There are so many people who have been instrumental in helping launch Walk Unafraid Worldwide. While we are still raising funds for production costs, I want to take the time to thank many of the people who have helped move the project along:
Tom Lagasse, Wendy Frasier, Abbie von Schlegell, Nicole Garzino, Barbara Bonner, Nan Wile, Smitty Pignatelli, Barbara Newman, Skip Drumm, Sue Kelly, Captain Mike Wynn, Karen Cellini, Joe Corcoran, Delano Burroughs, Jessica Coville, Keith Emerling, Amber Chand, Kurt Kolok, Nancy Thomas, Halle Hayman, Art Ames, Senator Ben Downing, Lucy Pavalock, Geoff Nader, Nancy Kalodner, Kris Anderson, Keith Girouard, Meryl Joseph, Eugenie Sills, Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, John Whalen, Kevin O’Donnell, Geoff Nader, John Toole, Marc Zegans, Eric Edelman, Barbara Fields, Elfie Six, Harryet Candee, Julie McCarthy, Karen Arp-Sandel, Ed Abrahams, Gabrielle Meyerowitz and our wonderful new interns Leeron, Sabina and Lauren!
Thank you, everyone!
Gratitude.
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A Yoni Valentine for Eve
5 05 2008
I brought along one of my Yoni Valentines to give to Eve
and had the opportunity to present it to her when we were
setting up in the Activist Lounge on Thursday.
It’s a wire, steel and encaustic sculpture from the
Yoni Valentine Series started in 2005.
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Tags: Eve Ensler, Gabrielle Senza, New Orleans, sculpture, v10, valentine, yoni
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Seeing Red: Voices of the Gulf South
4 05 2008WANTED!
People of the Gulf South affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: We want to know
WHAT MAKES YOU SEE RED?
From orgasmic joy to primordial angst – the City of New Orleans, as with Life itself, encompasses the extremes of human experience. Launched during the V-Day SUPERLOVE V TO THE TENTH Celebration in April 2008, Seeing Red: Voices of the Gulf South is a collaborative project that encourages the people of the Gulf South to express their feelings about the violence, loss, devastation and hardship they’ve experienced due to the storms as well as personal expressions of love, passion, courage, strength, joy and ecstasy.
Words and images created in red are being collected through July 31st and will be compiled into a book and traveling art exhibition that will tour nationally. The hundreds of works on paper created by participants of all ages and from all walks of life, answer the question: “What makes you see RED?”
If you’re interested in participating – or organizing a group to participate – in the project, please contact us by writing theredcollaborative[at]mac[dot]com. We’d love to have you on board!
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Transcendental Moments to Ecstasy
3 05 2008Thursday May 8th: Transcendental Moments to Ecstasy
marc zegans + gabrielle senza + the ecstatic ensemble
book signing + reading + performance
May 8th. 8:00 pm.
Issue Project Room in Brooklyn presents Marc Zegans and Gabrielle Senza reading from Pillow Talk, their newly released book of erotic haiku and gestural drawings, sculpting and shaping the spoken work with the sounds of THE ECSTATIC ENSEMBLE. $10.
THE ECSTATIC ENSEMBLE
MV Carbon cello
Lucian Buscemi, Bass
Anthony Ptak, theremin
Zach Layton, guitar
Michael Evans, Percussion
8PM, ISSUE Project Room
{at The Old American Can Factory}
232 Third Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NEW YORK 11215
718 330 0313 tel
http://www.issueprojectroom.org for information
$2. from each sale will be donated to Red Collaborative! Order your copy from gspotpress here.
PILLOW TALK
A collaboration between artist Gabrielle Senza and poet Marc Zegans, Pillow Talk explores the human comedy through erotic haiku and graphite images drawn with sensitivity and light. Read the rest of this entry »
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Seeing Red in New Orleans
2 05 2008(({ V10 REPORT: MY LETTER OF GRATITUDE TO THE V-DAY TEAM }))
Dear Jen, Eve, Shael & Cecile –
Thank you – thank you – thank you!!!
V TO THE TENTH was amazing. Thank you for inviting Red Collaborative to participate in transforming the Superdome into SUPERLOVE. It was an honor to be a part of creating a safe, healing and inspiring environment for thousands of women and to network with so many incredible organizers and activists from around the world.
