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  • ‘GATHERING OF GIVERS’ MARKS WOMEN’S DAY

    By Mabel Pais

    Come get inspired at The International Day of Women celebration! Discover new connections!

    Gathering of participants on Women’s Day (Photo : Courtesy NJPAC)

    Women@NJPAC, for over 25 years, has enabled women to channel their time, talent and treasure in promoting the beneficial role of the arts in our everyday lives.

    Now, more than ever, we need the arts in all of its manifestations as we continue to fight injustice, reaffirm the autonomy and resilience of women and find sustenance for the journey toward equity and justice for all.

    The ‘Gathering of Givers’ event is a unique experience, offering women from across the state of New Jersey the chance to gather, connect, heal, motivate each other and recommit their energies to the collective fight ahead.

    Join the illustrious group of women on International Women’s Day for inspiration, healing and new connections as we work toward lasting change in our communities, our state and our world.

    PROGRAM

    What:  ‘Gathering of Givers: Embracing Resilience and Unleashing Hope’

    When:  Wednesday March 8, 2023, 8:30-11:30AM

    Where: NJPAC, 1 Center Street, Newark, NJ

    How:    Rsvp @ njpac.tfaforms.net/257 or call 973.353.7566

    Who:    Featuring 

    Aisha Glover, VP, Center for Urban Innovation, Audible

    Nina Cooke John, Principal, Studio Cooke John; Architect and Artist, ’Shadow of A Face’, The Harriet Tubman Monument, Newark, NJ

    Tamara Linde, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, PSEG; and Board Chair, Community Foundation of New Jersey

    Nelba Márquez-Greene, Founder, The Ana Grace Project

    LaMonica McIver, Council President, Newark Municipal Council

    Angelica M. Ogando, MBA, Co-Founder & COO of Yoshida Academy; Co-Founder & CEO of Warrior Queen Cosmetics

    fayemi shakur, Arts and Cultural Affairs Director, City of Newark

    Senator M. Theresa Ruiz, New Jersey Senate Majority Leader

    Lindsay Schambach, Executive Director, Imagine

    Scheherazade Tillet, Co-Founder, The Long Walk Home

    (Mabel Pais writes on Social Issues, The Arts and Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Cuisine and Spirituality)

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    TIK TOK COMEDIAN PINKY PATEL MAKES MILLIONS LAUGH

    By Mabel Pais

    “I want little Indian girls to watch their moms laugh because they have a phone in front of them and when they peek over their shoulders, it’s me, an Indian woman on their screen, making their mom laugh. To me, that is full circle.” – Pinky Patel

    Pinky Patel (facebook.com/PinkyPatelOfficial)

    The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) brings us PINKY PATEL and her ‘NEW CROWN WHO DHIS’ TOUR at the Victoria Theater, Newark on Saturday, March 11, at 8 PM.

    Pinky Patel, originally from Illinois, is a PTA mom turned creator, comedian, and social media personality with over 5 M Tik Tok followers. She is a fresh new comedian who got her start on TikTok, making millions of people laugh.

    When Pinky is not busy giving out free hits of serotonin, you can find her being an everyday PTA mom to her two young roommates and trying to find new and inventive ways to evict all of the extra eight-legged roommates she keeps acquiring in her glam cave. She is best known for her hilarious commentary and viral videos from her glam cave that has garnered millions of likes on social media. She has worked with brands such as Clorox, Pfizer, Pure Leaf Tea, and many more. You can catch Pinky in a city near you on her much-anticipated ‘New Crown Who Dhis Tour.’

    “You are more than a mom or a wife. You are more than the labels society places on you, you become whoever you want to be, whatever that looks like,” says Patel.

    “Pinky Patel is real, a comedian for every-woman. This new wave of comedy strays from the overdone approaches of forced shock and awe, unintelligible vulgarity and inflated egos,” says Bridge Magazine.

