Brooklyn to Host First-Ever Festival for Gender Equality!
Connect! Create! Educate!
August 27, 2006 * 11am – 4pm
FREE!

In a world where boys are still made fun of for wanting to jump
double-dutch and girls are still kicked off the basketball courts
because they might "break a nail" while playing, Girls for Gender
Equity is proud to organize the first New York City Festival for
Gender Equality on August 27th 11am – 4pm. Open to all New Yorkers,
it will be held at Von King Park in Brooklyn, NY and feature
entertainment by musicians, spoken word artists, and theater
performers; workshops and other fun activities for children and
adults; free food and giveaways; and appearances from local
politicians. Over 50 community organizations will participate
including Brooklyn Children's Museum, Forest Hills Community House,
Global Action Project, Loisaida, New York Police Department, Planned
Parenthood, Schomburg Center, Street Harassment Project, and Willie
Mae Rock Camp for Girls.

"I feel it's important to have a New York City Festival for Gender
Equality as greater awareness needs to be raised around the sexism,
harassment and violence girls and women face every day on the
street, in playgrounds and schools, at the work place and at home.
NYC must come together to let everyone know we will not tolerate
discrimination or abuse against girls and women in any form, any
time, anywhere," says Oraia Reid, co-founder of RightRides.

The Gender Equality Festival is a free public event for education,
networking, resource sharing, community interaction, arts and
recreation. Workshops on a wide variety of topics – responding to
street harassment, media literacy, HIV/AIDS, communicating with your
child, youth leadership, yoga, health care access, democratic
education and more – will be offered throughout the day to children
and adults. The Grand Street Campus girls' soccer team will lead a
mother-daughter soccer clinic, where girls and their sisters,
mothers, cousins, friends, aunts and grandmothers are all invited to
learn basic skills and then show them off in a short game.

Representing local politics at the event are Councilwoman Helen
Sears, Democratic Senate nominee Jonathan Tasini, Democratic
Congressional candidate Chris Owens, Green Party Lt Governor
candidate Alison Duncan, and State Senator Carl Andrews (D). Not to
be missed are performances by hip hop artist Carlethal, poet and
educator Piper Anderson, singer/songwriter Chris Pureka, activist
dance and theater group Zany Angels, queer youth performers
Generation Q, Palestinian stand-up comedian and co-founder of the
New York Arab American Comedy Festival Maysoon Zayid, and the folk-
hip hop hybrid sounds of Mahogany. The afternoon will wind down with
a keynote speech from Councilwoman Yvette Clarke!

All attendees will receive a gift from one of the Festival for
Gender Equality Sponsors: Akademics, American Girl, Brooklyn Arts
Exchange (BAX), Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Brownstone Books,
Candle Café, Eva Scrivo Salon, Finetune Pilates Studio, Harriet's
Alter Ego, Madame Tussauds NY, Museum of Television & Radio,
Palacinka, Pretty Tough Sports, Regal Entertainment, Road's End
Organics, St. Marks Bookshop, The Home Spa, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.

- Find out how to register for this event by clicking on
http://www.gges.info/latest-news.php or contact Jessica at 718-857-
1393 or intern@....