The
6th Annual
GiRL FeST Hawaii
November 7-15, 2009
Preventing Violence Against Women & Girls Through Education & Art
www.myspace.com/girlfest
Our
facebook page
www.twitter.com/girlfesthawaii
HELP OUR CAUSE!
Girl Fest is Hawaii's only all-volunteer run community-based organization solely devoted to preventing violence against women and girls. Our all-volunteer status ensures that your donation goes directly to our violence prevention programming. Without your support, our important work could not continue. Please consider making a donation of any amount.
* * *
Don't take domestic violence for granted. Speak out!
* * *
* * *
Poetry Night!
1st Tuesdays, "Bringing
Back Kerouac"
* * *
"Preventing violence against women and girls
through education and art."
OUR GOAL
...is to change peer culture in order to prevent increasing violence against women and girls through education, art and positive representations of women.
WHAT IS GiRL FeST HAWAII?
This year's 6th Annual GiRL FeST Hawaii multimedia art festival and conference will take place November 2009 in Honolulu, Hawaii. GiRL FeST Hawaii’s mission is to prevent violence against women and girls through education and art. This all-volunteer non-profit 501(c)3 festival incorporates film, music, art, spoken word, and dance complemented by a mini-conference involving panels, lectures, outreach workshops for children and adults that address themes such as body image, identity, empowerment, social change and methods on how to prevent violence in relationships.
Some past performers, speakers, and guests include: Sonia Sanchez; Winona LaDuke; Andrea Smith; Jackson Katz; Byron Hurt; Michael Cory Davis; Elaine Brown; Amber Tamblyn; Haunani K. Trask; Jean Kilbourne; Jessica Neuwirth; Derek Ellerman; Elena Featherston; Puanani Burgess; Rep. Lyla Berg; Medusa; Mystic; United by Sound; JenEd; Ali Wong; Marc Bamuthi Joseph; Derrick Brown; Mighty Mike McGee; Issil (Ishle) Park; Kelly Zen Yi Tsai; Mindy Nettifee; Selah Geissler; Kealoha; Youth Speaks Hawaii; Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua; Hina Ka'opua-Canonigo; Yellow Rage; Alix Olson; Pamela Means; Lois-Ann Yamanaka; Nora Okja Keller; Joy Harjo; the Guerrilla Girls; and many wonderful others.
Also, check out GIRL FEST BAY AREA
COOL QUOTES
“[Girl Fest is] the wave of the future...[It’s] a creative and dynamic approach to activism that goes to the heart of what we need, which is a cultural evolution...This festival will inspire and entertain, as well as educate and mobilize.”
~ Jessica Neuwirth, President
of Equality Now and
Harvard Law Professor* * *
“I think art can inspire, illuminate, motivate, touch people’s hearts and minds…In order for us to stem the tide of our culture’s pandemic of men’s violence, we have to make prevention a societal priority. Art is certainly a part of that, and efforts like Girl Fest are important cultural interventions.”
~ Jackson Katz, Founder of MVP Strategies
and Former Member of the U.S. Secretary of
Defense's Task Force on Domestic Violence in the Military* * *
"There is no question that art is an essential part of healing, organizing, and social change. Girl Fest recognizes and embraces that concept, and is playing a central role in bringing forward the next generation of activists for gender equity."
~ Patrick Lemmon, Executive Director of Men Can Stop Rape
* * *
* * *
Please spread the word about FREE SET BAGS!This is an innovative business started up by a family from New Zealand who moved to the red light district in Calcutta to save women and girls from prostitution by employing them in their company.
A resource for the people of Hawaii.
The justice department opened a national registry of sex offenders that the public can use to track thousands of offenders nationwide via computer.
GiRL FeST Hawaii is an annual program of
The Safe Zone Foundation 501(c)3
GiRL FeST Hawaii is always looking for coordinators & volunteers!
Call (808) 599-3931 or email: info@girlfesthawaii.org