    TICKETS

    Tickets to see Pinky Patel can be purchased by visiting NJPAC.org or the NJPAC Box Office or calling 888. GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722).

    The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)

    Follow NJPAC Online:

    Website:     njpac.org

    Twitter:      @NJPAC

    Instagram:    @NJPAC

    Hashtag:     #NJPAC

    Facebook:    facebook.com/NJPAC

    YouTube:     NJPACtv

    Follow NJPAC’s Standing in Solidarity Series Online:

    Website:     njpac.org/takeastand

    Hashtag:       #NJPACTakeAStand

    Youtube:       Standing in Solidarity playlist 

    (Mabel Pais writes on Social Issues, The Arts and Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Cuisine and Spirituality)

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    WOMEN IN POWER: CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

    Girl Talk (scene) Photo : worldchannel.org.

    By Mabel Pais

    ‘WOMEN BE SEEN, BE HEARD, BE CELEBRATED’ is the theme of World Channel’s (worldchannel.org) presentation of films for Women’s History Month.

    Celebrate women – their history and present – appreciating the hard won battles for gender equality and recognizing how much more we all have to work toward.

     For too long, women in the United States, and around the globe, have been overlooked and oppressed, their intelligence, talents and opinions suppressed to maintain a patriarchal status quo. Today, through the achievement of trailblazers who fought against inequality, and the many waves of the feminist movement, women of all identities are able to demonstrate their leadership and power in science, politics, the arts and beyond.

    This Women’s History Month, watch films that showcase how women are working against deep-rooted gender discrimination and stereotypes while advocating for their stories to be told – from the groundbreakers of the suffrage movement to the high school students amplifying their voices to win championships and parity on a Massachusetts high school debate team in the new Local USA special ‘Girl Talk.’

    To access the month’s film schedule, visit worldchannel.org. The films are also available on other viewing platforms: pbs.org, youtube.com, Apple Podcasts (apple.com/apple-podcasts) and Spotify (spotify.com).

    (Mabel Pais writes on Social Issues, The Arts and Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Cuisine and Spirituality)

  • ATHENA FILM FEST HONORS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

    ATHENA FILM FEST HONORS WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

     

    Frozen 
    AFF Awards (Photos : athenafilmfestival.com)

    By Mabel Pais

    Women’s History Month 2021 is celebrated by ‘The Athena Film Festival’ during the entire month of March 2021

    Catch up on several of the films, panels and conversations available until the end of March at athenafilmfestival.com/2021

     As an organization dedicated to showcasing the best films about women leaders, the festival team felt compelled to curate a program that receives, reacts and responds to this past year. With all of its programming, the members hope to examine the challenges all around us, celebrate those who have taken up the task to solve them and use this moment as an opportunity to rebuild and envision the kind of world we want to live in.

    The areas of focus in the Fest are:

    A LOOK AT HEALTH

    Physical health, mental health, community health, public health, socioeconomic health – we’ve thought about it constantly for the past 12 months. In a year where every email starts with “hope you are well,” we are asking ourselves “what does it mean to be well?” Why are there so many different ways of talking about health? What does holistic wellness look like? Who has access to health? Do people have autonomy over their health? We’ll dive into these questions with films about health, with a focus on the ongoing fights for reproductive rights, justice, and disparities in maternal healthcare.

    COME AS YOU ARE

    Women, femmes, and trans and non-binary folks are constantly being told how they should look, how they should act and how they should live. For years feminist and queer movements have been breaking down those expectations while also reclaiming things that were once seen as restrictive and stereotypical but now they’re powerful but are these things reclaimed or are we just perpetuating old stereotypes OR is it now such a stereotype that the mere act of embodying it makes it subversive? It is so confusing! In this section we throw all of that out the window and celebrate just being who you are, whatever that means to you. Whether that’s wearing makeup or not, wearing your natural hair or not, shaving or not. It’s all good here as long as it’s what you want! Come as you are.

