Evolutionary Girls Club Art Auction and Benefit

The Evolutionary Girls Club will host an Art Auction and Benefit next Wednesday (12/22/04) at the A/V gallery.

The Evolutionary Girls Club is an INCLUSIVE group of artists and activists with a focus of sharing voice, access and opportunity between its members and within the communities we live in and visit. We have many genders within our membership. You need not identify as female to belong.

Women have been contained within the ranks of man and his/story for years. The name began as a play on the idea of the "old boys club". The group recognizes privilege, both visible (such as race and gender) and invisible (such as sexual/gender orientation, class) and works hard to give inequities voice so that the entities and individuals that reinforce fear and ignorance are not allowed to maintain power through our silence. Even privilege given around visible traits tends to go unacknowledged.

We publish a catalog with images, articles and creative writing about once a year. The group has done shows in Ukraine, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, the USA.......We attempt to do shows that help groups with social activism, shows that brings art into public spaces as well as shows in more traditional gallery settings. Many of us are involved in direct activism and we sometimes form groups to attend protests, forward petitions, etc. We work together to inform and expand each other

On December 22 from 7-9pm the EGC will hold a silent auction of artwork by its members. Proceeds will go toward helping to fund the groups effots. This event is at a/v gallery which is located at 8 public market, Rochester (www.avspace.org) (423-0320). More information and directions at http://evolutionarygirls.tripod.com. Come buy inexpensive, original works, enjoy a performance of poetry and music and eat some great food. $5 donation at the door includes food. Nobody will be turned away for inability to pay.