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AFROLEZ PRODUCTIONS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - $1,000
"NO!" is a documentary that addresses the collective
silence in the Black Community when Black women and girls
are raped or sexually assaulted by Black men and boys.
The film incorporates narrative vignettes, archival
footage, testimonies, interviews, music, dance and
poetry.
COALITION ON
PROSTITUTION
San Francisco, California - $750
The Coalition is
producing its third San Francisco Sex Worker Film
Festival in
response to the need for public education and discussion
about sex work.
The grant will support production of education forums
designed to
complement the feature film presentations and stimulate
discussion.
DIXIE FUN DANCE
THEATRE
New York, New York - $500
The Thinnest Woman
with the Fewest Wrinkles Wins is a full-evening
inter-generational,
laugh out loud, activist dance performance spectacle
exploring the
impacts of the prevailing Western image of the female
body
and face. The
funding will support a New York production.
FEMINIST SPIRITUAL
COMMUNITY
Portland, Maine - $1,000
Funding will
support production of the World Premiere of Thanatron, a
Lesbian play by
Carolyn Gage.
THE INDIAN
NATIONAL TRUST FOR THE WELFARE OF
TRIBALS
New Delhi, India - $1,000
The Hargauri herb
project is in response to the exploitation of the
forestflora
in the Kalahandi
district of Orissa, India and its impact on
the local
people. The
project will document tribal knowledge of indigenous
medicinal
plant wealth,
promote their sustainable use by regular production to
create an
alternative and sustainable livelihood to forest
harvests.
JUSTICEWORKS
COMMUNITY ˆ MUJERES DE SUBSTANCIA
Brooklyn, New York - $500
JWC works to
repeal mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws and
empower those most
impacted. The Women of Substance workshop is
designed to bring
ex-prisoner women into direct contact with mainstream
society. The
funding will support Spanish translation subtitles to the
Women of Substance
documentary used in these workshops.
KOREAN FAMILY COUNSELING &
RESEARCH CENTER
Flushing, New York - $1,600
KFCC serves
physically and mentally abused Korean-Americans by
offering
individual and family counseling, victim advocacy and
community
education. In
response to the dramatic increase in requests and the
long
work hours of
those requesting services, KFCC plans to hire a part-time
counselor in order
to offer services at night and on the weekend.
LESBIANS ORGANIZED
FOR VIDEO EXPERIENCE TAPES
PRESERVATION
PROJECT
New York, New York - $1,000
The project will
preserve and catalogue 77 video tapes shot and edited
from 1973-1976 by
members of the Lesbians Organized for Video
Experience
Collective. The material documents lesbian activities
around
New York City including
Lesbian/Gay Pride Marches/Rallies and other
political events,
poetry readings, theater, Lesbian Olympics, other
cultural
events and
conferences.
MAKING THE MOST OF
I, INC.
Bellows Falls, Vermont - $500
Making the Most of
I provides on-going comprehensive education and
life skills
classes for rural women through innovative collaboration
with
experts from local
agencies. The grant will support production of education
forums. Courses
are offered free of charge, in various locations with
free on-site
childcare and reimbursements for transportation.
MEDIA MATTERS
Cambridge, Massachusetts - $500
Let‚s Make a
Better Picture is an elementary school curriculum that
uses
photography as a
way to engage K-6 girls in science and math.
NEW YORK DANCE COLLECTIVE
New York, New York - $900
NY Dance
Collective offers workshops for at-risk female
adolescents
challenging
concepts of low self esteem, lack of disciple and low
confidence.
Workshops are offered in-house at the NYC Department of
Juvenile Justice
145 Detention Center in Harlem as well as in high
schools and
community programs.
STUDENTS ACTIVE
FOR ENDING RAPE
New York, New York - $1,600
Funding will
support development of Organizing Workshops geared to
the needs of
students of color. SAFER workshops combines classic
organizing wisdom
with a focus on the issue of reforming campus sexual
assault policies.
STOCKYARDS THEATRE
PROJECT
Chicago, Illinois - $700
Stockyards is the
only theater company in Chicago that is dedicated
exclusively to
producing theater and performance by, for and about
women. Funding
will support production of Lunacy by Patricia Weaver-
Francisco and the
3rd Annual Women‚s Performance Art Festival.
Lunacy explores
what became of the female Mercury astronauts who
were denied the
right to go into space after their training.
THIS IS ME, INC.
Chicago, Illinois- $500
This is Me brings
adolescent and teen girls together, with the guidance of
concerned women,
to discover and explore who they are and what they
are capable of
accomplishing in light of their individual strengths.
Participants
determine topics covered and suggest and facilitate
activities.
T.O.P.S. FOR YOU,
INC.
