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UCIMC hosts Action Ready Troubadours Creating Art & Revolution (ARTCAR) March 27 |
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by Jolie Christine Rickman, edited by Sarah Kano
Email: jolie (nospam) rootmedia.org (unverified!)
Phone: (718) 788-3925 |
14 Mar 2001
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Activists/punks/folksingrs Jolie Rickman and Gina Young from Brooklyn NY, Liz Guy (aka Sprout) from Seattle WA and the Violents from C/U will perform one mega show at the Urban-Champaign Independant Media Center on Tues. March 27 from 7:30 until 10 pm as part of the national tour, ARTCAR. |
Activists/punks/folksingers Jolie Rickman and Gina Young from Brooklyn NY, Liz Guy (aka Sprout) from Seattle WA and the Violents from C/U will perform one mega show at the Independant Media Center on Tues. March 27 from 7:30 until 10 pm as part of the national tour, ARTCAR. Sliding scale admission: $4-6. For more information, contact the IMC at 344- 8820.
The show at the IMC is the Champaign-Urbana stop of Action Ready Troubadours Creating Art & Revolution (ARTCAR), a tour of personal/political music and workshops stopping at over 20 campuses across the USA. Imagine a roadshow combining hands-on resistance and movement-building workshops with electrifying folk-punk performances. Picture a big brown 1984 Volvo bandwagon full of women-women who incite participation, challenge
injustice, motivate folks to take action, and demonstrate viable, creative options for working and living. These women are Jolie Rickman, Liz Guy (Sprout), and Gina Young. Together they\'re ARTCAR!, and they\'re coming your way!
The women of ARTCAR! have participated in many of the most exciting cultural/political tours, actions, and events of our day. Collectively, they have performed at and/or helped organize the following recent events:
ROCKRGRL 2000 Conference;
The 1998, 1999 & 2000 National Demos to close the School of theAmericas;
\"Sing it Down: Songs to Close the SOA\";
A16;
The 2000 Republican Convention Demo;
Queeruption;
and dozens of GLBT and Women\'s History Month events, Take Back the Nights, clubs and fesivals.
BIOS
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SPROUT:
Sprout\'s primary work includes non-violence training, political music, and action climb training. She works with several organizations including School of the Americas Watch and the Coalition of Anti-racist Whites in Seattle. Sprout also plays with several musicians who use music as a tool for social change. Sprout started as an organizer in high school working on environmental and human rights issues. She became involved with Central America solidarity work through the Coalition in Support of the People of El Salvador. She graduated from Oberlin College in politics and women\'s studies in 1997 and worked for three years with an international environmental youth corps. In the past year, Sprout organized and traveled extensively with the Mobilization for Global Justice Roadshow, facilitating non-violence trainings and focusing on the World Bank and IMF.
JOLIE RICKMAN:
\"like a singular, one woman version of the Violent Femmes\"- Syracuse New Times, and the Davis Enterprise
Jolie Rickman is a fiercely independent and expermental singer-songwriter with a nation-wide community of support. Over the past two years, Jolie has been welcomed into colleges, cafes, festivals, clubs, house-parties, community-centers, computers and stereos across the US. This year Jolie performed at some of North America\'s leading music festivals and acoustic venues, including appearances at Rockrgrl 2000, North By NorthEast in Toronto, Canada; and at Club Passim\'s Cutting Edge of the Campfire Festival in Cambridge, MA. Jolie\'s longtime connection with movements for cultural change have landed her on stage with folk legends including Pete Seeger and Tom Paxton. These opportunities help a young performer strengthen her connection to the living history of topical performance. Jolie says of the experience, \"Recently Pete Seeger told me that he believes we\'re entering into a new era of activism. Now is an exciting time to be a folksinger. Audiences are active listeners, challenging us to push the boundaries of our music.\"
Audiences and critics affirm that Jolie exceeds expectations. According to the California Aggie, \"...[her] lyrics elicited laughter, tears and heartfelt participation; Rickman recieved a standing ovation. Jolie tours in support of three full-length, independant cd\'s, including the Spring 2000 self-produced release, \"Suffer to be Beautiful.\" Jolie\'s
earlier cds, \"Sublime Detonation\" (1998) and \"Sing It Down: Songs to Close the School of the Americas\" (a 1999 collaborative project with fellow singer-sonwriter Colleen Kattau) received national airplay and were featured on nationally-syndicated radio programs including \"The Midnight Express\" (WFMT Chicago) and Pacifica\'s \"Democracy Now.\"
GINA YOUNG:
Gina is a singer/songwriter, actress and activist who is highly invested in the arts as a medium for radical social
and political change. She has performed her music-an original blend of folk and punk with lyrics centered around
issues of sexual assault, body image and dyke sexuality-at countless venues including New York University\'s \"Women Working Within and Without the System\" Conference, GLSEN\'S \"Breaking Walls, Building Bridges\" Conference, the Lesbian Avengers\' DC Dyke Arts Festival and the New Festival of Gay and Lesbian Film (with Le Tigre). She performed on the steps of the Supreme Court in support of the Violence Against Women Act and co-organized a rally and performance in Central Park following the Summer 2000 sexual assaults there. Gina\'s recording credits include a solo album, Prom Queen, as well as being featured on rOmeg rEcords Acoustic
Revolution Compilation and the upcoming Ladyfest 2001 Benefit CD.
also on tour but not appearing in C/U:
MARISA RAGONESE:
A cum laude graduate of New York University\'s Women\'s Studies Program, Marisa will be entering an
interdisciplinary Ph.D program in 2001. Marisa was President of NYU\'s Womyn\'s Center for two years, during
which time the activist group was named \"Club of the Year\" and hosted two large-scale feminist conferences, of
which Marisa was Chair. Marisa was named NYU\'s \"Outstanding Student Leader\" for 1999, as well as being a two-time recipient of the Women\'s Studies Award. She has led countless workshops at events as varied as the Southern Girl Convention, the NYU Undergraduate Research Conference, and Queeruption NYC. |
