Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company

The acclaimed Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company presents a brand new high-energy production ...

“Dangerous Beauty”

Featuring hip-hop, modern, jazz and aerial dance, martial arts, spoken word, poetry, theater, and song
Addressing issues from gun violence to global warming,
and the dreams that make us willing to make meaningful change

Saturday, March 25th @ 7:30pm
Sunday March 26th @ 3pm
Friday March 31st @ 7:30pm
Saturday April 1st @ 7:30pm (interpreted for the deaf)
Sunday April 2nd @ 3pm (interpreted for the deaf)

Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
(Formally Alice Arts Center)
1428 Alice Street at 14th Street in downtown Oakland.

Adults: $12-20 sliding scale
Youth (ages 18 and under): $6
Advance tickets and group rates available
Proceeds benefit Destiny Arts Center
The event is wheelchair accessible and two shows are ASL interpreted

For more information, call 510-597-1619 or visit www.destinyarts.org

Girl Fest Bay Area

Please Spread The Word!

Please join us in celebrating our first festival and conference to

prevent violence against women and children through the arts

Featured Artists includes: Jennifer Johns, La Paz, Golda Supanova,

Youth Speaks, Rachel Kann, Bamuthi, Selah, United By Sound, Ali-Wong,

X-Factor, Yellow Rage, Mush, Dj Zita, Velocity Circus, Buddy Wakefield,

Adnrea Gibson and more!

Friday & Saturday - March 24-25, 2006

Girl Fest Opening Event, 8pm - 2am

The Shattuck Down Low

2284 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, CA

(Between University & Dwignt)

51-548-1159, Ages 21+

$10 (Free for the first 50 people)

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Closing Night Event

The Girl Slam & Concert, 8pm-2am

Poets Sign up at 8:15pm

Studio Z

314 11th Street at Folsom SF, CA

415-252-7666, Ages 21+

$5 (Free for the first 50 people)

For more information please visit

Our sponsors

The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation; The Institute for the Study

of Social Change at UC, Berkeley; Gender Equity at UC Berkeley; The San

Francisco Bay Guradian; Bust Magazine; Speak Out!; The Collective

--

Annie Fukushima

Co-Director Girl Fest Bay Area

&Anti-Sex Trafficking Coordinator, Girl Fest

Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Mobile: 808-224-5119

email: info@girlfestbayarea.org

email: annie@girlfesthawaii.org

email: annie@girlfestbayarea.org

Anti-Traffic Message Board: www.girlfesthawaii.org/traffic

KING KONG NOT THE BIGGEST BEAST IN HOLLYWOOD

NEW GUERRILLA GIRLS' BILLBOARD GOES UP FEB 1, 2006!

The 800-pound gorilla in Hollywood isn't King Kong-it's
discrimination against women directors!

THE GUERRILLA GIRLS AND MOVIES BY WOMEN UNVEIL A NEW BILLBOARD AT
SUNSET AND CAHUENGA IN HOLLYWOOD, FEB 1-MARCH 5, 2006



We took Kong, gave him a sex change and a designer gown, and set her
up in Hollywood, just a few blocks from where the Oscars will be
awarded March 5, 2006.

Why? To reveal the sordid but True Hollywood Story about the lack of
women and people of color behind the scenes in the film industry:

Only 7% of 2005's 200 top-grossing films were directed by women.

Only 3 women have ever been nominated for an Oscar for Direction
(Lina Wertmuller (1976), Jane Campion (1982,) and Sofia Coppola
(2003). None has won.

More embarrassing Hollywood statistics:
Of 2004"s top-grossing films:*
5% had female directors
12% had female writers
3% had female cinematographers 16% had female editors

Only 8 people of color have ever been nominated for an Oscar for
Direction.**

Hollywood guilds are 80 to 90 % white.

Only 3% of the Oscars for acting have been won by people of color.

In the 21st century, low, low, low numbers like this HAVE to be the
result of discrimination, unconscious, conscious or both. Hollywood
likes to think of itself as cool, edgy and ahead of its time, but it
actually lags way behind the rest of society in employing women and
people of color in top positions.

There may be women heading studios these days, but what are they
doing for women and people of color? Why do they keep the white male
film director stereotype alive? Here's an easy way to change things:
open up that boys' club and hire more women and people of color. It
worked in medicine, business and law. It worked in the art world. Now
it's Hollywood's turn. Rattle that cage, break those chains! LET
WOMEN DIRECT!

Pictures of the new billboard can be downloaded here
High-resolution images and interviews are available from
kathekollwitz@guerrillagirls.com.

