EXAMS FOR JOBS in New York CityDepartment of Citywide Administrative Services July 2009 - June 2010

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Managing Producer (Consultant) Position Available At Freedom Train Productions, A Black Same Gender Loving (SGL) Theater Company

Managing Producer Position At Emerging Black SGL Theatre
B.I.G.G. News!


Managing Producer (Consultant)

Freedom Train Productions, a Black queer theatre company, seeks a highly motivated and independent arts professional with a background in theatre management. This is a part time consultant position beginning in Spring 2010 with an option to stay on permanently dependent on funding.

The Managing Producer will:

* Develop a three-year development and relationship building strategy for special events fundraising and individual, institutional, and government giving;
* Work with the artistic team to identify and support the theatre's response to immediate public and private giving opportunities;
* Work with the artistic team to design a public theatre training series and related earned income revenue strategy; and
* Assess the artistic and management theatre model that the theatre has built over its first three years and provide consultation toward opportunities moving forward.

This position, funded through our Stonewall Community Foundation award, is a great opportunity for a rising arts leader to play a crucial role in the growth of an emerging theatre.

Women, transgender, and people of color candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information and to apply please visit:

www.freedomtrainproductions.org/work

B.I.G.G. News!

In March 2010, Freedom Train Productions announced big and positive transitions. After four years of concentrating on play development, we are thrilled to announce a new programmatic expansion to produce black queer theatre -- FIRE! STAGES.

We believe B.I.G.G. objectives are achieved in partnership with supporters and audience like yourself:

Board of Directors - Expand and Diversify
Space Is the Place
Long-Term Growth
Give!

Join our efforts to grow a truly unique arts organization:

www.freedomtrainproductions.org/bigg

Freedom Train Productions is a Black queer theater company dedicated to political art and social activism that engages artists and audiences. We develop and stage challenging and controversial narratives about the universal struggle for freedom and transformation through the lens of black queer protagonists.

In theatre performance, new work development, and training we create a safe home where stories about black queer protagonists can change the world and make it safer for marginalized communities to exist. We believe that in a society where freedom of expression is regularly under attack, this work is critical.

www.freedomtrainproductions.org

"Black queer protagonists are our vehicle.
Creative justice is our destination."

Sacred Men's Wellness RetreatLifebridge Sanctuary In Hudson Valley, NY Friday, June 18, 2010 - Sunday, June 20, 2010

Sacred Men's Wellness Retreat
ENJOY A WEEKEND OF WELLNESS, SPIRITUAL RENEWAL
AND RELAXATION AND COMFORT

Friday, June 18th, 2010 - Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Lifebridge Sanctuary
Hudson Valley, New York
(1.5 Hours From NYC)

When was the last you really treated yourself to a regenerating and healthy experience? When is the last time you truly got away to recharge your spirit, invigorate your body
and relax your mind.

Take a break. Get away.

Join us for three days of wellness, empowerment and rejuvenation at the Sacred Men's Wellness Retreat. Attend dynamic workshops, receive soothing spa treatments, and eat delicious and healthy food. Recharge and regroup!
You deserve it.



Retreat Includes:
Two Luxurious Spa Treatments
Healthy and delicious meals
Dynamic Wellness Workshops
Habasha Coffee Ritual
African Healing Rituals
More....



Location:
The Sacred Men's Wellness Retreat will be held at the amazing Lifebridge Sanctuary, a 12,000 square foot facility on 95 acres of forest preserve on the Northern crest of the Shawangunk Ridge in Hudson Valley. The space is truly a place of beauty, privacy and quiet, offering a perfect environment for recharging your mind, body, and soul. The Sanctuary provides a variety of meeting rooms including the Upper Room with a wide view of the Catskill Mountains, numerous smaller spaces, a dining room, outside deck and comfortable bedrooms, many with mountain or forest views.



Details of Retreat

Tasty Healthy Meals
The retreat includes a complete menu of healthy and delicious meals to satisfy your body and palate. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served with a menu of tantalizing, and mouthwatering delicacies specially prepared by our talented cooks and holistic chefs. We will also present samples of delicious raw food for the raw newbies. We believe that healthy food should not be boring or bland but tasty and exciting just like the healthy nutrients contained within them.



Habasha Coffee Ritual
While tea drinking originated in China, the art of drinking coffee is an ancient practice originating in Ethiopia. We will follow African tradition and drink coffee as it was originally and presently done by the Habasha cultures of Ethiopia and Eritrea. In Habasha culture the art of drinking coffee is a sacred and special event integral to the social fabric of the society. We will participate in this ancient and deep social ceremony traditionally done as a sign of respect, hospitality and social bonding.


