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CALL FOR WORKSHOP LEADERS: 23RD ANNUAL EMPOWERING WOMEN OF COLOR CONFERENCE ( BERKELEY , CA )
Call for workshops for the 2008 UC Berkeley Women of Color Conference! Please forward widely...
?decolonizing creativity: FIERY WOMYN, FIERCE EXPRESSIONS?
Call For Workshop Leaders!
Greetings! On March 8, 2008, the University of California at Berkeley 's Women of Color Initiative and Graduate Women's Project will be hosting its 23RD Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC). This year's theme, "decolonizing creativity: FIERY WOMYN, FIERCE EXPRESSIONS," explores the theme of creativity by focusing on art as an expression of a woman's life and identity. We hope to inspire and highlight the work of women of color who share their personal, political and professional voices through the arts. These women continuously put their effort towards building a world in which their work is foregrounded and esteemed.
EWOCC strives to build networks across generations, ethnic and racial groups, sexualities, and socioeconomic levels by providing a forum to explore the past, present, and future of women's movements, enabling us to collectively recognize generations of conscious, empowered women. The individual and collective capacities of women are often underestimated, but with a space for dialogue, we know that women of color can work together to enrich lives in our community, home, academic, and professional worlds.
The main conference event will take place on Saturday March 8th, beginning at 9:30 AM and running through 5:30 PM, and will include a panel of acclaimed Bay Area activists and leaders in community art and women's issues, vendors, cultural performances, workshops on a variety of creativity and art-related topics. The keynote speaker will be Climbing PoeTree, the tag-team, two-spirited, boundary-breaking artistic duo, Alixa and Naima. Delivering explosive lyrics that leave listeners outraged and inspired, Climbing PoeTree tracks footprints across the country and globe on a mission to overcome destruction with creativity.
We are hosting this major festive commemoration in conjunction with both university and community partners and we would like to invite your organization to apply to lead a workshop at this year's conference. The primary focus of our workshops is building bridges within the academic and Bay Area community. We think your group can encourage positive change in the lives of women and girls of color, and can serve to expand the discourse on the role and position of women locally and globally. We would prefer if this year's workshops specifically address our theme; however, we will still consider non-thematic workshop proposals.
Our vision of creativity and art means movement toward: an understanding of art that redefines the connection for women of color among mind, body, and spirit; artistic expressions as cultural resistance to oppression; a unity among women of color that allows for identity difference; exposing and exploring the ways in which institutions shape our access to art; listening to and advocating for the artistic needs of queer, intersex and transgender people; research and scholarship on artistic issues that are particularly significant for women of color; individual and community models of using artistic forms to heal from systemic violence and trauma; understanding the intersections among issues of art, poverty, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, militarism and imperialism; advocating for balance within personal and professional artistic boundaries; exploring the ways in which artistically minded amateur artists can transition into the professional world of art; and embracing women of color's familial roles and supporting the mother, wife, girlfriend, partner, daughter, niece, grandmother, and friend that is found in all of us.
If you are interested in leading a workshop, please read and fill out the attached information and return by Wednesday, January 16, 2008. Please type your application or write clearly. Please note that workshop assignments are not guaranteed, as there are a limited number of slots available. A/V equipment is limited. If you have the resources to provide your own, we encourage you to do so. The conference also provides a space for tables from community groups and businesses, so if your organization is interested in having a table please let us know and we will include you in the call for resource tables near the time of the conference. This conference is open to men and women of all ages. We welcome submissions from everyone, but women of color organizations will be given priority selection. For more information, please contact the committee.
In Solidarity,
The 23rd Annual EWOCC Committee
WORKSHOP PROPOSAL FORM
On-line application available!
Go to ewocc.berkeley.edu
?decolonizing creativity: FIERY WOMYN, FIERCE EXPRESSIONS?
Call For Workshop Leaders!
Greetings! On March 8, 2008, the University of California at Berkeley 's Women of Color Initiative and Graduate Women's Project will be hosting its 23RD Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC). This year's theme, "decolonizing creativity: FIERY WOMYN, FIERCE EXPRESSIONS," explores the theme of creativity by focusing on art as an expression of a woman's life and identity. We hope to inspire and highlight the work of women of color who share their personal, political and professional voices through the arts. These women continuously put their effort towards building a world in which their work is foregrounded and esteemed.
EWOCC strives to build networks across generations, ethnic and racial groups, sexualities, and socioeconomic levels by providing a forum to explore the past, present, and future of women's movements, enabling us to collectively recognize generations of conscious, empowered women. The individual and collective capacities of women are often underestimated, but with a space for dialogue, we know that women of color can work together to enrich lives in our community, home, academic, and professional worlds.
The main conference event will take place on Saturday March 8th, beginning at 9:30 AM and running through 5:30 PM, and will include a panel of acclaimed Bay Area activists and leaders in community art and women's issues, vendors, cultural performances, workshops on a variety of creativity and art-related topics. The keynote speaker will be Climbing PoeTree, the tag-team, two-spirited, boundary-breaking artistic duo, Alixa and Naima. Delivering explosive lyrics that leave listeners outraged and inspired, Climbing PoeTree tracks footprints across the country and globe on a mission to overcome destruction with creativity.
We are hosting this major festive commemoration in conjunction with both university and community partners and we would like to invite your organization to apply to lead a workshop at this year's conference. The primary focus of our workshops is building bridges within the academic and Bay Area community. We think your group can encourage positive change in the lives of women and girls of color, and can serve to expand the discourse on the role and position of women locally and globally. We would prefer if this year's workshops specifically address our theme; however, we will still consider non-thematic workshop proposals.
Our vision of creativity and art means movement toward: an understanding of art that redefines the connection for women of color among mind, body, and spirit; artistic expressions as cultural resistance to oppression; a unity among women of color that allows for identity difference; exposing and exploring the ways in which institutions shape our access to art; listening to and advocating for the artistic needs of queer, intersex and transgender people; research and scholarship on artistic issues that are particularly significant for women of color; individual and community models of using artistic forms to heal from systemic violence and trauma; understanding the intersections among issues of art, poverty, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, militarism and imperialism; advocating for balance within personal and professional artistic boundaries; exploring the ways in which artistically minded amateur artists can transition into the professional world of art; and embracing women of color's familial roles and supporting the mother, wife, girlfriend, partner, daughter, niece, grandmother, and friend that is found in all of us.
If you are interested in leading a workshop, please read and fill out the attached information and return by Wednesday, January 16, 2008. Please type your application or write clearly. Please note that workshop assignments are not guaranteed, as there are a limited number of slots available. A/V equipment is limited. If you have the resources to provide your own, we encourage you to do so. The conference also provides a space for tables from community groups and businesses, so if your organization is interested in having a table please let us know and we will include you in the call for resource tables near the time of the conference. This conference is open to men and women of all ages. We welcome submissions from everyone, but women of color organizations will be given priority selection. For more information, please contact the committee.
In Solidarity,
The 23rd Annual EWOCC Committee
WORKSHOP PROPOSAL FORM
On-line application available!
Go to ewocc.berkeley.edu