2012 Women Who Rock Film Festival, (Un)Conference, & Showcase March 2-3, 2012
Women Who Rock Community & Ladies First Collective
Present…
LADIES FIRST SHOWCASE PERFORMANCES: Hip Hop & Punk Mix
FANDANGO PROJECT
(COMMUNITY JAM)
Friday, 6:30pm Opening & Film Festival
Saturday, 8:00am Registrations
Saturday, 9:00am Workshops/Sessions
Saturday, 3:00pm Closing & Keynotes
Saturday, 8:00pm Ladies First Open Mic & Showcase Features
Saturday, 9:00pm Fandango Community Jam
Saturday, 10:30pm Dance, DJ & B-Girls Jam
n., pl, wom•en (wim’in) a socially constructed category that includes but is not limited to women-identified, transgender and cisgender women, and other formations as well.
n., v., rock (rok) rock is a verb, more than a genre, as in “rocking the mic.” As in, “rock with us on March 2-3, 2011, as we honor women that rock and change history.”
FOR COMPLETE FILM FESTIVAL, WORKSHOP AND MUSIC SHOWCASE SCHEDULE Click womenwhorockcommunity.org.
ALL EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
FREE REGISTRATION @ womenwhorockcommunity.org.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEATTLE, WA- January 30, 2012- Women Who Rock (Un)Conference and Film Festival return for their second annual meeting March 2nd and 3rd, 2012 at the historic Washington Hall. With a focus on “Making Scenes and Building Communities,” Women Who Rock will be joined by iconic keynote speakers Alice Bag, author of Violence Girl: From East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage–a Chicana Punk Story, and Medusa, the Godmother of West Coast Hip Hop. A collaboration between the Women Who Rock Project, Ladies First Collective, and other fierce community organizations, the event includes a Ladies First Showcase that bridges punk, hip hop, and son jarocho, featuring performances by Militant Child and My Parade and a community jam facilitated by the Seattle Fandango Project.
With the goal of generating community, Women Who Rock & Ladies First sent out an open call for workshop submissions last fall inviting activists, scholars, musicians, filmmakers, artists, media makers, and community members to help shape this event. The community responded with art, film & music workshops designed to share new forms of mixing and mastering media. At this year’s gathering, Women Who Rock continues to explore and expand the meanings of women, rock, hip hop, music, space, gender, race, class, and sexuality through these community-curated workshops and film screenings. In doing so, WWR supports art, artists, organizations, and music that do the same. Our goal is to generate dialogue and provide a focal point from which to build and strengthen relationships between local musicians and their communities in collaboration with educational institutions.
All WWR film festival, workshop, and music events at Seattle’s historic Washington Hall are free and open to public. Children are welcome! Attendees may participate in the Women Who Rock Digital Oral History Project, a project documenting the histories of Women Who Rock in Seattle hosted on-line by the University of Washington Libraries.
Registration is free and open the public. Ladies First, as a grassroots collective, will be seeking donations at check-in to support local artists featured in the Ladies First Showcase.
Register to reserve your space at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/mhabellp/144086
For more info visit womenwhorockcommunity.org
E-mail: womenwhorockproject@gmail.com
This is a D.I.W.O event. Bring your: instruments, paintbrushes, beat, ideas, t-shirts for screen printing, recording tools, knitting, art supplies, jarana, dancing shoes.
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About Ladies First
LADIES FIRST is a monthly open mic and artist showcase that provides women, trans, gender non-confirming, two-spirit, queer women space to be center stage, practice and hone their skills, and share their knowledge with each other.
About Women Who Rock
The Women Who Rock Research Project is based at the University of Washington. The WWRP supports, develops, and circulates interdisciplinary scholarship and cultural production that examines the politics of gender, ethnicity, race and sexuality within popular music. The Women Who Rock Research Project, facilitated by UW faculty Michelle Habell-Pallan and Sonnet Retman, is developed through collaborations between UW faculty, students, community members and scholars of gender, race and sexuality in music and social justice movements.
About The Women Who Rock Oral History Project
The Women Who Rock Oral History Project is an on-line digital archive of oral histories hosted by the University of Washington Libraries Digital Initiatives. It is freely accessible to the public. The collection consists of interviews with women who have participated in local West Coast music, art, and film scenes. It highlights commentary about gender, community, activism, politics, genres and performance styles.
For more information about featured keynotes & artists:
Alice Bag: http://www.alicebag.com/
Medusa: http://www.jambase.com/Artists/18128/Medusa/Bio
Militant Child: http://themilitantchild.blogspot.com/
My Parade: https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Parade/234672607334
Seattle Fandango Project: https://sites.google.com/site/seattlefandango/
Historical site Washington Hall: www.washingtonhall.org
For further information contact:
Michelle Habell-Pallan, Sonnet Retman, or Lulu Capenter:
womenwhorock@gmail.com
(206) 543-6981
