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This is Sean Manzano leading the poetry reading at the 2010 AlteredBarbie Show. We are all looking forward to the 2011 AlteredBarbie Poetry Reading with you Sean! Thank you!

A wonderful Kickstarter Fun-Raiser is now available so anyone can support AlteredBarbie 2011. Thank you for supporting this local creative re-use show!

Cynthia Tom is bringing a place of her own to AlteredBarbie. If Barbie had a place that was her own what would it look like?

A PLACE OF HER OWN is a multi-phase, multi-venue arts project. The project poses the question, “If you had a place of your own, what would it be?” and invites artists and the public to respond in a variety of ways.

Women, through necessity and parental or cultural training, learn to compromise themselves. Women often set aside their own needs to support others to the point of losing them. Rarely have women learned to reclaim a place of their own, metaphorically or physically. What happens when we expand the parameters beyond the concept of a room and discover a place, in which the limitations are bound by the imagination and nothing more?

The conceptual frame work and long term goal of this project is to generate a creative place for women to reconnect with themselves and make their aspirations visible. This is not just a curatorial vision of Cynthia Tom's, but a lifelong passion.

Roaddawgz youth will create a variety of Altered Barbies for sale at the AlteredBarbie Exhibition 2011. 100% of sales of dolls go directly back to the youth! Know that your purchase supports an essential service in our community. It is a way of telling the youth they count and there is healthy support out there. Thank you Machiko for all you do!

The Roaddawgz mission is to empower homeless youth, build community, develop job and life skills through literary and artistic activities while providing vital services, information and referrals.

The Roaddawgz drop-in center is a highly unique, activity-driven, safe and supportive sanctuary for homeless youth who are writers, artists and musicians. We employ a peer-driven, harm reduction, self-help model and provide participants cash payments for their creative works and participation in our mentoring program, workshops, events and internships. The people we serve are between the ages 15 to 24. Our participants encompass all minorities including racial, sexual and gender.

The Roaddawgz Purpose-We are dedicated to help end homelessness, reducing homeless youth incarceration, hospitalization and preventable deaths by providing mental health support and creative and educational alternatives to criminal, dangerous and life threatening behavior.

Altered Barbie 2011: The Making of......Organizing and Visual support Aritsts Include:

Ruby Pearl-Barbie workshops and artist
David Pang: Photographer and Teaparty Magazine Owner
Jody Banks-Kickstarter and juror
Kellie Hunter-Organizing support
Babalou-Project management support
Dana Marek-Interior designer and owner of Shotwell 50 Inc. Sponsor of Altered Baribie 2011!
Sean Manzano-Poetry Reading for Altered Barbie 2011, Catalogue, lit quake & lit crawl
Antony Hall: Web site
Olivia Rivas-Graphics
Sabine Brunner-Organizing support
Charlotte Davis-Development support
Donna Davis-Organizing support & MC
Shahn Miller: Dinner Chef for Food and Fashion night
Meighan: Interior designer & curator
Gregangelo Velocity Circus
Barbie & Ken Living Statues
Barbie & Ken’s Make-up artist Allison Kenyon
Marque Cornblatt-zombie guru & fashion designer
Hester Michael-fahsion designer
Machiko Saito & the participating youth from roaddawgz.org
Jenny Kerr and her band
Kitten on the Keys
Cynthia Tom - A place of her own
Cecilia Yu-britains i-protest

Thank you all for your support in making AlteredBarbie a success. Love you all!

http://www.7x7.com/arts/weeks-hottest-events-aida-altered-barbie-and-pow...

The Examiner did an amazing coverage of the event
http://www.examiner.com/theater-in-oakland/barbie-as-theater-altered-bar...

American Icon a living statue! I am amazed!

Check it out, more barbies and more fun!
Open monday through Friday 9AM-5PM
9/9/10-9/30/10

9/9/10: 5-7:30 Department of the Envrionment Altered Barbie Artists Reception @11 Grove st., San Francisco, Ca.
Where: Department of the Environment, SF, Ca. 11 Grove Street

Get ready for the San Francisco Love affair with Barbie and the Altered Barbie Show! Altered Barbie is not just another pretty date, she is pretty much almost anything you want her to be!

It is Romancing the Altered Barbie a la San Francisco style! Please donate to the 2010 Altered Barbie Exhibition! We always need money and support to make the exhibition a reality.

Please contact Julie Andersen jilleelee@gmail.com and check (pun intended) out the web site under sponsors. Thank you for being Angel Barbies!

What 2010 has to Offer

Look forward to updates on the web site including interviews with new and old artists and art, blogs, and articles that have almost anything to do with Barbie! And the making of art out of plastic.

Altered Barbie is gearing up for multiple events that will include interactive art events, shows, and much more. We will be collaborating with different artists, arts organizations, and NPO's throughout San Francisco! Currently we are negotiating dates with Galleries, flirting with the city, looking for sponsors and advertisers.

Altered Barbie is announcing a new Curatorial training program:

We will train you to present a multi dimensional interactive event that can include up to 100 active participants, from back end to show time!