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UNLADYLIKE2020 Screening

Lower Eastside Girls Club Center for Community 402 East 8th Street, New York, NY, United States

Please join us  for a sneak peek screening of the first video in UNLADYLIKE2020, a transmedia series featuring extraordinary, unsung women who changed America at the turn of the 20th century, in honor of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in 2020. In celebration of National Aviation Month in November, this event will include a screening of the UNLADYLIKE2020 trailer, and the first episode in the series, which tells the amazing story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman pilot. There is a screening at 5:30 pm, which is currently at capacity. The 6:15 pm screening will kick off with a short film by a girl from the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and the screening will be followed by a Q&A with series creator, director, and producer Charlotte Mangin and artist and animator Amelie Chabannes, as well as a reception. This is a free event and all are welcome, but we ask that you please register on Eventbrite. All artwork by Amelie Chabannes. Through 31 animated documentary shorts for the 31 days of Women's History Month, UNLADYLIKE2020 profiles female trailblazers from the early 1900s who broke barriers in male-dominated professions For more information on UNLADYLIKE2020, please visit: Unladylike2020.com.

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Fair Trade Gift Fair

Lower Eastside Girls Club Center for Community 402 East 8th Street, New York, NY, United States

Join Us Saturday, December 8th for our Fair Trade & Girl-Made Holiday Gift Fair Every dollar you spend will help the Girls Club and our sister girls organizations in Nepal, Sierra Leone, Mexico, Haiti, Glasgow, Congo, and New Orleans continue to provide direct services to underserved girls and women!

Poetry Electric at La MaMa

La MaMa 66 East 4th Street, New York, NY, United States

This is an evening you can't miss. The youth have something to say so come out and hear it! The Lower Eastside Girls Club brings an evening of poems, spoken word, and stories written and presented by the amazing members of the LES Girls Club. Let them take you on a journey of the issues they face and embrace. Gun violence, social injustice, Women's Rights, Black Lives Matter, prison reform, LGBTQ acceptance... Also performing: the Girls Club Avenue DJs. They will spin some tunes to add to the evening's powerful message. ABOUT POETRY ELECTRIC The Poetry Electric fuses music, movement, sound, and dance with the spoken word and presents artists working in a wide range of styles including beatboxing, jazz and hip-hop theatre. This series has presented over 200 emerging poets from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Angel Alliance Holiday Sweet Sale and Cookie Bake-Off

Lower Eastside Girls Club Center for Community 402 East 8th Street, New York, NY, United States

Angel Alliance Holiday Cookie Bake-Off and Holiday Sweet SaleThe Lower Eastside Girls Club Angel Alliance Junior Board is bringing back our favorite holiday event: The Cookie Bake-Off and Holiday Sweet Sale! Too busy to bake this season? Let us do all the work. Just fill our empty tins ($20, $35 or $50) with delicious “Angel Baked” homemade cookies. And stay for the holiday fun: celebrity judges, delicious special cocktails, prizes, Girl-Made gifts for sale and more! Register to Reserve Your Tin or Donate: http://bit.ly/2018bakeoff Our Guest JudgesActress and Comedian on “At Home With Amy Sedaris”Baker and Owner at Flour ShopLeader of the SheChef Movement, TV Talent on "America’s Test Kitchen"Performer, Runway Coach, Model, Stylist and Fashion IllustratorDirector of Girls Club Culinary Training Programs Here’s how it works: The Public: Buys an empty tin ($20, $35 or $50) and fill it with delicious homemade treats baked by our Angel Alliance Junior Board and friends. Joins us for the holiday fun: Celebrity Judges, Raffle Prizes, Girl-Made gifts for sale and more. Brings the gift tin home to family for the holidays, gifts it to friends and co-workers or secretly enjoys it themselves. The Bakers: Sign up to bake by emailing lauren@girlsclub.org by […]

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Girls Club x Chashama: Diamond District Windows

Diamond District Windows 4-10 W 47th St., New York, NY, United States

Being the Change We Want to Sea (Zero Waste, Shark Fondness, Plastic Aversion) by the Lower Eastside Girls Club (LESGC) The Lower Eastside Girls Club installation focuses on environmental awareness. The centerpiece of the installation is LESGC Board Member/mentor/artist Kevin McHugh’s Disco Shark sculpture; McHugh regularly donates portions from the proceeds of sales of his work to marine research and conservation organizations. The rest of the installation has been designed and fabricated by the girls of the LESGC, using recycled and repurposed materials. About The Lower Eastside Girls Club The Lower Eastside Girls Club operates a state-of-the-art community center that offers a safe haven with programs in the arts, sciences, leadership, entrepreneurship, and wellness for girls in middle and high school. Their facilities include a Maker Shop for engineering and coding; Biology lab for STEM programming and research; Alphabet City Art School for visual arts and crafts; Center for Media and Social Justice for digital media and photography; Sound Studio for music production and our radio station/podcast, WGRL (Where Girl Radio Lives); Design Shop for fashion design; a rooftop farm; full culinary kitchen and cafe; and 64-seat state-of the art, 30-foot dome planetarium. Web: https://girlsclub.org/ Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/girlsclubny

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