BIG MOUTH: contemporary feminist voices in art + illustration

Posted on July 28, 2011 by kwadkins

OPENING AUGUST 9 @ BROOKLYN FIREPROOF

a group show featuring
Suzy Exposito / Molly Fair / Kim Funk / Kathleen Hanna
J. Morrison / Adee Roberson / Gabby Schulz

Curated by Kate Wadkins + Lauren Denitzio, BIG MOUTH: contemporary voices in feminist art + illustration is a platform for unpopular visual opinions. Feminist movements have historically grown out of interventions within radical communities in the face of silence, anger, and often, violence. Still, these conflicts and contentions are fought with the utmost passion and humor in hopes for a radical resolution. BIG MOUTH illustrates the ever-evolving search for feminist/queer identities and communities. This group show places feminist narratives at the center of radical art-making, where often our voices are poorly represented or left out altogether. BIG MOUTH is a celebration of our pluralism, our goofiness, and a proclamation of defiant love.

@ Brooklyn Fireproof
119 Ingraham St (at Porter Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11237

with open hours throughout

OPENING TUESDAY AUG 9 6p-9p
Opening party
& participatory feminist art workshop
Bring your favorite art supplies (some will be provided)
Limited materials so register here!

THURSDAY AUG 11 12p-6p
Open hours: drop by and visit with curators Kate Wadkins + Lauren Denitzio

FRIDAY AUG 12
12p-6p Open hours
7p Panel discussion with Suzy Exposito, Kim Funk & more
9p Closing DANCE PARTY!

BIG MOUTH is part of the Birds of Summer event series hosted by For the Birds.
A map of all events can be found here.

GIRL GANG GIG VOLUME #009

Posted on July 24, 2011 by kwadkins

photo courtesy On the Dot Collective

In a last minute endeavor, For the Birds is joining up with New Brunswick, NJ’s On the Dot Collective to present GIRL GANG GIG VOLUME #009. GGGV is an extension of the International Girl Gang Underground zine and seeks to document and promote women and queer spaces within D.I.Y. music/art scenes. This is For the Birds’ first official out-of-state organizational effort, and our first collaboration with On the Dot.

THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011

6:30PM-10:30PM

CO-CURATED BY
FOR THE BIRDS COLLECTIVE &
ON THE DOT COLLECTIVE

— NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ BASEMENT SHOW —
— LOCATION TBA —

:::::::::: BIKINI KILL COVER SET
Featuring bad-ass members of Lost Weekend, 3Jane, Sparkle Shit
& maybe a guest appearance

:::::::: WHISTLIN’ DIXIE SCREENING
“Whistlin’ Dixie: Queer Sounds, New South”
A documentary film about queer music from the American South
by Meredith Heil
http://queersouth.com/

:::::: BARBECUE
Cuz it’s summer and we can!

:::: FOR MORE INFO
http://forthebirdscollective.org/
http://onthedotcollective.blogspot.com/
http://girlganggigvolume.tumblr.com/

:: MORE TBA!

» RSVP ON FACEBOOK «

ANNOUNCING: BIRDS OF SUMMER, a feminist event series

Posted on July 17, 2011 by kwadkins

Since 2008, For the Birds has presented THE BIG SHE-BANG, a feminist conference and festival, every summer. This year we decided to try something new and exciting.

FOR THE BIRDS is pleased to announce BIRDS OF SUMMER, a series of feminist events in August and September.

As always, check our website for updates. We’ll be posting info on our Facebook invite, too, where you can RSVP.

TUES. AUG 9 – FRI. AUG 12: BIG MOUTH
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contemporary feminist voices in art + illustration
@ Brooklyn Fireproof with open hours throughout

TUESDAY 6p-9p Opening party & participatory feminist art workshop
THURSDAY 12p-6p Open hours, meet the curators
FRIDAY 12p-6p Open hours // 7p Panel discussion with the artists // 9p CLOSING DANCE PARTY!
119 Ingraham St (at Porter Ave), Brooklyn, NY 11237

SAT. AUG. 20: PROTECT YOURSELF ‘CAUSE YOU’LL WRECK YOURSELF
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12pm-3pm @ Launchpad // A skill share on how to take care of ourselves while
we try to fix the world. Topics to include yoga, massage, and more.
721 Franklin Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238

