[WAsummit] Fwd: With Sha G-B, Building Social Justice Can Be... Accessible, Engaging, Sustainable!

[Sharon Martinas]

Sha,  i am forwarding your powerful resume to the White Anti-Racist  
Summit list serve in the hope of supporting your networking in your  
new life.  much respect and love, sharon m

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> From: Sha Grogan-Brown <sgroganb at onpointconsortium.org>
> Date: September 28, 2009 6:55:10 AM PDT
> Subject: With Sha G-B, Building Social Justice Can Be... Accessible,  
> Engaging,  Sustainable!
>
> Saludos! (Si usted quiere esta informacion en espanol, puede  
> responder a este email. El volante incluido aqui es bilingue.)
>
> I hope you are all enjoying the beginnings of fall.  Here in DC on  
> the eastern borderlands of north and south, I can't wait for the  
> leaves to start turning colors and then crunching under my feet.   
> Fall feels like a great time for fresh starts, intuition and hopeful  
> imagination!
>
> I wrote to many of you earlier this year to announce my new ventures  
> in consulting.  I'm writing now with an update of how things are  
> going, and to ask for your support in getting the word out about the  
> various skills I can bring to the groups you know of who might need  
> an interpreter, or a graphic designer, or a fundraising training, or  
> a fun art lesson!  Attached here is a flyer that I hope you will  
> share with others by email or print out and pass on!
>
> Upcoming This Fall:
>
> I have been honored to continue as a teaching artist through Pyramid  
> Atlantic this fall with two projects:
> 1. Kids' Art Classes!  Located at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, I  
> will be teaching kids' art classes on Tuesdays from 4-6pm.  We'll be  
> making handmade Enchanted Storybooks with 6-8 year olds in October,  
> and Green Storybooks with 9-11 year olds in November.  If you know  
> of any youth who would be interested in these classes, they can  
> register online at http://www.pyramid-atlantic.org/register/ or call  
> Pyramid Atlantic at 301-608-9102.  There are also LOTS of classes  
> for adults, which you can check out here: www.pyramid-atlantic.org/classes
> 2. Going Green Art Club!  Through Pyramid Atlantic, I am co-teaching  
> an Arts Club at Silver Spring International Middle School, which is  
> located in the building of my old high school!  I've got two  
> fabulous co-teachers, and during our first week of class we made  
> sketchbooks out of cereal boxes and magazines.
>
> 3. Community Supported T-shirts!  If you are interested in  
> information about the next round of t-shirts (coming in November)  
> please email me at communitysupportedtshirts at gmail.com -- The next  
> design will be a "seasonal recipe" t-shirt to kick off a "Cooking- 
> Fights-Corporations" series of t-shirts featuring recipes made with  
> vegetables/fruits of the season, to encourage people to grow & make  
> their own food.  I'll be sending out a call for recipe ideas soon,  
> and plan to design and print the shirts in mid-November.  (For my  
> raw food pals -- yes, I know that preparing raw foods ALSO fights  
> corporations, but it just doesn't sound as catchy!)
> 4. All kinds of other exciting work that you will help me find!
>
>
> Some highlights of the past 4 months:
>
> * I taught a Paper and Book Arts class to middle school students as  
> part of their summer tutoring program through the Maryland  
> Multicultural Youth Center in Riverdale, MD and Pyramid Atlantic Art  
> Center.  It was a great experience, and made me realize that I  
> really love teaching the arts and working with youth.  We did a lot  
> of exciting things, including a creek clean-up, making paper from  
> trash we collected, seed paper that we planted in the garden,  
> screenprinted t-shirts designed collectively by the students, and a  
> final book project with community pop-out pages and mini-books  
> documenting their summer experience.
> * Designed a 2009-2010 Season Brochure for Mason/Rhynes Productions,  
> a prolific and innovative African-American arts organization in the  
> Metropolitan DC area.  If you're in the DC area, visit their website  
> at www.mason-rhynes.org to check out some great upcoming performances!
> * Participated in a wonderful team of English-Spanish interpreters  
> from the DC and Durham, NC areas at the National Sexual Assault  
> Conference in Alexandria, VA sponsored by the National Sexual  
> Violence Resource Center and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape.
> * Led a training in Grassroots Fundraising for DC Tenant Association  
> leaders through the Latino Economic Development Corporation.
> * Trained preschool and nursery teachers at Rosemount Center in  
> Mount Pleasant in ways to make books with little ones!
> * Designed and distributed the first round of Community Supported T- 
> shirts!  In the end I sold about 40 "Justice Roots" shirts.
>
> Thanks again for your support!  Please help get the word out.  I'm  
> still mostly only taking work that will pay right now, and I'm  
> willing and excited to travel if the expenses are covered.
>
> Happy Autumn to all! ~ Shaun (Sha) Grogan-Brown
>
>
> PS: More info below...
>
> * If you are looking for support in NYC, please contact Dara  
> Silverman by email at dara at rise.net or by phone at 917-327-6528
> Dara Silverman is a consultant, organizer and trainer who has worked  
> to build movements for economic, racial and gender justice over the  
> past 15 years. She was the Executive Director of Jews for Racial and  
> Economic Justice (JFREJ) from 2004-2009. Prior to her work at JFREJ,  
> Dara worked with United for a Fair Economy, Neighbor to Neighbor,  
> the Ruckus Society and on various local and national campaigns  
> across the country. Dara is on the board of Resource Generation. Her  
> work has been published or featured in the New York Times, Tikkun,  
> Zeek, Heeb, Curve, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Righteous  
> Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice and co-authored The Love and  
> Justice in Times of War Haggadah. Through strategic planning,  
> campaign development and executive coaching, Dara is focusing on  
> supporting small non-profits to become more effective and strategic  
> in their work.
>
> * For more information about RISE Fundraising, visit: www.infovisions.org/rise
>
> * For more information about On Point Consortium's consultants (B  
> Loewe, Tamara Brummer, and Jessica Aranda), visit:
> http://www.onpointconsortium.org/who.htm
>
>

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