Brooklyn, New York - $1,000
The
community-based resource center recognized the desperate
need
for quality
childcare training and created the Bushwick Family Day
Care
Providers Network
to monitor homes, train providers, and offer a system
of advocacy for
parents seeking childcare.
VIDA-INTEGRACION-DESARROLLO-AMOR
VIDA
Lima, Peru - $1,000
This group works
to promote the rights of lesbians and sexual minorities,
organize against
violence and strengthen their communities in Lima and
in the interior of
Peru.
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES
New York, New York - $1,500
Funds will support
distribution of the documentary „ Closing the Open
Door‰ - The
Fight for a College Education‰ about the heated
controversy
over the Open
Admissions policy at the City University of New York. It
tells the stories
of people who would not have been able to advance in
their lives
without this policy which began in 1969 and ended in
1998.
THE EDIE WINDSOR
FUND FOR OLD LESBIANS GRANTEE:
SWORDFISH
PRODUCTIONS
Berkeley, California - $710
Twilight: The
Aging of Lesbian Elders is a documentary addressing the
issues of
discrimination against Lesbians/Lesbian elders and the
need
for a local and
national network of advocates, health care providers, and
support systems.
Twilight will bring together community members in the
San Francisco Bay
Area in the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and
Trans-gendered
seniors advocacy for a public forum and open panel
focused on
creating a national plexus to begin development of local
and
national projects
of extended care and safe senior housing for Lesbians.
THE ELLEN
DOUGHTERY ACTIVIST FUND FOR YOUNG WOMEN GRANTEE:
MIND ON THE MEDIA
Duluth, Minnesota - $750
The „Turn
Beauty Inside Out‚ (TBIO) campaign educates about
the
images of girls
and women in advertising and film. Girls and women
around the country
and in some international cities, organize a variety of
local ways to
celebrate TBIO Day, the third Wednesday of May.
THE JEANNE MEURER
INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S FUND GRANTEE:
COATLICUE THEATRE
COMPANY
New York, New York
- $1,000
Coatlicue will
create a theatre piece based on the stories and
testimonies
of the Mayan women
of the autonomous communities in resistance in
Chiapas, Mexico
who have been displaced from their communities and
threatened daily
by the military and para-military, raped and massacred.
THE PATSYLU FUND
FOR WOMEN'S MUSIC GRANTEES:
CALLIOPE
WOMEN‚S CHORUS
Minneapolis,
Minnesota - $1,000
Finding The
Strength Within is the theme of a concert in November
2002
to be held in
response to violence in the world, whether as a result of
war, domestic
violence or hate crimes. The chorus will sing music of
strength and hope
to share with the community.
CONCOURSE HOUSE
Bronx, New York -
$2,500
Families Together
In Motion is a project of Concourse House, a transitional
homeless shelter
serving women ages 18 and over who are pregnant or
have up to 4 young
children under the age of 9. The grant will be used to
fund a music/drama
movement program and curriculum involving both
mothers and their
children. The children will share in an active live
music making
experience separate from the common influences of music
heard on radio and
television, which is designed to be affirming,
empowering,
culturally
inclusive and with diverse instrumentation.
NEW MUSIC BAY AREA
Berkeley,
California - $1,000
The grant will
help fund a commission from legendary lesbian, feminist
composer Pauline
Oliveros, for a piece for pianist Sarah Cahill and
trombonist
Monique
Buzzarté. The work to be commissioned will be a
contrapuntal
duo emphasizing
the timbral similarities and differences of
these two
instruments.
NORTH WIND QUINTET
Chatsworth,
California - $2,000
This grant will
assist the Quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, french horn
and
bassoon) in
funding, publishing, recording and distributing the music
of
Zenobia Powell
Perry (b. 1908), a black Creek Indian woman composer,
whose work is
influenced by black American and native American
folklore,
music, language
and poetry.
OPERA HOUSE ARTS
Stonington, Maine
- $500
The grant will
help fund The Singing Bridge, an opera in development. A
collaboration
between composer Anna Dembska and poet/librettist
Beatrix Gates, The
Singing Bridge examines class differences and family
violence,
especially incest, in a small, rural downeast Maine
community
through the eyes
of two young female cousins ˆ one a native Mainer;
the
other the
illegitimate daughter of a summer person and a native
Mainer.
In the opera, the
girls discover each other‚s experiences, uncover the
secrets of their
lives and seek to end the circle of sexual violence in
their
families.
QUEEN CULTURAL
CENTER
San Francisco,
California - $1,000
The Lesbian Music
Series is a four-day event to take place during San
Francisco‚s
National Queer Arts Festival in June 2003. Each concert
during the series
will pair a well-known lesbian musician and an emerging
individual or
group for an on-stage interview and music performance
designed to
showcase the emerging artist and provide insight into the
artists‚
inspiration, motivation and meaning behind their work.
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