Screening: Girls Rock
March 21st, 7.30- 9pm
Please join She Works Flexible Now this Saturday the 21st of March in Berkeley for a screening of the amazing and inspiring documentary, "Girls Rock” Directed by Shane King and Arne Johnson. We will have an introduction to the film provide by camp alum Mickela Hammond who with two of her band mates will also be available for Q & A afterwards.
Popcorn will be free flowing and weather permitting we will be screening the film outside so bring blankets, cushions and a beverage of choice.
At Rock 'n' Roll Camp, girls ranging in age from eight to 18 are taught that it's OK to sweat like a pig, scream like a banshee, wail on their instruments with complete and utter abandon, and that "it is 100% okay to be exactly who you are." The girls have a week to select a band, an instrument they may have never played before, and write a song. In between, they are taught by indie rock chicks such as Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney various lessons of empowerment from self-defense to anger management. At the end of the week, all the bands perform a concert for over 700 people. The film follows several campers: Laura, a Korean adoptee obsessed by death metal; Misty, who is emerging from a life of meth addiction, homelessness and gang activity; and Amelia, an eight-year-old who writes experimental rock songs about her dog Pipi. What happens to the girls as they are given a temporary reprieve from being sexualized, analyzed and pressured to conform is truly moving and revolutionary.
Visit: www.girlsrockmovie.com
March 21st, 7.30- 9pm
Please join She Works Flexible Now this Saturday the 21st of March in Berkeley for a screening of the amazing and inspiring documentary, "Girls Rock” Directed by Shane King and Arne Johnson. We will have an introduction to the film provide by camp alum Mickela Hammond who with two of her band mates will also be available for Q & A afterwards.
Popcorn will be free flowing and weather permitting we will be screening the film outside so bring blankets, cushions and a beverage of choice.
At Rock 'n' Roll Camp, girls ranging in age from eight to 18 are taught that it's OK to sweat like a pig, scream like a banshee, wail on their instruments with complete and utter abandon, and that "it is 100% okay to be exactly who you are." The girls have a week to select a band, an instrument they may have never played before, and write a song. In between, they are taught by indie rock chicks such as Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney various lessons of empowerment from self-defense to anger management. At the end of the week, all the bands perform a concert for over 700 people. The film follows several campers: Laura, a Korean adoptee obsessed by death metal; Misty, who is emerging from a life of meth addiction, homelessness and gang activity; and Amelia, an eight-year-old who writes experimental rock songs about her dog Pipi. What happens to the girls as they are given a temporary reprieve from being sexualized, analyzed and pressured to conform is truly moving and revolutionary.
Visit: www.girlsrockmovie.com
