The “C Street House,” 133 C Street SE, Washington, D.C
Description:
Full Equality Now DC rises in solidarity with LGBTQ Ugandans targeted by homophobic legislation being drafted by members of the “The Family,” a U.S.-led right wing group with more than 10,000 cells worldwide.Protest The Family’s Homophobic and Right Wing Agenda!
http://fullequalitynowdc.org/
What: Protest and Rally at The Family’s DC location
When: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 5:30 p.m.
Where: The “C Street House,” 133 C Street SE, Washington, D.C.
Organized and Sponsored by: Full Equality Now DC
CONTACT: Will Urquhart, 202.587.4145, urquhart@sumofchange.com
This afternoon, on the 37th anniversary of the historic Roe v Wade decision, we are pleased to announce that on February 8th we will be launching the website for a documentary we have been working on for some time now about clinic defense and the Washington Area Clinic Defense Task Force. We are also announcing, for the first time, the working title of the project, Best When Boring, a well-known motto amongst pro-choice clinic escorts.
Best When Boring is a deep look at the history and current state of clinic defense in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area. We have collected video, audio, pictures, newspapers and organizational documents dating back to 1989. We have conducted interviews with clinic escorts. We have also had an individual embedded with the escorts, volunteering approximately every other week since the summer of 2009 at various clinics.
While we still have plenty of work to do, at this point we are prepared to release a website for the project, and on February 8th we will release a brief preview of the film in coordination with the site release.
So please join us on February 8th at http://www.SumofChange.com/bestwhenboring (the site will not be active until 2/08/10 at 9:00am EST).
Will Urquhart
Managing Partner, Sum of Change
Time:
16:30 - 20:00
Description:
Equality Maryland's Lobby Day 2010, on Lawyers' Mall in Annapolis, runs 4:30-8 p.m. For details/registration, visit equalitymaryland.org.
Time:
18:30
Location:
Charles Sumner School, 1201 17th St. NW.
Description:
Metropolitan Network Against Homophobia presents a community discussion, "HIV/AIDS: Destigmatizing & Creating Solutions," 6:30 p.m., Charles Sumner School, 1201 17th St. NW. bsccoenterprises@yahoo.com .
Time:
19:00
Location:
Charles Sumner School
Description:
Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance, a local non-partisan political lobbying group, meets at 7 p.m. at the Charles Sumner School, 1201 17th St. NW, to talk about progress toward marriage equality and other topics; non-members welcome. Call 202-667-5139; glaa.org.
Time:
19:30 - 21:15
Location:
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE.
Description:
The Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington holds ''open rehearsal." 7:30-9:15 p.m., Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. All welcome. 202-546-1549, lgcw.org.
Time:
19:00
Location:
Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library 3160 16th St. N.W., Washington, DC (at corner of Lamont Street, ne
Description:
Split This Rock and The Writer's Center present:
A Poetry Discussion:
With Eyes and Soul: Images of Cuba
by Nancy Morejón
Discussion led by poet and translator
Yvette Neisser Moreno
Wednesday, February 10, 7:00 pm
at Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library
3160 16th St. N.W., Washington, DC
(at corner of Lamont Street, near Columbia Heights Metro)
202-671-0200
Free and open to the public. The library is
wheelchair-accessible.
With Eyes and Soul is available for purchase for $19 at The Writer's Center (Bethesda) and Busboys and Poets (14th and V Streets NW) or online here. However, advance reading is not necessary. Please join us!! Check out our Facebook Event Page!
Please note, the author will not be at this event. To hear Nancy read, join us at Split This Rock in March!
Patricia Pego Guerra, Representative of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, will provide a brief introduction about Nancy Morejón, her poetry, and the Cuban context.
Nancy Morejón-one of the foremost Cuban writers and intellectuals-will be a featured poet at the 2010 Split This Rock Poetry Festival. With Eyes and Soul features poems by Morejón (Spanish with English translations) and photos by renowned photographer Milton Rogovin, offering a multi-dimensional portrait of the landscape and people of Cuba.
The Writer's Center cultivates the creation, publication, presentation, and dissemination of literary work. We are an independent literary organization with a global reach, rooted in a dynamic community of writers.
For more information: yvettenm at verizon dot net or 240-462-6458
Time:
18:30
Location:
Carnegie Institution of Washington 1530 P Street N
Description:
WIN invites you to attend
The 17th Annual Young Women of Achievement Awards
"Celebrating a Woman's Nation"
Join the Women’s Information Network (WIN), Washington’s premier, professional, political and social network of over 1,200 pro-choice, democratic women as we celebrate young women who are leading us into the future, further narrowing the gender gap, and paving the way for more women in leadership in their Washington D.C. Communities.
Carnegie Institution of Washington
1530 P Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tickets are $20 for WIN Members, $25 for Non-WIN Members.
Membership and Ticket Combos are available for $50!
Time:
13:00 - 16:00
Location:
Institute for Policy Studies 1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC
Description:
Workshop by Kathy Engel: Everything is Translation: Poetry that Breaks Boundaries
Saturday, February 20, 2010
1-4 pm
Institute for Policy Studies
1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC
$25 fee. To apply, send a check made out to "Sarah Browning" to Split This Rock/IPS
1112 16th Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
No experience necessary. First come, first served. Scholarships available - contact Sarah at browning@splitthisrock.org to apply.
