Vagina Festival: Only in NYC

Vagina Festival is a visual and performance art experience, organized by artist-activist, Alexandra Jacoby. It is an outgrowth of her project, vagina vérité®—an unabashed exploration of the plain, ordinary, mysterious matter of vaginas.

VAGINA FESTIVAL is an opportunity to have conversations we don’t typically get to have - in ways we don’t typically get to have them. Through visual art, performance, speaker presentations and interactive activities, Vagina Festival forms a welcoming space for exploring sexuality, body image, personal identity, health and well-being.

At Vagina Festival, we exchange ideas, challenge cultural norms and celebrate women. Their aim is to engage people by creating a fun, moving, thought-provoking experience.

Vagina Festival is made possible by generous sponsors and volunteers who are passionate about creating conversation. If you’d like to be a part of organizing and promoting Vagina Festival, go now to sign up.

October 24-26, 2008
Sage Theater
711 Seventh Avenue, 2nd FL
New York, NY 10036

Vagina Festival is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non profit arts service organization. Contributions on behalf of Vagina Festival may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. Donations can be made by credit card, or by check.

First Moment Memories

There are three brand new babies in my family and I won't be able to meet them for another three weeks yet. So far, I've already purchased tiny little shoes and onesies and books for them, their siblings and parents.

One thing I have not yet done is purchase something or create something that honors their special day, in particular. I'm not a creative person (honestly) so I was thrilled to discover that a colleague of mine has recently started her own company: First Moments Memories.

From Founder:

"I love celebrating big events, and finding an artful way to remember them was hard to do. There are other keepsakes that capture similar information, but either the art wasn’t engaging, or there was too much text. Nothing I found captured the true celebratory feeling of a great event.

So little by little, I started piecing together the idea of original art, creative fonts, and something versatile that could go easily into a photo album, or be a great framed piece to admire.

Every time I look at one for my son and daughter, I find myself smiling. Why not share a smile?"

Word Art

As if I don't have enough addictions, I've just discovered the new word art that you can create over at Wordle. Below is a small thumbnail of my tag cloud from this blog. You can select your own words and randomize the colors, font and shape of the word cloud until you're satisfied.

Created at Wordle.

I was very satisfied with my results and can't wait to create more word art.

Gifts for the Moms in Your Life

With less than one week to go, here are some last minute gift ideas for the Mom in your life. It's not too late to have something shipped in time!

Short & Sweet Hearts







Bvlgari for Women

Romance for Women

Lucky #6 for Women

Corporate Greenery

Yes, I realized I stole the idea from the first collage that inspired me, but I think it's safe to say that I took the Go Green fad seriously...

New Addiction

I have found the website of my dreams. A cool way to create a colorful collage of material things. How creative and fun - and addicting - is this?

I can't wait to share more...