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V-Day: Until the Violence Stops
#22 www.vday.org November 24, 2004
LOVE YOUR TREE
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Love Your Tree Speaker and Events Schedule Announced
2. Photography Exhibit at Love Your Tree
Love Your Tree is a space for women -- and men -- to further explore issues raised after seeing Eve Ensler's new Broadway play "The Good Body" which addresses why women of all cultures and backgrounds - whether undergoing Botox injections or living beneath burkhas - feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in, to be accepted, to be "good." Love Your Tree is an installation and living vision conceived by Ensler. A full calendar of events, including speakers, a curated art installation, dance, music, and resources, are free and open to the public and are being coordinated by Sil Reynolds and Paula Allen. Scheduled speakers include Isabella Rossellini, Naomi Wolf, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Jessica Weiner, and more. The art installation, curated by Allen, features photographs by various female artists invited to display their works that articulate women’s body experiences with honesty, humor, rage, and hope.
Love Your Tree will be open through mid-January, throughout the run of "The Good Body" at the Booth Theatre on Broadway in New York City.
Visit Love Your Tree at ABC Carpet & Home at 888 Broadway, New York, NY.
Hours: Monday – Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday 11am-7pm.
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1. Love Your Tree Speaker and Events Schedule Announced
Please note the schedule is subject to change and additions.
Check loveyourtree.org for updates.
Saturday November 27th
2:00pm- Tammy Nelson "Mandalas: A Symbol of the Self" Art Workshop in the Red Tent
4:00pm- Blair Glaser "Demystifying Body Obsessions"
Sunday November 28th-
12:00pm- Jessica Weiner "Do I Look Fat In This?"
Monday November 29th-
6:30pm- Emme "My Story as a Plus Size Model"
Wednesday December 1st-
3:30pm- Janice Rous "The Art of Body Dialogue" Movement Workshop
6:30pm- Leah McElrath "The Lesbian Body"
Lesbians and bisexual women are invited to join in an open participatory discussion group
Thursday December 2nd-
6:30pm- Isabella Rossellini "The Costs of Beauty"
Saturday December 4th-
11:00am- Sil Reynolds "Listening to Your Good Body"- Come talk about the play in the Red Tent.
2:00pm- "Decorate the Tree at Love Your Tree" Art Workshop for Women and Girls of all Ages (Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, Grandmothers and Sisters)
4:00pm- Jane Hirschmann, Kate Hirschmann-Levy, Lela Zaphiropoulos "Mothers and Daughters: Breaking the Cycle of Body Hatred and Eating Problems"
Sunday December 5th-
12:00pm- Marion Woodman "The Beauty of Conscious Aging"
Monday December 6th-
6:30pm- Geneen Roth "Feeding the Hungry Heart"
Wednesday December 8th-
4:30pm- Kim Rosen "Poetry as Passion, Prayer and Practice, a gathering for women and girls (10 and older)"
Saturday December 11th-
11:00am- Sil Reynolds "Listening to Your Good Body"- Come talk about the play in the Red Tent.
2:00pm- "Decorate the Tree at Love Your Tree" Art Workshop for Women and Girls of all Ages (Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, Grandmothers and Sisters)
4:00pm- Eisa Ulen "Reclamation"-Eisa Ulen reads from her upcoming novel about reclaiming body and self.
Sunday December 12th-
3:00pm- Sussan Deyhim "Vocodeliks"- Middle Eastern Vocal Magic
4:00pm- Elizabeth Lesser "Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow" Reading about the body from her new book
Monday December 13th-
6:30pm- Naomi Wolf "The Beauty Myth Revisited"
Wednesday December 15th-
6:30pm- Leah McElrath "The Lesbian Body"
Thursday December 16th-
6:30pm- Kim Rosen "Drop Everything: Rest as a Revolutionary Event"
Saturday December 18th-
11:00am- Sil Reynolds "Listening to Your Good Body"- Come talk about the play in the Red Tent.
12:00pm- "Decorate the Tree at Love Your Tree" Art Workshop for Women and Girls of all Ages (Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, Grandmothers and Sisters)
2:00pm- Laura Simms, Storyteller "The Robe of Love" In the Red Tent
4:00pm- Dr. Christiane Northrup "Loving Everything About Your Tree"
Sunday December 19th-
1:00pm- Dr. Mona Lisa Shultz "The New Feminine Brain"
Monday December 20th-
6:30pm- Fawzia Afzal Kahn Shattering Stereotypes - "Bold, Bald and Beautiful: Acting Out As A Muslim/Pakistani/American Wo/Man"
A performance in the Red Tent
Wednesday December 22nd-
4:30pm- Kim Rosen "Poetry as Passion, Prayer and Practice, a gathering for women and girls (10 and older)"
Monday December 27th-
6:30pm- Janice Rous "Loving Our Aging Bodies" Movement Workshop
Wednesday December 29th-
6:30pm- Leah McElrath "The Lesbian Body"
Lesbians and bisexual women are invited to join in an open participatory discussion group
Sunday January 2nd-
4:00pm- Fawzia Afzal Kahn, Shattering Stereotypes-"Bold, Bald and Beautiful: Acting Out As A Muslim/Pakistani/American Wo/Man"
Thursday January 6th-
7:30pm- Urban Bush Women Dance Performance
Saturday January 8th-
2:00pm – Kim Rosen "Poems on the Bones: How poetry can be medicine for the soul and the body."
