SHEnergy Motivational Networking Tour is an amazing women’s empowerment and networking experience.  SHEnergize! Tallahassee will infuse education and motivation into the lives of women to spark the desire to do more and be more!  Shenergize your dreams and turn them into reality!   Saturday, March 23, 2013, Tallahassee Community College, Student Union Ballroom.  Doors open at 8 AM for networking and shopping; seminar begins at 10 AM.

Visit Shenergize.com for more information.  Text SHENERGIZE to 22828 to join our mailing list.

Are you the leader of a local women’s organization in the Tallahassee area? If so, contact us to discuss the possibility of partnering with SHEnergy for this event.

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DETROIT—Imagine, yes imagine, yourself suddenly thrust into the Pop-Culture world of the Planted Kingdom; and the featured news of the day hails from the syndicated Fertilizer Files of news correspondent Mrs. Brown. Fluent in Vegetable linguistics, Mrs. Brown is on special assignment for the most prestigious Planted Kingdom news mediums and journals including, but notwithstanding, The Planted Globe, The Wallflower Journal and The New Stalk Times. If your interest has indeed been piqued, then you would be remiss if you don’t allow yourself to be privy to the creative-genius and theatrical performance of poet-artiste Semaj Brown.

Semaj will be featured in a One Woman Show, entitled Onion Revolt!, sponsored by the Detroit-based Broadside Press Poets Threatre. Curtain call is at 3 p.m., February 17, 2013, University of Detroit Mercy, Grounds Coffee House, at 4001 W. McNichols, Detroit, MI. Known in the past for her jazz-funk-fusion floetry style, the author, educator and poet–extraordinaire- a Broadside Press Progeny- returns home to Detroit after a decade.
This astonishingly-creative One Woman Show, Onion Revolt! is unparalleled as it is an off-shoot of Feasts and Fables of the Planted Kingdom, a story cookbook and CD series, published by Flint, Michigan-based Health Collectors LLC. The story cookbook, written by Semaj Brown, is a fictional-world where food and fantasy meet. It is a unique work where whimsey spills over into reality, creating a great recipe and platform to raise the awareness of event patrons and encourage them to explore the healthy benefits of eating vegetables and fruits as well as improve their overall well-being. Sounds exciting? Well, it is!
In this Fertilizer File, which takes place on Scallion Row, The Onions in The Garden have staged a revolt because they have a beef with the Culinary Eats Industry. They kidnap Mrs. Brown on location and hold her hostage, only to have their manifesto read because they’ve been stereotyped far too long as mere food- enhancers.
Semaj has clearly taken her craft to the next level, by employing personification to fruits and vegetables in a clever, theatrical and animated way. Interlaced in each fable is an important moral that surprisingly ends with two plant-based recipes, and Mrs. Brown echoing her catch phrase: “And that is what’s for dinner!” The poet, educator and entertainer said her motivation stems from her love and devotion for a community suffering from obesity, and her desire to keep herself and husband Dr. James Brown, M.D., in good health. Semaj and Dr. Brown, who is a board-certified Family Physician and motivational speaker, together create healthy living Planted Kingdom Events. Dr. Brown’s authoritative vocals are also featured in the Fertilizer Files as broadcast announcer Stalk Cutright.
Semaj offers her take on this innovative work: “Food is social, political, historical, and spiritual: it is art, it is science, it is fun,” she said. “To be fully alive, completely realized, one must eat that which is alive, and thus life sustaining. This is obtainable! Just as every butterfly identifies its flower in search of nectar, we as people must establish “dis-pa” …a discriminating-palate.”
Together Dr. Brown and Semaj co-founded Health Collectors LLC which combines science and art applications to break through the sometimes impenetrable barriers of negative lifestyles. Semaj has lost 100 pounds and is the architect of Mrs. Brown’s Butterfly Building: An Innovative Lifestyle Change Program For Women.
To book a performance in your venue, or find out more about One Woman Show, Onion Revolt!, please contact Rhonda Rudd, at 248-850-6717 or email her at mrsrhondarudd1@yahoo.com. Feasts and Fables from the Planted Kingdom: A Story Cookbook and CD are available on amazon.com. The audio version: CD and MP3 downloads and listening clips are available on cdbaby.com or cdbaby.com/cd/semajbrown. The CD is engineered by Jean Lumetta. The Planted Kingdom Players: are Dr. James Brown, M.D. as Stalk Cutright and opera singer Denise Millhollen. Sandra Hines is the director of the one woman Performance, Onion Revolt! A 45 minute adaptation from the Story Cookbook in which Semaj plays 14 different vegetable characters! Books and CDs will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Celebrate Women’s History Month on March 6, 1-2 p.m., with our free webcast, Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies, for students in grades 9-12.

Cokie Roberts hosts this fascinating discussion of the struggles to establish a nation as seen through the eyes of our nation’s first First Ladies: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison.

Share their behind-the-scenes insights into the challenges faced by their husbands, as well as learn about the often overlooked contributions of these essential founding mothers.  Register for viewing information at http://www.fcps.edu/fairfaxnetwork/registration/registration.html

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Using scholar interviews, archival materials, and dramatic reenactments based on her original writings, AUTUMN GEM brings the story of Qiu Jin to life. The hour-long film was produced and directed by two San Francisco Bay Area Chinese American filmmakers, Rae Chang and Adam Tow. It stars former China National martial arts champion and Hollywood stunt actress Li Jing.

