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PROGRAM UPDATE
Spring is (almost) here and we are hard at work running a full roster of programs (view our spring program schedule here) and planning for upcoming events. Our college-bound girls are eagerly awaiting their results and, like last year, we expect 100% acceptance for all girls in our College and Career Prep program. Currently, 30 of these girls are employed through this program working PT at the Girls Club as program associates and in our businesses, accessing a variety of academic and professional development resources.
Our teens are also busy rehearsing Eve Ensler’s new play, “I am an Emotional Creature, the Secret Life of Girls Around the World” which is being directed by Rosario Dawson. Join us for a one night benefit performance on April 12th! Info below and online here.
Our younger girls are happily busy in their daily after-school program with tutoring, arts, yoga, flamenco dance, chorus and Book Club. And, of course, now that the weather is nice they can’t stop asking about camp! You can help us get them to camp by participating in the May 15th Walk-a-thon for Girls’ and Women’s Health. See below for details on participating and/or becoming a team captain.
Girls Club businesses are going strong. We recently expanded our partnership with Breezy Hill Orchards—you can now find their farm-fresh produce, pasta, eggs and cider at our La Tiendita booth at the Essex Market (Essex and Delancey). Also, stop by Celebrate Café @ the Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery @ 1st Street, open 11-11) our newest job training program and retail site for Sweet Things goodies (savory quiches and lunch specials too!)
You are welcome to visit or help out on a Saturday when we are open to the public. Visit our events schedule for more info.
Our doors are open- we’d love to see you!
The Lower Eastside Girls Club
I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE
By Eve Ensler
A benefit for the Lower Eastside Girls Club
Directed by Rosario Dawson
Monday April 12th, 2010
6:30pm
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Tickets: $25, $50 and $100
2nd ANNUAL WALK-A-THON FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Saturday May 15, 2010
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REGISTER today for the 2nd Annual Lower Eastside Girls Club Walk-a-thon for Girls' and Women's Health, a 5K walk-a-thon through the East Village to raise awareness of girls and women's health issues and funds to support the Lower Eastside Girls Club. This event is family-friendly! Husbands, brothers and kids welcome too.
This is how it works:
Sign up to be a Team Captain. You + 9 friends = a team (boys and men welcome too)! Each team member raises a minimum of $100 through small donations from friends, co-workers, and family! ($10-20 per backer).
Each team = $1,000 donation (or more) to the Girls Club! Some call it micro-philanthropy, we call it LOVE!
Can't create your own team? Join Team Girls Club!
There will be teams of stroller moms and dads, punks and poets, artists, college alumni groups, proud pet owners, sorority sisters, LES activists, small business owners, friends, family, Girls Club Novios and more!
Go to www.girlsclub.org to register now!
For more information please contact alliance@girlsclub.org
The Lower Eastside Girls Club is dedicated to providing a place where girls and young women 8-23 can grow, learn, have fun, and develop confidence in themselves and their ability to make a difference in the world. By delivering strong and innovative arts, athletic, cultural, life-skills and career oriented programming, we provide girls with the vision to plan - and the tools to build - their future.