I’m happy to report our creative public art initiatives were well received and have generated positive feedback — and for some, cathartic transformation. The Collaborative Scroll: From Isolation to Community held a special place in the Healing Lounge, and received approximately 72 new entries from visitors, who shared their pain, hopes, grief and gratitude. It is both heartbreaking and motivating for me to read the entries on The Collaborative Scroll after each display as I upload them to our online version. As the scroll travels and grows, my commitment to breaking the silence surrounding abuse is stoked and I am aflame with fury and an unstoppable passion to make change by giving voice to those who are seldom heard.
Our second project, Seeing Red: Voices of the Gulf South was launched at our table in the Activist Lounge. New Orleans City Council President, Arnie Fielkow kicked off the project by donating the paper on which participants would share in words or pictures their response to the question: What Makes You See Red? We collected over 170 pieces in the two days we were at the Super Dome. The Seeing Red: Voices of the Gulf South project will be extended over the next few months, while we collect pieces from hundreds of school children and adults throughout the Gulf South with the help of several local volunteers. The hundreds of red works on paper created by Seeing Red participants will be incorporated into a book and traveling exhibition that will debut in New Orleans in the fall. It was a special privilege to have Dr. Denis Muskwege’s response: “What makes me see red? It is the destruction of women — The destruction of the life force. That makes me see red!” Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: book, exhibition, Gulf South, New Orleans, Seeing Red, superlove, V-Day, v10, Vaginas!, Voices
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Gabrielle & Gabrielle arrive in the Crescent City
9 04 2008
After many an adventure on the road and in the air, the two Gabrielle’s land gracefully in the lap of Southern hospitality and warmth.
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Miracle Through Craigslist
5 04 2008
Asia Rainey
“Artist-Activist coming to NOLA for V-Day. . . Need a place to stay!”
Since we were still a little short on funds for the trip, even youth-hostel lodgings were out of the question. I checked in with anybody and everybody that I knew who had connections in New Orleans to try to find a place for us to stay. At the 11th hour I got a round-about invitation to our posting on Craigslist. We were invited to stay with performance artist and NOLA Outreach coordinator, Asia Rainey, who would be leading an initiation ceremony of young girls at the V-day Super Dome event on Saturday morning. I couldn’t have imagined a more perfect match!
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Tags: artist, performance, poet, V-Day
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We’re Headed to New Orleans!
4 04 2008In less than a week, my friend and former studio intern, Gabrielle Meyerowitz and I will be headed south, to join up with activists and celeberties from around the world to celebrate Eve Ensler and the 10th Anniversary of The Vagina Monologues!
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Way to Go, Team!
2 04 2008When I first mentioned Red Collaborative was heading to New Orleans to my friend, Derek Gentile (journalist for the Berkshire Eagle) he insisted that I talk to our State Representative, William “Smitty” Pignatelli right off the bat. Smitty, like Derek, shares a passion for baseball and doing the right thing.
Derek accompanied Smitty and a team of volunteers to New Orleans in to rebuild the home of Stanley & Betty Stewart in the Lower Ninth Ward – one of the hardest hit – and most neglected – areas ravaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2006. Click here to read the letter from Sen. Edward Kennedy published in The Congretional Record acknowledging Smitty’s dedication to helping rebuild New Orleans.
Smitty has made numerous trips to the crescent city and was instrumental in putting me in touch with several folks there, among them, another passionate baseball professional (and former Executive Vice President of the NFL’s New Orleans Saints), New Orleans City Council President, Arnie Fielkow.
In addition, Smitty gave me the names of a few local Berkshirites who have organized teams of volunteers to travel down to help rebuild the city. All these folks helped prepare us for an amazing trip to New Orleans.
Without this team of amazing players, our mission to bring Red Collaborative’s empowering initiatives to the devastated city might not have gotten off the ground. I am forever grateful for their assistance.
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Strengthening Communities Through Public Art Collaborations
7 02 2008Red Collaborative’s mission is to empower individuals, give voice to the voiceless and initiate public dialogue on the silent epidemic of physical, sexual and emotional abuse through community-building creative art initiatives.
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