We're all volunteers. Wanna help? Email us at girlsrockdenver@gmail.com and visit us at www.girlsrockdenver.org.
Influences
Girls Rock Camp Alliance; Arne Johnson and Shane King and their film, Girls Rock! The Movie; Moe Tucker; Pat Benatar; Carrie Brownstein; Kathleen Hanna; Maggie Lou May; Big Mama Thornton; countless other girls and women who rock and everyone who supports them
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Mission
To empower girls through music education, creation, and performance.
Vision
Girls Rock Denver seeks to empower young women and girls by putting instruments in their hands and unveiling what they already possess in their feet, fingertips, vocal cords, hearts, and minds.
We believe:
• Girls should be seen and heard.
• Potential is not dictated by gender.
• In providing girls with a nonjudgmental space in which to be themselves.
• In a girl's right to confidence, self-reliance, and courage.
• Girls should be encouraged to express themselves with creativity and enthusiasm.
• In the power of women and girls learning from each other.
Girls Rock Denver is a project of the Colorado Nonprofit Development Center, and contributions to CNDC for the benefit of Girls Rock Denver are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Girls Rock Denver is an all-volunteer organization and will host Colorado’s first nonprofit rock camp for girls in July 2009.
At its core, Girls Rock Denver’s goal is to empower girls through music. One reason we are starting the camp is to provide a forum for the kind of encouragement and positive relationships with girls of our own age and older women that was lacking when we were growing up. Although girls can take private music lessons or attend a different rock camp, there is currently no local music program designed specifically for girls and run entirely by women. We believe that learning to write original music in a supportive, all-female space can be an incredibly empowering experience.
We will consider our program to be successful if girls leave the camp session with a greater sense of confidence in their abilities to try new things and knowing that music belongs to everyone. We believe that many of these girls will leave camp with the ability and desire to promote collaboration and creativity in other facets of their lives and communities.
To get involved please email us at girlsrockdenver@gmail.com and visit us at www.girlsrockdenver.org.
Hello from Japan!! just stop to say our information. next our "Bigfish live show" is scheduled on 7th December at Kichijoji MANDA-LA2, Tokyo. Three Japanese Female peaceful singers; Hana Saito, NAORYU and Rika Shinohara play there. it seems folky heart-warm and acoustic. thanks for checking our live information. ARIGATO
Please come dance your pants off and support the wonderful Free Boutique, Denver's only fashion-forward free store! This is the last dance party before Denver gets invaded by the DNC, let's make it count! We have a perfect lineup of amahzing dj's for your dancing enjoyment as well as a sunset over the ocean photo booth. There will be a dance off as well, winner receives a trophy, lets just hope there isn't an interpretive dance fight. Get $2 off if you dress to the theme! Think Miami Vice, florals (no no no hawaiian shirts), sunglasses, adult contemporary, ultra slick or your dapper dan designer jumpsuit.
Fri Aug 22, 10pm. At the Glob, 3551 Brighton Blvd. $5
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, author of RHYTHM SCIENCE
Paul's event at the Tattered Cover will be Tuesday, August 26, at 7:30 pm in our Denver LoDo store. (This is the venue that is three blocks from the Democratic National Convention, which will be in full swing.)
The new book SOUND UNBOUND is Paul D. Miller's follow-up to his award-winning first book RHYTHM SCIENCE. First and foremost, SOUND UNBOUND is an anthology—a collection of thirty-six essays that focus on the role of the artist, composer, and writer in a world that is becoming more interconnected every day.
In a lecture format, exploring the overall theme of sound in contemporary art, digital media, and composition, Miller will reconstruct the history of sound and recorded media by several of the most well known artists of their field - ranging from Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Moby, Chuck D, and Pierre Boulez, to artists, writers and theoreticians like Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Sterling, Manuel Delanda, and even Islamic culture's relationship to hip hop with essay by media activist and artist Naeem Mohaimen.
It's a rip-mix-burn-lecture that will last an hour, and is accompanied by his use of many historic texts, rare audio recordings and films, to demonstrate the complex relationship between text and art in a multimedia context.
Hello! We're so excited about the events we have coming up with you folks! We have linked a lot of your websites on our myspace page! Check it out and we'll see you next weekend!
Sadly, still don't know when/where we'll be screening in Denver, probably won't until opening weekend. But have no fear, we'll be there! And yes, I got her thesis, thanks. I've not had time to read more than a few pages, but what I've read so far looks great.
Porlolo, Jen Korte, Suzi and the Homewreckers, The Vaj-a-bonds, Odam Fei Mud's Neo-Kabuki performance art, Izra's Dance Number, Tranzcend's Drag Acts (not to mention a Poker Tournament, Instant Marriages, Powerballad Singalongs, Kink Tank Birthday Spanks, Handbag Givaways, Champagne, Fashion, Glamour, and Glory)
DRESS UP!!! (cher, barry manilow, siegfried & roy, rat pack, show girls, hunter s. thompson, anita cocktail, elvis, barbara streisand, etc, etc, etc!) no one will be admitted without at least one sequin/feather/rhinestone... or some semblance of indulging in the festivities!
