I Can Still do That
Foundation Newsletter
November 20th, 2009
THE TIP SHEET
This Week:
- First Mondays – February 1st, 2010
- A message from Executive Director Dan Schneider
Friends,
Happy Thanksgiving…
A great week ahead with events from Advisors Lisa Gold (Act Outside the Box, on Monday) to the Black Friday Benefit (“The Giving Spirit”) at The American Theatre of Actors on West 54th Street, and lots of special events in between (see below). Please save the new date (Friday, January 15th 2010) for our first “Women Who Lunch” networking event (12-2 PM). Volunteers welcome.
If you are interested in getting involved in the foundation, please join one of our current committees:
2010 Talent Show – Contact: Tony Wilkes at lewis.a.wilkes@verizon.net
First Mondays charitable Cookbook/Jokebook – Contact: Marcy J. Gordon at mgordon@pipeline.com
Grantwriting – Contact: Jake Lazarowitz at firstmondaysnyc@gmail.com
Please visit Women Mentor Women ([http://www.womenmentorwomen.org/]
womenmentorwomen.org) if you have not done so already. It is a new website
for our upcoming mentoring project.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Keep Swinging,
Dan Schneider
dan@icanstilldothat.org
Advisor Announcements
Networking Know How – Winning Ways Seminar
Monday, November 23rd 7:00pm to 9:30
36th Street Studios, 260 W. 36th Street, 3rd Fl @ 8th Ave.
Think “being yourself” is easy in this business? We’re so used to performing that the simple art of networking is HARD for most actors. Most folks stand around waiting to be approached or wonder how to approach others; what to say; how to open a conversation. Let’s just say it – you’re scared!
Networking Know How – Winning Ways is JUST WHAT YOU NEED to gain the proper skills and confidence to meet, speak with, and keep in contact with people you meet socially and professionally. In the NETWORKING KNOW HOW
seminar you will learn:
- The 3 Essential Questions to Ask
- How to be Remembered Long After the Event is Over
- How to Follow Up Effectively
- Special Items/Gifts that Won’t make you Look like a “suck up” to include in Your Follow Up
- How to PROVIDE what the other Person is Needing/Wanting
- How to Create a Long Lasting Relationship
- How to Know When the Contact You’ve met will be Useful for Your Future Endeavors
AND SO MUCH MORE!!!
Monday, November 23rd
7:00pm to 9:30pm
Only $30
Register online at: [http://www.actoutsidethebox.com]
www.actoutsidethebox.com
nonviolent executions
Written & Performed by
steve ben israel
TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY!
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27 & 28, 2009 at 8pm
“Hilarious and moving. One of our great performers.” – The LA
Weekly
nonviolent executions, steve ben israel’s one-man show, is his latest séance to contact the living. A series of short takes combining humor, poetry, stories of rare poignancy, and his virtuosic acting abilities, nonviolent executions is an evening of entertainment with extraordinary intelligence and heart.
Mr. israel started working as a comedian more than 50 years ago, then joined The Living Theatre and for many years toured this country, Europe, North Africa and Brazil as a leading actor in that ground-breaking group. More recently, he has performed extensively on the downtown scene, in such venues as The Kitchen, The Performing Garage, and The Nuyorican Poets Café, and has appeared in movies by Bertolucci, been a featured artist on recordings by Frederic Rzewski and Anthony Braxton, and has been a guest commentator on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He is a recipient of a 2007 Obie Award.
In nonviolent executions, israel comes full circle, to inhabit the city of his waking dreams and nightmares to confront the beauty, the horror and the possibilities of “the island that creates the spice that gives much of the country its flavor.”
When he finds communality with an immigrant cab driver, a cashier at the phone company, or an old jazz hand, he touches something in us all. When he tells his audience that he doesn’t “like the way white people are
portrayed in movies,” he is completely sincere. When he sings the cantorial “Ballad of Black, White, and Jew,” sadness and hope ride a North African musical motif from hidden grief to deliverance.
steve ben israel would present an audience’s most generous face to itself. If he pierces the slick armor masquerading as sense in our time with jolts of love and compassion, it is only his compulsion and our deep pleasure to be so subjected.
CABARET THEATER
Friday – Saturday, November 27 – 28 at 8pm
All Seats $12
–
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 1st Avenue (Between 9th and 10th Streets)
New York, NY 10003
For reservations call (212) 254-1109
For more information and to purchase tickets online, please visit their web site, [http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/] http://www.
theaterforthenewcity.net
Advisor Dorothy Doppstadt, Editor of NectarNews
seeks an intern who is fluent in Twitter.
If you know of anyone who may be interested, please contact Jake at firstmondaysnyc@gmail.com
For more information, please visit: [http://www.nectarnews.com/]
NectarNews.com
The Giulio Gari Foundation
[http://www.giuliogari.org/] giuliogari.org
Seeks a part-time intern to help with administrative duties.
