Monday, October 26, 2009

BWAF Pages Online Supplement 10/26/09

Greetings, Friends!

Welcome to the very first issue of the BWAF Pages Online Supplement!
The BWAF Pages is "Almost As Good As Word of Mouth" - "A Community Resource Directory & Coupon Book" to be published and released at the 7th Annual Black Women's Arts Festival (July 29th - Aug 1st, 2010). The website is http://BWAFpages.com and we have created this “Online Supplement” for up-to-the-moment news and updates from our community of black women artists, friends, and allies. (To receive it in your inbox, please join the official BWAF Mailing List at http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/BWAFphilly).
Although we will be using the standard method of charging specific advertising rates and receiving those payments to fund the publication of the print version and cover our other costs, we are trying something new in attracting the funds to allow us to compile your news and release them in our supplement - free will donations!

We are trying an honor system of offering this as a pseudo-"free" community service. Anyone can submit listings, with or without payment. Pay what you can when you can, and when you can't, if there's space and your news seems exciting or something that could be of use to our communities, we'll spread the word and promote your cause by publishing your listing for free. We're hoping that the free will donations we receive from readers, contributors, and/or fans of BWAF, will cover our website hosting costs as well as our wages for spending the time it takes to compile, edit, and post the supplement on our various social networks (including MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo, and Craigslist).

We plan to release the BWAF Pages Online Supplement at least twice a month.

If you like what you read here, please send a check or money order payable to the Black Women's Arts Festival and mail it to:

BWAF Pages
c/o Black Women's Arts Festival
3721 Midvale Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19129-1743
USA

If you prefer to use Paypal, email us at info(at)BWAFpages.com and we’ll send you instructions.

To submit your listing with or without donation, please send a 75-word or less ad to: info(at)BWAFpages.com. (If you’d like to submit a longer article, please make a blog out of it and send us the link to the blog. A free and easy way to do this is to create a blog at www.blogspot.com.) Please use a clear subject to help us recognize the nature of your ad quickly.


We thank you for your interest in the BWAF Pages, and we look forward to hearing from you!


In art & community,

Cassendre Xavier
renaissance negresse
Founder & Executive Director

Ebony Malaika Collier, Poet & BWAF Staff Member
Co-Director of the BWAF Poetry Chapbook Competition
Listings Editor of the BWAF Pages

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The BWAF Pages - A Community Resource Directory & Coupon Book published by The Black Women's Arts Festival

BWAF Pages - Almost as Good as Word of Mouth

Contact/support:

BWAF Pages
c/o Black Women's Arts Festival
3721 Midvale Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19129-1743
(215) 951-0330, x 2108
Email: info(at)BWAFpages.com
Website: http://www.BWAFpages.com

BWAF Pages Online Supplement 10/26/09

IN THIS ISSUE:

1) HOW TO AVOID THE SWINE FLU
2) JOB OPENING AT WOMEN ORGANIZED AGAINST RAPE
3) CALL FOR ARTISTS - IDEA ARTS INITIATIVE
4) COMMUNITY CLASSIFIEDS


1) HOW TO AVOID THE SWINE FLU advice from Dr. Vinay Goyal submitted by Chelle Fresh
From contributor Chelle Fresh, "Swine flu advice (Not a joke)...this saves lives
if you hold on to fear it will never let you go....release your grip~
Here is some great info regarding fending off the H1N1 virus.
Dr. Vinay Goyal is an MBBS,DRM,DNB (Intensivist and Thyroid specialist), having clinical experience
of over 20 years. The following message given by him, it makes a lot of sense and is important for all to know":


The only portals of entry are the nostrils and
mouth/throat. In
a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost
impossible not coming into contact with H1N1 in
spite of all precautions. Contact with
H1N1 is not so much of a
problem as
proliferation is...