AUTUMN GEM has screened at over 100 venues worldwide, including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Princeton, Brown, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts Boston, University of British Columbia, and Australian National University.

As 2012 marks the centenary of the end of imperial rule in China, it is especially crucial to acknowledge the role of women in the country’s transition to a modern nation. AUTUMN GEM sheds light on a remarkable figure who continues to serve as an inspiration to Chinese women today.

San Francisco Bay Area Screenings

All events are free and open to the general public. For full details please visit http://autumn-gem.com

MARCH
March 1: San Jose State University
March 2: Atherton Library
March 6: Fremont Library
March 8: Foster City Library
March 10: Cupertino Library
March 11: Livermore Library
March 12: Los Altos Library
March 14: San Carlos Library
March 18: Mountain View Library
March 21: Sunnyvale Library
March 27: Campbell Library
March 28: San Jose King Library
March 31: Dublin Library

APRIL
April 7: Berryessa Library
April 24: Evergreen Library
April 25: Alameda Library

MAY
May 1: Belmont Library
May 2: Millbrae Library
May 10: Burlingame Library
May 12: Pacifica Sharp Park Library

“WOMEN & SPIRIT: Catholic Sisters in America” is a traveling exhibit sponsored by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) in association with Cincinnati Museum Center. It reveals the mystery behind a small group of innovative American women who helped shape the nation’s social and cultural landscape.

Meet women who corresponded with President Thomas Jefferson, talked down bandits and roughnecks, lugged pianos into the wilderness, and provided the nation’s first health insurance to Midwestern loggers. Discover sisters’ courage during the Civil War, the Gold Rush, the San Francisco Earthquake, the Influenza Epidemic, the Civil Rights Movement, and Hurricane

January 24, 2012 – June 3, 2012 IN CALIFORNIA

*Museum Location*
Located next to the Secretary of State building, one block from the State Capitol. (916) 653-7524
CaliforniaMuseum.org
museuminfo@californiamuseum.org

*Admission*
$8.50 for adults; $7 for students w/ID and seniors;
$6 ages 6-13. For group rates, call (916) 654-1729

*Museum Hours*
Monday through Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.;
Sunday: noon to 5:00 p.m.

*Transportation & Parking*
The Museum is a stop on the Light Rail (Archives Plaza). Free weekend parking is available in a surface lot directly across the street from the Museum. On-street parking is free on Sundays. Additional parking is available Monday-Friday at select garages: 10th Street between P and O Streets, 11th Street between O and P Streets, 14th and P Streets, 10th Street between L and K Streets.

Their purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. The Junior League of Baltimore, Inc. reaches out to women of all races, religions, and national origins who demonstrate an interest in and commitment to voluntarism.  Besides volunteering, there are also 5 other reasons to join this exemplary organization.

1.)  You can be a part of Baltimore’s rich culture. The Junior League has a rich history in Baltimore from the Flower Mart, Maryland School for the Blind,they helped  Founded the Hampden Family Center, and they began the docent program at the National Aquarium.

2.)  You can do your part to fight Childhood Obesity.  Every  year they hold a ” Big Kids in the Kitchen” event which hosts 200 at-risk children from Baltimore, at Port Discovery, and teaches them about healthy food and lifestyle choices. Currently, they are developing a “Kids in the Kitchen curriculum”  to roll out next fall to mirror this event. You can participate, educate and help fight childhood obesity through getting involved with this curriculum.

3.) Make new friends. If you are new into the area, and want to make more female friends; this is the organization for you to do that and ensure that they are life long comrads.  Women of all different walks–who are professional, educated and motivated– make up the cosmetic makeup of the organization.

4.) Learn how to be a leader.  This organization ( will be 100 years old  next year) has courses, on-site training and support provided for women who want to garner  career worthy skills.

5.) It’s alot of fun. Most importantly, the Junior League of Baltimore is a fun organization full of confident, warm women who embrace social issues and tackle it head on.

If you want more information about this organization, please contact  President-Elect Kate Sullivan at sullivan918@gmail.com or visit the website.

By Sherryn Daniel

March 31 6:30 at Mid-Manhattan Library Sixth floor, 455 Fifth Avenue, (at 40th street).

 They learn about how important knowledge and the desire to know were to Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.  The children attending enact an exciting play—taken from Sarah Bradford’s book Harriet Tubman—The Moses of Her People, about a successful escape led by Harriet Tubman and Thomas Garrett. 

 As they do, everyone also begins to understand, based on the education Aesthetic Realism, founded by poet and philosopher Eli Siegel, that there is a fight in every person between the desire for respect, as represented by the Underground Railroad, and the desire for contempt, which was the cause of slavery and racism.  They learn about the thing that makes us feel proud—to want to learn, to respectfully think about what other people deserve, to have a lastingly good effect. 

Groups at libraries, historical societies, and schools have been thrilled and educated by this event.
 The presenters are Devorah Tarrow, sociologist and Aesthetic Realism consultant; and Barbara McClung, NYC public school teacher.  For information, contact dtarrow@aestheticrealism.org .