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Women's Music, Arts, Dance, & Word Festival
March 10th, 2007
Saturday 11am -
7pm

**FREE ADMISSION**

Hosted by 2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space
435 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802 (562) 901-0997

* BANDS * DANCERS * FASHION SHOW * POETS * FOOD * VENDORS * FAMILY FUN *

Artists

FEATURED

Moira Smiley and VOCO
Fiery Roots Vocal Band
 

PoetRoniGirl's
"Acoustically Speaking" Collective

featured on NBC's "Your LA" TV show

Trailblazin' PoetRoniGirl joined by
LA's top singer/
songwriters & spoken word artists

SITA STYLE

Vicky Tafoya
Southern CA's R&B/ Doowop Queen
and
our Special HOST for the day

The Goddess Temple of Orange County
Ava, Goddess Temple Founder & Director
Hosting our Opening Ceremony

Women of the Sacred Feminine priestessing the earth towards peace & prosperity

Jennifer Sarreal,
Island Beat Entertainment

Dancer, Choreographer, and Founder of Island Beat Entertainment & Artists for Humanity sharing a fusion of dances from Polynesia, Brazil, Filipino-Muslim traditions

Long Beach Renaissance
High School for the Arts

Excerpts from
"West Side Story"
(showing at the Carpenter Center 3/23 & 3/24

& more being added

Juried Visual Arts Exhibit by special juror, Sara Cochran, Ph.D - Assistant Curator Modern Art LACMA
2004 Womens Festival
2005 Womens Festival

PICS

2 0 0 6  P e r f o r m e r s

www.myspace.com/vocoinfo

Featuring actor/dancer/model/fashion designer Sita Thompson's women's line of clothing blending Indian & Western Style

Back by Popular Demand!

Vybration
Electrifying 6-part a capella with beatbox

Yeh Dede
Women's World Music Fusion

Freedom Writers featuring Maria Reyes
From Wilson Highschool to Feature Film, their story of freedom through the power of writing

Fashion Show Every Hour!

Madame J Body Designs

Justine Serebrin's Spontaneous
& Unique Performance Painting

Gina Loring
HBO Def Poet & celebrated vocalist
featuring beatboxer Joshua Silverstein
See Gina on YouTube

Deborah Holland
Former lead singer & songwriter of Animal Logic (Stewart Copeland/Stanley Clarke),
witty music for  moms

Countershock
Long Beach's own high-energy alternative hard rock band

Jennifer Jimenez
Sacred Dancer, Movement Facilitator & founder of Mommy & Me and PreNatal Dance videos

GREAT EATS

hot dogs, sweets, soda,
wine & healthy choices too...

Jackie Kashian
National Touring Comic with her own standup special on Comedy Central

Divine Strings
Featuring Aishu Venkataraman, 14-year-old violin virtuoso presents South Indian Music with mridangam

LadyFOX
Energetic Funk/Rock band led by Michelle Ann Owens ala Nikka Costa, Pink, Lenny Kravitz 

Models from Paragon Productions
Choreographed by Natty Rios Sipes

ELLY
Teenage Indy Pop Artist joined by her dancers; selected at age nine to perform with "Phantom of the Opera's" Michael Crawford

Miss Krisy Rose aka GypsyHoop
The art of HoopDance
fusing bellydance & burlesque,  also teaches/ performs FireHoop, PartnerHoop, and GlowHoop

ENTERTAINMENT
COORDINATOR

Emmy-winning Singer/Songwriter,
Faith Rivera