If you know of any New York City area college students or recent grads looking to be a part of a preeminent opera/performing arts non-profit foundation, please contact Jake at firstmondaysnyc@gmail.com
This is a paid position and a great opportunity
Women Mentor Women
To post a listing on the directory:
- Register yourself in order to receive an account
- Once registered, click on “My Account” under “Menu”
- Click on “Advertise” and two choices will appear: Volunteer Mentors and
Mentees, click on your choice and hit submit.
- Do the same for “Primary Classification”
- Under “Listing”, the Title should be your first and last name. From there, enter any additional info you would like, including logo, which can be a picture of yourself
You should then have a listing in the directory. Once a listing is created, you can add a description of yourself under your account and “Listings”. You will see a manage box to the right of your listing. Click on the document feature.
[http://womenmentorwomen.org]
[http://womenmentorwomen.org]
Call for Women Mentors
Please visit Women Mentor Women to sign up for the free directory and list yourself as a Volunteer Mentor or Mentee.
Instructions for usage may be found on the site:
[http://womenmentorwomen.org/wmwdirectory/] Women Mentor Women Directory
Or below at the bottom left of this newsletter.
November 2nd First Mondays Photos
Are Available Now
Some of the friendly “celebrity” bartenders at Nov. 2nd’s event
Please follow the link to [http://biturl.cc/czK] Pictage for viewing
In association with First Mondays, Sharon Rich, founder of Layoff Bounceback invites you to participate in a Free Monthly Teleseminar for Job Seekers. Register at her web site: [http://www.layoffbounceback.com/]
www.layoffbounceback.com
Advisor George Tabb
speaks the truth on Universal Flag Radio
[http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnVuaXZlcnNhbGZsYWcuY29tL2F2Lmh0bWw=]
http://www.universalflag.com/av.html
Bring Bill HR 847: the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to the Floor for a Vote by Thanksgiving 2009
“On behalf of my friend George Tabb and some other people I know who have been struggling, trying to stay alive, trying to stay positive while waiting for help, we as fellow Americans need to do the right thing by not shoving them under the rug, not leaving them to get sicker without help until they die. By not forgetting them is how I chose to wave my American flag.”
-Petition signer Monica Nelson
[http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LlBldGl0aW9uT25saW5lLmNvbS9tb2RfcGVybC9zaWduZWQuY2dpP0hSODQ3Tk9X]
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ mod_perl/signed.cgi?HR847NOW
The people who began this are hoping for 10,000 signatures and that it will be voted on favorably by Thanksgiving. If there were even more signatures that sure would send a message to congress wouldn’t it. This bill enacted would seriously help George and everyone else affected by the same things as him, former nearby residents, volunteers in the aftermath and the brave First Responders. we’re talking tens of thousands of people, maybe up to 70,000 who are being affected right now, who are going through the same exact things as George. If this bill had been enacted a long time ago there are a lot of people who would still be alive because they would’ve been properly helped liked they were supposed to be.
-Monica Nelson at Whirlwind Coalition re:
[http://www.myspace.com/helpgeorgetabb] www.myspace.com/ helpgeorgetabb
The Giving Spirit:
This Black Friday, Give Back Friday. 1,000 Coats, Cans & Toys!
The day after Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday, and kicks off the holiday season shopping spree. This year on our dash to the mall, we’re taking stage to give back to those in need.
Join the American Theatre of Actors & event-creator Jessica Jennings for the first annual The Giving Spirit event! Enjoy this full-day performance event with Dancers, Actors, Musicians & more…Contributing performing artists are volunteering their time in the spirit of giving back. Our artists span the gamut from Broadway to NYC middle school. Admission is free. We are asking instead for contributions of winter coats, canned goods & children’s toys.*
Pledge your charitable contribution today for a chance to win a 3day/2night getaway, Devil’s hockey tickets [Feb 5^th, 2010]…and more prizes to come! Email Mariola C. at [mailto:maribox@gmail.com]
maribox@gmail.com
*Contributions will be donated to NY Cares, City Harvest & the Rose F.
Kennedy Children’s Evaluation & Rehabilitation Center.
ONE DAY ONLY Friday November 27^th, 2009 12pm-8pm
314 West 54^th St, NYC The American Theatre of Actors
Info available at:
[http://thegivingspirit.wordpress.com/about/] http://thegivingspirit.
wordpress.com/about/
ABSOLUTELY ANNA
Advisor Anna Berger’s one women show!
At the Council Senior Center, 241 West 72nd Street, NYC Tuesday Nov. 24th
from
1:30 PM- 3 PM.
For free tickets call 212.222.5124