_gaia's mission remains as a collective of women, for women, for the making of textiles, clothing, printmaking, painting, architecture, music, film, photography, science, the performing arts, writing, environmental, social and political activism: all things which color the lives of the women involved.
_gaia is active in the visual arts space. We run and sponsor shows, events, and residencies for our sisters to come and work on their art. We are always brewing up something new and looking for new ideas. Contact us if you are interested in participating or have an idea you would like to explore with _gaia.
_gaia is active in the performance space. We run and sponsor shows, events, and residencies for our sisters to come and work on their acting and voice. We are always brewing up something new and looking for new ideas. Contact us if you are interested in participating or have an idea you would like to explore with _gaia.
Activism was the fire that gave birth to _gaia. We continue in that tradition by supporting and promoting socially conscious movement and agendas that are important to our members. We are active in demonstrations and events that help bring issues of importance to light. _gaia's main issues include but are not limited too: stop violence against women, human rights, reproductive rights and promotion.
_gaia loves to meet new people and make new friends. We have many opportunities for you to join _gaia in our mission to provide a space for women in the arts. Come play with us through our internships and volunteer programs. You will learn, work and have fun while opening up a whole new world. If you don't have the time but got the dough, please consider a donation to _gaia. We appreciate you and love you!
_gaia loves you and we are fortunate to have those who love and support us. There are those who support us with their time and expertise to make so many of our programs happen and continue on in the future. The partners who are generous with their space and businesses to help us make so many events happen. Of course, like anyone else we love our fans who come to our events and workshops.
Workshop for Female Nonprofit Leaders and Facilitators at _gaia June 21
Register soon as space is limited!
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Workshop for Female Nonprofit Leaders and Facilitators at _gaia June 21
The Workshop Leader’s Essential ToolkitSaturday, June 21st 1-6pm
_gaia studio
66 Willow Ave 3rd floor
Hoboken NJ
$15 recommended advanced registration fee
$20 recommended fee at the door
Facilitator Alexia Vernon
Are you a practicing or aspiring trainer or educator looking for strategies and techniques to dynamize your leadership practice?
In this 5 hour, hands-on workshop, we will cover such areas as:
· Designing, implementing, facilitating, and evaluating a workshop
· Leading with confidence, clarity, and passion
· The development of a leadership persona
· Setting concrete goals and objectives for yourself and your participants
· Developing a repertoire of ice-breaker, group building, energizing, focusing, assessment, and reflective activities applicable to a range of content areas
· Creating an effective marketing plan to promote yourself and your workshop
Your Facilitator:
Alexia Vernon is the Owner of Catalyst for Action, a coaching and training company that launches individuals, businesses and communities to professional and personal success. She has led workshops, classes, and trainings for the last 8 years in such areas as leadership development, diversity, arts education, theatre for social change, public speaking, conflict resolution, women’s studies, work-life balance, and youth development. Alexia is the Director of the New York City Student Shakespeare Festival, teaches public speaking and theatre at John Jay College and women’s studies and intercultural relations for New Jersey City University, and is a member of the critically acclaimed The Stolen Chair Theatre Company. To learn more about Alexia, visit her online at www.alexiavernon.com.
To Register:
Space is limited. Please email _gaia at info@gaiastudio.org to reserve your spot.
Open Studio Sunday May 18th!
_gaia will be opening its doors for the Neumann Leathers Open Studios event. Many artist studios will be open for this one day event. Do come out to see all of the amazing artists throughout the halls of this unique place which is under threat of development.Neumann Leathers Open Studios
Sunday, May 18
1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Save Neumann Leathers! see the Neumann Leathers Tenants Association website for more information.
The public is invited to see the thriving arts community that still exists at Neumann, which is currently threatened by new development—development that will completely destroy one of the city’s last artistic and historic arts complexes. Extraordinary efforts are in place to ensure the continuation of this wonderful Hoboken legacy, which will not only preserve some existing structures, but also create new ones. The current “Piazza Plan,” which has been presented by the NLTA, will also create public space that will benefit all Hoboken citizens.
NEW CLASSES at _gaia :: Register soon!!
Learn to Knit!SCARF, HAT, SOCK – A BEGINNER’S KNITTING COURSE
Knitting is fun and easy to learn! Feel the satisfaction of wearing something you made yourself. Learn to craft beautiful, practical items and gifts with your own hands. Knitting is a skill you will treasure and enjoy.
No experience required! This six-week course will cover all basic knitting techniques. Once you learn to knit a sock, you will be able to knit anything!
*Knitting is fun for everyone – all ages are welcome. My grandmother taught me to knit on my eleventh birthday, and she learned from her grandmother when she was very small. Start a new tradition just in time for Mother’s Day – sign up with a sister, a friend, a daughter or a son!
Time: Saturdays, 2pm – 4pm
Dates: May 3 – June 7
Tuition: $75 for the six-week course
Weekly classes are held at _gaia studio at 66 Willow Avenue, Hoboken, New Jersey.
Please email rachael@gaiastudio.org to request a registration form.
Introduction to Life Drawing
(BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE LEVEL)
This weekly life-drawing class is geared toward beginners, but all levels are welcome to participate. Beginners with no previous instruction or intermediate-level artists seeking to brush up on their skills will benefit equally from this six-week class.
A live model will be present at every session. You will be surprised to discover how familiar you already are with the human body and how much easier it is to learn to draw from a three-dimensional form. Beginners working from two-dimensional sources such as photographs may often be frustrated with flat, lifeless results. By learning to draw from life, you will gain a new sense of fluidity and rapidity and your drawings will reflect the liveliness of the human form, and capture more than a single moment of time.
