lexington Community Events
YES! I’m Important: Youth Empowerment Space
August 18-19 SATURDAY, Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Children’s Empowerment Weekend (through Aug. 19th). This two-day event will cater to the youth of Kentucky, providing a safe space for creativity and discussion. Workshops will cover topics appropriate and appealing to youth grades K –12. Some topics include promoting positive body image, recognizing socially constructed gender roles, and combating relationship violence.
Location
Dudley Square
Details
In addition to these workshops the Youth Empowerment Space will feature a wide variety of arts involvement opportunities for youth to express themselves through dance, art, writing, and music.
schedule
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Reading and book signing by Robin Givens
August 18 SATURDAY: 1:00 PM
Women and men will come together to cycle and bring
awareness to ending violence against women.
Location
Abraham Lincoln Room
Details
Robin Givens will be reading from her book, Grace Will Lead Me Home. Book signing will follow the reading.
UTVS Cycling Event
August 18 SATURDAY: 9:00 AM
Women and men will come together to cycle and bring
awareness to ending violence against women.
Offices of L.E. Gregg Associates
446 East High Street
Details
Routes of 25 to 40 miles approximate. 12 to 18 mph pace. All riders will wear helmets, and observe rules of the road. Click here to visit the website for Bluegrass Cycling Club.
PLAY: IN OUR OWN VOICE
August 18
SATURDAY:
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
11:30 AM - 12:30 AM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
SUNDAY:
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location
Worsham Theater at University of Kentucky
Details
UTVS Parade
August 18 SATURDAY: 8:00 PM
Night Parade through downtown Lexington to recognize contributions of women and girls throughout Kentucky. The parade will be a unique visual statement and serve as the kick-off for the Festival.
Location
Main Street, Lexington
Details
Beginning at Rose & Main St
Grand Marshall of the parade is Robin Givens.
YES! I’m Important: Youth Empowerment Space
August 18-19 SATURDAY: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Children’s Empowerment Weekend (through Aug. 19th). This two-day event will cater to the youth of Kentucky, providing a safe space for creativity and discussion. Workshops will cover topics appropriate and appealing to youth grades K –12. Some topics include promoting positive body image, recognizing socially constructed gender roles, and combating relationship violence.
Location
Dudley Square
Details
In addition to these workshops the Youth Empowerment Space will feature a wide variety of arts involvement opportunities for youth to express themselves through dance, art, writing, and music.
schedule
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Directions
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A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer
August 19
SUNDAY: Reception & Silent Auction 5:00 PM; Curtain 6:00 PM
This production features monologues addressing violence against women and girls written by world-renowned authors such as Maya Angelou. Also will include submissions including monologues by Kentucky writers. Robin Givens will be in the cast.
Location
Singletary Center
Details
Ticket Info
For tickets visit www.singletarytickets.com. Tickets $25.00; $15.00 for students and senior citizens. There is a package deal of 1 ticket for MMRP and 1 ticket for Anyone of Us for $40.00.
DIrections
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UTVS:KY SUNDAY
August 19
SUNDAY: 11:00 AM service
Join Greater Liberty Missionary Baptist Church for a service focused on ending violence against women and girls.
Location
Greater Liberty Missionary Baptist Church
330 Chestnut St
Lexington, KY 40508
Details
Pastor John C. Lee, Jr
Exhibit Opening: KASAP Quilt Collection
August 19
This exhibit features quilts representing each of Kentucky’s 13 Regional Rape Crisis Centers. Like Rape Crisis Centers, quilts provide warmth, comfort, and protection to all who use them. Each quilt is as unique as the Rape Crisis Center it represents.
Location
Singletary Center, President’s Room Gallery
Details
Exhibit open until September 4, 2007
UTVS:KY AT HER BEST
August 20 monday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
In Kentucky 1 in 9 women is a victim of sexual assault and 1 in 3 women in the U.S. will be a victim of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and/or stalking in her lifetime.
Lexington Art League is proud to participate in Until the Violence Stops: Kentucky, a two-week Festival of art, theater, spoken word, performance and community events all focused on ending violence against women and girls.
Until the Violence Stops: At Her Best is a response to women and girls in Kentucky who struggle every day to become their best, despite the violence they have experienced or are living with. By recognizing and reinforcing the powerful and positive capacities of women through inspiring visual imagery, we give voice to the range of what it can mean to be a woman at her best.
Kentucky is a trailblazer for addressing the issue of violence against women in a systematic manner.
This exhibit presented by the Lexington Art League in partnership with LexArts. www.LexingtonArtLeague.org
Location
ArtsPlace
161 North Mill St.
Admission is free. Call 859-254-7024 for more information.
Directions
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UTVS Writing Collective
August 21 Tuesday Time: 11:30 Am
Writing Collecting Luncheon honoring 5 middle and 5 high-school students who have submitted essays surrounding violence against women and girls, and how they believe this violence can end. Local authors will be present to provide mentorship for the honorees.
Location
Radisson Hotel, downtown Lexington
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Necessary Targets
Presented by KDVA, Actors Guild of Lexington, and LexArts
August 23 Thursday: 7:00 PM
Ground-breaking play written by Eve Ensler about women and war—about the violence of dark memories and the enduring resilience of the human spirit.
Location
Black Box Theater Downtown Arts Center
141 E. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky
Details
Ticket Info
Call 859-2250370 Mon-Sat 10-8, Sun 10-5
or on-line www.lexarts.org (Click on Box Office)
or in person at the Downtown Arts Center. $25.00 General Admission; $15.00 for students and senior citizens.
Directions
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Project SAFE Training: Ending Abuse Against People With Disabilities
August 23 Thursday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
Lexington Downtown Public Library
Details
To register, contact Sara Gibson at (502) 696-5312
Women Will Save the World But First We Must Save Ourselves
August 24 friday: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
A Writing Workshop for Liberation by Christa Bell, National Slam Poet
Women Will Save the World is a workshop that integrates writing meditations with movement and voice work to explore the ways in which we allow unconscious thoughts and actions to motivate the choices that impact our happiness and well being as well as our capacity to creatively transform the world around us.
Through spontaneous release writing techniques, and the cultivation of body centered awareness, participants will learn the basic tools of creative recovery as well as how to use their bodies as the primary writing tool with which to explore, heal and transform themselves, and by extension, the greater environment. This is a workshop for artists of every genre including mothers, students, fine artists, poets, or anyone else looking to access the heart of their creative power.
This is a free female-only workshop and is limited to 35 participants. To sign up, please call 502-209-5382.
Location
Carnegie Center
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UTVS Pieces of Me: Featuring KY Female Artists
August 24 friday: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Art Exhibit Opening entitled Pieces of Me, featuring photography by battered women in Kentucky. The Clothesline Project will also be on display outside of the gallery.
Location
Carnegie Center
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