January WCC Newsletter
January 2, 2010 | Filed in: Uncategorized



Women’s Creative Collective for Change Newsletter
WCC Newsletter
 
January 2010

Dear Simone,
Happy New Years! Women’s Creative Collective is celebrating our four year anniversary after hosted over 192 workshops with artists in the community on a weekly basis since 2006. We’ve lead a wide range of workshops from Do It Yourself Gynecology to Contact Dance. WCC has sister circles now in
Long Beach, New York, Rhode Island, Seattle, and very recently the Bay
Area. We’ve started a summer media justice program for high school girls and will
be gathering for our second annual Skill Share in Joshua Tree this April. It’s been exciting to watch us grow as a community and I feel very honored to have been able to share this sacred space with you. You’ve
inspired innovative creativity and a strong sisterhood with profound freedom dreams. Love you all.




ImMEDIAte Justice

Summer Film Camp for Girls

ImMEDIAte Justice is a media collective that empowers young women and queer people of color with the knowledge and skill sets to generate new images of reproductive freedom that inspire community action and global dialogue. ImMEDIAte Justice raised 13,000 dollars to start a pilot program this summer which trained fifteen young women in media production to create documentary films about reproductive justice. We are currently looking for additional staff with film experience for this this summer. Check out our website and apply! http://ij.dhamano.com



WCC January Workshops
The Personal Transformation Session

Women’s Creative Collective LA is hosting a series of workshops this January that activate personal transformation and energy healing Friday 8pm-10pm January 15th, 22nd, 29th at 1254 S. Mullen Ave., LA 90019. Please bring food and drinks for the potluck dinner. For more information about workshops in other cities visit our website www.womenscreativecollective.org 

January 15th- Out with the old, in with the now! For the first WCC session of the year, we’ll focus on letting go of emotional bassage and setting intentions for the new year and the new you. As active participants you should come as an open vessel ready and willing to heal past wounds and create healthy intentions that will reverberate for years to come. We will use guided meditation, counsel, and ritual to prepare ourselves to make meaningful choices on a daily basis. Bring a notebook and an altar item that represents healing.

January 22nd- “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” To help manifest our intentions into reality, we’ll get crafty and create vision boards and magnets. First, we’ll explore our life paths through a guided meditation and writing exercise, then we’ll dig down deep to establish our visions’ roots by creating a visual map to our waking dreams. Your vision boards and magnets will serve as a daily reminder to take conscious and meaningful steps towards what you want and need in your future. Come prepared to dream true and listen to yourself and others without judgment. Bring old magazines or pictures to cut up and WCC will take care of the rest!

January 29th- Now that we’ve called our awareness to our own lives and increased our energy circulation, let’s combine that with crystals-a powerful window into the realm of spirit. Learn about the healing and energizing properties of many different varieties of crystals. We’ll show you how to wrap crystals with wire so you can wear them and team them up to best transmit their spiritual properties on a daily basis. Also, we’ll uncover how to use crystals to open and unblock your chakra system and more fully release your inner energy flow. WCC will provide crystals, wires, and a limited number of tools. If you have small jewelry making tools please feel free to bring them.




2010 Pachamama

A Women and Gender Variant Skillshare

Women’s Creative Collective Presents our second annual Skillshare at Joshua Tree April 9th-11th 2010. This year’s workshop themes focus on respect, responsibility, and relationship to story, spirituality and the earth. We invite gender conscious collectives and individuals to come build a stronger web of resistance to state violence against our bodies and land. If you are interested in being apart of the movement and would like to volunteer please connect with us at info@womenscreativecollective.org. Help build strategies for healthy urban communities at our next meeting: Ragazzi Room Wednesday Jan. 13th 7:30pm.  




WCC Spotlight

Honoring Womyn in the Community


Chavonne Taylor
aka Vida Starr is one of the original WCC members and has been with us for the past four years. She is an innovative and charismatic leader who hosts the hip hop radio show On Blast every Thursday 7pm PST/pm central/10pm EST. Tune in as she talks about critical issues of gender, popular culture, and politics as well as introducing new idependent and underground Hip Hop music on www.blogtalkradio.com/obr

Ching-in Chen is one of the talented “Burning Your Secrets” workshop facilitators at the first annual WCC Skill Share Retreat. Ching-in has published a beautiful book called The Heart’s Traffic. This novel-in-poems chronicles the life of Xiaomei, an immigrant girl
haunted by the death of her best friend. Told through a kaleidoscopic
braid of stories, letters, and riddles, this stunning debut collection
follows Xiaomei’s life as she grows into her sexuality and searches for
a way to deal with her complicated histories. Below is an excerpt from her book. You can buy The Heart’s Traffic at http://www.arktoi.com/books/heart.shtml

Xiaomei’s First Heartbreak
By Ching-in Chen

Gone the clanging midnight door, perpetual raised voice.

Xiaomei wakes in the dew, the traffic of her heart missing.

Her father did not say goodbye. Or he visited her, a stealth-owl dream.

Either way, her memory does not

appear at the short wooden door or trail her through the full streets like the older boys in the

neighborhood.

Her mother does not cry, but continues.

Every morning,

gruel

pickle

quick to schoolbag

onto the noise of street.

He disappeared into the black hole of America, an odd

place with beer-drinking, restaurant-opening aunties and cousins

who like cereal.

No letter arrives.

Thank you womyn warriors, we are building a very exciting movement together!
 
Sincerely,
 


Tani Ikeda
Women’s Creative Collective for Change

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