Edition 77: Women's Festivals in Michigan 2022
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Creating a Woman-Centered Space: The Story of Michigan Family Reunion
Learn about the creation of the Michigan Family Reunion (MFR) as a response to the end of the Michigan Women's Music Festival, the collaborative community effort in organizing MFR, and the significance of providing a space for women to let go of societal burdens and be themselves.
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Speaker 2
impressed and I think so you weren't really officially there it was really like your mom's doing it and you know she has to babysit the kid basically
Speaker 1
yeah basically like
Speaker 3
I guess that's how it was presented yeah but yeah but it was actually secretly it was for you
Speaker 1
yes exactly yeah so then I think so at that point then she he was also kind of helping out and becoming an advocate for me as well and I was so like okay this is a kid who I think can potentially showing this college and take some college classes what
Speaker 4
was his name? what was his name?
Speaker 3
um Steven Sterling
Speaker 1
he was a he was a geology professor um and yeah so I think he he's retired now but yeah he so yeah he he he really was helpful in terms of like talking with the the college staff and helping to convince them but even then they of course the college staff were still not that commenced they were like they were like you have to do well in these classes otherwise we will not let you continue so like I think the expectation was like getting an A basically in the classes.
Speaker 2
Is that a higher bar than other students would have had or?
Speaker 1
I mean probably yeah um I think so yeah
Speaker 3
so for
Speaker 1
a while that's kind of what was happening and then also they limited me to only taking two classes for first semester so I was only taking two classes for semester
Speaker 3
um and so
Speaker 1
and then basically every single semester there was a whole process like a hat to go and meet the dean and get permission from the dean and it was a whole process and it was like a very special situation but eventually like so like I wanted to take more classes and progress faster yeah
Speaker 2
I mean two classes on the semester is not a
Speaker 1
law. It's not yeah it's not particularly um yeah it's not particularly engaging I guess um so the so the idea was then um I would graduate my school so then then I would speed regular policy to do so this was around the age of nine or ten then I managed so likely in California they do have this option to like um
Speaker 3
take a
Speaker 1
a standardized test and test out of high school but you can always take it if you are in 10th grade so they they we had
Speaker 2
to set it up.
Edition 77: A Digest of Michigan Women's Music and Arts Festivals 2022.
Both Thistle and Jenna got to gather with women in the woods of Michigan this Summer 2022. Both give their reports from a variety of women's lands and festivals in the great State of Michigan.
Hear Emiliann Lorenzen's world news headlines after Liz Miller's segment "Getting Organized" wherein she interviews Dawn Smith, founder and organizer of Michigan Framily Reunion (MFR). Then, stay tuned for Thistle's interviews with Jori Costello and Emily Faye, two women artists and musicians on women's lands and at women's gatherings this Summer in Michigan.
Jori Costello is a member of the band Big Bad Gina and instructor at WWTLC.org's festival called Women's Performance Initiative or WIPI Band Camp. Thistle met her on the Land where the original MichFest took place and they talked about WIPI and the mythos of Michigan in general as the rain pitter patters in the background, deep in the woods.
Emily Faye is a cross country traveler spreading love and cheer with her unique yoni art and booth she sets up on Women's lands. You might know her by the tick tick tocking of her old fashioned type writer where she furiously writes secret pages of unknown content. You can find her on the interwebs here: www.radicallybedazzled.com.
Finally, stay tuned for Thistle's commentary about the two Michigan gatherings she got to go to this Summer, one by bike! Her rendition of the classic Grateful Dead song "Brokedown Palace" is woven in with her words describing highlights and moments on the Land.
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