SAT. AUG 27 + SUN. AUG 28 THE WRITTEN BIRD
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Two day event featuring women writers and organizers giving workshops and
readings. Also included will be tables of literature by local writers and a bookswap!
Workshops Sat. Aug. 27 @ WORD Brooklyn.
126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Readings Sun. Aug 28 @ Bluestockings NYC
172 Allen Street, NY 10002
SAT. SEPT. 3: “THE WORST” COMPILATION ZINE BENEFIT SHOW
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8pm @ Death by Audio // “Who’d Ya Lose and How Ya Dealin’?” A benefit show to raise money for The Worst Compilation Zine on grief and loss, featuring: music from Bridge and Tunnel, Worriers, and Very Okay, Readings by Cynthia Schemmer, Tommy Pico, and more, Puppetry by Geppetta Puppet Theater, and Tabling by For the Birds and Birdsong Collective. $6-10 sliding scale, all ages, no BYOB.
RSVP // 49 S. 2nd St., Brooklyn, NY, 11222

FOR THE BIRDS COMPILATION
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For the Birds will be curating our annual music compilation featuring women-fronted and feminist-positive bands from all over the country. RVIVR, Small Bones, CAT VET, Big Eyes and No Statik are just a few bands that will be on this year’s comp, titled “FLOCK ROCK.” Past years have included Grass Widow, Fleabag, Slingshot Dakota, P.S. Eliot, Brilliant Colors, Cheeky, Arctic Flowers, Nuclear Family, and Carnal Knowledge. Our compilations are exclusively available at every event and our online store!

Bird Words!

Posted on July 1, 2011 by ACP

Introducing For the Birds Book Club, BirdWords. Over the summer (and probably continuing afterwards) we are going to choose a title of awesome feminist fiction to read and ask you to read it as well! We’ll post a blog post with our thoughts and invite you to join in the conversation via email, blog comments, and tweets!

This month’s book is Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea – a prequel of sorts to Jane Eyre through the eyes of Antoinette Cosway, known as the tragic Bertha Mason in Bronte’s iconic work. Rhys humanizes a classic hurdle and creates a back story and reasons for her “madness”. It’s also an interesting look at Caribbean culture, colonialism, race, and class.

So if you’d like to join us, please take the month to read it! It’s pretty short and we’ll post a blog at the end of the month. Feel free to email us, tweet, or facebook any questions or comments!

Happy reading, y’all!

P.S. FTB blog favorite, Racialicious, is doing an awesome Octavia Butler Book Club as well! Looks like fun!

Northside Open Studios: “Presents” and Booklyn’s Zine + Print Fair

Posted on June 16, 2011 by kwadkins

After an eventful Bushwick Open Studios the other week, today commences Northside Open Studios, a festival of art shows, artists’ open studios, and events in North Brooklyn.

Image courtesy of Hyperallergic.

I’ve been working with Hrag Vartanian to co-curate Presents: Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ, a show of over 100 artists and widely varying mediums, that will debut tomorrow, Friday June 17, at Hyperallergic HQ. I am thrilled about the opening as I’ve been writing for Hyperallergic on the subject and living/working among these entries for a month now. L Magazine named the show a “must-see event” during Northside Open Studios. For more information, check out Hyperallergic.

Aimee Lusty, newly-named curator at Booklyn will be hosting a zine and print fair on the street below Booklyn’s own space in Greenpoint. Aimee is one of my favorite local art-makers and creative idea-havers so I am excited to see what she comes up with for Booklyn. She recently debuted MASTER OF REALITY, a group show featuring Milano Chow, Cynthia Daignault, Gary Kachadourian and STO, which will also have open hours during the zine and print fair. BRAIN WAVES, Storefront’s zine and print collection (as well as my curatorial baby) will be tabling during the fair, along with For the Birds’ own Lauren Denitzio. More information is available at Booklyn.

We hope to see you out this weekend!

