DAY WITH CREATIVE WOMEN 2011

The Women’s Community Center and the Commission on the Status of Women
Present
Day with CreativeWomen
Saturday August 13, 2011 10:00am-5:00pm
Mission Plaza San Luis Obispo

This festival features women’s creative visual and musical arts, each year on the second Saturday in August for the past 36 years.
This event is free to the public, showcases women’s creative arts and crafts by featuring vendors who offer their work for sale.
Musical entertainment from all genres, including belly dancing, acoustic guitar, flute chorales, singing choirs, drumming groups and everything in between provide music all day in the amphitheater at the San Luis Obispo Mission Plaza.

We invite you to help Sponsor this year’s festival
Major Donor $1500
Hang your business Banner in Mission Plaza the day of the event.-Logo on banner on day of event-Logo on all posters and print ads-Booth on day of the event
Major sponsor $1000-Logo on banner day of event-Logo on posters and print ads-Booth day of event
Sponsor $900 - $500 Logo on banner on day of event-Logo on posters and printed ads
Donor $400 Logo on posters and printed ads-Booths

$120 (late registration $130
Non-profits $60
Your donation is tax deductible! Tax ID #77-0516248

For more information, please visit our website www.wccslo.org
email at wccslo@gmail.com
or call us at 544-9313. Ask forRobin

Women’s community Center 1124 Nipomo Street, Suite D, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
W.C.C. - 805.544.9313
San Luis Obispo County Commission on the Status of Women www.slowomen.org

To maintain an accessible center to collect and exchange information of interest and concern to women.
To organize and facilitate workshops, clinics, seminars, classes and support groups on subjects of interest and need.
To engage in and facilitate interaction among local, state, and national agencies and organizations working to benefit women.
www.wccslo.org

The San Luis Obispo Commission on the Status of Women

is a official advisory agent of the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors.
Our charge is to be the voice that advocates equal commendations to enhance women’s lives by conducting surveys and outreach programs.
http://www.slowomen.org/

cosowo@gmail.com

Business Name:
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Business Address:
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Business city and zip code
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Business email address
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Contact person:
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Donor Level
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DAY WITH CREATIVE WOMEN BOOTH REGISTRATION

The first 10 to register and pay by June 1, 2011 to receive your business name on our
beautiful huge poster circulated throughout the county.
Final registration deadline is August 12, 2011.

Questions?

Email: wccslo@gmail.com or call the Women’s Community Center at (805) 544-9313
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DAY WITH CREATIVE WOMEN BOOTH REGISTRATION
Please complete this form and mail with your check payable to:
Women’s Community Center of San Luis Obispo
1124 Nipomo Street, Suite D, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401

Business Name: ________________________________

Email:_______________________________________
Contact Person: ________________________________
Phone: ______________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________________________

Description of Product or Services:___________________________________________

Electricity Required? Yes _____ No _____

Do you want an open booth (that is, patrons may walk into it) Yes __ No __

Pay with PayPal for your booth or send a check
$120.00 single booth/ $150.00 after July 13, 2011
$200.00 shared booth / $230.00 after July 13, 2011
$60.00 non-profit/ $80 after July 13, 2011

If you provided an email address, we will use it to communicate with you.

I understand that the Women’s Community Center will not be responsible for damage
or loss to any property during the course of this event. I have been given a copy of the Application Requirements, have read and understand them, and by signing below confirm
I agree to abide by them.

Signature: ___________________________________ Date: __________________

"RANDOM THOUGHTS" BY ANGIE KING

Random Thoughts by Angie King

This is a long ramble about men and women and politics and peoples’ private sins. We have had a long list recently of men in politics who have done despicable things in their private lives (leaving wives’ on death beds to marry eye candy; lying about one’s whereabouts to meet an Argentine mistress; being found a wife batterer by the courts; "sexting" to random women, etc, etc).
Note they are all men behaving badly. Two issues (well, at least two) arise here: which, if any, of these private acts impacted their ability to act publicly in the political arena, and, are women any different?
And, then, if the acts complained of do not impact the person’s ability to hold the public office in question, does it matter how they act in their private lives?
Yes, and no.
Yes, because in many if not all of the cases, the men involved have been hypocritical, in the extreme. The whole "C Street Gang and their mentors come to mind. They want to make your life miserable but exempt themselves.
Publicly embracing a Puritanistic code of ethical behavior for everyone with dire consequences for transgression, they blatantly violate that code and expect no consequences.
Do as I say, not as I do. I am above your laws, those laws you elected me to enact and enforce. Is that the kind of person we want in office?
Some outright lie about their behavior, which calls into question their veracity in other matters and their ability to fulfill their oaths of office, as in So. Carolina Governor Sanford. Others appear to have been just plain stupid, following that "second brain" that only males are endowed with – and you know what I mean.
Clinton, Spitzer, Wiener. In Wiener’s case, the accusation that forced his resignation was that his behavior had become a distraction that made his representation of his constituents ineffective.

In any case, whatever the reasons, women have fewer sex scandals, and even those who do, have demonstrated an ability to remain focused on their responsibilities in office, not succumbing to distractions.
They are perceived by the voters as better able than men to be problem solvers with the right priorities, according to Celinda Lake, a nationally known Democratic pollster.
So, shouldn’t more women be running for office given the current climate?
The Center for the American Woman and Politics at Rutgers University is promoting women to run for office in 2012. It will be the first election under newly redrawn congressional districts; many veteran legislators have already announced their retirement and others are expected not to run in 2012, thus creating an opportunity for new faces to emerge.
It is a Presidential election year, which always brings a larger turnout.
But they are not. Women were increasingly running for office, and winning, surging in 1992 (not coincidentally the first election following the prior census redistricting).
By 2007, women reached the densest levels in the Congress in 40 years: 17 senators (of 100) and 72 representatives (of 435), still not very good numbers. Since then, there has been a steady decline. Only 6 states now have a female governor; the number of women in state legislatures is down this year by a thousand over last year; only 21.9% of statewide offices (AG, treasurer, governor and lt governor, secretary state, comptroller, etc) are held by women, which is one quarter as many as 10 years ago.
As Geraldine Ferraro, a true political pioneer for women, once said, "Every time a woman runs, women win."
We can’t afford to miss the unique opportunity for that victory in 2012.
Once that door closes, it won’t be as wide open again until after the next census — and we can’t wait until 2022.

WOMEN'S PRESS JUNE-JULY 2011

www.womenspress-slo.org