Womxn Who Rock: Making Space in a Changing City, Saturday, March 10!!!!

WOMXN WHO ROCK (UN)CONFERENCE

Making Space in a Changing City

Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)

10:30-5 pm, Saturday, March 10!

The 8th annual (un)Conference is free, participant-driven and centered around issues of gender, race, class and sexuality. Activities include skill-sharing workshops, performances, children’s activities, and a tour of the special exhibit

As always, FREE! All ages! Babies and Children welcome! On-site registration is available.  There is room for all! Entrance to MOHAI is free with registration for the event.

Schedule

10:30  Blessing

• Cecile Hansen, Honorable Chair Woman of the Duwamish People  
• Welcome and norms setting  
  • Lulu Carpenter, producer of #LuluNation + Crew  w/ Mr. B of KHUH LP 104.9 FM Hollow Earth Radio along with Sonnet Retman, Michelle Habell-Pallan and and other members of Womxn Who Rock Collective.

10:30-5: All day

• Children’s activities
  •   Facilitated by the awesome Teachers WhoTech!
• Tours of MOHAI’s fabulous exhibit, Seattle on the Spot: the Photographs of Al Smith!
• Community Altar

11:00 A conversation on claiming space as Womxn of Color artists in the changing city that is Seattle in the era of rapid gentrification featuring:  

• Storyteller and performer  Kibibi Monie,
• MC, educator and organizer, Julie C of Artist Coalition for Equitable Development (ACED):
• Dancer and educator, Ixtlixochitl Salinas-Whitehawk

11:30 Claiming Space Break Out Sessions:

• Question and Answer session with our 11:00 speakers facilitated by Lulu Carpenter.
• Screening of  Promised Land with discussion by film producer, Sarah Samudre Salcedo and Duwamish tribal chairwoman, Cecile Hansen and her daughter, Jody Hansen.
• Discussion and Idea Incubator Space facilitated by Carrie Lanza

12:30 Lunch and Learn:

• Discussion regarding  The CAP Report: 30 Ideas for Creation, Activation and Preservation of Cultural Space.

1:30 Blues Jam

• with Reese Tanimura and friends!!!!

2:30 Skill Shares with local media justice activists:

• Jessica Ry’cheal whose work is featured in the Everyday Black exhibit at the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM)
• Cynthia Brothers of Vanishing Seattle who documents gentrification in the Emerald City.
• Screening of KD Raye’s film on Seattle jazz vocalist, Ernestine Anderson

3:30 Closing Musical Jam featuring:

• International community feminist/feminista comunitario/Afro-Ecuadorian artist, Black Mama

• Dancer and scholar,  Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor and friends!

We hope to see you on Saturday, March 10!

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