To read complete article, please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BWAFphilly/message/3291

Announcing three (3) confirmed judges for our forthcoming Black Women's Poetry Chapbook Contest! We are still hoping for 2 more - ideally non-female and/or non-Black, to add to the diversity of judging. If interested, please email your poetry bio to BWAFphilly(at)yahoo.com. (You must have been published by someone other than yourself.) Looking forward to hearing from all qualified applicants! http://BWAFphilly.org


2) JOB OPENING AT WOMEN ORGANIZED AGAINST RAPE Submitted by Koko Hans aka Kenyetta Overton
Job opportunity! See below.
Good morning,
WOAR has a position available that pays in the mid-30’s, plus benefits. The position title is an Education Specialist...
To read complete article, please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BWAFphilly/message/3294


3) CALL FOR ARTISTS - IDEA ARTS INITIATIVE
Greetings & Shalom:

On behalf of Idea Coalition, I'd like to invite all artists to participate in "Transcending the Divide: Slavery and Holocaust." Below you will find the invitation and website, which highlights all the fine details at www.ideaarts.org. Friends. this is great opportunity to share with artist all over the nation.

We look forward to viewing all artist submissions! Thank you very much!

Cheerfully Yours,

Florcy Morisset
Chair of The Idea Arts Initiative
Owner of Vivant Art Collection
http://vivantartcollection.com


4) COMMUNITY CLASSIFIEDS

Hello All

I hope all is well. I have parlayed my years of experience working for recruiting firms and started a professional services enterprise. I now offer a resume/cover letter creation services. Although I have been helping people with their resumes for several years I feel now is the time to expand my market. If you know someone in need of an updated or new resume I'd welcome referrals. Letters of reference can be provided.

My contact information is as follows:

Kenyetta Overton
kaco2000(at)yahoo.com or 610 864 6261

Write On!
Write Often!
Kenyetta Overton


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Hello BWAF Family!

This is Danielle Charles--- visual artist, designer, and founder of Ase Art Design. My business (BWA/BWOO) offers a unique service, blending art and practical interior design applications. Complimentary design consultations are offered to the purchasers of my original paintings, further enhancing their art experience by creating soulful environments that reflect who they are and showcase the art they truly love!


Painting has been my passion...it gives me great joy! For many years, I balanced this passion with my professional design career. Recently, I've committed myself to painting and helping others reflect their radiant spirits on the inside & out!
For more information, please visit www.ase-artdesign.com


Meet me at the 24th annual Philadelphia October Gallery Art Expo (booth #2005) NOV. 13th, 14th, and 15th! I'll be featuring my new painting series titled "Extractions". For more information please visit www.octobergallery.com.


Blessings,
Danielle Charles
PO Box 103
Voorhees, NJ 08043
609.922.4613

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Peace! My name is Megan Jenifer and I first learned about BWAF through my friend and sis, Monica McIntyre. We both grew up together playing in the DC Youth Orchestra Program. I am a violinist like her sister Marcia. I currently teach private violin lessons; however, I wanted to include the following information about myself and my company:


Megan Jenifer, author and teacher, is the owner of The NIA Project, Inc., a company dedicated to fostering the development of Self through empowerment education, health & wellness, as well as performing and healing arts. Megan is committed to helping people find joy and purpose in their lives. She offers classes and free workshops for weight management, alternatives for weight loss surgery, nutrition, Kemetic Yoga, and private Suzuki violin instruction. In her book, How Ordinary People Attract Extraordinary Wealth, she encourages people to realign with Source and discover their true purpose in order to help enrich their lives while creating financial independence and abundance.


Let me know your thoughts!!!

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What would LOVE do?

Hugs,
Megan ♥

Contact email: megan(at)weight-loss-secret-revealed.com
Contact phone: 757-329-2145

Drop 2-3 Dress Sizes in 10 Minutes!
No diets, no pills, no exercise, no kidding!

http://long.weight-loss-secret-revealed.com
http://twitter.com/FatLossFairy




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If you like what you read here, please send a check or money order payable to the Black Women's Arts Festival and mail it to:

BWAF Pages
c/o Black Women's Arts Festival
3721 Midvale Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19129-1743
USA

If you prefer to use Paypal, email us at info(at)BWAFpages.com and we’ll send you instructions.


To submit your listing with or without donation, please send a 75-word or less ad to: info(at)BWAFpages.com. (If you’d like to submit a longer article, please make a blog out of it and send us the link to the blog. A free and easy way to do this is to create a blog at www.blogspot.com.) Please use a clear subject to help us recognize the nature of your ad quickly.


We thank you for your interest in the BWAF Pages, and we look forward to hearing from you!



