#NotJustPretty
Meet The Woman Who Lead The Charge
#NotJustPretty is an exciting 3-zoom series (90 min. each) that honors artists from around the world who identify as women. This program, sponsored by Broken
Spine Arts and hosted by Karen Pierce Gonzalez is about refusing to let women’s creativity be reduced
or silenced. It's meant to amplify women's voices in all their diversity, complexity, and defiance, and to celebrate their creative creative work: poetry, art, film, song, and more.
What they do and how they do it challenges the stories that have held
women back and offer new ways of seeing themselves and the world.
Together, they embody what #NotJustPretty stands for:
resilience, imagination, and truth. More
Karen Pierce Gonzalez #NotJustPretty Lead & Host
The Final #NOTJUSTPRETTY Zoom! 
All Welcome To Attend. Open Mic spots FULL! Waiting list still open: kpgfolkheart@gmail.com
#NotJustPretty is an exciting 3-zoom series (90 min. each) that honors artists from around the world who identify as women. This program, sponsored by Broken
Spine Arts and hosted by Karen Pierce Gonzalez is about refusing to let women’s creativity be reduced
or silenced. It's meant to amplify women's voices in all their diversity, complexity, and defiance, and to celebrate their creative creative work: poetry, art, film, song, and more.
What they do and how they do it challenges the stories that have held
women back and offer new ways of seeing themselves and the world.
Together, they embody what #NotJustPretty stands for:
resilience, imagination, and truth. More
Tracy
Cox is an award-winning opera singer and celebrated fat artist + activist Tracy
has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, L.A. Opera, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona
and more. She originated the role of “Helen” in the chamber opera “Fat Pig” and,
a multi-genre vocal, visual, and literary artist, has dedicated herself to highlighting and empowering
fat talent. This includes her international arts-related workshops to address traumatizing
body-based stigma and discrimination normalized in performing arts that hurts both
artist and industry. https://thetracycox.com/
Laura Grevel, originally from the USA, has lived
in Europe 25 years. Her eclectic poetry, fiction and essays writings encompass
human rights, narratives and nature. Her debut collection explores themes of
identity and immigration. Widely published, she is an active member of the
online international poetry community. https://www.facebook.com/LauraHGrevel
Rachel
Rothman Cox, originally from Southern California, is a soprano, cross-genre artist, and vocal coach.
At San Francisco Conservatory of Music,
she specialized in opera performance and earned both awards and opportunities
to sing leading roles in both local and international operas and musicals. Proud to hold San Francisco
as her artistic and teaching home base (where she lives with her wife Tracy Cox), she has a thriving voice studio with
multiple locations across the San Francisco Bay Area. https://rachelrothmanstudio.com
Gilda
Solve, a San Francisco native, emigrated to France 36 years ago to be able to
completely dedicate herself entirely to jazz, a musical style that resonates deeply with the heart and soul. This solo artist and vocal coach performs accompanied by trios,
quartets, and big band musicians. Her musical journey, pure and sensual, breathes new life into great jazz standards with a blend
of emotion and swing that resonates deeply with her being. gildasolve@gmail.com
Soheila Vahedi is a Sydney, Australian-based writer. Born in Iran, she moved to the United States then returned to Iran shortly before the 1979 Revolution. Now a hospital midwife who loves history, she is now birthing a novel based upon researched events leading up to the pivotal Iranian Revolution. http://www.instagram.com/soheilavhdsoheilavhd
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Zoom 2 November 8 #NotJustPretty Poets and Artist
Phynne-Belle: I'm drawn to sharing poems that traverse distinct eras of my life, illuminating the intersecting struggles that women, particularly those in marginalized groups, face daily. 
Deborah C. Segal: Readers owe the writer nothing. I write because I must, because it feels like being alive
when I write. Stories, myths, and reflections, put on paper, give me a
sense of purpose, a calling. 
Sylvia Van Nooten: My creativity is a rebellion against cultural pressure to conform and
behave. Each piece is from my real self, allowing me to remember my
capacity for joy.
Mini Feature Heather Flescher: It was very important
to me to write accurately and authentically, out of respect for myself, my friends, and
the many trans people who share similar experiences.ZOOM 1 October 4 #NotJustPretty Feature Poets, ArtistRusty Rose, Lucy Heuschen, Jenny Wong#NotJustPretty Open Mic Poets: Laura Grevel, Katie Jenkins, Julie Stevens, Merril Smith, Julia Webb, Hannah Linden, Lin Hart, Eleanor Holmes, Louise Longson
Tracy Cox is an award-winning opera singer and celebrated fat artist + activist Tracy has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, L.A. Opera, Teatro Filarmonico di Verona and more. She originated the role of “Helen” in the chamber opera “Fat Pig” and, a multi-genre vocal, visual, and literary artist, has dedicated herself to highlighting and empowering fat talent. This includes her international arts-related workshops to address traumatizing body-based stigma and discrimination normalized in performing arts that hurts both artist and industry. https://thetracycox.com/
Laura Grevel, originally from the USA, has lived in Europe 25 years. Her eclectic poetry, fiction and essays writings encompass human rights, narratives and nature. Her debut collection explores themes of identity and immigration. Widely published, she is an active member of the online international poetry community. https://www.facebook.com/LauraHGrevel
Rachel Rothman Cox, originally from Southern California, is a soprano, cross-genre artist, and vocal coach. At San Francisco Conservatory of Music, she specialized in opera performance and earned both awards and opportunities to sing leading roles in both local and international operas and musicals. Proud to hold San Francisco as her artistic and teaching home base (where she lives with her wife Tracy Cox), she has a thriving voice studio with multiple locations across the San Francisco Bay Area. https://rachelrothmanstudio.com
Gilda Solve, a San Francisco native, emigrated to France 36 years ago to be able to completely dedicate herself entirely to jazz, a musical style that resonates deeply with the heart and soul. This solo artist and vocal coach performs accompanied by trios, quartets, and big band musicians. Her musical journey, pure and sensual, breathes new life into great jazz standards with a blend of emotion and swing that resonates deeply with her being. gildasolve@gmail.com
Soheila Vahedi is a Sydney, Australian-based writer. Born in Iran, she moved to the United States then returned to Iran shortly before the 1979 Revolution. Now a hospital midwife who loves history, she is now birthing a novel based upon researched events leading up to the pivotal Iranian Revolution. http://www.instagram.com/soheilavhdsoheilavhd
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Zoom 2 November 8 #NotJustPretty Poets and Artist
Phynne-Belle: I'm drawn to sharing poems that traverse distinct eras of my life, illuminating the intersecting struggles that women, particularly those in marginalized groups, face daily. Deborah C. Segal: Readers owe the writer nothing. I write because I must, because it feels like being alive
when I write. Stories, myths, and reflections, put on paper, give me a
sense of purpose, a calling.