ABOUT THE GUERRILLA GIRLS
We're feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous
do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. We use facts,
humor and outrageous visuals to expose sexism, racism and corruption
in politics, art, film and pop culture. This is our third billboard
criticizing and satirizing the film industry. You can see the others here
Our work has
been passed around the world by our tireless supporters. We've
appeared all over the world in recent years, as well as in The New
York Times, The New Yorker, Bitch, Mother Jones and Artforum; on NPR,
the BBC and CBC. We are authors of stickers, billboards, many, many
posters and other projects (including a large-scale installation for
the 2005 Venice Biennale,) and several books including Bitches,
Bimbos and Ballbreakers: the Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to
Female Stereotypes.


ABOUT MOVIES BY WOMEN
Moviesbywomen.com is a grassroots collective that works toward
increasing the awareness of women's contributions to film and
television history. The site is dedicated to gaining equality for
women directors and maintains an ongoing campaign to unite women film
organizations nationwide. Information on historic female directors,
statistics on women directors, and Director interviews are also
featured. Moviesbywomen.com hosts the weekly email THE FIRST
WEEKENDERS GROUP to promote ticket buying for feature films directed
by women the first weekend they are theatrically distributed, and to
help drive viewership for women-directed films aired on television.
Launched in 1999, THE FIRST WEEKENDERS GROUP subscriber list has
grown to include over 3000 members nationwide.

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to the billboard!


* 2004 stats from the most recent study by Martha Lauzen of San Diego
State University

**Includes Ang Lee, nominated this year. If he wins,he will be the
first person of color to do so in 78 years.

Flow

THought this online zine was interesteing.

Flow is a critical forum on television and media culture published biweekly by the department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin.

Tequila Christmas Cake

Here's a good recipe:

Tequila Christmas cake

1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
4 large eggs
Nuts
1 bottle tequila
2 cups of dried fruit

Sample the tequila to check quality.
Take a large bowl, check the tequila again.
To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Repeat.

Turn on the electric mixer.
Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.
At this point it's best to make sure the tequila is still OK.
Try another cup... just in case.
Turn off the mixerer thingy.
Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick the frigging fruit up off floor.
Mix on the turner.
If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a
drewscriver.

Sample the tequila to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something.
Check the tequila.
Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
No wait..shtrain the lemon juice and shift your nuts.
Add one table.
Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink, whatever you can find.
Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don't forget to beat off the turner.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window.

Finish the tequila and wipe counter with the cat.


Merry Holidays

FINALLY! DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE

BECA PREMIERE
DOCUMENTARIES/WORKS IN PROGRESS
THURSDAY, DEC. 15, 2005
BECA STUDIO 1 (CA128)
Reception begins at 6:15
*FREE*

IN MY UNCLE's FOOTSTEPSs…Producer Evangeline V. Fabia steps into the world of the Filipino martial art of Eskrima, uncovering the cultural roots and traditions that are passed on to practitioners of this ancient and graceful fighting form. With students: Bernd Kleinböelting, Kim Cao, John Hacker, Christian Geiger, Fey Adelstein, Tanya Lovejoy, Jason Francisco and Benny Kong

AMERICA's CHEMICAL ANGELS….Producers Oxana Chumak and Ralitsa Stoeva explore the dramatic debate behind a parent’s most wrenching decision…whether or not to feed their child mind-altering drugs for behavioral improvement or better marks in school. With BECA crew: Skye Christensen, Nicole Tse, Mark Collier, Scott Baldwin, Tim Kilkenny, Frank Clary, Daniel Randall and Pascal Garneau.


THE LAST WORD…Producer Maya Chinchilla explores the world of a fierce group of women who stake out their part of the Spoken Word performance scene while juggling relationships, jobs, children and community in their pursuit of creating a powerful collective of voice. With students: Lakeisha Coston, Daniel Vöelkel, Markus Harter, Thieny Hoang, Peter Sandifer.


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***Its also Vangie's birthday so we will definately be hanging out afterwards

HOT CHICKS in a Documentary

A work in progress of the new documentary I am working on called the LAST WORD about a few bay area lady spoken word artists (some of whom you might be very familiar with and some may be new to you) will be showing this coming THURSDAY DEC. 15th 7pm at SFSU Creative Arts/ RADIO and TELEVISION Building, STUDIO ONE.

Its really a very personal project, more like a love letter to women artists I really admire, social change art, and artists looking for spaces to nuture their art and in return their communities.

As usual I have put my life on hold and my heart and soul into this project. Its always nice to get feedback and not feel like your life's work had been created in a vacuum so come and show your solidarity to this humble soul on a mission.
Maya