A Planned Parenthood of New York City Action Fund Benefit – Thursday, June 16th, at Le Poisson Rouge, NYC

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June 16th, 2011 | Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St, NYC | Tickets: $25 | Doors at 6pm

Join us at Le Poisson Rouge for a night to benefit the Planned Parenthood of New York City Action Fund.

1 in 5 American women has been to a Planned Parenthood health center at some point in her life. Right now, your access to reproductive health care is being compromised by Congress.

Support Planned Parenthood and learn how you can effect Congress’s political course. 100% of ticket sales from this show go directly to benefit Planned Parenthood’s political advocacy efforts.

Featuring:

BEST COAST with Those Darlins

Join BEST COAST and Those Darlins and stand up for reproductive health and rights on June 16th!

For more information, email us at actionfund@ppnyc.org

Best Coast:
Bethany Cosentino is a Los Angeles native with a brief stay in Brooklyn, and Best Coast’s influences reflects that: Beach Boys vibe with East Coast 60s girl group such as the Ronnettes and Shangri-Las. Best Coast is brought to life with the help of her long-time friend/guitarist/producer Bobb Bruno and guest drummer Ali Koehler (Vivian Girls). The pair have received heaps of critical praise from editorial publications including Pitchfork, who named their “When I’m With You” single “Best New Music”, New York Times, Spin, Paste, Nylon, Rolling Stone and The Guardian.

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Those Darlins:
Middle Tennessee’s infamous country punk outfit known for their hooky, saucy songwriting and blistering live performances. They have mouths on them, yes they do. But their mouths are connected to their hearts and minds, and amped by loud guitars.

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The Planned Parenthood of New York City Action Fund (Action Fund) is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization formed as the political arm of Planned Parenthood of New York City. The Action Fund engages in legislative education and electoral activity, including voter education campaigns, grassroots organizing, issue advocacy, candidate forums, get-out-the-vote activities, voter registration, and earned and paid media campaigns. The Action Fund encourages public and political support for reproductive health and rights. We also analyze and report on the positions of candidates for public office on issues of importance to the pro-choice community.

Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Address: Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St.
New York, NY 10012

Heraty Law client Todd (REAS) James working on the Art in the Streets “Donut Time” installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art‘s Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles. The exhibit opens on April 17 and runs through August 8. Juxtapoz magazine is preparing a special Art in the Streets issue for April 2011.

In the original 2000 Street Market exhibit, Todd James, Barry McGee, and Stephen Powers created their version of an urban street inside Deitch Projects’ 18 Wooster Street Gallery. A liquor store, a bodega, a check-cashing outfit, and a car service dispatch office lined up beneath a cascade of illuminated signs. Battered trucks, bombed with graffiti tags lay upended on the gallery floor. James and Powers spent several months scouring the streets for discarded signs and storefronts, reassembling the debris into a startling fusion of urban reality and urban fantasy. Barry McGee added both wall mural and sculptural elements, inspired by the urban phenomenon of panel trucks completely covered by layers of graffiti tags.

From MOCA:

APRIL 17–AUGUST 8, 2011 / THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Art in the Streets, the first major U.S. museum exhibition of the history of graffiti and street art. The exhibition will trace the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to the global movement it has become today, concentrating on key cities where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved. Following MOCA’s presentation, the exhibition will travel to the Brooklyn Museum, where it will be on view March 30–July 8, 2012.

Art in the Streets will showcase installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists from the graffiti and street art community, including Fab 5 Freddy (New York), Lee Quiñones (New York), Futura (New York), Margaret Kilgallen (San Francisco), Swoon (New York), Shepard Fairey (Los Angeles), Os Gemeos (São Paulo), and JR (Paris). MOCA’s exhibition will emphasize Los Angeles’s role in the evolution of graffiti and street art, with special sections dedicated to cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture. The exhibition will feature projects by influential local artists such as Craig R. Stecyk III, Chaz Bojórquez, Mister Cartoon, RETNA, SABER, REVOK, and RISK.

A special emphasis will be placed on photographers and filmmakers who documented graffiti and street art culture including Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant, James Prigoff, Steve Grody, Gusmano Cesaretti, Estevan Oriol, Ed Templeton, Larry Clark, Terry Richardson, and Spike Jonze. A comprehensive timeline illustrated with artwork, photography, video, and ephemera will provide further historical context for the exhibition.

Art in the Streets will feature several shows within the show. There will be a special section dedicated to the Fun Gallery, which connected New York graffiti artists with the downtown art community in the early 1980s. Co-curated by gallery founder Patti Astor, the Fun Gallery installation will feature the work of Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the graffiti artists who shaped the gallery’s history. A section dedicated to the seminal film Wild Style (1983), co-curated by the film’s director Charlie Ahearn, will document its influence on the global dissemination of graffiti and hip-hop culture. The exhibition will also feature a memorial presentation of Battle Station, a rarely seen work by legendary artist and theorist RAMMELLZEE, and a display of graffiti black books and other historic works from the Martin Wong Collection presented in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York. A highlight of the exhibition will be a Los Angeles version of Street Market, a re-creation of an urban street complete with overturned trucks by Todd James, Barry McGee, and Steve Powers.

