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Premiere LADYPOINTS Episode Inspires DIY Punk Ethos

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:25:09 +0000

The premiere episode of LADYPOINTS, a webseries that celebrates the individual successes of women, was released June 18. The Brooklyn-based filmmaking team — Keiko Wright, Samantha Knowles, Rekha Shankar and Jamie Li — was recently featured on Art Animal during their Kickstarter campaign, which reached its initial goal of $5,000 in just five days, and [&hellip

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Bad Unkl Sista’s Butoh Transcends the Sense of Self

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 10 May 2013 05:07:03 +0000

There is a wide array of reactions to a Bad Unkl Sista Butoh-inspired performance, ranging from confusion and shock, to wonder and amazement. But no matter what the reaction, each member of the audience — and the dancers themselves — leave the performance feeling somehow changed by the experience. Anastazia Louise, the artistic director and choreographer [&hellip

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Ali Liebegott on Road Trips, Addiction and Queer Life

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 03 May 2013 04:06:34 +0000

When I spoke to author Ali Liebegott on the phone, she was sitting in the back of the van of the legendary traveling spoken word performance group Sister Spit, hurtling down Interstate 5 toward Pasadena for a show. Liebegott, known for her work with Sister Spit and her novels, The Beautifully Worthless and The IHOP [&hellip

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Ali Liebegott’s Cha-Ching! Exposes the Truth Behind Gambling and Obsession

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 03 May 2013 04:02:09 +0000

Well-known for past works like The Beautifully Worthless and The IHOP Papers as well as her involvement with the traveling performance group, Sister Spit, Ali Liebegott tackles big themes in Cha-Ching! including depression, addiction, identity, self-sabotage and basically how sometimes it is f-ing hard just to get out of bed in the morning and stare [&hellip

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LADYPOINTS filmmakers inspire a cultural revolution

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:17:02 +0000

Sometimes the simple act of stating a dream can spark a revolution. After a high school girl casually mentioned to filmmaker Jamie Li that she wanted to be a photographer, an idea began to form: how could Li give women access to resources and information to pursue their passions? Inspired herself by Amy Poehler’s webseries Smart [&hellip

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Val Britton’s Language of Maps

Elizabeth Coleman — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:39:11 +0000

Since the beginning, humankind has had an unquenchable thirst for exploring the unknown, orienting their discoveries by drawing maps. One Bay Area artist, Val Britton, uses both tangible and imaginary landscapes to explore our desire for imposing order in the chaos of space. Now showing at the San Jose Institue of Contemporary Art, Britton’s Intimate [&hellip

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WIGband’s irreverent, “trashy feminist points” on stage.

Elizabeth Coleman — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:11:09 +0000

Armed with walking staffs and adorned with dildos, Viking helmets and wigs, Johanna “Silver” Poethig and Barbara “Bambi” Golden took to the stage of Berkeley Arts last week and promptly began to chant, “You’re not a woman! You’re a gaping cunt! Neanderthal, Neanderthal!” to the obvious pleasure of the crowd, who erupted in hooting and [&hellip

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We get poemcrazy with Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

Elizabeth Coleman — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:17:59 +0000

Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge is obsessed with words. Author of poemcrazy: freeing your life with words, which is currently in its 24th printing, Wooldridge works with adults, teachers and at-risk youth both privately and through the California Poets in Schools program. Her workshop are designed to cultivate artistic expression, and have changed the lives of countless [&hellip

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Review: Dottie Attie at the Cantor Arts Center

Elizabeth Coleman — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:13:42 +0000

Dottie Attie is a postmodern appropriation artist, borrowing from iconic figure paintings from Old Masters such as Caravaggio, Eakins and Ingres. Suggestive or ironic text is incorporated into the compositions, which now seem provocative and sexually charged, forcing the viewer to think critically about gender politics in the art. The ambiguous juxtapositions critique class, privilege, [&hellip

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Interview with Amy Casey

Elizabeth Coleman — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:43:21 +0000

Amy Casey paints complex cities on the verge of collapse or destruction. Little box houses on stilts are stacked precariously up on top of each other, or hang by nets and rope above an empty void. Thin roads wind around the unstable worlds like ribbon. The paintings are devoid of inhabitants, as if some apocalyptic [&hellip

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