HOAX #5: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Posted on April 13, 2011 by kwadkins

Hoax zine has extended their call for submissions for issue number five, BUT THIS IS THE LAST CALL! I’m excited about this issue because it’s about a favorite topic of mine, feminist community.

the topic of #5 will be FEMINISM & COMMUNITY

potential ideas for material include, but are not limited to:

elitism (identity politics & border policing & hierarchies within communities)
cliques & exclusivities
success & personal stories
the environment (food politics & urban gardening & eco-feminism & women in farming/farm lands)
accessibility (language & locations (urban vs rural) & academia & pretention & childcare)
work/ production (economics & capitalism)
social movements (then vs now – legacy of the 60s)
assimilation vs liberation (when, if, and how to assimilate)
the self (self-care & where the self ends and community begins)
what makes a community (how does one feel included? & how do we include others & what it means to find a “home” (limits of family))
networking (action & teamwork & friendship)
“diversity” (do we need varieties of people in a community? & tolerance vs acceptance (cultural relativity))
space (physical/ emotional)
legislation (policy & community organizing)
love (hate & anger)
we also totally need lots of artwork (photos, collages, illustrations, drawings, paintings, comics, etc.)! particularly for background designs and things that compliment the written material.

For more info click here.

FTB’s Mega Bird-day Thursday!

Posted on February 8, 2011 by kwadkins

Thursday, February 10th is huge for us Birds! For the Birds members will simultaneously be involved in three events this Thursday.

10AM-8PM: ARCH collective presents Common Time

10AM-12PM: Ask Me, I will Tell, a panel conversation “addressing ways gender is performed among artist and curatorial collectives today.”

7:30PM-9PM: Teen Zine Workshop for 12 to 18 year-olds

Teen Program: Zine Workshop
7:30 pm
McManus Room
Middle School age and up

Westport Public Library
Arnold Bernhard Plaza
20 Jesup Road
Westport, CT 06880

Attention writers and music lovers! Blogging got you down? Tired of merely expressing yourself through Facebook status updates? Take your talent to print by learning how to edit, layout and print your own zine. Kate Wadkins, co-editor of The International Girl Gang Underground Zine and Kate Angell, blogger and librarian at Sarah Lawrence College will lead a discussion of the medium’s history in relation to underground music and DIY culture and will then help get you started on making your own.

Materials will be provided. Just bring your ideas and enthusiasm!

Admission: Free (but space is limited). Register at: http://westportzine.eventbrite.com/

Co-sponsored with Toquet Hall.

For more info: Westport Library or Toquet Hall

ANTI-VALENTINE’S DAY RIOT GRRRL COVER SHOW

Posted on January 23, 2011 by kwadkins

PRESENTED BY KATHI KO & CAROLANNE MARCANTONIO

If you’ve been directed here by the article in BUST magazine, hello! The Anti-Valentine’s Day Riot Grrrl Cover Show IS NOT presented by For the Birds Collective. The Anti-V-Day Show was established by Mel Elberg, Amelia Jackie, Elise Kauffman, and Sarah Rose Janko at the 1087 Loft in Brooklyn. Organized in 2009 by Kathi Ko and then in 2010 by Carolanne Marcantonio, the show is co-presented in 2011 by Ms. Ko & Ms. Marcantonio. The Anti-V-Day Show is, and has been, an annual celebration of women musicians & queer-love (and against Valentine’s Day)!

In 2009, Kathi Ko & For the Birds Collective co-released Gimme Cooties (a compilation CD and tape) at the Anti-V-Day show, documenting women-fronted bands in the New York scene & surrounding area. This year, the show will benefit CYCLE, an all-women run bicycle shop that is in its forming stages.

For the Birds has tabled the Anti-V-Day show every year, and we are honored to be a part of this great event again in 2011. Please attend and support Kathi & Carolanne’s efforts! We’ll be there behind our distro table, as always.

>> ANTI-VALENTINE’S DAY SHOW 2011 <<

Organized by Carolanne and Kathi
Monday Feb 14th at Death By Audio
Doors open at 6:30pm

Bangs,
Lilliput,
X-Ray Spex,
Lunachicks,
Bratmobile,
Team Dresch,
Limp Wrist,
Bikini Kill

Tabling by:
Wardrobe Boutique
For The Birds Collective
Kellys baked goods and fashions
Support New York
Means Of Productions Printing

Volunteering

Posted on January 12, 2011 by rosamundhunter

There are currently no open volunteer positions available. Please check back soon!

In the meantime, get in touch if you would like to be added to our listserv:
forthebirdscollective@gmail.com

FOR THE BIRDS

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