Two NYC Events to Check Out!
Below are two events that I learneda boutfrom people at the Grassroots Media Conference that I think will be really interesting and important and bring much needed perspective to feminist discusscions, dialogue and communities in NewYork City.
The first is a screening and panel discusscion on Sunday, February 19th at 7pm entitled "30 Years of Sisterhood" about women in the 1970's women's liberation movement in Japan and includes panelists Chieko Yamagami and Noriko Seyama (who made the film of the same name that will be showing), Yoko Akiyama (Professor of Chinese and Women's Studies, Surugadai University), Yumi Doi (writer), Soko Miki (Professor of English and Women's Studies, Kyoto Seika Univeristy), Satoko Woolala (filmmaker) and Yuriko Yamaki (journalist). There will also be an opening performance by Swing MASA, who is a jazz saxophonist. It is taking place at Bluestockings Books, at 172 Allen Street and is $10. More information is available on two blogs, one in English and one in Japanese.
The second event is on Thursday, February 23 and is a screening of the film "Say I Do: Unveling the Stories of Mail-order Brides" by Arlene Ami, put on by the Gabriele Network.
Here is the flier:
GABRIELA NETWORK PRESENTS...
a screening of
SAY I DO
A FILM ON MAIL-ORDER BRIDES
by Arlene Ami
"…I need to find myself a nice submissive young lady who wants and needs to have me control and direct her life. I am age 52, divorced after a long marriage. There is nothing so pleasurable to me as teaching a young woman to submit fully to my wishes… If my wife does not obey me, then I am perfectly willing to punish her in whatever way I think is right..." -from a letter received by a young Filipina from a mail-order bride agency customer.
When: Thursday, 23 February 2006, 6:30PM
Where: Imaginasian Theater, 239 E. 59th Street
(btwn. 2nd & 3rd ave.), Manhattan, NYC
How Much: $10.00
(Tickets available online or at Imaginasian's box office, or by contacting GABNet at (212) 592-3507 or nynj@gabnet.org.)
While February is a month of heart-shaped chocolates and cards, GABRIELA Network-- the largest and oldest US-Philippine women's organization--looks at intimate affairs and the power dynamics that ensue when love is for sale. In commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the Purple Rose Campaign Against Sex Trafficking, GABNet presents a screening of Arlene Ami's award-winning film "Say I Do," a documentary chronicling the journey of four women, from their lives in the Philippines through the mail-order bride system to their experiences as wives, mothers, and women in a foreign land. A panel discussion on sex trafficking will follow the screening.
Tickets are available online at www.theimaginasian.com or at Imaginasian's box office, or by contacting GABNet at (212) 592-3507 or nynj@gabnet.org.
Directions: F to Lexington Ave./63 St.; or 4, 5, 6, N, R, W to Lexington/59th. St; Buses include M57 - E. 57 St / Lexington Avenue, M31 - 57 St. / 2 Avenue, Q32 - 60 St. / 2 Avenue, X63 - 57 St. / Park Avenue.
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The Purple Rose Campaign is an international campaign against the sex trafficking of Filipino women and children.
It was launched in 1999 in New York by GABRIELA Network, a Philippine-US women's solidarity mass organization, and is now in 11 countries in Asia, North America, Europe and Australia.
For more info on "Say I Do" and filmmaker Arlene Ami: http://www.redstorm.ca/sayido/synop1.htm
The first is a screening and panel discusscion on Sunday, February 19th at 7pm entitled "30 Years of Sisterhood" about women in the 1970's women's liberation movement in Japan and includes panelists Chieko Yamagami and Noriko Seyama (who made the film of the same name that will be showing), Yoko Akiyama (Professor of Chinese and Women's Studies, Surugadai University), Yumi Doi (writer), Soko Miki (Professor of English and Women's Studies, Kyoto Seika Univeristy), Satoko Woolala (filmmaker) and Yuriko Yamaki (journalist). There will also be an opening performance by Swing MASA, who is a jazz saxophonist. It is taking place at Bluestockings Books, at 172 Allen Street and is $10. More information is available on two blogs, one in English and one in Japanese.
The second event is on Thursday, February 23 and is a screening of the film "Say I Do: Unveling the Stories of Mail-order Brides" by Arlene Ami, put on by the Gabriele Network.
Here is the flier:
GABRIELA NETWORK PRESENTS...
a screening of
SAY I DO
A FILM ON MAIL-ORDER BRIDES
by Arlene Ami
"…I need to find myself a nice submissive young lady who wants and needs to have me control and direct her life. I am age 52, divorced after a long marriage. There is nothing so pleasurable to me as teaching a young woman to submit fully to my wishes… If my wife does not obey me, then I am perfectly willing to punish her in whatever way I think is right..." -from a letter received by a young Filipina from a mail-order bride agency customer.
When: Thursday, 23 February 2006, 6:30PM
Where: Imaginasian Theater, 239 E. 59th Street
(btwn. 2nd & 3rd ave.), Manhattan, NYC
How Much: $10.00
(Tickets available online or at Imaginasian's box office, or by contacting GABNet at (212) 592-3507 or nynj@gabnet.org.)
While February is a month of heart-shaped chocolates and cards, GABRIELA Network-- the largest and oldest US-Philippine women's organization--looks at intimate affairs and the power dynamics that ensue when love is for sale. In commemoration of the 7th anniversary of the Purple Rose Campaign Against Sex Trafficking, GABNet presents a screening of Arlene Ami's award-winning film "Say I Do," a documentary chronicling the journey of four women, from their lives in the Philippines through the mail-order bride system to their experiences as wives, mothers, and women in a foreign land. A panel discussion on sex trafficking will follow the screening.
Tickets are available online at www.theimaginasian.com or at Imaginasian's box office, or by contacting GABNet at (212) 592-3507 or nynj@gabnet.org.
Directions: F to Lexington Ave./63 St.; or 4, 5, 6, N, R, W to Lexington/59th. St; Buses include M57 - E. 57 St / Lexington Avenue, M31 - 57 St. / 2 Avenue, Q32 - 60 St. / 2 Avenue, X63 - 57 St. / Park Avenue.
.............
The Purple Rose Campaign is an international campaign against the sex trafficking of Filipino women and children.
It was launched in 1999 in New York by GABRIELA Network, a Philippine-US women's solidarity mass organization, and is now in 11 countries in Asia, North America, Europe and Australia.
For more info on "Say I Do" and filmmaker Arlene Ami: http://www.redstorm.ca/sayido/synop1.htm
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