4:00pm- Nina Utne "The Body Politic: How Loving Your Body Can Change the World."
5:00pm- Zhena Muzyka Gypsy Tea Party with Bellydancers
Sunday January 9th-
1:00- Nelly Rosario, Reading from Song of the Water Saints
Wednesday January 12th-
3:30pm- Janice Rous "Loving Our Aging Bodies" Movement Workshop
6:30pm- Leah McElrath "The Lesbian Body"
Lesbians and bisexual women are invited to join in an open participatory discussion group
Thursday January 13th-
6:00pm- Gioia Timpanelli "Stories From Sicily in the Red Tent"
Friday January 14th-
3:00pm- Lisa Sarasohn "Learning To Love Our Bellies, Finding the Sacred Feminine Within"
Saturday January 15th-
11:00am- Lisa Sarasohn "The Good Belly: Owning Your Procreative Power"
Sunday January 16th-
2:00pm- Wendy Shanker "Big Mouths: Jewish Women & Appetite"
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2. Photography Exhibit at Love Your Tree
The art installation is curated by Paula Allen, the documentary photographer who has dedicated her work to recording the courageous and often invisible struggles of women and girls all over the world. Her images have appeared in Newsweek, Marie Claire, The New York Times Magazine, and Oprah. Presently, Allen is working with Amnesty International on their "Stop Violence Against Women Campaign."
Though the artists featured in Allen’s exhibit come from a myriad of backgrounds, from groundbreaking feminists to emerging new stars, all of the works chosen by Allen to be included in this exhibit reveal how the changing landscape of a women's body speaks the stories she has lived.
LOVE YOUR TREE
Photography Exhibit, Curator: Paula Allen
Matuschka
Wendy Ewald
Carla Williams
Rummana Hussain
Hannah Wilke
Stephanie Sinclair
Josefa Mulaire
Catherine Opie
Susan Jahoda
Paula Allen
Mary Roehm
Flor Garduño
Jacqueline Hayden
Joan Brown
Deana Lawson
Love Your Tree’s featured artists include:
Flor Garduño- a Mexican photographer whose work is included in the collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris. Many of her works, including the two included in this exhibit, explore the luminal territory where human and animal, human and vegetable converge.
Hannah Wilke- one of the first artists to deal directly with feminist issues in the late 1950's. She invented a "female iconography" based on organic forms related to bodily and vaginal imagery. The two works included in this exhibit are self-portraits, one from early in her career and one during her final illness, exploring scarification as a modus of both beauty and inner wounding.
Matuschka- a Pulitzer Prize nominee whose work has been seen on the covers of The New York Times, McLeans and German Max. The image included in this exhibit, her most well-known, was published in Life magazine's "One Hundred Pictures that Changed the World."
Stephanie Sinclair- a photographer covering news and social issues in the Middle East and South East Asia. Her work has been seen in Time, Newsweek, Fortune and The New York Times Magazine. The image included in this exhibit portrays one of the growing number of Afghan women who self-immolate as a cry for help. For this work, Stephanie was awarded the Word Press News Photo Award.
Catherine Opie- a Professor of Photography at University of California, Los Angeles who is widely known for her photographic series of "Portraits," straight-forward c-prints whose composition owes much to that of classical portraiture, but whose sitters are either gay or transgender peers.
For more information on the artists, please visit www.loveyourtree.org.
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About Love Your Tree:
In much the same way "The Vagina Monologues" became a movement, that became a revolution, Love Your Tree is both a response to and an extension of "The Good Body." A V-Day project co-created and sponsored by ABC Carpet & Home, Love Your Tree is a space for women -- and men -- to go after seeing Ensler's new Broadway play "The Good Body" which addresses why women of all cultures and backgrounds - whether undergoing Botox injections or living beneath burkhas - feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in, to be accepted, to be "good."
In creating a space where women can continue the discussion after the curtain falls, our hope is that Eve and V-Day's goal of creating a world where women thrive, rather than merely survive, will begin to be realized. From November 19 - January 16 at ABC Carpet & Home, the Love Your Tree space will feature events, speakers ranging from Isabella Rossellini to Dr. Christiane Northrup MD, discussions, a curated art installation, music, dance, and resources to empower and, enlighten the way we look at our bodies.
The Love Your Tree space is a project of V-Day, co-created and sponsored by ABC Carpet & Home and THE GOOD BODY Broadway play, and supported by The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders and The Gonda Family Foundation
For tickets to "The Good Body":
V-Mail readers: GOOD Seats at a GREAT price, $47 (Regularly, $81.25). Call or visit Telecharge.com at 212.947.8844 and mention code GDGNA49. Tickets also available at the box office of the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street, New York City). Group orders can be arranged through telecharge.com.
V-Day would like to thank the producers of "The Good Body," for their support and generosity, as a percentage of all profits from the play's Broadway engagement will be donated to V-Day. A strong compliment to V-Day's mission to end violence against women and girls, "The Good Body" explores the internal as well as external violence that societies place upon the female body.
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