[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: GirlZone Reunion Weekend Aug 1 & 2 - please share!

[Gergana Slavova]

A cool opportunity this weekend for any young girls you might know.
Makerspace will be doing a workshop on Sunday but there are a bunch of
other things happening both Saturday and Sunday.

~Gergana

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 *GirlZone Reunion Weekend Events*
*August 1 & 2, 2015*
After more than 10 years years away, GirlZone has returned for ONE WEEKEND
ONLY this summer to offer fun, challenging, and affirming hands-on
workshops for local girls and young women!  Join us at GirlZone Reunion
Weekend workshops as we have a great time exploring and celebrating our
many abilities and interests!

All GirlZone Reunion Weekend workshops are open to local girls and young
women, and are led by highly talented local female facilitators trained to
create positive, exciting, welcoming learning environments. Many Reunion
Weekend facilitators attended GirlZone workshops when they were young. Now,
they are leading the workshops, and sharing their skills and enthusiasm
with a new generation of GirlZone girls!

Workshops are each offered to the public for a $5-15 sliding scale fee
(past volunteers and participants come for free!), with very limited
enrollment through July 29 to ensure high teacher:student ratios key to
meaningful, positive experiences for all learners. All reunion events are
held at the Urbana-Champaign IMC, a co-sponsor of this event. Visit the
Workshop Registration page
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/advice-column> to sign up,
and share our exciting schedule
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/important-events> with
others, please.  We are here for one final week, and available spaces will
fill up fast!

Also, please come to our all-ages show featuring fabulous female musicians,
and to the wonderful GirlZone Reunion Weekend free panels for teens &
adults on Sunday, August 2. Both are open to the public. More information
on these events in the message below, and on the Reunion Weekend schedule
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/important-events>.

Challenge girls to challenge themselves, and actively support supportive
communities for females! For more information, email
girlzonereunion at gmail.com    See you in August!


*SATURDAY, AUGUST 1*

**
* Zine Making Workshop:       My Letter to the World! ***
10:30am - 12pm
Ages: females 7-16 (pre-registration
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/advice-column> required)
What do you have to say? Make your own magazine about things that matter to
you! Zines are hand-made magazines made by one person or by a group of
friends. Come learn how to make one in this workshop so you can make them
later on your own!


*** Construction Workshop: Build a Frame for Anything! ***
1 - 2:30pm
Ages: females 7-16 (pre-registration
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/advice-column> required)
In this workshop and you will learn how to make a custom picture frame with
tools you probably already have at home! Bring a photo, drawing, picture or
poster you want to hang on the wall (maximum size 8 ½ x 11 inches, please!)
and take it home in a beautiful frame you made yourself!




 *** Free Dancing 101 Workshop and Dance Party! ***
7:30 - 8:10pm
Ages: females 11+ (pre-registration
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/advice-column> required)
Ever wonder how to let loose and just dance in public, at a party, or at
the club? Learn techniques for overcoming those blocks that keep you from
dancing wherever you please, and join in with the dance party when you're
ready!


*** **All-Ages Show** ***
* TRUTH <https://will.illinois.edu/artbts/story/truth>, Wicked Walls
<https://www.facebook.com/wickedwalls>, + elizaBeth Simpson*
*7:30 - 11pm*
 Open to the public, and to all ages. ($5 for non-registered adults; $2 for
non-registered folk under 18)



 *
*SUNDAY, AUGUST 2*

**
* LED Robot Light Badge      Circuit Engineering Soldering Workshop! ***
9:15 - 10:45am
Ages: females 10-17 (pre-registration
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/advice-column> required)
If you have heard of soldering before but think it's too hard or don't even
know how to pronounce the word (pst: it's “sah-der-ing”), this workshop is
for you! It's for you even if you haven't heard of soldering. Soldering is
easy! Seriously. And in this introductory class, you will learn the
principles of soldering by creating a circuit on a light up LED robot badge!



**
* Movement Workshop and       Champ-A-Go-Go Dance Party! ***
11 - 12:30pm
Ages: females 3-12*. Toddlers* 3-6, bring along mom or other adult female
friend to dance with you! (pre-registration
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/advice-column> required)
Dance to your own beat, girl! Movement workshop and dance party focusing on
free expression and personal enjoyment when the music comes on from the
speakers, or just in your head. Costumes provided or come in your own!
Young women should attend this workshop while adults attend the "Girl's Got
Issues" panel.


**
* "Girl's Got Issues" Panel
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/important-events/-girl-s-got-issues-panel>:
Calling out Beliefs and Practices that Keep us from *
*Supporting **the Females in our Lives ***
11 - 12:30pm
@ the IMC
Ages: teens and adults

Free and open to the public

What? Females have “issues”? Well, sure we do! And many of them stem from
real stereotypes, ideologies, norms, and inequities that those who care
about us can (and should!) address to make our lives less difficult.
Focusing upon race, technology, age, sexuality, culture, and other critical
areas, this panel will draw upon current research and engaged community
work to identify and challenge common beliefs that stand in the way of
females in our lives, and in our communities. being known and really
supported. Topics and panelists:

- *Being an Ally* (Margareth Etienne, Professor of Law)
- *Black Gurls Matter* (Imani Bazzell, Director of SisterNet)
- *Sex Education in Champaign-Urbana: Past, Present and Future* (Jamie L.
Hines, Educator and Performer)
- *Aging: A Lifetime of Experiences and Societal Expectations *(Victoria
[Vic] Christensen, MSW, LCSW)
- *The Plight of a Black Superwoman: The Church & Microagressions at
Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) *(Tanisha King-Taylor, MSW,
Doctoral Student, Education Policy Organization & Leadership)
- *“Girls Gone Wild Addicted to Interaction”?: Myths that Harm Social
Media-Using Girls* (Aimee Rickman, PhD, Assistant Professor, GirlZone
Co-Founder/Director)

 More information on this panel:
https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/important-events/-girl-s-got-issues-panel




**
* Wisdom Panel
<https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/important-events/wisdom-panelists>:
Reflecting back and thinking forward ***
1:30 - 3:30pm
@ the IMC

Free and open to the public
Past GirlZone participants and organizers share their thoughts on how
GirlZone mattered to them, and facilitate a discussion on whether programs
like GirlZone might still matter to girls and communities now.

Moderated by NPR reporter Sehvilla Mann.


 Panel featuring GirlZone participants/assistants Sehvilla Mann (moderator
and panelist), Adrienne Bauer, Maya Bauer, Ileana Costescu, Indigo
Crespighi, Jane McClintock & Bronwyn Schell and GirlZone organizers
Michelle Alvarado Novak, Danielle Chenowyth, Rebecca Crist, Anni Poppen &
Aimee Rickman. Open to the public.


Challenge girls to challenge themselves, and actively support supportive
communities for females!

For more information, email girlzonereunion at gmail.com or visit our Reunion
Weekend website: https://sites.google.com/site/girlzonereunion/
We are so excited to see you again one last time in August!
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