March 9th, 2009
Help 106 Women Live Their Dreams
Help Mel and 105 Other Women Live Their Dreams!
Regular readers of this blog and friends of Votre Vray Creative Women project know 75 women artists were interviewed in the summer of 2008 not only to share their stories of living creative lives, but also to promote their work. Some of you might even know that I, Mel Edwards, was fortunate enough to win a scholarship to BlogHer ‘09 Conference in Chicago to be held in July. What you don’t know is the plan to pay it forward.
May 15th and 16th I’ll hold the Grab Your Truth weekend, complete with a free showing of Shout: Kiss My Art! on Friday night and mini-workshop on Saturday morning for 40 women who want to begin living their creative dreams but cannot afford to pay full price for the event. (The Weekend to Grab Your Truth costs $50 per participant without any frills or any compensation going to me for putting it all together.) For now, I’ve slapped the debt onto a credit card and crossed my fingers that people will donate knowing doing so will help the 75 Votre Vray Creative Women gain media and customer attention, help 40 more women get on their path to living their truth, and help me gain recognition for my work, and perhaps enough money to fund my train ticket and/or hotel expenses at BlogHer ‘09.
What ALL donors get:
- Poppies by Votre Vray Creative Woman and Grammy Award Winning designer Joey Wester
. Please visit her website to learn about the artist and purchase her work.
- Shout: Kiss My Art! with this exclusive graphic created to promote the one-woman show by Mel Edwards about women living their creative and artistic lives. (T-shirts with this graphic are available separately.)
- The Mouse, The Bird and The Sausage, a tale collected by the Grimm Brothers, has been updated and told here by Mel. “I feel this story explains what happens when you change your life not because you want to but because someone says, ‘Your life is terrible. You’d be so much better of if you did…. instead.’ In the end, we only find fulfillment in living our truth.”
- Poetry Saved My Life, the true story of what brought her to art and what sustains her, by award winning poet and Kennedy Center Partner in Education teaching artist Glenis Redmond. Please visit her website to learn about the artist and purchase her work.