    DISCOVERY

    Fall in love with new voices. Celebrate the inspiring new works of first time and student filmmakers as they discover and unlock their creativity, and support a filmmaker on the brink of success with our second annual Breakthrough Award. It has been a difficult year for filmmakers with theater closures and production halts — among those hit hardest are emerging filmmakers. But as you’ll see here, emerging filmmakers are resilient and the future of the industry is bright.

    IMAGINING A NEW FUTURE

    When so much has changed so fast, when in the span of just a few weeks, people started talking about the “new normal,” how does that change our ideas of what is possible? While so much of this rapid change has been difficult and even traumatizing, it has shown us things that things don’t have to be the way they were. How do we use this newfound possibility to build a better world? How do we take this new perspective and turn it on institutions or systems that up until now we just accepted as the way things had to be? The future is wide open. What will it look like?

    NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US

    This rallying cry, which began in the disability rights movements in South Africa in 1993, has since been applied to multiple movements and causes. In the film community, it has been picked up as a way to discuss authorship. Too often we see new voices represented on screen but not behind the scenes. In this program, we dive into representation. Who is at the center of the story? Who is telling the story? These films examine, celebrate, and dissect representation and visibility as it appears in everyday life and in wider communities. In these times of great change, we must keep this rallying cry ringing in our heads. We must keep asking, who is this change serving and who is leading?

    MAKING IT HAPPEN: WOMEN IN STEM

    In a world where we’re fighting a global pandemic, staring down the eye of climate change, and on the brink of groundbreaking AI technology, we need the best and brightest leading the way. Too often women are left out, underrepresented or intentionally sidelined in the STEM fields. We’re excited to once again partner with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to tell the stories of fierce and fearless women working in STEM. We’ll see the discoveries they make and the challenges they face as they uncover the truth about our world and break down social barriers.

    RESILIENCE THROUGH UNCERTAINTY

    What keeps us going? How do we move into the future when we have no idea what it will look like? Humans, women, leaders are resilient. What does resilience look like? How do we move through the fog of uncertainty and come out on the other side? Through films and conversations we’ll investigate and showcase the exhaustion and devastation, and the powerful manifestations of perseverance and hope that keeps people going.

    TEAR IT DOWN: DISMANTLING WHITE SUPREMACY

    The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare that which already plagued our country, including police brutality, structural racism, and economic inequality. We’ll take a look at people organizing and taking action to tear down systems of oppression. You’ll see stories of activists organizing to fight white supremacy in the many forms it takes, whether that is hair discrimination, mass incarceration, or continued disrespect for indigenous communities and their sacred land.

    Panels and Conversations

    All panels and conversations are free of charge and open to the general public, but registration is required. Information on how to access the panel will be sent to all registrants in advance of the event.

    Use this link to register for panels and conversations of your choice airtable.com/shrmnASUe1HOXH64b

    All of the panels and conversations listed below will be pre-recorded and made available on the dates indicated in the list.

    The following available conversations include:

    This is a featured conversation of the Nothing About Us Without Us program area.

    March 20: Producing During and After COVID

    The conversation will also include where they see the industry going.

    March 20: Writing Roundtable

    This is an invitation-only event.

    March 23: Deconstructing Whiteness

    This is a featured conversation of our Tear it Down: Dismantling White Supremacy program area.

    March 23: The Push for Decarceration

    This conversation will be in conjunction with The Third Strike.

    This is a featured conversation of our Tear it Down: Dismantling White Supremacy program area.

    March 25: Creating Utopias: Science Fiction as a Model for Future Planning

    This is a featured conversation of our Imagining a New Future program area.

     

    March 25: Black Feminist Future: Reconceiving Freedom for Collective Power and Justice

    This is a featured conversation of our Imagining a New Future program area.

    To learn more or purchase tickets, visit athenafilmfestival.com/2021

    (Mabel Pais writes on Social Issues, The Arts and Entertainment, Spirituality, and Health & Wellness)