Young Women Need to Rock On!

girls rock columbia

 

“I know I’m small in a way, but I know I’m strong.”

— Indigo Girls

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“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” 

 — Lady Gaga

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“Girls have got balls. They’re just a little higher up is all.”

— Joan Jett

Monday is the Girls Rock Columbia camper application deadline so don’t wait to read this post or to reach out to the young women in your life (ages 8 – 18) and direct them to the Soda City camp that will in all likelihood CHANGE THEIR LIVES.

GIRLS ROCK COLUMBIA!

Girls Rock Columbia is a one-week long day camp that exists to foster a community of girls ages 8-18 through music, performance, and various workshops. The program encourages an environment that cultivates self-confidence, challenges gender stereotypes, promotes positive female relationships, creativity, and leadership.  The ultimate goal of Girls Rock Columbia is to empower everyone involved; both campers and volunteers, to take the sense of community learned from within the organization and carry that throughout the city they call home.

Girls Rock Columbia will be held at Eau Claire High School the week of July 22nd  – 25th with a showcase of talent culminating the week.

 

We live in a world that still tells little girls to act like ladies — which means being quiet; to sit like ladies — which means in an unnatural posture with their knees tightly together and their hands helplessly in their laps; to dress like ladies — which means with their feet bound and disabled, the perfection of their faces painted over, and their bodies tied up in ribbons and bows and zippers they can’t even reach themselves. This is your chance to help a young woman you know or love set herself free with the music that’s inside her.

Tell her how to apply online.

Don’t know a young woman but want to be a part of this bad-ass movement to cultivate greatness among this generation?

Then volunteer!

Or, pull out that pretty little purse — you know, the one you got on sale but still paid an exorbitant price for — and let the money you have in it make a bigger statement than the purse itself, and flat-out MAKE IT HAPPEN!

 

(And here’s a little something from 2009 about someone’s pick for the 12 greatest female electric guitarists of the day.)

About Jasper

What Jasper Said is the blogging arm of Jasper – The Word on Columbia Arts, a new written-word oriented arts magazine that serves artists and arts lovers in the Columbia, SC area and its environs in four ways: Via Print Media – Jasper is a bi-monthly magazine, releasing in print six times per year in September, November, January, March, May & July, on the 15th of each month. Jasper covers the latest in theatre and dance, visual arts, literary arts, music, and film as well as arts events and happenings; Via Website – Jasper is an interactive website complete with a visual arts gallery, messages from Jasper, an arts events calendar that is updated several times daily, bite-sized stories on arts events, guest editorials, local music, dance & theatre videos, community surveys, and more; Via Blog – What Jasper Said -- you're reading this now -- is a daily blog featuring a rotating schedule of bloggers from the Jasper staff as well as guest bloggers from throughout the arts community; Via Twitter – Jasper Advises is a method of updating the arts community on arts events, as they happen, with more than a half dozen active tweeters who live, work, and play inside the arts community everyday ~ Jasper Advises keeps the arts community abreast of what not to miss, what is happening when it is happening, and where to be to experience it first hand.
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One Response to Young Women Need to Rock On!

  1. Bob Gala says:

    Really ??? This is simply fabulous stuff . Creative , pertinent and meaningful . Congratulations , not only for bringing everyone a wealth of information , but for the spirit in which it’s conveyed . Great job looking for more .

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