© 2009 BWAF Pages / Black Women's Arts Festival. All rights reserved. http://BWAFpages.com / http://BWAFphilly.org

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Poetry Judges Wanted for Contest!

The Black Women’s Arts Festival is seeking 3-5 judges for our first and forthcoming black women’s poetry chapbook contest.
Judges may be of any age, gender or ethnicity, must be published poets (not including self-publishing), and must have regular access to the internet.
Although we are offering free advertising in the BWAF Pages print & online editions and our 2010 Program as a form of compensation for your time, this is an unpaid, volunteer opportunity.

To apply, please email a bio (no attachments, please) to: BWAFphilly@yahoo.com.


We look forward to hearing from all qualified applicants.

Please forward widely!


In art and community,

Cassendre Xavier, renaissance negresse
Founder & Executive Director of the Black Women’s Arts Festival (Est 2003)
www.BWAFphilly.org

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Black Women’s Arts Festival Newsletter 10/11/09

The Black Women’s Arts Festival – a Festival for Everyone!

Newsletter October 11, 2009

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) GREETINGS
2) AND NOW THERE ARE FOUR! (NEW BOARD MEMBERS & VOLUNTEER)
3) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – BWAF PHILLY 2010 NOW SEEKING ARTISTS
4) WANTED: VOLUNTEER GRAPHIC ARTISTS FOR LICENSED BWAF PRODUCTS
5) CALL FOR LISTINGS FROM BWAF FEATURES & OUR ALLIES
6) GOODSEARCH US!
7) GOT MAIL? SEND YOUR ADDRESS FOR OUR COOL PAPER-TYPE THINGS!
8) FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKING LINKS


CONTENTS OF TABLE

1) GREETINGS

Greetings, Friends!

I am so happy to be getting in the groove of running BWAF in the way that feels comfortable for me, getting re-acclimated as its sole director, as I was for only one year – our first, 2003.
I am assembling folks around me who are strong in areas where I’m weak, and the things I thrive in are able to express themselves freely for the first time, again, since 2003. We have new staff, board members, and a dedicated volunteer already – and I plan to double the numbers in the next few months, if not weeks.
It was brought to my attention, by a black woman, incidentally, that there isn’t nearly enough focus in our website, flyers, posters, or communications that this event is for everyone. I want to take this opportunity to say that it is! While we feature black women, certainly not everyone who has graced one of our stages has been a melanin-enriched female type. We are the leaders of the band - we are the playwrights, the directors, the painters and the sculptors, etc., but our subject matter needn’t be “black” nor “feminine”, and those who assist us in getting our work out don’t always look like us. More importantly, those who attend our events and p/matronize our work aren’t all black women, either, and nor should they be.
If BWAF puts on a show and the only people in the audience are black women, we’ve failed. All of our communities and allies should be interested in and support our work. Not everyone will love it, but everyone who wants to attend should feel welcome to.
It’s one of my goals (starting with adding the marketing slogan “a Festival for Everyone!” to our title), begin making the necessary changes on our website and so forth to ensure that all of Philadelphia and the world for that matter know that BWAF is for everyone. All respectful persons are welcome to attend, and certainly support our work.
Look to future newsletters to learn about projects in the works, including updates about our Themed Journals, other products, and more.
Also as all nonprofits do, we urge you to donate. It’s not by miracles or energy alone that we have had 6 festivals to date. It’s also by money…your money! So please consider donating today (info below). We’re glad you’re on our team, and we appreciate your energy, however you’re able to share it with us.
And now…the news!


2) AND NOW THERE ARE FOUR! (NEW BOARD MEMBERS & VOLUNTEER)
Welcome new board members Vanessa Lowe and Allison Paul! Vanessa is an economic development specialist who has served on many boards, has great ideas and is a major fan of BWAF. Allison is the director of the 40th annual Clark Park Music & Arts Festival, very energetic and eager to work with BWAF as she does with other community arts collectives.
In the previous newsletter, I announced new staff person Ebony Malaika Collier, a longtime Philly poet and supporter of the arts. Ebony will be helping a lot with the BWAF Pages print and online editions, respectively.
I've just updated our website to reflect these changes in staff (see it here: http://bwafphilly.homestead.com/about.html), and I've also included links to former organizers Monica McIntyre (who also served as Creative Director of BWAF for 2 years), Koko Hans aka Kenyetta Overton, Daniel De Jesus, and Maleka Diggs.



3) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – BWAF PHILLY 2010 NOW SEEKING ARTISTS
Early bird submission applications are now available at our website (the specific link is http://bwaf2010submissions.eventbrite.com/). Please note that the discounted price is now $10 to apply and will go up after the deadline of January 15, 2010. That page also explains why we charge a fee (takes a lot of time to review each submission, and we receive many).
If you’d like to be considered to feature in 2010’s event, now is a great time to apply.
[Offline version: To receive a paper submission form, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Black Women’s Arts Festival, Request for Submission Forms, 3721 Midvale Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19129-1743]


4) WANTED: VOLUNTEER GRAPHIC ARTISTS FOR LICENSED BWAF PRODUCTS
We are looking for 2-3 volunteers who know how to use basic Adobe PhotoShop to create simple images from slogans and concepts and create JPEGs of them for us.
We’re also looking for graphic designers to help us with our other marketing and publicity projects.
We can include your business name and contact through our various print and online advertising opportunities. If you’re interested, please email us at BWAFphilly(at)yahoo.com.


5) CALL FOR LISTINGS FROM BWAF FEATURES & OUR ALLIES
I’d like to start including news of our previous BWAF Features and our allies in one or more of our online communications. If you have featured at the BWAF, or you are a major supporter of our work, and you have news of your business or events you think we and our audience would be helped to know about, please send a 75-word classified ad along with your name, business/performing name, contact info (phone/email/website), as you feel is appropriate and send it to: BWAFpages(at)gmail.com. We will soon be changing the format of our official mailing list www.groups.yahoo.com/group/BWAFphilly to be only news from and about the BWAF organization itself, and funneling the messages from other folks to BWAF Pages. Stay tuned!


6) GOODSEARCH US!
If you need to look something up on the internet, rather than using Yahoo or Google.com, consider going to www.Goodsearch.com and selecting our organization “Black Women’s Arts Festival”. We’ll get money with every search, and from what I’m told, it adds up!
BWAF ally Eric Hamell said on our Facebook profile, “They also have a toolbar now, so you don't even have to go to their home page to use the search function.”
So, there you have it, folks!

7) GOT MAIL? SEND YOUR ADDRESS FOR OUR COOL PAPER-TYPE THINGS!
One of the projects in the works is a direct mail campaign from us to you. If you’d like to be on our paper mailing list, please respond to this message with your postal mailing address. You can also email it to: BWAFphilly(at)yahoo.com. Offline? Mail a postcard with your address on it to: Black Women’s Arts Festival, 3721 Midvale Ave, Philadelphia PA 19129-1743.


8) FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKING LINKS
Please take a moment to click on all our FB links and befriend us. Also, if you’re a black woman artist, or an ally of BWAs, please network with us and with each other – befriend befriend, befriend!

BWAF Facebook Profile (don’t forget to log in first): http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1303307631&ref=profile

BWAF Facebook Group (log in and then click): http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53284687509

We’re on MySpace, too: www.myspace.com/BWAFphilly

You can always join our official email list by sending a blank email to: BWAFphilly-subscribe(at)yahoogroups.com
We invite and welcome your tax-deductible donation (we’re a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization) to the address below.

Thanks for everything and see you next time!

In art & community,
Cassendre Xavier
renaissance negresse
Founder & Executive Director
Black Women's Arts Festival (Est. 2003)
A Festival for Everyone!

Contact:
Black Women's Arts Festival
3721 Midvale Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19129-1743
(215) 951-0330, x 2108
Email: info(at)BWAFphilly.org
Website: www.BWAFphilly.org
MySpace: www.myspace.com/BWAFphilly
Yahoo Group (or official mailing list): www.groups.yahoo.com/group/BWAFphilly
Join our Facebook Group!

[So, did you dig this newsletter? Please forward it to every living creature you’re in contact with, print it out and give it to folks you know “don’t do the internet” and we promise you good things will come to you and your descendants!]

© 2009 Black Women’s Arts FestivalĂ”, BWAF, BWAF PhillyĂ”. All rights reserved.

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