Welcome to GiRL FeST Bay Area!
OUR GOAL
...is to change peer culture in order to prevent increasing violence against women and girls through education, art and positive representations of women.
WHAT IS GiRL FeST BAY AREA?
GiRL FeST Bay Area is a multimedia art festival and conference that will take place October 8th-12th 2008 in San Francisco and in Oakland, California. GiRL FeST's mission is to prevent violence against women and girls through education and art.
The non-profit 501(c)3 festival incorporates film, music, art, spoken word, and dance complemented by a mini-conference involving panels, lectures, outreach workshops for children and adults that address themes such as body image, identity, empowerment, social change and methods on how to prevent violence in relationships.
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Thank you to all of the more than 1400 people who attended
the last GiRL FeST Bay Area
July 19th - 22nd 2007
A DEDICATIONSan Francisco, CA
"Preventing violence against women and girls through education and art."
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COMING IN HAWAII!.................
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From last year's GiRL FeST Bay Area 2006.................
LAST YEAR'S PRESS"Tyra Banks, The Bunny Ranch and the New Feminist Frontier"
Getunderground.com
12/15/06
"A Powerful Gathering for Women"
- Chip Johnson, SF Chronicle
"Sex and Violence" & "Girls, Girls, Girls"
- Eric K. Arnold, East Bay Express"Just Desserts"
- Eliza Strickland, SF Weekly
(GFBA mentioned in this Commentary on Feminist Movements
and Sexual Empowerment v. Sexual Exploitation)
.................A sister festival of GiRL FeST Hawaii and a non-profit project of
The Safe Zone Foundation 501(c)3
COOL QUOTES
“[Girl Fest is] the wave of the future...[It’s] a creative and dynamic approach to activism that goes to the heart of what we need, which is a cultural evolution...This festival will inspire and entertain, as well as educate and mobilize.”
~ Jessica Neuwirth, President
of Equality Now and
Harvard Law Professor.................
“I think art can inspire, illuminate,motivate, touch people’s hearts and minds…In order for us to stem the tide of our culture’s pandemic of men’s violence, we have to make prevention a societal priority. Art is certainly a part of that, and efforts like Girl Fest are important cultural interventions.”
~ Jackson Katz, Founder of MVP Strategies
& Former Member of the U.S. Secretary of
Defense's Task Force on Domestic Violence
in the Military.................
"There is no question that art is an essential part of healing, organizing, and social change. Girl Fest recognizes and embraces that concept, and is playing a central role in bringing forward the next generation of activists for gender equity."
~ Patrick Lemmon, Executive Director of Men Can Stop Rape
ACTION ALERT!
THE
RAPE-FREE ZONE INITIATIVE
FOR UNIVERSITIES.................
FIGHT TO END SEX-TRAFFICKING
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Please spread the word about FREE SET BAGS!
This is an innovative business started up by a family from New Zealand who moved to the red light district in Calcutta to save women and girls from prostitution by employing them in their company.
A resource for the people of California
SEARCH
CALIFORNIA'S SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY.................
The justice department opened a national registry of sex offenders that the public can use to track thousands of offenders nationwide via computer.
SEARCH THE
NATIONAL SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY
VOLUNTEER!
GiRL FeST Bay Area is always looking for coordinators & volunteers!
email: info@girlfestbayarea.org
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