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View this online here: http://www.girlsclub.org/newsletters/2010/may/may.htm
Just as April Showers bring May flowers, here’s a bouquet of ways to make our Spring and Summer programs bloom!
In this e-newsletter:
-Walk-a-thon for Girls and Women's Health - Saturday, May 15th
-Cocktails for Camp! Thursday, June 10th
-IKEA Tag Sale Benefit for the Girls Club - Saturday, May 22nd
-Join a CSA with Breezy Hill Orchards / Pick up at the Girls Club
-Prophecy Theatre Benefit with Code Pink Women for Peace - Thursday, June 3rd
Thank you to everyone who donated gowns to our Gowns for Girls gown giveaway. With your help, we were able to distribute over 300 dresses to deserving teens (who can now save their money for college)!
Once again, the Lower Eastside Girls Club will be providing one of the only free summer camp programs for NYC teens. Teens will get their first jobs through our college and career prep program, participate in environmental initiatives, youth anti-violence work, and community art projects. Younger girls will be in our day camp: making art, gardening, going to the beach and visiting museums. Help support this great program by attending Cocktails for Camp on June 10th (see below) or making a donation to our summer camp program.
Want a quick and easy way to support the Girls Club this spring/summer? Stop by one of our businesses, La Tiendita at the Essex Market or Celebrate Cafe at the Bowery Poetry Club, for a healthy treat (or a delicious organic chili dog). Organic fruit, veggies, pasta and eggs available Monday-Saturday from 10:00am-6:00pm at our booth at the Essex Market (@ Essex and Delancey). Cookies, brownies, seasonal fruit pies, fruit pops, and our famous chili dogs available every day from 11:00am-11:00 pm at Celebrate Cafe. Both of these programs employ local teens so make sure to say 'hi' to one of the friendly faces behind the counter.
Our doors are open- we’d love to see you!
The Lower Eastside Girls Club
2nd ANNUAL WALK-A-THON FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Saturday May 15, 2010
It's NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER 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.Don't have a team yet? REGISTER to 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 Sierra at alliance@girlsclub.org
Cocktails for CampJune 10th @ Elsa, 217 East 3rd Street
Are you busy making your summer plans? Dreaming of long sunny days? So are we!
And we need YOU this year to help make summer a fun and creative time for Lower East Side girls.
Can’t make it to Cocktails for Camp? Please consider sponsoring summer programs for a Lower Eastside Girls Club member.
Full sponsorship is $500 per participant, and our goal this year is to raise enough to offer programs to 50 girls.
We appreciate any contribution towards a full sponsorship!As always, our programs will be provided free of charge for participating girls and their families.
It will be a summer to remember for girls, and a much needed break for their families.
Suggested donations:
Camper: $50
Counselor in Training: $125
Cabin Counselor: $250
Camp Director: $500
TO DONATE (donors names will be at the door of Cocktails for Camp):+ Send a check made out to: The Lower Eastside Girls Club, ATTN: Camp 56 East 1st Street, NYC, NY 10003
+ Donate online at www.girlsclub.org you can also pledge and pay over time
+ Call (212) 982-1633 x107 to give a Credit Card # over the phone
For more information please contact Sierra
Join our new CSA in partnership with Angel Family Farm and Breezy Hill Orchards
Starting this June - November
Join this fabulous new CSA and pick up fresh local fruit, vegetables, eggs, and pasta every week.
Pick ups will be on Tuesday afternoons at the Girls Club:
+56 East 1st Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues.
Full and half shares available.
To sign up for fruit, pasta and eggs email here
To sign up for a vegetable share email here
FarmGirlsCSA.com will be live June 1st!
IKEA Tag Sale Benefit for the Girls Club
Saturday, May 22nd from 1:00pm-4:00pm
Get new IKEA furniture at 50% off retail during this one day tag sale hosted by Brides magazine's Newlywed Nest.
All proceeds will benefit the Girls Club. Please note that this event is "cash and carry" so please bring cash only. Moving companies will be available on site to schedule delivery of heavier items.311 East 11th Street, PH2A
Between First and Second Avenues
New York CityFor more information visit the event website or please contact Sierra
Prophecy Theatre Benefit with Code Pink
Thursday, June 3rd
Join CODEPINK NYC & the Lower East Side Girls Club for a special benefit performance of Karen Malpede’s new play PROPHECY, featuring actors Kathleen Chalfant, George Bartenieff and Najla Said.
PROPHECY
Written & directed by KAREN MALPEDE
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 @ 7:30 p.m.
Fourth Street Theater
83 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
Pre-reception at the Girls Club, 56 E. 1st Street @ 6:00pmTICKETS HERE. $75 tickets sponsor you + one Girls Club member to attend the performance.
Performance followed by a talk-back with Laura Flanders of GRIT TV
All ticket holders are also invited to a special talk-back with Noam Chomsky to be held at the New York Theater Workshop (79 East Fourth Street) at 10 p.m. on June 8th.
More about the play: In PROPHECY, the Abraham-Sarah-Hagar myth echoes through the marriage of Sarah and Alan Golden. Sarah Golden is an acting teacher who tries to avert the tragedy of a talented young man who went to war for tuition money but returns with a terrible secret seared into consciousness. Then, Alan's estranged daughter arrives from the Middle East, seeking retribution.
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.
