LBQ presents:
ALIX OLSON LIVE AT CORNELL!
LESBIAN, SOCIALIST, FEMINIST, SLAM POET working for SOCIAL JUSTICE!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7299011434Where: February 8th, Barnes Auditorium, $3 admission at the door
When: Doors open: 7:30pm, performance is from 8:00-9:30pm
What: "Alix Olson is a brilliant performer, an ingenious poet, a serious thinker, a funny person. She brought me to my feet." -HOWARD ZINN
Of her live performances, The Progressive Magazine calls Alix "an electrifying performer who seduces the audience with wit and energy, spinning tales of life on the road between her fiery poems. A sharpshooter with theatrical flair, Olson oozes both love and rage."
Alix was voted "Best Activist", along with MoveOn, in Venus Magazine's Hott List 2004. Olson was voted 2004 OutMusician of the Year (OutMusic), and was a triple nominee for the 2002 OUTMusic Awards. In June 2003, Alix (along with Margaret Cho and Nobuko Oyabu) received the "Visionary Award" from the DC Rape Crisis Center for her "exceptional commitment to the promotion of social justice." Past honorees include Gloria Steinem, Tori Amos, Patricia Ireland and Sarah Jones. Olson has also received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and a Barbara Deming grant.
For more information contact: Ashley McGovern, aem65@cornell.edu
This event is sponsored by LBQ, Haven, the Women's Resource Center, ALANA, The LGBT Resource Center, Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department, CUPB, the Sustainability Hub, Watermargin Co-op and Cornell Peace and Justice.
Haven and the WRC are part of the Dean of Students Office, Student Support and Diversity Education, and are funded in part by the SAF
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Date: Saturday, March 8, 2008
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room
Street: Central Campus Cornell
City/Town: Ithaca, NY
Melissa Ferrick has the kind of relationship with her audience that few artists are blessed with. Her live performance is fierce and funny, outspoken and vulnerable, passionate and real. The emotional honesty of Ferrick’s first-person lyrics, the force of her vocal delivery and the disciplined fury of her musicianship connects her to her audience with confidence and grace. She’s been gaining fans since her first release at age 22 on Atlantic Records. Her next three recordings were released by indie label What Are Records. In 2000, Melissa launched her own label: Right On Records. Her 2006 release, In the Eyes of Strangers, marked the label’s sixth release.
SHE IS AN AMAZING LIVE PERFORMER- YOU DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT TO MISS OUT ON THIS EVENT!
Tickets are $7 and will be sold
AT THE DOOR ONLY, so get there when the doors open at 7:30!
check out her website:
www.melissaferrick.com
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Alison Bechdel: At Cornell-- co-sponsored by Queer Student Union (formerly Haven)
Since its inception in 1983, Alison Bechdel’s
comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For has become a countercultural institution. The strip is syndicated in dozens of newspapers, translated into several languages and collected in a series of award-winning books. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as “one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century.” And Comics Journal says, “Bechdel’s art distills the pleasures of Friends and The Nation; we recognize our world in it, with its sorrows and ironies.”
In addition to her comic strip, Bechdel has also done exclusive work for a slew of publications, including Ms., Slate, the Advocate, and many other newspapers, websites, comic books, and ‘zines.
In 2006, Houghton Mifflin published her graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. The bestselling coming-of-age tale has been called a “mesmerizing feat of familial resurrection” and a “rare, prime example of why graphic novels have taken over the conversation about American literature” and was listed #1 on Time Magazine's Books of the Year list.
Bechdel lives near Burlington, Vermont.
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As the most prominent HIV/AIDS activist working in China, Dr. Yanhai has worked considerably with the LGBTQ population in both the context of HIV/AIDS prevention and human rights. In 2002, the government kidnapped Dr. Wan from a gay and lesbian film festival in Beijing for his involvement in exposing a major blood-selling scandal in Henan province, where HIV infections skyrocketed after local government officials and businessmen used
unsanitary methods to obtain and sell blood from peasants. Despite this and other instances of government detainment, Dr. Wan has continued to fight for
the rights of all those affected by HIV/AIDS in China.
At the DASH-sponsored lecture on Tuesday, Dr. Wan Yanhai will speak on his experiences as an HIV/AIDS activist in China. A small reception with pizza and other refreshments will follow the lecture.
~Wan Yanhai's visit to Cornell is sponsored by: Global Health Program, East
Asia Program, D.A.S.H., Cornell Health
International, Gannett Health Services, Becker House, Department of Asian
Studies, Department of Government, Department of Policy Analysis and
Management, Society for the Humanities, Haven, MOSAIC, Women's Resource
Center, SAFC.~
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Date: Friday, November 16, 2007
Time: 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall (it's on the basement floor of Goldwin Smith)
City/Town: Ithaca, NY
The Cornell Women's Resource Center, D.A.S.H. (Direct Action to Stop Homophobia), and The LGBT Resource Center cordially invite people of ALL genders and sexual orientations to join them for an evening of divine sexual exploration:
ANAL SEX 101: Everything You Wanted to Know
(But Were Afraid to Ask) With Qualified Sexpert Tristan TaorminoThat's right! You read it correctly! Tristan Taormino, the author of The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, editor of the award-winning Best Lesbian Erotica series, columnist, and renowned sex educator, is coming to Cornell to talk with us for one night only. And it's FREE!
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2007 8:00 P.M.
KAUFMAN AUDITORIUM (Goldwin Smith Hall)No experience is necessary!
For more information, contact adi6@cornell.edu. This is an accessible event.
Funded in part by The CWRC, Haven, The CUPB, & The SAFC. The CWRC and Haven are supported by the Office of the Dean of Students and are funded in part by the Student Activity Fee.
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November 3rd, 10pm-1:00am
Big Red Barn
COME READY, PLAY HARD!
*$3 at the door with costume
*5 without
*DJ ALL NIGHT LONG
*FREE GIVEAWAYS
