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Greetings!

I thank everyone who attended last night's screening of the documentary, "Very Young Girls." This gripping film took us into the lives of 12, 13, 14 year old girls who have been pulled into the world of sex trafficking. It was a powerful reminder of how love, family and fatherhood are so needed for our girls.  How eye opening it is to see the extent to which child predators will go to offer themselves as a substitute for these missing elements in our girls lives and to successfully brainwash and victimize them. Our discussion was so powerful and revealing. Thank you for sharing from the heart the ways in which this film tapped into your own experiences. This rich conversation allowed us to reveal the commonalities we share with these young girls and begin a dialogue on linking with those who are addressing this issue in the community and finding solutions to this crisis on a local level.

Please join us today as we focus on the beauty, power, health and well-being of women everywhere. Today we stand in proxy for female victims of violence and call the names of women who have made a powerful contribution to our lives. If you cannot be with us for morning libation, feel free to participate from where you are by reflecting on those women who have made a powerful contribution to your life and the lives of those around them.

Next, come join us for Yoga for Honoring the Divine Feminine and a peer advocate discussion on breast and womb wellness. Then tomorrow, put on your dance shoes and come kick it with us at our Mother's Day Radio Benefit Jam!

Thank you for continuing to support these efforts with your presence and participation in our Weekend of Uplift events!

In service,

Shaunelle Curry
Executive Director
Mother's Day Radio
www.mothersdayradio.org

Oceanside Libation  ocean
On the morning of Saturday, May 8, 2010, join the MDR Women's Circle as we pay homage to those powerful women who have gone before us. Offer prayer and gratitude as we pour libation and stand in proxy for women everywhere who have been victims of violence.

Saturday, May 8, 2010
8:00am
RSVP to Shaunelle@mothersdayradio.org for meet up location.

 
Yoga for Honoring the Divine Feminine  yoga ocean
Join us at Lotus On the Nile for an afternoon of Yoga Practices for Honoring the Divine Feminine. Women of ALL ages and stages are welcome!

Saturday, May 8, 2010
3:00pm-4:30pm
Lotus On the Nile Wellness Center
4307 S. Crenshaw Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90008
FREE ADMISSION


Breast & Womb Wellness Workshop
After Yoga, enjoy a snack with us as we discuss womb and breast health for African American women in an intimate environment of peers. Learn about the steps to breast health, risk factors for breast cancer, how to prepare for a mammogram, and HPV and its connection to cervical cancer.

Saturday May 8, 2010
4:45pm-5:45pm
Lotus on the Nile Wellness Center
FREE ADMISSION


Please RSVP with your name and number of guests by replying to this email.
Mother's Day Radio Benefit Jam!
@ Zanzibar in Santa Monica
Doors Open @ 7pm

Featuring live performances by:


Thea Monyee: 8pm thea monyee
Thea Monyee has rapidly become a respected and highly requested poet. Besides being a regular at LA's Poetry Lounge, Thea has performed on HBO's Peabody Award winning "Def Poetry Jam" series twice, BET's "Lyric Cafe", and on BET's "The Way We Do It. Thea speaks from her heart with emotion and passion that touches everyone within the sound of her voice. Listen and feel it.

Tracie Thoms: 8:30pm tracie thoms
Thoms made her Broadway debut in Regina Taylor's Drowning Crow. She has also appeared in several off-Broadway and regional productions, including Up Against the Wind (New York Theater Workshop), The Oedipus Plays (The Shakespeare Theater), A Raisin in the Sun (Baltimore CenterStage) Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Missouri Rep), The Exonerated (Off Broadway's The Culture Project) and The Antigone Project (The Women's Project). In 2008, she joined the final cast of Rent starting July 26, 2008, reprising the character of Joanne.


MiLO: 9pm
milo

With the writing team of Swedish Composer Mikael Sandgren and Jamaican/American Singer Lola Gayle, the outcome is much different than even they had originally thought. Theirs is a kind of music blending Nordic melancholy progressions with pop melodies, unique odd meter beats, vintage Blue Note era vocals and gritty arrangements. Their sound can be described as "dirty-pretty". Both were classically trained starting at an early age and Ghana's Obilie Koffie also mentored Mikael at 14.

Kelley Nicole: 9:30pm the kelley nicole
Born and raised in Northern New Jersey, Ms. Kelley Nicole has been singing since the age of nine when a music teacher discovered the sweet vocal tonality of a young girl that had already begun a love affair with music through her study of the piano and French horn. This dynamic singer/songwriter writes and performs an eclectic range of music, beginning with a vulnerable acoustic R&B sensibility that channels the likes of India.Arie and Sade.


London Street: 10pm london street
London Street is bringing live instrumentation and creative songwriting back to Soul and R&B. You won't find redundant ballads or robotic beats in their music. London Street is an actual band that writes songs from the heart. A refreshing take on Neo-soul, these ladies are an amazingly tight and sweet unit
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DJ JEDI: dj jedi
JEDI is an Emmy Award-winning Los Angeles-based DJ, admired for his eclectic style of mixing, song-selection, and turntablism. Over the past decade, he has toured the globe as the resident music maestro for Russell Simmons' Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam, and later, with Grammy Award-winning hip hop pioneers, DIGABLE PLANETS
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Produced by Joshua Silverstein Presents.



 benefit concert
 
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Oceanside Libation
Yoga and Breast & Womb Wellness
MDR Benefit Jam!
Weekend of Uplift Charge
WEEKEND OF UPLIFT
uplift
  1. Wear all white in solidarity on Mother's Day
    weekend to honor and pay homage to the women of our community.
  2. Cease from physical, sexual and verbal violence against women.
  3. Uplift women with empowering, loving, forgiving, gracious, and compassionate language and interactions.
  4. TURN OFF media outlets that play songs with misogynistic, degrading content.
  5. TURN ON media outlets that support women with music that respectfully represents them.
  6. Purchase and download music for women that honors, respects, and serves to uplift their spirits (recommended music and artists are posted on site).
  7. Celebrate one another at our annual Weekend of Uplift events.
 
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"I am not a whore. I am not a female dog. I am not something you can buy on a shelf. I am a Key to Life. I am a leader. I am a sister. I am a blessing. I am inspiration to my people."

~ Ayanna Kai Thompson, MDR Youth Advisory Council member


Shaunelle Curry
Mother's Day Radio
www.mothersdayradio.org