E-NEWSLETTER - June 3, 2005
Toronto Women's Bookstore
http://www.womensbookstore.com
416-922-8744UPCOMING TWB EVENTS
1. Join us for the Toronto Book Launch of the Breastfeeding Café, Sun. June 5
2. Book Launch for Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online Thurs. June 9
3. Evening Reception for Caught in the Act, Thurs. June 16
4. Come to Scream @TWB, Thurs. June 30
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TWB COURSES
1. Space still available for JUNE Bisexuality Course!
2. July Course: Protecting your Creativity and Hilarious 101
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
1. Women's Breast Cancer Information Project
2. Mad Miss/Just Jazz, win a pair of tickets!
3. Win tickets to dat girl sho is funny!
4. Ticket give-away to Pussies Prevail!
..UPCOMING TWB EVENTS
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Join us for the Toronto Book Launch of
The Breastfeeding Café: Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges, and Secrets of Nursing (UBC Press)
by Barbara L. BehrmannSUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2005
2pm to 4pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord St .
Free, all are welcome, child friendly, wheelchair accessible
Barbara L. Behrmann will talk about her new book The Breastfeeding Café: Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges, and Secrets of Nursing. Her story-based presentation explores the joys, frustrations, challenges, humor, poignancy and pain that characterize the nursing experience in a contemporary bottle-feeding society..
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Book Launch of... Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online (Peter Lang)
by Rhiannon BuryTHURSDAY, JUNE, 9th, 6pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord St .
Free! All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible.
Light refreshments will be served
Identity, community and space are central to this in-depth study of two female internet communities whose members are fans of the popular television series The X-Files and Due South. The book examines the critical role of gender, class, sexuality, and nationality in making meaning out of a television show...
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TWB and YYZ Books Present an Evening Reception for Caught in the Act: an Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women
edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna HouseholderTHURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2005
6pm to 8pm
Toronto Women's Bookstore
73 Harbord St .
* 6:30 performance by artist Shannon Cochrane
Free, all are welcome, wheelchair accessible.Caught in the Act focuses on the 70s and 80s, a time when women made a big and noisy impact, and provides readers with insight into the profound effects that feminism and women's work have had on the current alternative scene.
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Come to
Scream at TWB! with Scream in High Park Alumni
THURSDAY, JUNE 30
7pm - 9pm
$5 requested donationfeaturing:
d'bi young, Mariko Tamaki, Jaymz Bee and Saghi Ghahraman..
TWB COURSES
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It's not too late to sign up!
Bisexuality: The Basics, with facilitator Cheryl Dobinson
Four-Week Course: Mondays in June: 6, 13, 20 and 27 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $52 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 15 participants.
This course will provide the opportunity for participants to learn about bisexuality and bisexual issues. This course is open to people of any and all sexual identities who want to learn more about bisexuality..
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Protecting Your Creativity with Instructor Anna Lidstone
Four-week Course: Mondays in July: 4, 11, 18, 25 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $52 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 15 participants.This course will explore what gets in the way of our creativity and what we can do to protect ourselves in order to stay true to who we are as creative beings. The course is suitable for all interests, from those simply wanting to live more creatively to those earning their living as an artist.
Week One: Mythology and Beliefs Around Creativity
Week Two: Your Creative Story
Week Three: The Art of Emotional Management
Week Four: Moving ForwardThis course is open to women and trans-folk.
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Hilarious 101: a 6-week course with Instructor Mariko Tamaki
Six-week Course: Tuesdays in July (5, 12, 19, 26) and August (2, 9) from
6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $80 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 15 participants.Mariko Tamaki invites participants to explore and debate what's funny and what's not, what works and what doesn't in this 6-week long class on comedy writing. At the end of this class students should have a portfolio of short pieces, a selection of which will be compiled and distributed at the end of the course. Mariko promises it will be fun(ny).
Topics will include: My Funny Family, Politics and Satire, Odd Balls, Stand Up, On the Stage
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
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Women's Breast Cancer Information Project
IMMIGRANT WOMEN & WOMEN OF COLOUR NEEDED!
The Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initiative (OBC CRI) is seeking Focus Group participants to evaluate breast cancer educational materials to assess their relevancy to the lives and cultural realities of women of colour.ARE YOU:
*A woman of colour or an immigrant woman?
*A woman who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or a breast cancer survivor?
*Over the age of twenty?IF SO:
Please call Leslie Norville at 416-351-3800 ext.2128, or email leslie.norville@sw.ca <mailto:leslie.norville@sw.ca> to find out how to participate or to get more information. If no one is available to take your call, please leave a message.
