Join us to learn about Astraea’s latest accomplishments and groundbreaking funding strategies. Discuss how lesbian philanthropy is impacting social change in Los Angeles and around the world. Enjoy the pool, DJ, performances, food and beverages.
Presented by Maylei Blackwell, Meg Hickman, & Alice Y. Hom
Join us to learn about Astraea’s latest accomplishments and groundbreaking funding strategies. Discuss how lesbian philanthropy is impacting social change in Los Angeles and around the world. Enjoy the pool, DJ, performances, food and beverages.
Date: Saturday, June 16
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
RSVP for Address [email protected]
Suggested contribution:
$50 ($25 students/retired/limited income)
All donations are tax-deductible.
Volunteer opportunities available: contact [email protected]
Please bring towels, swimwear, hats, and your contribution in the form of cash or check.
Performers
Doris Reed is a Los Angeles based poet and author of Tending My Garden (2004) as well as poetry music album Reflections (2004).
Born in Columbia, raised in Miami, residing in Eastside Longo, Califas, tatiana de la tierra is the author of For the Hard Ones: A Lesbian Phenomenology / Para las duras: Una fenomenologia lesbiana, Porcupine Love and Other tales from My Papaya and Pintame Una Mujer Peligrosa.
Adelina Anthony, a Xicana lesbian and multi-genre artista, currently resides in Los Angeles. Her MASTERING SEX & TORTILLAS! performance in 2006 was selected as an L.A. Weekly Theater Critics Pick of the Week.
The indelible, delicious and delectable Claudette Sexy DJ has been a DJ and cultural force in the LGBT community of Los Angeles for over 20 years.
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For thirty years, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice has funded organizations that challenge oppression and support human rights around the world. Astraea Staff invite you to join them in celebrating another year of funding change and strengthening communities.
Staff House Party Organizers Shaheen Nazerali, Development Associate and Miles Goff, Executive Assistant
Celebrate Pride in Brooklyn
Missed the Party or want to relive it? View photo gallery.
For thirty years, the
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice has funded organizations that challenge oppression and support human rights around the world.
Astraea Staff invite you to join them in celebrating another year of funding change and strengthening communities.
ANNUAL PRIDE CELEBRATION
Thursday, June 14th, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Home of Executive Director Katherine Acey
Brooklyn, NY
RSVP for Directions
Good eats, Good drinks, Good music, Good folks!
Suggested Contribution: $50 (more if you can, less if you can’t)
RSVP Shaheen Nazerali
(212) 529-8021 x14
[email protected]
Astraea Partners with NewFest to Present Outlaw: Fora da Lei
Outlaw
Fora da Lei
Portugal, 2006, 84 min, Video
In Italian with English subtitles
US Premiere
Directed By: Leonor Areal
Lesbian couple Teresa and Lena made national news in Portugal when they applied to get married. Leonor Areal’s camera follows them, one amid scores of reporters’ cameras, as they deal with the denial of their petition, and, more significantly, with the negative fallout the publicity generates. Though seeking equal rights, in the process of being recognizable public figures, the two women and their daughters instead find themselves facing even greater discrimination in housing, work, and school.
Sunday, June 3rd, 3:45pm
Purchase Tickets
An Evening of Conversation & Celebration with Sunil Pant, Blue Diamond Society
Nepal’s Blue Diamond Society Conversation & Celebration
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, with Adhikaar, The Audre Lorde Project, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities, Desis Rising Up & Moving, International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, South Asian LGBT Association, and others invite you to join us for:
An Evening of Conversation & Celebration with Sunil Pant, Blue Diamond Society
Sunil Pant, founder & president of Blue Diamond Society, who is being awarded with this year’s Felipa de Souza Award by the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), will be joining us in this rare visit to NYC. Please join us to learn more about the work of Blue Diamond Society and raise funds to support their work in Nepal. Visit www.bds.org.np for more information about
Blue Diamond Society.
DATE: May 10th, 2007
TIME: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
LOCATION: Astraea, 116 East 16th Street,
7th Floor, NYC
Suggested contribution: $20 – $100 for individuals (more if you can, less if you can’t – no one will be turned away). 100% of funds raised will be given to Blue Diamond Society.
To RSVP and/or pledge a contribution or for information about how to have your organization cosponsor the event or for questions about the event, please contact Lorraine at 212-529-8021 ext. 22 or email: [email protected].