Dynamic Workshops
Stimulate your mind by attending a series of engaging workshops covering health and spirituality specifically for men. Workshops will be presented by Alywn Thomas and Jamel Cherry. Alwyn is a workshop facilitator, Dagara elder and diviner, entrepreneur and numerologist. He has served as one of the main facilitators of Malidoma Some's Indigenous Technology Apprenticeship Program. Jamel Cherry is a Yoruba Priest, Dagara Diviner, Reiki Master, Holistic Health Counselor. He has conducted various workshops on nutrition and spirituality in US.


Luxurious Spa Treatments
Who says men can't be pampered? Be treated like a king during the retreat a choice of sensuous and relaxing holistic spa treatments including massage, mystical clay baths, Ionic Foot Detox and reiki. Lie down and release all your tensions and stress with a deep Thai Massage by gifter healer and Ayurvedic consultant, Martha Grier. Sit back and relax as we initiate the detoxification process with an Ionic Foot Detox followed by a Foot Reflexology treatment.
Have your energetic power centers cleansed and balanced
with a powerful reiki treatment.


Single $499 / Double $449 / Communal $399
Deposit of $150 due by April 20, 2010.
Balance of $249 due by June 1, 2010.

To discuss other payment options call (917) 705-3444.

Seats are limited. Secure your spot today!
Click here to purchase your tickets online

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Sponsoring Website:
Alaafia Holistic Health

Alaafia is an African word from the Yoruba language which means "wellness." It represents a state of harmony, happiness, prosperity, peace, and health. Alaafia focuses on preventative health, not illness. Alaafia denotes a state of being where all areas of one's life is in order. Alaafia is true holistic health.

THE BOONDOCKS (Animated TV Series)3rd And FINAL Season Trailer

WOW! Final season of Boondocks! It seems a lot of folks are shocked by the news of what will ultimately be a short lived tv series.

A lot of interesting images in the trailer. Personally, I would love to see Gangsta-licious (the homosexual "DL" character voiced brilliantly by actor/rapper Mos Def) come back for a third season (maybe he will), but I didn't see him in the trailer. And I've always, ALWAYS, wanted to see Huey's best friend (from the daily comic strip when it was running in national newspapers) Ceaser who is so qool with his lox.

In any event, though I LOVE the trailer, I, as always, have issues with rappers and their foul language and the use of the "N" word. Anyway, it is what it is, and because it's Boondocks the trailer gets a skate into Nubian Knights Network.



The trailer may get taken down from YouTube, so if you don't see it below you know why.

HOMOAFFECTION: Memories of A Nature Boy, Part Of The EMERGING IDENTITIES FESTIVAL Sunday, April 18th, 2010 @ 3PM New York City

Tickets: ovationtix.com

Cornelius Jones Jr. presents
HOMOAFFECTION: Memories of A Nature Boy,
as part of the EMERGING IDENTITIES FESTIVAL

co-sponsored by NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
and The Office of LGBT Student Services

and you are invited to the

SUNDAY Afternoon Show
April 18th, 2010 @ 3PM
TheaterLab
137 West 14th Street
(between 6th & 7th Avenues)

New York City

You are in for quite a treat. For only $20 you get 2 dynamic performance pieces and after party with drinks.

Homo Affection: Memories of a Nature Boy explores the dynamics of Black masculinity and identity through male-to-male intimacy, and ideas of fatherhood, brotherhood, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS. The piece is a conceptual narrative, an autobiographical tale of adventures, memories, dreams and visions, told through movement, text, spoken-word, music, and multi-media.

Come support your friend.

**To purchase tickets please visit http://www.ovationtix.com or stop by www.corneliusjonesjr.com

Thank you for your time.

The Tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep: An Eternal Embrace; The Oldest Recorded History Of A Black Same Gender Loving Male Couple?

Illustration From Photograph ©1999 Greg Reeder

Hey Black Family,

This is not the first time I've heard of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, supposedly ancient Egyptians as a same gender loving couple.

The following pictures and captions in my opinion are quite compelling, though I admit there could be a bias on my part because I am a Black male who is same gender loving. Still, seems a little too intimate in my personal interpretation to be just buddies or biological brothers, cousins, etc.

In any event, the hieroglyphics that were found are INCREDIBLY FASCINATING to say the least and I wanted to share the pictures. You can make your own evaluation.

REFERENCES
Egyptology.com
The Controversy of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep Part 1
The Controversy of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep Part 2

All photographs ©1999 Greg Reeder

At the far Southern end of the rock-cut chamber
is THE BANQUET scene where
Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep
are shown feasting on offerings and
being entertained by dancers, clappers,
singers and musicians.
The doorways on the right lead into
the offering chamber
and to the false doors of the two men.