HONORARIUM, TTC TICKETS, CHILDCARE AND LUNCH PROVIDED!
Examining Breast Cancer Information from Racially Marginalized Perspectives: A Community-Based Analysis is a project conducted through the Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initiative (OBC CRI) and Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre.
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Leslie Norville, Research Assistant
Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initiative
Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre
790 Bay St., Suite 950
Toronto , ON M5G 1N8
T 416-351-3800 ext 2128
F 416-351-3812
leslie.norville@sw.ca <mailto:leslie.norville@sw.ca>
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THEATRE ARCHIPELAGO PRESENTS
Mad Miss / Just JazzNOW PLAYING @ Artword Alternative
75 Portland St , Toronto
May 25- June 12, 2005
Showtimes: Tues to Sat at 8:30, Sunday at 4:30 pm.Theatre Archipelago's inaugural mainstage production is a double bill of solo performances by Rhoma Spencer and Rebecca Fisseha/Honor Ford-Smith.
Adapted from stories by acclaimed Caribbean writers Olive Senior and Jean Rhys, they are alternately full of comedy and pathos. Mad Miss is the story of Isabella Francina Myrtella Jones who inhabits a street corner in Toronto ,narrating the tale of her fall from respectability to passersby in exchange for spare change.
Just Jazz dramatizes the story of aspiring singer Selena Davis who after migrating to London , finds herself penniless in an upscale London suburb where both she and her singing are offensive to her abusive neighbors.
Tuesday - Thursday $20, Friday - Sunday $25
Special rates for Seniors and StudentsFor reservations 416-366-7723 ext 290 or book online at www.artwordnet or www.totix.com
* * Win a pair of tickets to Mad Miss/Just Jazz on Wednesday June 8th at 8:30pm. Be the fourth correct email response to the following query: Who will be performing at the reception for Caught in the Act? Contest closes Monday June 6th at 4pm. One entry per email address, one entry per person.
Winner will be contacted by email.
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"dat girl 'sho is funny!" - The Urban Womyn's Comedy Festival
SATURDAY JUNE 11, 2005
St Lawrence Centre for the Arts
27 Front Street East
8pmHosted by your girlz, trey anthony and Rachael Lea Rickards, from Plaitform and 'da Kink in my hair.
Featuring. . . .
the hilarious Sabrina Jalees, Jamillah Ross, Anita Majumdar (from fish eyes), the Raging Asians, the soulful Lal, the step team Black Ice, the conscious, though-provoking Naila Keleta Mae (nah-ee-lah) and our headliner from the U.S. is the hilarious and infamous single black mom and lesbian stand-up comic Karen Williams (this girl will have you begging for more!!),the 'dat girl sketch comedy troupe, featuring no other than Jemini from 93.5fm, making her comedy debut! Jemini? Yeah Jemini, dat girl sho is funny!!
Plus a sexy and provocative newly wed game, (would like to tell you more but it's just too hot!) It will be a night you don't want to miss!
Sliding scale tickets ranging from $15- $20 available at the Toronto Women's Bookstore.
To purchase tickets please contact St Lawrence Centre for the Arts
STLC Box Office: (416) 366-7723
STLC Box Office (Toll-free): 1 (800) 708-6754Email: plaitform@hotmail.com
* * Win a pair of tickets to dat girl sho is funny, Saturday, June 11th.
Be the eleventh correct email response to the following query: Name the nstructor of Hilarious 101 and a book she has written. Contest closes Monday June 6th at 4pm. One entry per email address, one entry per person. Winner will be contacted by email..
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The Toronto Women's Bathhouse Committee presentsPUSSIES PREVAIL:
We Came, We Fought, We Con-queered!THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2005
Club Toronto
231 Mutual St .
8pm to 4amEnjoy massage, dry sauna, heated pool, jacuzzi, steamroom and hot sexy .
Fun for all! Plenty of dancing to get you going.Featuring DJ: TK and DJ D-Lite
Tickets: $20 available at the Toronto Women's Bookstore
Limited number of tickets will be available at the door
This event is NOT licensed. We regret that this event is not wheelchair accessible.
18+, gov't photo ID required
All women and transpeople welcome416-925-9872 x 2115
www.pussypalacetoronto.com* * Win a pair of tickets to PUSSIES PREVAIL, Thursday, June 16th. Be the sixth correct email response to the following query: Name ONE of the performers at Scream at TWB and the date this event is taking place. Contest closes Monday June 6th at 4pm. One entry per email address, one entry per person. Winner will be contacted by email.