by Skyeview Traveler on December 20, 2012
New Paris Guide!
The book offers an abundance of helpful information, counsel and reflections specifically for women of color travelers, but also for everyone with queer, feminist and anti-racism sensibilities. The book includes information about events off the beaten path. The book lists sites that are beyond the mainstream field of vision and are often overlooked, and provides thoughtful advice about them. The book opens the reader to many of the city’s offerings that are hardly advertised in dominant media, such as guided tours of Black Paris that are feminist—and queer—friendly.
Francophones – A French version ebook is forthcoming in 2013!
People are talking about Skyeview Paris on Amazon.com!
Skye Ward, Author
by Skyeview Traveler on May 23, 2013
Recommendation – Skip the hordes of tourists at the palace and visit the grounds.
Photo credit: © 2013 Skye Ward
by Skyeview Traveler on March 5, 2013
SPECIAL GUEST!
Professor Paola Bacchetta, Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley shared her remarks.
Photo Gallery
Wednesday, March 13, 6:00-7:30PM
University Press Books Berkeley
by Skyeview Traveler on December 26, 2012
About Art Battles
The objective of Art Battles® is to create live art events and competitions to expose emerging artists to the public. This becomes an exhibition of the creative process through a battle between teams of artists. Art Battles is innovative in that it has changed the way artists demonstrate their talents, creating a new model for art exhibition and sales. The goal of Art Battles is to create a platform for inspiring this global movement. [source]
ArtBattles 2012 Forum Des Halles
Photo credit: © 2012 Skye Ward
by Skyeview Traveler on December 2, 2012
Source: Entrée to Black Paris™
Shay Youngblood’s novel Black Girl in Paris (2000, Riverhead Books) is coming to the big screen.
The book presents the story of Eden Daniel, a young woman who journeys to Paris as part of her voyage to find herself. Here’s a description from the Reading Guide on Youngblood’s Web site:
Black Girl in Paris wends its way around the mythology of Paris as a city that called out to African-American artists. Like James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Josephine Baker before her, Youngblood’s heroine leaves the American South nurturing a dream of finding artistic emancipation in the City of Light. She experiments freely, inhabiting different incarnations—artist’s model, poet’s helper, au pair, teacher, thief, and lover—to keep body and soul together, to stay afloat, heal the wounds of her broken heart, discover her sexual self, and, finally,to wrestle her dreams of becoming a writer into reality.
Twelve years later, the tale is being filmed in the streets of Paris. Tracey Heggins of Medicine for Melancholy plays the role of Eden. To view still shots of various movie sets, click here.
The projected release date for the film is 2013.
Shay Youngblood is a novelist, short-story writer, playwright, artist, and professor.
by Skyeview Traveler on November 26, 2012
by Skyeview Traveler on November 26, 2012
Le Festival International du Film Lesbien et Féministe de Paris
Théâtre de Ménilmontan
November 2, 2012
by Skyeview Traveler on November 26, 2012
Reading and discussion
September 11, 2012
Oakland, CA
by Skyeview Traveler on November 26, 2012
Skyeview: A Sistah’s View of the World, Paris Chapter
August 12, 2012
Oakland, CA