The exhibition will open with a skate ramp designed by pro-skater Lance Mountain and artist Geoff McFetridge. Skate demonstrations by the Nike SB skate team will be held onsite for the duration of the exhibition.

“Art in the Streets will be the first exhibition to position the work of the most influential artists to emerge from street culture in the context of contemporary art history,” said MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch.

“This quintessentially urban and dynamic partnership between the Brooklyn Museum and MOCA began with the 2005 Brooklyn-organized exhibition of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the consummate American street artist of his generation; continued with the MOCA-organized ©MURAKAMI in 2007, defining critical elements of worldwide street art; and now culminates with a groundbreaking exhibition devoted entirely to street art and graffiti,” said Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman. “The partnership has, in itself, provided a major record of public art over the past half century.”

Art in the Streets is organized by Jeffrey Deitch and associate curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose. Gastman is the author of The History of American Graffiti, which will be released in April 2011, and was a consulting producer on the film Exit Through The Gift Shop. Rose curated the exhibition Beautiful Losers and directed the related documentary film. Ethel Seno, editor of Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art, is the curatorial coordinator of the exhibition. The Brooklyn Museum’s presentation will be organized by Managing Curator of Exhibitions Sharon Matt Atkins.

ART IN THE STREETS CATALOGUE
A comprehensive catalogue on the history of graffiti and street art published by Skira Rizzoli and edited by Nikki Columbus, former associate editor of Artforum, will accompany the exhibition. The book traces the birth and dissemination of styles through the stories of graffiti writers and street artists all over the world. It features a foreword by Deitch and essays by Carlo McCormick, Greg Tate, and Diedrich Diederichsen. It also features interviews and discussions with influential street artists about wild style, cholo graffiti, and the art that emerged from skate and punk subcultures. Additional contributors include Fab 5 Freddy, KET, Caleb Neelon, Lydia Yee, Kathy Grayson, Cheech Marin, Bill Daniel, and Hiroshi Fujiwara. The book was designed by Conny Purtill, whose previous projects include Barry McGee: The Buddy System and Beautiful Losers.

RELATED EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH
An extensive program of educational and community workshops will complement the exhibition. As part of its exhibition sponsorship and ongoing community collaboration initiative, Levi’s® will host the Levi’s® Film Workshop at MOCA, offering a diverse schedule of programming that celebrates the craft of filmmaking and explores the exhibition’s subject matter. Access to the Levi’s® Film Workshop’s resources is open to all and free of charge.

MEMBERS’ OPENING

Saturday, April 16, 7–10pm
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Join us for another legendary opening party at MOCA as we premier Art in the Streets, featuring performances by the stars of the classic hip-hop film, Wild Style—Busy Bee, Cold Crush Brothers with Grandmaster Caz—and the award-winning B-Boy crew from Los Angeles, Killafornia. Cash bar.
INFO 213/621-1794 or membership1@moca.org
FREE for MOCA members, $25 for additional guests

Legal Secretary/Legal Assistant

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking a legal secretary/legal assistant to support our 11-attorney digital civil liberties pro bono law office. Come help us defend free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights.

Requirements: three or more years as a litigation secretary or legal assistant, expert abilities with Word (especially styles and generating tables), strong experience with legal filings including using various court ECF systems, formatting, proofs of service, etc., ease with e-mail, Adobe Acrobat and the web.

Our ideal candidate is a self-starter with strong organizational skills, capable of handling numerous and varied tasks simultaneously.  EFF is a fast-pasted, friendly workplace with individuals who are passionate and excited about their work.

Duties include:

1) Revising, editing and finalizing legal filings, including TOS and TOA in state and federal jurisdictions across the country.
2) Maintaining office legal calendar and conflicts list.
3) Arranging travel and expense reports.
4) Maintaining electronic and paper case files.
5) Ensuring that case filings are posted on EFF’s extensive website.

EFF provides standard health, dental and vision benefits. Salary is dependent on experience.  Interested applicants should submit a resume, writing sample, and references to legalsecretary@eff.org.

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Baratunde Thurston:
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Comedic Communication: Developing User-centered Humor Design

St. Bernadette:
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Tom Dimenna in Turkey Bowl, screenings on March 12th, 15th, and 18th.

Jennine Jacob, of The Coveted and IFB (Independent Fashion Bloggers), will be giving the keynote speech on March 13th for The Texas Style Council Conference, which coincides with SXSW.

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