GGE presents
3rd Annual Gender Equality Festival
Saturday July 19, 2008
10 am – 3pm, FREE!
Von King Park (Tompkins Park), Bedstuy, Brooklyn
Between Tompkins + Marcy at Lafayette
A free public event open to all New Yorkers – over 100 community artists, organizations, and local politicians - inspirational performances, resource sharing, and the arts! Bring your family and friends to celebrate a day of Singers, Dancers, Poets, Community, Raffles, and more!
Then join us afterwards…
After Party Fundraiser!
Get Down 2 Get Up, feat. DJ Ingie Pop & Tikka Masala
Doors at 9pm, Sliding scale
Donation – $10 - $5, 21 + up with ID
At Sputnik Bar, 262 Taaffe Place, Brooklyn
G train to Classon Ave.
ABOUT SIS: We are organizing a Participatory Action Research project about sexual harassment in the NYC public schools. Our primary question is "What impact does sexual harassment have on students in the NYC public schools?" Check our our blog for more info about the event's success!!! Boys and Girls can participate by filling out your opinions and ideas on our Survey and Slambook. Please contact GGE for more information at :
Vanessa Nisperos
Phone Number: 718.857.1393
Adress: 1360 Fulton Street BKLYN, NY 11216
sisters@ggenyc.org
Girls for Gender Equity is a nonprofit organization located in Restoration Plaza 1360 Fulton Street, Suite 314. GGE empowers women of all ages and educates them with will power, womanhood, and self-respect. GGE is committed to the physical, psychological, social and economic development of girls and women. Through education organizing and physical fitness, GGE encourages communities to remove barriers and create oppurtunities for girls and women to live self determined lives...
Sisters in Strength is a paid community internship program for teen women ages 15-19. The young women develop leadership and mentoring abilities by assisting in running the Urban Leaders After-School program. The participants learn to be agents of social change by deciding on, planning, and implementing a grassroots organizing project. They also participate in skills-building workshops to receive assistance in applying to college, increase their financial literacy, and become more informed about political and social issues that affect them.
OMG The PAR trip to the poconos was sooo much fun. We should definitely do it again. It was a great learning experience; the meeting was very informative. The best part of the meeting was when we played with some examples of research methods (i.e. the Focus Groups and Personal Interviews.) I enjoyed spending time learning more about the SIS members. I will always remeber when we sat down roasted the marshmellows and told our crazy stories in the dimmed light. I will specially remember afterwards when Mandy shut off all the lights in the house by "accident" (NOT COOL!!!) I think all the girls are very diverse and different. But somehow we all can sit down and relate to each other on levels that we never expected. Everyone in the group is mad cool!!! MUAHZZZ V3R0N1C@