Tax deductible contributions via check may be made payable to: Astraea Foundation (please indicate “5/10 BDS Fundraiser” in the memo line). Contributions can be brought to the event, or mailed to: Astraea, 116 E. 16th St., 7th flr, Att: 5/10 BDS Fundraiser, NY, NY 10003
South Asians Here and There: A Dialogue about LGBT & Human Rights
Astraea is proud to co-sponsor the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s (IGLHRC) panel discussions on the LGBT rights situation in South Asia. The panels, in New York and San Francisco, will feature Astraea Grantee Partner Sunil Pant, the founder and director of Blue Diamond Society, Nepal’s only LGBT rights organization and the recipient of IGLHRC’s 2007 Felipa de Souza Award.
NEW YORK: Monday, April 30, 2007
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
LGBT Community Center (208 West 13th Street)
Panelists
Sunil Pant, Founder and President of Blue Diamond Society
Trishala Deb, Program Coordinator at Audre Lorde Project
Paula Ettelbrick, IGLHRC Executive Director, Moderator
SAN FRANCISCO: Wednesday, May 2, 2007
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center (730 Polk Street)
Admission is free.
Panelists
Sunil Pant, President of Blue Diamond Society
Dechen Tsering, Program Officer, Asia and Oceania,
Global Fund for Women
Sandip Roy, New America Media, former editor
Trikone Magazine
Paula Ettelbrick, IGLHRC Executive Director, Moderator
Astraea is the world’s only lesbian-led, feminist foundation focused on both U.S. and international LGBTI human rights.
Women will come from all over the world to meet in Dallas, Texas November 2nd through the 5th, 2006 at the Omni Mandalay Hotel and share ideas and strategies for funding social causes and programs. Astraea is the world’s only lesbian-led, feminist foundation focused on both U.S. and international LGBTI human rights.
Why Can’t America Have Human Rights: A Public Forum to strengthen connections andbuild a human rights movement in the United States
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
is proud to be a co-sponsor of
Why Can’t America Have Human Rights:
A Public Forum to strengthen connections and
build a human rights movement in the United States
Thursday September 14, 2006 6:30PM
The Nave at The Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive, New York
Presented by Breakthrough and Mission and Social Justice of the Riverside Church, the event will feature social justice leaders, performers, comedians and musicians including the following:
Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes Jr.
La Bruja
DJ Spooky
Nasry Malak
Roger BonairAgard
Blackout Arts Collective
Afsheen ShamsiCAIR NY
Mallika DuttBreakthrough
Larry CoxAmnesty International USA
Aarti ShahaniFamilies for Freedom
Mary Beth MaxwellAmerican Rights at Work
Kent LebstockAmerican Indian Law Alliance
Joo-Hyun KangAstraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Silvia HenriquezNational Latina Institute for
Reproductive Health
Ajamu BarakaThe United States Human Rights Network
The Riverside Inspirational Choir
For more information, visit: www.breakthrough.tv
Sharing our passion and pride in the movement for social, racial and economic justice for lesbian and allied communities around the world.
The Staff of
Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice
Invites You To
Our Annual Benefit Garden Party
Astraea Pride Celebration!
Sharing our passion and pride in the movement for social, racial and economic justice for lesbian and allied communities around the world.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
6:00pm – 9:00pm Rain or Shine
At the lovely home of Katherine Acey,
Astraea’s Executive Director
Food and refreshments provided.
Suggested contribution: $50
(more if you can, less if you can’t)
Please RSVP to Candace,
Astraea’s event coordinator at 212.529.8021 x14.
“There are lesbians living in the homophobic Bible Belt who, thanks to the Appalachian Women’s Alliance, have found support and renewed self worth. There are lesbians who’ve been denied formal education in Namibia who, thanks to the Rainbow Project’s job training program, have learned new skills and found employment. Because, together, there is so much more we can do.”
Click here to view the article on gomag.com.
Sharing our passion and pride in the movement for social, racial and economic justice for lesbian and allied communities around the world.
Left to Right: Lorraine Ramirez, Dulce Reyes, Melissa Hoskins, Candace Hewitt, Katherine Acey, Shaya Mercer, Audrey Rivers, Kerry-Ann Dacres, Colleen Meyers, Jazmine Irizarry, Joo-Hyun Kang, & Namita Chad.
Not Shown: Jennifer Einhorn, Ivory Farley, Fred Humphrey,
& Wendy Sealey
The Staff of
Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice
Invites You To
Our Annual Benefit Garden Party
Astraea Pride Celebration!
Sharing our passion and pride in the movement for social, racial and economic justice for lesbian and allied communities around the world.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
6:00pm – 9:00pm Rain or Shine
At the lovely home of Katherine Acey,
Astraea’s Executive Director
Food and refreshments provided.
Suggested contribution: $50
(more if you can, less if you can’t)
Please RSVP to Candace,
Astraea’s event coordinator at 212.529.8021 x14.
