LADIES FIRST
A project of Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA)
SATURDAY MAY 2nd @ HIDMO ( 20th & Jackson)
Doors open 7:30 | All Ages| $5 cover

8 p.m. OPEN MIC

9 p.m. FEATURES Julie C and Diana Nucera

Featuring
 
Julie C

 
Julie C is a Hip Hop artist, educator, freelance journalist and community organizer from Seattle, WA, hailin' from the crew Alpha P. She serves as assistant chapter-head of 206 Zulu, Seattle's branch of Universal Zulu Nation, codirector of Reclaim the Media, and Northwest regional coordinator for Hip Hop Congress, and urban arts and culture 501c3 non profit. She is also an artist on B Girl Media and the record release for her newest project, The Knox Family E.P, is May 23rd at Chop Suey.
www.206zulu.com
www.hiphopcongress.com
www.reclaimthemedia.org
www.bgirlmedia.com
 
DIANA
NUCERA
 
Diana Nucera, accomplished cellist, artist, and mulit-media instructor, has been dedicated to teaching and working in the media arts for the past ten years. Diana earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography and film from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her Master of Fine Arts in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has devoted her artistic talents and her educational philosophy to integrating media arts in both Chicago, San Francisco, and Detroit Public School curricula, and has exhibited her own work, multi-media performance and video installations, throughout the United States and in Austria, Australia, and Scotland. Diana has supported  people in their self-exploration through media arts throught art institutions, youth media organizations, small buisnesses, and  is currently in residence as a conference organzier and media artist for Allied Media Projects Detroit, MI.  Her expertise crosses many borders with vast knowledge in education, audio arts and production, video installation and production, graphics and web design, interactive multi-media programming, performance, fine arts, youth media, curriculum studies, program development, science, and technology. Outside of the classroom and art gallery, Diana has an amazing ability to bring people together through the art, music, and helping construct a strong national community of organizers, educators, through the Allied Media Conference. www.alliedmediaconference.org



Monique Franklin
Ladies First Coordinator