The Women’s Press Collective: Honoring the Leadership of Working Women.

Join us for music, dance, food, short speeches, and lots of camaraderie and solidarity as we celebrate women’s leadership in advancing worker’s rights in traditional and nontraditional fields. Performances include MoJazz, an all-women jazz dance presentation, Batalá New York, an all-women Afro-Brazilian Samba Reggae percussion group, and LAPC’s own Janis Russell and Mike Weatherly. (See line-up and schedule below)

Suggested donation $20, to benefit the Women’s Press Collective’s Publication Benefit Program which advances the voice and the cause of working women and aids women-led organizations fighting for economic justice.

EVENT SCHEDULE

11:00 – 11:45am
Morning reception with refreshments, literature & information tables

12:00 – 1:30pm
Program of Speakers, Music and Dance Performances, which includes:

12:00pm
MoJAZZ dance performing an original piece choreographed by Audrey Hubbard Madison with music from “The Imagine Project” by Herbie Hancock.

Two speakers, Hannah Laufer (student at Barnard College) on women in non-traditional employment, and art director Natalie Alcide on women working in advertising and working for change in control of the narrative

12:30pm
Vocal performance by Janis Russell with Mike Weatherly on upright bass

12:45pm
Presentation by honoree, Renee Boyd, founder of WE WIN, Women Empowering Women in Non-Traditional Work

1:00pm
Presentation by founding member of Women’s Press Collective, Diane Garrett

1:15pm
Performance by Batalá New York, an all-women Afro-Brazilian Samba Reggae percussion band

1:45 – 3:00pm
Buffet lunch and time to socialize

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