tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90806319609987745282024-03-13T03:47:29.802-07:00Ladyfest TorontoLadyfest Torontohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06503238850535708557noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080631960998774528.post-81288983288710785012009-10-28T09:28:00.000-07:002009-10-30T15:06:08.301-07:00Event Teasers!Ladyfest Toronto 2009 is taking place November 25th - 29th! Here are some event teasers!!!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Wes Nov 25 - Bollywood Burlesque, Film by Caroline Koebel, lotsa Music @ the Gladstone</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Thurs Nov 26 - Opening of Visual Arts SHow @ Toronto Free Gallery</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">AND Queens of CUNTry @ Grossman's Tavern</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Fri Nov 27 - Brand spanking new LES BLUES production @ the Tranzac</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sat Nov 28 - FamilyLadyfest, FREE, food, crafts, storytelling, theatre @ the Tranzac</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Young Ladyfest, talented teen artists and performers @ the Tranzac</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Masia One and Katie Stelmanis and MORE @ the Tranzac</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sun Nov 29 - Great FREE workshops!</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Delicious Brunch</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Town Hall meeting and Community Dialogue Initiative LAUNCH! all @Tranzac</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br />There are so many more updates and a full schedule coming soon!<br /><br />See you soon!Ladyfest Torontohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06503238850535708557noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080631960998774528.post-65557197808162680402009-10-26T21:00:00.000-07:002009-10-26T21:01:10.706-07:00New WebsiteDesigned by Jenny Gitman!<br /><br />ladyfesttoronto.comLadyfest Torontohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06503238850535708557noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080631960998774528.post-3633580311064815402009-09-29T11:25:00.000-07:002009-09-29T20:26:39.462-07:00Ladyfest Toronto Mission<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ladyfest Toronto is an annual non-profit interdisciplinary festival organized by a grassroots, open, do-it-yourself collective of feminists each dedicated to having fun with feminism and putting good politics into practice through art. Each year the Ladyfest Toronto collective organizes a festival of art, music, performance, poetry, and politics meant to celebrate community and the projects and accomplishments of Toronto feminists. By offering a space to showcase some of the many Toronto artists dedicated to making their work pro-feminist, political, resistant, and inclusive, Ladyfest hopes to work as a hub of feminists activity that connects existing communities and generates new ones. In addition to practicing a non-hierarchical method of organizing the festival, our collective operates from a sex and body positive, non-exclusive, anti-oppressive, pro-feminist, politically charged framework and embraces </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">all </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">feminist peoples. We are absolutely dedicated to making the entire festival accessible, inclusive, and safe in every way. We hope that by making spaces for community members, artists, and musicians to share and perform we can open up places from which Toronto’s various pro-feminist political voices can be heard, where new communities can be made, and existing ones can work in coalition on shared projects and toward common social and political goals. Ladyfest is not just an annual festival; we hope that it is the kind of event that can generate new projects, possibilities, and communities and above all proliferate politics without pretentiousness. Ladyfest Toronto operates according to several key values; these include accessibility, DIY-ing, positivity, exposure, connection, and inclusion. </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">How did Ladyfest Start?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">The festival began in August of 2000 in Olympia, Washington, the home of the Riot-Grrrl movement. It was a woman-organized and woman-run event that featured performances by bands, spoken word artists, authors, and visual artists with pro-feminist attitudes. It also included workshops, panel discussions, and dance parties. The 2000 festival had a strong momentum, inspiring women from around the globe to organize similar festivals in their own communities. In the last seven years Ladyfest's have taken place in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Canadian cities that have hosted Ladyfest's include: Vancouver, Guelph, Toronto, Halifax and Ottawa. Although each city puts its own spin on Ladyfesting, all Ladyfest festivals belong to a global web of feminist communities each devoted to similar social goals and celebrating in solidarity with each other. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Where is it going?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Next year will be the 10th anniversary of Ladyfest internationally. That’s why this year in Toronto the collective has agreed to pay more attention to where our Ladyfest is going in the future. Sometimes politics need to be reframed, and since Ladyfest’s purpose is representation, politics without pretension, inclusion, and exposu</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">re for pro-feminists arts and activists it is important for the collective to make sure the festival is doing what it’s supposed to. For the Ladyfest Toronto collective that means being in dialogue with other communities, causes, and organizations, as well as volunteers and festival attendees, to have open conversations and get feedback about what Ladyfest Toronto is doing to and for our city, its artists, and its community members. The better we know about what Ladyfest is doing for those in our community, the better we can know what it ought to do in the future. To make this happen Ladyfest Toronto ’09 is generating a Community Dialogue Initiative, a forum for open discussion with anyone interested about the Ladyfest presence in Toronto, what it does, has done, and should do in following years. </span></span></p> </div>Kate-Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16941159376424612578noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080631960998774528.post-77765312855358757882009-09-25T15:56:00.000-07:002009-09-29T20:17:52.585-07:00Donations!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hey!</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This is just a test for our paypal to make sure we can paste buttons here.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">However, if you ever want to donate to helping make this festival possible, you can do that here!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We'll mail you an extra special home-made thank you card!</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="8478350"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!"> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" /> </form> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9080631960998774528.post-14644289838432345172009-09-06T14:30:00.000-07:002009-09-29T20:19:10.716-07:00Date Change!<span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This year's festival will take place November 25-29 in various locations in Toronto! Our festival is completely wheelchair accessible and we are working towards putting together an entirely free festival.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div> <div> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">New Dates!</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ladyfest 2009 will kick off November 25th with Grannyboots at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom! We are still organizing the rest of the events for the weekend following.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div> <div> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Volunteer with Ladyfest</span></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We are always looking for people to organize with us! The first meetings for potential committee volunteers will take place near the beginning of September. All committee meetings will take place at free and wheelchair accessible spaces. If you are interested in joining a committe (such as arts, music, film, fundraising), or you want a smaller commitment, email your name, interest, and availability to</span><a href="mailto:ladyfestvolunteer@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176);" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ladyfestvolunteer@gmail.com</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span></span></div> <div> </div><div><span style=";font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Participate in Ladyfest</span></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We are no longer going through a traditional application process but if you are an artist, performer, workshop leader, filmmaker, or writer and you think that your work might suit Ladyfest Toronto, then please email us some information about the type of work that you do and we will be in touch!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /></span></div></span>Ladyfest Torontohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06503238850535708557noreply@blogger.com0