Here at the entrance to that part of
the tomb carved into the rock,
the names of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep
are inscribed as one name over the doorway.
Both have the jar hieroglyph
which is the name of the potter god Khnum.
The name Niankhkhnum on the right with the jar
and the ankh sign is translated as "Khnum has life."
The name Khnumhotep on the left with the jar
and the offering sign means "Khnum is satisfied."
Hotep means "peace" or "satisfaction"
nd is a hieroglyph of a loaf of bread on a table
as an offerings for the dead.
The name Khnum besides being a reference
to the god Khnum also meant "joined together"
and "to unite with" and later included "
associates, companions, friends,"and even "house mates".
Their names inscribed together above the entrance
to the rock-cut chamber, may be a design element
to suggest a play on words,
meaning "joined in life and joined in peace",
i.e. the blessed state of the dead,
and may have reference to the closeness of the two
and their desire to remain together in this life and the next.
We cannot be sure at what point in their lives
they assumed these names.
Were they both born with these names
r did the names come about from
the close relationship they shared during their lifetime?

It is here at the offering chapel
that the most intimate portrayals appear.
This scene is at the entrance, between two doorways.
The identically attired manicurists are shown embracing,
nose to nose.
Their children surround them,
(this photo is a close-up, more children are represented)
but the wives are not represented here.
The relationship between
the two men is not clear.
Egyptologists consider it "problematical."
Are they brothers?
Could they be twin brothers?
Are they close friends or are they lovers?
Are they all of the above?
A reasoned argument can be made defending
any and all of these positions.

On the western wall of the
offering chamber are two false doors.
The one on the right for Khnumhotep,
the one on the left for Niankhkhnum.
It was thru a later intrusive robber's shaft
that damaged Niankhkhnum's false door that the
Egyptologists made their first entrance into the tomb.
These false doors are separated by the scene pictured here
of the two men embracing though not as closely as at the entrance.

View Of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep Holding Hands

A Clickable Floor Plan For The Tomb Of
Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep
(The Picture Links To The Egyptology.com Website)

Kirikou And The Wild Beast (2005) Re-Released On DVD With English Subtitles

Hey Black Family,

I absolutely LOVE the character KIRIKOU because he's a tough, tough little brutha who has heart!! And funny, too!! A definite inspiration for the African Diaspora when you see him in action.

I originally found out or stumbled onto Kirikou when I was looking at a BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) flyer and saw an animated thumbnail of Kirikou. I thought to myself "Oh, this is interesting. An African animated character as a protagonist". So, I decided to go check it and was pleasantly and thoroughly superposed by this gem that I saw. ANd I actually took it to an ADODI summer retreat to show it as part of the ADODI Film Fest that I created and curated some years and t went over very well. Bruthaz responded to the film very favorably. Kirikou is accessible for kids and equally for adults, too!! Trust me!

As a Black kid growing up in NYC during the 1970s and looking at Saturday morning cartoons religiously, I noticed there were very, very few cartoon characters that looked like me or had my dark skin complexion. The only Black characters that come to mind off the top of my head as I type this are Mighty Man from Mighty Man and Yukk and Black Vulcan (pictured to the right here with his qool, qool costume) from the Super Friends tv series. And there was the qool super villain the Moon Man from The New Adventures of Batman cartoon series.

Anyway, the original all French version of Kirikou et les betes sauvages (translates in English to Kirikou And The Wild Beast [2005]) that I currently own on DVD is French spoken and has French subtitles. This version was released by Alliance Atlantic Vivia Films/Remstar and has a running time of 75 minutes.

Even though I couldn't understand what the characters were saying I could still pretty much follow the storyline and what was going on. Because I'm a big Kirikou fan it didn't stop me from buying this version; most English speaking people probably would not have bought this DVD.

Now, Kirikou And The Wild Beast (2005) has been re-released on DVD by Kino Films which is still spoken in French, however, this version accompanies English subtitles with a running time of 95 minutes; that's 20 minutes longer!!! The aspect ratio is 1.85:1 and enhanced for 16:9 television monitors.

You can pick up a copy of Kirikou And The Wild Beast at
Amazon.com for $22.49
DeepDiscount.com for $11.99

I just placed an order with Deep Discount (can't knock their excellent price point) who is a reputable e-commerce website. I have been ordering from them for about 9 years now so they are trustworthy. They also offer FREE shipping as one of their 4 methods of shipment.

The above prices are subject to change / fluctuate at anytime.

NOTE: Parental guidance for children viewing is suggested.Women are shown in traditional attire (sarongs only) and children wear no clothing. I personally don't think it's a big deal for children to see at all (even if I had children), and one has to realize this particular film art is not rooted in American traditions of western values (aka Disney films); but, hey, everybody is different, so just giving you a heads up.

Also, below is a 10 minute clip so you can get a feel for the film. I LOVE Kirikou! You go boy!