This six-week course covers basic drawing foundations, and will emphasize symmetry, proportion, weight and gesture. Basic materials for black-and-white renderings will be required.
Time: Saturdays, 10am – 1pm
Dates: May 3 – June 7
Tuition: $150 for the six-week course
Weekly classes are held at _gaia studio at 66 Willow Avenue, Hoboken, New Jersey.
Please email rachael@gaiastudio.org to request a registration form or further information.
V-Day 2008 Article in Hudson Reporter
Mary Paul at the Hudson Reporter has written an article about the production this year titled, A different kind of V-Day : ‘The Vagina Monologues’ seeks to empower local women with a benefit at the Loew’s. See entire article here….
“Every woman and man can relate to the monologues,” Lillian Ribeiro (director) says, explaining that the social facets of the play are not the only reasons to see it. “For this year, what I think is entertaining is some of the people who will be performing. It’s not only actresses, but it’s people you know from the community, like Diana [Schwaeble, managing editor] of the Hudson Reporter. And there’s Geri Fallo [Hoboken’s director of Cultural Affairs], who’s also known in the community. ”
The charitable cause remains, of course, at the heart of the play in the spirit of V-Day, which Figueiredo describes in terms of its global aim:
“It’s a response and a message to stop violence against women and girls and to empower them to live life to the fullest and to really do what they dream to do. It means different things to different people.”
V-Day 2008
Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre
54 Journal Square, Jersey City
MARCH 30th, 3pm
For tickets: Click here Get them soon!
Starting at $20 online, $25 (cash only) at the door
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WWIII Opening
Courtenay Morgan Redis has written a wonderful report of the show at her blog Truth Needs No Ally
Thanks Courtney!
Inside/Outside video
Colin of underdevelopment.tv posted this great video of _gaia’s Inside/Outside show.September 21st – October 20th 2007 at Waldo Lofts (159 2nd Street, Jersey City). Inside was curated by Doris Caçoilo and Amie Figueiredo and Outside was curated by Asha Ganpat and Brian Gustafson
Featuring the work of Aileen Bassis, Sherrard Bostwick, Jennifer Carpenter, Mary Jeys, Geraldine Juarez, Meg Klim, Vaneska (Kika) Kluck, Radical Performance Group (Sabrina Asch, Kristi Hall, Sofie Holten, Lauren Larken, Joanna Rose White), Kayt Hester Lent, Beth Morrison, Franc Palaia, Mike Schuwerk and Cristina Gil Donaire, Rachael Serbinski, Ev Stone, Chris Sugrue, Amanda Thackray, Stephanie Tichenor, Stephanie Werthman, Nyugen Smith, Geraldine Juarez, Michele Loughlin, Ryan Higgins, and D.C. Smith.
Mural by Andrea Breitman.
Special performances by Cyphered Threads and Gocha Tsinadze
WWIII: a Wonder Women project
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March 14th- April 12th
Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street, Jersey City, NJ
**Opening Reception– March 14th 6-9 pm
Artist Talk and Closing– April 12th 4-9pm
Gallery Hours M-F 10-6 pm or by appointment
Wonder Women III are: Pollie Barden, Jennifer Carpenter, Gwen Charles, Tamara Fitzpatrick, Maya Joseph Goteiner, Mary Jeys, Melissa Macalpin, Gina Riano, Amanda Thackray, and Sarah Nelson Wright
Curated by Doris Caçoilo and Joanna Rose White
Hosted by Ev Stone
V-Day 2008
_gaia and The Landmark Loew’s Jersey Theatre are proud to be a
participant in the 2008 V-Day Campaign. Producing Eve Ensler’s
award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues”to raise money and
awareness for local organizations that work to stop violence against
women and girls.
MARCH 30th, 3pm
For tickets: Click here
Get them soon!
Also come and support us at our fundraisers:
LUNAFEST - March 9th 7PM at Hoboken Historical Museum & March 11th 8 PM to be screened at _gaia studio.
Tickets can be purchased at the door.
LUNAFEST, a film festival highlighting films made by women, in which
10% of the money raised is donated to The Breast Cancer Fund.
www.lunafest.org
P.S.1 WACK! Open Studio Tour
P.S.1 WACK! Open Studio Tour
Monday February 18, 2008 2 - 6 pm
_gaia presents an Interactive Map and Video Project in collaboration with P.S.1, Mary Beth Edelson and Donna Kessinger
The presentation of WACK! at P.S.1 offers a timely opportunity to tour the studios of some of the featured artists. View 70s and current work while gaining a deeper understanding of the depth of production of these artists within their own environment.
Threads
ThreadsWearable Art Fashion Show
at the Jersey City Museum
350 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 1pm
Artist talk 1pm Runway show 2pm
Reception immediately following
Threads: Wearable Art Fashion Show is presented by _gaia in conjunction with Jersey City Museum. The show will be presented at the Jersey City Museum on Sunday, February 24th, 2008. The event, which is free and open to the public, will highlight the work of 20 artists and designers who are combining non-traditional materials and/or technology to create wearable designs.
Artists/designers: LoVid, Christina Mancuso, Johana Moscoso, Jenny Chowdhury, Julie Blanciak, Kate Hartman, Juliana Cope, Gwen Charles, Pollie Barden, Geraldine Juarez, Norene Leddy, Gailene McGhee St.Amand, Zawadi, Giana Gonzalez, Sonali Sridhar, Danielle Fotopoulos, Stephanie Tichenor, James Tichenor and Amanda Mayoff.
An artist talk at 1pm will feature Despina Papadopoulos, an interactive designer and director of Studio 5050 (5050ltd.com) and Nora Abousteit and Benedikta von Karaisl, the founders of BurdaStyle.com.