TWO BUCK Tuesdays is an inspired event hosted by a crew of very dedicated artists at KALEID Gallery on the Third Tuesday of the month. Artists and audience alike are invited to attend, contribute and share in this unique event all free of charge.

You can drop off your work anytime at KALEID Gallery Tuesday thru Friday, Noon – 7pm or Saturday Noon – 5pm before the next scheduled TWO BUCK Tuesday event (3rd Tuesday of every month.)

Email us with any questions at info@KALEIDgallery.com

Call for Artists in all mediums to donate a piece to be auctioned at Take Back Your Forest Benefit. The benefit will be Friday July 9th at 8pm, Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose, California. All proceeds will go to Sempervirens Fund. It is a fund to save the Redwoods. For more info please visit this site: http://www.takebackyourforest.com/event.html
If you want to donate your art please contact Kimy Martinez at kimy@pacbell.net. Thank you!

issue 3 of Super Arrow is looking to gather.
http://superarrow.blogspot.com/

We’d like to welcome you to submit your writing and art for publication in our online journal for creative experiments. The journal was originally conceived as a first cousin several times removed from movements like OULIPO, which is to say, process-informed, stretching, and connected to a collaborative/creative community. Please read past issues to have an idea of our aesthetic and project, but by all means please avoid feeling constricted by same.

Super Arrow is published twice a year, with a Spring/Summer issue and a Fall/Winter issue.

We publish fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Please see our online submissions guidelines for genre-specific notes. In addition, we’re often interested in our readers committing to an “assignment” (i.e., prompt) – Issue 3’s assignment, TOGETHER, NOW, is all about collaboration.

If you have a work that doesn’t seem to quite fit with what we’ve yet described, but you still think it’s kismet – a critical essay, perhaps – please write us a note describing your project.

E-mail submissions and/or questions and/or…
<superarrowfliestrue(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)

Today, June 24th, marks Theano’s Day, the international day to blog in honor of a favorite female philosopher or thinker. This year I’m celebrating women with very humane, gentle sensibilities and social consciences, along with intellectual capabilities.

First off, there’s Ireland’s second patron saint, Brigid, a nun, artist, writer, and leader known for helping develop the historically more balanced, more gentle and egalitarian Celtic Christian theology. Brigid chose the contemplative religious life after realizing she felt a calling to help the local poor and sick, which she started by giving away her and her father’s possessions, including his valuable jewel-encrusted sword. Throughout her life, she organized efforts to care for the sick, educate children, and build and develop the nunnery.

Ireland’s pre-Christian past also involves a goddess named Brigid, and some historians observe commonalities among the saint and the goddess’ lives and interests. Brigid the goddess serves as patron of wisdom, learning, writing, poetry, motherhood, and children – and is known for compassion towards the poor and sick. She taught people how to raise cattle and forge iron tools, while defending the rights of women, including single mothers and their children.

Links to the story of Goddess Brigid and St. Brigid:

http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/goddess-brigid.htm

http://www.monasticireland.com/storiesofsaints/brigid.htm

Then, there’s the English theologian and poet Anne Kingsmill Finch, born in 1661 and highly educated in literature, history, and the classics. Known for her humor, wit, and energy, Finch satirized social customs which she felt overly restricted or protected women. She also expressed her love for her husband, her religious faith, and her struggle to overcome serious depression, while earning scores of admirers, including Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.

University of Pennsylvania’s Women Writers page for Anne Finch, complete with samples of her poems: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/finch/finch-anne.html

And, there’s Julian of Norwich, an anchoress (a nun choosing to almost totally isolate herself from society to meditate and pray) who developed a kind of Christian theology which focused more on living out a response to God’s love than on following rules for their own sake. She spoke often of divine love and welcome for all living beings, not just those of any one particular faith or culture, and emphasized learning from mistakes rather than strict penitence. Her book, Revelations of Divine Love, is the first published English-language book known to be written by a woman.

Lady Julian of Norwich said, famously, and in the midst of the Black Death, “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”

Article on Lady Julian’s spirituality and how to reconcile ‘all shall be well’ with the world’s obvious suffering: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3885/is_200104/ai_n8931020/

Finally, we come to Theano herself, Pythagoras’ wife and the mother of his five children. She wrote extensively on intellectual topics, such as geometry, mathematical proportion in art, and literary critiques of books and treatises. And, she could transition well from practical life to high-minded academia and back again – she also wrote much about raising children and managing a household and treating servants with respect and professionalism.

Link to a short biography of Theano and the Pythagorean School: http://www.women-philosophers.com/Theano.html

As an extra treat, here’s a list of thirty great books for and about girls, courtesy of Care2.com: http://www.care2.com/causes/womens-rights/blog/30-great-books-for-girls-8-14/

Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders is seeking submissions

for its 15th annual anthology. Submissions of poetry, one-act plays, fiction and creative non-fiction should be sent between April 1 and June 30, to P.O. Box 3416, Las Cruces, NM 88003.

Also, please include a cover letter, short bio (2-3 sentences), phone and email address. All manuscripts will be recycled at the end of our reading period. Final decisons in 2010 are expected in late-August. We are not accepting work via email at this time. Submissions without SASE (that includes envelopes without stamps) will NOT BE READ)

Send 4-5 poems or 1-2 short stories or works of creative non-fiction (10 page maximum) or one-act play (no longer than 10-pages total). Manuscripts must be typed, with writer’s name and address at the top of each page. Also, please number your poems by placing a number at the top of each poem next to its title. Sin Fronteras does not at this time. Writings are judged on merit, regardless of subject matter. Payment is one copy of the annual journal.

Two-Bit Magazine is looking for submissions for its second issue!

Two-Bit Magazine is a publication dedicated to exposing emerging, talented writers and artists, as well as new work from veterans. We are looking to build an eclectic body of work: short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry of any genre or form, serialized novels and novellas, and graphic novels and comics. We will also accept academic work, reviews, essays.

Submissions can be emailed to the editor at <editor(at)twobitmagazine.com> (replace (at) with @). Questions and queries can also be sent to that address.

The submission period closes on June 30.

For more information on exact specifications, please check the Submission Guide at http://www.twobitmagazine.com/submission-guide/