Made possible in part by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities
Everything is Translation: Poetry that Breaks Boundaries
We will each bring a favorite poem and our readiness to listen, to write, and to share our work. We will share poems we love and discuss why, talk about fear and censorship that gets in the way of telling our stories through poetry. Why poetry? we will ask. We will look inside the notion that everything is translation, even within one language, the ways in which we make assumptions about one another without understanding each other's languages, and what can happen when we break open the assumptions and move inside the language. We will write using prompts that push us in language, form and narrative. We look at questions of identity, form, sound, story, magic, dream, research, journey, connection. Our time together as poets will be informed by an understanding that community is not separate from poetry and that community cannot exist without the sharing of all the stories, all the voices.
Time:
16:00 - 18:00
Location:
Busboys and Poets 14th and V
Description:
SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE
With Kathy Engel
3rd Sunday of every month 4-6pm
Langston Room - Busboys and Poets
@ 14th & V Streets NW
Sunday Kind of Love takes place the 3rd Sunday of every month in the Langston Room at Busboys and Poets' 14th & V location. The series is co-hosted by Sarah Browning and Katy Richey and co-sponsored by Busboys and Poets and Split This Rock (splitthisrock.org).
Kathy Engel is a poet, activist, essayist, organizer, producer and educator. Founder and first director of the women's humanrights organization MADRE, co founder and former President of Riptide Communications, she has worked as a consultant for more than 20 year in creative strategic development for human rights, peace, and just groups. Her passion is the fusion of imagination and change and border crossing. Her book of poems Ruth's Skirts was published by IKON in 2007. The same year she co edited We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon, Interlink Books, with Kamal Boullata. She is an adjunct professor at New York University in the Tisch School of the Arts/Art & Public Policy Program and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study's Community Learning Initiative. She is a co founder of the Hayground School and the East End Women in Black, and co producer of a film in process in which more than 175 women from the East End of Long Island speak about their hopes and fears the week preceding the election of Barack Obama. Currently she's also a student in the MFA program in poetry at Drew University . The organization she's most active with and excited about is The Young People's Project, TYPP.org She has worked with the people of Haiti for years and will continue to...
Kathy lives in Sagaponack , New York with her husband, dogs, cats, and her daughters who are suddenly grown, when they come home.
Time:
13:30 - 16:30
Location:
River Road Unitarian, 6301 River Road, Bethesda, MD 20817
Description:
Feb. 27, River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, high schoolers
What does the class cover?
*Prevention and awareness: things you can do to prevent or avoid an attack or abuse.
*Assertiveness and verbal self-defense: using words and body language to stop obnoxious or intrusive behavior and to keep a situation from escalating.
*Physical self-defense: techniques to end an attack and get to safety.
We learn all these skills and techniques through discussion, role-plays, exercises, drills and more.
This is not a martial arts class. You won’t have to practice for hours to learn practical skills. You will go home with techniques you can use immediately if you need to.
Who can take the class?
The class is designed for teen girls in high school. Their mothers, other adult relatives (grandmother, cousin, older sister, godmother, etc.) and older friends are also welcome. All of our classes are tailored to the ages and life situations of the participants.
I’m short/overweight/not athletic. I have an injury or a disability. Can I do it?
Yes! Everyone can improve their skills and expand their options in case of an attempted attack. This is not martial arts, and you don’t have to be fit to use the techniques we teach. We teach skills that everyone can use every day to keep themselves safer.
Our teachers have experience teaching people from all walks of life, including those with physical limitations. Instructors will work with you to adapt the techniques to something that works for you.
Where and when is the class?
At River Road Unitarian, 6301 River Road, Bethesda, MD 20817. There are directions at www.rruuc.org/Directions. It is Sat., March 20, 1:30-4:30 pm. Please come about 10 minutes early to complete some paperwork so we can start on time.
How much does it cost?
It’s $43 early registration (by Feb. 15), $56 after. There are limited reduced-fee slots for low-income people. Contact us if you can’t afford the full fee.
How do I register?
Pay by credit card using PayPal. You don’t have to have a PayPal account to use PayPal. Go to paypal.com, click on “send money”(it's in the second banner that runs across the top). In the “to who” field, put “lauren@defendyourself.org” and then click on “service.”
If you want to pay by check, contact us for the mailing address.
Either way you register, be sure to include your name, phone number(s), email, and the class you are registering for. If you register within a week before the class, please check to make sure you got in. Enrollment is limited.
If you are under 18 and do not have a parent or guardian coming with you, please let us know because you will also need to have a parent or guardian sign a permission form before the class.
What should I wear?
You can do self-defense in any clothes--if you are ever attacked, you won’t have time to change! Most students wear comfortable clothes. We only ask that you wear flat shoes to prevent sprained ankles.
Who is the teacher?
Defend Yourself is dedicated to keeping people safer and sharing tools to help them empower themselves and live full lives.
Lead instructor Lauren Taylor has studied and taught self-defense since 1985. She specializes in teaching self-defense to women, to people with disabilities, to LGBTQ people and to survivors of abuse and assault. She holds the rank of black belt in tae kwon do, a traditional Korean martial art.
I have more questions. Who can I talk to?
Call Lauren at 301-608-3708 or email her at lauren@defendyourself.org. We’re happy to talk and answer any more questions you have!
Hope to see you there!
Please checkout our BIO page for info about this project
got questions? Email: info (at) dcfeministcal (dot) com
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