mahina Movement seeks to engender new ideas,
reshaping possibilities within our social reality. Bringing the traditional
disciplines of painting, sculpture, and photography out of defined spaces
and infusing them with dance, theatre, music, and spoken word, Mahina
implodes categories and puts art in an active dialogue with more diverse
audiences. The recent focus of their work has been on the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq, issues of police brutality all over the world, as
well as the concerns of women of color surviving within a white male
dominated society and issues of sexual preference and gender identity. All
are welcome and invited to attend.
"Women, Art, and Resistance : Learning How to Support Ourselves Within this
Prolonged Struggle"
The second workshop (7:15 - 8:30pm), facilitated by Jolie Rickman and Gina
Young, will focus on the power of music, art, poetry, and theater to
challenge oppression as well as on larger strategies for women to build a
community of resistance and support. Jolie Rickman is a nationally touring
feminist singer/songwriter and co-founded of the Hen Foundation, an
organization that seeks to stimulate and develop the advancement of
grassroots activists, progressive social movements, and artist-activists
while prioritizing the leadership and contribution of women and people of
color. Gina Young is a frequent performer for events that raise awareness
of the rights of women and sexual minorities and has written a semi-
autobiographical music/theater piece produced Off-Off Broadway. This
workshop, like the earlier one, will be free and open to all.
"When the hen crows, the state will fall" - Confucius
Brought to you by :
MIT Social Justice Cooperative
the Thistle
The Women's Studies Department
The Department of Music and Theater Arts
Dean Ayida Mthembu
If you have any questions or comments please contact Brice Smith at
<elrond@mit.edu> or x3-4826.
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