Empowering Women Of Color Conference 2012 @ Berkeley This Weekend.

Amazing, radical workshops, healing bodywork on more will be available at this conference, happening on the Berkeley campus. Click here for a list of workshops, and register! The 1st day is free and open to the public, and whoooo: March 2, "On Revolution: A Conversation Between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis" from 4-6pm in Pauley Ballroom. What?!? I will be there, trust! I was honored for the second year in a row to be asked to speak on the Male Feminist Of Color panel on the 2nd day, Saturday 10:20 - 11:15 in the Pauley Ballroom. Truly an honor, and i'm looking forward to linking up with other men of color who believe in this path. We need each other dammit! In any case, come through, its really a profoundly powerful and important event, regardless of gender. Bless....

The Men's Story Project: Building Strength, Creating Peace. April 25-26.

Bay Area! These are different"his-stories" being told here, these stories model ways men should be talking, issues we should be examining. Don't miss the newest edition of:

The Men's Story Project
Building Strength, Creating Peace





UCB Multicultural Center
Sat. April 25, Sun April 26
Doors 7 PM; performance 7:30
$10-12 @ door only

The Men's Story Project is a new performance and dialogue project exploring social ideas about masculinity. Described by audiences as "groundbreaking" and "something that needs to keep on happening," the April UCB presentations will highlight 15 Bay Area artists, activists, and first-time presenters, ages 20-60, sharing true stories about their lives through slam poetry, monologues, music and dance.

The stories address subjects including: platonic love between men; disability and sexuality; men's restroom rituals; machismo in Latino culture; images of African American masculinity; an Oakland activist's refusal to continue intergenerational patterns of violence; challenging racism; being African American and gay; intergenerational support between men; responding to domestic violence; cancer and wholeness; gender identity; family relationships; personal strength; and gratitude to lifelong mentors.

Presenters: L. Abdul-Kenyatta; Michael Katz; Jeff Pollett; Amir Rabiyah; Joshua Safran; Jake Tobias; Aqeela Sherrills (Community Self-Determination Institute, Reverence Movement); Clover Mathis (formerly of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater); Leroy F. Moore, Jr. (Sins Invalid); Galen Peterson (Art in Action & Silence the Violence); Folawole Oyinlola (San Francisco Ballet); Abe Becker, Matt Blesse, Charles Ekabhumi Ellik, Stephen Meads & Terry Taplin (Berkeley, SF and Youth Speaks slam poetry championship teams).

www.mensstoryproject.org

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The Power Of Women & Words: Art Exhibit, Film and Writing Workshop This Saturday

The Power Of Women & Words: Art Exhibit, Film and Writing Workshop

Saturday, April 11th, 2009
Doors Open - 12:30pm
Film - 1pm
Writing Workshop - 3pm

Refreshments Provided!
Sliding Scale $5 - $15

Berkeley College Auditorium
2050 Center Street, Berkeley CA 94704
(one block from Downtown Berkeley BART station)

Art Exhibit: Art of women facing and overcoming violence by local and international artists.
Film Showing: "What I Want My Words To Do To You".
Writing Workshop: Workshop lead by BCC writing teachers Sharon Coleman & Robyn Brooks.

Fundraising event benefitting organizations working to stop violence against women.
All proceeds go to Amnesty International and the V-Day Organization.