Speed Date RVA : The LGBT Edition -18 July 2014 06:00 PM till 09:00 PM

Gratitude Rising Foundation and Speed Date RVA present:

LGBT Speed Dating @The Dining Room at The Berkeley Hotel

Guys and gals, join us for an upscale speed dating + social mixer event! Experience the ultimate opportunity for single professionals in the LGBT community to connect or potentially meet a new companion. Our city tour has joined The Berkeley Hotel in an effort to raise funds for Gratitude Rising Foundation*!  

Featuring performances by Be Steadwell and hosted by international comedian Mimi Gonzalez.  Mimi is a featured Olivia performer and has been featured on Logo’s “One Night Stand Up”, “The Today Show”, “Ellen” and the “Latino Laugh Festival”.  Join us for the unforgettable fun on Friday, July 18th from 6pm to 9pm.

Romantically attached? Only interested in seeing how it works? Looking to network? Have a business venture you’d like to promote? Join us in the dining room and bar during our Social Mixer - don’t forget your business cards! A welcoming atmosphere, like minded business individuals, live art + music will ensure you an enjoyable evening on us!

Social Mixer: 25+

Speed Dating: 30+

Slots are limited. You must register to speed date prior to the event.

Both ticket types (speed dating + social mixer) are available at: www.speeddaterva.eventzilla.net

CLICK TO SEE HOW SPEED DATING WORKS

Dress Code: Dressy Casual | First impressions are lasting.

*50% of proceeds will be donated to Gratitude Rising Foundation. A non-profit foundation providing financial assistance to LGBT women undergoing treatment for cancer

This event was created for entertainment purposes only. We are not a dating or match-making service. Please enjoy responsibly

http://www.eventzilla.net/web/event?eventid=2139042128

Sheryl Denise Swoopes...Retired American Professional Basketball Player,Head Coach of the Women's Basketball Team of Loyola University Chicago,First Player to be Signed in the WNBA When it was Created

Sheryl Swoopes may best be remembered as the woman who once played one-on-one against Michael Jordan. But her basketball legacy will run far deeper than that. Swoopes, a forward, began hooping it up at age seven with her two older brothers, James and Earl. In 1989, as a high school senior in Brownfield, Texas, she was named the state's female high school player of the year. In 1991, after two years of juco ball, Swoopes moved on to Texas Tech where in her two-year career she led the Red Raiders to a 58-8 record, two Southwest Conference titles and the 1993 NCAA title. She was named 1993 National Player of the Year and NCAA Final Four MVP after setting an NCAA championship game scoring record (for men or women) with 47 points in Tech's 84-82 win over Ohio State.

In 1994, Swoopes landed a spot with the U.S. national team, a squad that won all 52 international games it played in preparation for the 1996 Olympics. In Atlanta, Swoopes averaged 13 points per game and helped the U.S. team win the gold medal. The following year, Swoopes signed with the WNBA's Houston Comets and helped the team to back-to-back-to-back championship wins. In 1999, Swoopes logged the WNBA's first-ever triple-double in a game against Detroit with 14 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists. As if that's not enough to impress basketball historians, Swoopes was the first woman to have a basketball shoe named for her, the Nike Air Swoopes.

They said it: "It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me." --Swoopes

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/87/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes

Sharon Hayes...Multimedia Visual Artist,Educator,Activist

Sharon Hayes was and is deeply involved in activist politics,so her work, which typically combines performance and installation,is often explicitly political. Her art often comments on queer and identity politics in particular,and the way in which slogans interact with people’s need to belong.

Sharon Hayes is an American multimedia artist. She was born in 1970 in Baltimore,Maryland.She came to prominence as an artist and an activist during the East Village scene in the early '90s. She primarily works with video, installation, and performance as her medium. Using multimedia, she "appropriates, rearranges, and remixes in order to revitalize spirits of dissent." An exhibition of Hayes's work entitled There's So Much I Want to Say to You was shown at the Whitney Museum in the summer of 2012.

Over the past ten years, Sharon Hayes has been engaged in an art practice that uses multiple mediums—video, performance, and installation—in ongoing investigation into various intersections between history, politics and speech. Her work is concerned with developing new representational strategies that examine and interrogate the present political moment, not as a moment without historical foundation but as one that is always allegorical, a moment that reaches simultaneously backwards and forwards. To this aim, she employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics, and journalism.

Hayes’ work has been shown at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, the Guggenheim Museum, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Art In General, Artists Space, Parlour Projects, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Dance Theater Workshop, Performance Space 122, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, and the WOW Cafe in New York and at the Room Gallery at UC Irvine, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Track 16, Gallery 2102 and The Project in Los Angeles. In addition, she has shown at the Tate Modern in London, Museum Moderner Kunst and the Generali Foundation in Vienna, the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin and in galleries, exhibition and performance spaces in California, Florida, Rhode Island, Texas, and Vermont, Bogotá, Berlin, Copenhagen, Malmö, Vienna, Vancouver and Zagreb as well as in 45 lesbian living rooms across the United States. Hayes’ work was shown in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in Greater New York at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. Additionally, her work was exhibited in the Istanbul Biennial in 2009, the Yokohama Triennial 2008, Guangzhou Triennial 2008 and PERFORMA05. Her collaborative piece, 9 Scripts from a Nation at War, made with Andrea Geyer, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander and David Thorne was shown in Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany and subsequently at the Tate Modern in London and REDCAT in Los Angeles. Hayes is an Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union. She is represented by Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin.

 “In the Near Future” (2009)

 There's so much I want to say to you. June 21–September 9, 2012. Whitney Museum of American Art

http://www.shaze.info/#

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Hayes_(artist)

http://flavorwire.com/423765/24-powerful-works-by-contemporary-women-artists-you-should-know/20/

Fake Voter Fraud. Real Voter Suppression. Ain't Nobody Got Time For That.

When the GOP says let’s eliminate [non existent] voter fraud this really means, let’s cheat to win by disenfranchising minority voters, because hey we’re desperate says The Lib Nerd. GOP voter disenfranchising is not only meant for racial and ethnic minorities also means let’s suppress the women’s vote,the LGBT vote,the poor people’s vote,the young people’s vote and on and on. How long do they think they can get away with this?