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THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT a Center for Community Organizing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Communities
85 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Tel: 718-596-0342 * Fax: 718-596-1328
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In this email, you will find info on:
GAPIMNY
Reverend Stacey Latimer
Breath Like Graffiti: A Fierce Writing Workshop (Accepting Applications!)
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GAPIMNY
*SAVE THE DATE!* :) :) :)
Come OUT & Get DOWNE! :
A One-Night Masked Affair
DowneTime's 1-Year Birthday Party/Fundraiser
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
7:00pm - 10:30pm
The LGBT Center (208 W 13th St, NY, NY)
$10 Suggested Donation ; Cash Bar Available
18 to party, 21+ w/ ID to Drink
When a baby takes his first step, we jump for joy. When a gay man comes out, we go out for cosmos. And when GAPIMNY celebrates the 1-year birthday of its new gay Asian young adult group, DowneTime, the entire NYC population will come out and masquerade the night away! DowneTime would like to invite you to a night of dancing and colorful masked gaiety, as we break it downe to 80s, 90s and hip hop tunes!
Cash bar is available (featuring special signature GAPIMNY/DowneTime drink specials!). Free masks available at the door, or bring your own to enter a free-drink competition! This event is open to everyone (bring your friends!), and is co-sponsored by APICHA, who will be providing FREE confidential HIV testing on-site. Proceeds go towards funding GAPIMNY's free Young Adult support group, DowneTime.
GAPIMNY
Gay Asian Pacific Islander Men of New York
P.O. Box 1608 • Old Chelsea Station • New York, NY 10113
(212) 802-7423 • www.gapimny.org • gapimny@gapimny.org
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Reverend Stacey Latimer
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Breath Like Graffiti: A Fierce Writing Workshop (Accepting Applications!)
Breath Like Graffiti: A Fierce Writing Workshop
facilitated by yvonne fly onakeme etaghene
This creative writing and poetry workshop will focus on writing the sacred, the profane and the unspeakable while finding, defining and honing oneʼs unique, individual voice and writing style. We will take on questions like: How does one speak about pain beautifully? How can one make another feel as you have felt? We will also deal with the fine art of editing to enhance and build up a piece. This writing workshop whole-heartedly welcomes all writing levels and encourages writers to experiment with writing in different genres and writing styles. The workshop will be a supportive one that offers the valuable feedback writers need to blossom and flourish. Participants will have the opportunity (if they choose) to have the group and facilitator give individual feedback to their pieces. Facilitator will also give out writing assignments and offer readings for participants to experiment with. Participants are welcome to do or not do homework.
This is a writing workshop designed for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two Spirit, Queer, Questioning People Of Color and Straight People Of Color and therefore recognizes writing as a political art form, a healing space and a breathing space. The focus of this workshop will be flexible dependent on the needs and requests of the participants. This will be an 8 week-long workshop with weekly 2 hour long meetings. The cost of attending is sliding scale $10-30 per workshop. No one turned away for lack of funds! If you would like to apply but cannot attend all the scheduled meetings, apply anyway and indicate how many workshops you can attend. This workshop will be facilitated by yvonne fly onakeme etaghene (see bio below).
To apply to be a part of the workshop, please respond to the following questions and email answers to afrocrowndiva@yahoo.com
1. Name, Number, Email
2. Racial/Ethnic Background
3. How do you identify (i.e.: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Transgender, Gender Non Conforming, Queer, Questioning, Gender Queer, Butch, High Femme, Hard Femme, Femme, Tranny Boi, Boi, Soft Butch, Hard Butch, Butch, Aggressive, AG, Dom, Androgynous, Femme Queen, Butch Queen, Straight Ally.) Please use whatever words suit your spirit. Please note: this workshop is a safe space for LGBTSTGNCQQ folks and all straight participants are asked to respect that.
4. Why do you want to participate in this workshop?
5. Please include a sample of work youʼve written that you are proud of. Length and genre (journalism, poetry, rant, prayer, essay, play excerpt, etc) is up to you. No longer than 2 single-spaced pages.
Questions? Concerns? Thoughts? Email afrocrowndiva@yahoo.com or Call: 315.383.9997
Applications due September 25, 2008. Everyone who applies will receive a response by September 26th. Workshop starts Monday, September 29, 2008.
Workshops will be held on Monday evenings from 7 to 9pm, September 29th thru October 24th at the Audre Lorde Project, 85 South Oxford between Fulton and Lafayette, C train to Lafayette Directions: By Train: C Train to Lafayette OR Take the M, N, Q, R, W, 2, 3, 4, 5 or LIRR to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street stop. Exit at Hanson Place . Walk up Hanson Place to South Oxford Street . Make left onto South Oxford Street . The entrance to ALP is on the right, in the middle of the block OR Take the G to Fulton Street . Walk two (2) blocks up Lafayette Street to South Oxford Street . Make a right onto South Oxford Street . The entrance to ALP is on the left, in the middle of the block. By Bus: Take the B25, B26, B38, B41 ( Flatbush Avenue ), or the B52. For further information about bus routes, call 718-330-1234.
yvonne fly onakeme etaghene's bio
taurean mango-eating, Nigeria & syracuse, new york raised, part time vegetarian, hard core carnivore, b-girl-in-training, river-goddess-worshipping, raw corn on the cob eating, mac & cheese from scratch making, bottom of the pot licking, fierce fire breathing, fuschia-colored poem writing, frohawk rockin, all night dancing, bright color lovin, never a lesbian, sometimes queer, always a dyke POET.
an explosive performer with a mouth full of dynamite and sugarcane, her work is a vibrant, vulnerable call to action to live out the lives we dreamed up when we were kids. a fiercely passionate Nigerian dyke, poet, dancer, essayist, playwright, actress & chef, she uses her poetry to chisel a verbal sculpture of her soul while addressing political issues. she has self-published three collections of poetry, released one CD and organized two independent, national poetry tours. she has melted microphones in over 25 u.s. cities. her one woman show will debut fall 2008.
Publications:
Three collections of poetry (afrocrown: fierce poetry (2000); write or die (2004); tongue twisted transcontinental sista (2006)), released one CD (liberty avenue, nigeria , usa (2004)).
Contributor to the Following:
We Got Issues! A Young Women's Guide To Living a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life ( Inner Ocean Publishing, 2006)
Spoken Word Revolution Redux: Slam, Hip Hop & The Poetry of a New Generation/(Sourcebooks Mediafusion) (April 2007).
Online Blogs:
www.myloveisaverb.com
www.myspace.com/ancestorinprogress
"i rip microphones to pieces
without a dissertation or thesis/
i'm a fire-spitting woman:
I AM MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER."
yvonne fly onakeme etaghene
*poet, actress, playwright, dancer*
www.myloveisaverb.com