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| Events Listing for January 2008 |
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Exploring Genders Through Reading
Wednesday, January 9, 7:00-8:30pm
This facilitated book group meets once a month at Charis to discuss books that explore gender identity and representation. Join us in January 08 to talk about the young adult novel, Parrotfish, by Ellen Wittlinger. In February we will meet to discuss Lesbians, Levis, & Lipstick by Jeanine Cogan.
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Every Tool Is A Weapon:
Reproductive Justice This Legislative Session & Beyond
Thursday, January 10, 7:30-9:00pm
Please join Charis Circle and Georgians for Choice for a night of performance, discussion, learning, and collective brainstorming! We will talk about critical reproductive justice issues that are coming up in the next legislative session. If passed, House Bill 526 (Teen Endangerment Act) and House Resolution 536 (The Personhood Amendment) will have alarming effects on a wide range of issues, including bans on access to birth control, STD testing, prevention counseling, and contraceptives for people under 18 without parental notification and consent, complete bans on hormonal birth control, assisted reproductive technology, abortion, and prosecution of women who miscarry (to name a few)! Get the details you need on this upcoming legislation, its implications, and how it fits in with larger political agendas. Join us in strategizing how we, the people, can harness our collective brilliance and power to create the changes we want to see in this legislative session and beyo
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Potluck Supper with Crescent Dragonwagon & Cornbread Gospels
Friday, January 11, 6:30pm
Besides being a James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning children's book writer, Crescent Dragonwagon is an old friend of Charis and Little Five Points (she lived here from 1982 to 1985). Join us as we catch up on old times and new at a Potluck Dinner at Charis, 6:30 pm, Friday, January 11. Crescent will be in town with her brand new cookbook, The Cornbread Gospels (see www.cornbreadgospels.com for a preview, including a link to a YouTube video). Of course, CD will bring the cornbread! After we eat she'll give a brief talk, and after that, she'll sign and inscribe books.
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Young Women* Writers
Monday, January 14 & 28, 5:00-6:30pm
This group is open to all young women* writers ages 15-19. Through facilitated writing prompts and supportive critique, participants are encouraged to raise their voices and express themselves through a variety of written mediums. Writers of all skill levels and genres are encouraged to stop in and see if the group works for them. This group meets the second and fourth Mondays of every month from 5-6:30pm, but will only meet on the first Monday of December. Please direct inquiries to chariswriters@gmail.com. *Trans inclusive
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Writing With Intent
Monday, January 14 & 28, 6:30-8:30pm
Please join us in welcoming local author June Akers Seese with her 4th novel, Some Things Are Better Left To Saxophones. At 72 years old, June is writing as much as ever, as well as teaching classes at Callenwolde. Come hear June read from her new book, and be sure to have her sign your copies of her previous books, too.
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Words of Wisdom:
Start the Year of WRITE with a Charis & Cliterati Open Mic
Thursday, January 17, 7:30-9:00pm
Featuring Karen G, Theresa Davis, & other local wordsmiths, this open mic is designed to help you start 2008 on the WRITE foot! Sign-up begins at 7:30, with the performance starting shortly thereafter. Come watch, perform, listen, mingle, or all of the above. In the meantime, stick to those new years resolutions and start the year off writing (something to share).
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ZAMI Social Justice Speakfire
Saturday, January 19, 6:30pm
House of IntegriTEA (312 C., North Highland Ave)
Atlanta's premiere organization for lesbians of African descent, ZAMI, presents a Social Justice Speakfire at the House of IntegriTEA (across from The Grape). This event will include an LGBTQ intergenerational dialogue and a spoken word open mic featuring some of Atlanta's most skillful wordsmiths addressing themes related to social justice and liberation. This event will be presented in conjunction with the Rustin-Lorde Breakfast to provide an artistic space for Black lgbtq and progressive communities during the MLK weekend.
For more information about the Bayard Rustin-Audre Lorde Breakfast please contact Darlene Hudson at 404.441.4827 or Craig Washington at 404.589.9040 x104. For more information about the Social Justice Speakfire, please contact Mary Anne Adams at 404.370.1392
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The 2008 Bayard Rustin-Audre Lorde Breakfast
Monday, January 21, 9:00am
at the Atlanta First United Methodist Church (360 Peachtree St)
The 7th annual Bayard Rustin- Audre Lorde Breakfast has a new name, a new home and a fiscal sponsor. Lorde's name has been added to honor the legendary Black lesbian feminist writer/activist and highlight the significance of Black women's leadership in human rights movements. This year, the Atlanta First United Methodist Church at 360 Peachtree Street (off Ralph McGill Blvd) will serve as our new host. For the past four years, the 139 Center on Ralph McGill Blvd graciously hosted the breakfast. This year, the event planners wanted a larger venue to accommodate the increased attendance. Positive Impact, an agency that provides free mental health services for people affected by HIV, will serve as the fiscal agent for the event.
The program will feature a series of knowledgeable speakers who will discuss Black lgbtq organizing in Atlanta over the past 30 years. Participants will learn more about icons such as Rustin and Lorde and lesser known figures who worked toward the liberation of lgbtq people and people of color. Following the breakfast we will proceed to the Martin Luther King Jr March and gather at the line-up site on Peachtree and Ellis streets at 12:45pm. The MLK March kicks off at 1pm. This year, our contingent will be joined by the Atlanta Sedition Orchestra, a radical marching band that supports progressive organizing.
Your support is needed to help sustain this popular volunteer led event. Online donations can be made by visiting the Positive Impact website. Event sponsors include ZAMI, EM Designs Group, and Positive Impact. Breakfast will be provided by Radial Cafe and Starbucks Coffee. |
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Judith Hawkins-Tillirson: Herbs for Love & Magick
Thursday, January 24, 7:30-9:00pm
Judith Hawkins-Tillirson, author of The Weiser Concise Guide to Herbal Magick, will speak on plants aligned with love (intimate relationships). Even if you're already in a fulfilling relationship, it never hurts to turn your inner focus to the partnership, and to raise it to a place of prominence in your inner mind. For those temporarily without partners, the construction of a love sachet will activate their inner lover and set up a resonance to attract love into their lives. Attendees will have an opportunity to create their own magical sachet to enhance their love life; all materials will be provided, as well as the instructional guidance needed to commit your own "Act of Love Magic."
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People's Movement Assembly-- Global Day of Action
On Saturday, January 26, 2008, Atlanta, host city of the first US Social Forum, will be the venue for a statewide People's Movement Assembly, beginning with a caravan and rally at the State Capitol.
Initiated by the organizers of the annual Poor People's Day events at the Capitol and inspired by the year 2008 being the 40th anniversary of the historic Poor People's Campaign for Economic Justice launched by Dr. King, this multi-pronged effort seeks to bring the voice, aspirations, needs and demands of millions of working and poor people to the Georgia Capitol.
Following the caravan and rally, participants will meet to exchange views, plan ongoing actions and cement relationships and networks. Hundreds of volunteers are needed throughout the state to mobilize their communities.
Participation in the January 26 action is open to all who believe "ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE."
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Coloring Mandalas with Susanne Fincher: Circles of Sacred Feminine
Thursday, January 31, 7:30-9:00pm
Please welcome local author and art therapist Susanne Fincher for an interactive presentation on the archetypal imagery of the circle as it relates to the sacred feminine. Her latest book, Coloring Mandalas 3: Circles of the Sacred Feminine celebrates the full range of the sacred feminine, from gentle and motherly to fierce and challenging. Susanne will share information about circles, yantras, and the sacred feminine that can highlight some potentials for twenty first century feminist spirituality. Participants will have an opportunity to color a design based on a goddess yantra during this session. All materials provided. No art skills necessary.
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Program Notes
Programs funded in part by the Atlanta Women's Foundation , AEC Foundation, Georgia Shares, Fund for Southern Communities, and YOU! Sign language interpretation available by request with one week advance notice.
All book events are co-sponsored by Charis Books and More. Please visit Charis or charisbooksandmore.com for suggested readings to complement the programs listed here. Order any book in print online and receive a 10% discount.
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, ALL CHARIS CIRCLE PROGRAMS ARE FREE AND TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS ARE WELCOME!
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